This book examines how image affects war and whether image affects our understanding of war. Crucially, how can moving-image representation of conflict affect the legitimacy, conduct and outcome of contemporary warfare?
The collapsing Twin Towers of September 11; the hooded figure at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq; the images of beheadings on the internet; the emaciated figure in a Bosnian-Serb concentration camp; the dancing flashes across the skylines of Baghdad as US-led air bombardment deals blows to another 'rogue' regime: such images define contemporary conflict.
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This book examines how image affects war and whether image affects our understanding of war. Crucially, how can moving-image representation...
Offers a presentation of the history of Greek mathematics, with emphasis on the Alexandrian school. Starting with number systems of the ancients and Egyptian influences on Greek mathematics, this book traces the development up to Pappus and Proclus in the fourth century A D.
Offers a presentation of the history of Greek mathematics, with emphasis on the Alexandrian school. Starting with number systems of the ancients and E...
