Best Selling Books by David Arnold

This text strikes a balance between the traditional and the modern. It combines the traditional material with a modern systems emphasis, offering flexibility of use that should allow faculty at a variety of institutions to use the book.

Focusing on developments in the Madras presidency between the Rebellion of 1857-58 and independence 90 years later, this book studies the creation of a British constabulary in India as a powerful coercive tool of British colonialism. The author targets the use of police force against dacoits, nationalists, adivasi hillmen, and urban proletariats, and reveals, through the organization and social composition of the constabulary, how internally as well as externally, the police force mirrored the underlying character of the colonial system as a whole.

Offers a new interpretation of the history of colonial India and a critical contribution to the understanding of environmental history and the tropical world. Arnold considers the ways in which India’s material environment became increasingly subject to the colonial understanding of landscape and nature, and to the scientific scrutiny of itinerant naturalists.

This book considers how nature - in both its biological and environmental manifestations - has been invoked as a dynamic force in human history. It shows how historians, philosophers, geographers, anthropologists and scientists have used ideas of nature to explain the evolution of cultures, to understand cultural difference, and to justify or condemn colonization, slavery and racial superiority. It examines the central part that ideas of environmental and biological determinism have played in theory, and describes how these ideas have served in different ways at different times as instruments of authority, identity and defiance. The book shows how powerful and problematic the invocation of nature can be.

Significant variations in the 72 to 200 kilo electron volts gamma ray energy interval were recorded, providing a unique data base for very low energy gamma ray astronomy. Interpretation of the variation observed in terms of sources in the gamma ray sky was studied. The methods of data analysis extend the procedures used in hard X-ray and soft gamma ray astronomy to the case of an extremely large field of view. Exposures were calculated for both point sources and extended sources. A system of equations was established which expresses the counting rate as the sum of the strength of the sources weighted by the exposure. This system was inverted by a weighted-least-squares procedure to determine the source fluxes from the observed counting rates.

As is typical of African languages, there is little published material on Kimatuumbi, a Bantu language spoken in Tanzania. Apart from Professor Odden''s own theoretically-oriented papers the only existing primary description of the language is Krumm''s Grundriss einer Grammatik des Kimatubi (1912) which lacks any discussion of two of the most interesting and complex phonological properties of the language - vowel length and tone. The descriptive account of these properties and of rule interaction in Kimatuumbi phonology bears on a number of important theoretical issues including theories of interaction between phonology and syntax, lexical phonology, the geometric representation of vowel features, and the theory of prosodic representations. This study both broadens our understanding of the structure of African languages and provides data which are crucial for resolving certain questions in contemporary phonology theory.

Because of concerns about the environment, many growers are trying to reduce their reliance on chemical pesticides. This method of using natural means is called integrated pest management (IPM). This handbook describes beneficial flies, wasps, beetles, true bugs, lacewings and mites found on strawberry and raspberry crops, as well as other predators and the common insect pests.

Love and War tells the tale of British Naval Officer Warwick Hursey through an emotional and graphic portrait of the naval theatre during World War II. Receiving rapid wartime promotion from Junior Officer to Commander with heroic accomplishments in battle, Warwick navigates not only his ship but the passions of the heart as well. His lifelong love of an innkeeper named Sarah fuels a complicated romance. As the war escalates Warwick must fight to save both his country and his love. Will he have the resolve to lead his crew and his heart to victory?