Military

A leading authority's important new approach to fracture-related mechanicsA significant contribution to our understanding of structural stability, Stability Problems in Fracture Mechanics bridges the gap between fracture mechanics and analytical (rational) mechanics, and provides a new perspective o... More

This concise and comprehensive work makes clear the relationship among the three parts of the encryption triad--cryptology, communications, and computers. As former Secretary of Defense William J. Perry writes in his foreword to this book, it "tells in one easily accessible condensed form the remark... More

The de Havilland DH.106 Comet was the world's first pure-jet airliner. Powered by four de Havilland Ghost turbojet engines and accommodating its passengers in a pressurized cabin, the Comet offered new levels of speed, comfort and smoothness to the air traveler when it entered service with BOAC in 1... More

In the century since this book was first published much has been written about the greatest sea battle of the age of sail, but very little of it in English is from the perspective of the defeated. This gives the work an enduring value to all but those with access to French and Spanish naval archives... More

Information operations involve the use of military information and how it is gathered, manipulated, and fused. It includes such critical functions as intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, command and control, communications, and precision navigation. This authoritative resource provides milita... More

This book offers a new perspective on the area, drawing together the conflicts of South Asia and examining them in local and global contexts, from the end of the Western colonial empires through today's global efforts to combat terrorism. ... More

Now a major motion picture starring Aishwarya Rai as Kiranjit, Nandita Das, Naveen Andrews, Miranda Richardson, Robbie Coltrane and a host of other stars.  Born into a privileged family in India, Kiranjit Ahluwalia came to England in 1979 to be married to a man she hardly knew. The next ten ye... More

Widely acclaimed by the press in its original edition, How to read a balance sheet quickly became a popular training and self-development text, and has been translated into more than 20 languages. Almost two decades after its first publication, the book was judiciously revised to cover recent develo... More

The Antonov An-12 Cub was the Soviet Union's equivalent of the Lockheed C-130 Hercules: a military and civil transport aircraft of outstanding versatility and longevity. From the mid-1960s onwards there was not a single major event in the history of the Soviet Union where this formidable four-engine... More

This highly useful companion volume to the Naval Institute's "Division Officer's Guide and "Naval Officer's Guide addresses that aspect of a naval officer's career that is every bit as important as leadership and qualifications--navigating through the rocks and shoals of the Navy's promotion and ass... More

This timely book provides an easy-to-understand overview of how the Internet has emerged as an important setting for business, and how doing business on the Internet is regulated by the courts, as well as state and federal government. It offers a clear and better understanding of complex legal conce... More

Provides information on all currently operational tanks and other armored vehicles from around the world... More

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