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With Christian views differing widely on the morality of war, this book seriously re-examines ethical questions of contemporary urgency. The text covers the use of biological and nuclear weapons, military intervention, economic sanctions, and the role of the U.N. Opening with a challenging dedication to the new Archbishop of Canterbury, it proceeds to analyze vital topics which the Archbishop and others will find relevant to the discussion of the ethics of warfare.
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Leading political theologian Oliver O'Donovan here takes a fresh look at some traditional moral arguments about war. Modern Christians differ widely on this issue. A few hold that absolute pacifism is the only viable Christian position, others subscribe in various ways to concepts of 'just war' developed out of a Western tradition that arose from the legacies of Augustine and Aquinas, while others still adopt more pragmatically realist postures. Professor O'Donovan re-examines questions of contemporary urgency including the use of biological and nuclear weapons, military intervention, economic sanctions, war crimes trials and the roles of the Geneva Convention, international conventions and the UN. His enquiry opens with a challenging dedication to the new Archbishop of Canterbury and proceeds to shed new light on vital topics with which the Archbishop and others will be very directly engaged. It should be read by anyone concerned with the ethics of warfare.
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good overview of the classical just-war position.......2006-04-11
The just-war position has often been misunderstood and wrongly applied to try justify conflict that has already begun. This book does a good job of returning to a classic understanding of the theory of a just war. However, the author makes some large assumptions about the state of humanity and forgets that we are incapable of perceiving justice in a manner that is in a state of grace without the flaws of sin and subjective judgment.
good book, but I disagree with O'Donovan.......2006-03-22
The book is a compilation of lecture essays that were delivered in Scotland (I think). He takes contemporary issues in war and peace and holds them up to the just war tradition and carves a path between liberal and conservative assumptions on issues such as nuclear warfare, urban guerilla warfare, weapons of mass destruction, terrorism, and their relation to a Christian political theology.
Although I am extremely uncomfortable with the ease with which O'Donovan speaks about justifiable wars; I was impressed with his articulation of discrimination in warfare. I am quite happy that the just war conversation has such well-articulate 'fans'; yet his connection of this tradition to the Christian Church and faith is disturbing.
His most problematic theological assumption is that the current 'dispensation' (a term he doesn't use, but assumes) is such that warfare is a proper expression of the judgment of the state. In his brief mention of eschatology, he suggests that since the kingdom of God is off in some distant future; the state and its warfare are necessary, and God gifted, provisional instruments used in God's justice-purposes. In other words, Christ's focal message of 'God's kingdom come' is completely left aside in favor of a quasi-realist, quasi-pragmatic practice of violent judgment.
I just wanted to ask O'Donovan if all this nitpicking about just causes, just weapons, and appropriate discrimination of attacks would have made any difference to Jesus who could be found, in all likelihood, among the ashes and the dying of any given war. Is any war 'just' that leaves children ripped to shreds? Challenging, good, and frustrating read...
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Title: The Just War Revisited.(Arguing About War)(Book Review)
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The Just War Revisited: Current Issues in Theology.(Book Review): An article from: Journal of Church and State
J. Daryl Charles
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Title: The Just War Revisited: Current Issues in Theology.(Book Review)
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Just War Revisited
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Wargamers & History Buffs Delight.......2005-06-10
This is a well written & easy to read book that covers Napoleons Waterloo Campaign. Being part of the Great Campaigns series of books it has lots of additional information in well laid out sidebars regarding the tactics, weapons, training, and major figures involved. Black and White maps are included and a very useful order of battle.
If you were to read just one book on this subject I would recommend this. I find that many books covering this period in history target other historians to try and prove some new point or other, as well as making the assumption that you can speak french!
Dr Nofi, thankfully, does not fall into these traps.
VALUABLE RESOURCE OF AN IMPORTANT CAMPAIGN.......2004-09-25
THE WATERLOO CAMPAIGN begins with Napoleon's return from exile in February 1815 to his defeat and final exile to St. Helena in August. The Waterloo campaign consisted of three major battles: Ligny, Quatre Bras and Waterloo. Mr. Nofi covers all three battles. He uses 16 maps to show troop positions at different times of the battles. His detailed narrative follows movements and combats of units on both sides, noting numbers of men and guns involved. What makes this book especially valuable is the complete order of battle provided in the appendices. Mr. Nofi also provides sidebar discussions of Napoleonic topics such as Musketry, The Horse at War, and Artillery of the Waterloo Campaign, and personalities such as Sir Thomas Picton, William, Prince of Orange and Michel Ney. This book had complete information for me to develop computer wargames based on the battles of Quatre Bras and Waterloo. In summary, THE WATERLOO CAMPAIGN is an excellent military history of an important campaign not only for the general reader but also for the serious student of history.
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Cornwell's epic Sharpe series culminates with "Waterloo".......2007-06-27
Bernard Cornwell's twenty-plus (and growing!) volume Richard Sharpe series has built and built and built to the titanic battle of Waterloo. Sharpe has fought in Flanders, India, Portugal, Spain, and France, and everything in his storied career has led him to this little valley with the odd name. And it led Napoleon and Wellington there, too.
Nobody denies that the world changed in the single day of battle where Wellington narrowly avoided disaster and sent Napoleon down to defeat. Trafalgar and the defeat of the Spanish Armada definitely have their roles in British military history, but it's debatable whether those two battles were more important to the future of Europe than Waterloo. Had Napoleon won, the French juggernaut could have rolled Europe up like a carpet.
But Richard Sharpe and his boon companion, Patrick Harper, have little sense of history. They are pure soldiers, even if Harper has left the army and follows Sharpe to the battlefield only to "watch." Through their eyes, Cornwell paints a magnificent, horrifying you-are-there portrait of the day's carnage, complete with the dizzying stupidity of the Prince of Orange. This peacock nearly cost the British everything by stupidly ordering infantry to form in line rather than square (thereby making them easy pickings for French cavalry) not once, not twice, but three times! For Sharpe and Harper, this is too much, and they take matters into their own hands.
Further complicating matters, Lord John Rossendale has stolen Sharpe's money and taken his wife, Jane. Sharpe does not lament the latter, but he rues the loss of his fortune, and he demands satisfaction. Rossendale, urged on by Jane, plots Sharpe's death on the battlefield, where there is a long tradition of soldiers settling private scores with bullets and bayonets in the back.
"Waterloo" is a bit unusual for Cornwell's books in that the battle is so well-known and so vast. This is not one of those battles where Cornwell has a free canvas to let Sharpe and Harper save the day together. While they surely get a lot to do, there are many other heroes, British and French alike, who get their day in the sun. Sharpe and Harper are by no means quiet, and Sharpe gets his own version of a triumph, but this is a day for real heroes as well.
Cornwell's research is impeccable, as always, and his battlefield prose sings with British pride. This is an excellent book to end the Sharpe series, and one wonders why Cornwell wrote another book after "Waterloo" (Sharpe's Devil). Where is there to go from here?
Sharpe's Waterloo.......2007-04-13
This book is more than just the battle of Waterloo being retold. It is the story of the clash between empires, between cultures and classes and most importantly between men. The battle is fought through the eyes of Sharpe, Cornwell's hero. You can feel the ground vibrate to the charge of cavalry and smell the black powder smoke and the mule like kick of the Baker rifle against your shoulder as you pour through the pages.
This is an outstanding read, a must for those that study military history and love adventure.
Historical Fiction at its Best.......2006-09-26
This is a very compelling 350-page description of a battle. That's pretty hard to pull off, even if you're Bernard Cornwell. Historical accuracy isn't easy to achieve, either--competing versions of events, the squabbling of modern historians, the paucity of evidence on certain events all conspire to make history something that you can't be 100% accurate about. Whatever "accurate" means. But the "inaccuracies" in this novel are no worse than in other works of historical fiction, like Shakespeare's English chronicle histories. I certainly wouldn't argue that Cornwell is a better writer than Shakespeare, but he is far kinder to the Duke of Orange than Shakespeare is to, say, Joan of Arc. I think the combination of realistic detail (the visceral battle scenes) with high romanticism (Sharpe's being single-handedly responsible for all of Napoleon's major defeats on the Peninsula) is nevertheless a very attractive one, the sort of thing that lifts this and the other Sharpe novels out of the "mere fiction" level to the level of at least minor literature. Richard Sharpe is an ingenious literary invention: a fictional device for telling the story of the Duke of Wellington, a man who really did defeat Napoleon that many times.
A Great Series.......2006-08-15
This is another entry on the Sharpe series. It is fun, entertaining and very readable. Cornwell's research is as excellent as usual. He takes some licenses for the shake of the story and continuity, but this is OK. Some people are outraged by the portrait of some of the real historical characters, but historical characters are rarely depicted accurately in historical fiction, so I think this can be forgiven. Besides, usually a more serious account of these characters is given at the end of the book on the Historical Note.
Many people insist in compare this series with Patrick O'Brian's Master and Commander. I don't think this is fair for any of the series, they are different entities. What they have in common is that once you start you may get hooked and devour one book after another...
And in the literary world today that is a rare and marvelous thing.
Brilliant, creative, a wonderful read.......2006-08-13
This book was my introduction to Cornwell. Interpersing the details and timeline of the Battle of Waterloo with the hero, Sharpe, makes reading him so enjoyable. The writing is fresh, original, creative, never repetitous. His descriptions of the weather, the landscape, the battlefield are clear, evocative and informative.
A bravo introduction to Richard Sharpe and all the writings of Bernard Cornwell.
One can easily get addicted.
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DUCHESS OF RICHMOND'S BALL: 15th June 1815
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The Duchess of Richmond's Ball, held in Brussels on 15th June 1815, is one of history's most famous social events, but its full story has never been told before. Many legends exist about the Ball - who was ten year old boy who fell off the Duke of Brunswick's knee at midnight? How was the Duke of Wellington's reputation nearly ruined by a foolish and greedy couple, described by Byron as the 'Blunderheads'?
For the first time all is revealed in fascinating detail - where it was held, who was invited, and exactly what took place there.
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"An enemy should be outflanked, or enveloped, without separating one's own force.".......2007-08-21
"An enemy should be outflanked, or enveloped, without separating one's own force." Such "was a favourite military maxim of Napoleon's." Yet these "sensible rules of warfare were emphatically not adhered to by their author during Saturday, 17 and Sunday, 18 June 1815." Instead, Napoleon went straight at "the bottleneck before the Forest of Soignes," "adopt[ing] the frontal assault tactic at Waterloo." Including others as well, Andrew Roberts concludes that "the errors made by Napoleon and other French commanders during the Waterloo campaign were severe, indeed perhaps even decisive."
The end results: "Nearly 71,000 men were killed or wounded in the battle of Waterloo," going up to 120,300 if you add the results of battling the several days previous to this grand showdown 12 miles South of the gates of Brussels. "Nationally the breakdown over the entire 15-18 June period was roughly as follows: French casualties 67,500; Prussian 30,000; and Anglo-Allied 22,800." But the Battle of Waterloo had an even larger legacy, as well. The battle was "important because of the decisive and undeniable way that it finished off la Gloire, the French sense of military superiority that had been the central factor of European politics ever since Napoleon had taken over command of the Army of Italy in March 1796." Thus the 'long eighteenth century,' which began with Britain's Glorious Revolution, ended with a dramatic humiliation for Britain's rival. Waterloo consequently "heralded the true beginning of the modern British Empire." And "without la Gloire, France has had to live on her myths and with her ever-mounting roll of defeats, from Sedan to 1940 to Dien Bien Phu." Hence the character of the European Union of today. In an editorial entitled "The European Opportunity" (June 2007), the New York Sun lamented the fact that "Though superficially modeled on the United States, the European Union owes more to Napoleon than to Madison..." That's what the EU is, after all, an attempt by other means to bring about that which went down to failure at Waterloo: A united Europe with France at its helm. Even after the resounding refusal of the French people in 2005 to affirm the recently proposed European Constitution Paris refuses to take Non for an answer, and thus it is likely to be put forth in the latter half of the inaugural decade of the 21th century again; this time, most likely, without recourse to a referendum, so as to make sure it gets enacted. The Battle of Waterloo, one could whimsically argue---if it wasn't so undemocratically serious---has far too close a parallel to the film "Ground Hog Day," wherein the central character portrayed by Bill Murray rises each morning to find it is the same day over and over again, and thus gets to try all sorts of shenanigans until he is able to get things ordered just as he would like them to be. That's why Andrew Roberts terms Waterloo "The Battle for Modern Europe." The battle, of course was lost by France. All the details are herein provided by Mr. Roberts in this short book of
<100 argued pages (with an unannotated bibliography that I really wish was annotated; hence my rating above) but that hasn't stopped the French from trying to effect a rearguard action ever since. (07Jun) Cheers
A summary of the battle that doomed the Emperor........2006-10-17
I liked this short concise history of the Battle of Waterloo. Some people may gripe about the shortness of this account, but it does a summary job of this famous battle. Roberts dispels the notion that if Napolean had won this battle, he would have continued to rule France. More likely, he would have been defeated by other armies converging on France. Napolean was a gambler by nature, and it shows in the summary history of this battle. He commited the Guard too late, and divided his troops too soon. He lost the battle because of this, and also because of Wellington and his troops.
This is a nice easy to read history of the battle. Roberts summarizes the five stages of the battle in easy to read formats. A nice read.
Great Overview.......2006-03-18
What other reviewers cite as a deficiency is what makes this book worth buying -- it is a short, easy-to-read summary of Waterloo. If you don't have the desire to read longer works or you just need a quick understanding of what happened that day, this is the book for you. It's up-to-date with current arguments and does an excellent job of summarizing the days' major events and phases. If you're a diehard Napoleonic Wars fan, or if you've read other books on Waterloo, you probably won't find much new here.
A competent brief of the battle.......2006-01-30
This book is an Anglophile summary of the named battle. It might be useful as an introduction, as it was intended, and I think Roberts' strength is in making the simultaneous actions of the campaign comprehensible.
There's much here that's good. The motives behind the main players are plausibly sketched. The book is a reasonable summary of the action of battle itself, especially describing the struggle of the British holding Hougoumont farm, and an interesting discussion of the cavalry charge by Ney. It is also a reasonable description of Napoleonic era tactics and scissor-paper-stone relationship between field artillery, cavalry, and infantry squares.
But I wonder why British military historians feel the need to generate such dire speculations on what would have happen had Napoleon's Guard's charge succeeded - they seem to think the inevitable next step would be Napoleon hanging the tricolor from Windsor Castle, and the French army parading down Pall Mall. This book is proof that the battle continues to be a touchstone, a source of myth and historical speculation. That its importance is overemphasized is perhaps a minor fault of a brief summary as this.
Hmm, not my favourite account, nails his colours to the mast early on.......2005-11-22
This is not my favourite account of the battle of Waterloo, and Roberts nails his colours to the mast early on by acknowledging Peter Hofshroer (a revisionist of the first order) in his introduction.
I don't know that this account really added anything more to the discussions on waterloo. There are only so many sources of the battle and it is always a matter of reinterpreting what is said to be mistinterpreted in the first place.
The main problem is that, it seems, because the allied forces won the battle and therefore wrote the final account (including it seems naming it) this must mean that there needs to be a reinterpretation of how it has been written. I don't necessarily agree with this premise in the first place, so maybe I am not the best person to read revisionist accounts with an open mind. However I definitely don't believe that this account does revisionism any justice. For a short book it seems to have a number of unforgiveable errors in it.
I think for an original account DAvid Howarth';s book, Waterloo, day of battle is an excellent and very personal account of the event. I know that John Keegan argued in his book 'Face of Battle' that while Howarth's book gives the best personal account of the battle there was still room for another account of the movements etc, I don't believe Robert's book really adds to the body of work available - either on the personal or the military.
The advantage is that it is a short and punchy book, you can read it in an afternoon without too much effort.
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Basic Mechanisms of the EEG (BRAIN DYNAMICS)
STEPHAN, ED. ZSCHOCKE
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One of the best book I found for my Degree Project.......2001-07-22
I'm building an EEG machine for final year project for my degree. This book is very useful when I was writing training software for the EEG machine. I have found very good training patens to train the brain for the best functionality. I could find the latest finding about the human brain from this book. That helps me to write a very good project report. Basically I could find specification to design hardware part of my EEG machine, when I write software I could find very good training patens and I found very detail information to write my project report from this book.
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