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Languages : en
Pages : 518
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The British review and London critical journal
Author: A Guide to the Published Works of Benjamin Constant
Author: Cecil Patrick CourtneyPublisher:
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Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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The Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series, previously known as SVEC (Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century), has published over 500 peer-reviewed scholarly volumes since 1955 as part of the Voltaire Foundation at the University of Oxford. International in focus, Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment volumes cover wide-ranging aspects of the eighteenth century and the Enlightenment, from gender studies to political theory, and from economics to visual arts and music, and are published in English or French.
Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century
Author: Theodore BestermanPublisher:
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Category : Eighteenth century
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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State of the Foreign Slave Trade. [By S. C. Wilks.] Reprinted ... from the British Review. no. XXXVI.
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Author: Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century
Author: Opinion de M. Chantereyne,... sur le chapitre VI du ministère de la Marine
Author: Victor Avoyne de ChantereynePublisher:
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Languages : fr
Pages : 8
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Opinion de M. le Cte de Chastellux,... sur le chapitre II du budget du Ministère de la Guerre. Séance du 29 juillet 1822
Author: César-Laurent de Chastellux (Cte.)Publisher:
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Languages : fr
Pages : 8
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Opinion de M. le Vte de Lézardière,... sur le chapitre XVII du budget du ministère de la Guerre...
Author: Eutrope-Charles-Athanase-Benjamin Robert Lézardière (Vte de)Publisher:
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Languages : fr
Pages : 7
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Trust in Numbers
Author: Theodore M. PorterPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691210543
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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A foundational work on historical and social studies of quantification What accounts for the prestige of quantitative methods? The usual answer is that quantification is desirable in social investigation as a result of its successes in science. Trust in Numbers questions whether such success in the study of stars, molecules, or cells should be an attractive model for research on human societies, and examines why the natural sciences are highly quantitative in the first place. Theodore Porter argues that a better understanding of the attractions of quantification in business, government, and social research brings a fresh perspective to its role in psychology, physics, and medicine. Quantitative rigor is not inherent in science but arises from political and social pressures, and objectivity derives its impetus from cultural contexts. In a new preface, the author sheds light on the current infatuation with quantitative methods, particularly at the intersection of science and bureaucracy.
The Paths of Heaven The Evolution of Airpower Theory
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Airpower is not widely understood. Even though it has come to play an increasingly important role in both peace and war, the basic concepts that define and govern airpower remain obscure to many people, even to professional military officers. This fact is largely due to fundamental differences of opinion as to whether or not the aircraft has altered the strategies of war or merely its tactics. If the former, then one can see airpower as a revolutionary leap along the continuum of war; but if the latter, then airpower is simply another weapon that joins the arsenal along with the rifle, machine gun, tank, submarine, and radio. This book implicitly assumes that airpower has brought about a revolution in war. It has altered virtually all aspects of war: how it is fought, by whom, against whom, and with what weapons. Flowing from those factors have been changes in training, organization, administration, command and control, and doctrine. War has been fundamentally transformed by the advent of the airplane.