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This book presents thoroughly revised tutorial papers based on lectures given by leading researchers at the International Training School on Domain Modeling and the Duration Calculus, held in Shanghai, China, in September 2007 as an associated event of ICTAC 2007, the 4th International Colloquium on Theoretical Aspects of Computing.

The four tutorial papers presented provide competent coverage of software security, domain modeling of software engineering, and duration calculus for real time systems - originating from lectures of leading experts in these fields from Europe and Asia. Topics addressed in detail are: development of real-time systems, domain engineering using abstract modeling, the area of duration calculus, and formal methods like language description using the operational semantics approach.

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paradox of oscar wilde
The paradox of Oscar Wilde is exactly the same book which is called Oscar Wilde: The Double Image. I bought them both and got disappointed..Anyway the book is fundamental to see the figure of Ocar Wilde as integral part of the Victorian environment where to be "double" was a rule. It is then your task to demonstrate that Wilde somehow went beyond this duplicity, and was thus greater than his age.A detailed book, even if it does not contain much information on Wilde's Irish background. ... Read more

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Until recently Aphra Behn has usually been dismissed as an immoral woman and an indecent writer worthy of notice. Yet few women have more claims to fame than this Restoration playwright and novelist who, after acting as a spy in the Dutch wars, became the first professional authoress and a pioneer in female emancipation; whose play The Rover, apart from her political plays written in support of the Tories, set her in the front rank of dramatists; whose novel Oroonoko was the first book to portray the horrors of slavery; and who, though her works might reflect the general coarseness of the period, could write a perfect lyric. This book vividly describes her many-sided activities, her character and the circles in which she moved, and examines several hitherto unknown facts based on recent research. Write up refers to hardback, 1948 edition. ... Read more

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Anarchy or Chaos
Written in England as World War Two raged around him, this is the first book ( other than poetry) published by one of the most important anarchist thinkers of the twentieth century. It is also the first history of anarchism published in English.

While it is true, as Woodcock points out in a preface written just for this edition, that much of the book belongs to the time in which it was written, that only adds to the power of the book - for there is hardly a GREATER statist nightmare than World War Two.

Knowledgeable, yet filled with youthful enthusiasm, this volume is as fine a brief history of anarchism as is available today. And, indeed, it is written by a person who helped keep the spirit of anarchy alive for a new generation crying for freedom.

Michael Ziesing-- from book's back cover ... Read more

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Pierre Joseph Proudhon (1809-1865) is one of the most important French social theoreticians of the nineteenth century. George Woodcock's book, first published in 1956, was the first full-scale biography of Proudhon in the English language.

Proudhon's influence on the French Socialist movement was immense and he played a great part in the First International and Paris Commune, in French syndicalism and in contemporary movements for currency reform.

Proudhon's significance also reaches forward into the contemporary era, when his massive distrust of the state and his teaching of the need for world federation took on a new importance in a world threatened by the explosive rivalries of giant nationalistic states.