E-book Drones and Support for the Use of Force

Political leaders face two key challenges when they decide to use mili-tary force: winning the war itself, and winning support at home. In the past two decades, the United States has pursued a technological solution to these problems by developing combat drones—weapons that can both selectively target opponents and minimize the costs and risks of combat. In this book, …

E-book Black Women’s Stories of Everyday Racism

Black Women’s Stories of Everyday Racism puts literary narrative theory to work on an urgent real-world problem. The book calls attention to African American women’s everyday experiences with systemic racism and demonstrates how four types of narrative theory can help generate strategies to explain and dismantle that racism. This volume presents fifteen stories told by eight midwestern Afri…

E-book A Dictionary of Diplomacy

In this second edition of A Dictionary of Diplomacy we have added a considerable number of entries, excluded some which no longer seemed significant, reworked others in the light of further reflection, and corrected a few errors. We would like to thank all of those who offered criticisms of the first edition and suggested new entries for inclusion in this one, notably Lorna Lloyd (who also gav…

E-book Caribbean Figure Pendants : Style and Subject Matter : Anthropomorphic…

hat we might loosely call the indigenous “religious arts” of the late prehistoric Greater Antilles – skillfully crafted, portable artifacts used in ritual practice – exist in a variety of genres in a variety of media. Some of these genres have attracted consid-erable analytical attention by specialists: dujos (ceremonial stools), cohoba stands (for receiving a hallucinogeni…

E-book Dying in Full Detail : Mortality and Digital Documentary

Dying in Full Detail: Mortality and Digital Documentary will consider the con-sequences of that new practicality, examining documentarians’ recent pursuits of death with equipment that promises to capture its “full detail.” In The Note-books of Malte Laurids Brigge (1910), Rainer Maria Rilke composes the phrase I have appropriated for my title. In context, its meaning refers to a style of…

E-book Digital Technology and the Practices of Humanities Research

"How does technology impact research practices in the humanities? How does digitisation shape scholarly identity? How do we negotiate trust in the digital realm? What is scholarship, what forms can it take, and how does it acquire authority? This diverse set of essays demonstrate the importance of asking such questions, bringing together established and emerging scholars from a variety of disci…

E-book Topology of the Brain Function: A Summary of Our Published and Unpubli…

This manuscript encompasses our published and unpublished topological results in neuroscience. Topology, the mathematical branch that assesses objects and their properties preserved through deformations, stretching and twisting, allows the investigation of the most general brain features.

E-book The American Short Story Cycle

owever, in their eagerness to have these volumes read and stud-ied, Dunn and Morris miss how formative the short story is to such books, so much so that Rolf Lundén argues for short story com-posite. His study rightly attends to the tensions between unity and fragmentation that distinguish the genre, and he argues that not every such volume features cyclicality …

E-book Remembering The Kana: The Hiragana

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E-book Encyclopedia of Finance

Absolute costadvantagescanplacecompetitors ata cost disadvantage, even if the scale of operations is similar for both firms. Such cost advantages can arise from an advanced position along the learning curve, where average costs decline as cumulative output rises over time. This differs from economies of scale, which involves the relationship between average costs and the output level per period…