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In this book, contributors from both sides of the Atlantic examine several key themes in the increasingly important subject of counter-insurgency. It assesses the lessons that contemporary policy makers and military practitioners can draw from historical and more recent experience.

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An inciteful story of two marriage relationships where one of the spouses has ideals and dreams that prevent love. This is the book for wives who live with husbands who fixate on being on time and who "just don't get it." When Being Right is Wrong is "the best way to get my stubborn husband to understand what I've been trying to tell him our entire marriage!" This is also the best book for husbands whose wives are always trying to change them ...

The Leader's Guide to Quality in America provides information on the basics of the total quality approach, Statistical Process Control, and Lean Manufacturing concepts, and perhaps serves to dispel some misconceptions as well. This is a straight forward, no nonsense approach to what it takes to internalize and adopt the quality philosophy necessary to thrive in worldwide competition or to gain a competitive edge over the service business down ...

Readers will learn a valuable lesson through this biography, that some young heroes leave this world far too soon, but not without carving out a place of remembrance in our hearts, and not without creating the change they sought for their causes. Mattie wanted to be remembered as "a poet, a peacemaker, and a philosopher who played." Before his death, he had become known as a peace advocate and motivational speaker. His three older siblings die...

A catastrophe has impacted Earth. Much of the world is in ruins. People across the globe are trying to stay alive. As the world as we know it falls apart and disappears into the past, a group of teenagers find themselves thrown into the biggest challenge yet of their lives. Can they live in a world that is alien to them? Seen from the eyes of one of these valiant teens, follow their strife and journey through what future historians will eventu...

Dr. Hillel's new textbook conveys fundamental knowledge regarding the role of the soil as a central link in the chain of domains and processes comprising the terrestrial environment, a topic that must be an essential component of every curriculum in the environmental sciences-- including soil science, ecology, forestry, hydrology, geophysics, and geography. Dr. Hillel brilliantly reveals how the soil interacts dynamically with the atmosphere a...

SEIZING THE ESSENCE is about the dynamics of Value that form man¿s concept of reality. Human beings don't just passively experience the things and events that represent this journey through life, they construct them intellectually from the sense of value that is intrinsic to all cognizant individuals. We don't simply enjoy the finer things in life, we aspire to them, and when awed by the experience of great beauty or magnificence, we want to i...

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Het hart en de bloedvaten zijn de belangrijkste oorzaak van mortaliteit en morbiditeit in de westerse wereld. Wereldwijd worden dagelijks echter ook duizenden mensenlevens gered door bijvoorbeeld een katheterinterventie of chirurgische ingreep. Dit maakt de cardiovasculaire geneeskunde tot een veelomvattend specialisme, waarin de ontwikkelingen elkaar snel opvolgen. Deze tweede druk van het standaardwerk Cardiologie is daarom geheel herzien en...

First Published in 2007. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Examines of the interplay between urbanization, language variation and language change in fifteen major Arab cities. This book investigates topics such as: history of settlement, the linguistic impact of migration, the emergence of urban vernaculars, dialect convergence and divergence, and, code-switching, youth language and urban culture.

Friendship and politics are commonly viewed as distinct and mutually opposed concerns. This book looks at the place of friendship in politics by connecting theoretical questions to empirical answers.

First Published in 2008. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Presents an introduction and overview to the established principles and thinking in cultural heritage management. Featuring geographically and thematically diverse case studies, this title examines the theoretical framework for heritage resource management.

Written by experts in the field, this book addresses theoretical, formal, and pragmatic issues of geographic knowledge representation and integration based on an ontological approach. The first section sets the context by emphasizing the importance of philosophical, cognitive, and formal theories in preserving the semantics of geographic concepts during ontology development and integration. Section two exhausts all theoretical issues related t...

Exploring recent developments in parallel computing, this handbook provides an up-to-date assessment of the models and algorithms involved in applying parallel computing to a variety of fields, from computational biology to wireless networking.

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Now more than ever, understanding the nature of aggression is crucial to our understanding of individual and social ills produced by the accumulation in humans of hostile destructiveness. The Development of Aggression in Early Childhood, first published in 1979, is here reissued in a revised edition because the author's "multi-trends theory of aggression" and its clinical and social applications have held up cogently and productively for nearl...