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Flashpoints
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Author : George Friedman
language : en
Publisher: Anchor
Release Date : 2015-01-27
Flashpoints written by George Friedman and has been published by Anchor this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-01-27 with Political Science categories.
A major new book by New York Times bestselling author and geopolitical forecaster George Friedman (The Next 100 Years), with a bold thesis about coming events in Europe. This provocative work examines “flashpoints,” unique geopolitical hot spots where tensions have erupted throughout history, and where conflict is due to emerge again. “There is a temptation, when you are around George Friedman, to treat him like a Magic 8 Ball.” —The New York Times Magazine With remarkable accuracy, George Friedman has forecasted coming trends in global politics, technology, population, and culture. In Flashpoints, Friedman focuses on Europe—the world’s cultural and power nexus for the past five hundred years . . . until now. Analyzing the most unstable, unexpected, and fascinating borderlands of Europe and Russia—and the fault lines that have existed for centuries and have been ground zero for multiple catastrophic wars—Friedman highlights, in an unprecedentedly personal way, the flashpoints that are smoldering once again. The modern-day European Union was crafted in large part to minimize built-in geopolitical tensions that historically have torn it apart. As Friedman demonstrates, with a mix of rich history and cultural analysis, that design is failing. Flashpoints narrates a living history of Europe and explains, with great clarity, its most volatile regions: the turbulent and ever-shifting land dividing the West from Russia (a vast area that currently includes Ukraine, Belarus, and Lithuania); the ancient borderland between France and Germany; and the Mediterranean, which gave rise to Judaism and Christianity and became a center of Islamic life. Through Friedman’s seamless narrative of townspeople and rivers and villages, a clear picture of regions and countries and history begins to emerge. Flashpoints is an engrossing analysis of modern-day Europe, its remarkable past, and the simmering fault lines that have awakened and will be pivotal in the near future. This is George Friedman’s most timely and, ultimately, riveting book.
Manual On Flash Point Standards And Their Use
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: ASTM International
Release Date : 1992
Manual On Flash Point Standards And Their Use written by and has been published by ASTM International this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Flammable liquids categories.
Flash Points
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Author : Jade Wu
language : en
Publisher: SUNY Press
Release Date : 2017-04-12
Flash Points written by Jade Wu and has been published by SUNY Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-12 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A compelling, intimate account of how US foreign assistance in war zones and developing countries does not achieve its intended goals. From the hot savannah of Malawi to the cold, damp gray of Kosovo and into the volatile war zones of Iraq and Afghanistan, the United States and other donors have invested enormous financial and human resources in major peacekeeping and development efforts. Why then is the world no closer to being a better and safer place? Both a salient critique of US foreign assistance and a thought-provoking memoir, Flash Points describes the issues with personnel, language, and gender dynamics, as well as the cross-cultural challenges that often undermine and betray the best intentions of policy makers comfortably situated in Washington. Revealed in illuminating flashbacks, Jade Wu recalls her experiences in each of these four countries highlighting how, all too often, Americans in the field and the US government were unable to learn the lessons that ought to have been learned when dealing with host countries and their people. The final results were efforts poorly conceived and executed and, ultimately, detrimental to American national interests. Flash Points should be required reading for professionals in foreign assistance programs and could be used in formal training programs for aid workers before heading abroad. It will also interest the general reader. Many will find it a fascinating story of one womans experiences abroad. By leaving many pages with illuminating quoted dialogue, all readers will be lured on through Jade Wus adventures, right up to the final flashback. Robert W. Maule, Retired US Senior Foreign Service Officer While there are a variety of books on the subject, few offer the unique perspective of the author who has been a Peace Corps volunteer in Africa and worked in Kosovo, Iraq, and Afghanistan, countries where there have been major military, peacekeeping, and development efforts and investments. Wus perspective is that of an objective, critical observer who has worked in the trenches. Her observations are well-informed, astute, and compel the reader to think carefully about the ways in which this country often wastes enormous resourcesincluding human livesin efforts that are ill-conceived. Thomas R. Carter, Retired Senior Advisor, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
The Four Flashpoints
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Author : Brendan Taylor
language : en
Publisher: Black Inc.
Release Date : 2018-08-06
The Four Flashpoints written by Brendan Taylor and has been published by Black Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-06 with Political Science categories.
A timely account of the four most troubled hotspots in the world’s most combustible region Asia is at a dangerous moment. China is rising fast, and its regional ambitions are growing. Reckless North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un may be assembling more nuclear weapons, despite diplomatic efforts to eradicate his arsenal. Japan is building up its military, throwing off constitutional constraints imposed after World War II. The United States, for so long a stabilising presence in Asia, is behaving erratically: Donald Trump is the first US president since the 1970s to break diplomatic protocol and speak with Taiwan, and the first to threaten war with North Korea if denuclearisation does not occur. The possibility of global catastrophe looms ever closer. In this revelatory analysis, geopolitical expert Brendan Taylor examines the four Asian flashpoints most likely to erupt in sudden and violent conflict: the Korean Peninsula, the East China Sea, the South China Sea and Taiwan. He sketches how clashes could play out in these global hotspots and argues that crisis can only be averted by understanding the complex relations between them. Drawing on history, in-depth reports and his intimate observations of the region, Taylor asks what the world’s major powers can do to avoid an eruption of war – and shows how Asia could change this otherwise disastrous trajectory.
Flash Points Of Organic And Organometallic Compounds
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Author : Richard M. Stephenson
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-12-06
Flash Points Of Organic And Organometallic Compounds written by Richard M. Stephenson and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-06 with Science categories.
This book brings together and makes easily accessible data on flash points pres ently listed in the standard references, plus many values measured in American indus trial laboratories and European data as represented by the Fluka catalog and by values given in Nabert and Schoen. It is a collection that should be useful to those involved in manufacturing, handling, and shipping the many organics and organometallics now in production. The author would like to thank David Harvey, President, and Chuck Pouchert, of Aldrich Chemical Company, for permission to use their material and for provid ing a computer printout of some six thousand chemicals listed in the Aldrich cata log. Flash points for most of these chemicals were measured in the Aldrich laboratories and are not available elsewhere. Thanks are due also to Dr. Marjan Bace of Elsevier Science Publishing Co., Inc., who recognized the need for a handbook on flash points and handled the pub lishing arrangements. Particular thanks go to my wife, Mary, who prepared the entire camera-ready manuscript. Richard M. Stephenson The University of Connecticut Storrs, Connecticut December, 1986 v Introduction Flash points are of particular importance to those involved with the handling and ship ping of organics and organometaliics. As each country has its own shipping regula tions, this can be a real problem for international shippers. Many flash points have been determined by individual chemical manufacturers in answer to their own needs.
Flammability Limits Flash Points And Their Consanguinity
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Author : Jef Rowley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
Flammability Limits Flash Points And Their Consanguinity written by Jef Rowley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with categories.
Flash point and lower temperature limit measurements indicate that the flash point is greater than the lower temperature limit, the difference increasing with increasing lower temperature limit. Flash point values determined in a Pensky-Martens apparatus typically exceed values determined using a small-scale apparatus above 350 K.
Flash Point
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Author : Mary Shura Craig
language : en
Publisher: Dodd Mead
Release Date : 1987-01-01
Flash Point written by Mary Shura Craig and has been published by Dodd Mead this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987-01-01 with Arson categories.
Self Ignition Temperatures And Flash Points Of Some High Energy Fuels
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Author : Barbara Pusanski
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1957
Self Ignition Temperatures And Flash Points Of Some High Energy Fuels written by Barbara Pusanski and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1957 with Boron as fuel categories.
Flashpoints
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Author : David Waddington
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-09-05
Flashpoints written by David Waddington and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-05 with Political Science categories.
This book, first published in 1989, examines how a seemingly trivial incident can act as a flashpoint for wider disturbances. It investigates the underlying causes, the immediate context of the events, and the communication between police and crowd that takes place within them. The authors’ findings are based on first-hand research into case studies of political demonstrations, community disorder and industrial picketing in South Yorkshire, UK over a five-year period. Wide-ranging in its approach, the book covers industrial relations, police-community relations, and questions of political representation and legal rights. The authors provide a novel theoretical analysis, drawing on both sociology and social psychology, which they apply to their own case studies and to other instances of disorder, from Grosvenor Square in 1968 to Wapping in 1986. They also consider the possible impact of new public order legislation, and the policy implications of their research.
Fuel Oil Manual
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Author : Paul Frank Schmidt
language : en
Publisher: Industrial Press Inc.
Release Date : 1985
Fuel Oil Manual written by Paul Frank Schmidt and has been published by Industrial Press Inc. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Technology & Engineering categories.
The properties of fuel oils. The possibilities and limitations of each grade. Methods which can be used to assure uniform quality and efficient combustion. Fuel oil impurities and how they affect combustion. How to diagnose and solve problems. This book is a Print-on-Demand edition. It replaces ISBN 978-0-8311-0205-0. This standard reference presents a broad scope of fuel oil technology. It uses both English and Metric units throughout. Chemistry of Petroleum Petroleum Refining Processes Grades and Types of Fuel Oils Gravity Heat of Combustion Viscosity Water and Sediment Carbon Residue Ash and Salt Residue Flash and Fire Points Pour Point Sulfur Color Fuel Oil Distillates Preheating of Fuel Oils Sampling Storage Tanks Stability of Fuel Oils Fuel Oil Treatments Reclaimed Fuel Oils Blending of Oils Transportation and Storage Troubles and Causes Stand-by Fuel Oil Diesel Fuel Oils Index