1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910464629303321

Autore

Barrentine Larry B.

Titolo

An introduction to design of experiments : a simplified approach / / Larry B. Barrentine

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milwaukee, Wisconsin : , : ASQ Quality Press, , 1999

©1999

ISBN

0-87389-444-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (116 p.)

Disciplina

001.4/34

Soggetti

Experimental design

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910780201303321

Titolo

Mercenaries [[electronic resource] ] : an African security dilemma / / edited by Abdel-Fatau Musah and J. ʻKayode Fayemi ; foreword by Lord Avebury

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; Sterling, Va., : Pluto Press, 2000

ISBN

1-84964-039-4

0-585-42670-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (320 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

MusahAbdel-Fatau

FayemiKayode

Disciplina

960.3/2

Soggetti

Mercenary troops - Africa

Africa History 1960-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents ""; ""About the Centre for Democracy and Development ""; ""Programme on Conflict Management, Regional Security & Peacebuilding ""; ""Foreword ""; ""Acknowledgements ""; ""Abbreviations and Acronyms ""; ""Introduction ""; ""Brief Overview of the African Encounter with Mercenarism ""; ""Structure of Book ""; ""Synopsis ""; ""Introduction Notes ""; ""1. Africa in Search of Security: Mercenaries and Conflicts   An Overview ""; ""What is Mercenarism? ""; ""Political Context of Mercenary Activities in Africa during the Cold War ""; ""The Mercenary Agenda in Contemporary Africa ""

""What Future for Mercenarism? """"Re-conceptualising the Security Environment ""; ""Improving the Legal Frameworks of Mercenarism: Between Regulation and Redundancy ""; ""Conclusion ""; ""Notes Chapter 1 ""; ""2. Private Military Companies and African Security 1990   98 ""; ""PMCs and the 'New World Order'   ""; ""PMCs before 1990 ""; ""EO in 1990-92 ""; ""PMCs in Angola 1993-97 ""; ""PMCs in Central Africa 1996-1998 ""; ""PMCs in Angola and Sierra Leone 1998 ""; ""Other PMC Activity in Africa ""; ""PMCs in South Africa since 1991 ""

""Executive Outcomes and Branch- Heritage: The EO- Branch Network """"The Branch- Heritage Group ""; ""Strategic Resources Corporation ""; ""Plaza 107 Ltd ""; ""Links between the Branch- Heritage group and



Executive Outcomes ""; ""Conclusion ""; ""Note on Sources ""; ""Notes Chapter 2 ""; ""3. A Country Under Siege: State Decay and Corporate Military Intervention in Sierra Leone ""; ""Early Private Security in the Political Economy of Sierra Leone ""; ""Sierra Leone   A Portrait ""; ""The Colonial Imprint ""; ""Military/ Defence Structures in Sierra Leone ""

""The Anatomy of State Collapse """"Economic Decline and Mounting Tensions ""; ""Challenges to the Neocolonial State ""; ""Emergence of the Revolutionary United Front ""; ""The Gurkha Security Guards ""; ""Executive Outcomes ""; ""The Peace Agreement ""; ""Post- Election Traumas ""; ""The Price of EO intervention ""; ""Corporate Mercenaries in the Kabbah Administration   s Strategic Thinking ""; ""Reactions to the 25 May Coup ""; ""The Plot behind an African Coup ""; ""Sandline International ""; ""Motives behind the Assault Partnership ""

""The Vultures Swoop: A Country under Mercenary Occupation """"Is Sierra Leone any Closer to Peace and Democracy? ""; ""Weapons Continue to Dominate Sierra Leone ""; ""Conclusion: Winners and Losers ""; ""Notes Chapter 3 ""; ""4. The Hand of War: Mercenaries in the Former Zaire 1996   97 ""; ""The Congo as Cradle of Modern-day Mercenarism in Africa ""; ""The Revolutionary Wind of Change, 1996 ""; ""War in Eastern Zaire and the First Tutsi- led Rebellion ""; ""Mercenaries for Mobutu ""; ""War Bonanza ""; ""Executive Outcomes ""; ""Confusion in Kinshasa ""

""Western European Forces under Christian Tavernier ""



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910524905303321

Autore

Hohendahl Peter Uwe

Titolo

Building a national literature : the case of Germany, 1830-1870 / / Peter Uwe Hohendahl ; translated by Renate Baron Franciscono

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ithaca ; ; London : , : Cornell University Press, , 2016

©1989

ISBN

9781501705465

9780801496226

9780801418624

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 361 pages)

Disciplina

830/.9/007

Soggetti

German literature - 19th century - History and criticism

Literature and society - Germany - History - 19th century

Criticism - Germany - History - 19th century

Books and reading - Germany - History - 19th century

Liberalism - Germany - History - 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Translation of: Literarische Kultur im Zeitalter des Liberalismus 1830-1870.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: The institution of literature -- The public sphere -- The critique of the liberal public sphere -- The institutionalization of literature and criticism -- Literary tradition and the poetic canon -- The literary canon of the Nachmärz -- The institutionalization of literary history -- Education, schools, and the social structure -- Culture for the people -- Epilog: The road to industrial culture.

Sommario/riassunto

Hohendahl examines important elements in the making of a national literature, including the political and literary public sphere, the theory and practice of literary criticism, and the emergence of academic criticism as literary history.