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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.
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The Courier (DVD)
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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
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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.
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