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'Insuring War does much more than show how important practices of insurance were to the development of modern warfare and security. Historically rich and theoretically sophisticated, the book demonstrates the central importance of the Probabilistic Revolution and secular risk calculation to the very possibility of sovereignty and modern statehood. Highly recommended to students of International Relations and International Political Economy alike.'

Marieke de Goede, Professor of Politics, University of Amsterdam
Lobo-Guerrero’s Insuring War is, first and foremost an important contribution to political thinking. Eschewing the traditional framing of violent conflict that foregrounds executive decision-making, arms races, and geopolitical alliances, Insuring War makes evident that what is central to the politics of deadly engagements is "the concerted art of managing uncertainty."

Michael Shapiro, Professor of Political Science, University of Hawai’i at Mãnoa, USA

Luis Lobo-Guerrero is what I consider to be one of the foremost scholars in International Relations and specifically Critical Security Studies. Inspired by Michel Foucault’s analytics and methods and forming part of a triptych devoted to insurance and security, Lobo-Guerrero provides in this volume a fascinating and original investigation into insurance and its uses in time of war. 

Vivienne Jabri, Professor of International Politics, King’s College London

Sovereignty, Security and Risk

Insuring War

Memories of a Small-Town Sheriff

Jailhouse Stories

"… comprehensively reviews plants used in the Asian diet and [those that] made significant beneficial contributions to nutrition and health. This readable book contains a lot of information interesting not only for specialist of agronomy, food industry or pharmacology, but mainly for nonexperts."

—J. Pospíšilová, in Biologia Plantarium, 2008

Asian Crops and Human Dietetics

a long life's experience

On two continents

Winesburg, Ohio

"[T]he perspectives presented in this book shed an interesting new light on the myths-making processes underpinning the notion of a clash of civilizations. This work moves the debate away from sterile discussions about civilizations and highlights instead the value of analysing political myths as structuring and being structured by the social imaginary of specific political communities." - Frederic Volpi, University of St Andrews; Journal of Islamic Studies, vol 23, no 1, January 2012

The Myth of the Clash of Civilizations

"African American, Creole, And Other Vernacular Englishes In Education: A Bibliographic Resource is a must-read text for anyone teaching courses about language and education, or anyone doing research on the same topic. In the era of search engines, digital catalogues, and the Internet of all things, books still matter, especially those that help us make sense of a large body of literature.” ― Tony Mirabelli, Teachers College Record
"This volume is an invaluable resource for students, sociolinguists, applied linguists, educationists and anyone interested in unstandardised vernacular varieties of language, and the issues surrounding the education of their speakers. It also sets a new benchmark for the compilation and presentation of bibliographic resources." — Pidgins and Creoles in Education

A Bibliographic Resource

African American, Creole, and Other Vernacular Englishes in Education

Historian aputieteet

Muinaisten kansojen uusi kronologia tähtitieteen avulla

The Natural History of British Insects; Explaining Them in Their Several States, With the Periods of Their Transformations, Their Food, Oeconomy, &c

Briefwechsel mit Ernst Mayer 1907–1952 in Auswahl

Six Interviews With Robert G. Ingersoll on six Sermons by the Rev. T. De Witt Talmage, D. D. To Whic

Expedition Natur 50 heimische Tiere & Pflanzen im Gebirge

Oeuvres Complètes de Rollin. T. 18, 6

Elogios para Roberto Bola&ntilde;o y El esp&iacute;ritu de la ciencia-ficci&oacute;n... &ldquo;Uno de los m&aacute;s grandes e influyentes escritores contempor&aacute;neos&rdquo;. &mdash;The New York Times&ldquo;Fue un escritor experimental que invent&oacute; formas nuevas y fue una voz muy independiente y muy cr&iacute;tica&rdquo;. &mdash;Mario Vargas Llosa&ldquo;Uno de los autores m&aacute;s respetados e influyentes de su generaci&oacute;n [. . .]. Al mismo tiempo divertido y, en cierto sentido, intensamente aterrador&rdquo;. &mdash;John Banville, The Nation&ldquo;Bola&ntilde;o ha probado que la literatura lo puede todo&rdquo;. &mdash;Jonathan Lethem&ldquo;Se convirti&oacute; en un cuentista y novelista central, quiz&aacute;s el m&aacute;s destacado de su generaci&oacute;n, sin duda el m&aacute;s original y el m&aacute;s infrecuente&rdquo;. &mdash;Jorge Edwards&ldquo;Una especie de fen&oacute;meno entre Woody Allen y Lautr&eacute;amont, Tarantino y Borges, un autor que consegu&iacute;a que su lector se convirtiera en un fren&eacute;tico proselitista. [. . .] El &uacute;nico homenaje ser&aacute; leerle de ahora en adelante y re&iacute;rnos todav&iacute;a con &eacute;l&rdquo;. &mdash;Fabrice Gabriel, Los Inrockuptibles &#160;&ldquo;Las historias de Bola&ntilde;o son algo extraordinariamente bello y (al menos para m&iacute;) completamente novedoso&rdquo;. &mdash;Francine Prose, The New York Times Book Review

El Espíritu de la Ciencia-Ficcion / The Spirit of Science Fiction

Travel and Dislocation in Contemporary American Fiction

A Philosophy of Christian Morals for Today

The Botany Of The Antarctic Voyage: Of H. M. Discovery Ships Erebus And Terror In The Years 1839 - 1843 Under The Command Of Captain Sir James Clark R

"Although this work is aimed at an electrical engineering audience, the language is clear, the math isn't daunting, and the many diagrams are a great aid to understanding. Elmore's book will continue to be a bible for the relay engineer … . " - Electrical Apparatus, Feb. 2004 "… Elmore has been nationally recognized for decades as an authority in relay technology. … [T]he language is clear, the math isn't daunting, and the many diagrams are a great aid to understanding. Elmore's book will continue to be a bible for the relay engineer, as the earlier Westinghouse publication was for so many years." - Electrical Apparatus, Feb. 2004"…provide[s] considerable insight to the individual who wishes to explore this fascinating field."   IEEE Power Engineering Review

Theory and Applications

Protective Relaying

... a meticulously researched, straightforwardly argued and sympathetically presented account of the multi-faceted nature of myth ... It was a pleasure to read a book which provoked actual cries of pleasure in discovery! Highly recommended. - Joint Association of Classical Teachers Review

The Uses of Greek Mythology

Un-feel-tered

Roman

You know I love you - Cynthia und John Lennon und die Anfänge der Beatles

Mémoire perdue

16th IFIP WG 10.5/IEEE International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration, VLSI-SoC 2008, Rhodes Island, Greece, October 13-15, 2008, Revised Selected Papers

VLSI-SoC: Design Methodologies for SoC and SiP

The Tower's Shadow

AGU Series - Book 5

Milor

Darwinism Then and Now

The Major Metaphors of Evolution

"As was the case with the original volume, this updated volume fills an enormous need in the cross-cultural research literature. It provides a single go-to source of chapters on the methodological and statistical analysis challenges unique to cross-cultural research—or, for that matter, any research project in which group comparisons across levels and time are proposed. Each chapter clearly presents a unique challenge, why it is important, and how it may be addressed. This volume is a valuable contribution not only to cross-cultural researchers but to any researcher examining the similarities and differences between entities (people, groups, teams, organizations, etc.). It can be used as a reference book or as a supplemental textbook in advanced courses on cross-cultural research." – Robert J. Vandenberg, University of Georgia, USA

"This is a must-have book for anyone doing quantitative cross-cultural research in any discipline of social and behavioral sciences. Readers will appreciate book chapters prepared by prominent researchers for their practical and approachable presentations of core methods with examples that　address major analytical issues and challenges." - Young Ik Cho, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA

Methods and Applications, Second Edition

Cross-Cultural Analysis

Sexual Politics, Health, Diversity and Representations

Sex and Sexualities in Contemporary Indonesia

Rhymes Of Reform

The book provides challenging data for an audience whose interest is in controlling water and perhaps, especially, for those involved with the “Building – Working – Engineering with Nature” movements.
The stated aim of the book is to make as much national information as possible available to a broad, international readership so that comparisons, syntheses and knowledge exchange can lead to a better understanding of what future flood risks may be and how we can best prepare for them.
Terra et Aqua, Number 128, September 2012, p30

Changes in Flood Risk in Europe

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