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 This book is amongst the first academic treatments of the emerging debate on autonomous weapons. Autonomous weapons are capable, once programmed, of searching for and engaging a target without direct intervention by a human operator. Critics of these weapons claim that ‘taking the human out-of-the-loop’ represents a further step towards the de-humanisation of warfare, while advocates of this type of technology contend that the power of machine autonomy can potentially be harnessed in order to prevent war crimes. This book provides a thorough and critical assessment of these two positions. Written by a political philosopher at the forefront of the autonomous weapons debate, the book clearly assesses the ethical and legal ramifications of autonomous weapons, and presents a novel ethical argument against fully autonomous weapons.

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9781137523600 | Palgrave Pivot, June 13, 2016, cover price $67.50

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9781349706495 | Palgrave Pivot, April 11, 2016, cover price $67.50 | About this edition:  This book is amongst the first academic treatments of the emerging debate on autonomous weapons.

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Product Description: The phrase 'German Secret Weapons' immediately conjures up images of the V-1 and V-2 missiles which bombarded London in 1944. But what of the V-3 and V-4? What of Schmetterling, the Rochling shell, the Kurt bomb, the Hs293? These, and many other devices, were all part of the German secret armoury but are relatively unknown except to a handful of specialists...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9781853673252 | Greenhill Pr, November 1, 1998, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: & 40 b/w plates & 20 diagrams & 6 x 9 & Weapon-by-weapon study by a leading expert & Exposes the full extent of the Third Reich's secret weapons program & Separates fact from fiction The sheer magnitude of the secret weapon program of the Third Reich is revealed in this comprehensive study, which covers weapons actually produced and projects still in their infancy when the war ended.

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9781853675102 | Greenhill Books/Lionel Leventhal, October 1, 2002, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: The phrase 'German Secret Weapons' immediately conjures up images of the V-1 and V-2 missiles which bombarded London in 1944.

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Product Description: The complete World War II bomb census maps―unique graphic representations of one of the pivotal events of the century The aerial bombardment of London during the Second World War is one of the most significant events in the city’s modern history...read more

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9780500518250, titled "The London County Council Bomb Damage Maps, 1939-1945" | Thames & Hudson, March 14, 2016, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: The complete World War II bomb census maps―unique graphic representations of one of the pivotal events of the century The aerial bombardment of London during the Second World War is one of the most significant events in the city’s modern history.

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By Peter Dennis (illustrator)

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9781472810687 | Osprey Pub Co, February 16, 2016, cover price $18.00

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This book provides a platform to the scientists and engineers to understand the fundamentals of solar energy, and its applications and basic heat transfer. It describes the design, construction and performance of solar thermal devices and photovoltaic system. The solar thermal devices include flat plate collector, air heaters, crop drying, solar house, water heating system, solar distillation, solar concentrator and a controlled environment greenhouse etc. The economic aspects of solar systems have been discussed.

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9781842658390 | Revised edition (Alpha Science Intl Ltd, October 30, 2015), cover price $94.95
9781842651063 | Alpha Science Intl Ltd, March 30, 2002, cover price $89.95 | About this edition: This book provides a platform to the scientists and engineers to understand the fundamentals of solar energy, and its applications and basic heat transfer.
9780312532604, titled "Military Technology, Military Strategy, and the Arms Race" | Palgrave Macmillan, March 1, 1986, cover price $45.00 | also contains Military Technology, Military Strategy, and the Arms Race

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Thorough survey traces the history of firearms from the times of the Assyrians to the dawn of the 20th century. Essential guide covers ancient use of firearms in wartime and the development and variations of cannon, mines, handguns, muskets, and rifles as well as experiments with arms, ammunition, grenades, and rockets. 34 black-and-white illustrations.

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9781138923379 | Routledge, October 20, 2015, cover price $125.00

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9780486433905 | Dover Pubns, March 19, 2004, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Thorough survey traces the history of firearms from the times of the Assyrians to the dawn of the 20th century.

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Product Description: The divisions of the Waffen-SS were the elite of Hitler’s armed forces in World War II, but what is often forgotten is that their military achievements were due in no small measure to the hardware they deployed. Weapons and Fighting Techniques of the Waffen-SS examines in detail the military equipment used by Hitler’s elite...read more

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9781782743125 | Amber, September 19, 2015, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: The divisions of the Waffen-SS were the elite of Hitler’s armed forces in World War II, but what is often forgotten is that their military achievements were due in no small measure to the hardware they deployed.

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Product Description: Book covers technical aspects of the artillery pieces used by Italian Army during WWI.Covers: Modern and WWI guns of Italian origin, German or war booty guns, Self-propelled guns, Artillery Tractors. Technical details and scale plans of every described piece.See:

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9788363678616 | Mmp, September 1, 2015, cover price $69.00 | About this edition: Book covers technical aspects of the artillery pieces used by Italian Army during WWI.

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Product Description: The severe shortage of munitions during the First World War increased the level of casualties in the battlefields; prevented the breakthrough of the German defenses thus continuing a war of attrition; brought about the downfall of the great Liberal Government of the early twentieth century; and placed the British public on a total war footing for the first time in history...read more

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9781781554531 | Casemate Pub & Book Dist Llc, July 31, 2015, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: The severe shortage of munitions during the First World War increased the level of casualties in the battlefields; prevented the breakthrough of the German defenses thus continuing a war of attrition; brought about the downfall of the great Liberal Government of the early twentieth century; and placed the British public on a total war footing for the first time in history.

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Product Description: Pres. George Washington authorized Springfield Armory to begin manufacturing small arms for the US military in 1794. Over nearly two centuries until its closure in 1968, the government armory at Springfield, Massachusetts, became legendary, not only for the arms provided to soldiers during conflicts such as the War of 1812, the Civil War, and World War II, but also for the way in which those arms were crafted...read more

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9781467122740 | Arcadia Pub, March 2, 2015, cover price $21.99 | About this edition: Pres.

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Provides within a single volume the salient technical and operational details of all the most important weapons. The complete range of hardware used in land, sea and air forces throughout the world is covered.

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9780415710688 | Routledge, June 6, 2013, cover price $195.00
9780710207203 | Routledge Kegan & Paul, January 1, 1988, cover price $99.00 | About this edition: Provides within a single volume the salient technical and operational details of all the most important weapons.

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9780415710725, titled "Compendium of Armaments and Military Hardware" | Routledge, December 3, 2014, cover price $59.95

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Product Description: Why was the machine gun so devastating and how did it change the nature of the war? Who invented poison gas and how effective was it on the battlefield? What was it like to come face-to-face with the iron monsters that were the World War I tanks, unleashed for the first time? 

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9780752493220 | Trafalgar Square, June 1, 2014, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Why was the machine gun so devastating and how did it change the nature of the war?

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9781439850589 | Pap/chrt edition (CRC Pr I Llc, March 5, 2014), cover price $92.95

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Product Description: The Middle Ages are commonly divided into three periods--early, high or central, and late. Each period was marked by its own crises and wars, and the weapons and fighters reflected the technological and other advancements being made...read more

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9780786417728 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, November 30, 2004, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: This study combines both a broad introduction to medieval warfare and detailed studies of warriors and weaponry throughout the Middle Ages.

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9780786477340 | Reprint edition (McFarland & Co Inc Pub, February 25, 2014), cover price $39.95 | About this edition: The Middle Ages are commonly divided into three periods--early, high or central, and late.

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Product Description: The European Armaments Market and Procurement Cooperation 1988
By Pauline Creasy (editor)

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9781349100262 | Palgrave Macmillan, January 14, 2014, cover price $59.99 | About this edition: The European Armaments Market and Procurement Cooperation 1988

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Product Description: The Dangers of New Weapon Systems

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9781349171897 | Palgrave Macmillan, January 14, 2014, cover price $189.00 | About this edition: The Dangers of New Weapon Systems

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Product Description: Why are certain weapons acquired in the United States and others not? Theo Farrell addresses this question by examining the strategic, institutional and budgetary issues surrounding four major weapon programmes. Extensive use is made of primary sources in analysing the origins, development and outcomes of these programmes...read more

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9781349251117 | Palgrave Macmillan, January 25, 2016, cover price $105.00 | About this edition: Why are certain weapons acquired in the United States and others not?

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Relates the story of the German development of missile technology, a new kind of warfare that was extremely valuable to Allied powers during the Cold War but of little value to the Germans during World War II

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9780029228951 | Free Pr, November 1, 1994, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Relates the story of the German development of missile technology, a new kind of warfare that was extremely valuable to Allied powers during the Cold War but of little value to the Germans during World War II

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9781588344670 | Smithsonian Inst Pr, September 10, 2013, cover price $27.95
9780674776500 | Harvard Univ Pr, March 1, 1996, cover price $20.95

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Product Description: The Powder Magazine was completed circa 1713 as an arsenal to safely store munitions in the South Carolina colonial capital of Charles Town, serving continuously in defense through the 1740s and periodically until the 1820s. Rescued from destruction in 1902, the building has served as a museum for more than a century, inspiring countless other historic conservation efforts...read more

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9781596298170 | History Pr, March 5, 2013, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: The Powder Magazine was completed circa 1713 as an arsenal to safely store munitions in the South Carolina colonial capital of Charles Town, serving continuously in defense through the 1740s and periodically until the 1820s.

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In the tradition of Michael Herr’s Dispatches and works by such masters of the memoir as Mary Karr and Tobias Wolff, a powerful account of war and homecoming.Brian Castner served three tours of duty in the Middle East, two of them as the commander of an Explosive Ordnance Disposal unit in Iraq. Days and nights he and his team—his brothers—would venture forth in heavily armed convoys from their Forward Operating Base to engage in the nerve-racking yet strangely exhilarating work of either disarming the deadly improvised explosive devices that had been discovered, or picking up the pieces when the alert came too late. They relied on an army of remote-controlled cameras and robots, but if that technology failed, a technician would have to don the eighty-pound Kevlar suit, take the Long Walk up to the bomb, and disarm it by hand. This lethal game of cat and mouse was, and continues to be, the real war within America’s wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. But The Long Walk is not just about battle itself. It is also an unflinching portrayal of the toll war exacts on the men and women who are fighting it. When Castner returned home to his wife and family, he began a struggle with a no less insidious foe, an unshakable feeling of fear and confusion and survivor’s guilt that he terms The Crazy. His thrilling, heartbreaking, stunningly honest book immerses the reader in two harrowing and simultaneous realities: the terror and excitement and camaraderie of combat, and the lonely battle against the enemy within—the haunting memories that will not fade, the survival instincts that will not switch off. After enduring what he has endured, can there ever again be such a thing as “normal”? The Long Walk will hook you from the very first sentence, and it will stay with you long after its final gripping page has been turned.From the Hardcover edition.

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9780307950871 | Reprint edition (Anchor Books, April 9, 2013), cover price $15.00 | also contains The Long Walk: A Story of War and the Life That Follows, The Long Walk: A Story of War and the Life That Follows
9780857521583 | Gardners Books, February 28, 2013, cover price $21.95 | also contains The Long Walk: A Story of War and the Life That Follows, The Long Walk: A Story of War and the Life That Follows

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9780449806401 | Unabridged edition (Random House, July 10, 2012), cover price $35.00 | About this edition: In the tradition of Michael Herr’s Dispatches and works by such masters of the memoir as Mary Karr and Tobias Wolff, a powerful account of war and homecoming.

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The New York Times and Maclean’s bestsellerIn January 1943, FDR and Churchill established the Allied objectives for the war: to defeat the Nazi Blitzkrieg; to control the Atlantic sea lanes and the air over western and central Europe; to take the fight to the European mainland; and to end Japan’s imperialism. Astonishingly, a little over a year later, these ambitious goals had nearly all been accomplished. With riveting, tactical detail, The Engineers of Victory reveals how.Paul Kennedy uncovers how the leaders’ grand strategy was practically achieved by the ordinary soldiers, scientists, engineers and businessmen responsible for realizing their commanders’ visions of success. Revealing exactly how thousands of individual Allied planes and fighting ships were choreographed to collectively pull off the invasion of Normandy, Kennedy illuminates how crew chiefs perfected the high-flying and inaccessible B-29 Superfortress that would drop the atomic bombs on Japan.In The Engineers of Victory, Kennedy unearths the real heroes of the war, highlighting for the first time the creative strategies, tactics and organizational decisions that turned the lofty Allied objectives into a successful reality.

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9781400067619, titled "Engineers of Victory: The Problem Solvers Who Turned the Tide in the Second World War" | Random House Inc, January 29, 2013, cover price $30.00
9781846141126, titled "Engineers of Victory: The Problem Solvers Who Turned the Tide in the Second World War" | Gardners Books, January 29, 2013, cover price $40.75 | About this edition: The New York Times and Maclean’s bestsellerIn January 1943, FDR and Churchill established the Allied objectives for the war: to defeat the Nazi Blitzkrieg; to control the Atlantic sea lanes and the air over western and central Europe; to take the fight to the European mainland; and to end Japan’s imperialism.

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9780812979398, titled "Engineers of Victory: The Problem Solvers Who Turned the Tide in the Second World War" | Random House Inc, December 10, 2013, cover price $16.00

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