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Excerpt from General Hancock The exception to which I refer is that by which, in regard to most wars which attract considerable attention, some one general of division or com4 general hancock. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digita...

Excerpt from International Exhibition, 1876: Reports and Awards, Group I Salt was the precursor of the discovery of most of the oil-wells. Numerous wells were sunk on Oil Creek and vicinity, and the yield of oil became very great. The consumption was not equal to the supply, and oil sold at one time for 10 cents per barrel. In 1861 it sold at 25 cents per barrel. In 1864 the production had declined to 4000 barrels per day, and the highest pri...

How do you achieve a jointly optimised blend of socio and technical and create the kind of agility and self-synchronisation that modern forms of command and control promise? The answer put forward here is to re-visit sociotechnical systems theory. In doing so, the problems of 21st century command and control can be approached from an alternative, multi-disciplinary and above all human-centred perspective.

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Excerpt from Political EconomyThis work has been abridged from the third edition of my Manual of Political Economy, published in 1883.The object in view has been to present a text-book adapted to use in Colleges and Academies where but one Term is devoted to the study of Political Economy.The work of abridgment has been effected mainly through excision, although some structural changes have been made, notably in the parts relating to Distribut...

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Tying together work on a number of languages and linguistic varieties in different locales, this book provides students and researchers with a convenient, unified overview of variationist analysis in linguistics. An ideal textbook for an introductory course on variation, as well as a useful resource for scholars, the volume introduces the basic concepts of variationist linguistics and includes key discussions on language change, language conta...

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