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Fahrverbote für den Klimaschutz: Eine Analyse des österreichischen und europäischen Rechtsrahmens (BestMasters)
by Sophie Manon ChourabiDer Mobilitäts- und Verkehrssektor stellt eine tragende Säule der Unionspolitik dar und ist als integraler Bestandteil für das Funktionieren der europäischen Wirtschaft zu betrachten. Rund ein Viertel aller Treibhausgasemissionen der Europäischen Union entfallen auf den Verkehrssektor. Die Mitgliedstaaten sehen sich daher mit der Herausforderung konfrontiert, die im Verkehrssektor entstehenden Treibhausgasemissionen beträchtlich zu reduzieren. Maßnahmen wie Fahrverbote und Verkehrsbeschränkungen können eine wesentliche und effektive Maßnahme zur Reduktion von Treibhausgasemissionen darstellen, wobei einige Städte bereits eine Vorreiterrolle hinsichtlich mobilitätsbezogener Maßnahmen einnehmen. Während in mehreren europäischen Städten längst Fahrverbote für Kfz zur Verbesserung der Luftqualität bestehen, sind keine Fahrverbote mit dem vorrangigen Ziel der Reduktion verkehrsbedingter Treibhausgasemissionen auszumachen. In dem vorliegenden Werk wird aus (unions-)rechtlicher Perspektive untersucht, inwiefern auf lokaler Ebene örtlich begrenzte Fahrverbotszonen für Fahrzeuge mit Verbrennermotoren als Maßnahme zur Begrenzung verkehrsbedingter Treibhausgasemissionen eingeführt werden können. Die rechtliche Zulässigkeit von Fahrverbotszonen wird dabei im Lichte des einschlägigen Unionsrechts und des innerstaatlichen Rechts betrachtet.
Kurdish Politics in the Middle East: Lessons from the Kurdistan Regional Government KRG in Iraq (Middle East Today)
by Rebwar Rawf SalihThis book, operating within the domain of political sociology, undertakes a comprehensive examination of the Kurdistan Regional Government's (KRG) internal challenges. It centres on the erosion of trust within the KRG's governance structures and its diminishing influence vis-à-vis the central government in Baghdad. Pivoting on the contemporary era of the region, marked by the US invasion of Iraq, the chapters provide an empirically rigorous chronological account of Kurdish influence on the Iraqi political landscape up until the pivotal 2017 independence referendum. The book analyses the complex array of factors contributing to the KRG's perceived failures, offering valuable insights and lessons that may be gleaned from these developments, and meticulously dissects the intricate interplay of political, economic, and military dynamics that have shaped the KRG's trajectory. Salih unravels the paradox of Kurdish leaders and political parties, seemingly engaged in self-defeating actions, yet retaining their positions of power and influence. Drawing on established sociological methodologies, the book presents an in-depth exploration of the motivations and mechanisms underpinning these enigmatic behaviours. Providing readers with a comprehensive exploration of Kurdish politics within a broader regional context, the book invites readers to engage with its analytical rigour, offering a scholarly lens through which to assess the KRG's intricate challenges and opportunities for the future.
Herself: An Autobiographical Work
by Hortense CalisherA National Book Award nominee: Hortense Calisher&’s autobiography captures the making of a distinct literary voiceAlthough Hortense Calisher&’s fiction often draws on autobiographical elements, Herself is a disciplined documentation of the award-winning author&’s life and work. She surveys the various decades and landscapes she has inhabited, mining her family&’s Jewish lineage, discussing her children, exploring her greatest artistic influences, and describing her work process in a brave and bold work of autobiography. Herself is a rich collage of essays, reviews, recollections, and observations that unite the writer and the person.
3 Group Bomber Command: An Operational Record
by Steve Smith Chris WardDuring the immediate period before World War Two, the RAF modified its command structure to rationalize for rapid expansion. Bomber Command was divided into six operational groups, each flying the same type of aircraft.3 Group had almost completely re-equipped with the Wellington by 4 September 1939 to carry out the second bombing operation of the war which was against German warships off Brunsbttel. In 1940 the first of the new four-engined bombers, the Short Stirling, came into service with the Group, being followed in 1942 by the Avro Lancaster. On 3rd/4th November 1943, No. 3 Group played a leading part in the first bombing attack in which heavy bombers made use of the radar bombing aid known as G-H. The target was Dsseldorf; bombs were dropped "blind" and good results were obtained. In July and August 1944, aircraft of this Group equipped with G-H maintained an all-weather attack against flying-bomb sites. Through the D-Day build-up, the liberation of France and conquest of Germany, formations of No. 3 Group attacked railway junctions, marshalling yards, troop concentrations, etc.During the week ending 25th March 1945, Bomber Command made numerous attacks to prepare for the crossing of the Rhine.
The Dangers of Automation in Airliners: Accidents Waiting to Happen
by Jack J. HerschThe award-winning journalist delves “into the confluence of modern airplane technology and pilot behavior to probe how and why flight disasters happen” (BookTrib).Aviation automation has been pushed to its limits, with pilots increasingly relying on it. Autopilot, autothrottle, autoland, flight management systems, air data systems, inertial guidance systems. All these systems are only as good as their inputs which, incredibly, can go rogue. Even the automation itself is subject to unpredictable failure. And what of the pilots? They began flight training with their hands on the throttle and yoke, and feet on the rudder pedals. Then they reached the pinnacle of their careers—airline pilot—and suddenly they were going hours without touching the controls other than for a few minutes on takeoff and landing. Are their skills eroding? Is their training sufficient to meet the demands of today’s planes?The Dangers of Automation in Airliners delves deeply into these questions. You’ll be in the cockpits of the two doomed Boeing 737 MAXs, the Airbus A330 lost over the South Atlantic, and the Bombardier Q400 that stalled over Buffalo. You’ll discover exactly why a Boeing 777 smacked into a seawall, missing the runway on a beautiful summer morning. And you’ll watch pilots battling—sometimes winning and sometimes not—against automation run amok. This book also investigates the human factors at work. You’ll learn why pilots might overlook warnings or ignore cockpit alarms. You’ll observe automation failing to alert aircrews of what they crucially need to know while fighting to save their planes and their passengers.The future of safe air travel depends on automation. This book tells its story.
The Counter Terrorist Manual: A Practical Guide to Elite International Units (Hostage Rescue Manual: Tactics Of The Counter-terrorist Professional Ser.)
by Leroy ThompsonA comprehensive guide to counterterrorism units around the world, and their recruitment, training, weapons, equipment, tactics, and missions. In the past thirty-five years, counterterrorist units have been deployed to deal with airplane, ship, train, and bus hijackings. They have rescued hostages in various types of buildings and have dealt with barricaded bank robbers, prison rioters, and assorted dangerous criminals. Thousands have been rescued and millions have been safer because terrorists were aware that elite antiterrorist units were poised to act should they take hostages. Following the September 11th attack on the World Trade Centre, the mission of many anti-terrorist units has expanded. Some units now track terrorists to their lairs in other countries and strike them there. Despite the significant and growing role of these units, little is known about the way they operate. The selection, training, structure, and principles of maintaining such units, together with basic theories of asymmetric warfare are the subject of Thompson&’s latest work. In a practical, step-by-step guide he analyses the necessary organization of such elite teams, the arming and equipping of units, and methods for a variety of missions from hostage rescue and high-level dignitary protection to securing foreign embassies and counter–WMD strikes. Open the pages of this book and enter the world of the counterterrorist operator.Praise for The Counter Terrorist Manual &“A finely illustrated guidebook to antiterrorist units deployed to handle airplane, ship, train and bus hijackings. Units around the world are examined in a survey of these elite antiterrorist units and their operations, a pick for any military library and packed with color photos of equipment and more.&” —Midwest Book Review
Pay the Piper: A Novel
by Joan WilliamsThe electrifying story of a woman whose search for love and fulfillment brings her to the very brink of disaster Laurel Wynn is haunted by her insecurities. Raised in a backwater Mississippi town by an alcoholic mother, she is now the author of largely ignored novels and the unhappy wife and mother of an upper-middle-class New England family. She continues to hold out hope, however, that the right kind of love might change everything for the better. When she begins a correspondence with Hal MacDonald, a wealthy Mississippian incarcerated for the accidental murder of his stepson, Laurel comes to believe that she has finally found a partner passionate and charismatic enough to make her feel whole. Enthralled by Hal&’s ardent letters and their brief jailhouse meetings, Laurel leaves her husband and child to move back to the South. But when Hal is finally released, the fantasy romance she imagined quickly turns into a nightmare. At fifty-three years old, Laurel is in life-threatening danger and must find within herself the courage and the determination not just to survive, but to set herself free once and for all.
Easy and Hard Ways Out: A Novel
by Robert GrossbachAn underachieving engineer building a fighter plane faces a life-changing decision in this Vietnam-era novel perfect for fans of Kurt Vonnegut, Joshua Ferris, and Joseph Heller. This furious, slapstick tale has been praised by the New York Times as one of the &“best and brightest&” novels about the Vietnam War. We follow the travails of Harvey Brank and his fellow employees, all undrafted malcontents working in a spectacularly small-minded, almost Kafkaesque engineering company. Assigned to build a fighter plane and drawn into office intrigues, Brank faces impossible demands. His wife, despairing of his patchy employment history and restlessness, hopes against hope that Brank won&’t get himself fired this time. But what do you do when everything conspires against your vision of a decent, peaceable life?Easy and Hard Ways Out is a blunt, freewheeling look at the men who stay home during wartime—a story about the everyday, with a timeless moral at its heart.
Scrooge's Night Before Christmas (Night Before Christmas Series)
by Julie PetersenThis charmingly illustrated verse tale offers a fresh and funny take on two Christmas classics—an ideal all-ages holiday gift! In clever rhyme, this fully illustrated mash-up of Dickens&’ A Christmas Carol and Clemet Clark Moore&’s The Night Before Christmas combines clever humor and a heartwarming story. We meet the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future, along with the nephew Fred, Cratchits and the Fezziwigs. And after his fantastical adventure, we know that Scrooge has reformed when hear him bellow Santa&’s traditional refrain, &“Happy Christmas to all and to all a good night.&” Scrooge&’s Night Before Christmas is part of a series of illustrated verse books based on classic literary characters. All written by Julie Petersen and illustrated by Sheryl Dickert, the others include Sherlock&’s Night Before Christmas and Mr. Darcy&’s Night Before Christmas.
German Military Vehicles in the Spanish Civil War: A Comprehensive Study of the Deployment of German Military Vehicles on the Eve of WW2
by Jose María Mata Lucas Molina José María ManriqueAn authoritative and fully illustrated study of the German military vehicles that fought in the Spanish Civil War—from motorcycles to Panzer Tanks. This comprehensive volume examines the combat and logistics vehicles that formed a vital part of the German contingent fighting in the Spanish Civil War alongside Francisco Franco’s Nationalist forces. The Panzer I, which so surprised the world in the Polish campaign of World War II, was first seen in the Spanish Civil War. It appeared together with a wide range of war materiel such as antitank guns, flamethrowers, and other armaments.This book covers a wide range of vehicles, each identified in detail: from the humblest motorcycle to the Horch staff car; from Opel ‘Blitz’, MAN Diesel, Mercedes, and Krupp trucks to the enormous Vomag 3LR 443 truck; as well as the many types of military ambulances seen in Spain during the war years. With more than 500 historic images—most of them previously unpublished—this volume is an unprecedented study of the vehicles used by the German contingent in the Spanish Civil War.
Simple Yoga: A Simple Wisdom Book (Simple Wisdom Ser.)
by Cybéle TomlinsonAn easy-to-absorb, practical guide to getting started, and finding the style of yoga that&’s right for you. From co-director of the Berkeley Yoga Center and Yoga Journal contributor Cybele Tomlinson, Simple Yoga explains what yoga is, how it evolved in ancient India, and how it can benefit the typically harried Western lifestyle. It gives practical information on: the various yoga styles available in the West, with suggestions on choosing a style and finding an appropriate teachera basic routine to try on your owna modified routine for the office Also featuring a special chapter on women and yoga, Simple Yoga is designed for those who want to give yoga a try—and want a clear, concise guide that can help them begin practicing today.
Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Machine Learning, Cloud Computing and Intelligent Mining: Volume 3 (Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering #1328)
by Fuchun Sun Hesheng Wang Han Long Yifei Wei Hongqi YuThe proceedings offer a meticulously curated compilation of peer-reviewed papers presented at the 3rd International Conference on Machine Learning, Cloud Computing and Intelligent Mining (MLCCIM2024). With a profound focus on these domains, this volume serves as an invaluable resource for researchers, experts, professionals, and practitioners engaged in machine learning, control systems, robot, cloud computing and intelligent mining techniques. The conference facilitated a vibrant exchange of knowledge, enabling participants to unveil their pioneering research findings, showcase the outcomes of their latest projects, and engage in thought-provoking discussions to share perspectives and experiences.
Localization Approaches in Strongly Indefinite Problems (Series in Contemporary Mathematics #6)
by Yanheng Ding Tian XuSeveral important problems arising in Physics, Differential Geometry and other topics lead to consider semilinear variational equations of strongly indefinite type and a great deal of work has been devoted to their study. From the mathematical point of view, the main interest relies on the fact that the tools of Nonlinear Functional Analysis, based on compactness arguments and non-degenerate structure, in general cannot be used, at least in a straightforward way, and some new techniques have to be developed. This book discusses some new abstract methods together with their applications to several localization problems, whose common feature is to involve semilinear partial differential equations with a strongly indefinite structure. This book deals with a variety of partial differential equations, including nonlinear Dirac equation from quantum physics (which is of first order), coupled system of multi-component incongruent diffusion and spinorial Yamabe type equations on spin manifolds. The unified framework in this book covers not only the existence of solutions to these PDEs problems, but also asymptotic behaviors of these solutions. In particular, the results for the nonlinear Dirac equations show several concentration behaviors of semiclassical standing waves under the effect of external potentials and the results for the spinorial Yamabe type equations show the existence of conformal embeddings of the 2-sphere into Euclidean 3-space with prescribed mean curvature. This book will be appealing to a variety of audiences including researchers, postdocs, and advanced graduate students who are interested in strongly indefinite problems.
Enterprise Design, Operations, and Computing: 28th International Conference, EDOC 2024, Vienna, Austria, September 10–13, 2024, Revised Selected Papers (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #15409)
by Henderik A. Proper José Borbinha Tiago Prince Sales Marianne Schnellmann Miguel Mira Da SilvaThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Enterprise Design, Operations, and Computing, EDOC 2024, held in Vienna, Austria, during September 10–13, 2024. The 18 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 70 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: AI, ML and Agents; BPM and WFM; Business Models, Platforms and Strategic Management; Enterprise and IT Architecture; IT and Software Architecture; Modeling Methods, Data and Component; Process Mining and Monitoring; and Sustainability and Resilience.
Development and Postdevelopmentalism in Studies on, to, with, for, by Young Children
by Hillevi Lenz Taguchi Linnea BodénThis open access book directs its attention to a desire for inter- and transdisciplinary, reciprocal collaborations in studies concerning young children. It focuses on the possibilities and obstacles in collaborative forms of inquiry involving those stakeholders and actors whom the research concerns, specifically the participating children. The backdrop of the discussions and theoretical investigations is the inter- and transdisciplinary project Enhancing Children’s Attention. Within the framework of an evidence-based intervention, this project performed multiple qualitative forms of inquiry, including emergent forms of collaborations with children. The book provides a discussion on how young children’s development, learning, and lives are understood in the developmental sciences, and in the humanities and social sciences. It specifically addresses scholars interested in postdevelopmental, posthumanist, new materialist, and postqualitative approaches. The book proposes a displaced form of postdevelompentalism for future collaborative forms of inquiry with a focus on multiple forms of knowledge and knowing.
Internationalization of Higher Education and Digital Transformation: Insights from Morocco and Beyond
by Aicha AdouiThis edited volume provides a comprehensive examination of the intersection between internationalization of higher education and digital transformation, with a focus on insights from Morocco. Through a series of chapters authored by experts in the field, the book covers a wide range of topics, including critical thinking in intercultural education, the transformative impact of internationalization on educators and students, technological integration, challenges, opportunities, policy perspectives, and future directions.
Fluidodinamica dell’Oceano e dell’Atmosfera
by Stefano PieriniQuesto testo esplora la Fluidodinamica dell'Oceano e dell'Atmosfera ed è concepito specificamente per corsi di laurea di primo livello (B.Sc., livello upper undergraduate). Sebbene la fluidodinamica sia ampiamente trattata in vari corsi di Ingegneria - come l’Ingegneria Meccanica, Civile, Idraulica, Navale e Aerospaziale - esiste una carenza di testi universitari che affrontino l'argomento con un approccio più aderente alla Fisica e che includano specifici aspetti riguardanti l’oceano e l’atmosfera. Questo libro nasce con l’obiettivo di colmare tale lacuna. Nella prima parte, dopo un'introduzione ai fondamenti della fluidodinamica incompressibile - evitando di soffermarsi su aspetti di interesse puramente ingegneristico - viene trattato in dettaglio un tema di grande rilevanza meteo-oceanografica: le onde di gravità, sia superficiali sia interne. La seconda parte è interamente dedicata alla fluidodinamica in sistemi di riferimento rotanti, con un focus sugli aspetti basilari della meteorologia e dell’oceanografia dinamica, nei quali la forza apparente di Coriolis gioca un ruolo cruciale. Questo testo si propone come una preziosa risorsa per studenti e ricercatori che desiderino acquisire le basi della fluidodinamica applicata a contesti oceanici e atmosferici, offrendo una prospettiva fisica dettagliata e rigorosa.
Emerging Electronics and Automation: Select Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference, E2A 2023, Volume 1 (Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering #1237)
by Daniel-Ioan Stroe Dr Nasimuddin Shahedul Haque Laskar Shivendra Kumar PandeyThis book contains peer-reviewed papers presented at the 3rd International Conference on Emerging Electronics & Automation (E2A) 2023. It aims to provide a compilation of the scientific exchanges that occurred during the conference at NIT Silchar, India. The proceedings cover the latest scientific endeavors and accomplishments in various emerging fields, including instrumentation, control, signal processing, communication, and related computational techniques. The book seeks to present the global audience with updates, novel findings, and solutions to challenging questions in the field, while inspiring aspiring scientists to engage in meaningful research. The field of instrumentation encompasses a wide range of disciplines, such as electronics, computation, automation, microelectronic technology, nanomaterials, and biomedical engineering applications. Hence, this publication is expected to appeal to a diverse audience within the scientific and engineering domains.
Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems, and Services: 20th International Conference, GECON 2024, Rome, Italy, September 26–27, 2024, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science #15358)
by José Ángel Bañares Maurizio Naldi Karim Djemame Jörn AltmannThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems, and Services, GECON 2024, held in Rome, Italy, during September 26–27, 2024. The 12 full papers and 10 short papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 37 submissions. They focus on topics such as: Function as a Service: Resource Management and QoS; Cloud Business Models, Pricing, Trading, Network Neutrality; Edge Computing and Energy Awareness; AI/Forecasting/Prediction Sales; and Resource Management in Cloud Applications: Simulation, Streaming Processing and Workflows.
Plurality and Cultural Specificity of Service Design in East and Southeast Asia (Design Research Foundations)
by Joon Sang Baek Jung-Joo Lee Eun YuThis open-access book expounds on how service design has been adopted and practiced in Asia, and how it has impacted especially the East and Southeast Asian countries. As service design is a socio-technical practice that is co-produced in context, the contributors focus on how service design has been applied and how it has evolved heterogeneously by interacting with the cultural and social dimensions of Asian countries. As the application domains of service design vary, this book covers adoptions and practices in different areas: Asian governments, the civic and grassroots sectors, and business transformation. The contextual framing of the chapters is ultimately synthesized and analyzed in the concluding Discussion chapter of the book. This chapter takes into consideration the history and objects of service design, the interactions between research and practice, methodologies, and comparisons to practices in the Western World. This book appeals to students, researchers, and professionals in the field.
Writing and Revising in Second Language Classrooms: The Role of Self-Regulation in Cultivating Expert Writers
by Jing ChenThis book contributes to the field of L2 writing, with a focus on instruction in revision. Theoretically, this research provides a better understanding of students’ metacognitive knowledge about revision and their self-efficacy for text revision in EFL writing; such understanding is vital to make pedagogical connections between cognitive research, self-efficacy theory and instructional research in writing. Moreover, the designed questionnaire for data collection and analysis in this study can be employed as a diagnostic or consciousness-raising tool in the L2 writing classrooms or be used as a research tool to chart the development of students’ metacognitive knowledge about revision and self-efficacy for text revision over time to contribute to this line of research. Pedagogically, this study examined the effects of the SRSD model, an approach that has shown its effectiveness in improving learners’ metacognition and impacting their self-efficacy in both L1 and L2 writing, in the context of revision in an EFL context. Hence, it broadens the understanding of the feasibility and effectiveness of the SRSD model.
The Logos of the Sensible World: Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenological Philosophy (The Collected Writings of John Sallis #III, 10)
by John SallisA presentation of the two-semester lecture course on Merleau-Ponty given at Duquesne University from 1970 to 1971 by the esteemed American philosopher.Devoted primarily to a close reading of the French philosopher’s magnum opus, Phenomenology of Perception, this course begins with a detailed analysis of The Structure of Behavior. The central topics considered in the lectures include the functions of the phenomenological body; beyond realism and idealism; the structures of the lived world; spatiality, temporality, language, sexuality; and perception and knowledge. Sallis illuminates Merleau-Ponty’s first two works and offers a thread to follow through developments in his later essays. Merleau-Ponty’s notion of the primacy of perception and his claim that “the end of a philosophy is the account of its beginning” are woven throughout the lectures. For Sallis’s part, these lectures are foundational for his extended engagement with Merleau-Ponty’s The Visible and the Invisible, which was published in Sallis’s Phenomenology and the Return to Beginnings.“Sallis has managed to write a review that is accessible and makes only modest demands on the reader. This is an ideal resource for nonspecialists and for those who want a straightforward, relatively brief treatment of Merleau-Ponty’s important book . . . Highly recommended.” —Choice
Up Close and Personal: The Reality of Close-Quarter Fighting in World War II
by David LeeAn in-depth analysis of what it was really like to fight at the sharp end in every theater of the Second World War from the author of Beachhead Assault. In 1947, US General S. L. A Marshall controversially wrote that out of every one hundred combat soldiers only fifteen to twenty-five actually fired their weapons at the enemy, because of the innate human reluctance to take another&’s life. Others maintained the opposite view that soldiers enjoyed killing. David Lee demonstrates that the situation was far more complex than either of these positions, arguing that the crucial factor for a unit&’s success in battle was the type of training it received. To illustrate this Lee covers actions from each theater of the war, in depth and with comprehensive coverage of weapons and tactics. First there is the story of what happened when a battalion of British soldiers trained in the traditional manner came up against the Waffen SS, whose training was formidable and bore close resemblance to the Commandos. The success of No. 4 Commando at Dieppe is covered to show how this was put into effect. For the desert war there is a detailed look at how a rifle battalion held the snipe position against overwhelming odds, and how that same battalion was virtually wiped out when it later went to Italy. For the Far East, Lee explains how hatred of the Japanese Army gave impetus to British soldiers fighting at Kohima and American soldiers at Iwo Jima. And finally there is the story of one US infantry regiment on D-Day.
The Christopher Park Regulars: A Novel
by Edward SwiftThe misadventures of a motley group of artists making their way in New York CityA misfit collection of wannabes, has-beens, and never-weres, the Christopher Park Regulars gather frequently in the heart of New York&’s Greenwich Village. Here they share their hopes, dreams, and memories (and in the case of the abnormally obsessed C.C. Wake, an irrational fear of earthquakes), as they wait to become famous.Andrew T. Andrews left a fancy home, job, and wife behind to struggle downtown as a starving writer and has now almost finished his third book on his best subject: himself. Maria la Hija de Jesús has also come a long way from where she started—when she was a he—to become a bona fide off-off Broadway star . . . when she isn&’t spending time in a senior citizen home taking the residents on fantasy excursions to Europe. And then there&’s the rice cereal heir, the High Fiber Man, watching helplessly in horror as his mother fritters away his inheritance.Author Edward Swift&’s love of endearing eccentrics, rebels, and oddballs has been well documented in such acclaimed novels as Splendora, Principia Martindale, and A Place with Promise. Now he brings the sideshow from the dust of East Texas to the hustle and bustle of New York City, chronicling the struggles of his irrepressible Regulars in a story that is funny, sad, and totally outrageous.
Unexpected State: British Politics and the Creation of Israel (Indiana Series in Middle East Studies)
by Carly BeckermanThis provocative historical reassessment sheds new light on the decisions of British politicians that led to the creation of Israel.Separating myth and propaganda from historical fact, Carly Beckerman explores how elite political battles in London inadvertently laid the foundations for the establishment of the State of Israel. Drawing on foreign policy analysis and previously unexamined archival sources, Unexpected State examines the strategic interests, international diplomacy, and political maneuvering in Westminster that determined the future of Palestine. Contrary to established literature, Beckerman shows how British policy toward the territory was dominated by domestic and international political battles that had little to do with Zionist or Palestinian interests. Instead, the policy process was aimed at resolving issues such as coalition feuds, party leadership battles, spending cuts, and riots in India. Considering detailed analysis of four major policy-making episodes between 1920 and 1948, Unexpected State interrogates key Israeli and Palestinian narratives and provides fresh insight into the motives and decisions behind policies that would have global implications for decades to come.