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CONTENTS:IntroductionDomestic Politics and Strategic IntentionsIran's Foreign Policy and Internal Crisis --- Alternative Foreign Policy Views among the Iranian Policy Elite --- All Politics Is LocalRussia and IranEvolving Russian Attitudes Towards Iran --- Russian Military Strategy on Iran's BorderIran's Military Intentions and CapabilitiesIran's Strategic Aims and Constraint --- Deja Vu All over Again? An Assessment of Iran's Military Buildup --- Iran's Military SituationAbbreviations UsedAbout the Authors

This moving story of Alexander Ulyanov's heroic life and tragic death is based on recollections and accounts contributed by his mother, sisters, brothers, friends, acquaintances, sympathizers, and adversaries. In compiling this book, the object was to put all the available material together into a consecutive story.

This manual has been prepared as an aid to employers, employees, machine manufacturers, machine guard designers and fabricators, and all others with an interest in protecting workers against the hazards of moving machine parts. It identifies the major mechanical motions and the general principles of safeguarding them. Current applications of each technique are shown in accompanying illustrations of specific operations and machines. The methods described here may be transferred, with due care, to different machines with similar hazards. To determine whether or not safeguarding meets the requirements of the standard, any mechanical motion that threatens a worker's safety should not remain unguarded.Contents:IntroductionBasics of Machine SafeguardingMethods of Machine SafeguardingGuard ConstructionMachinery Maintenance and RepairUtilization of Industry Consensus StandardsRobotics in the WorkplaceCellular Manufacturing SystemsErgonomic Considerations of Machine SafeguardingCooperation and AssistanceMachine Guarding ChecklistWorker Rights and ResponsibilitiesBibliographyStates with Approved PlansOSHA Consultation Project DirectoryRelated Publications

This manual provides state-of-the-practice methods and techniques to assist the highway engineer in the planning, design, and construction monitoring of dynamic compaction to improve the load supporting capacity of weak foundation soils. Guidelines are presented for: completing a preliminary evaluation to determine if dynamic compaction is appropriate for the site and subsurface conditions detailed design for site improvement preparation of a specification construction monitoring Two case histories of actual projects are presented to demonstrate the use of the guidelines.

This manual summarizes research and field experience gained in the area of environmental engineering for coastal shore protection. It addresses both natural and human induced changes in the coastal zone; the structural and nonstructural measures that coastal engineers employ against these changes; and the desirable and adverse impacts of the measures. Selection of the best environmental and engineering solution to a specific coastal problem requires a systematic and thorough study because of the complexity of coastal projects and the diversity of coastal environments. The prerequisites to such a study are a clear definition of the problem and cause of the problem and then a comprehensive review of potential solutions (alternatives). This manual addresses both natural and human-induced changes in the coastal zone; the structural and nonstructural measures that coastal engineers employ against these changes; and the beneficial and adverse impacts of these measures. Immediate and long-term impacts in the project area, as well as adjacent environments, are summarized. In addition, this manual emphasizes potential steps for obtaining desirable results and reducing adverse impacts. The manual focuses primarily on shore protection, i.e., coastal projects designed to stabilize the shore against erosion related principally to current and wave action: however, the material is also applicable to harbor and navigation channel improvements. The manual applies to both the Great Lakes and the coastal marine systems. It identifies the principal environmental factors that should be considered in design and construction and provides techniques for attaining environmental quality objectives. Proper techniques for collection, analysis, and interpretation of environmental data to use in planning and engineering are outlined.

Since the Conquest, indigenous communities throughout Latin America have endured with astonishing restraint a multitude of impositions and indignities. Occasionally that restraint has been punctuated by cycles of rebellion and repression. Violent confrontations between Indian organizations and the state in the last two years indicate a growing frustration by indigenous peoples with political attempts to advance their demands. Major altercations have occurred in Mexico, Ecuador, and Bolivia, with smaller scale confrontations becoming a regular occurrence as Indian communities grow increasingly defiant of state authority in the wake of repeated violations of indigenous territorial and human rights. While in some countries such groups have been able to achieve recognition and protection through constitutional and legal reforms, Indians in general continue to be disproportionately the poorest of the poor and regular victims of human rights abuses. They are chronically under represented in political office in all countries of the Americas.This paper explores the complex nexus of security issues that the governments of Latin America and the indigenous communities of the region face at the end of the 20th century. A better understanding of security issues from the perspective of indigenous communities should enable policymakers in the United States to estimate more accurately how U.S. policy plays a role in the aggravation or resolution of interethnic conflict in Latin America. Although the national contexts of indigenous-state relations differ markedly throughout the hemisphere, relevant issues of national security are strikingly similar -- maintenance of international borders, eradication and interdiction of drugs, suppression of armed insurgencies, and containment of rural unrest. National governments, state armed forces, and indigenous peoples, however, all have different conceptions of the meaning of "national security."

The prospect of doing business in space has been discussed for many years. Today, it is a commercial reality. The direct economic benefits already have been demonstrated in space transportation, satellite communications, and remote sensing markets. The indirect benefits have been equally significant. Space-related technologies applied to earth-based industries have resulted in new and innovative techniques and processes that improve the quality of production. Additional areas of economic potential will develop with the establishment of space-based facilities and further research into materials processing in space. Entirely new and unforseen space markets are likely to emerge as man's activity in space increases.This report identifies existing and potential worldwide markets for space-related goods and services, focusing on five major areas: (1) Space Transportation, (2) Satellite Communications, (3) Satellite Remote Sensing, (4) Space-Based Industrial Facilities, and (5) Materials Research and Processing in Space. The report also examines aspects of Insurance and Finance relevant to commercial ventures in these markets. Finally, the report presents assessments from U.S. industry representatives on their ability to compete against foreign competition in each of the five major areas.

This volume is published in commemoration of the 1,250th birthday of Tu Fu, one of China's greatest poets who lived in the Tang Dynasty (618-907 A.D.). Tu Fu was a contemporary and equal of Li Po, widely known in the West. In the minds of many Chinese people he is even greater. Both glorified their days, the golden age of classical Chinese poetry, with writings of unmatched brilliance. It was a lime of great turmoil, a time when the Tang rule was declining and wars of aggression swept the country. Tu Fu, born of an intelligentsia family, sank to the lowest rung of the social ladder. He shared the lot of the common folk and therefore had a deep insight into the calamities and sufferings in which they were involved. He hated wars of aggression and longed for peace. He made his poetry a vehicle for the expression of his sympathy for the people, as well as a faithful account of his own tragedy. His poems have been cherished with ever-growing admiration. In 1962, Tu Fu was commemorated as one of the World's Cultural Giants. Feng Chih, the compiler of this book, is a professor of Peking University and the outstanding specialist on Tu Fu's works. His other collection of Tu Fu's works, containing 264 poems, is popular reading among Chinese lovers of poetry. The translator Rewi Alley, himself a poet from New Zealand, has been in China for more than thirty years. He has travelled widely in northwestern and southwestern China and has personally seen the mountains, rivers, cities and countryside mentioned by Tu Fu. He is most qualified for the translation of Tu Fu's poems. The present volume contains 140 of Tu Fu's poems written at various periods of his life, some of them already widely read. Additional features include the reproductions of the rubbing of a stone carving of Tu Fu's portrait, facsimiles of Tu Fu's works printed in the Sung and Yuan Dynasties, and paintings inspired by the poems.

The various historical and political works of Prince Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, though composed at intervals, and while the author was in exile or captivity, have all one great object mainly in view, the constitutional reorganization of France. His theory of national reformation is based upon a revival of what he terms the Idee Napoleonienne, which he labors to show is the only political system which can meet the requirements, accord with the habits, and command the respect and sympathy of the French nation.

The various historical and political works of Prince Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, though composed at intervals, and while the author was in exile or captivity, have all one great object mainly in view, the constitutional reorganization of France. His theory of national reformation is based upon a revival of what he terms the Idée Napoléonienne, which he labors to show is the only political system which can meet the requirements, accord with the habits, and command the respect and sympathy of the French nation.

Originally published in 1927, this volume was intended to fill the dual role of textbook for the student of airship design and handbook for the practical engineer. The design of airships, particularly of the rigid type, is mainly a structural problem; and theoretical aerodynamics has nothing like the relative importance which it bears in airplane design. This is to be expected when we consider that the gross lift of an airship depends solely on the specific gravity of the gas and the bulk of the gas container, and not at all on shape or other aerodynamic characteristics which determine the lift of airplanes.

CONTENTSGlossary of Christian NamesThe Spirit of NomenclatureHebrew NomenclaturePatriarchal NamesIsraelite NamesNames from the PersianNames from the GreekNames from Greek MythologyNames from Animals, etc.Historical Greek Names consisting of EpithetsChristian Greek NamesLatin NomenclatureLatin PrFnominaNominaCognominaNames from Roman DeitiesModern Names from the LatinNames from Holy DaysThe Keltic Race - The Keltic Languages - The Keltic NomenclatureAncient Keltic NamesGaelic NamesNames of Cymric RomanceTeutonic NamesThe Teuton RaceNames from Teuton MythologyNames from Objects connected with MythologyHeroic Names of the NibelungThe Karling RomancesDescriptive NamesNames from the SlavonicModern Nomenclature

An informative and suggestive study.Contents:From Bacon to BeethovenThe Orchestra of TodayThe Physics of MusicTwo Descriptive Orchestral Works: The Ocean Symphony; Raid of the VikingsThe Maryland Musical FestivalThe Centennial CantataThe Legend of St. LeonorNature-MetaphorsA Forgotten English PoetThe Death of ByrhtnothChaucer and ShakespeareReview of Hayne's PoetryJohn Barbour's Bruce This title is cited and recommended by: Books for College Libraries and the Bibliography of American Literature.

A collection of biographical sketches of women celebrated in ancient and modern poetry. There are many anecdotes of biography and criticism, and many beautiful poetical portraits, scattered through a variety of works, and all tending to illustrate a subject in itself full of interest - the influence which the beauty and virtue of women have exercised over the characters and writings of men of genius.

"This work was planned, and the opening chapters were written, in the earlier months of the year 1914, when the outbreak of a great war was only a remote contingency. Since then, and more especially during the last twelve months, the subject here discussed - namely, the nature and the limits of the power of pure democracy - has acquired day by day a more immediate importance. Indeed, all practical controversies may be said now to turn on it..." William Hurrell Mallock was a prominent British philosopher who was known for his books on atheism and socialism as well. He was also the author of The New Republic, an important title in the history of utopian literature.

This book gives all the information needed to understand the chemical, biochemical and sanitary principles underlying the preparation of fishery products. The sequences of operations and processing conditions are described in detail together with the technological equipment concerned. Standard yields are adduced, and the principles and methods of technological calculations explained. The authors defined the standards set for the quality of finished products, and describe the methods adopted for testing and quality control. The present volume is intended as a textbook for students of higher technological colleges of the food and fishery industries, but may also be used as a handbook by the engineering and technological staffs of fishery undertakings.

This volume is one of a series of five prepared by various authors, designed to be useful and instructive regarding the long history of the United States Army Chaplaincy. The emphasis throughout is on how chaplains did their ministry in the contexts of both war and peace. The series seeks to present as full and as balanced an account as limitations of space and research time permit. The bibliography in each volume offers opportunities for further research. This volume covers the period from September 2, 1945 to 1975. The author of this volume is Chaplain Rodger R. Venzke, a Regular Army chaplain of the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod. Chaplain Venzke, a native of Wisconsin, was Pastor of a civilian congregation in Frazee, Minnesota, prior to his entry on active duty in 1963. He has served at Fort Bliss, Texas; Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, D.C.; the Staff and Faculty, US Army Chaplain Center and School, Fort Wadsworth, Staten Island, N.Y., and overseas, in Vietnam and Germany. He has earned and received the Master of Science Degree from Long Island University, New York, and the Master of Sacred Theology Degree from New York Theological Seminary, New York. He has been awarded the Meritorious Service Medal and the Army Commendation Medal.

This volume is one of a series of five prepared by various authors, designed to be useful and instructive regarding the long history of the United States Army Chaplaincy. The emphasis throughout is on how chaplains did their ministry in the contexts of both war and peace. The series seeks to present as full and as balanced an account as limitations of space and research time permit. The bibliography in each volume offers opportunities for further research. This volume covers the period from 1865 to 1920. Chaplain Earl F. Stover, a Regular Army chaplain of the United Methodist Church, is the writer of this volume. Chaplain Stover is a native of Illinois and was Pastor of a civilian congregation in Alton, Illinois, before his entry on active duty in 1957. He has served at Fort Sam Houston, Texas; Scott Air Force Base, Illinois; Fort Bliss, Texas; US Army Chaplain Center and School, Fort Wadsworth, Staten Island, New York; and overseas in Germany and Vietnam. He has been awarded the Legion of Merit, the Meritorious Service Medal, and the Army Commendation Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster.

This volume is one of a series of five prepared by various authors, designed to be useful and instructive regarding the long history of the United States Army Chaplaincy. The emphasis throughout is on how chaplains did their ministry in the contexts of both war and peace. The series seeks to present as full and as balanced an account as limitations of space and research time permit. The bibliography in each volume offers opportunities for further research. This volume covers the period from 1791 to 1865. This volume is the work of Chaplain Herman A. Norton, a Reserve Component chaplain of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ). Chaplain Norton is a native of Virginia and received his A.B. degree from Lynchburg College, Lynchburg, Virginia. His B.D., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees were earned at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, where he has taught since 1951. He served as a chaplain for two years in the Pacific during World War II, and has been active in the United States Army Reserve since 1947. He has attained the grade of Brigadier General in the Army Reserve.

This volume is one of a series of five prepared by various authors, designed to be useful and instructive regarding the long history of the United States Army Chaplaincy. The emphasis throughout is on how chaplains did their ministry in the contexts of both war and peace. The series seeks to present as full and as balanced an account as limitations of space and research time permit. The bibliography in each volume offers opportunities for further research. The author of this volume is Chaplain Parker C. Thompson, a Regular Army chaplain of the Southern Baptist Convention. He is a native of Missouri, and entered on active duty as a chaplain in 1952. He has served at Camp Atterbury, Indiana; Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri; Fort Knox, Kentucky; US Army Chaplain Center and School, Fort Hamilton, New York; Fort Dix, New Jersey; and overseas in Korea, Germany, and Vietnam. He has been awarded the Legion of Merit, the Bronze Star Medal (Valor) with 2 Oak Leaf Clusters, the Meritorious Service Medal, the Air Medal, the Army Commendation Medal with 1 Oak Leaf Cluster, and the Purple Heart with 1 Oak Leaf Cluster.

Stephen Foster occupies a unique position in the history of music, not only of this country, but of the world. No other single individual produced so many of those songs which are called "folk-songs," by which is meant songs that so perfectly express the mood and spirit of the people that they become a part of the life of all the "folk" and speak as the voice, not of an individual, but of all. So completely do the "folk" absorb these songs and adapt them to their own uses, that the individuality and frequently even the name of the originator is completely lost, thus giving rise to the erroneous idea that a "folk-song" is a song created not by an individual but by a community. It is obvious that all things must have a beginning, however obscure, and every folk-song is first born in the heart and brain of some one person, whose spirit is so finely attuned to the voice of that inward struggle which is the history of the soul of man, that when he seeks for his own self-expression, he at the same time gives a voice to that vast "mute multitude who die and give no sign." Such a one was Stephen Foster, more fortunate in his fate than that glorious company of nameless poet-souls, whose aspiration after "the fair face of Beauty, haunting all the world," is preserved in the folk-songs of the world.

Early descriptions and considerations of the characteristics of modern eolian sand deposits, mostly in the great sand seas of the world, date back to the 1880's and 1890's, when pioneer geologists and explorers wrote their classic papers on desert dunes. One or two decades later, interest in eolian processes greatly increased when wind-formed deposits were recognized in ancient sandstones in many parts of the world and in rocks of many ages. Throughout the 20th century, as the science of geology has expanded and the programs of the U.S. Geological Survey have proliferated to keep pace, dune studies have had a similar growth. Work was initially concentrated mostly on the description of dune forms or morphology and on analysis of textural features; by midcentury, however, major contributions had been made to the physics of eolian sand by detailed studies and interpretations of minor eolian structures, by statistical analyses of cross-strata dip directions, and by the development of systems for dune classification. Most recently, interest has been renewed in detailed grain studies, in the study of cross-strata, and in interpretation of dune patterns by means of aerial photographs and Landsat imagery. A major feature of this report on global sand seas is the compilation and comparison of available data based on many different methods of investigation. The application of these studies to economic problems, which is described in one chapter, clearly illustrates the importance of eolian deposits to our present culture and to human welfare. H. William Menard Director, U.S. Geological Survey

Twenty-one plays from the drama of Greece, Rome, Spain, France, Italy, Germany, Denmark, and Norway from 500 B.C. to 1879 A.D., selected and edited with notes, biographies, and bibliographies, by Brander Matthews. In the Introduction he states: "A collection of masterpieces of the drama extending over a score of centuries serves to make plain something which ought never to be overlooked. The principles of dramatic art are unchanging though the ages, the same today in Paris or in New York that they were in Athens twenty-four hundred years ago." At the time of original publication in 1916, Brander Matthews was Professor of Dramatic Literature in Columbia University, and a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Andrew Sherburne began his naval career in 1779, at age 14. In his later years he went around telling his story and selling this book. A native of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, he shipped in the Navy of the Revolution as a boy and saw considerable action. In 1781 he was made a prisoner and sent to Old Mill Prison where he took sick before finally being returned to America at the end of the war. The first third of the book is concerned with these affairs, which are recounted with vividness and detail.

Nikolai Cherkasov, People's Artist of the USSR, gives an account of his life as an actor, and aspects of the acting profession. This is an unusual autobiography in that it is of a Soviet actor whose career was entirely within the Soviet era. Cherkasov has been a major actor in both film and the stage, since the 1920's. His last role discussed in this book was when he played Mayakovsky in The New Mayakovsky.

This book tells about the Spanish pioneers in the Southwest, their triumphs and their betrayals. Other than the Jesuits, the Spaniards who settled and explored in the New World are seldom written about. The Spanish pioneering of the Americas was the largest and longest and most marvelous feat of mankind in all history. Charles Lummis (1859-1928) was an author, journalist, editor, photographer, Los Angeles city librarian, adventurer, close friend and Harvard classmate of Theodore Roosevelt, and champion of the American Indian. He walked from Cincinnati to Los Angeles in the winter of 1884-1885 to accept a job on the then three-year old Los Angeles Times.

Piercing the Fog discusses the development of new sources and methods of intelligence collection; requirements for intelligence at the strategic, operational, and tactical levels of warfare; intelligence to support missions for air superiority, interdiction, strategic bombardment, and air defense; the sharing of intelligence in a coalition and joint service environment; the acquisition of intelligence to assess bomb damage on a target-by-target basis and to measure progress in achieving campaign and war objectives; and the ability of military leaders to understand the intentions and capabilities of the enemy and to appreciate the pressures on intelligence officers to sometimes tell commanders what they think the commanders want to hear instead of what the intelligence discloses. The complex problems associated with intelligence to support strategic bombardment in the 1940s will strike some readers as uncannily prescient to global Air Force operations in the 1990s. A half century ago, accurate, timely intelligence contributed significantly to victory and hastened the end of World War II. Such a legacy is worth reading and thinking about by all those responsible for building, maintaining, and employing air power. How well intelligence is integrated with air operations is even more important today than it was in the past. It will continue to prove as critical in the next century as it has been in this one.RICHARD P. HALLIONAir Force Historian

A collection of articles, speeches, letters, and quotations on Vladimir I. Lenin by Joseph Stalin - with a number of interesting illustrations.