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War, Aggression and Self-Defence (9781107401457)

Yoram Dinstein's influential textbook is an indispensable guide to the legal issues of war and peace, armed attack, self-defence and enforcement measures taken under the aegis of the Security Council. This fifth edition incorporates recent treaties such as the Kampala amendments of the Statute of the International Criminal Court, new case law from the International Court of Justice and other tribunals, and contemporary doctrinal debates. Several new supplementary sections are also included, which take into account recent conflicts around the world, and consideration is given to new resolutions of the Security Council. With many segments having been rewritten to reflect recent State practice, this book remains a wide-ranging and highly readable introduction to the legal issues surrounding war and self-defence. Product details Format ...

Dynamic Programming (9780486428093)

An introduction to the mathematical theory of multistage decision processes, this text takes a "functional equation" approach to the discovery of optimum policies. The text examines existence and uniqueness theorems, the optimal inventory equation, bottleneck problems in multistage production processes, a new formalism in the calculus of variation, multistage games, and more. 1957 edition. Includes 37 figures. Product details Format Paperback | 366 pages Dimensions 133 x 210 x 19mm ...

Synchronicity : An Acausal Connecting Principle (9780415136495)

To Jung, synchonicity is a meaningful coincidence in time, a psychic factor which is independant of space and time. This revolutionary concept of synchronicity both challenges and complements the physicist's classical view of casualty. It also forces is to a basic reconsideration of the meaning of chance, probability, coincidence and the singular events in our lives. Product details Format Paperback | 160 pages Dimensions 129 x 198 x 15.24mm | 181g ...

Sisters on the Fly : Caravans, Campfires, and Tales from the Road (0740791311)

Meet the 1,000] members of Sisters on the Fly, a group of women who buy, restore, and decorate vintage trailers, then travel around the country fishing, playing cards, cooking good food outdoors, drinking wine, and telling tall tales around the campfire. Part decorating book, part travelogue, camping guide, cookbook, fly fishing manual, and part memoir, the book contains practical information about reclaiming trailers as well as wonderful lifestyle anecdotes about the Sisters' road trips. The Sisters on the Fly know they're having more fun than anyone! Now you're invited to join them on their cross-country road trips as author Irene Rawlings takes you inside the Sisters' decorated vintage trailers. Each trailer reflects its owner's personality, and the Sisters share their individual stories behind their loving restorations--and a few of the wilder outdoor adventures they've experienced along the way. The Sisters also share tips for buying and restoring vint...

Medea and Her Children (9780805241969)

Medea Georgievna Sinoply Mendez is an iconic figure in her Crimean village, the last remaining pureblooded Greek in a family that has lived on that coast for centuries. Looking like "a portrait Goya had omitted to paint" in the widow's black she has worn since the death of her husband–a jolly Jewish dentist–many years before, the childless Medea is the touchstone of a large family of nieces and nephews who, together with their spouses, children, and friends, gather each spring and summer at her home. Ageless and unflappable, Medea greets each successive wave of visitors with calm warmth and welcome, and observes with interest their romantic entanglements, disappointments, conflicts, and passions. There are her nieces (the seductive and light-hearted Nike and the shy yet passionate Masha); her nephew Georgii (who shares Medea's devotion to the Crimea); and their friends, including Valerii Butonov, a circus performer turned sports trainer who has been pursued b...

Applied Methods of Cost-effectiveness Analysis in Healthcare (9780199227280)

The third volume in the Handbooks in Health Economic Evaluation series, this book provides the reader with a comprehensive set of instructions and examples of how to perform an economic evaluation of a health intervention. It focuses solely on cost-effectiveness analysis in health care. The book is developed out of the Advanced Methods of Cost-Effectiveness Analysis course taught at the University of Oxford and the four main sections mirror the four principal components of the course: Outcomes, Costs, Modelling using decision tress and Markov models, and Presenting cost-effectiveness results.&L ABOUT THE SERIES Series editors Alastair Gray and Andrew Briggs Economic evaluation of health intervention is a growing specialist field, and this series of practical handbooks tackles, in depth, topics superficially addressed in more general economics books. Each volume includes illustrative material, case histories and worked examples to encourage the reader to apply the methods discuss...

Water and the Ancient Mediterranean : Hydrology and Navigation in the 'Great Sea' of Antiquity (9781784538293)

Addressing the lack of a comprehensive overview of how seas, rivers and waterways were sailed upon, navigated and utilized by the civilizations of the ancient Mediterranean, the author sheds panoramic new light on the distinctive classical cultures of the ancient 'Great Sea'. Drawing on myth, theory, technology and a rich body of antique literatures, Dr Irby addresses such subjects as river depths and island formation; siltation and tidal currents; weather and navigation by the sun and stars; the commercial and ritual values of water; hydraulic installations and engineering (including dams, aqueducts, canals and harbours); and water as a symbol of power and identity. This first complete study of the ancient engagement - whether cultural, spiritual or scientific - with water makes a major contribution to classics, geography, hydrology and the history of science alike. Product details ...