Backstop Land

Backstop Land
Author: Glenn Patterson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 206
Release: 2019-10-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 1838932038

'Funny, wise, entertaining and illuminating, this book is one of the best things to come out of the Brexit saga' FINTAN O'TOOLE. 'Read this absorbing book to understand why, since 2016, we have been playing with fire. There is no longer any excuse for ignorance' MISHA GLENNY. Northern Ireland's frontier with the South has been an invisible line since the peace agreement of 1998. Now the battle over the UK's decision to leave the EU risks turning it into a hard border. Yet few people in the rest of Britain (or Ireland) know anything much about this most volatile part of an increasingly disunited Kingdom. This book was written in the feverish summer of 2019, in the aftermath of the 'New' IRA's murder of Lyra McKee, with the fear and anxiety of Brexit looming over a region in which paramilitary forces are still carrying out beatings, and worse, even as the numbers of tourists drawn by the Titanic and Game of Thrones continue to grow. The power-sharing government created by the Good Friday Agreement has not met – a bleak record in a long-running farce – in over 1,000 days. If it wasn't for the wonderful weather you might wonder why anyone stayed there at all. Glenn Patterson brings a lifetime's engagement with Northern Ireland and a brilliant novelist's eye to an informative, darkly entertaining portrait of a fragile country. Welcome to Backstop Land.

Brexlit

Brexlit
Author: Kristian Shaw
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2021-07-29
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1350090840

Britain's vote to leave the European Union in the summer of 2016 came as a shock to many observers. But writers had long been exploring anxieties and fractures in British society – from Euroscepticism, to immigration, to devolution, to post-truth narratives – that came to the fore in the Brexit campaign and its aftermath. Reading these tensions back into contemporary British writing, Kristian Shaw coins the term Brexlit to deliver the first in-depth study of how writers engaged with these issues before and after the referendum result. Examining the work of over a hundred British authors, including Julian Barnes, Jonathan Coe, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Ali Smith, as well as popular fiction by Andrew Marr and Stanley Johnson, Brexlit explores how a new and urgent genre of post-Brexit fiction is beginning to emerge.

AF Manual

AF Manual
Author: United States. Department of the Air Force
Publisher:
Total Pages: 132
Release: 1966
Genre: Aeronautics, Military
ISBN:

Impacts on U.S. Energy Expenditures and Greenhouse-Gas Emissions of Increasing Renewable-Energy Use

Impacts on U.S. Energy Expenditures and Greenhouse-Gas Emissions of Increasing Renewable-Energy Use
Author: Michael Toman
Publisher: Rand Corporation
Total Pages: 73
Release: 2008-06-24
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0833046691

How could producing 25 percent of U.S. electricity and motor-vehicle transportation fuels from renewables by the year 2025 affect U.S. consumer energy expenditures and CO2 emissions? This report finds that reaching 25 percent renewables with limited impact on expenditures requires significant progress in renewable-energy technologies and biomass production. Without substantial innovation in these areas, expenditures could increase considerably.

From the ‘Troubles’ to Trumpism

From the ‘Troubles’ to Trumpism
Author: Stephen Watt
Publisher: Anthem Press
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2024-09-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 1839992654

In Shakespeare Our Contemporary (1964), Polish critic Jan Kott defines one purpose of scholarship in the humanities that summarises the chief aim of this project: ‘The writing of history and, above all, literary criticism can, and must, always be understood as an attempt to find in the past aspects of human experience that can shed light on the meaning of our own times’. That is precisely what From the ‘Troubles’ to Trumpism: Ireland and America, 1960–2023 attempts to do. Aided by the insights of Irish and Northern Irish playwrights, poets and novelists, this book uses America’s historical relationship with Ireland and Northern Ireland as a means of understanding the rise of Trumpism and assessing its potential to incite a new American ‘Troubles’. Three related aims are to demonstrate the interdependence of Ireland and the United States since the Famine in Ireland and the American Civil War in the nineteenth century; to delineate the political and economic obstacles in the latter decades of the last century that prevented this relationship from evolving into a more consequential partnership; and to identify the underappreciated leaders who played crucial roles in both the brokering of the Good Friday Agreement and the inception of a revised foreign policy.

Classical Economics and Modern Theory

Classical Economics and Modern Theory
Author: Heinz D. Kurz
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 351
Release: 2005-08-12
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 113420227X

The well known economists Kurz and Salvadori cover original findings and new vistas on old problems including alternative interpretations of classical economics, new groth theory, Sraffian theory and Von Neumann and the treatment of capital.

Manuals Combined: EOD, UXO, IED, DEMOLITION MATERIALS, LAND MINE WARFARE, MINE/COUNTERMINE OPERATIONS AND PHYSICAL SECURITY OF ARMS, AMMUNITION, AND EXPLOSIVES

Manuals Combined: EOD, UXO, IED, DEMOLITION MATERIALS, LAND MINE WARFARE, MINE/COUNTERMINE OPERATIONS AND PHYSICAL SECURITY OF ARMS, AMMUNITION, AND EXPLOSIVES
Author:
Publisher: Jeffrey Frank Jones
Total Pages: 3737
Release: 2018-01-16
Genre:
ISBN:

Over 3,700 total pages ... The Manuals and Publications included: IMPROVISED EXPLOSIVE DEVICE (IED) W3H0005XQ STUDENT HANDOUT IMPROVISED EXPLOSIVE DEVICE (IED) B3L0487XQ-DM STUDENT HANDOUT MOTORIZED CONVOY OPERATIONS B4P0573XQ-DM STUDENT HANDOUT TECHNICAL MANUAL ARMY AMMUNITION DATA SHEETS FOR DEMOLITION MATERIALS TECHNICAL MANUAL OPERATORS AND ORGANIZATIONAL MAINTENANCE MANUAL (INCLUDING REPAIR PARTS AND SPECIAL TOOLS LIST) DEMOLITION MATERIALS IMPROVISED EXPLOSIVE DEVICE (IED) DEFEAT LAND-MINE WARFARE OPERATOR'S AND UNIT MAINTENANCE MANUAL FOR LAND MINES TECHNICAL MANUAL DIRECT SUPPORT AND GENERAL SUPPORT MAINTENANCE MANUAL FOR LAND MINES TECHNICAL MANUAL OPERATOR'S MANUAL FOR BODY ARMOR SET, INDIVIDUAL COUNTERMINE (BASIC) OPERATOR’S MANUAL MINE FIELD MARKING SET HAND EMPLACEABLE M133 ORDNANCE AND EXPLOSIVES RESPONSE MULTISERVICE PROCEDURES FOR UNEXPLODED ORDNANCE OPERATIONS EOD - MULTI-SERVICE TACTICS, TECHNIQUES, AND PROCEDURES FOR EXPLOSIVE ORDNANCE DISPOSAL IN A JOINT ENVIRONMENT Physical Security of Arms, Ammunition, and Explosives DOD AMMUNITION AND EXPLOSIVES SAFETY STANDARDS INDIVIDUAL TRAINING STANDARDS (ITS) SYSTEM FOR AMMUNITION AND EXPLOSIVE ORDNANCE DISPOSAL OCCUPATIONAL FIELD (OCCFLD) 23 EXPLOSIVE ORDNANCE DISPOSAL (EOD) PROGRAM LIST OF STORAGE AND OUTLOADING DRAWINGS AND AMMUNITION Ammunition and Explosives Safety Standards DOE Explosives Safety Manual Individual Tasks, EQT (Explosives Hazards) Ammunition Handbook: Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures for Munitions Handlers Mine/Countermine Operations Munitions Handling During Deployed Operations – 101

Understanding 'Classical' Economics

Understanding 'Classical' Economics
Author: Heinz D. Kurz
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2002-09-11
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1134724969

The essays in this collection argue that the 'classical' approach to economic problems holds the key to an explanation of important present day economic phenomena.

The European Carbon Tax: An Economic Assessment

The European Carbon Tax: An Economic Assessment
Author: Carlo Carraro
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 940111904X

The possible introduction of a carbon tax in Europe is an issue which has attracted the attention of numerous economists and policymakers. The problems under debate concern the effects of the tax at different levels: what costs, in terms of GDP growth, will be paid by each European country? Will the effects on income distribution be larger than those on income level? Should the carbon tax be coordinated among the European countries or would it be better to impose a uniform tax rate on carbon emissions? Can Europe introduce the tax unilaterally or should this be done jointly, with the other industrialised countries? This book provides answers to such questions. It analyses the effects of the European carbon tax on both a domestic and at an international level.