The increased use of technology is necessary in order for industrial control systems to maintain and monitor industrial, infrastructural, or environmental processes. The need to secure and identify threats to the system is equally critical. Securing Critical Infrastructures and Critical Control Systems: Approaches for Threat Protection provides a full and detailed understanding of the vulnerabilities and security threats that exist within an industrial control system. This collection of research defines and analyses the technical, procedural, and managerial responses to securing these systems.

Figures of the World: The Naturalist Novel and Transnational Form overturns Eurocentric genealogies and globalizing generalizations about “world literature� by examining the complex, contradictory history of naturalist fiction. Christopher Laing Hill follows naturalism’s emergence in France and circulation around the world from North and South America to East Asia. His analysis shows that transnational literary studies must operate on multiple scales, combine distant reading with close analysis, and investigate how literary forms develop on the move. The book begins by tracing the history of naturalist fiction from the 1860s into the twentieth century and the reasons it spread around the world. Hill explores the development of three naturalist figures—the degenerate body, the self-liberated woman, and the social milieu—through close readings of fiction from France, Japan, and the United States. Rather than genealogies of European influence or the domination of cultural “peripheries� by the center, novels by Émile Zola, Tayama Katai, Frank Norris, and other writers reveal conspicuous departures from metropolitan models as writers revised naturalist methods to address new social conditions. Hill offers a new approach to studying culture on a large scale for readers interested in literature, the arts, and the history of ideas.

The Young Oaks is an American epic. Spanning the Twentieth Century, bringing to life generations of living characters, all in a world so real you can taste it. Can a man bring himself back from the abyss? Can a woman hold together her family with her love and her will? Can a lost young man find redemption? Read this book, hilarious, violent, tragic - the first of a duology- and you will want to come home again, to laugh and to cry with the characters you have grown to love, to share the lives you have seen unfold.

Nichts im Leben und im Projektmanagement geht genau nach Plan. Immer wieder machen uns äußere Ereignisse und Entwicklungen einen Strich durch die Rechnung. Deshalb ist die nüchterne Analyse von Risiken und die Vorbereitung auf entsprechende Krisen ein Schlüsselelement erfolgreichen Projektmanagements. Dem stehen jedoch psychologische Faktoren entgegen. Welche Faktoren dies sind und woher diese kommen und wie man damit umgeht, darauf gibt es Antworten in diesem Buch und dem inkludierten Online Kurs.