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This book allows the reader to develop a conceptual understanding of the legal foundations of homeland security and emergency management (HSEM) by presenting the law and policy documents we have established to address "all hazards, " both terrorism and natural disasters. These are the primary sources! The book demonstrates that HSEM involves many specialties and that it must be viewed expansively and in the long-term. One of the special featur...

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A would-be politician escapes from hitmen to a mysterious island off the coast of Australia where he starts growing the legend of Mad Bill. He is joined by a cast of quirky visitors over the duration of this bundle of three comedic novels. He also has to open his repurposed home to rubber ducks washed off a passing freighter. And rabbits join the party. Lots of rabbits. Mad Bill doesn't care about the island's origins, but others do. Especiall...

When someone threatens to demolish the town's historic cafe, it's time to take sides. The proposed replacement is an ugly commercial building that would tower over Windy Mountain. More crazy mystery than cozy mystery, the quirkiness of this funny series goes to a new level when a Tiger Shark surfaces. Tasmanian Tigers make their customary almost appearance, too! The three old men are at each other's throats yet again, this time over the propos...

WHEN A STRANGE helicopter starts buzzing the shearing shed where he is housing 12 illegal immigrants, Major Jeremy Billycock-Smythe jumps to conclusions. Nothing new about that for this misogynistic, racist and clueless Englishman If Major B.S. didn't jump to wrong conclusions, he would never have accidentally have brought the illegal immigrants into the country in the first place! This is a jagged satirical novel that drips with black humour ...

Major B.S. will just have to find out the hard way about the mysterious thing the British were doing on Mad Bill's Island in World War 2. Not that he cares. All he wants in this black comedy is to get off the island he was so keen to get to. This novella wraps up the Funny Capers DownUnder series. Guess who makes a surprise appearance? They would have known he was still alive if they had licked him!

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When Richard Schickel stated unequivocally in 1972 that "We're living in a Hitchcock world, all right", he did so without even mentioning the film that now stands at the top of the Sight & Sound Greatest Films of All Time poll: Vertigo. That omission needs to be redressed when we think about the Hitchcock world we live in now. Haunted by Vertigo: Hitchcock's Masterpiece Then and Now gathers essays that offer a variety of approaches to what man...

Success in an experimental science such as chemistry depends on good laboratory practice, a knowledge of basic techniques, and the intelligent and careful handling of chemicals. Practical Organic Synthesis is a concise, useful guide to good laboratory practice in the organic chemistry lab with hints and tips on successful organic synthesis. Topics covered include: * safety in the laboratory * environmentally responsible handling of chemicals ...

99 astreine Utopien für Deutschland. »Unser Kernauftrag ist es, komische Kritik zu üben, junge Menschen zu politisieren, die (verfickte) AfD zu ärgern und schließlich: Grüne, Linke und SPD mit Utopien zu konfrontieren, zur Not mit ihren eigenen.« (Martin Sonneborn, SPIEGEL im Februar 2021) Das utopische Bewusstsein, die Fähigkeit, »einfach das Ganze sich vorzustellen als etwas, was völlig anders sein könnte« (T. Willibald Adorno) ist aus de...

Rule of the Robots explores the future implications of artificial intelligence as a uniquely scalable and potentially disruptive technology.

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Over roughly the past decade, the field of artificial intelligence has taken a revolutionary leap forward and is beginning to deliver practical applications that are already transforming the world around us, The primary accelerant of this progress has been "deep learning"-a machine learning technique based on the use of multi-layered artificial neural networks of the kind employed by the researchers at Stanford, The basic principles of deep ne...

NOBODY TOLD the three oldest men in town that hitmen and Tasmanian Tigers were going into lockdown with them!Former mayor James Northan, 82, isn't on speaking terms with former town drunk Wish-Wash, 83, and he barely tolerates his former employee Clarence Noodle, 85. What's more, he doesn't even believe the pandemic is actually happening.So when they are asked to share a house together for three months to keep them safe, what could possibly go...

Originally published: Frankfurt am Main: Klostermann, 2010.

NATO, the most successful alliance in history, is beset by unresolved tensions and divergent interests that are undermining its cohesion, credibility and capability. In this new book, Mark Webber, James Sperling and Martin Smith explore four key post-Cold War developments that threaten NATO's survival: an overextended geostrategic reach and an unwieldly security policy portfolio, a failure to address capability short-falls and meet defence sp...

A penetrating diagnostic of the world's most powerful military alliance"--

This exceptional collection draws on the most recent demographic data and combines classic research with cutting-edge approaches to provide an invaluable overview of the developmental psychology of the adult years. * Covers a wide range of topics within adult development and aging, from theoretical perspectives to specific content areas * Includes newly commissioned essays from the top researchers in the field * Takes a biopsychosocial perspec...