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1. Coastal Engineering

   Processes, Theory and Design Practice, 2nd Edition

   By Dominic Reeve, Andrew Chadwick, Christopher Fleming

   Historically, much harm has been done by well-meaning coastal engineering attempts, which seemed like good ideas on paper but which failed to allow for practical issues. For this reason, it is vital that theories and models are well grounded in practice. This second edition brings the models and...

   Published December 13th 2011 by CRC Press
2. Architecture in the Space of Flows

   Edited by Andrew Ballantyne, Christopher Smith

   Traditionally, architecture has been preoccupied with the resolution of form. That concern helps to make photogenic buildings, which have received a great deal of attention. This book looks instead at the idea of the flows, which connects things together and moves between things. It is more...

   Published September 4th 2011 by Routledge
3. Secret Intelligence

   A Reader

   Edited by Christopher Andrew, Richard J. Aldrich, Wesley K. Wark

   This Reader in the field of intelligence studies focuses on policy, blending classic works on concepts and approaches with more recent essays dealing with current issues and the ongoing debate about the future of intelligence. The subject of secret intelligence has never enjoyed a higher profile....

   Published November 30th 2008 by Routledge
4. Regionalisation and Global Governance

   The Taming of Globalisation?

   Edited by Andrew F. Cooper, Christopher W. Hughes, Philippe De Lombaerde

   Series: Routledge/Warwick Studies in Globalisation

   The relationship between global governance and regionalization is fraught with ambiguity. Understanding regionalization in this context requires an understanding of its relationship, and reactive condition, with both the constellations of global governance and globalization. This book presents an...

   Published December 19th 2007 by Routledge
5. Fluid Dynamics and Dynamos in Astrophysics and Geophysics

   Edited by Andrew M. Soward, Christopher A. Jones, David W. Hughes, Nigel O. Weiss

   Series: The Fluid Mechanics of Astrophysics and Geophysics

   The increasing power of computer resources along with great improvements in observational data in recent years have led to some remarkable and rapid advances in astrophysical fluid dynamics. The subject spans three distinct but overlapping communities whose interests focus on (1) accretion discs...

   Published March 15th 2005 by CRC Press
6. Coastal Engineering

   Processes, Theory and Design Practice

   By Dominic Reeve, Andrew Chadwick, Christopher Fleming

   The United Nations estimate that by 2004, in excess of 75% of the world's population will live within the coastal zone. These regions are therefore of critical importance to a majority of the world's citizens. The coastal zone provides important economic, transport, residential and recreational...

   Published August 31st 2004 by CRC Press
7. Eternal Vigilance?

   50 years of the CIA

   Edited by Christopher Andrew, Rhodri Jeffreys-Jones

   Series: Studies in Intelligence

   Eternal Vigilance? seeks to offer reinterpretations of some of the major established themes in CIA history such as its origins, foundations, its treatment of the Soviet threat, the Iranian revolution and the accountability of the agency. The book also opens new areas of research such as foreign...

   Published May 31st 1997 by Routledge
8. More Instructions from the Centre

   Top Secret Files on KGB Global Operations 1975-1985

   Edited by Christopher M. Andrew, Oleg Gordievsky

   During the decade that preceded Mr Gorbachev's era of glasnost and perestroika, the KGB headquarters in Moscow was putting out a constant stream of instructions to its Residencies abroad. Unknown to the KGB, however, many of these highly classified documents were being secretly copied by Oleg...

   Published April 29th 1992 by Routledge