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Juniper SRX Series

O'Reilly, 2013

Security is one of the fastest moving segments within the realm of technology. Whereas most technology is created to offer new services or products, security is created to prevent the abuse of these new products and or services. In today’s world, where we are always connected in ways that have never been...

Geographic Information Science and Public Participation (Advances in Geographic Information Science)

Springer, 2010

Computer-mediated participation is at the crossroads. In the early heady days of the digital revolution, access to "high" technologies such as GIS promised the empowerment of marginalized communities by providing data and information that was previously hidden away from public view. To a great extent, this goal has been achieved at...

The Belbin Guide to Succeeding at Work

A & C Black Publishers, 2009

Have you ever been overtaken at work by someone with fewer qualifications? Have you ever wondered how some people move effortlessly up the career ladder, while others stall at each rung?

Drawing on 27 years' experience since the publication of Meredith Belbin's bestselling book, Management Teams - Why They...

The Remote Sensing Data Book

Cambridge University Press, 1999

Remote sensing is used in some way by all earth and atmospheric scientists. This book provides a unique resource to all aspects of remote sensing for both the expert and nonexpert. Organized as a dictionary, it contains over 700 alphabetically-arranged and cross-referenced entries on how remote sensing works, what kinds of data are available,...

Dreams of Germany: Musical Imaginaries from the Concert Hall to the Dance Floor (Spektrum: Publications of the German Studies Association)

Berghahn Books, 2018

For many centuries, Germany has enjoyed a reputation as the ‘land of music’. But just how was this reputation established and transformed over time, and to what extent was it produced within or outside of Germany? Through case studies that range from Bruckner to the Beatles and from symphonies to dance-club music, this...

Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country

W W Norton, 2019

"How do we become who we are in the world? We ask the world to teach us."

On her 120-acre homestead high in the Colorado Rockies, beloved writer Pam Houston learns what it means to care for a piece of land and the creatures on it. Elk calves and bluebirds mark the changing seasons, winter...

The Chief: The Life and Turbulent Times of Chief Justice John Roberts

Basic Books, 2019

An incisive biography of the Supreme Court's enigmatic Chief Justice, taking us inside the momentous legal decisions of his tenure so far

John Roberts was named to the Supreme Court in 2005 claiming he would act as a neutral umpire in deciding cases. His critics argue he has been anything but,...

Recent Advances in Geo-Environmental Engineering, Geomechanics and Geotechnics, and Geohazards: Proceedings of the 1st Springer Conference of the ... in Science, Technology & Innovation)

Springer, 2018

This edited volume contains the best papers in the geo-engineering field accepted for presentation at the 1^st Springer Conference of the Arabian Journal of Geosciences, Tunisia 2018. In addition, it includes 3 keynotes by international experts on the following topics:

1. A new three-dimensional rock mass...

The Heartland: An American History

Penguin Press, 2019

A history of a quintessentially American place--the rural and small town heartland--that uncovers deep yet hidden currents of connection with the world.

When Kristin L. Hoganson arrived in Champaign, Illinois, after teaching at Harvard, studying at Yale, and living in the D.C. metro area with various stints overseas,...

One Giant Leap: The Impossible Mission That Flew Us to the Moon

Simon & Schuster, 2019

The remarkable story of the trailblazers and the ordinary Americans on the front lines of the epic mission to reach the moon.

President John F. Kennedy astonished the world on May 25, 1961, when he announced to Congress that the United States should land a man on the Moon by 1970. No group was more surprised than the...

Political and Economic Transition in Russia: Predatory Raiding, Privatization Reforms, and Property Rights

Palgrave Macmillan, 2019

This book analyzes privatization reforms, property rights, and raiders in post-Soviet Russia. The author surveys the existing literature in the context of predatory raiding in Russia and introduces the notion and concept of this phenomena; he suggests that the study may serve as an explanatory model for corporate, property, and land...

Raavan: Enemy of Aryavarta (Ram Chandra)

Westland, 2019

WITHOUT THE DARKNESS, LIGHT HAS NO PURPOSE.

WITHOUT THE VILLAIN, WHAT WOULD THE GODS DO?

INDIA, 3400 BCE.

A land in tumult, poverty and chaos. Most people suffer quietly. A few rebel. Some fight for a better world. Some for themselves. Some don’t give a damn. Raavan. Fathered by one of the...

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