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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the worlds literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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A Look Inside of the RUC's Special Branch
This is a well-written, gripping account of a Special Branch officer's career inside the elite agent handling unit of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) in Northern Ireland.Most of the book describes the author's time spent working undercover in the city of Derry, providing key insights as to how the police surveilled and prosecuted suspected IRA men and women.The author does an excellent job conveying how stressful such work was and how he himself suffered from anxiety, depression, alcoholism, and suicidal tendencies after being placed in the pressure cooker that was wartime Northern Ireland for so long.

I would have given this work 5 stars if the author was able to produce a balanced, unbiased view of his work.I know this is asking much for someone who participated directly in such difficult circumstances.The author has strong views - which he makes abundantly known throughout the work - of how the British government essentially sold out Northern Ireland by signing the Good Friday Agreement and negotiating with Sinn Fein.While I respect the author's view on the issue, and he was apparently a good case officer, he knows little of counterinsurgency or even why the war raged around him for thirty years.This is where I take issue with the author and where his inherent bias - which he cannot help - comes out.

For example, the author falls short when he describes every IRA member/supporter as a terrorist.More accurately, the IRA/Sinn Fein were part of an insurgency who used terrorism to advance their movement.While the IRA did use terrorism - which was always to their detriment - their goal was to unite Ireland.Because the author cannot recognize this, he cannot understand why the IRA had the public support they did and why the Good Friday Agreement was eventually signed.While the author villifies the IRA, he spends a mere two paragraphs on the several years he supposedly spent investigating loyalist terrorists who - as has been well documented - committed the first sectarian murders against Catholics, killed the first RUC officer in the conflict, were the first to riot against Catholic neighborhoods as part of campaign of intimidation and ethnic cleansing, and set off some of the first car bombs in Ireland in order to frame the IRA.Killing of any innocent people should be roundly condemend by all - but paint everyone with the same brush.

While this is a good book and will help the reader understand the intelligence war in Northern Ireland during the 1970's and 1980's, understand where the author is coming from.

A glimpse into the undercover war
Alan Barker, is the pseudonym of a police officer who spent 26 years with Special Branch, the local detective Bureau, in northern Ireland that was tasked with recruiting agents inside the IRA. He spends much of his book describing how he recruited, trained and then ran the famous "supergrass," Raymond Gilmour who made cases against 100 INLA & PIRA members from Derry, although the charges were later dismissed. Additionally his story is about the emotional strain his work placed on him and his family which ultimately manifested itself in the form of an anxiety disorder, PTSD, and alcoholism. ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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In English and Vietnamese. ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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This book provides clear explanatory text, illustrative mathematics and algorithms, demonstrations of the iterative process, pseudocode, and well-developed examples for applications of the branch-and-bound paradigm to important problems in combinatorial data analysis.

Supplementary material, such as computer programs, are provided on the world wide web.

Dr. Brusco is an editorial board member for the Journal of Classification, and a member of the Board of Directors for the Classification Society of North America.

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.
This collection reveals the history of English common law and Empire law in a vastly changing world of British expansion. Dominating the legal field is the Commentaries of the Law of England by Sir William Blackstone, which first appeared in 1765. Reference works such as almanacs and catalogues continue to educate us by revealing the day-to-day workings of society.
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Harvard University Law Library

N012383



[London] : In the Savoy: printed by E. and R. Nutt, and R. Gosling (assigns of E. Sayer, Esq;) for A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch, J. Osborn and T. Longman; T. Worrall, and F. Cogan, 1732. 2v. ; 8° ... Read more

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.
This collection reveals the history of English common law and Empire law in a vastly changing world of British expansion. Dominating the legal field is the Commentaries of the Law of England by Sir William Blackstone, which first appeared in 1765. Reference works such as almanacs and catalogues continue to educate us by revealing the day-to-day workings of society.
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Harvard University Law Library

N012383



[London] : In the Savoy: printed by E. and R. Nutt, and R. Gosling (assigns of E. Sayer, Esq;) for A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch, J. Osborn and T. Longman; T. Worrall, and F. Cogan, 1732. 2v. ; 8° ... Read more

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.
This collection reveals the history of English common law and Empire law in a vastly changing world of British expansion. Dominating the legal field is the Commentaries of the Law of England by Sir William Blackstone, which first appeared in 1765. Reference works such as almanacs and catalogues continue to educate us by revealing the day-to-day workings of society.
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British Library

T088575

A gentleman of the Inner Temple = W. Bohun.Vol.2 has a separate titlepage: 'The practising attorney and solicitor: containing the lawyer's office in equity. .. The fourth edition. .. ', 1737, and has an initial leaf of advertisements.

[London] : In the Savoy: printed by E. and R. Nutt, and R. Gosling (assigns of E. Sayer, Esq;) for A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch, and T. Longman; T. Worrall, and F. Cogan; ward and Chandler, [London], York and Scarborough, 1737. 2v. ; 8° ... Read more

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.
This collection reveals the history of English common law and Empire law in a vastly changing world of British expansion. Dominating the legal field is the Commentaries of the Law of England by Sir William Blackstone, which first appeared in 1765. Reference works such as almanacs and catalogues continue to educate us by revealing the day-to-day workings of society.
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British Library

T088575

A gentleman of the Inner Temple = W. Bohun.Vol.2 has a separate titlepage: 'The practising attorney and solicitor: containing the lawyer's office in equity. .. The fourth edition. .. ', 1737, and has an initial leaf of advertisements.

[London] : In the Savoy: printed by E. and R. Nutt, and R. Gosling (assigns of E. Sayer, Esq;) for A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch, and T. Longman; T. Worrall, and F. Cogan; ward and Chandler, [London], York and Scarborough, 1737. 2v. ; 8° ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management, published by The National Underwriter Company on July 9, 1990. The length of the article is 1004 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: EC law blocks service by ins. branches. (European Court; Int'l Market Report)
Author: Cynthia Crosson
Publication: National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 9, 1990
Publisher: The National Underwriter Company
Issue: n28Page: p13(2)

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.
This collection reveals the history of English common law and Empire law in a vastly changing world of British expansion. Dominating the legal field is the Commentaries of the Law of England by Sir William Blackstone, which first appeared in 1765. Reference works such as almanacs and catalogues continue to educate us by revealing the day-to-day workings of society.
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British Library

T089810

Anonymous. By W. Bohun.With a half-title.

[London] : In the Savoy: printed by E. and R. Nutt, and R. Gosling, (assigns of Edward Sayer, Esq;) for James Crokatt; and Thomas Worrall, 1724. [16],552p. ; 8° ... Read more

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This book, originally published in 1854, presents a single volume containing a full, practical treatise on the culture of bees. Much of the information will still be found useful today to those that keep bees and those interested in the history of the subject. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original artwork and text. ... Read more

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Fast track was conceived as a mundane procedural mechanism to enhance the president's credibility in negotiating complex multilateral trade agreements by streamlining the congressional approval process into an up-or-down vote in return for enhanced congressional oversight. It allows the President to negotiate international trade agreements knowing that Congress will provide a timely vote on the agreement without amendments. Given its seminal importance to the trade debate, however, fast track has acquired greater significance and controversy. This incisive text examines: whether fast track is an evolutionary advancement in U.S. international economic agreements or an end-run around the constitutional treaty provision; whether it is a reflection of the shared constitutional powers of Congress and the President in the area of foreign affairs or an unconstitutional abdication of Congress' power to regulate foreign commerce and its ability to set its own procedural rules; whether fast track is needed to put the United States on even footing with other nations that have efficient international agreement approval mechanisms or a unique U.S. ratification short-cut not found elsewhere; whether there is a better way for the United States to approve and implement trade agreements; whether the arguments of the left and right on fast track need a new focus; and, whether there is a role for the states to play in U.S. trade policy formation. "Fast Track" argues that the time has come for the United States to end its perennial debate over the process by which we approve international trade agreements - i.e., whether to resort to fast track or not - and begin a debate on how best to prepare American citizens to compete in a globalized world. There are signs that the United States is not ready and may even be falling behind. Without question, this book can help formalize a requisite national strategy. ... Read more