This report examines Russia’s growing use of private military companies (PMCs) to increase its influence through irregular means. In recent years, Moscow has expanded its overseas use of PMCs to countries such as Ukraine, Syria, Libya, Sudan, the Central African Republic, Madagascar, and Mozambique. Many of the PMCs operating in these countries, such as the Wagner Group, frequently cooperate with the Russian government—including the Kremlin, Ministry of Defense (particularly the Main Intel...

In A Critical Companion to Wes Craven, contributors use a variety of theoretical frameworks to analyze distinct areas of Craven’s work, including ecology, auteurism, philosophy, queer studies, and trauma. This book covers both the successes and failures contained in Craven’s extensive filmography, ultimately revealing a variegated portrait of his career. Scholars of film studies, horror, and ecology will find this book particularly interesting.

This issue of Rheumatic Disease Clinics, guest edited by Drs. James Katz and Brian Walitt with the NIH, will cover several key aspects of diagnosing and treating Rheumatic Diseases in Older Adults. The Consulting Editor for the series is Dr. Michael Weisman. The topics discussed in the issue will include: Pharmacotherapy Pearls for the Geriatrician, Pathogenesis and Management of Sarcopenia, A Review of Osteoporosis in the Older Adult, Regional Rheumatic Disorders and Rehabilitation in Old...

This issue of Clinics in Geriatric Medicine, guest edited by Drs. James D. Katz and Brian Walitt of the NIH, is devoted to Rheumatic Diseases in Older Adults. Articles in this outstanding issue include Rheumatology Pharmacotherapy Pearls for the General Practitioner; Sarcopenia - Pathogenesis and Management; Osteoporosis and Metabolic Bone Diseases; Osteoarthritis; Regional Rheumatic Disorders and Rehabilitation in Older Adults; Rheumatological Manifestations of Malignancy; Sjögren’s Syndr...

Create lasting positive change in every area of life, from fitness to finance to family.In this empowering book, Eddie Miller shares his own personal process for creating and sustaining a happy, healthy, and purposeful life—and masterfully interweaves inspiring, hard-won wisdom from such national experts as:Brian Biro * Barbara De Angelis, PhD * Felice Dunas, PhD * Jane Greer, PhD * Jim Karas * Byron Katie * David Katz, MD * Lisa Nichols * Bob Proctor * Pau...

A transformational approach to conflict argues that conflicts must be viewed as embedded within broader relational patterns and social and discursive structures. Central to this book is the idea that the origins of transformation can be momentary, situational, and small-scale or large-scale and systemic. The momentary involves shifts and meaningful changes in communication and related patterns that are created in communication between people. Momentary transformative changes can radiate ou...

Peace and Conflict Studies (PCS) includes scholars and practitioners throughout the world working in peace studies, conflict analysis and resolution, conflict management, appropriate dispute resolution, and peace and justice studies. They come to the PCS field with a diversity of ideas, approaches, disciplinary roots, and topic areas, which speaks to the complexity, breadth, and depth needed to apply and take account of conflict dynamics and the goal of peace. Yet, a number of key concerns...

From the editors of Lost Signals comes the new volume in technological horror. Nineteen authors, both respected and new to the genre, team up to deliver a collection of terrifying, eclectic stories guaranteed to unsettle its readers. In Lost Films, a deranged group of lunatics hold an annual film festival, the lost series finale of The Simpsons corrupts a young boy’s sanity, and a VCR threatens to destroy reality. All of that and much more, with fiction from Brian Evenson, Gemma Files, Kel...

Das Spiel zwischen dem Trust und dessen Ex-Vollstrecker Agent Graves ist in vollem Gange. Die meisten Bauern sind vom Brett, und nun sind die Springer am Zug. Für die Häuser der Trust- Familien, wie für die ehemaligen Minutemen heißt es jetzt, Bündnisse zu festigen, Stellungen zu konsolidieren – und andere wichtige Figuren aufs Korn zu nehmen. Die Könige sind damit beschäftigt, sich aus dem Schach herauszuhalten, aber vielleicht bereiten sie unterdessen die Opferung ihrer Damen vor. Die Fr...

This collection contributes to the theoretical literature on social reproduction—defined by Marx as the necessary labor to arrive the next day at the factory gate—and extended by feminist geographers and others into complex understandings of the relationship between paid labor and the unpaid work of daily life. The volume explores new terrain in social reproduction with a focus on the challenges posed by evolving theories of embodiment and identity, nonhuman materialities, and diverse econ...

Katastrophe! Merlin hat seine Familie verloren. Sie haben die Raststätte verlassen, ohne zu merken, dass er nicht im Auto war. Und wenn es etwas gibt, ohne das Merlin sich sein Leben nicht vorstellen kann, sind es seine Menschen. Sofort rennt er dem Auto hinterher. Dummerweise ist es sehr viel schneller – und die Straße lebensgefährlich. Princess dagegen muss feststellen, dass ihre Familie sie an genau dieser Raststätte einfach ausgesetzt hat. Empörend, diese Menschen! Speziell die nervige...

Once a person hikes a long trail, they catch the bug, but does it get any easier the second time around? Four years after starting the Appalachian Trail with his brother, Brian takes to the Continental Divide Trail for his second thru-hike in familiar company. However, trail life is not always as rewarding and romantic as the pictures you see or second-hand stories you hear."Divided" provides an accurate account of life on trail: what hikers ponder, eat, love, loathe, and the questi...