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Book SynopsisSubmarine fiber optic cables are critical communications infrastructure for States around the world. They are laid on the seabed, are often no bigger than a garden hose, and transmit immense amounts of data across oceans. These cables are the backbone of the internet and phone services and underpin core State interests, such as the finance sector, shipping, commerce and banking industries. Without the capacity to transmit and receive data via submarine cables, the economic security of States would be severely compromised. Despite the fact that 95 per cent of all data and telecommunications between States are transmitted via submarine cables, there is little understanding of how these cables operate. As a result some States have developed policies and laws that undermine the integrity of international telecommunications systems. Submarine Cables: The Handbook of Law and Policy provides a one-stop-shop of essential information relating to the international governance of submarine cables. The Handbook is a unique collaboration between international lawyers and experts from the submarine cable industry. It provides a practical insight into the law and policy issues that affect the protection of submarine cables, as well as the laying, maintenance and operation of such cables. In addition, the law and policy issues in relation to other special purpose cables, such as power cables, marine scientific research cables, military cables, and offshore energy cables, are also addressed.Trade Review"The handbook is a pioneering effort and serves as a one-stop resource for all issues related to the international governance of submarine cables." -David O'Connell, Naval War College ReviewTable of ContentsIntroduction - Why Submarine Cables? Douglas Burnett, Tara Davenport, Robert Beckman PART I: BACKGROUND Chapter 1 - The Development of Submarine Cables Stewart Ash Chapter 2 - The Submarine Cable Industry: How Does it Work? Mick Green PART II: INTERNATIONAL LAW ON SUBMARINE CABLES Chapter 3 – Overview of the International Legal Regime Governing Submarine Cables Douglas Burnett, Tara Davenport, Robert Beckman PART III: CABLE OPERATIONS - LAW AND PRACTICE Chapter 4 – The Planning and Surveying of Submarine Cable Routes Graham Evans, Monique Page Chapter 5 – The Manufacture and Laying of Submarine Cables Keith Ford-Ramsden, Tara Davenport Chapter 6 – Submarine Cable Repair and Maintenance Keith Ford-Ramsden, Douglas Burnett Chapter 7 – The Relationship between Submarine Cables and the Marine Environment Lionel Carter Chapter 8 – Out-of-Service Submarine Cables Douglas Burnett PART IV: PROTECTING CABLESHIPS AND SUBMARINE CABLES Chapter 9 – Protecting Cableships Engaged in Cable Operations Mick Green, Douglas Burnett Chapter 10 – Submarine Cables and Natural Hazards Lionel Carter Chapter 11 – Protecting Submarine Cables from Competing Uses Bob Wargo, Tara Davenport Chapter 12 – Protecting Submarine Cables from Intentional Damage: The Security Gap Robert Beckman PART V: SPECIAL PURPOSE SUBMARINE CABLES Chapter 13 – Power Cables Malcolm Eccles, Joska Ferencz, Douglas Burnett Chapter 14 – Marine Scientific Research Cables Lionel Carter, Alfred H.A. Soons Chapter 15 – Military Cables J. Ashley Roach Chapter 16 - Submarine Cables and Offshore Energy Wayne Nielsen, Tara Davenport) PART VI: APPENDICES AND KEYWORD INDEX Appendix 1 - Timeline of the Submarine Cable Industry Appendix 2 - Overview of the Major Submarine System Suppliers (1850 –2012) Appendix 3 - Excerpts of Most Relevant Treaty Provisions Keyword Index

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Book SynopsisNews Networks in Early Modern Europe attempts to redraw the history of European news communication in the 16th and 17th centuries. News is defined partly by movement and circulation, yet histories of news have been written overwhelmingly within national contexts. This volume of essays explores the notion that early modern European news, in all its manifestations – manuscript, print, and oral – is fundamentally transnational. These 37 essays investigate the language, infrastructure, and circulation of news across Europe. They range from the 15th to the 18th centuries, and from the Ottoman Empire to the Americas, focussing on the mechanisms of transmission, the organisation of networks, the spread of forms and modes of news communication, and the effects of their translation into new locales and languages.Trade Review“Every news historian should first study this volume before continuing with his or her own work.” - Rosanne Baars, University of Amsterdam, in: Sixteenth Century Journal 48:2 (2017), pp. 494-496Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Figures and Tables Places and Dates Abbreviations and Other Conventions Notes on Contributors 1 News Networks in Early Modern Europe Joad Raymond and Noah Moxham PART 1 Networks 2 European Postal Networks Nikolaus Schobesberger, Paul Arblaster, Mario Infelise, André Belo, Noah Moxham, Carmen Espejo and Joad Raymond 3 The Lexicons of Early Modern News Paul Arblaster, André Belo, Carmen Espejo, Stéphane Haffemayer, Mario Infelise, Noah Moxham, Joad Raymond and Nikolaus Schobesberger 4 News Networks: Putting the ‘News’ and ‘Networks’ Back in Joad Raymond 5 Maps versus Networks Ruth Ahnert 6 International News Flows in the Seventeenth Century: Problems and Prospects Brendan Dooley 7 The Papal Network: How the Roman Curia Was Informed about South-Eastern Europe, the Ottoman Empire and the Mediterranean (1645–1669) Johann Petitjean 8 The Iberian Position in European News Networks: A Methodological Approach Javier Díaz Noci 9 Mapping the Fuggerzeitungen: The Geographical Issues of an Information Network Nikolaus Schobesberger PART 2 Modes 10 The History of a Word: Gazette Mario Infelise 11 International Relations: Spanish, Italian, French, English and German Printed Single Event Newsletters Prior to Renaudot’s Gazette Henry Ettinghausen 12 War News in Early Modern Milan: The Birth and the Shaping of Printed News Pamphlets Massimo Petta 13 Elizabethan Diplomatic Networks and the Spread of News Tracey A. Sowerby 14 Time in English Translations of Continental News Sara Barker 15 Cartography, War Correspondence and News Publishing: The Early Career of Nicolaes van Geelkercken, 1610–1630 Helmer Helmers 16 News Exchange and Social Distinction André Belo 17 ‘Newes also came by Letters’: Functions and Features of Epistolary News in English News Publications of the Seventeenth Century Nicholas Brownlees 18 ‘My Friend the Gazetier’: Diplomacy and News in Seventeenth-Century Europe Jason Peacey 19 Intelligence Offices in the Habsburg Monarchy Anton Tantner 20 Authors, Editors and Newsmongers: Form and Genre in the Philosophical Transactions under Henry Oldenburg Noah Moxham PART 3 Studies 21 News from the New World: Spain’s Monopoly in the European Network of Handwritten Newsletters during the Sixteenth Century Renate Pieper 22 The Prince of Transylvania: Spanish News of the War against the Turks, 1595–1600 Carmen Espejo 23 ‘Fishing after News’ and the ars apodemica: The Intelligencing Role of the Educational Traveller in the Late Sixteenth Century Elizabeth Williamson 24 ‘It is No Time Now to Enquire of Forraine Occurrents’: Plague, War, and Rumour in the Letters of Joseph Mead, 1625 Kirsty Rolfe 25 ‘Our Valiant Dunkirk Romans’: Glorifying the Habsburg War at Sea, 1622–1629 Paul Arblaster 26 A Sense of Europe: The Making of this Continent in Early Modern Dutch News Media Joop W. Koopmans 27 The Hinterland of the Newsletter: Handling Information in Space and Time Mark Greengrass, Thierry Rentet and Stéphane Gal 28 ‘We have been Informed that the French are Carrying Desolation Everywhere’: The Desolation of the Palatinate as a European News Event Emilie Dosquet 29 Promoting the Catholic Cause on the Italian Peninsula: Printed Avvisi on the Dutch Revolt and the French Wars of Religion, 1562–1600 Nina Lamal 30 The Acquisition and Handling of News on the French Wars of Religion in Cologne: The Case of Hermann Weinsberg Alexandra Schäfer 31 ‘Secret and Uncertain’: A History of Avvisi at the Court of the Medici Grand Dukes Sheila Barker 32 Words on the Street: Selling Small Printed ‘Things’ in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Venice Laura Carnelos 33 Natural Disasters and the European Printed News Network Carlos H. Caracciolo 34 The ‘Trouble of Naples’ in the Political Information Arena of the English Revolution Davide Boerio 35 Public and Secret Networks of News: The Declaration of War of the Turks against the Empire in 1683 Stéphane Haffemayer 36 From Vienna, Prague or Poland? The Effects of Changing Reporting Patterns on the Ceremonial News of Transylvania, 1619–58 Virginia Dillon 37 The Venetian News Network in the Early Sixteenth Century: The Battle of Chaldiran Chiara Palazzo Index

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Book SynopsisQuestions of survival and loss bedevil the study of early printed books. Many early publications are not particularly rare, but others have disappeared altogether. This is clear not only from the improbably large number of books that survive in only one copy, but from many references in contemporary documents to books that cannot now be located. In this volume leading specialists in the field explore different aspects of this poorly understood aspect of book history: classes of texts particularly impacted by poor rates of survival; lost books revealed in contemporary lists or inventories; the collections of now dispersed libraries; deliberate and accidental destruction. A final section describes modern efforts at salvage and restitution following the devastation of the twentieth century.Trade Review“This is a rewarding and important book”. David McKitterick, Trinity College, Cambridge. In: Library & Information History, Vol. 33, No. 2 (2017), pp. 145-146. “Pettegree’s introduction, ‘The Legion of the Lost’ is a full-length essay discussing not only how books become lost but how one can know about what has been lost. It is accessible and engaging and would be a worthy reading assignment for undergraduates or masters students studying book history.” Iona Hine, The University of Sheffield. Reviewed for Linguistic DNA [10 January 2017].Table of Contents1. Andrew Pettegree, The Legion of the Lost. Recovering the Lost Books of Early Modern Europe. Part I: In the Beginning: lost incunabula 2. Falk Eisermann, The Gutenberg Galaxy’s Dark Matter: Lost Incunabula, and Ways to Retrieve Them 3. Jonathan Green and Frank McIntyre, Lost Incunable Editions: Closing In on an Estimate Part II: National Case-studies 4. Iain Fenlon, Lost Book of Polyphony from Renaissance Spain 5. Wolfgang Undorf, Lost Books, Lost Libraries, Lost Everything? A Scandinavian Early Modern Perspective 6. Justyna Kiliańczyk-Zięba, In Search of Lost Fortuna. Reconstructing the Publishing History of the Polish Book of Fortune-Telling 7. Alexandra Hill, Lost Print in England: Entries in the Stationers’ Company Register, 1557-1640 8. Goran Proot, Survival factors of seventeenth-century hand-press books published in the Southern Netherlands: The importance of sheet counts, Sammelbände and the role of institutional collections 9. Arthur der Weduwen and Andrew Pettegree, Publicity and its Uses. Lost Books as Revealed in Newspaper Advertisements in the Seventeenth-Century Dutch Republic 10. Domenico Ciccarello, Lost Books and Dispersed Libraries in Sicily during the Seventeenth Century Part III: Censorship and its consequences 11. Christine Benevent and Malcolm Walsby, Lost Issues and Self-Censorship: Rethinking the Publishing History of Guillaume Budé’s De l’Institution du Prince 12. Michele Camaioni, The Editorial History of a Rare and Forbidden Franciscan Book of Italian Renaissance: the Dialogo della Unione Spirituale di Dio con l’anima by Bartolomeo Cordoni 13. Rosa Marisa Borraccini, An Unknown Bestseller: the Confessionario of Girolamo da Palermo 14. Roberto Rusconi, The Devil’s Trick. Impossible Editions in the Lists of Titles from the Regular Orders in Italy at the End of the Sixteenth Century 15. Giovanna Granata, On the Track of Lost Editions in Italian Religious Libraries at the End of the Sixteenth Century: a Numerical Analysis of the RICI Database Part IV. Libraries, private and public 16. Anna Giulia Cavagna, Loss and Meaning. Lost Books, Bibliographic Description and Significance in a Sixteenth-Century Italian Private Library 17. Martine van Ittersum, Confiscated Manuscripts and Books: What Happened to the Personal Library and Archive of Hugo Grotius Following His Arrest on Charges of High Treason in August 1618? 18. Maria Teresa Biagetti, Dispersed collections of scientific books: the case of the private library of Federico Cesi (1585-1630) 19. Alison Walker, Lost in Plain Sight: Rediscovering the Library of Sir Hans Sloane 20. Mark Towsey, Book Use and Sociability in Lost Libraries of the Eighteenth Century: Towards a Union Catalogue Part V: War and Peace: the depredations of modern times 21. Jan L. Alessandrini, Lost Books of ‘Operation Gomorrah’: Rescue, Reconstruction, and Restitution at Hamburg’s Library in the Second World War 22. Tomasz Nastulczyk, Two Centuries of Looting and the Grand Nazi Book Burning. The Dispersed and Destroyed Libraries of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth: Historical Losses and Contemporary Attempts at Reconstruction 23. Flavia Bruni, All is not Lost. Italian Archives and Libraries in the Second World War 24. Saskia Limbach, Tracing Lost Broadsheet Ordinances Printed in Sixteenth-Century Cologne Index

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Book SynopsisIn Media, Modernity and Dynamic Plants, Janet Janzen traces the motif of the “dynamic plant” through film and literature in early 20th century German culture. Often discussed solely as symbols or metaphors of the human experience, plants become here the primary focus and their role in literature and film is extended beyond their symbolic function. Plants have been (and still are) seen as closer to static objects than to living, moving beings. Making use of examples from film and literature, Janet Janzen demonstrates a shift in the perception of plants-as-objects to plants-as-living-beings that can be attributed to new technology and also to the return of Romantic and Vitalistic discourses on nature.Trade Review"With its forty illustrations, bibliography, index, and English translations of original German citations, Janzen's book is an invaluable resource not only to scholars in German studies but to anyone across the disciplines with an interest in the nascent field of plant studies." --Alice Kuzniar, (University of Waterloo) Seminar: A Journal for Germanic Studies, Vol. 54, No.1 (2018).Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: Flying Plants: Imaginary Media as a Model for Representing the Plant Soul in Kurd Lasswitz’s Sternentau: Die Pflanze vom Neptunsmond (1909) Chapter 2: Animating Glass: Representing the Elusive Plant Soul in Paul Scheerbart's “Flora Mohr: eine Glasblumen-Novelle” (1909) Chapter 3: Empathetic Media: Film and the “Gestures” of Plants in Das Blumenwunder (1926) Chapter 4: The Radical Other: The Metamorphosis of Humans and Animals into Plants in Gustav Meyrink's “Die Pflanzen des Doktor Cinderella” (1905) Chapter 5: The Plant Bites!: Deviant Plants in Nosferatu and Alraune as Metaphors for Social Instability in Weimar Culture Conclusion Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisAlmost half a million books printed in the fifteenth century survive in collections worldwide. In Incunabula in Transit Lotte Hellinga explores how and where they were first disseminated. Propelled by the novel need to market hundreds of books, early printers formed networks with colleagues, engaged agents and traded Latin books over long distances. They adapted presentation to suit the taste of distinct readerships, local and remote. Publishing in vernacular languages required typographical innovations, as the chapter on William Caxton’s Flanders enterprise demonstrates. Eighteenth-century collectors dislodged books from institutions where they had rested since the sales drives of early printers. Erudite and entertaining, Hellinga’s evidence-based approach, linked to historical context, deepens understanding of the trade in early printed books.Trade Review“An intellectual tour de force in the oeuvre of one of our most renowned book historians and incunabulists.” Carol M. Meale, in: The Book Collector, Vol. 67. No. 3 (Autumn 2018), pp. 600–603. “For the amount and quality of information provided, this book will be read by anyone who works with early printing. Yet all early modern historians will find it of interest, especially those involved with European cultural history. Young scholars might also use it as a handbook for the field’s methodology, reflected in the author’s works as well as those of the many scholars mentioned in this book.” Maria Alessandra Panzanelli Fratoni, University of Turin. In: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 73, No. 1 (Spring 2020), pp. 274–276. “Lotte Hellinga hoort tot de “top in het veld“. In deze bundel geeft Lotte Hellinga […] een helder beeld van de werkwijze van de incunabulistiek, de hogeschool onder de disciplines die de boekwetenschap uitmaken.” (Lotte Hellinga is among the “top in the field“. In this volume, Lotte Hellinga provides [...] a clear picture of the working method of incunabulistics, the honors college among the disciplines that make up book history.) Frans A. Janssen, in: De Boekenwereld, Vol. 34, No. 2 (2018), pp. 88–89.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Figures Abbreviations Introduction 1 Book Auctions in the Fifteenth Century 2 Advertising and Selling Books in the Fifteenth Century 3 Nicolas Jenson, Peter Schoeffer and the Development of Printing Types 4 Peter Schoeffer: Publisher and Bookseller 5 The Mainz Catholicon 1460–1470: An Experiment in Book Production and the Book Trade 6 Fragments Found in Bindings: The Complexity of Evidence for the Earliest Dutch Typography 7 Prelates in Print 8 William Caxton, Colard Mansion and the Printer in Type 1 9 Wynkyn de Worde’s Native Land 10 Aesopus Moralisatus, Antwerp, 1488 in England 11 An Early Eighteenth-century Sale of Mainz Incunabula by the Frankfurt Dominicans  in co-authorship with Margaret Nickson 12 A Caxton Tract-volume from Thomas Rawlinson’s Library  in co-authorship with Margaret Nickson 13 Buying Incunabula in Venice and Milan: The Bibliotheca Smithiana Index Colour Illustrations

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Book SynopsisThis book offers a comprehensive and accessible characterisation of the first-person shooter videogame genre. After providing an overview of the history of the first-person shooter videogame genre, Alberto Oya comments on the various defining peculiarities of this genre, namely the first-person perspective, the shooting gaming mechanics, the heroic in-game narrative or background story, and multiplayer gaming. Oya also argues that educators can use first-person shooter videogames to encourage their students to reflect on historical and philosophical issues.Table of ContentsList of Figures Preface Abstract Keywords  1 Introduction  2 History of the First-Person Shooter Videogame Genre  3 “First-Person” in First-Person Shooter Videogames  4 “Shooting” in First-Person Shooter Videogames  5 The Heroic Narrative in First-Person Shooter Videogames  6 Multiplayer Gaming in First-Person Shooter Videogames  7 How to Take Pedagogical Advantage of a First-Person Shooter Videogame  Conclusion  Index

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