In 2003, Major William Edwards and Lt. Colonel Robert P. Walters of the 165th Military Intelligence Battalion were given the near-impossible task of improving the U.S. Army's security posture at Abu Ghraib prison under unfathomable conditions. With input from officers who served with them, their candid firsthand accounts of life at the notorious prison reveal unpublished details of the human devastation that took place there, along with unexpected glimpses of humanity.

Bell has always known something is wrong. The darkness deep inside her is deeply satisfying and sometimes makes her tingle all over. As Bell grows up as an overweight and unattractive child next to her beautiful sister, Dana, she embraces the darkness and even allows it to grow as she tortures innocent animals and secretly wishes her sister would give her the special attention she feels she deserves. But as her anger intensifies, Bell loses control and ends her sister's life in the blink of an eye, claiming it was an accident. Bell has just gotten away with murder. As she embarks on a quest to make others pay for things she perceives as wrongs against her, she decides to form a plan for her life that includes afflicting pain on living creatures, poisoning family members, wreaking havoc on the community, and stealing from innocent victims. After her husband leaves her and marries again, Bell's behavior becomes increasingly cruel and reckless as she uses her daughter as a pawn in her attempts to ruin their marriage. But when Bell's daughter announces she is pregnant, Bell suddenly realizes she has lost everything she has been trying so desperately to keep. Intent on seeking revenge no matter what the personal cost, Bell is about to make a horrifying decision that will forever change not only her life, but also the lives of everyone around her.

Leah Willow knows the story of the Crying Girl. Everyone in her school does. It's one of those local ghost stories that every town has. But when her friends unintentionally release her at a sleepover, Leah discovers that the Crying Girl is more than just a story. With the pressures of her A-Level exams, the arrival of a new co-worker at her weekend job, and the dreaded school prom approaching, the last thing Leah needs is her two friends suddenly falling out as the Crying Girl begins her quest for revenge. Leah knows she has to stop the malevolent spirit before her whole life is torn apart, but to do so she needs to uncover a dark secret within her own family, and work out who - if anyone - she can trust before her nightmare will end. And she is fast running out of time.

Bell has always known something is wrong. The darkness deep inside her is deeply satisfying and sometimes makes her tingle all over. As Bell grows up as an overweight and unattractive child next to her beautiful sister, Dana, she embraces the darkness and even allows it to grow as she tortures innocent animals and secretly wishes her sister would give her the special attention she feels she deserves. But as her anger intensifies, Bell loses control and ends her sister's life in the blink of an eye, claiming it was an accident. Bell has just gotten away with murder. As she embarks on a quest to make others pay for things she perceives as wrongs against her, she decides to form a plan for her life that includes afflicting pain on living creatures, poisoning family members, wreaking havoc on the community, and stealing from innocent victims. After her husband leaves her and marries again, Bell's behavior becomes increasingly cruel and reckless as she uses her daughter as a pawn in her attempts to ruin their marriage. But when Bell's daughter announces she is pregnant, Bell suddenly realizes she has lost everything she has been trying so desperately to keep. Intent on seeking revenge no matter what the personal cost, Bell is about to make a horrifying decision that will forever change not only her life, but also the lives of everyone around her.

Swarm Intelligence (SI) describes the evolving collective intelligence of population/groups of autonomous agents with a low level of intelligence. The population of agents interacts with each other or their environment locally using decentralised and self-organisational aspects in their decision making. SI and related sub-methods that follow its principles are used for problem solving in a variety of areas, such as robotics and forecasting. This book discusses swarm intelligence techniques and fuzzy logic as useful tools for solving practical engineering problems and the utilisation of a swarm intelligence algorithm to obtain the optimum neural network structure. Also explored is the application of Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) methods to inverse heat radiation problems and PSO as a technique in computational electromagnetism problems.

Una presentacion clara y directa sobre lo que la Iglesia ha pensado en torno a Jesus como hombre e Hijo de Dios. Responde a la pregunta, quien es Jesus? En razon del intenso manejo de los medios en la cultura de la sociedad, muchas personas tienen enormes dificultades en diferenciar las multiples imagenes de Jesucristo que se nos presentan en los medios de comunicacion. De modo frecuente, sus propias visiones son el resultado de una serie de elementos disparatados. Esta confrontacion aun puede ocurrir en el caso de las personas educadas en una determinada tradicion cristiana. Este dilema es un desafio para los ministros de pastoral, quienes no solo deben transmitir correctamente la ensenanza de la Iglesia Catolica, sino que tambien deben lidiar apropiadamente con las miles de imagenes diferentes sobre Jesucristo y mostrar claramente la diferencia.
--De la introduccionFundamentos de la fe catolica: Serie ministerio pastoral es una serie pastoral que ofrece una explicacion profunda pero accesible de los fundamentos de la fe catolica para adultos, para aquellos que estan ya laborando en el ministerio pastoral asi como los que se estan preparando. La serie ayuda al lector a explorar la tradicion catolica y aplicar lo que han aprendido a las situaciones de su vida y ministerios. Incluye preguntas de estudio y sugerencias para lecturas adicionales.

This is a broad-based text on the fundamentals of explosive behavior and the application of explosives in civil engineering, industrial processes, aerospace applications, and military uses. The book includes chapters on all aspects of explosives, each written by an expert in the field: Introduction to Explosives (W.C. Davis) Explosives Development and Fundamentals of Explosives Technology (P.R. Lee) Shock Waves, Rarefaction Waves, Equations of State (W.C. Davis) Introduction to Detonation Physics (P. Cooper) The Chemistry of Explosives (J.C. Oxley) Theories and Techniques of Initiation (P.R. Lee) The Gurney Model for Explosive Output (J.E. Kennedy) Hazard Assessment of Explosives and Propellants (P.R. Lee) Safe Handling of Explosives (J.C. Oxley) Demolitions (C. Weickert)