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An intimate look into the life of a determined American woman navigating the complexities of Israeli society, touching upon themes of society, humor, and transcendent love. This intimate personal book is for those women who've continued learning and seeking...and for those rare men strong enough to value letting them. Y.B-H. Herzlia, Israel There's a wake-up call hidden in here ..... The extraordinary story of this naive American's determination to build a life for herself and her children in Israel also touches on a raw nerve in Israeli society: is it too late to deal with fundamentalist religious forces working against realization of an open, pluralistic, democratic homeland for all world Jewry? M.L. Omer, Negev, Israel An up-close look from the inside... through her professional work, Karen gets involved in almost every facet of Israel's intense, ironically humorous society, and witho
The book addresses aspects dealing with the acquisition of signals by technical means from different sources, their processing, analysis and interpretation. The main interest is to describe the flow and processes that aggregate raw data to information, intelligence, and knowledge. Applications focus on intelligence and homeland security, including signal processing and communication. Type: Hardcover
Fantasy. A tale inspired by one of the popular video game's most notorious villains reveals his origins and dark purpose in an epic adventure that incorporates elements from Blizzard's expansion set, "Wrath of the Lich King" Titel: Arthas : rise of the Lich King Genre: Fantasy Sammendrag: Long before his soul was fused with that of the orc shaman Ner'zhul, the Lich King was Arthas Menethil, crown prince of Lordaeron and faithful paladin of the Silver Hand. When a plague of undeath threatened all that he loved, Arthas was driven to pursue an ill-fated quest for a runeblade powerful enough to save his homeland. Type: Paperback
In Manhattan, Craig Mellow is the toast of the literary world, a young writer whose bestselling novels and larger-than-life adventures are fueled by natural-born charisma. But Craig lost a limb and a legacy in Africa. And his heart still clings to the land. A representative of the World Bank recruits Craig to return to his war-torn homeland--to use his knowledge of Zimbawe's people, languages, and wildlife to stabilize its future. But once he sets foot on the continent, Craig cannot resist what runs in his blood.. Soon, this scion of a legendary family is caught in a new era of massive ivory poaching, of tribal warfare waged with modern killing tools, and international politics hardwired directly to Washington and Moscow. With a woman by his side and a traitor behind his back, Craig is about to learn a lesson of a brutal new age--if he can survive Africa one more time. Forlag: Pan Books
Gangsters. Drugs. Sex. and Violence. An Epic Story of the Cuban American Underworld "Cuba, 1961. A failed invasion at The Bay of Pigs results in Fidel Castro tightening his hold over Cuba. José Miguel Battle Sr., a former cop and member of the counter-revolutionary group intent on overthrowing him, is captured. Miami, 1962. José Miguel Battle Sr. travels to the USA, chased from the island by revolution, and is renamed The Godfather. A 2,500 strong Cuban-American criminal alliance is established. Known on both sides of the law as 'The Corporation', its powerful members were fellow outcasts and enemies of Castro. A hero to many Cuban-Americans, The Godfather created a unit of trusted men who fought alongside him to reclaim their nation from the Marxist dictator. Gaining money, power and inluence by running gambling rackets, money- laundering, drug trafficking and murder, The Corporation ne
A Story of the Future Summary: The signs of climate change are unmistakable even today, but the real transformations have hardly begun. For a generation, we've been taught that warming was a problem of arctic melting and sea levels rising, but in fact it promises to be all-enveloping, driving dramatic changes at every level of our lives, from everyday matters like the supply of chocolate and coffee (likely to dry up) to public health (tens of millions likely to die from pollution) to climate migration (hundreds of millions fleeing unlivable, overheated homelands). We've been taught that warming would be slow-but, barring very dramatic action, each of these impacts is likely to arrive within the length of a new home mortgage signed this year. What will it be like to live on a planet pummeled in these ways? What will it do to our politics, our economy, our culture and sense of history? Wha
GO LO GO HI: Tracing the Development of Masculine Domesticities from the Garage to the Penthouse — A Multi-Modal Exploration in Architecture, Urban Environments, Film, and the Arts Ozmin, Janek KTH, School of Architecture and the Built Environment (ABE), Architecture. ORCID iD: 0000-0002-2151-5754 2023 (English) Doctoral thesis, monograph (Other academic) Abstract [en] GO LO GO HI is a multi-modal enquiry into the relationship between masculine domesticities and the architectures of the suburban garage and penthouse apartment. The project adopts the garage and the penthouse as sites of enquiry, which means thinking through architecture as a cultural phenomenon, the agency of which includes but is not limited to spatial design, material compositions, visual representations, and historical contexts. While adhering to specific architectural typologies, both sites are assemblages of technolo
