Man and universe.--Japan.--2. The Far East.--3. Islands of the Pacific--Australasia--India.--4. The middle East.--The Near East.--5. The Near East--Egypt.--6. The Near East.--7. The Roman empire.--8. Eastern Europe to the French revolution--Western Europe in the middle ages.--9.-10. Western Europe in the middle ages.--11. French revolution and Napoleonic era.--12. Europe in the nineteenth century.--13. European powers today.--The British empire--America before Columbus.-...
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Business Reference
Excerpt: From its days as a small spring meeting of communications industry insiders, the CTIA expo has grown to become the premier international gathering of Wireless communications professionals. CTIA WIRELESS 2005 will be the industry's largest show and exposition and it will mark the 20th anniversary of the event. ?Everything Wireless? will be the focus of CTIA WIRELESS 2005, produced by CTIA - The Wireless Association, March 14 - 16 (pre - conference day on the 13th...
Government Reference Publication
Excerpt: Today, as never before, the military establishment is committed to dynamic and revolutionary change to produce new forms of warfare and new warfighting capabilities. Transformation offers an exciting vision of future war with fewer casualties, quicker victories, and a lower price tag. It could secure U.S. military dominance for generations to come. But there are risks. Getting transformation right is second only to success on the battlefield as the most importan...
This extraordinary book explains the engine that has catapulted the Internet from backwater to ubiquity?and reveals that it is sputtering precisely because of its runaway success. With the unwitting help of its users, the generative Internet is on a path to a lockdown, ending its cycle of innovation?and facilitating unsettling new kinds of control. (futureoftheinternet.org)
Includes bibliographical references (p. 25-27)
Excerpt: Chapter one lieutenant Daniel Leary rolled his uncle?s wheelchair to the end of the catwalk and paused, gazing back at the corvette Princess Cecile nestled in the center of the graving dock. He turned the wheelchair. ?now that you?ve inspected her, Uncle Stacey,? he said, ?wouldn?t you agree there?s no finer ship in the RCN??
Technical Reference Publication
Introduction: The tremendous growth of opto-electronic devices manufacturing has raised the need for high performance micro-positioners, which are used in their assembly and alignment. The static and dynamic performance of micro-positioners depends in part on the quality of operation of their controllers, which in turn depends to a significant degree on the accuracy of the kinematic and dynamic mathematical models upon which they are based. The objective of this work was...
Excerpt: Following the experience of global warfare in World War II, the Services recognized the importance of unity of military effort achieved through the unified command of US forces. Generally, over the next 50 years, the Unified Command Plan did adapt to the changing strategic environment and to great advances in technology, particularly the growing global reach of US forces. But there were failures, notably the cumbersome command organization for the Vietnam War. T...