Understanding International Law through Moot Courts: Genocide, Torture, Habeas Corpus, Chemical Weapons, and the Responsibility to Protect consists of five sets of opposing legal briefs and judge’s decisions for five moot court cases held before the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court. Each moot court brief included in the book addresses contemporary controversies in international affairs; issues ranging from the application of the newly emerging Responsibil...

Mitreißend und fast thrillerhaft erzählt Tim Weiner von den Machenschaften der CIA im 21. Jahrhundert.Der 11. September 2001 veränderte die CIA grundlegend. Aus dem Geheimdienst, der seine Kernaufgaben – Spionage und Spionageabwehr – nach dem Kalten Krieg so gut wie aufgegeben hatte, wurde eine Organisation, die Foltergefängnisse baute und tödliche Drohnenangriffe durchführte. Die Folgen waren grav...

Jonathan Hoag has a curious problem. Every evening, he finds a mysterious reddish substance under his fingernails, with no memory of how it got there. Jonathan hires the husband-and-wife detective team of Ted and Cynthia Randall to follow him during the day and find out, but Ted and Cynthia find themselves instantly out of their depth. Jonathan leaves no fingerprints. His few memories about his profession turn out to be false. Even stranger, Ted and Cynthia’s own memories of what happens d...

Robert A. Heinlein has written some of the bestselling science fiction novels of all time, including the beloved classic Stranger in a Strange Land. Now, in The Cat Who Walks through Walls, he creates his most compelling character ever: Dr. Richard Ames, ex-military man, sometime writer, and unfortunate victim of mistaken identity.When a stranger attempting to deliver a cryptic message is shot dead at his dinner table, Ames is thrown headfirst into danger, intrigu...

Following the success of their Locus Award–winning anthology The New Space Opera, editors Gardner Dozois and Jonathan Strahan up the ante with The New Space Opera 2, in which more of the most beloved names in science fiction spin stunning tales of interstellar adventure and wonder. Authors include:Neal AsherJohn BarnesCory DoctorowJohn KesselJay LakeJohn MeaneyElizabeth MoonGarth NixMike ResnickJustina RobsonKristine Kathryn RuschJohn ScalziBruce SterlingPeter Wat...

"Personne ne nous a ouvert les portes de la CIA comme l'a fait Tim Weiner. La Mission mérite de lui valoir un deuxième Pulitzer. " The GuardianDepuis sa création en pleine Guerre froide jusqu'aux conflits les plus brûlants du XXIe siècle, la CIA n'a cessé de façonner –; et parfois d'enflammer –; le destin du monde. Dans La Mission, le prix Pulitzer Tim Weiner dévoile les dessous explosifs de cette agence mythique, entre idéalisme patriotique, manipulations ...

This contemporary oral history, based on interviews conducted over an 18-year period, is the first of its kind in English. The interviews, some repeated with the same subjects over years, demonstrate how the Jewish community of Dijon has evolved over time in response to challenges both internal and external.The authors provide an introduction to the series of interviews as well as a detailed history of the community. A chronology, a map of Dijon, and photos of many interviewees are...

Hugh Farnham is a practical, self-made man, and when he sees the clouds of nuclear war gathering, he builds a bomb shelter under his house, hoping for peace and preparing for war. But when the apocalypse comes, something happens that he did not expect. A thermonuclear blast tears apart the fabric of time and hurls his shelter into a world with no sign of other human beings.Farnham and his family have barely settled down to the backbreaking business of low-tech survival when they fi...

Master the art of predictive modeling with XGBoost and gain hands-on experience in building powerful regression, classification, and time series models using the XGBoost Python APIKey FeaturesGet up and running with this quick-start guide to building a classifier using XGBoostGet an easy-to-follow, in-depth explanation of the XGBoost technical paperLeverage XGBoost for time series forecasting by using moving average, frequency, and window metho...

The wickedest, most wonderful science fiction story ever created in our—or any—timeAnything can begin at a party in California—and everything does in this bold masterwork by a grand master of science fiction.When four supremely sensual and unspeakably cerebral humans—two male, two female—find themselves under attack from aliens who want their awesome quantum breakthrough, they take to the skies—and zoom into the cosmos on a rocket roller-coaster ride of adventure, danger, e...

Generations of clinicians have valued Principles of Psychotherapy for its breadth of coverage and accessibility and the author's ability to gather many elements into a unified presentation. The Third Edition presents the conceptual and empirical foundations of evidence-based practice perspectives of psychodynamic theory. It also offers case examples illustrating what a therapist might say and do in various circumstances. In addition, it includes discussion of broader psychodynamic perspect...

Was he a spy, assassin, or just a gigolo? Porfirio Rubirosa mingled with kings, dined with princes, and socialized with presidents, dictators, mobsters, and movie stars. In the wake of his frenzied activities, he left screaming headlines, hundreds of one-night stands, multiple divorces from the world’s richest women—including one who paid $66,000 a day for her dalliance—and more than 500 pages of secret FBI documents.Now, for the first time, the true story of the world’s most famou...