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Offers an innovate approach to ethics and security, combining securitization theory and the just war tradition.
This book examines the way in which the concept of victory has been treated in just-war thinking, the predominant discourse in the western world for thinking about the rights and wrongs of war.
The private military industry has been growing rapidly since the end of the Cold War. The Morality of Private War uses normative political theory to assess the leading moral arguments for and against the use of private military and security companies.
Nova Bartkowski is back in a page-turning thriller from USA Today bestselling author Robert Swartwood. Remington, Montana. A small town in the middle of nowhere. A town, like any town, that has its secrets. Nova Bartkowski has come to Remington to confront his father. The man who walked out on Nova and Nova’s dying mother so many years ago. But before he gets the chance, Nova stops two men in the process of attacking his father … but not before one of those men knocks Nova’s father unconscious, putting him in the hospital. Suddenly, all eyes are on Nova. A target is on his back, and it’s not clear why. But the more Nova digs into Remington’s dark secrets, the more he begins to realize he’s stumbled onto a deadly conspiracy — one that he may not be able to survive. *Includes an excerpt from Robert's thriller The Killing Room, which was recently nominated for the International Thriller Writers Award.
Business Model Generation is a handbook for visionaries, game changers, and challengers striving to defy outmoded business models and design tomorrow's enterprises. If your organization needs to adapt to harsh new realities, but you don't yet have a strategy that will get you out in front of your competitors, you need Business Model Generation. Co-created by 470 "Business Model Canvas" practitioners from 45 countries, the book features a beautiful, highly visual, 4-color design that takes powerful strategic ideas and tools, and makes them easy to implement in your organization. It explains the most common Business Model patterns, based on concepts from leading business thinkers, and helps yo...
Published in 1989, The Modern North examines the experience of the peoples of the Yukon and Northwest Territories from the Berger inquiry of 1975 and onwards. Untangling the varied strands that make up the Northern tapestry--its resourceful peoples, its awesome physical landscape, its political and economic agenda in the late 1980s--they portray in vivid colours a society struggling to cast off the chains of colonialism and define its own future. The Modern North offers a sensitive assessment of the people and forces shaping the Yukon and Northwest Territories in the 1980s.
"An action adventure about the climb of Africa's tallest mountain, Mount Kilimanjaro, by a 60-year-old man and his son and their subsequent efforts to raise money for the children and women of Tanzania, Africa."--
This edited book explores the use of technology to enable us to visualise the life sciences in a more meaningful and engaging way. It will enable those interested in visualisation techniques to gain a better understanding of the applications that can be used in visualisation, imaging and analysis, education, engagement and training. The reader will be able to explore the utilisation of technologies from a number of fields to enable an engaging and meaningful visual representation of the biomedical sciences. This use of technology-enhanced learning will be of benefit for the learner, trainer and faculty, in patient care and the wider field of education and engagement. This second volume on Bi...
The book describes and explains the Earth's magnetic field, its historical importance, and various ways in which geomagnetism is used, including the analysis of modern satellite-based investigations.