Following the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001, there has been a major worldwide focus on the threat of terrorism to trade, transportation and critical infrastructures. One area that has received particular attention is maritime trade and international shipping. The relative vulnerability of ports, ships, containers, and other maritime facilities worldwide combined with the importance of maritime trade to the global economy have resulted in several international and national measures to manage security risks in this area. This study examines in ...

". . . provides new information and excellent analyses." · Holocaust and Genocide Studies Among the many myths about the relationship of Nazism to the mass of the German population, few proved more powerful in postwar West Germany than the notion that the Wehrmacht had not been involved in the crimes of the Third Reich. Former generals were particularly effective in spreading, through memoirs and speeches, the legend that millions of German soldiers had fought an honest and "clean" war and that mass murder, especially in the East, was entirely the ...

À Paris, en 1907, un enlèvement est commis à l’Opéra durant un défilé de haute couture : la belle chanteuse Régine Aubry est conduite par deux individus dans une maison non identifiée où on la dépouille de son corselet de diamants. Puis elle est relâchée, sans sa parure évidemment, au grand dam du diamantaire véreux Van Houben qui avait conçu la robe. Quelque temps après, s’opère une étrange répétition des ...

Is your relationship with food sour? Or is it your relationship with yourself that's struggling? Eating your best life is as much, if not more, about you as it is about the food you eat. I'm here to empower you to make the changes you need in order for you to live, and eat, your best life. But don't be fooled. These are not recipes. These are life exercises that use food as a hands-on, visible object lesson. These food exercises reveal to you your fears, weaknesses, strengths, talents, and struggles. By seeing and embracing who you are, you will find ...

Who am I? What is real? How to decide? Imagine. Facing these basic questions and reflecting on them in light of the power of imagination is of the utmost importance in our cultural settings. Now that discerning between fact and fantasy, truth and lie, and trust and suspicion is harder than ever, knowing more about imagination and the role it plays in your story is crucial. Read this insightful and thought-provoking book to find out more about how your imagination helps you better understand God, the world, and yourself.

Food security is one of the hobbyhorse of the international community. When a crisis, natural, human or technological disaster arises, tons of food are transferred to needy populations. Food aid is the international sourcing of concessional resources in the form of, or for the provision of food. How does humanitarian food aid structure the North-South cooperation? The "Theory of the Gift", developed by the anthropologist Marcel Mauss and which can be summarized as "the obligation to give and the obligation to receive", helps understanding the dynamics of ...

Esteticheskoe vospitanie - deystvennoe sredstvo gumanisticheskogo formirovaniya lichnosti. Sushchnost' esteticheskogo opredelyaetsya, prezhde vsego, usileniem v cheloveke emotsional'nogo nachala, vedushchego k garmonizatsii luchshikh vozmozhnostey ego lichnosti, tak kak zhiznennye tsennosti, nravstvennye normy i pravila, proydya tol'ko cherez chuvstva, mogut stat' sobstvennymi tsennostyami i normami razvivayushcheysya lichnosti. Esteticheskoe vospitanie - organicheskaya chast' vsego uchebno-vospitatel'nogo protsessa. Analiz pedagogicheskikh i psikhologicheskikh ...

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A bestial face appears at windows in the night.  In the big white house on the hill angels are said to appear.  A forgotten tenant in an isolated building becomes addicted to milk.  A strange goddess is worshipped by a home-invading disciple.  The least remembered gods still haunt the oldest forests.  Cannibalism occurs in high society at the end of the world.  The sainted undead follow their prophet to the Great Dead Sea.  A confused and vengeful presence occupies the home of a first-time buyer . . .  In ...

Traditional systems development methodologies sometimes fall short in the new business environment. In response to this problem, so called "Agile" development methodologies have been developed and put to use. This book shows the advantages of combining the two approaches in the systems development projects. The book also presents the "Tragile" Framework, which applies both traditional and agile development practices to enhance the development process, emphasizing the human and contextual factors that are important to the information system development ...