In an absorbing mixture of poignant biography and wonderfully entertaining social history, Daughters of Britannia offers the story of diplomatic life as it has never been told before. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Vita Sackville-West, and Lady Diana Cooper are among the well-known wives of diplomats who represented Britain in the far-flung corners of the globe. Yet, despite serving such crucial roles, the vast majority of these women are entirely unknown to history. Drawing on letters, private journals, and memoirs, as well as contemporary oral history ...

Die Analyse des Surfverhaltens von Kunden ist der wichtigste Aspekt des modernen elektronischen Einzelhandels. Sie konzentriert sich auf die Verfolgung und das Verständnis der feinsten Details der Online-Aktivitäten des Kunden. Je mehr Informationen ein Online-Shop über den Kunden hat, desto besser kann er ihn bedienen. Obwohl das Produkt das primäre Element ist, für das jede Transaktion stattfindet, ist es der Kunde, der den gesamten Einzelhandel antreibt. Dies bringt eine Reihe von Herausforderungen mit sich, wenn es darum geht ...

Slaughterhouse Blues  catches up with Bill and Fiona, the chattery and gun-happy anti-heroes of  A Brutal Bunch of Heartbroken Saps , soon after they've escaped the Rockaway Mob, the criminal enterprise from which Bill "borrowed" several million dollars. Holed up in Havana, Bill and Fiona know the Mob is coming for them-it's just a question of time. But they're not prepared for who the Mob sends: a pair of assassins so utterly amoral and demented, their behavior pushes the boundaries of sanity. Seriously, what kind of killers pause in ...

Schon seit Mitte der Siebziger Jahre des vergangenen Jahrhunderts spielte für den Basler Ausschuss für Bankenaufsicht die bessere Regulierung des Bankgeschäftes eine bedeutende Rolle. Diese Arbeit hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, die aktuellen Vorschriften nach BASEL II sowie die geplanten Neuerungen durch BASEL III speziell im Zusammenhang mit dem Raiffeisensektor in der Steiermark darzustellen. Eingegangen wird dabei auf die geschichtliche Entwicklung dieser bankaufsichtsrechtlichen Vorgaben sowie auf die Vorschriften nach BASEL II, wobei als Zusammenfassung ...

It is not too much to say that today no daily newspaper in any large American city dares to attack the emoluments of the Catholic Church, or to advocate restrictions upon the ecclesiastical machine. -from "Holy History" Few readers have not heard of Upton Sinclair's 1906 book The Jungle, his fictionalized account of Chicago's meatpacking industry, which set in motion dramatic social and governmental changes and highlighted the power of investigative journalism. But his 1918 book The Profits of Religion, a viciously witty censure of religious institutions ...

This book includes about concept of cerified email.there are three approaches online ,Inline,and offline TTP.In this book, three protocols for secure e-mail that protects both the sender and the receiver, and can be implemented using current e- mail products and existing Internet infrastructure is proposed.First an optimistic approach is applied, that make use of a trusted third party(TTP) but in an optimistic way,TTP is involved only in case of dispute, which is expected to be a rare event. Second, Inline protocols which employ a trusted third party ...

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'Totem and Taboo' began life as four separate essays published by Sigmund Freud between 1912 and 1913. Freud was struck by the strong parallels between the behavior of neurotics, children and pre-literate tribal peoples (which he termed 'primitives'), and boldly extended his psycho-analytic theories into the fields of social psychology and anthropology. His belief that humanity's distant past was moulded by the deepest urges of the human psyche led him to propose an astonishing theory which brought together such disparate concepts as ...

Dans cet ouvrage nous avons étudié en profondeur le processus que nécessite la vente en porte en porte, en termes de négociation mais également de présentation, de préparation et enfin de technique de persuasion. Ainsi non seulement nous avons décortiqué la meilleure façon de vendre mais nous avons également expliqué quels en sont les facteurs et les bienfaits de démarcher de cette manière. Voici ce que l'on explique, l'étude de la vente en porte à ...