War and Technology: A Very Short Introduction

152 Pages·2016·11.426 MB·English

by  Alex Roland

War and Technology: A Very Short Introduction
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ACCOUNTING Christopher Nobes ANAESTHESIA Aidan O’Donnell
ADOLESCENCE Peter K. Smith ANARCHISM Colin Ward
ADVERTISING Winston Fletcher ANCIENT ASSYRIA Karen Radner
AFRICAN AMERICAN RELIGION ANCIENT EGYPT Ian Shaw
Eddie S. Glaude Jr ANCIENT EGYPTIAN ART AND
AFRICAN HISTORY ARCHITECTURE Christina Riggs
John Parker and Richard Rathbone ANCIENT GREECE Paul Cartledge
AFRICAN RELIGIONS Jacob K. Olupona THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST
AGNOSTICISM Robin Le Poidevin Amanda H. Podany
AGRICULTURE ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY Julia Annas
Paul Brassley and Richard Soffe ANCIENT WARFARE
ALEXANDER THE GREAT Harry Sidebottom
Hugh Bowden ANGELS David Albert Jones
ALGEBRA Peter M. Higgins ANGLICANISM Mark Chapman
AMERICAN HISTORY Paul S. Boyer THE ANGLO-SAXON AGE John Blair
AMERICAN IMMIGRATION THE ANIMAL KINGDOM
David A. Gerber Peter Holland
AMERICAN LEGAL HISTORY ANIMAL RIGHTS David DeGrazia
G. Edward White THE ANTARCTIC Klaus Dodds
AMERICAN POLITICAL ANTISEMITISM Steven Beller
HISTORY Donald Critchlow ANXIETY Daniel Freeman
AMERICAN POLITICAL PARTIES and Jason Freeman
AND ELECTIONS L. Sandy Maisel THE APOCRYPHAL GOSPELS
AMERICAN POLITICS Paul Foster
Richard M. Valelly ARCHAEOLOGY Paul Bahn
THE AMERICAN PRESIDENCY ARCHITECTURE Andrew Ballantyne
Charles O. Jones ARISTOCRACY William Doyle
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION ARISTOTLE Jonathan Barnes
Robert J. Allison ART HISTORY Dana Arnold
AMERICAN SLAVERY ART THEORY Cynthia Freeland
Heather Andrea Williams ASTROBIOLOGY David C. Catling
THE AMERICAN WEST Stephen Aron ASTROPHYSICS James Binney
AMERICAN WOMEN’S HISTORY ATHEISM Julian Baggini
Susan Ware AUGUSTINE Henry Chadwick
AUSTRALIA Kenneth Morgan CITIZENSHIP Richard Bellamy
AUTISM Uta Frith CIVIL ENGINEERING David Muir Wood
THE AVANT GARDE David Cottington CLASSICAL LITERATURE William Allan
THE AZTECS Davíd Carrasco CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY
BABYLONIA Trevor Bryce Helen Morales
BACTERIA Sebastian G. B. Amyes CLASSICS Mary Beard and
BARTHES Jonathan Culler John Henderson
THE BEATS David Sterritt CLAUSEWITZ Michael Howard
BEAUTY Roger Scruton CLIMATE Mark Maslin
BESTSELLERS John Sutherland CLIMATE CHANGE Mark Maslin
THE BIBLE John Riches COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE
BIBLICAL ARCHAEOLOGY Eric H. Cline Richard Passingham
BIOGRAPHY Hermione Lee THE COLD WAR Robert McMahon
BLACK HOLES Katherine Blundell COLONIAL AMERICA Alan Taylor
BLOOD Chris Cooper COLONIAL LATIN AMERICAN
THE BLUES Elijah Wald LITERATURE Rolena Adorno
THE BODY Chris Shilling COMBINATORICS Robin Wilson
THE BOOK OF MORMON COMEDY Matthew Bevis
Terryl Givens COMMUNISM Leslie Holmes
BORDERS Alexander C. Diener and COMPLEXITY John H. Holland
Joshua Hagen THE COMPUTER Darrel Ince
THE BRAIN Michael O’Shea COMPUTER SCIENCE Subrata Dasgupta
THE BRICS Andrew F. Cooper CONFUCIANISM Daniel K. Gardner
THE BRITISH CONSTITUTION THE CONQUISTADORS
Martin Loughlin Matthew Restall and
THE BRITISH EMPIRE Felipe Fernández-Armesto
Ashley Jackson CONSCIENCE Paul Strohm
BRITISH POLITICS Anthony Wright CONSCIOUSNESS Susan Blackmore
BUDDHA Michael Carrithers CONTEMPORARY ART
BUDDHISM Damien Keown Julian Stallabrass
BUDDHIST ETHICS Damien Keown CONTEMPORARY FICTION
BYZANTIUM Peter Sarris Robert Eaglestone
CANCER Nicholas James CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY
CAPITALISM James Fulcher Simon Critchley
CATHOLICISM Gerald O’Collins COPERNICUS Owen Gingerich
CAUSATION Stephen Mumford CORAL REEFS Charles Sheppard
and Rani Lill Anjum CORPORATE SOCIAL
THE CELL Terence Allen and RESPONSIBILITY Jeremy Moon
Graham Cowling CORRUPTION Leslie Holmes
THE CELTS Barry Cunliffe COSMOLOGY Peter Coles
CHAOS Leonard Smith CRIME FICTION Richard Bradford
CHEMISTRY Peter Atkins CRIMINAL JUSTICE Julian V. Roberts
CHILD PSYCHOLOGY Usha Goswami CRITICAL THEORY
CHILDREN’S LITERATURE Stephen Eric Bronner
Kimberley Reynolds THE CRUSADES Christopher Tyerman
CHINESE LITERATURE Sabina Knight CRYPTOGRAPHY Fred Piper and
CHOICE THEORY Michael Allingham Sean Murphy
CHRISTIAN ART Beth Williamson CRYSTALLOGRAPHY A. M. Glazer
CHRISTIAN ETHICS D. Stephen Long THE CULTURAL REVOLUTION
CHRISTIANITY Linda Woodhead Richard Curt Kraus
DADA AND SURREALISM ETHNOMUSICOLOGY Timothy Rice
David Hopkins THE ETRUSCANS Christopher Smith
DANTE Peter Hainsworth THE EUROPEAN UNION John Pinder
and David Robey and Simon Usherwood
DARWIN Jonathan Howard EVOLUTION Brian and
THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS Timothy Lim Deborah Charlesworth
DECOLONIZATION Dane Kennedy EXISTENTIALISM Thomas Flynn
DEMOCRACY Bernard Crick EXPLORATION Stewart A. Weaver
DERRIDA Simon Glendinning THE EYE Michael Land
DESCARTES Tom Sorell FAMILY LAW Jonathan Herring
DESERTS Nick Middleton FASCISM Kevin Passmore
DESIGN John Heskett FASHION Rebecca Arnold
DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY FEMINISM Margaret Walters
Lewis Wolpert FILM Michael Wood
THE DEVIL Darren Oldridge FILM MUSIC Kathryn Kalinak
DIASPORA Kevin Kenny THE FIRST WORLD WAR
DICTIONARIES Lynda Mugglestone Michael Howard
DINOSAURS David Norman FOLK MUSIC Mark Slobin
DIPLOMACY Joseph M. Siracusa FOOD John Krebs
DOCUMENTARY FILM FORENSIC PSYCHOLOGY
Patricia Aufderheide David Canter
DREAMING J. Allan Hobson FORENSIC SCIENCE Jim Fraser
DRUGS Les Iversen FORESTS Jaboury Ghazoul
DRUIDS Barry Cunliffe FOSSILS Keith Thomson
EARLY MUSIC Thomas Forrest Kelly FOUCAULT Gary Gutting
THE EARTH Martin Redfern THE FOUNDING FATHERS
EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCE Tim Lenton R. B. Bernstein
ECONOMICS Partha Dasgupta FRACTALS Kenneth Falconer
EDUCATION Gary Thomas FREE SPEECH Nigel Warburton
EGYPTIAN MYTH Geraldine Pinch FREE WILL Thomas Pink
EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN FRENCH LITERATURE John D. Lyons
Paul Langford THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
THE ELEMENTS Philip Ball William Doyle
EMOTION Dylan Evans FREUD Anthony Storr
EMPIRE Stephen Howe FUNDAMENTALISM Malise Ruthven
ENGELS Terrell Carver FUNGI Nicholas P. Money
ENGINEERING David Blockley GALAXIES John Gribbin
ENGLISH LITERATURE GALILEO Stillman Drake
Jonathan Bate GAME THEORY Ken Binmore
THE ENLIGHTENMENT GANDHI Bhikhu Parekh
John Robertson GENES Jonathan Slack
ENTREPRENEURSHIP GENIUS Andrew Robinson
Paul Westhead and Mike Wright GEOGRAPHY John Matthews
ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS and David Herbert
Stephen Smith GEOPOLITICS Klaus Dodds
ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS GERMAN LITERATURE Nicholas Boyle
Andrew Dobson GERMAN PHILOSOPHY Andrew Bowie
EPICUREANISM Catherine Wilson GLOBAL CATASTROPHES Bill McGuire
EPIDEMIOLOGY Rodolfo Saracci GLOBAL ECONOMIC HISTORY
ETHICS Simon Blackburn Robert C. Allen
GLOBALIZATION Manfred Steger INNOVATION Mark Dodgson and
GOD John Bowker David Gann
GOETHE Ritchie Robertson INTELLIGENCE Ian J. Deary
THE GOTHIC Nick Groom INTERNATIONAL LAW Vaughan Lowe
GOVERNANCE Mark Bevir INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION
THE GREAT DEPRESSION AND Khalid Koser
THE NEW DEAL Eric Rauchway INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
HABERMAS James Gordon Finlayson Paul Wilkinson
HAPPINESS Daniel M. Haybron INTERNATIONAL SECURITY
THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE Christopher S. Browning
Cheryl A. Wall IRAN Ali M. Ansari
THE HEBREW BIBLE AS LITERATURE ISLAM Malise Ruthven
Tod Linafelt ISLAMIC HISTORY Adam Silverstein
HEGEL Peter Singer ISOTOPES Rob Ellam
HEIDEGGER Michael Inwood ITALIAN LITERATURE
HERMENEUTICS Jens Zimmermann Peter Hainsworth and David Robey
HERODOTUS Jennifer T. Roberts JESUS Richard Bauckham
HIEROGLYPHS Penelope Wilson JOURNALISM Ian Hargreaves
HINDUISM Kim Knott JUDAISM Norman Solomon
HISTORY John H. Arnold JUNG Anthony Stevens
THE HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY KABBALAH Joseph Dan
Michael Hoskin KAFKA Ritchie Robertson
THE HISTORY OF CHEMISTRY KANT Roger Scruton
William H. Brock KEYNES Robert Skidelsky
THE HISTORY OF LIFE KIERKEGAARD Patrick Gardiner
Michael Benton KNOWLEDGE Jennifer Nagel
THE HISTORY OF MATHEMATICS THE KORAN Michael Cook
Jacqueline Stedall LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
THE History of Medicine Ian H. Thompson
William Bynum LANDSCAPES AND
THE HISTORY OF TIME GEOMORPHOLOGY
Leofranc Holford-Strevens Andrew Goudie and Heather Viles
HIV/AIDS Alan Whiteside LANGUAGES Stephen R. Anderson
HOBBES Richard Tuck LATE ANTIQUITY Gillian Clark
HOLLYWOOD Peter Decherney LAW Raymond Wacks
HORMONES Martin Luck THE LAWS OF THERMODYNAMICS
HUMAN ANATOMY Peter Atkins
Leslie Klenerman LEADERSHIP Keith Grint
HUMAN EVOLUTION Bernard Wood LEARNING Mark Haselgrove
HUMAN RIGHTS Andrew Clapham LIBERALISM Michael Freeden
HUMANISM Stephen Law LIGHT Ian Walmsley
HUME A. J. Ayer LINCOLN Allen C. Guelzo
HUMOUR Noël Carroll LINGUISTICS Peter Matthews
THE ICE AGE Jamie Woodward LITERARY THEORY Jonathan Culler
IDEOLOGY Michael Freeden LOCKE John Dunn
INDIAN CINEMA Ashish Rajadhyaksha LOGIC Graham Priest
INDIAN PHILOSOPHY Sue Hamilton LOVE Ronald de Sousa
INFECTIOUS DISEASE Marta L. Wayne MACHIAVELLI Quentin Skinner
and Benjamin M. Bolker MADNESS Andrew Scull
INFORMATION Luciano Floridi MAGIC Owen Davies
MAGNA CARTA Nicholas Vincent THE MONGOLS Morris Rossabi
MAGNETISM Stephen Blundell MOONS David A. Rothery
MALTHUS Donald Winch MORMONISM
MANAGEMENT John Hendry Richard Lyman Bushman
MAO Delia Davin MOUNTAINS Martin F. Price
MARINE BIOLOGY Philip V. Mladenov MUHAMMAD Jonathan A. C. Brown
THE MARQUIS DE SADE John Phillips MULTICULTURALISM Ali Rattansi
MARTIN LUTHER Scott H. Hendrix MUSIC Nicholas Cook
MARTYRDOM Jolyon Mitchell MYTH Robert A. Segal
MARX Peter Singer THE NAPOLEONIC WARS
MATERIALS Christopher Hall Mike Rapport
MATHEMATICS Timothy Gowers NATIONALISM Steven Grosby
THE MEANING OF LIFE Terry Eagleton NELSON MANDELA
MEDICAL ETHICS Tony Hope Elleke Boehmer
MEDICAL LAW Charles Foster NEOLIBERALISM Manfred Steger
MEDIEVAL BRITAIN John Gillingham and Ravi Roy
and Ralph A. Griffiths NETWORKS Guido Caldarelli and
MEDIEVAL LITERATURE Michele Catanzaro
Elaine Treharne THE NEW TESTAMENT
MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY Luke Timothy Johnson
John Marenbon THE NEW TESTAMENT AS
MEMORY Jonathan K. Foster LITERATURE Kyle Keefer
METAPHYSICS Stephen Mumford NEWTON Robert Iliffe
THE MEXICAN REVOLUTION NIETZSCHE Michael Tanner
Alan Knight NINETEENTH-CENTURY BRITAIN
MICHAEL FARADAY Christopher Harvie and
Frank A. J. L. James H. C. G. Matthew
MICROBIOLOGY Nicholas P. Money THE NORMAN CONQUEST
MICROECONOMICS Avinash Dixit George Garnett
MICROSCOPY Terence Allen NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS
THE MIDDLE AGES Miri Rubin Theda Perdue and Michael D. Green
MILITARY JUSTICE Eugene R. Fidell NORTHERN IRELAND
MINERALS David Vaughan Marc Mulholland
MODERN ART David Cottington NOTHING Frank Close
MODERN CHINA Rana Mitter NUCLEAR PHYSICS Frank Close
MODERN DRAMA NUCLEAR POWER Maxwell Irvine
Kirsten E. Shepherd-Barr NUCLEAR WEAPONS
MODERN FRANCE Joseph M. Siracusa
Vanessa R. Schwartz NUMBERS Peter M. Higgins
MODERN IRELAND Senia Pašeta NUTRITION David A. Bender
MODERN JAPAN OBJECTIVITY Stephen Gaukroger
Christopher Goto-Jones THE OLD TESTAMENT
MODERN LATIN AMERICAN Michael D. Coogan
LITERATURE THE ORCHESTRA D. Kern Holoman
Roberto González Echevarría ORGANIZATIONS Mary Jo Hatch
MODERN WAR Richard English PAGANISM Owen Davies
MODERNISM Christopher Butler THE PALESTINIAN-ISRAELI
MOLECULAR BIOLOGY CONFLICT Martin Bunton
Aysha Divan and Janice A. Royds PARTICLE PHYSICS Frank Close
MOLECULES Philip Ball PAUL E. P. Sanders
PEACE Oliver P. Richmond RELATIVITY Russell Stannard
PENTECOSTALISM William K. Kay Religion in America Timothy Beal
THE PERIODIC TABLE Eric R. Scerri THE RENAISSANCE Jerry Brotton
PHILOSOPHY Edward Craig RENAISSANCE ART
PHILOSOPHY IN THE ISLAMIC Geraldine A. Johnson
WORLD Peter Adamson REVOLUTIONS Jack A. Goldstone
PHILOSOPHY OF LAW RHETORIC Richard Toye
Raymond Wacks RISK Baruch Fischhoff and John Kadvany
PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE RITUAL Barry Stephenson
Samir Okasha RIVERS Nick Middleton
PHOTOGRAPHY Steve Edwards ROBOTICS Alan Winfield
PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY Peter Atkins ROMAN BRITAIN Peter Salway
PILGRIMAGE Ian Reader THE ROMAN EMPIRE
PLAGUE Paul Slack Christopher Kelly
PLANETS David A. Rothery THE ROMAN REPUBLIC
PLANTS Timothy Walker David M. Gwynn
PLATE TECTONICS Peter Molnar ROMANTICISM Michael Ferber
PLATO Julia Annas ROUSSEAU Robert Wokler
POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY David Miller RUSSELL A. C. Grayling
POLITICS Kenneth Minogue RUSSIAN HISTORY Geoffrey Hosking
POSTCOLONIALISM Robert Young RUSSIAN LITERATURE Catriona Kelly
POSTMODERNISM Christopher Butler THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
POSTSTRUCTURALISM S. A. Smith
Catherine Belsey SAVANNA Peter A. Furley
PREHISTORY Chris Gosden SCHIZOPHRENIA Chris Frith and
PRESOCRATIC PHILOSOPHY Eve Johnstone
Catherine Osborne SCHOPENHAUER Christopher Janaway
PRIVACY Raymond Wacks Science and Religion Thomas Dixon
PROBABILITY John Haigh SCIENCE FICTION David Seed
PROGRESSIVISM Walter Nugent THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION
PROTESTANTISM Mark A. Noll Lawrence M. Principe
PSYCHIATRY Tom Burns SCOTLAND Rab Houston
PSYCHOANALYSIS Daniel Pick SEXUALITY Véronique Mottier
PSYCHOLOGY Gillian Butler and SHAKESPEARE’S COMEDIES
Freda McManus Bart van Es
PSYCHOTHERAPY Tom Burns and SIKHISM Eleanor Nesbitt
Eva Burns-Lundgren THE SILK ROAD James A. Millward
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION SLANG Jonathon Green
Stella Z. Theodoulou and Ravi K. Roy SLEEP Steven W. Lockley and
PUBLIC HEALTH Virginia Berridge Russell G. Foster
PURITANISM Francis J. Bremer SOCIAL AND CULTURAL
THE QUAKERS Pink Dandelion ANTHROPOLOGY
QUANTUM THEORY John Monaghan and Peter Just
John Polkinghorne SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY Richard J. Crisp
RACISM Ali Rattansi SOCIAL WORK Sally Holland and
RADIOACTIVITY Claudio Tuniz Jonathan Scourfield
RASTAFARI Ennis B. Edmonds SOCIALISM Michael Newman
THE REAGAN REVOLUTION Gil Troy SOCIOLINGUISTICS John Edwards
REALITY Jan Westerhoff SOCIOLOGY Steve Bruce
THE REFORMATION Peter Marshall SOCRATES C. C. W. Taylor
SOUND Mike Goldsmith THE TROJAN WAR Eric H. Cline
THE SOVIET UNION Stephen Lovell TRUST Katherine Hawley
THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR THE TUDORS John Guy
Helen Graham TWENTIETH-CENTURY BRITAIN
SPANISH LITERATURE Jo Labanyi Kenneth O. Morgan
SPINOZA Roger Scruton THE UNITED NATIONS
SPIRITUALITY Philip Sheldrake Jussi M. Hanhimäki
SPORT Mike Cronin THE U.S. CONGRESS Donald A. Ritchie
STARS Andrew King THE U.S. SUPREME COURT
STATISTICS David J. Hand Linda Greenhouse
STEM CELLS Jonathan Slack UTOPIANISM Lyman Tower Sargent
STRUCTURAL ENGINEERING THE VIKINGS Julian Richards
David Blockley VIRUSES Dorothy H. Crawford
STUART BRITAIN John Morrill WAR AND TECHNOLOGY
SUPERCONDUCTIVITY Alex Roland
Stephen Blundell WATER John Finney
SYMMETRY Ian Stewart THE WELFARE STATE David Garland
TAXATION Stephen Smith WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
TEETH Peter S. Ungar Stanley Wells
TERRORISM Charles Townshend WITCHCRAFT Malcolm Gaskill
THEATRE Marvin Carlson WITTGENSTEIN A. C. Grayling
THEOLOGY David F. Ford WORK Stephen Fineman
THOMAS AQUINAS Fergus Kerr WORLD MUSIC Philip Bohlman
THOUGHT Tim Bayne THE WORLD TRADE
TIBETAN BUDDHISM ORGANIZATION Amrita Narlikar
Matthew T. Kapstein WORLD WAR II Gerhard L. Weinberg
TOCQUEVILLE Harvey C. Mansfield WRITING AND SCRIPT
TRAGEDY Adrian Poole Andrew Robinson
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LEIBNIZ Maria Rosa Antognazza MODERN ITALY
MEASUREMENT David Hand Anna Cento Bull
TRANSLATION Matthew Reynolds AGEING Nancy A. Pachana
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