The kamikaze pilots or “Winds of God” were created in 1945, during Japan’s twilight year of the Second World War. The world looked upon this monstrous creation of “human bombs” with disbelief but the young patriotic men of Japan who signed up for the terrifying attack missions of the kamikaze program were unstoppable. Women...

David Abulafia, profesor de Historia del Mediterráneo en la Universidad de Cambridge, nos ofrece el que es sin duda el más ambicioso de los libros dedicados hasta hoy al pasado de ese “Gran Mar”, que tiene en el nacimiento y evolución de las civilizaciones humanas un papel mayor y más importante que ningún otro. Sólo alguie...

Over the course of a career that has spanned more than fifty years, philosopher Fred Sommers has

Expanded into two volumes, the Second Edition of Springer?s Encyclopedia of Cryptography and Security brings the latest and most comprehensive coverage of the topic: Definitive information on cryptography and information security from highly regarded researchers Effective tool for professionals in many fields and researchers of all levels Extens...

Examines the past, present, and future of Protestantism. This book investigates the formation of Protestant identity, looking at its historical development across Europe, North America, Asia, Australasia, and Africa. It considers the interaction of Protestantism with various areas of modern life, including the arts, politics, the law, and science.

The World Development Report 2011 on conflict, security and development will look at conflict as a...

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Bullying has a tendency to be associated with aggression between children in the playground, but...

This collection is an important contribution to the semantic and syntactic analysis of the expression of existence. The volume focuses on the three main linguistic constructions expressing existence: copular clauses, existential sentences, and (in)definiteness. The papers analyze the interaction between the basic notion of existence and pervasiv...

A collection of essays discussing a wide range of sciences and the central philosophical issues...