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The Kingdom/Jarhead (DVD)
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Double bill featuring movies that focus on America's recent
involvement in foreign countries. In 'The Kingdom' (2007), when a
terrorist bomb detonates inside a Western housing compound in
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, an international incident is ignited. While
diplomats slowly debate equations of territorialism, FBI Special
Agent Ronald Fleury (Jamie Foxx) quickly assembles an elite team
and negotiates a secret five-day trip into Saudi Arabia to locate
the madman behind the bombing. Upon landing in the desert kingdom,
however, Fleury and his team discover Saudi authorities suspicious
and unwelcoming of American interlopers into what they consider a
local matter. Hamstrung by protocol, and with the clock ticking on
their five days, the FBI agents find their expertise worthless
without the trust of their Saudi counterparts who want to locate
the terrorist in their homeland on their own terms. Fleury's crew
finds a like-minded partner in Saudi Police Captain Al-Ghazi
(Ashraf Barhom), who helps them navigate royal politics and unlock
the secrets of the crime scene and the workings of an extremist,
hell bent on further destruction. 'Jarhead' (2006) is an adaptation
of former Marine Anthony Swofford's Gulf War memoir. Young recruit
Swofford (Jake Gyllenhaal) joins up with the US Marines (nicknamed
'Jarheads' because of their distinctive haircuts) on the eve of the
1990 Gulf War. After a brutal spell in boot camp, during which
Swofford and his fellow recruits are systematically geared up for
the conflict, the Marines are dispatched to the deserts of the
Persian Gulf to take part in a war that sees them required to do
very little in the way of fighting. Bored and frustrated in the
middle of nowhere, the young soldiers resort to a macabre sense of
humour as they wait for the war to happen to them.
The United States-Australia alliance has been an important
component of the US-led system of alliances that has underpinned
regional security in the Indo-Pacific since 1945. However, recent
geostrategic developments, in particular the rise of the People's
Republic of China, have posed significant challenges to this US-led
regional order. In turn, the growing strategic competition between
these two great powers has generated challenges to the longstanding
US-Australia alliance. Both the US and Australia are confronting a
changing strategic environment, and, as a result, the alliance
needs to respond to the challenges that they face. The US needs to
understand the challenges and risks to this vital relationship,
which is growing in importance, and take steps to manage it. On its
part, Australia must clearly identify its core common interests
with the US and start exploring what more it needs to do to attain
its stated policy preferences. This book consists of chapters
exploring US and Australian perspectives of the Indo-Pacific, the
evolution of Australia-US strategic and defence cooperation, and
the future of the relationship. Written by a joint US-Australia
team, the volume is aimed at academics, analysts, students, and the
security and business communities.
The United States-Australia alliance has been an important
component of the US-led system of alliances that has underpinned
regional security in the Indo-Pacific since 1945. However, recent
geostrategic developments, in particular the rise of the People's
Republic of China, have posed significant challenges to this US-led
regional order. In turn, the growing strategic competition between
these two great powers has generated challenges to the longstanding
US-Australia alliance. Both the US and Australia are confronting a
changing strategic environment, and, as a result, the alliance
needs to respond to the challenges that they face. The US needs to
understand the challenges and risks to this vital relationship,
which is growing in importance, and take steps to manage it. On its
part, Australia must clearly identify its core common interests
with the US and start exploring what more it needs to do to attain
its stated policy preferences. This book consists of chapters
exploring US and Australian perspectives of the Indo-Pacific, the
evolution of Australia-US strategic and defence cooperation, and
the future of the relationship. Written by a joint US-Australia
team, the volume is aimed at academics, analysts, students, and the
security and business communities.
While many introductory public administration textbooks contain a
dedicated chapter on ethics, The Public Administration Profession
is the first to utilize ethics as a lens for understanding the
discipline. Analyses of the ASPA Code of Ethics are deftly woven
into each chapter alongside complete coverage of the institutions,
processes, concepts, persons, history, and typologies a student
needs to gain a thorough grasp of public service as a field of
study and practice. Features include: A significant focus on
"public interests," nonprofit management, hybrid-private
organizations, contracting out and collaborations, and public
service at state and local levels. A careful examination of the
role that religion may play in public servants' decision making, as
well as the unignorable and growing role that faith-based
organizations play in public administration and nonprofit
management at large. End-of-chapter ethics case studies, key
concepts and persons, and dedicated "local community action steps"
in each chapter. Appendices dedicated to future public
administration and nonprofit career management, writing successful
papers throughout a student's career, and professional codes of
ethics. A comprehensive suite of online supplements, including:
lecture slides; quizzes and sample examinations for undergraduate
and graduate courses containing multiple choice, true-false,
identifications, and essay questions; chapter outlines with
suggestions for classroom discussion; and suggestions for use of
appendices, e.g., how to successfully write a short term paper, a
brief policy memo, resume, or a book review. Providing students
with a comprehensive introduction to the subject while offering
instructors an elegant new way to bring ethics prominently into the
curriculum, The Public Administration Profession is an ideal
introductory text for public administration and public affairs
courses at the undergraduate or graduate level.
The past thirty years have seen the proliferation of forms of
independent cinema that critique the conventions of mass-market
commercial movies from within the movie theater. Motion Studies
examines fifteen of the most suggestive and useful films from this
film tradition: No. 4 (Bottoms) by Yoko Ono, Wavelength by Michael
Snow, Serene Velocity by Ernie Gehr, Print Generation by J. J.
Murphy, Standard Gauge by Morgan Fisher, Zorns Lemma by Hollis
Frampton, Riddles of the Sphinx by Laura Mulvey and Peter Wollen,
American Dreams by James Benning, The Ties that Bind by Su
Friedrich, From the Pole to the Equator by Yervant Gianikian and
Angela Ricci Lucchi, The Carriage Trade by Warren Sonbert,
Powaqqatsi by Godfrey Reggio, Naked Spaces - Living Is Round by
Trinh T Minh-ha, Journeys from Berlin 1971 by Yvonne Rainer and The
Journey by Peter Watkins. Through in-depth readings of these works,
Scott MacDonald takes viewers on a critical circumnavigation of the
conventions of moviegoing as seen by filmmakers who have rebelled
against the conventions. MacDonald's discussions do not merely
analyze the films; they provide a useful, accessible, jargon-free
critical apparatus for viewing avant-garde film, which communicates
the author's pleasure in exploring "impenetrable" works with
students and public audiences.
Effective financial planning for executives and entrepreneurs is
complex, dense, and impossible to reduce to a single,
easy-to-understand formula. Designed to emphasize the importance of
successful, targeted financial planning, this book begins by
telling a story about a fictional, but plausible, power couple and
their family who (spoiler alert!) do pretty much everything wrong
in securing their financial future. In most cases, they don't do
the things needed because they don't know what they are. Using this
story as a case study of an executive and an entrepreneur, the book
breaks down the case into chapters and offers practical discussions
of all the key financial planning components-investment planning,
tax planning, estate planning, philanthropic planning, risk
management, and equity-based compensation to name a few-with the
tools needed to tailor a plan for virtually every circumstance and
need. While there is no single plan that works for everybody, this
book provides a guide, with technical information alongside general
themes, focused on how to build an effective financial plan. In
addition to all the benefits of the first edition, this second
edition provides significant new content and insights for the
entrepreneur who is planning for a future liquidity event such as a
sale. It also provides detail on how to manage concentrated
ownership positions and on ESG investment strategies, a rapidly
growing investment theme. Finally, the second edition includes tax,
estate planning, regulatory, and other updates to reflect changes
since the first edition was published.
While many introductory public administration textbooks contain a
dedicated chapter on ethics, The Public Administration Profession
is the first to utilize ethics as a lens for understanding the
discipline. Analyses of the ASPA Code of Ethics are deftly woven
into each chapter alongside complete coverage of the institutions,
processes, concepts, persons, history, and typologies a student
needs to gain a thorough grasp of public service as a field of
study and practice. Features include: A significant focus on
"public interests," nonprofit management, hybrid-private
organizations, contracting out and collaborations, and public
service at state and local levels. A careful examination of the
role that religion may play in public servants' decision making, as
well as the unignorable and growing role that faith-based
organizations play in public administration and nonprofit
management at large. End-of-chapter ethics case studies, key
concepts and persons, and dedicated "local community action steps"
in each chapter. Appendices dedicated to future public
administration and nonprofit career management, writing successful
papers throughout a student's career, and professional codes of
ethics. A comprehensive suite of online supplements, including:
lecture slides; quizzes and sample examinations for undergraduate
and graduate courses containing multiple choice, true-false,
identifications, and essay questions; chapter outlines with
suggestions for classroom discussion; and suggestions for use of
appendices, e.g., how to successfully write a short term paper, a
brief policy memo, resume, or a book review. Providing students
with a comprehensive introduction to the subject while offering
instructors an elegant new way to bring ethics prominently into the
curriculum, The Public Administration Profession is an ideal
introductory text for public administration and public affairs
courses at the undergraduate or graduate level.
Cultural tourism, domestic and international, is comprised of
travel that takes people out of their usual environments and
focuses on activities that are related to the cultural aspects of
an area. Rapid progress in technology, especially the advancement
of mobile applications, has changed various aspects of travel,
especially in areas such as transportation. Cultural Tourism in the
Wake of Web Innovation: Emerging Research and Opportunities is an
essential scholarly book that examines revolutionary changes taking
place in the field of cultural tourism that are a result of the
applications of web-based and other information technologies
including Web 2.0 innovations, locational technologies, and digital
imaging. It features a wide range of topics such as economic
development, mobile applications, and green development, and is
intended for use by hotel management, travel agents, event
organizers and planners, airline managers, academicians,
researchers, students, and professionals in the tourism and
hospitality industry.
This book is intended for students, policy makers, lawyers and
experts in the field of substance use and crashes. I describe in
simple terms epidemiological issues important for understanding
whether conclusions from studies are justifiable and discover
numerous myths and truths about cannabis and driving.
Cultural tourism, domestic and international, is comprised of
travel that takes people out of their usual environments and
focuses on activities that are related to the cultural aspects of
an area. Rapid progress in technology, especially the advancement
of mobile applications, has changed various aspects of travel,
especially in areas such as transportation. Cultural Tourism in the
Wake of Web Innovation: Emerging Research and Opportunities is an
essential scholarly book that examines revolutionary changes taking
place in the field of cultural tourism that are a result of the
applications of web-based and other information technologies
including Web 2.0 innovations, locational technologies, and digital
imaging. It features a wide range of topics such as economic
development, mobile applications, and green development, and is
intended for use by hotel management, travel agents, event
organizers and planners, airline managers, academicians,
researchers, students, and professionals in the tourism and
hospitality industry.
This workbook is designed to provide a good grounding of the most
commonly used analytic approaches in the health sciences, using the
Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS). Topics covered
include creation of a database, aggregation of data, data
transformations, scale development, t-tests, cross tabulations,
ANOVA, logistic regression, correlation and regression. Notes and
slides are included in each Chapter that describe the essentials of
each analytic approach. As well, data from the Canadian Community
Health Survey are analyzed to illustrate the application of each
approach. SPSS output is included, with the most important elements
for a research paper highlighted and interpreted.
In 1910, the great battleship with huge guns was the ultimate
expression of naval power. Yet, already one rival had appeared with
the emergence of submarines whose torpedoes could sink the largest
of battleships. Soon, an even deadlier rival appeared. At first,
the new flying machines didn't seem to be much of a threat as they
were in their infancy. Naval opinion varied from outright dismissal
of them to 'wait and see'. Yet there were pioneers who understood
that they would be essential to naval dominance. Within 50 yrs.,
their efforts had made the aircraft carrier into the new Queen of
the seas. The Evolution of Aircraft Carriers is a compilation of of
"American Ethnographic Film and Personal Documentary" is a critical
history of American filmmakers crucial to the development of
ethnographic film and personal documentary. The Boston and
Cambridge area is notable for nurturing these approaches to
documentary film via institutions such as the MIT Film Section and
the Film Study Center, the Carpenter Center and the Visual and
Environmental Studies Department at Harvard. Scott MacDonald uses
pragmatismOCOs focus on empirical experience as a basis for
measuring the groundbreaking achievements of such influential
filmmakers as John Marshall, Robert Gardner, Timothy Asch, Ed
Pincus, Miriam Weinstein, Alfred Guzzetti, Ross McElwee, Robb Moss,
Nina Davenport, Steve Ascher and Jeanne Jordan, Michel Negroponte,
John Gianvito, Alexander Olch, Amie Siegel, Ilisa Barbash, and
Lucien Castaing-Taylor. By exploring the cinematic, personal, and
professional relationships between these accomplished filmmakers,
MacDonald shows how a pioneering, engaged, and uniquely
cosmopolitan approach to documentary developed over the past half
century.
Over the last decade, the implementation of technology in academic
and business environments has increased exponentially. Many
implementation efforts are attempted without knowledge of the
possible problems that can disrupt a succesful implementation,
causing the organization to lose money, time, confidence, and
patience. This book identifies characterisitcs that led to a
succssful implementation and identifies potential problems that
exist during implementation and how they can be overcome. How
people overcome the problems that occur is crucial to the success
or failure of the implementation effort. Stages of implementation
and a grounded process model of implementation and change are
included that can help provide guidance for a successful
implemntaiton. This book should help organizations interested in
implementing technological changes and should be especially useful
to professionals in education and business.
RESEARCH FINDINGS: Drugs in the Workplace: Extent and Impact of
Alcohol and Drug Usage/Problems in the Workplace/Workforce (J.
Martin). Predictors of Drug Use and Implications for the Workplace
(M. Newcomb). Drug Testing Programs: Drug Testing Methods and
Interpretation of Results (B. Kapur). The Impact and Effectiveness
of Drug Testing Programs in the Workplace (S. Macdonald). Legal
Issues: Some Legal Aspects of Drug Testing in the Canadian
Workplace (M. Pinsonneault). Constitutional and Statuatory
Treatment of Drug Testing in the United States (R.L. Lieberwitz).
Other Workplace Programs: Behavioral Tests to Assess Performance
(B. Butler). Alternatives to Drug Testing (M. Shain). PERSPECTIVES
ON DRUG TESTING: Unions' Perspective on Workplace Drug Testing (S.
Alvi). Drug Testing, the War on Drugs, Workers, and the Workplace
(J. Blackwell). 5 additional articles. Index.
When we began to consider the scope of this book, we envisaged a
catalogue supplying at least one abstract definition for any
finitely generated group that the reader might propose. But we soon
realized that more or less arbitrary restrictions are necessary,
because interesting groups are so numerous. For permutation groups
of degree 8 or less (i. e., subgroups of e ), the reader cannot do
better than consult the 8 tables of JosEPHINE BuRNS (1915), while
keeping an eye open for misprints. Our own tables (on pages
134-143) deal with groups of low order, finiteandinfinite groups of
congruent transformations, symmetric and alternating groups, linear
fractional groups, and groups generated by reflections in real
Euclidean space of any number of dimensions. The best substitute
foramoreextensive catalogue is the description (in Chapter 2) of a
method whereby the reader can easily work out his own abstract
definition for almost any given finite group. This method is
sufficiently mechanical for the use of an electronic computer.
There is also a topological method (Chapter 3), suitable not only
for groups of low order but also for some infinite groups. This
involves choosing a set of generators, constructing a certain graph
(the Cayley diagram or DEHNsehe Gruppenbild), and embedding the
graph into a surface. Cases in which the surface is a sphere or a
plane are described in Chapter 4, where we obtain algebraically,
and verify topologically, an abstract definition for each of the 17
space groups of two-dimensional crystallography."
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