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FAILURES IN CONCRETE STRUCTURES Case Studies in Reinforced and Prestressed Co…
Some lessons are only learned from mistakes but, it’s much cheaper to learn from someone else’s mistakes than to have to do so from your own. Drawing on over fifty years of working with concrete structures, Robin Whittle examines the problems which he has seen occur and shows how they could have been avoided. The first and largest part of the book tells the stories of a number of cases …
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- 9780203861271
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- 148 p.
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- [TSI-LIB-74]
Why not preempt? : security, law, norms and anticipatory military activities
Anticipatory military activities, both preemptive and preventive, are at the centre of American strategic doctrine. Rachel Bzostek puts forward a full understanding of why states have or have not undertaken such activities in the past in order to comprehend why states have rarely used this method.
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- 9780754670575
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- 1 online resource (viii, 258 p.)
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- Justice, international law and global security
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- [POL-SSS-73]
Weapons of terror : freeing the world of nuclear, biological and chemical arms
On 1 June 2006, the WMDC Chairman Dr. Hans Blix presented the Commission report "Weapons of Terror" to the United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan in New York. The report contains sixty concrete proposals on how the world could be freed of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons. The report was also handed over to Sweden's Foreign Minister Jan Eliasson, also president of the United Nations…
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- 9138225824
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- 227 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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- [POL-SSS-72]
Weapons of mass deception : the uses of propaganda in Bush's war on Iraq
This book reveals: how the Iraq war was sold to the American public through professional P.R. strategies; lies that were told related to the Iraq war; euphemisms and jargon related to the war, e.g. "shock and awe," "Operation Iraqi Freedom," "axis of evil," "coalition of the willing," etc.; how the war on terrorism and the war on Iraq have been used as marketing hooks to sell products and polic…
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- 0786545925
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- viii, 248 p. ; 21 cm.
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- [POL-SSS-71]
Weapons of choice : the development of precision guided munitions
“A significant addition to the field, for there are not many books specifically devoted to PGMs and still fewer that attempt to relate that technology to military and national security strategy.”—David R. Mets, author of The Long Search for a Surgical Strike: Precision Munitions and the Revolution in Military Affairs
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- 9780817315320
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- 1 online resource (xii, 218 p.) : ill.
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- [POL-SSS-70]
Weapons for peace, weapons for war : the effect of arms transfers on war outb…
Using innovative techniques, this book has the potential to change the way analysts weigh the impact of weapons sales.
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- 0415922585
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- 1 online resource (viii, 182 p.) : ill.
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- [POL-SSS-69]
We all lost the Cold War
Drawing on recently declassified documents and extensive interviews with Soviet and American policymakers, among them several important figures speaking for public record for the first time, Ned Lebow and Janice Stein cast new light on the effect of nuclear threats in two of the tensest moments of the Cold War: the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962 and the several confrontations arising out of the A…
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- 0691033080
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- xiv, 542 p. ; 25 cm.
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- Princeton studies in international history and politics
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- [POL-SSS-68]
Tracking strategies : toward a general theory
There is a great deal of practice, discussion, and writing about strategy, but little investigation of the processes by which strategies actually form in organisations. This book shares the results of Mintzberg's investigation into this, using case studies drawn from business and governmental organisations.
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- 9780199228508
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- xv, 405 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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- [POL-SSS-67]
Tourism, security and safety : from theory to practice
The topic of safety and security in the tourism industry is of vital importance globally. In recent years, and mainly after the 9/11 event, both academics and practitioners have started to look into crisis management issues seeking workable solutions in order to mitigate the negative impacts of safety and security incidences on the tourism industry and affected destinations. Tourism, Safety and…
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- 9780750678988
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- xiv, 361 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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- [POL-SSS-66]
Thinking strategically in turbulent times : an inside view of strategy making
Provides a look at how real organizations are formulating and implementing strategic change. This book is filled with vignettes, quotes, and real-world examples that illustrate the faster, more adaptive strategic planning processes. It is relevant for a range of business, governmental, and non-profit settings.
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- 0765612518
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 170 p.) : ill.
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- [POL-SSS-65]
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