Balkan Holocausts?: Serbian and Croatian victim centred propaganda and the war in Yugoslavia

Balkan Holocausts compares and contrasts Serbian and Croatian propaganda from 1986 to 1999, analysing each group's contemporary interpretations of history and current events. It offers a detailed discussion of holocaust imagery and the history of victim-centred writing in nationalism theory, including the links between the comparative genocide debate, the so-called holocaust industry and Serbian and Croatian nationalism. No studies on Yugoslavia have thus far devoted significant space to such analysis. Offering a detailed analysis of Serbian and Croatian propaganda over the internet, the book discusses how and why the internet war was as important as the ground wars in Kosovo, Croatia, and Bosnia-Herzegovina. No other study has fully examined the importance of the Internet as a propaganda tool in wartime. Finally, Balkan Holocausts offers a theme by theme analysis of Serbian and Croatian propaganda, using contemporary media sources, novels, academic works and journals. Many of the writers reviewed have not been studied in any depth elsewhere thus far, and there is a definite need to criticise and compare their works. The role of Slobodan Miloevic in the construction of Serbophobia is considered fully as is Tito's involvement in the war, and the important Moslem question. This study throws comparative light on the use and abuse of propaganda in other contemporary and recent conflicts around the world. It will cast a fascinating and illuminating light on the Balkan conflict, setting the conflict in its proper psychological and intellectual context, wherein war fever and paranoia led eventually to war crimes of the lowest possible nature

Balkan Holocausts? Serbian and Croatian victim centred propaganda and the war in Yugoslavia

"Balkan Holocausts compares and contrasts Serbian and Croatian propaganda from 1986 to 1999, analysing each group's contemporary interpretations of history and current events. It offers a detailed discussion of holocaust imagery and the history of victim-centred writing in nationalism theory, including the links between the comparative genocide debate, the so-called holocaust industry and Serbian and Croatian nationalism. No studies on Yugoslavia have thus far devoted significant space to such analysis. Offering a detailed analysis of Serbian and Croatian propaganda over the internet, the book discusses how and why the internet war was as important as the ground wars in Kosovo, Croatia, and Bosnia-Herzegovina. No other study has fully examined the importance of the Internet as a propaganda tool in wartime. Finally, Balkan Holocausts offers a theme by theme analysis of Serbian and Croatian propaganda, using contemporary media sources, novels, academic works and journals. Many of the writers reviewed have not been studied in any depth elsewhere thus far, and there is a definite need to criticise and compare their works. The role of Slobodan Miloevic in the construction of Serbophobia is considered fully as is Tito's involvement in the war, and the important Moslem question. This study throws comparative light on the use and abuse of propaganda in other contemporary and recent conflicts around the world. It will cast a fascinating and illuminating light on the Balkan conflict, setting the conflict in its proper psychological and intellectual context, wherein war fever and paranoia led eventually to war crimes of the lowest possible nature.

Stratospheric flow and solar variability

Includes bibliographical references.Sponsored by U.S. Atomic Energy Commission AT(11-1)-1340

Studies in Solid-Liquid Extraction

The object of the work was to investigate the effects of temperature and solute concentration on the process of diffusion in porous solids. This was done by immersing previously impregnated earthenware slabs in a moving stream of liquid and allowing absorption or desorption of the solute to proceed for measured intervale of time. The experimental results indicated that the mass transfer was in accordance with Fick's law and that values of D, the diffusion coefficient, could be estimated from semi-log plots of the fraction of solute absorbed or desorbed against t, time in seconds. The derived values of D were correlated with temperature T in the customary relationship, D = A exp (-E/RT) where A = a constant E = an activation energy. It was found that the activation energy E was not independent of the solute concentration. With KCI as solute, it was apparent that for desorption experiments, the calculated values of E were very nearly identical for N and 3N solutions. Absorption experiments, however, give results which differed markedly from those for desorption. The general tendency was for the values of D to be smaller at lower temperatures but to increase more rapidly with increasing temperature than the corresponding values for desorption. Consequently, the derived values of E were much higher for absorption than desorption. The results for sucrose were similar but, in this case, desorption proceeded more rapidly than absorption though again solute concentration appeared to be the dominating factor in determining the relative rates of absorption for 0. 3M and M solutions. Experiments were carried out with slabs of different physical characteristics and in one series of experiments. (slabs whose mean pore diameter was one micron and solute M sucrose) there appeared to be an interaction between the slab structure and the diffusing molecules. Comparison of the apparent lengths of the paths followed by the diffusing molecules seemed to indicate that the diameter of the smaller pores and the length of a sucrose molecule may well be of comparable dimensions. From consideration of the experimental results, there would appear to be certain fundamental differences between the rates of absorption and desorption. The explanation for these differences is not obvious though it is felt that the pore distribution, particularly the number and diameters of the smaller pores making up the voidage, play an important part in determining rates of mass transfer to or from the slabs

The natural resources of Carpinteria Marsh: their status and future

The purpose of this report is: 1) to document the natural resources of Carpinteria Marsh, 2) outline the uses those resources receive, 3) enumerate the problems and conflicts of use that affect those resources, and 4) recommend measures that will protect and enhance the marsh and its resources. It is intended as a guide for citizens, planners and administrators of all private and public entities interested in the status and future of the marsh. This report has been prepared under contract to and fully funded by the Office of Biological Services of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. The goals and purpose of this federal office are to review the impact on fish and wildlife resources of land, mineral and water development practices, such as offshore oil and gas exploration, development and production; construction of inshore pipeline canals and refineries; power plant construction/operation and urban development. This report, and five other southern California reports, covering Agua Hedionda (San Diego County), Anaheim Bay-Huntington Harbor (Orange County), Mugu Lagoon (Ventura County), the Northern Santa Barbara County Coastal Wetlands and the Nipomo Dunes and Wetlands (San Luis Obispo County), are scheduled to be part of the Department's "Coastal Wetland Series" that includes reports on the natural resources of Upper Newport Bay (Orange County), Goleta Slough (Santa Barbara county), Bolinas Lagoon (Marin County), Elkhorn Slough (Monterey County), San Diego Bay and Los Penasquitos Lagoon (San Diego County), Morro Bay (San Luis Obispo County), Humboldt Bay and the Eel River Delta (Humboldt County), Lake Earl and the Smith River Delta (Del Norte County) and Bodega Harbor (Sonoma County). (103pp.

Federal Rule of Evidence 608(b): A Proposed Revision

It is the thesis of this article that under the federal rules there are basically only two limitations on the use of extrinsic evidence to attack the credibility of a witness. First, the basic rules of relevance and considerations of judicial efficiency give the judge discretion to exclude evidence of irrelevant or collateral matters under Federal Rule of Evidence 401 and 403. Second, Rule 608(b) limits the use of extrinsic evidence of specific acts tending to show that the witness has the character of a liar or a truthteller. The first of these limitations is discretionary while the second is not. Except for these two limitations, federal courts can and do consider extrinsic evidence on a host of matters relating to the credibility of a witnes

An Integrated Planning Representation Using Macros, Abstractions, and Cases

Planning will be an essential part of future autonomous robots and integrated intelligent systems. This paper focuses on learning problem solving knowledge in planning systems. The system is based on a common representation for macros, abstractions, and cases. Therefore, it is able to exploit both classical and case based techniques. The general operators in a successful plan derivation would be assessed for their potential usefulness, and some stored. The feasibility of this approach was studied through the implementation of a learning system for abstraction. New macros are motivated by trying to improve the operatorset. One heuristic used to improve the operator set is generating operators with more general preconditions than existing ones. This heuristic leads naturally to abstraction hierarchies. This investigation showed promising results on the towers of Hanoi problem. The paper concludes by describing methods for learning other problem solving knowledge. This knowledge can be represented by allowing operators at different levels of abstraction in a refinement