Post-conflict peacebuilding efforts can fail if they do not pay sufficient attention to natural resources. Natural resources - diamonds, oil, and minerals - are frequently at the heart of historic grievances, and have caused or funded at least eighteen conflicts since 1990. The same resources can play a central role in post-conflict peacebuilding, providing revenue for cash-starved governments, basic services for collapsed economies, and means for restoring livelihoods. To date, there is a striking gap in knowledge of what works, what does not, and how to improve peacebuilding through more effective and systematic management of natural resources. Post-Conflict Peacebuilding and Natural Resource Management addresses this gap by examining the growing literature on the topic and surveying experiences across more than forty post-conflict countries. The six-volume series includes more than 130 chapters from over 200 researchers, practitioners, and policymakers.

Fast-paced action movie starring Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Mickey Rourke. The Courier (Morgan) has earned his nickname through a remarkable ability to track down individuals and deliver messages and packages. The Courier is particularly prized, in certain circles, for his refusal to ask questions or query the legality of the material he carries. However, when he is handed a package by a branch of the Russian mafia and asked to deliver it to an especially notorious underworld figure, The Courier's skills will be tested to the limit. He believes he has made a breakthrough when he gets in contact with Maxwell (Mickey Rourke), a former associate of the elusive figure he is seeking, but how far can Maxwell be trusted?

When a country emerges from violent conflict, the management of the environment and natural resources has important implications for short-term peacebuilding and long-term stability, particularly if natural resources were a factor in the conflict, play a major role in the national economy, or broadly support livelihoods. Only recently, however, have the assessment, harnessing, and restoration of the natural resource base become essential components of postconflict peacebuilding. This book, by thirty-five authors, examines the experiences of more than twenty countries and territories in assessing post-conflict environmental damage and natural resource degradation and their implications for human health, livelihoods, and security. The book also illustrates how an understanding of both the risks and opportunities associated with natural resources can help decision makers manage natural resources in ways that create jobs, sustain livelihoods, and contribute to economic recovery and reconciliation, without creating new grievances or significant environmental degradation. Finally, the book offers lessons from the remediation of environmental hot spots, restoration of damaged ecosystems, and reconstruction of the environmental services and infrastructure necessary for a sustainable peace. Assessing and Restoring Natural Resources in Post-Conflict Peacebuilding is part of a global initiative to identify and analyze lessons in post-conflict peacebuilding and natural resource management. The project has generated six books of case studies and analyses, with contributions by practitioners, policy makers, and researchers. Other books address highvalue resources, land, water, livelihoods, and governance.

When a country emerges from violent conflict, the management of the environment and natural resources has important implications for short-term peacebuilding and long-term stability, particularly if natural resources were a factor in the conflict, play a major role in the national economy, or broadly support livelihoods. Only recently, however, have the assessment, harnessing, and restoration of the natural resource base become essential components of postconflict peacebuilding. This book, by thirty-five authors, examines the experiences of more than twenty countries and territories in assessing post-conflict environmental damage and natural resource degradation and their implications for human health, livelihoods, and security. The book also illustrates how an understanding of both the risks and opportunities associated with natural resources can help decision makers manage natural resources in ways that create jobs, sustain livelihoods, and contribute to economic recovery and reconciliation, without creating new grievances or significant environmental degradation. Finally, the book offers lessons from the remediation of environmental hot spots, restoration of damaged ecosystems, and reconstruction of the environmental services and infrastructure necessary for a sustainable peace. Assessing and Restoring Natural Resources in Post-Conflict Peacebuilding is part of a global initiative to identify and analyze lessons in post-conflict peacebuilding and natural resource management. The project has generated six books of case studies and analyses, with contributions by practitioners, policy makers, and researchers. Other books address highvalue resources, land, water, livelihoods, and governance.

"The textbook "More Than the Love of Wisdom: An Introduction to the Whole of Philosophy" responds to the oversimplified and trite description of philosophy that new students to the discipline typically produce or encounter.
In contrast to many standard textbooks and courses, which present philosophy as a series of sub-topics such as ethics or metaphysics, this book familiarizes students with philosophy as a whole. It addresses what unifies the extreme diversity of philosophical questions and topics into one coherent discipline.
The book begins by introducing, and rejecting, many popular but ill-informed responses to the question of what philosophy actually is. It disabuses the reader of common misunderstanding, and prepares the way for moving toward a clear and well-informed understanding of the nature of philosophy.
Subsequent material addresses the various parts of philosophy, and its history, paving the way for readers to explore philosophy as an inquiry into the most general and fundamental concepts, principles, and features of the world.
Concise and conversational, "More Than the Love of Wisdom" reasons with readers to reach a conclusion, making the book itself an exercise in doing philosophy.
"More Than the Love of Wisdom" is written for undergraduate Introduction to Philosophy courses. It can also be used as a supplemental text for lower-division courses in ethics and the philosophy of the mind.
David A. Jensen is associate professor of philosophy at Brigham Young University, where he teaches courses in Kant, ethics, and the philosophy of language. He earned his doctoral degree in philosophy at the University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Jensen has been honored as a Mellon Fellow in Humanistic Studies, and an Ezra Taft Benson Scholar. His professional writing has appeared in peer-reviewed journals, and he is the author of the book "Practical Reasons and Rationality.""

People say hiking the Appalachian Trail is a "life changing experience" and I agree I believe I've learned to be a little more patient. I've learned to realize what is important in life. I've learned to appreciate relationships with friends and loved ones. I've learned about spending time with myself. I've learned about pain and how much I could stand. I've learned the joy of climbing Mount Albert and seeing the beauty of the surrounding mountains. I've learned the happiness you feel when you get into a town for your mail drop. I've learned to appreciate what it means to have "Trail Magic" come your way. I've seen the beauty of the wild animals and I've seen how Mother Nature displays her beauty as you hike from Georgia to Maine. I've watched as everything turns green and the flowers begin to bloom. I appreciate a good pair of hiking boots while trekking through the rocks of Pennsylvania and boulders of the beautiful White Mountains. I've learned to deal with the weather changes as your going across Mt. Washington and the Presidential Mountains. I've learned of the peacefulness of the 100 Mile Wilderness and I've felt the excitement of climbing the last mountain, Mt. Katahdin. I think of these many things every day. I dream of them every night. Whenever I see a mountain or I pass a wooded area, my memory takes me back to the Appalachian Trail. Do you know what? I am going to do it again when I'm 70 Marine One aka David A Jensen

The endoscopic use of lasers in the treatment of gastrointestinal d seases began within the last decade and has evolved rapidly. Work is now being done at more than 150 centers in Europe, the United States, Japan and the rest of the world. To date no publi cation has defined the state of the art. This text attempts to fill that void. To disseminate information about therapeutic laser endoscopy, an increasing number of short courses have been sponsored in the United States wherein the attendee hears didactic lectures, views video tapes, and in addition, has the opportunity to have a "hands-on" experience with endoscopic laser therapy in the animal labs. This book is an expansion of the material presented in one such course sponsored by The Cook County Hospital in Chicago, Illinois, in October, 1982. The course was organized by Peter Bright-Asare, M. D., Chairman of Gastroenterology at the time of the course and chaired by Dr. Bright-Asare and myself. Some of the lectures from the course have been broadened and formalized. Other chapters were invited and added. Also included are group discussions about issues that are either controversial or undefined. Attempts were made to secure consensus opinion from experienced investigators in areas where no hard scientific experimental or clinical data exists. The contributors have a wide range of interest and expertise. Dr."

Use a step-by-step process to create and deploy your first Azure IoT Edge solution. Modern day developers and architects in today's cloud-focused world must understand when it makes sense to leverage the cloud. Computing on the edge is a new paradigm for most people. The Azure IoT Edge platform uses many existing technologies that may be familiar to developers, but understanding how to leverage those technologies in an edge computing scenario can be challenging. Beginning Azure IoT Edge Computing demystifies computing on the edge and explains, through concrete examples and exercises, how and when to leverage the power of intelligent edge computing. It introduces the possibilities of intelligent edge computing using the Azure IoT Edge platform, and guides you through hands-on exercises to make edge computing approachable, understandable, and highly useful. Through user-friendlydiscussion you will not only understand how to build edge solutions, but also when to build them. By explaining some common solution patterns, the decision on when to use the cloud and when to avoid the cloud will become much clearer. What You'll Learn Create and deploy Azure IoT Edge solutions Recognize when to leverage the intelligent edge pattern and when to avoid it Leverage the available developer tooling to develop and debug IoT Edge solutions Know which off-the-shelf edge computing modules are available Become familiar with some of the lesser-known device protocols used in conjunction with edge computing Understand how to securely deploy and bootstrap an IoT Edge device Explore related topics such as containers and secure device provisioning Who This Book Is For Developers or architects who want to understand edge computing and when and where to use it. Readers should be familiar with C# or Python and have a high-level understanding of the Azure IoT platform.

The Garden Interior shows the inner workings of the heart and mind of a gardener and how gardens raise up the gardener as much as the gardener tends and raises up the garden. This memoir details one family's story and is filled with beautiful observational writing, humor, and nostalgia about growing up in the 1960s and '70s, plus delicious and unusual recipes you will be longing to try. Gardens make us more than we make them, and you'll come away from The Garden Interior a better and more engaged gardener by understanding the rich interior life of this beautiful discipline and craft.

The endoscopic use of lasers in the treatment of gastrointestinal d seases began within the last decade and has evolved rapidly. Work is now being done at more than 150 centers in Europe, the United States, Japan and the rest of the world. To date no publi cation has defined the state of the art. This text attempts to fill that void. To disseminate information about therapeutic laser endoscopy, an increasing number of short courses have been sponsored in the United States wherein the attendee hears didactic lectures, views video tapes, and in addition, has the opportunity to have a "hands-on" experience with endoscopic laser therapy in the animal labs. This book is an expansion of the material presented in one such course sponsored by The Cook County Hospital in Chicago, Illinois, in October, 1982. The course was organized by Peter Bright-Asare, M. D., Chairman of Gastroenterology at the time of the course and chaired by Dr. Bright-Asare and myself. Some of the lectures from the course have been broadened and formalized. Other chapters were invited and added. Also included are group discussions about issues that are either controversial or undefined. Attempts were made to secure consensus opinion from experienced investigators in areas where no hard scientific experimental or clinical data exists. The contributors have a wide range of interest and expertise. Dr."

Seminararbeit aus dem Jahr 2007 im Fachbereich Jura - Strafprozessrecht, Kriminologie, Strafvollzug, einseitig bedruckt, Note: 15 (gut), Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat Freiburg, 18 + 3 online Eintragungen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Anwendung von den Theorien von Cohen, Miller, Cloward/Ohlin, Wolfgang/Ferracuti und Matza auf die Immigrationskriminalitat. Zum Assimilationsprozess der turkischen Immigranten.

David Jensen is an author, speaker, consultant and Founder of The Hiring Academy. He addresses what has proven to be the most critical success or failure point of any business of any size: hiring the right personnel.
Jensen's purpose is to help business owners find and hire the right people so that they can pull back from their business and yet continue expanding.
Surveyed business owners, executives, and Human Resource personnel unanimously HATED the process of hiring Jensen aims to help fill that important void with simple guidelines. He is going to give you real stories, actual examples, basic rules, sample questions, and invaluable solutions.

David Jensen is an author, speaker, consultant and Founder of The Hiring Academy. He addresses what has proven to be the most critical success or failure point of any business of any size: hiring the right personnel. Jensen's purpose is to help business owners find and hire the right people so that they can pull back from their business and yet continue expanding. Surveyed business owners, executives, and Human Resource personnel unanimously HATED the process of hiring! Jensen aims to help fill that important void with simple guidelines. He is going to give you real stories, actual examples, basic rules, sample questions, and invaluable solutions.