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After a rough mission in Rome involving the discovery of a
devastating bioweapon, Company spy Ben Calix returns to Paris to
find his perfectly ordered world has collapsed. A sniper attack. An
ambush. A call for help that brings French SWAT forces down on his
head. Ben is out. This is a severance--reserved for incompetents
and traitors. Searching for answers and anticipating a coming
attack, Ben and a woman swept up in his misfortunes must travel
across Europe to find the sniper who tried to kill him, the medic
who saved his life, the schoolmaster who trained him, and an
upstart hacker from his former team. More than that, Ben must come
to grips with his own insignificance as the Company's plan to stop
Leviathan from unleashing the bioweapon at any cost moves forward
without him--and he struggles against the infection that is swiftly
claiming territory within his own body. Award-winning author James
R. Hannibal ratchets up the tension on every page of this
suspenseful new thriller.
Dr. Peter Chesterfield is one of the Royal London Hospital's top
neurosurgeons. He is also a workaholic, ordered by his boss to take
a week off to attend a medical symposium at the luxurious Elysium
Grand on the island of Maui. While there, Peter pulls a woman with
a skull fracture from the water. Though he is able to revive her in
the ambulance, she eventually dies in his arms, leaving him with
only one clue to what happened to her: the word "honu."
Increasingly obsessed with discovering the cause of his patient's
death, Peter becomes entangled in an ongoing investigation of a
brazen luxury auto theft. He also becomes a source of deep
irritation to detective Lisa Kealoha, who has jurisdiction over the
case. But when the two join forces, they begin to uncover a
destructive plot that runs far deeper than either of them could
have imagined. And if they're not careful, they're both going to
end up dead. Award-winning author James R. Hannibal whisks you away
to the deadly beauty of Hawaii for a story of greed, violence, and
justice that will leave you breathless.
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original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
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used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
For a brief period, the attention of the international community
has focused once again on the plight of religious minorities in
Iraq, Syria, and Turkey. In particular, the abductions and
massacres of Yezidis and Assyrians in the Sinjar, Mosul, Nineveh
Plains, Baghdad, and Hasakah regions in 2007-2015 raised questions
about the prevention of genocide. This book, while principally
analyzing the Assyrian genocide of 1914-1925 and its implications
for the culture and politics of the region, also raises broader
questions concerning the future of religious diversity in the
Middle East. It gathers and analyzes the findings of a broad
spectrum of historical and scholarly works on Christian identities
in the Middle East, genocide studies, international law, and the
politics of the late Ottoman Empire, as well as the politics of the
Ottomans' British and Russian rivals for power in western Asia and
the eastern Mediterranean basin. A key question the book raises is
whether the fate of the Assyrians maps onto any of the concepts
used within international law and diplomatic history to study
genocide and group violence. In this light, the Assyrian genocide
stands out as being several times larger, in both absolute terms
and relative to the size of the affected group, than the Srebrenica
genocide, which is recognized by Turkey as well as by international
tribunals and organizations. Including its Armenian and Greek
victims, the Ottoman Christian Genocide rivals the Rwandan,
Bengali, and Biafran genocides. The book also aims to explore the
impact of the genocide period of 1914-1925 on the development or
partial unraveling of Assyrian group cohesion, including
aspirations to autonomy in the Assyrian areas of northern Iraq,
northwestern Iran, and southeastern Turkey. Scholars from around
the world have collaborated to approach these research questions by
reference to diplomatic and political archives, international legal
materials, memoirs, and literary works.
Genocide, Ethnonationalism, and the United Nations examines a
series of related crises in human civilization growing out of
conflicts between powerful states or empires and indigenous or
stateless peoples. This is the first book to attempt to explore the
causes of genocide and other mass killing by a detailed exploration
of UN archives covering the period spanning from 1945 through 2011.
Hannibal Travis argues that large states and empires
disproportionately committed or facilitated genocide and other mass
killings between 1945 and 2011. His research incorporates data
concerning factors linked to the scale of mass killing, and recent
findings in human rights, political science, and legal theory.
Turning to potential solutions, he argues that the concept of
genocide imagines a future system of global governance under which
the nation-state itself is made subject to law. The United Nations,
however, has deflected the possibility of such a cosmopolitical
law. It selectively condemns genocide and has established an
institutional structure that denies most peoples subjected to
genocide of a realistic possibility of global justice, lacks a
robust international criminal tribunal or UN army, and even
encourages "security" cooperation among states that have proven to
be destructive of peoples in the past. Questions raised include:
What have been the causes of mass killing during the period since
the United Nations Charter entered into force in 1945? How does
mass killing spread across international borders, and what is the
role of resource wealth, the arms trade, and external interference
in this process? Have the United Nations or the International
Criminal Court faced up to the problem of genocide and other forms
of mass killing, as is their mandate?
This book explores what the American Civil Liberties Union calls
the "third era" in cyberspace, in which filters "fundamentally
alter the architectural structure of the Internet, with significant
implications for free speech." Although courts and nongovernmental
organizations increasingly insist upon constitutional and other
legal guarantees of a freewheeling Internet, multi-national
corporations compete to produce tools and strategies for making it
more predictable. When Google attempted to improve our access to
information containing in books and the World Wide Web, copyright
litigation began to tie up the process of making content
searchable, and resulted in the wrongful removal of access to
thousands if not millions of works. Just as the courts were
insisting that using trademarks online to criticize their owners is
First Amendment-protected, corporations and trade associations
accelerated their development of ways to make Internet companies
liable for their users' infringing words and actions, potentially
circumventing free speech rights. And as social networking and
content-sharing sites have proliferated, so have the terms of
service and content-detecting tools for detecting, flagging, and
deleting content that makes one or another corporation or trade
association fear for its image or profits. The book provides a
legal history of Internet regulation since the mid-1990s, with a
particular focus on efforts by patent, trademark, and copyright
owners to compel Internet firms to monitor their online offerings
and remove or pay for any violations of the rights of others.
This book will be of interest to students of law,
communications, political science, government and policy, business,
and economics, as well as anyone interested in free speech and
commerce on the internet.
This book explores what the American Civil Liberties Union calls
the "third era" in cyberspace, in which filters "fundamentally
alter the architectural structure of the Internet, with significant
implications for free speech." Although courts and nongovernmental
organizations increasingly insist upon constitutional and other
legal guarantees of a freewheeling Internet, multi-national
corporations compete to produce tools and strategies for making it
more predictable. When Google attempted to improve our access to
information containing in books and the World Wide Web, copyright
litigation began to tie up the process of making content
searchable, and resulted in the wrongful removal of access to
thousands if not millions of works. Just as the courts were
insisting that using trademarks online to criticize their owners is
First Amendment-protected, corporations and trade associations
accelerated their development of ways to make Internet companies
liable for their users' infringing words and actions, potentially
circumventing free speech rights. And as social networking and
content-sharing sites have proliferated, so have the terms of
service and content-detecting tools for detecting, flagging, and
deleting content that makes one or another corporation or trade
association fear for its image or profits. The book provides a
legal history of Internet regulation since the mid-1990s, with a
particular focus on efforts by patent, trademark, and copyright
owners to compel Internet firms to monitor their online offerings
and remove or pay for any violations of the rights of others. This
book will be of interest to students of law, communications,
political science, government and policy, business, and economics,
as well as anyone interested in free speech and commerce on the
internet.
For a brief period, the attention of the international community
has focused once again on the plight of religious minorities in
Iraq, Syria, and Turkey. In particular, the abductions and
massacres of Yezidis and Assyrians in the Sinjar, Mosul, Nineveh
Plains, Baghdad, and Hasakah regions in 2007-2015 raised questions
about the prevention of genocide. This book, while principally
analyzing the Assyrian genocide of 1914-1925 and its implications
for the culture and politics of the region, also raises broader
questions concerning the future of religious diversity in the
Middle East. It gathers and analyzes the findings of a broad
spectrum of historical and scholarly works on Christian identities
in the Middle East, genocide studies, international law, and the
politics of the late Ottoman Empire, as well as the politics of the
Ottomans' British and Russian rivals for power in western Asia and
the eastern Mediterranean basin. A key question the book raises is
whether the fate of the Assyrians maps onto any of the concepts
used within international law and diplomatic history to study
genocide and group violence. In this light, the Assyrian genocide
stands out as being several times larger, in both absolute terms
and relative to the size of the affected group, than the Srebrenica
genocide, which is recognized by Turkey as well as by international
tribunals and organizations. Including its Armenian and Greek
victims, the Ottoman Christian Genocide rivals the Rwandan,
Bengali, and Biafran genocides. The book also aims to explore the
impact of the genocide period of 1914-1925 on the development or
partial unraveling of Assyrian group cohesion, including
aspirations to autonomy in the Assyrian areas of northern Iraq,
northwestern Iran, and southeastern Turkey. Scholars from around
the world have collaborated to approach these research questions by
reference to diplomatic and political archives, international legal
materials, memoirs, and literary works.
Resonant learning allows students to develop and fine-tune their
therapeutic competencies through first-hand experiences: being in
client roles themselves, being in preliminary therapist roles with
co-students in client roles and reflecting on those experiences.
These resonant learning processes are preparatory steps in
developing a professional music therapist identity through
internship and later employment positions and continuing
supervision. Outlining the Aalborg model of resonant learning,
developed at Aalborg University, Denmark, Resonant Learning in
Music Therapy discusses the benefits and drawbacks of 'tuning the
therapist' and encourages its integration into music therapy
courses around the world. The book sums up research on resonant
learning and presents core exercises, directives and vignettes from
the training processes of the Aalborg model. Explaining how
students' self-agency is enhanced by long-term personal experiences
in group- and individual therapy, observing work with clients in an
institutional setting, working with clients themselves, and
undergoing close group and individual supervision, the editors and
contributors also explore the benefits of implementing resonant
learning within other therapist training programs and healthcare
professions.
Genocide, Ethnonationalism, and the United Nations examines a
series of related crises in human civilization growing out of
conflicts between powerful states or empires and indigenous or
stateless peoples. This is the first book to attempt to explore the
causes of genocide and other mass killing by a detailed exploration
of UN archives covering the period spanning from 1945 through 2011.
Hannibal Travis argues that large states and empires
disproportionately committed or facilitated genocide and other mass
killings between 1945 and 2011. His research incorporates data
concerning factors linked to the scale of mass killing, and recent
findings in human rights, political science, and legal theory.
Turning to potential solutions, he argues that the concept of
genocide imagines a future system of global governance under which
the nation-state itself is made subject to law. The United Nations,
however, has deflected the possibility of such a cosmopolitical
law. It selectively condemns genocide and has established an
institutional structure that denies most peoples subjected to
genocide of a realistic possibility of global justice, lacks a
robust international criminal tribunal or UN army, and even
encourages "security" cooperation among states that have proven to
be destructive of peoples in the past. Questions raised include:
What have been the causes of mass killing during the period since
the United Nations Charter entered into force in 1945? How does
mass killing spread across international borders, and what is the
role of resource wealth, the arms trade, and external interference
in this process? Have the United Nations or the International
Criminal Court faced up to the problem of genocide and other forms
of mass killing, as is their mandate?
Rhythmic changes in physiology and behaviour within a 24 h
period occur in living organisms on earth to meet the challenges
associated with the daily changes in the external environment. The
circadian pacemaker responsible for the temporal internal
organisation and the generation of endogenous rhythms of
approximately 24 h is located in the hypothalamic suprachiasmatic
nucleus (SCN) in mammals. The endogenous period generated by the
pacemaker is close to, but generally not equal to 24 h and the
biological clock therefore needs to be daily adjusted (entrained)
by external cues. The daily alteration of light and darkness due to
the rotation of our planet on its own axis in relation to the sun
is the most prominent "zeitgeber" which adjusts the phase of the
circadian rhythms to the astronomical day length, a process known
as photoentrainment. In mammals, light is perceived only through
photoreceptors located in the retina. Light information is mediated
to the SCN via the retinohypothalamic tract (RHT) by activation of
the classical photoreceptor system of rods and cones and a more
recently identified system of intrinsic photosensitive retinal
ganglion cells (ipRGCs) using melanopsin as a photopigment.
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The ultimate love letter to the funky pop-rock sound that made The
Artist Formerly Known as Prince a legend. When Prince burst onto
the pop scene in 1978, he put Minneapolis on the music map. Many
up-and-coming bands followed the trail that he blazed. MPLS Sound
is the story of one such group-Starchild, led by a young woman
inspired by Prince to start her own revolution. Through her
journey, we see from within exactly how His Royal Badness
transformed the entire Minneapolis scene.
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