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Discusses Internet protocol television (IPTV) and multimedia networks. This book points out the differences between this novel revolutionary technology and regular cable and satellite television services. It provides knowledge and design principles needed for the delivery of IPTV, along with examples from more than 25 technological companies.
One of the most popular offerings telecom companies now provide is the triple play, which consists of voice, video, and data, all from one company and with one bill. This book addresses the challenges and benefits of offering converged services and looks at how the new technology is affecting companies and customers.
Examining recent advances in both TV delivery and computing/networking technologies, this book explores profitable, successful next-generation TV offerings. The focus of this comprehensive report is on using advances in internet technologies and networking to deliver competitive, multichannel pay-TV services to customer TV sets.
This book explores the field of Sport for Development and Peace (SDP), putting Global South voices and perspectives at the centre of the analysis. Covering a wide range of thematic and methodological areas that inform existing and emerging discourses in SDP, it represents an unparalleled resource for researchers and practitioners working in this area. Arranged into geographical sections covering Africa, Asia, South America, North America and Oceania, the book presents original research in Global South countries or by Global South researchers and practitioners, sometimes in collaboration with colleagues from the Global North. It highlights practices and theories created, developed, interprete...
About the Contents: Introduction Forms and format of the ASVAB Taking the test Scoring FAQs Part I: ASVAB Diagnostic Test Part II: Subject Area Review General Science Arithmetic Reasoning Word Knowledge Paragraph Comprehension Auto and Shop Information Mathematics Knowledge Mechanical Comprehension Electronics Information Assembling Objects Part III: Four Full-Length Practice Tests Three ASVAB practice tests One AFQT practice test Complete answers and explanations for all questions Part IV: Military Career Opportunities Proven test-taking strategies Diagnostic test Focused reviews of all ASVAB subject areas 4 full-length practice tests, including an AFQT practice test
In the spring of 2004, army reservist and public affairs officer Steven J. Alvarez waited to be called up as the U.S. military stormed Baghdad and deposed Saddam Hussein. But soon after President Bush’s famous PR stunt in which an aircraft carrier displayed the banner “Mission Accomplished,” the dynamics of the war shifted. Selling War recounts how the U.S. military lost the information war in Iraq by engaging the wrong audiences—that is, the Western media—by ignoring Iraqi citizens and the wider Arab population, and by paying mere lip service to the directive to “Put an Iraqi face on everything.” In the absence of effective communication from the U.S. military, the information...
When the Israeli prime minister and the PLO chairman shook hands on the White House lawn in 1993, Israeli peace activists had good reason to celebrate this major step on the long road to peace.This book tells the story of the Israeli peace movement and the role it played in that pursuit of peace. It is an eloquent, fascinating account of a remarkably diverse and determined cast of activists: from war-weary soldiers to hard-headed politicians, careful scholars to impassioned artists.Drawing on his experience in the peace movement, Bar-On provides intimate portraits of groups like Peace Now, Yesh Gvul, and the Women in Black, he also provides a sweeping historical synthesis of the course of the Israeli-Arab conflict, especially between 1967 and 1993.