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  • Minuteman

    A Technical History of the Missile That Defined American Nuclear Warfare

    by David K. Stumpf ...
    In Minuteman: A Technical History of the Missile That Defined American Nuclear Warfare, David K. Stumpf demystifies the intercontinental ballistic missile program that was conceived at the end of the Eisenhower administration as a key component of the US nuclear strategy of massive retaliation. Although its nuclear warhead may have lacked power relative to that of the Titan II, the Minuteman more ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Titan II

    A History of a Cold War Missile Program

    by David K. Stumpf ...
    The Titan II ICBM (intercontinental ballistic missile) program was developed by the United States military to bolster the size, strength, and speed of the nation’s strategic weapons arsenal in the 1950s and 1960s. Each missile carried a single warhead—the largest in U.S. inventory—used liquid fuel propellants, and was stored and launched from hardened underground silos. The missiles were deployed ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • The Last Thirty Seconds

    A Brief History of the Evolution of Hit-to-Kill Technology

    by David K. Stumpf ...
    In March 1983, as the world’s superpowers continued aggressively stockpiling nuclear weapons, President Ronald Reagan described his vision for a world no longer confronted with the concept of mutually assured destruction. A year later the Strategic Defense Initiative was established, followed soon after by the creation of the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization (SDIO). The SDIO was tasked ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Regulus

    The Forgotten Weapon

    by David K. Stumpf ...
    In the closing months of World War II, guided missile technology blossomed as a technological breakthrough for the delivery of offensive weapons. Late in the war, Germany introduced its V-1 and V-2 missile systems, and the Soviet ballistic missile program late in the decade heightened the need for a U.S. intermediate-range missile program.During this period, the Chance Vought Aircraft Corporation, ... Read more

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  • Farspace 2

    by Edwin Rydberg, Ben Shirar, L. D. Dailey, Calie Voorhis, Adriana Noire, Kate Sender, Ben A. Bell, Max Griffin, David Snyder, Simon Logan, Susan Joyner-Stumpf, David McGilveray, Lane Diamond, Timothy Masters, J. David Bell, Gregory Marshall Smith, Steven Lugo, Robert Holt, K. S. Riggin, Eric Paul Fretheim ...
    Farspace 2 is, at times, darker, more cautionary and less care-free than its predecessor. It is an exploration of the dangers of the future that we will be challenged with, should our species be so fortunate to reach that distant land. There are stories about control—by entities that want to harm or protect us. Stories about exploration—not the happy, "everything is wonderful out there and all ... Read more

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  • Engineering Interactive Computer Systems. EICS 2025 International Workshops

    Trier, Germany, June 23–27, 2025, Revised Selected Papers

    Edited by Camille Fayollas, Pieter Van Gorp, Mahmoud Baghdadi, Achim Ebert, Jun Hu, Shah Rukh Humayoun, Sapna Jaidka, Kris Luyten, Tilo Mentler, Philippe Palanque, Parvaneh Parvin, Lucio Davide Spano, Simone Stumpf, Gerrit van der Veer, Luciana Zaina, Jürgen Ziegler ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
    This book constitutes revised selected papers from the workshops held in conjunction with EICS 2025 and it contains This book presents a series of revised papers selected from the Workshops and Doctoral Consortium organized in conjunction with the 17th ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems (EICS 2025) which was held in Trier, Germany, during June 2025.The 17 full papers ... Read more

    $67.49 USD

  • The Origins of Music

    by Carl Stumpf ...
    Translated by David Trippett ...
    The Origins of Music was first published in German in 1911. In this text Carl Stumpf set out a path-breaking hypothesis on the earliest musical sounds in human culture. Alongside his research in such diverse fields as classical philosophy, acoustics, and mathematics, Stumpf became one of the most influential psychologists of the late 19th century. He was the founding father of Gestalt psychology, ... Read more

    $59.39 USD

  • Handbook of Statistical Systems Biology

    by Michael Stumpf, David J. Balding, Mark Girolami ...
    Systems Biology is now entering a mature phase in which the key issues are characterising uncertainty and stochastic effects in mathematical models of biological systems. The area is moving towards a full statistical analysis and probabilistic reasoning over the inferences that can be made from mathematical models. This handbook presents a comprehensive guide to the discipline for practitioners ... Read more

    $190.00 USD

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  • How Carriers Fought

    Carrier Operations in World War II

    by Lars Celander ...
    An in-depth analysis of aircraft carrier battles in WWII and the evolution of carrier operations—from technology and strategy to life among the crew.First built in 1921, the aircraft carrier brought a new dimension to military strategy as the United States entered World War II. How Carriers Fought examines the evolution of carrier operations with a special focus on the conflict in the Pacific ... Read more

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  • Information Retrieval: Advanced Topics and Techniques

    Edited by Omar Alonso, Ricardo Baeza-Yates ...
    Series series ACM Books
    In the last decade, deep learning and word embeddings have made significant impacts on information retrieval (IR) by adding techniques based in neural networks and language models. At the same time, certain search modalities such as neural IR and conversational search have become more popular. This book, written by international academic and industry experts, brings the field up to date with ... Read more

    $93.59 USD

  • Check Six!

    A Thunderbolt Pilot's War Across the Pacific

    by Jim Curran, Terrence Popravak ...
    "Makes you proud to be an American . . . a wonderful, fast-paced read, and I highly recommend it for any World War II aviation enthusiast" ( Military Review).There were no mission limits for a pilot in the Pacific during World War II; unlike in Europe, you flew until it was time to go home. So it was for James "Jug" Curran, all the way from New Guinea to the Philippines with the 348th Fighter ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Human-Centered and Error-Resilient Systems Development

    IFIP WG 13.2/13.5 Joint Working Conference, 6th International Conference on Human-Centered Software Engineering, HCSE 2016, and 8th International Conference on Human Error, Safety, and System Development, HESSD 2016, Stockholm, Sweden, August 29-31,

    Edited by Cristian Bogdan, Jan Gulliksen, Stefan Sauer, Peter Forbrig, Marco Winckler, Chris Johnson, Philippe Palanque, Regina Bernhaupt, Filip Kis ...
    Series Book 9856 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science
    This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the IFIP WG 13.2/13.5 Joint Working Conferences: 6th International Conference on Human-Centered Software Engineering, HCSE 2016, and 8th International Conference on Human Error, Safety, and System Development, HESSD 2016, held in Stockholm, Sweden, in August 2016.The 11 full papers and 14 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected ... Read more

    $97.19 USD