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Jack London (1876-1916) was an American novelist and short-story writer whose works deal romantically with elemental struggles for survival. At his peak, he was the highest paid and the most popular of all living writers. Because of early financial difficulties, he was largely self educated past grammar school. London draws heavily on his life experiences in his writing, and this biography tells the story of his life as expressed in his books. He spent time in the Klondike during the Gold Rush and at various times was an oyster pirate, a seaman, a sealer, and a hobo. His first work was published in 1898. From there he went on to write such American classics as Call of the Wild, Sea Wolf, and White Fang.

The National Defense University recently hosted a major symposium to address the challenges to U.S. national security and international stability posed by the spread of weapons of mass destruction: nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons, and missiles as a means of delivery. The need to examine such issues is clear. Perhaps no problem facing civilian and military decision makers today is as urgent and important as the effort to control the proliferation of such weapons. Put simply, WMD proliferation represents one of the most complex and fundamental threats to security today. Attended by many of the premier experts in the field, the NDU Symposium explored a broad spectrum of issues ranging from the incentives and disincentives for proliferation to non- and counterproliferation policies and programs. The panelists discussed such critical issues as how effectively present controls to prevent proliferation are working and how to protect against proliferation when it occurs. Most impressively, the participants ventured to identify alternative perspectives and approaches that may contribute to meeting the common challenges. All this unfolds in the pages that follow. It is a search for wisdom, for, as Cicero said twenty centuries ago, "Weapons are of little use on the field of battle if there is no wise counsel at home."Ervin J. RokkeLieutenant General, USAFPresident, National Defense University

Planning for US military forces goes on regardless of the political party in power, the state of the budget, or the issues of the moment. Because planners decide the size and shape of land, air, and sea forces, force planning is at the very core of our national security effort. In this primer on force planning, Colonel Robert P. Haffa reviews the process used to structure our strategic, general purpose, and rapidly deployable forces. He contends that many people both within and outside the defense community do not fully understand force planning methods. Too often, he writes, military planners themselves---caught up in the daily pressures of the bureaucracy---focus on parochial, near-term issues. At the national level, far too many public debates are cast in terms of dollars instead of national objectives, missions, and forces. Haffa calls for a return to first principles, recommending these four guidelines for force planning: emphasize coherent policy relationships; rely on empirical data; stress planning, not budgeting consider the long term. Haffa shows that rational planning methods lead to prudent choices. His analysis reminds force planners never to lose sight of fundamentals, especially while prodding national leaders to pay attention to the rational methods of force planning. This fresh study of how we plan our military forces inspires us to get back to the basics essential for informed, productive debate on defense issues.Bradley C. HosmerLieutenant General, US Air ForcePresident, National Defense University

Some of the things you will read about in this book may remind you of the tales of Baron Münchausen. You will read about red-hot stones erupted by a fiery mountain being used to heat up meals, about a sea-shell that caught a black cormorant, about the golden hair of the goddess of Fire, about the magic fireworks in the crater of the Klyuchevskaya volcano (also known as the Klyuchevskaya Sopka), one of the largest in the world, about fences of whale-bone, about hot springs running down snow-clad mountains, about villages which are heated by subterranean sources, in short, about many curious things. These things are not inventions but really exist in the land of fire-breathing mountains. For many years the author has explored the Kamchatka-Kuril volcanic belt---one of Pluto's largest chains. Expeditions to study their eruptions were made in summer and winter, spring and autumn. Day after day, for years on end, the members of the expedition led a life that was strenuous but adventurous and full of vivid impressions. They heard the thunder of stone avalanches and landslides, the cannonade of volcanic explosions, heard red-hot stones whistling through the air, the roar of gas jets on the shores of hot lakes formed in craters, over which hang acrid vapours, the babbling of streams and the rumbling of waterfalls gushing down from the glaciers. They felt the fiery breath of hot lava, the trembling of volcanoes, tasted the sour snow on the craters of active volcanoes. They met many "natives" of those remote lands---shaggy bears, red and black foxes, swift-footed deers, big-horned mountain sheep, long-toothed sperm-whales and fat lazy seals. Recounting his adventures, the author tells about the structure of the Earth, about volcanic heat, about magma, the molten rock issuing from the bowels of the Earth. He explains how volcanoes erupt and why, and provides a mass of other no less interesting facts about volcanology. Haroun Tazieff, the eminent Belgian volcanologist, once said: "I have enjoyed all the delights the profession of volcanologist has to offer, delights which are a blend of indescribable beauty and the pleasure of measuring one's strength against the forces of nature let loose, and the joy of plucking secrets from nature." There can be no better epigraph for this book.

CONTENTS Benjamin Franklin John Fitch Nathan Read Oliver Evans Robert Fulton John Stevens Robert L. Stevens Eli Whitney Thomas Blanchard Elias Howe John Ericsson Peter Cooper George H. Corliss Alexander L. Holley William R. Jones James B. Eads Richard Arkwright Thomas Newcomen James Watt Matthew Boulton William Murdock William Symington Richard Trevithick Henry Maudsley George Stephenson I. K. Brunel James Nasmyth Alfried Krupp Charles Babbage Sir Joseph Whitworth Sir Henry Bessemer Sir William Siemens

CONTENTS: The Objects of Social InvestigationFreedom and LawThe Real WillThe Will of the StateVarying Applications of the Metaphysical TheoryConclusionAppendix: Hegel's Theory of the Will The Theory of the Absolute Index. Leonard Trelawney Hobhouse, more commonly known as L.T. Hobhouse, was a British sociologist (1864 - 1929) known for his comparative studies of social development. He was one of the leading social theorists of his generation and is noted for his prominence in the fields of liberalism and sociology. In 1907 he became the first Professor of Sociology in a British university. He was pivotal in the establishment and foundation

CONTENTS:Greek Women - Womanhood in the Heroic Age - Women of the Iliad - Women of the Odyssey - The Lyric Age - Sappho - The Spartan Woman - The Athenian Woman - Aspasia - Aphrodite Pandemus - The Woman Question in Ancient Athens - Greek Woman in Religion - Greek Women and the Higher Education - The Macedonian Woman - The Alexandrian WomanAt the time of the original publication, Mitchell Carroll, Ph. D., was professor of Classical Philology in the George Washington University.

The expanding role of the Guard and its close cooperation with the Air Force are Dr. Gross' themes, explaining the rise of the Guard to the prominence it plays in today's air operations. He pulls no punches in recounting the conflict between Guard and regular Air Force, or in explaining how each side maneuvered to safeguard its interests. However, the author also shows how common concerns and mutual dedication to the national defense overcame parochialism and led from cooperation to integration. The result was displayed for all the Air Force to see in the professionalism of Guard units in the 1960s mobilizations. Guard and regular Air Force had become vital to each other; in return for modern aircraft, a substantial peacetime mission, and upon mobilization integration into the wartime force, the Guard accepted de facto control by the regular Air Force. As Dr. Gross concludes, the concept of "state militia" was altered far beyond the changes wrought earlier in federal-state military relations. The Air Guard was ready for the "Total Force" policy of the 1970s. The dilemma of maintaining a reserve fully capable of fighting the air was solved. By the 1980s, the Air National Guard, at the same inheritors of a military tradition extending back before 1776, and users of the most advanced technologies of war, could prove that citizen-soldiers need not to be second to any airman in the world.Contents:Forged in Politics, 1943 - 1946Struggle for Control, 1946 - 1950Rejuvenation, 1950 - 1953Integrating with the Active Force, 1953 - 1960The Cold Warriors, 1961 - 1962Vindication, 1963 - 1969Epilogue: The Air National Guard and the Total Force

An essential study of Cecil and the Elizabethan court, especially with regard to the establishment of English international power and the defeat of the Armada.From the preface: "It was an ironical fate to achieve while living a flame of the very first magnitude, only to have it consistently debased by posterity: to be acknowledged by contemporaries as the virtual 'Ruler of England' throughout the period that was most decisive in the nation's development, then to be reduced in history to little more than a faithful flunkey; painstaking, astute, patriotic (if you will); but essentially a figure in the background; a minor character in the drama; a necessary but obscure adjunct."

"This book is a continuation of my History of Education before the Middle Ages, and holds in general to the same point of view and method of approach. It may, however, be used quite independently of that volume as a textbook or a work of reference upon educational history between the sixth and eighteenth centuries."Frank Pierrepont Graves, Ph.D., was dean at three universities, and finished his career in 1940 after nearly 20 years as Commissioner of Education and President of the University of the State of New York. At the time of original publication in 1909 he was Professor of the History and Philosophy of Education in the Ohio State University.

CONTENTS:Shakespeare, with Introductory Matter on Poetry, the Drama, and the StageNotes on Ben JonsonNotes on Beaumont and Fletcher

CONTENTS:IntroductionRussian NamesThe Shot - Alexander PushkinThe Cloak - Nikolai GogolThe Thief - Fyodor DostoevskyBiryuk; A Lear of the Steppes - Ivan TurgenevGod Sees the Truth but Waits; Master and Man; Three Arshins of Land - Leo TolstoyThe Signal - Wsewolod GarshinIn Exile - Anton ChekhovThe Old Bell-Ringer - Vladimir KorolenkoValia - Leonid AndreyevComrades; Chelkash - Maxim GorkyCain - Alexander KuprinAppendix

CONTENTS:Scenes of My ChildhoodSeeking an EducationThe Law and PoliticsIn National PoliticsOn Entering and Leaving the PresidencySome of the Duties of the PresidentWhy I Did Not Choose to Run

The only study of the governmental structure and organization of the classical Greek Oligarchy, this work systematically investigates the various constitutions of the Greek oligarchies, the various changes and historical development of those constitutions, and the varieties, nature, and organization of the oligarchies.This title is cited and recommended by Books for College Libraries.

This is volume one of a three-volume set.Essential to any study of the rise of Brandenburg-Prussia, the work was based on Ranke's indefatigable research into the original documents of the Prussian archives, and presents the basic starting point for the history of the two Fredericks. This is a reprint of the English translation of 1849 by Sir Alexander and Lady Duff Gordon.This title is cited and recommended by: Books for College Libraries.

The purpose of the present work is to approach the theory of ethical evolution through a comparative study of rules of conduct and ideals of life. Leonard Trelawney Hobhouse, more commonly known as L.T. Hobhouse, was a British sociologist (1864 - 1929) known for his comparative studies of social development. He was one of the leading social theorists of his generation and is noted for his prominence in the fields of liberalism and sociology. In 1907 he became the first Professor of Sociology in a British university. He was pivotal in the establishment and foundation of sociology as an academic discipline and in the refinement of its methodology.

A collection of folk-tales and legends referring to places and buildings in Florence, such as the Cathedral and Campanile, the Signoria, the Bargello, the different city gates, ancient towers and bridges, palaces, crosses and fountains, noted corners, odd by-ways, and many churches. Compiled by Charles Godfrey Leland (1824 - 1903).

"In preparing this volume on the music of Shakespeare, the author has been animated by a desire to show how closely the great poet allied himself to the Divine Art. Few of the readers of Shakespeare are aware of how much of his musical material can be traced home; many are unable to follow some of the poet's most subtle metaphors because they are unfamiliar with the musical works to which he refers, or with the song or melody which enriches the scene. ... As far as possible, musical technicalities have been avoided, for Shakespeare's musical allusions were intended, not for musicians only, but for all the world." Louis Charles Elson (1848-1920) was an American music critic, author, and lecturer. He studied music at the Leipzig Conservatory, and became music critic for the Boston Advertiser as well as lecturer at the New England Conservatory of Music. He is also the author of Curiosities in Music.

CONTENTS:Preface All Great Art Is PraiseThe Three Divisions of the Art of PaintingFirst Exercise in Right Lines, the Quartering of St. George's ShieldFirst Exercise in Curves. The CircleOf Elementary FormOf Elementary Organic StructureOf the Twelve Zodiacal ColorsOf the Relation of Color to OutlineOf Map DrawingOf Light and Shade

Originally published by the War Department in 1917, Lessons in Fortification is divided into two parts: "Effects of Artillery Fire" and "Field Fortification and the Protection of Batteries."

This volume is a collection in five parts, of the articles, speeches and statements of Soong Ching Ling (Mme. Sun Yat-sen) made between July 1927 and July 1952.

In the fall of 1996, the Department of the Air Force published its vision for the twenty-first century Air Force. The vision, entitled Global Engagement, presented a new strategy to guide the Air Force in meeting the many challenges of the first quarter of the twenty-first century. It is a vision "of air and space power and covers all aspects of our Air Force-people, capabilities, and support structures." Global Engagement "is the first step in the Air Force's back-to-the-present approach to long-range planning." As the Air Force charts its course into the twenty-first century, valuable insight is gained by examining the beginnings of that course-the initial vector that has steered air power from its birth at the beginning of this century and will now carry air and space power into the next. The United States Air Force is inseparably linked to many aviation pioneers and air power advocates. The wisdom and vision of these early airmen have steered the development of air power throughout this century. Among those early visionaries, Brig. Gen. William "Billy" Mitchell was perhaps the most outspoken advocate of air power and an independent air force. Mitchell was not only a pioneer in military aviation, but an air power visionary. He was among the earliest to realize the value of air power and to see not only the profound changes it brought to his times, but its vast potential for the future. His wisdom is as fresh and relevant today as it was at the beginning of the century when he offered it. This collection of Mitchell's thoughts on air power offered here should illuminate the vision offered by Global Engagement. Even though Mitchell set forth his thoughts nearly 80 years ago, the lineage can be seen between his vision and those principles that have guided our Air Force in the past, that guide our Air Force today, and that will guide the Air Force vision for the next century.Robert M. HyltonColonel, USAFCommander, College of Aerospace Doctrine, Research, and Education

This text is about both the fear of gender reversal and its expression, in the prophet Ezekiel's reworking of the marital metaphor. The author argues that the abomination of wife Jerusalem is that she is attempting to pass for a male, thereby crossing gender boundaries and upsetting the world order. This story is therefore one of confused gender scripts, ensuing chaos and a re-ordering through the reinforcement of these strictly defined prescriptions of gendered behaviour. Using socio-historical evidence and the existence of the literary motif of men turning into women as a framework, this book argues that Ezekiel 16, in particular, reflects the gender chaos that arises as an aftermath of social and theological crises.