Edited by Lucy Blue, John Cooper, Ross Thomas and Julian Whitewright. This book includes papers from the conference Connected Hinterlands (Proceedings of Red Sea Project IV) held at the University of Southampton in September 2008.

A hilarious and tough-minded guide to winning the war of contemporary life. The Chinese philosopher Sun Tzu taught that readiness is all, that knowledge of oneself and the enemy was the foundation of strength, and that those who fight best are those who are prepared and wise enough not to fight at all. Unfortunately, in the current day, this approach is pretty much horse hockey. Sun Tzu was a Sissy will transcend all those efforts and teach the reader how to make war, win, and enjoy the plunder in the real world, where those who do not kick, gouge ...

It is known that not less than a half of the aviation incidents which took place in recent years around the world, caused by human factors, that is pilot errors. For this reason, improvement of quality of performance of flight tasks on exercise machines leads to sharp decrease in probability of aviation incidents in flight operation of aircrafts. It is obvious that reduction of aviation incidents number because of pilots is one of the main ways increase in the integrated efficiency of training of the individual agent system ergatic flight control of aircraft. ...

In vielen Branchen hat sich der Bewerbermarkt auf Grund des demografischen Wandels deutlich verändert. Die Firmen bewerben sich zunehmend um Mitarbeitende und stehen in Konkurrenz zu anderen Arbeitgebern. Im Sozial- und Gesundheitswesen ist diese Entwicklung besonders spürbar. Gerade Unternehmen in kirchlicher Trägerschaft, z.B. in der Diakonie stehen vor der Frage, wie der zukünftige Fach- und Führungskräftebedarf gedeckt werden kann, wenn immer weniger junge Menschen dem Arbeitsmarkt zur Verfügung stehen und sich gleichzeitig ...

Right-wing conservative and card-carrying member of the Silent Majority, Francis Scott Key is the shirttail relative of the national anthem's author. A former SEAL and current venture capitalist in Menlo Park, California, Scotty becomes involved with Ali Woo, a beautiful NSA agent. Scotty becomes suspicious when a Berkley grad who developed a way to revolutionize mining goes missing, and localized earthquakes in Canada and Mexico kill their prime minister and president. He teams up with a Royal Canadian Mountie to discover if these natural disasters are ...

Este estudo objetivou analisar o processo de institucionalização do Uniform System of Accounts for the Lodging Industry (USALI) para Controle Gerencial em uma de rede hotéis brasileira. Para isso, os dados foram coletados por meio de entrevistas com o CIO, o Controller, o Gerente Financeiro, o Gerente Contábil e os Gerentes de todas as unidades hoteleiras da rede de hotéis em estudo. Os dados obtidos por meio das entrevistas foram triangulados com os documentos envolvidos neste processo de mudança. Com os resultados ...

CHILDREN'S DIFFICULTIES COULD BE ALLEVIATED and/or ELIMINATED PRIOR TO PRE-SCHOOL AGE. The number of children suffering developmental and learning difficulties is growing by the day. Developmental and Learning Difficulties are not generated in school instead, the child is born with it. This is the story of special toddlers, including my own child, that were able to overcome major difficulties while implementing my innovative model. Developmental and Learning Difficulties are detectable and treatable in infancy. The brain triples its weight during the first ...

"Nothing stays dead. Not the dogs. Not the voices. Not me." Seven Dark Stars is a new collection of horror fiction from the author of The Darkest Touch that looks to explore the glowing truth that burns hidden amidst the darkness in our lives. Inspired by the great horror authors of the past and present such as H.P. Lovecraft, Stephen King, and Harlan Ellison, this collection features the dark novella Grim: the story of Blake MacTire, a detective in the slums of Birmingham who's confronted by a killer that believes his dead mother is alive again at the bottom ...

She needs a place to live.  He has an empty room.  It's a perfect match in more ways than one.  "I'm not going to sleep with you." That's the first thing she ever said to him seven years ago. And he's never been able to let it go. From the day she turned him down, he's cemented his position as a playboy, never letting a woman get further than a meaningless hookup. Now, he's starting to wonder if she's the real reason why. If she's the one he wants. For good. The Thought of You: Falling for My Grumpy Roommate is a grumpy-sunshine ...

A radioterapia (RT) é o procedimento padrão e amplamente utilizado no tratamento de doentes com cancro da cabeça e do pescoço, com resultados bem sucedidos. Apesar do avanço das técnicas de radiação, este procedimento está frequentemente associado a um vasto leque de complicações orais, tais como cáries de radiação, perda de paladar, xerostomia, eritema, mucosite, trismo e osteorradionecrose, com um comprometimento significativo da qualidade de vida do doente. ...