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Book War Secrets in the Ether

Download or read book War Secrets in the Ether written by Wilhelm F. Flicke and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The story of German 'code-breaking' successes and radio-espionage during and between the world wars"--Cover.

Book Arctic Biodiversity Assessment

Download or read book Arctic Biodiversity Assessment written by Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Preventing Genocide in Burundi

Download or read book Preventing Genocide in Burundi written by Stephen R. Weissman and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1993, interethnic violence between the 15 to 20 percent Tutsi minority and the 80 to 85 percent Hutu majority in Burundi has taken an estimated 150,000 lives. The continuation of the conflict helps place tens of millions of people at risk in Central Africa and erodes the international norm against genocide. Despite considerable time and effort, the world's peacemakers have been unable to stop the bloodshed and facilitate a political settlement. An examination of the international response to the crisis furnishes valuable lessons for peacemaking in Burundi and other areas of genocidal conflict. A long-term political settlement that took adequate account of Burundian history and circumstances would have three basic characteristics: (1) a form of democratic power sharing that was more majoritarian than consociational but provided significant protection for minority security and economic interests; (2) measures to address collective fears and memories of genocide by acknowledging past crimes and fixing individual responsibility for them; and (3) impartial outside military forces sufficient to control the Burundian military until it is reformed and ethnically integrated. However, as the democratization and power-sharing movements of the early 1990s indicated, a settlement is unlikely to develop without substantial international pressure and assistance. The lesson of these movements' tragic demise is that outside carrots and sticks must be focused on obtaining the engagement of all important parties, especially the powerful extremists, in compromise political negotiations.

Book The Perfect Storm

Download or read book The Perfect Storm written by Johan F. M. Swinnen and published by CEPS. This book was released on 2008 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For decades, the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) of the European Union survived many attempts to abolish it, and it acquired a reputation for being virtually impossible to reform in any meaningful way. Finally, during the tenure of Franz Fischler as European Commissioner for Agriculture from 1995 to 2004, the most radical reform in the policy's history was implemented. Defying the skepticism of friends and foes, Fischler managed to fundamentally transform the nature of the CAP. This book is the first to review the reforms that were implemented, to analyze how they came about, and to explain which forces made them possible. It brings together perspectives from inside and outside the policy community, including from those closely involved in the policy debates, and an interdisciplinary perspective from economists and political scientists. The authors are senior policymakers and well-respected academics. Contributors include Christophe Crombez (University of Leuven and Stanford University), Wyn Grant (University ofWarwick), Christian H.C.A. Henning (University of Kiel), Tim Josling (Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and Stanford University), Rolf Moehler (formerly of the Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural Development of the European Commission), Alessandro Olper (University of Milan), Corrado Pirzio-Biroli (RISE Foundation), Jan Pokrivcak (Slovak Agricultural University), and Barbara Syrrakos (New School for Social Research).

Book Health Systems Governance in Europe

Download or read book Health Systems Governance in Europe written by Elias Mossialos and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-03-25 with total page 785 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Health system governance in Europe : the role of European Union law and policy / Elias Mossialos ... [et al.] -- Health care and the EU : the law and policy patchwork / Tamara Hervey and Bart Vanhercke -- EU regulatory agencies and health protection / Govin Permanand and Ellen Vos -- The hard politics of soft law : the case of health / Scott L. Greer and Bart Vanhercke -- Public health policies / Martin McKee, Tamara Hervey and Anna Gilmore -- Fundamental rights and health care / Jean McHale -- EU competition law and public services / Tony Prosser -- EU competition law and health policy / Julia Lear, Elias Mossialos and Beatrix Karl -- Public procurement and state aid in national health care systems / Vassilis Hatzopoulos --Private health insurance and the internal market / Sarah Thomson and Elias Mossialos -- Free movement of services in the EU and health care / Wouter Gekiere, Rita Baeten and Willy Palm -- Enabling patient mobility in the EU : between free movement and coordination / Willy Palm and Irene A. Glinos -- The EU legal network on e-health / Stefaan Callens -- EU law and health professionals / Miek Peeters, Martin McKee and Sherry Merkur -- The EU pharmaceuticals market : parameters and pathways / Leigh Hancher

Book Tina Sambal Songs and Poems

Download or read book Tina Sambal Songs and Poems written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An Agenda for a Growing Europe

Download or read book An Agenda for a Growing Europe written by André Sapir and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2004 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the report of a high-level group commissioned by the President of the European Commission to review the EU economic system and propose a blueprint for an economic system capable of delivering faster growth along with stability and cohesion.

Book Film Criticism in the Digital Age

Download or read book Film Criticism in the Digital Age written by Mattias Frey and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-20 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past decade, as digital media has expanded and print outlets have declined, pundits have bemoaned a “crisis of criticism” and mourned the “death of the critic.” Now that well-paying jobs in film criticism have largely evaporated, while blogs, message boards, and social media have given new meaning to the saying that “everyone’s a critic,” urgent questions have emerged about the status and purpose of film criticism in the twenty-first century. In Film Criticism in the Digital Age, ten scholars from across the globe come together to consider whether we are witnessing the extinction of serious film criticism or seeing the start of its rebirth in a new form. Drawing from a wide variety of case studies and methodological perspectives, the book’s contributors find many signs of the film critic’s declining clout, but they also locate surprising examples of how critics—whether moonlighting bloggers or salaried writers—have been able to intervene in current popular discourse about arts and culture. In addition to collecting a plethora of scholarly perspectives, Film Criticism in the Digital Age includes statements from key bloggers and print critics, like Armond White and Nick James. Neither an uncritical celebration of digital culture nor a jeremiad against it, this anthology offers a comprehensive look at the challenges and possibilities that the Internet brings to the evaluation, promotion, and explanation of artistic works.

Book The Control Revolution

Download or read book The Control Revolution written by James R. Beniger and published by Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1986-09-12 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beniger traces the origin of the Information Society to major economic and business crises of the 1800s. Inevitably the Industrial Revolution, with its ballooning use of energy to drive material processes, required a corresponding growth in the exploitation of information.

Book The Yindjibarndi Language

Download or read book The Yindjibarndi Language written by Frank J. F. Wordick and published by Department of Linguistics Research School of Pacific. This book was released on 1982 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Background, phonology, morphology, syntax, texts nonsacred and sacred, dictionary Y-E.

Book Voyage of The Legacy

    Book Details:
  • Author : Linda Scott
  • Publisher : BookRix
  • Release : 2012-07-20
  • ISBN : 3955000044
  • Pages : 298 pages

Download or read book Voyage of The Legacy written by Linda Scott and published by BookRix. This book was released on 2012-07-20 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: United Federation of Earth had plans to send colony ships to the stars, many were under construction. One such ship was the Legacy. It was built at one-quarter scale however it was still a huge ship. It mirrored the larger ships in every way; its purpose was to test out a new Warp Core. It was capable of traveling eight times the speed of light. The Legacy would test the Warp Core, Bio-garden and Medical Units to full capacity and beyond. They would test the Cryogenic Sleep Chamber, and the special healing Medic Units, which were designed for major injuries and illnesses. These healing units could heal the body through a cryogenic type sleep. Instead of freezing the patient they were put.

Book Globalisation and Labour Struggle in Asia

Download or read book Globalisation and Labour Struggle in Asia written by Phoebe Moore and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2007-06-29 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How has South Korea's development influenced and been influenced by world events? What light can it shed on the way that international struggles for hegemony affect local environments? Phoebe Moore seeks to address these questions critically, from the perspective of International Political Economics, and so provides important insight into one of the fastest growing Asian economies. She examines the neo-Gramscian school theories – that world history reveals specific periods of hegemonic stability, such as during the post World War II period of 'Pax Americana' – and refutes this position through an original account of Korean development. Instead, she observes that all economic development in this country has been carried out through 'passive revolution' driven by an elite, frequently supported by external forces, against the will of a large part of the population, namely the working classes. Moore draws out the relationships between socio-economic change, passive revolution, hegemony struggles and global politics, making this a key resource for Asian political economics, labour relations and international politics.

Book On a Method of Multiprogramming

Download or read book On a Method of Multiprogramming written by W.H.J. Feijen and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1999-06-11 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here, the authors propose a method for the formal development of parallel programs - or multiprograms as they prefer to call them. They accomplish this with a minimum of formal gear, i.e. with the predicate calculus and the well- established theory of Owicki and Gries. They show that the Owicki/Gries theory can be effectively put to work for the formal development of multiprograms, regardless of whether these algorithms are distributed or not.

Book This Moment on Earth

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Kerry
  • Publisher : Kai Chuang
  • Release : 2007-08-05
  • ISBN : 1586486020
  • Pages : 6 pages

Download or read book This Moment on Earth written by John Kerry and published by Kai Chuang. This book was released on 2007-08-05 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inspiring celebration of courageous American innovators who are transforming the way we protect and care for the world we live in

Book The Poetic Conventions of Tina Sambal

Download or read book The Poetic Conventions of Tina Sambal written by Hella Eleonore Goschnick and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: this study, an analysis of poetry in Tina Sambal, a Philippine language spoken by about 70,000 persons in northern Zambales province, looks at the characteristics of the different poetic genres and poetic conventions followed in writing songs and poems. Primary emphasis is on phonological restrictions, grammatical liberties, and semantic embellishments. The first chapter describes Tina Sambal poetic genres and their use, focusing on the changing use of songs and poems, 11 specific song types (religious poetry, hortatory songs, life-story songs, entertaining songs, comical songs, compositions for special occasions, poems, serenading and caroling songs, courting songs, love letters, and sad love songs), functions of Tina Sambal songs and poems, traditional singing customs, and comparison with other Philippine languages. The second chapter examines the Tina Sambal poetic conventions, and the third chapter offers a brief conclusion. A separate section--and the longest in the book--consists of a "Chrestomathy" containing typical Tina Sambal poems and songs and an excerpt from one Tina Sambal Passion, each with an introduction and free translation, grouped according to genre. Appended materials include notes on typical features of Tina Sambal orthography and grammar; terms relating to poetry and song; esoteric words used; an index of authors, singers, and contributors; transcriptions of song melodies; and a list of available recorded songs. A glossary of technical terms and a list of references are also included. (MSE)

Book A Concordance to Conrad s The Rescue

Download or read book A Concordance to Conrad s The Rescue written by Todd K. Bender and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-04-27 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1985, this concordance lists all the words in the text indexed, along with the locations of their appearance in the Field of Reference. The Verbal Index lists the location of the context of each word in the Field of Reference. There is also a table listing alphabetically all words employed in the text and giving their frequency of occurrence. This volume is part of a series which produced verbal indexes, concordances, and related data for all of Conrad’s works.

Book The Maps of Memory

    Book Details:
  • Author : Marjorie Agosin
  • Publisher : Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books
  • Release : 2020-09-22
  • ISBN : 1481469010
  • Pages : 368 pages

Download or read book The Maps of Memory written by Marjorie Agosin and published by Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this inspiring sequel to the Pura Belpré Award–winning, “dazzling and insightful” (BCCB) I Lived on Butterfly Hill, thirteen-year-old Celeste Marconi returns home to a very different Chile and makes it her mission to rebuild her community, and find those who are still missing. During Celeste Marconi’s time in Maine, thoughts of the brightly colored cafes and salty air of Valparaíso, Chile, carried her through difficult, homesick days. Now, she’s finally returned home to find the dictatorship has left its mark on her once beautiful and vibrant community. Celeste is determined to help her beloved Butterfly Hill get back to the way it was and to encourage her neighbors to fight to regain what they’ve lost. More than anything, Celeste wishes she could bring back her best friend, Lucilla, who was one of many to disappear during the dictatorship. Celeste tries to piece together what happened, but it all seems too big to fix—until she receives a letter that changes everything. When Celeste sets off on her biggest adventure yet, she’ll uncover more heartbreaking truths of what her country has endured. But every small victory makes a difference, and even if Butterfly Hill can never be what it was, moving forward and healing can make it something even better.