Élite Warriors: le Forze Speciali nel Mondo è l'ultimo libro del Centre for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies (CAST), un think tank con sede a Mosca focalizzato su questioni militari e di sicurezza. Raccogliendo una serie di studi di importanti analisti sia militari che della sicurezza, questo saggio offre una valutazione dettagliata dell'organizzazione e delle capacità di una selezione di Forze Operative Speciali provenienti da tutto il Mondo. Esso include Paesi tra i quali Cina, Ir...

Procurers and contractors increasingly need practical guidance for the strategic procurement of building services. Clients seeking to improve the delivery performance of the construction industry are increasingly using alternative procurement arrangements. These modern arrangements attempt to deliver a more strategic approach to achieving value for money. Yet little thought is ever given to the strategic importance of building services. No other single aspect of a project will affect proje...

Élite Warriors: le Forze Speciali nel Mondo è l’ultimo libro del Centre for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies (CAST), un think tank con sede a Mosca focalizzato su questioni militari e di sicurezza. Raccogliendo una serie di studi di importanti analisti sia militari che della sicurezza, questo saggio offre una valutazione dettagliata dell’organizzazione e delle capacità di una selezione di Forze Operative Speciali provenienti da tutto il Mondo. Esso include Paesi tra i quali Cina, Ir...

The Canadian Mountain Assessment provides a first-of-its-kind look at what we know, do not know, and need to know about mountain systems in Canada. The assessment is based on insights from First Nations, Métis, and Inuit knowledges of mountains, as well as findings from an extensive assessment of pertinent academic literature. Its inclusive knowledge co-creation approach brings these multiple forms of evidence together in ways that enhance our collective understanding of mountains...

In a truly contemporary analysis of Moscow′s relations with its neighbors and other strategic international actors, Gvosdev and Marsh use a comprehensive vectors approach, dividing the world into eight geographic zones. Each vector chapter looks at the dynamics of key bilateral relationships while highlighting major topical issues—oil and energy, defense policy, economic policy, the role of international institutions, and the impact of major interest groups or influencers—demonstrating tha...

This work is a collection of essays that describe and analyze religion and regime relations in various nations in the contemporary world. The contributors examine patterns of interaction between religious actors and national governments that include separation, support, and opposition. In general, the contributors find that most countries have a majority or plurality religious tradition, which will seek a privileged position in public life. The nature of the relationship between such tradi...

The Detective Stories Library is a rich and engaging collection of classic mysteries by some of the greatest writers of the genre. This illustrated volume brings together brilliant tales of crime, deduction, and suspense, featuring works by masters of the Golden Age of detective fiction such as Dorothy L. Sayers, John Dickson Carr, Ngaio Marsh, John Rhode, and Christianna Brand. Among the highlights are intriguing stories such as The House of the Poplars, Grand Guignol, Boots, The Yellow S...

Leeds, sited in the heart of West Yorkshire, is the UK’s third largest city and is home to a community rich in history, ambition and achievement. As the financial, cultural and commercial heart of West Yorkshire, Leeds is a city essential to the global economic system. Although only a small borough for much of its existence, Leeds in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries became a key centre for the production and trading of wool. As the Industrial Revolution progressed, Leeds developed ...

Leeds is the UK’s third largest city and is home to a community rich in history, ambition and achievement. As the financial, cultural and commercial heart of West Yorkshire, Leeds is a city essential to the global economic system. Although only a small borough for much of its existence, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries Leeds became a key centre for the production and trading of wool. As the Industrial Revolution progressed, Leeds developed into a major industrial hub, extending ...

Das "Mittelniederdeutsche Handwörterbuch" von August Lübben ist ein fundamentales Nachschlagewerk, das die sprachliche Vielfalt und die kulturellen Nuancen des Mittelniederdeutschen eingehend dokumentiert. Lübben nutzt einen klaren und präzisen literarischen Stil, um die Wörter und deren historische sowie kontextuelle Bedeutung umfassend zu erläutern. Dabei zieht er Parallelen zu anderen germanischen Sprachen und setzt sich mit der sprachlichen Entwicklung vom Mittelalter bis zur Neuzeit a...

This collection, the first of its kind, brings together specially commissioned academic essays to mark fifty years since the death of John Kennedy Toole.

Centers on the ethics of Emmanuel Levinas, aiming to understand this important thinker on his own terms.To read Levinas in a Levinasian way means to understand this important thinker on his own terms, thinking "ethics as first philosophy," without reducing his role to that of a contributor to some other discourse, such as phenomenology, deconstruction, or religious traditions other than his own. This volume offers a variety of interventions into how the priority of...