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  • INTRODUCTION TO ENTROPY
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    INTRODUCTION TO ENTROPY
    JONATHAN ALLDAY / SIMON HANDS
    The concept of entropy arises in diverse branches of science, including physics, where it plays a crucial role. However, the nature of entropy as a unifying concept is not widely discussed—it is dealt with in a piecemeal manner within different contexts. The interpretation of the concept is also subtly different in each case. This book draws these diverse threads together and p...

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  • NANOMEDICINE
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    NANOMEDICINE
    JONATHAN SIMON / BERTRAND H. RIHN
    The book is an introduction to nanomedicine informed by a philosophical reflection about the domain and recent developments. It is an overview of the field, sketching out the main areas of current investment and research. The authors present some case-studies illustrating the different areas of research (nanopharmacy, theranostics and patient monitoring) as well as reflecting o...

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  • A PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY OF AMPHIBIOUS WARFARE 1939–1945
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    A PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY OF AMPHIBIOUS WARFARE 1939–1945
    SIMON FORTY / JONATHAN FORTY
    "...contains a plethora of after-action reports, diagrams and text which makes the work a thorough and engaging study of amphibious landings during the war." —WWII History Magazine Amphibious operations have always been an important element of warfare, but they reached their climax during the Second World War when they were carried out on a large scale in every theater of the c...

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  • ARCHITECTURE AND JUSTICE
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    ARCHITECTURE AND JUSTICE
    JONATHAN SIMON
    Bringing together leading scholars in the fields of criminology, international law, philosophy and architectural history and theory, this book examines the interrelationships between architecture and justice, highlighting the provocative and curiously ambiguous juncture between the two. Illustrated by a range of disparate and diverse case studies, it draws out the formal langua...

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  • CHEMISTRY, PHARMACY AND REVOLUTION IN FRANCE, 1777-1809
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    CHEMISTRY, PHARMACY AND REVOLUTION IN FRANCE, 1777-1809
    JONATHAN SIMON
    This book explores the history of pharmacy in France and its relationship to the discipline of chemistry as it emerged at the beginning of the nineteenth century. It argues that an appreciation of the history of pharmacy is essential to a full understanding of the constitution of modern science, in particular the discipline of chemistry. As such, it provides a novel interpretat...

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  • MASS INCARCERATION ON TRIAL
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    MASS INCARCERATION ON TRIAL
    JONATHAN SIMON
    For nearly forty years the United States has been gripped by policies that have placed more than 2.5 million Americans in jails and prisons designed to hold a fraction of that number of inmates. Our prisons are not only vast and overcrowded, they are degrading—relying on racist gangs, lockdowns, and Supermax-style segregation units to maintain a tenuous order. Mass Incarceratio...

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  • THE EMERGENCE OF RUS 750-1200
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    THE EMERGENCE OF RUS 750-1200
    SIMON FRANKLIN / JONATHAN SHEPARD
    This eagerly awaited volume, the first of its kind by western scholars, describes the development amongst the diverse inhabitants of the immense landmass between the Carpathians and Urals of a political, economic and social nexus (underpinned by a common culture and, eventually, a common faith), out of which would emerge the future Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. The authors explo...

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  • POLITICAL ECONOMY OF THE ENVIRONMENT
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    POLITICAL ECONOMY OF THE ENVIRONMENT
    SIMON DIETZ / JONATHAN MICHIE / CHRISTINE OUGHTON
    This book is the culmination of several years work by a group of academics, policy-makers and other professionals looking to understand how alternative economic thinking – and indeed thinking from quite different social-scientific disciplines – could enhance the mainstream economic approach to environmental and natural-resource problems. Of the editors, Dietz comes from the mai...

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  • SYSTEMS OF PRODUCTION
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    SYSTEMS OF PRODUCTION
    BRENDAN BURCHELL / SIMON DEAKIN / JONATHAN MICHIE / JILL RUBERY
    In recent years we have seen the predictions of our forebears that leisure time would increase as the years pass utterly confounded. It is a fact of life that in major cities across the world, transport systems are full to bursting with people on their way to and from work. As people have come to accept longer working hours as a way of life, a number of new issues have come int...

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  • INFANTRY WARFARE, 1939–1945
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    INFANTRY WARFARE, 1939–1945
    SIMON FORTY / JONATHAN FORTY
    The infantry can always be found at the sharp end of the battlefield. You may be able to crush an opponent with armour or artillery, but there's only one way to take and hold ground and that's with riflemen – the 'poor bloody infantry'. And it is the infantrymen of the Second World War – from all sides, Allied and Axis – who are the subject of this highly illustrated history. I...

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  • ARTILLERY WARFARE, 1939–1945
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    ARTILLERY WARFARE, 1939–1945
    SIMON FORTY / JONATHAN FORTY
    "From mountain warfare with guns on mules to V2 rockets and everything between makes it well worth a place on anyone's reference shelf." — Clash of Steel It is said that artillery won the Second World War for the Allies—that Soviet guns wore down German forces on the Eastern Front, negating their superior tactics and fighting ability, and that the accuracy and intensity of the ...

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  • TANK WARFARE, 1939–1945
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    TANK WARFARE, 1939–1945
    SIMON FORTY / JONATHAN FORTY
    Packed with archival photos, a fascinating account of armored warfare in WWII—and how tank design and tactics were transformed during the period. On the battlefields of Europe and North Africa during the Second World War, tanks played a key role, and the intense pressure of combat drove forward tank design and tactics at an extraordinary rate. In a few years, on all sides, tank...

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  • THE TRUE STORY OF THE GREAT ESCAPE
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    THE TRUE STORY OF THE GREAT ESCAPE
    JONATHAN F. VANCE / SIMON PEARSON
    The real history behind the classic war movie and the men who plotted the daring escape from a Nazi POW camp.   Between dusk and dawn on the night of March 24th–25th 1944, a small army of Allied soldiers crawled through tunnels in Germany in a covert operation the likes of which the Third Reich had never seen. The prison break from Stalag Luft III in eastern Germany was the lar...

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  • LIMITS OF EMPIRE
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    LIMITS OF EMPIRE
    SIMON FORTY / JONATHAN FORTY
    "The book is accessible to those who have no insightful knowledge and familiarity with the history of the Roman frontiers . . . an enjoyable read." — Bryn Mawr Classical Review The borders of the Roman Empire were frontiers that were often wild and dangerous. By AD 117 and the accession of Hadrian, the empire had reached its peak, and its wealth was coveted by those outside its...

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  • A PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY OF AIRBORNE WARFARE, 1939–1945
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    A PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY OF AIRBORNE WARFARE, 1939–1945
    SIMON FORTY / JONATHAN FORTY
    On 10 May 1940 German Fallschirmjäger stormed the Dutch fort of Eben-Emael, south of Maastricht. The brilliantly executed operation was the first signal success by airborne troops in the Second World War and it made the military world sit up and take notice. Improved parachutes and the creation of gliders that could carry troops meant that assault forces could be dropped or lan...

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