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Volume 4 of the monograph is dedicated to the architectural and aesthetic problems of town development. The first chapter reveals the essence of architectural and aesthetic problems and their place among the other town planning problems dealt within the preceding volumes. The second chapter analyses such basic notions of town development as traditions, continuity and innovation. These notions are analysed by means of concrete examples of towns. The authors reveal the regularity factor characterizing the shaping of internal spaces, sky-lines and panoramas of towns. The third, fourth and fifth chapters deal with principles of architectural composition, with rules and devices contributing to the shaping of ensembles. Various examples of comprehensive development and of creating parks and gardens are analyzed here. Special attention is paid to the problem of integrating architectural monuments into modern development. The sixth chapter is devoted to questions concerning numerous and various engineering facilities within the town borders, and analyzes the aesthetic value of engineering structures. A special section of the chapter deals with the so-called "small forms" and their utilization in the town amenity. The last, seventh, chapter analyzes the question of synthesis of arts in town planning, gives characteristics of monumental sculpture and painting and describes methods of integrating monuments and memorial structures into the town ensembles. In the closing section of the volume one finds the summing up of the problems investigated and analyzed in volume 4 and taken in connection with the subjects of the preceding volumes. The monograph is intended for architects, town planners, scientific workers, teachers and students of architectural and building institutes, workers of the City Soviet of Working People's Deputies. The book acquaints foreign readers with numerous questions concerning the theory and the practice of the Soviet town planning.

The third volume deals with the most important engineering and economic questions of Soviet town planning. In the section "The Town Planning Economy" chief attention is paid to problems of utilizing manpower resources, to methods applied for the selection of territory, for the determination of building height, and for the reconstruction of towns. Being based on wide experience gained in the USSR the section "Site preparation" classifies methods of engineering works, gives examples of such works and suggests appropriate recommendations. The section "Water Supply, Sewerage and Sanitary Purification" considers modern systems of supplying towns with water, of sewage disposal, and of atmosphere and water purification. In the section dedicated to "Power Supply" one sees modern schemes of electric-heat-gas supply, recommendations concerning their selection; the section, as well, deals with the question of possible influence of new kinds of power resources and new methods of power generation on town planning. The last section - "Industrialization of Town Building" - presents materials defining the history and the tendencies of industrialization of building and gives exemplary schemes of its organization. In all the sections great attention is being paid to the progressive techniques of engineering equipment. The achievements of Soviet town planning in the field of engineering equipment is illustrated by photos, diagrams and drawings. The book is intended for architects, engineers, economists and other specialists working in the field of town planning. It will be read with interest by foreign readers as well.

This manual has been developed to illustrate a broad range of floodproofing techniques that can be used to reduce flood damages to existing or proposed non-residential structures. The manual is primarily directed at local officials, building owners, designers, contractors and other individuals or organizations that are interested in the design and implementation of floodproofing plans. The manual includes six chapters and several appendices. Chapter I introduces the user to the permanent, contingent, and emergency floodproofing techniques that will be addressed in this manual. Chapter II describes the major physical, economic, and social factors that influence the feasibility of floodproofing a structure, and related sources of information and technical assistance. Chapters III and IV provide more detailed information that will facilitate the selection and conceptual design of appropriate floodproofing methods. Representative costs of the various elements of floodproofing are presented in Chapter V. Chapter VI contains several floodproofing case histories. These case histories have been included to provide information on floodproofing plans that are currently in use, and the conditions for which they were designed. Several appendices have also been included in the manual to provide a variety of supplemental information.

This study may serve to create an enhanced awareness of the impact of partisan operations on modern warfare. Indeed, the systematic use of partisans in conjunction with regular forces has had the effect of addition another dimension to war: that of depth. One of the lessons of the German-Russian struggle lies in the serious contribution made by Russian partisan forces to the defeat of the German Army. General der Flieger a.D. Karl Drum was born in 1893. He entered military service with the German Army in 1913, and in 1916 he was assigned to the Air Force. At the beginning of World War II General Drum was Chief of Staff to the Luftwaffe General with Commander-in-Chief, Army. During 1941-42 he was Chief, Air Support Command, Army Group South (Russia). After this assignment and until the end of the war, General Drum held a series of Luftwaffe administrative positions in Holland, Greece, Belgium, and Northern France, and, finally, in Western France where he was Commanding General and Commander-in-Chief of the Luftwaffe Administrative Command, Western France.

CONTENTSThe Development of Capitalism in RussiaThe Theoretical Mistakes of the Narodnik EconomistsThe Differentiation of the PeasantryThe Landowners' Transition from Corvée to Capitalist EconomyThe Growth of Commercial AgricultureThe First Stages of Capitalism in IndustryCapitalist Manufacture and Capitalist Domestic IndustryThe Development of Large-Scale Machine IndustryThe Formation of the Home Market

CONTENTSBoyhood and Early Years (1748-67)Life in Lincoln's Inn (1768-81)Bentham at Bowood (1781)Residence in Russia and Relations with Dumont (1782-89)Era of the French Revolution (1789-92)Fifteen Years' Work on Legal Reform (1793-1808)Bentham become a Politician (1808-18)Bentham in Old Age (1819-32)Bentham's Creed and Aims

CONTENTSGeneral PrinciplesOf Corporal PunishmentsOf Privative Punishments, or ForfeituresOf Mis-Seated PunishmentOf Complex PunishmentMiscellaneous Topics

This book is intended for the use of students at shipbuilding institutes and may also serve as a text for research and design engineers engaged in ship construction. The book treats the problems concerned with the buoyancy and stability of a complete and damaged ship encountered by the naval architect in the design, building and operation of ships. It presents the theory of the subject matter and the methods of calculations employed in ship construction. The technique of calculations is illustrated by numerical examples in a number of cases. In distinction to other books dealing with the problems of buoyancy and stability of ships, this text covers both static and dynamic effects. Some theoretical propositions and calculations have been developed by the author and are published in the world naval literature for the first time. Vladimir Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky, Doctor of Technical Sciences, is professor and head of the Department of Naval Architecture at the Leningrad Shipbuilding Institute. Dr. Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky is conducting wide research work in the field of theoretical naval architecture, applied hydromechanics and theoretical mechanics. He has worked out some problems of the theory of buoyancy and stability of ships with consideration of static and dynamic effects which is an important contribution to the theory of naval architecture. Dr. Semyonov-Tyan-Shansky is the author of several books and a large number of scientific papers and reports. The main of these are the following: Statics of the Ship, Short Course in Theory of Ship, and Statics and Dynamics of the Ship.

This book is a biography of Harriet Beecher Stowe, whose 1852 classic was a riveting read for an America torn apart by slavery. The book is less a full biography and more of a focus on her anti-slavery work, with other causes, including women's rights. Originally published in 1889 under the title The Life-Work of the Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin.

This book presents the extraordinary case of a man that did not find himself until fifty-five. The events throughout the book have a certain classic quality, a certain relationship between their outwardness and their inwardness, a certain concrete reality, that show an existence before they passed through the crucible of the author's transmuting power, for their previous existence in literature was as vivid to him as if it had been in life.Contents:IntroductoryChildhood and Youth, 1547-1568Early Manhood, 1569-1580His Prime, 1581-1602The First Part of Don QuijoteThe Interval, 1605-1613The Second Part of Don Quijote, 1614-1616Notes

Sadakichi Hartmann visited Whitman several times between 1884 and 1891 and recorded their talks. "Then he brought out some California claret, and when Billie returned with the lobster, we sat down - several hens running in and out of the half open door through which one could catch a glimpse of the red and green of a sunlit yard - and had a very jolly repast."

CONTENTSCharacteristics of Greek SculptureEarly MasterpiecesMyronPhidiasPolyclitusPraxitelesScopasLysippusHellenistic SculptureIndex

A translation of ancient legal sources such as the Code of Hammurabi, laws relating to contracts, marriage, inheritance, slavery, property, sales, land tenure, and more will show the reader the law and the law-courts, the rights of the State, the family and the individual, and property matters as they existed, and their similarity to today's legal system. One of Johns' most substantial works, written while he was lecturer in Assyriology at Queens' College, Cambridge - with his extensive commentary accompanying his English translation.

Military organizations are, by their very nature, resistant to change. This is, in no small part, due to the fact that the cost of error is exceedingly high. Change, particularly change that may affect the relationships among organizations and between commanders and their subordinates presents significant risks and generates considerable concern. The explosion of information technologies has set in motion a virtual tidal wave of change that is in the process of profoundly affecting organizations and individuals in multiple dimensions. The military is no exception. The military is now on the road to becoming an information age organization. The transformation involved is fraught with both risks and opportunities because it will affect the nature of the information provided as well as the manner in which it is provided. Dr. David S. Alberts is currently Director of Advanced Concepts, Technologies, and Information Strategies at the Institute for National Strategic Studies at the National Defense University. He has held senior positions in government, industry, and academia over a twenty-five-year career and has been a leader in helping organizations take advantage of the opportunities offered by technology.

This technical memorandum presents the results of the Office of Technology Assessment's (OTA) review and assessment of the scientific evidence on the validity of polygraph testing. OTA has limited this technical memorandum to issues directly related to the scientific validity of the polygraph. OTA did not consider utility, privacy, constitutional, and ethical issues, among others that have been raised in the debate over polygraph testing. We first discuss the various types of polygraph testing procedures and ways in which the polygraph is used, and then summarize the judicial, legislative, and scientific controversy over polygraph testing validity. Next, we review and evaluate both prior reviews of the scientific research on polygraph validity and the individual research studies. Finally, we discuss the range of factors that may affect polygraph validity and the possibilities for future research, and present OTA's conclusions about the scientific evidence for current and proposed Federal Government polygraph use. In preparing this memorandum, OTA has drawn on research information available from a wide variety of sources, including the major Federal Government polygraph users, the American Polygraph Association, various private polygraph practitioners, and polygraph researchers both in the United States and abroad.

"This short, illustrated history of the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers provides an overview of the many missions that engineers have performed in support of the Army and the nation since the early days of the American Revolution. A permanent institution since 1802, the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers has effectively and proudly responded to changing defense requirements and has played an integral part in the development of the nation. "Engineers have served in combat in all our nation's wars. Throughout the 19th century the Corps built coastal fortifications, surveyed roads and canals, eliminated navigational hazards, explored and mapped the western frontier, and constructed buildings and monuments in the nation's capital. "In the 20th century, the Corps became the lead federal flood control agency. Assigned the military construction mission in 1941, the Corps constructed facilities at home and abroad to support the Army and the Air Force. During the Cold War, Army engineers managed construction programs for America's allies, including a massive effort in Saudi Arabia. "Today, building on its rich heritage, the Corps is changing to meet the challenges of tomorrow. Our vision calls for us to be a vital part of the Army; the engineer team of choice, responding to our nation's needs in peace and war; and a values-based organization, respected, responsive, and reliable. "I hope that readers of the history will gain an appreciation of the military, political, economic, and technological factors that shaped the modern Corps of Engineers. We in the Corps, both soldiers and civilians, are proud of our many contributions to the Army and the nation and look forward with confidence to continued service." Joe N. Ballard Lieutenant General, United States Army Commanding

International terrorism and the seizure of hostages for political purposes have become all too familiar events in Africa, the Middle East, Western Europe, England - no area seems to be immune - innocent civilians are being seized and held by those wishing to achieve ideological and political goals. When rebels held hostage American consular personnel and other civilians in Stanleyville, the Congo, in 1964, the United States was confronted with a unique crisis situation. In this exhaustively researched account, Colonel Fred Wagoner presents a chronological narrative of the events leading to the Belgian-American operation, DRAGON ROUGE, which successfully rescued Americans and Belgians held hostage in Stanleyville for 111 days. Based primarily on recently declassified and other original, unpublished sources, it is the compelling story of the ordeal of the hostages. It is also a story of decisionmaking in crisis, and an instructive account of how an international hostage crisis was managed. There are interesting insights into the complex factors, both domestic and international, which must be weighed in crisis decisionmaking, and an exploration of how the views of allies, adversaries, and the Third World were accommodated.

This popular book, designed for young readers who are acquainted with the rudiments of physics and chemistry, is a translation of a Soviet textbook by Academician V. Obruchev."The person unversed in geology is like a blind man. He cannot distinguish between various rocks. The different colors of rock tell him nothing. He cannot understand how gullies were formed. He sees layers of rock in some gully and wonders why they are strangely twisted in one place, while elsewhere they stand upright. This person may admire a picturesque cliff, an austere canyon or waterfall, but these sights evoke but superficial impressions. He can only appreciate nature's outward forms, but not the substance of the phenomena, he will see but not comprehend. Geology teaches us to understand nature and learn how it developed."

First published in 1911, this was the first comprehensive account of Dickens's trips to the United States in the 1840s and the 1860s. The author reconstructed many of the contemporary accounts, reprinted extracts from the reports of the time, and gathered illustrations of the places Dickens visited. From a collection of contemporary press clippings this volume seeks to explain the attitude of the American press and people towards Dickens on the occasion of his first visit to the United States, as well as to assist Dickensians to gauge for themselves the justice of his strictures on the American journalism of the period. "Mr. Wilkins has performed his task with commendable impartiality, and as a scrupulously careful narrative of the eventful journey of 1842, and especially as representing, from the American point of view, the manner in which 'Boz' at thirty came, saw, and conquered, his book is a novel and valuable addition to existing literature on Dickens." "Y AthenaeumThis title is cited and recommended by the Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature.

A systematic, day-by-day treatment of the Decameron which calls up each section of the work and presents an exhaustive record of the known sources as discovered by the author. Though written in 1909, this remains the essential handbook to Decameron studies. Gives a detailed history of the antecedents of Boccaccio's famous work, showing how it evolved from numerous sources. Comprehensive analysis of each "novel" of each day.This title is cited and recommended by Books for College Libraries and Bibliography of Comparative Literature.

First published in 1889, this essential work was written from manuscript journals and letters placed in the author's possession by Sir Percy and Lady Shelley in order to create a definitive biographical work.This title is cited and recommended by the Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature.

On September 8, 1886, soldiers and Indians gathered on the parade ground of a frontier post nestled amid cactus-studded hills. A cordon of blueclad troopers formed around a train of open wagons loaded with Indian families. As a military band drawn up at the base of the flagstaff played "Auld Lang Syne," the procession moved out of the fort and headed north.The post was Fort Bowie, Arizona, for a quarter of a century a lonely bastion in Apache Pass, the heart of Apacheria. The Indians were Geronimo and his band of Chiricahua Apaches, for more than a decade scourges of the southwestern frontier. Now the warfare had ended, and with a touch of musical irony the victors bade farewell as the vanquished were escorted to the railroad cars that would bear them eastward to an uncertain future.Today the gaunt ruins of Fort Bowie, set in an environment otherwise uncluttered by man's works, recall a dramatic and significant phase of the American past"Ythe struggle of a dynamic and aggressive people to conquer the wilderness, and the struggle of a proud and independent people to retain the wilderness and the way of life they had known.

Recovering rapidly from the shock of German counteroffensives in the Ardennes and Alsace, Allied armies early in January 1945 began an offensive that gradually spread all along the line from the North Sea to Switzerland and continued until the German armies and the German nation were prostrate in defeat. This volume tells the story of that offensive, one which eventually involved more than four and a half million troops, including ninety-one divisions, sixty-one of which were American.The focus of the volume is on the role of the American armies -First, Third, Seventh, Ninth, and, to a lesser extent, Fifteenth- which comprised the largest and most powerful military force the United States has ever put in the field. The role of Allied armies -First Canadian, First French, and Second British- is recounted in sufficient detail to put the role of American armies in perspective, as is the story of tactical air forces in support of the ground troops.

"It is now a quarter of a century since nuclear energy was introduced to the public. Its introduction was made in the most dramatic, but unfortunately in the most destructive way - through the use of a nuclear weapon. "Since that introduction enormous strides have been made in developing the peaceful applications of this great and versatile force. Because these strides have always been overshadowed by the focusing of public attention on the military side of the atom, the public has never fully understood or appreciated the gains and status of the peaceful atom. "This book is an attempt to correct, in some measure, this imbalance in public information and attitude. It is a compilation of remarks, and excerpts of remarks, that I have made in recent years in an effort to bring to the public the story of the remarkable benefits the peaceful atom has to offer man. This is a story that grows with the development and progress of the peaceful atom. It must be told so that we can learn to use the power of nuclear energy wisely and through this use help to build a world in which the military applications of the atom will never again be a threat to mankind."--- Glenn T. SeaborgContents:IntroductionThe Need for Nuclear PowerNuclear Power---Status and OutlookNuclear FusionNuclear Energy in SpaceThe Atom's Expanding Role in MedicineThe Atom's Expanding Role in IndustryThe Atom's Expanding Role in AgricultureThe Atom's Expanding Role in the HumanitiesSwords into PlowsharesMan and the Atom---By the Year 2000

Over the past five years, the application of copyright law to distance education using digital technologies has become the subject of public debate and attention in the United States. In the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 (DMCA), Congress charged the Copyright Office with responsibility to study the issue and report back with recommendations within six months. After an intensive process of identifying stakeholders, holding public hearings, soliciting comments, conducting research, and consulting with experts in various fields, the Office has issued this Report.Part I of the Report gives an overview of the nature of distance education today. Part II describes current licensing practices in digital distance education, including problems and future trends. Part III describes the status of technologies relating to the delivery and protection of distance education materials. Part IV analyzes the application of current copyright law to digital distance education activities. Part V discusses prior initiatives addressing copyright and digital distance education. Part VI examines the question of whether the law should be changed, first summarizing the views of interested parties and then providing the Copyright Office's analysis and recommendations.

The definitive work on the structure and capabilities of the organ throughout history, presenting a discussion of the organ's wind collecting and sound-producing portions as well as tuning and pitch and the individual characteristics of hundreds of organs in existence in famous cathedrals and elsewhere. The book also includes details on the structure and capabilities of the organ, with specifications and suggestive details for instruments of all sizes, intended as a handbook for the organist and the amateur.Edward J. Hopkins was Organist to the Honourable Societies of the Inner and Middle Temple.When originally published in 1877 this work contained an introduction, New History of the Organ by Edward F. Rimbault, which has now been published as a separate book instead of being included in this edition.

The definitive work on the organ throughout history starting with a documented chronological history of the instrument, especially in England and Germany.When originally published in 1877 this work was the introduction to The Organ: Its History and Construction by Edward J. Hopkins, which has now been published as a separate book instead of being included in this edition.

Throughout the War in Southeast Asia, Communist forces from North Vietnam infiltrated the isolated, neutral state of Laos. Men and supplies crossed the mountain passes and travelled along an intricate web of roads and jungle paths known as the Ho Chi Minh Trail to the Viet Cong insurgents in South Vietnam. American involvement in Laos began with photo-reconnaissance missions and, as the war in Vietnam intensified, expanded to a series of air-ground operations from bases in Vietnam and Thailand against fixed targets and infiltration routes in southern Laos. U.S. Air Force leaders and aircrews flying interdiction missions over Laotian territory faced a unique set of challenges. Their efforts were plagued by political controversies, daunting weather, rugged terrain, a tenacious foe, and above all a bewildering array of rules of engagement limiting the effectiveness of air operations. Interdiction in Southern Laos, 1960-1968 examines this complex operational environment. Many of these issues-particularly those relevant to conducting a politically sensitive, limited war from foreign bases, with a commitment to minimizing civilian casualties-are still relevant today and for the foreseeable future as the modern Air Force meets its responsibilities in an ever-changing global environment. Richard P. Hallion Air Force Historian