In the aerospace field, hypersonic flight plays a fundamental role. Some sixty years after the experimental flights of the North American X-15 hypersonic rocket-powered aircraft, sustained hypervelocity travel is still the next frontier in high-speed transportation.
As a former senior air safety investigator and current assistant professor, I have dedicated my career to understanding and improving air safety. In this book, "Air Safety Investigation: The Journey", I draw on my years of experience investigating airplane accidents and incidents in order to provide a comprehensive guide to the principles and practices of air safety investigation.
As Qatar’s aspirations of becoming a key location for international dispute settlement and international trade grow, so too does the importance of understanding private law in Qatar and the Gulf states. In this innovative book, Ilias Bantekas and Ahmed Al-Ahmed provide an original, English-language treatise on the contract law of Qatar. Using an abundance of case law, the autho…
Through the colorful world of Berlin’s grand hotels, this book charts a new history of German liberalism and explores the changing relationships among big business, society, and politics. Behind imposing facades, managers and workers were often the pictures of orderly and harmonious service, despite living in sometimes uncomfortable proximity. Then, during World War I, class te…
Democracy and Empire theorizes the material bases of popular sovereignty via the Black radical tradition. Popular sovereignty contains an affective attachment to wealth, secured through collective agreements to dominate others, that is, self-and-other-determination. Inés Valdez expands on racial capitalism by theorizing its Anglo-European-based popular politics, which authorize capital a…
University governance is an essential but complex phenomenon, even in countries where institutional-level governance has a long and strong tradition. After the dissolution of the USSR, each of the fifteen former Soviet countries developed their own University governance system and this groundbreaking book explores how these countries evolved from the “common start†…
Recent public debate on common ownership by institutional investors has brought awareness to one of the many intersections between the corporate and antitrust worlds. But the interplay between these two fields dates back to the dawn of US antitrust. This volume shines a light on the often underplayed and misunderstood connections between antitrust and corporate law and finance. It offers a mu…
Chlorophylls are fundamental molecules of life as we know in our planet. Chlorophylls are probably the most important of all natural pigments, occurring in plants and microorganisms. Chlorophylls are responsible for many spectacular shows of colour in nature, and, as a consequence, their distribution has been thoroughly examined.
We can say that at first glance in the works of Freud, psychoanalysis would seem to be a theory of the individual, but it is reckoned that these theoretical elabora- tions also contain a latent family-group dimension; in fact, even if psychoanalysis originated as a method of treatment of individuals, and Freud elaborated most of the theories in terms of “intrapsychic structures,…
What would a sustainable economy look like? What would it take to live within our environmental means? Legacy answers these questions, setting out the key features of the sustainable economy. It explains what it would take to properly maintain different types of capital, why polluters would have to pay, why the current generation would have to fund the necessary maintenance of our natural asset…