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'Modeling and simulation capability and technologies are ubiquitous in our modern world. This is absolutely the case for training. Such capability allows us to increase training effectiveness while saving considerable resources. This book deftly provides key definitions and uses of modeling and simulation in advancing military competency. The book will benefit those who are new to applying this technology to solving real-world training problems.' Dee H. Andrews, Senior Research Psychologist, US Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences  'A must read for anyone whose mission it is to present material to an audience for their application and use. This is especially true for military trainers who use technology as a platform in the learning process. The key is understanding the means by which trainees learn and to find the techniques that fit how individuals learn, in order to make contact time most effective/efficient. The '"Go/No Go'"decision on training effectiveness is not that the material was presented, but did the trainee grasp the concept and succeed. An important tool for anyone working to educate.' Brigadier General Steven Seay (retired), Former Program Executive Officer, US Army PEO Simulation Training and Instrumentation  ’Fundamental Issues in Defense Training and Simulation provides a unique, timely and relevant contribution to the consideration of defence training and simulation. It is a well conceived, comprehensible and well-structured text that is applicable to the military training domain and broader business-related domains that have an interest in simulation and its relationship to training.’ Journal of Battlefield Technology, vol. 17, no. 1, March 2014

Fundamental Issues in Defense Training and Simulation

'In her work Culture Clash, Anne-Marie Mooney Cotter has produced an excellently researched and thorough examination of the legal background to ethnic discrimination.  Ms Cotter's work is a must for all practitioners and other persons interested in the legal issues surrounding ethnic groups as the world becomes more and more diverse, and cultures must learn to live side by side with one another.' Lynn Roy, Concordia University, Canada  'Culture Clash explores ethnic discrimination in Australia/New Zealand, Africa/South Africa, North America, and Europe (Ireland and the UK), while at the same time examining the two most important trade deals the North American Free Trade Agreement and the European Union Treaties. This book is the product of considerable research and learning, and has been written with Dr. Cotter's customary attention to detail.'  Laurence Nolan, Howard University School of Law, USA

An International Legal Perspective on Ethnic Discrimination

Culture Clash

Written by maverick Scottish cyclist Gareme Obree - aka The Flying Scotsman - the guide is aimed at all types of cyclists. It swerves conventional wisdom and strips cycling back to its elements.

A Training Manual for Cyclists - ‘A MUST-READ’ CYCLING WEEKLY

The Obree Way

Snetkov’s monograph, based on a PhD dissertation at the University of Birmingham, provides a close reading of Russian security discourse from 1999–2014 through the prism of Chechnya. The author carefully documents how the Russian leadership switched from a frame of a “weak state” to a “strong state” before edging back toward a discourse of an embattled state threatened by external enemies—and their domestic collaborators—a theme that emerged by 2004.--P. Rutland, Wesleyan University, CHOICE
Aglaya Snetkov’s monograph largely resolves many of these complexities through a variety of analytical techniques. She sets forth a convincing periodisation of Russia’s security pathways from the time Vladimir Putin was appointed prime minister in 1999 to the key caesurae of Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014. She includes a running case study of Chechnya as an object of Russia’s security policies and discourses over this timeframe, thereby mitigating the pitfall of adopting an overly conceptual approach to the subject. In addition, in her comprehensive analytical framework she is attentive to desecuritisation processes, which are most clearly reflected in Chechnya’s evolution from state-breaker to state-maker... Snetkov’s volume provides a rich investigative agenda for the Russian security specialist.
-- RAYMOND TARAS, Tulane University, Europe-Asia Studies

A Critical Perspective

Russia's Security Policy Under Putin

Dreamsaurus Adventures

Barry the Brave

’This anthology explores a neglected area of popular music studies - popular dance practices - and does so from a fresh perspective. The volume introduces some of the key popular dance scholars, and their latest thinking, to the field of popular music studies. From pioneering dance scholars such as Theresa Buckland to up-and-coming dance theorists such as Clare Parfitt-Brown, the array of perspectives addressed is always reliably grounded in rigorous research. ... The impact of this collection of essays is in the originality of its topics and in its engagement with popular dance practices. The volume’s value is in its empirical rigour, where theorising tends to emerge from the practices themselves. Most notably, these projects provide a model for seeing what hasn’t been noticed before. It’s commendable that dance scholars are leading the way here at the intersections of popular music and cultural studies’. Popular Music

Studies Across Popular Music and Dance

Bodies of Sound

"This is a useful introduction to English-language archaeologists interested in the life, scholarship, and theoretical positions of an important and provocative Russian archaeologist."— Andrew P. Roddick, Canadian Journal of Archaeology

"Stephan Leach’s biography of Klejn is a welcome account of Leo S. Klejn's life and intellectual pursuits, which also form a window on the workings of Russian society." - Visa Immonen, University of Turku

The Life and Work of Leo S. Klejn

A Russian Perspective on Theoretical Archaeology

'David Riesman was American sociology's great public intellectual of the 20th century. Riesman theorized about society and social character, cared about undergraduate teaching and higher education and intervened in the world effectively on questions of the nuclear arms race and the Berlin crisis in the early 1960s. These unpublished Riesman manuscripts and original essays on his ideas and life are an indispensable resource for understanding the pre-history of public sociology.' -Neil McLaughlin, McMaster University, Canada 
'David Riesman was a major public intellectual of the second half of the last century, his views regularly solicited by major media and institutions. This volume collects some of his unpublished papers - lectures, letters, speeches, uncompleted articles - on a range of subjects, which illustrate his amazing fertility of mind, his talent as a writer and phrase-maker, and his unique ability to discern, from simple engagement with individuals and aspects of popular culture, significant trends in American society that now give him the aura of a prophet.' -Nathan Glazer, Harvard University, USA 
'David Riesman will forever be remembered as the principal author of The Lonely Crowd, one of the most influential works of sociology ever written. But he deserves to be known for much more than that. As this valuable collection shows, he was a penetrating analyst of all facets of human culture, equipped with a supple, capacious, and curious mind, seemingly incapable of writing or speaking an uninteresting word. One can hear his humane voice and feel his generous and liberal spirit in these pages.' -Wilfred M. McClay, University of Oklahoma, USA
'This collection of texts will undoubtedly help rekindle interest in Riesman’s work.' - Contemporary Sociology

David Riesman's Unpublished Writings and Continuing Legacy

Educators as Agents of Change

Teaching Toward Democracy 2e

'An excellent addition to tourism literature and a must read for students of tourism and industry practitioners. The text provides a unique insight into the major challenges confronting Small Island Developing States (SIDS) in staging a major international sport event. The book not only lists the challenges but addresses the solutions adopted which led to the successful staging of the event.'  Diaram Ramjee Singh, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica  'This book brings together the complex manifestations of sports events with the unique context of the Caribbean, providing critical insights into the opportunities and threats that arise with the hosting of sports events. It is a required read for those with interests in sports studies, events management and tourism in the Caribbean.' James Higham, University of Otago, New Zealand  'Lucidly written and cogently argued the authors of this book analyse the largest sporting event to have been held in the English speaking Caribbean - the Cricket World Cup 2007. Marshalling a variety of data  they present a compelling narrative of the event demonstrating that while there was much to celebrate about the manner in which it was managed, there are many very important lessons to be learned. This book should be read by academics, policy makers, sports administrators and all those all who have an interest in sports management, particularly in developing countries.'  Ian Boxill, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica  'The contents of Sports Events Management: the Caribbean Experience will appeal to an international readership in sociology, geography, economics, sports studies, sports management and cultural studies. The breadth of coverage and composition of the specialist chapters makes this a compelling and substantive addition to the sports event management literature.'  Leisure/Loisir

The Caribbean Experience

Sports Event Management

'Constructing African Art Histories for the Lagoons of Côte d’Ivoire is an important Lagoon corpus document and an exceptional guide for others to use in constructing art histories throughout Africa.' Patricia Coronel, Colorado State University, USA 
'Visonà [...] shares her field research on Akan peoples of the Lagoon regions of Côte d'Ivoire; conducted in the 1980s, it remains relevant, valuable scholarship on African visual culture... valuable is Visonà's inclusion of advice to art historians of African art... Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.' Choice 
'The book has great value as the first comprehensive study of the arts of the Lagoon peoples. It also stands out as an important review of the limitations of post-structuralist (postmodern) theory, at least in the context of studying the visual arts in Africa. The author’s manifest honesty, impeccable scholarship, and clarity of prose recommend it to scholars and students alike.' International Journal of African Historical Studies 
'The subject is clearly presented, and [Visonà's] use of first person narrative, complete with numerous descriptions of her personal experiences in the field, keeps the subject interesting and compelling. The book is a welcome, readable addition to the scholarly literature on African Art.' Journal of Art Historiography 
'... a useful text for teaching, and will appeal to collectors of Lagoon art. In terms of preparation for the field, a survey of the pre-existing work on Lagoon people, and the effects of colonization on the area, it is probable that Visonà’s work cannot be bettered.' Journal of African History

Constructing African Art Histories for the Lagoons of Côte d'Ivoire

'This is the acme of policy-relevant, intellectually coherent scholarship.  It explores the challenges facing the EU in providing effective security at, within, and even outside its borders while preserving the personal and societal liberty at the core of democracy.  Largely implicit suggestions that a zero-sum relationship between security and liberty can and should be avoided underlie both the framework and the meticulously objective analyses of the several chapters.' Martin O. Heisler, University of Maryland, USA  'Delivering liberty' would seem an obvious task for democracies, but the book - and the  CHALLENGE research project that originated it- explores the reasons why this remains a challenge.  It interrogates the conceptual, empirical and normative relations between liberty and security and does so by fruitfully contesting the boundaries between different research disciplines and by engaging with policy makers and the public.' Angela Liberatore, Directorate General for Research, European Commission  'This book presents the result of the five-year research project CHALLENGE (The Changing Landscape of European Liberty and Security) which focused on the contemporary balance between liberty and security in Europe... given the monumental size of the research project, which involved 23 universities studying nine issue areas, the editors succeed in granting space to most of the findings of the project.' Political Studies Review

Delivering Liberty

Europe's 21st Century Challenge

“... Eine schöne Idee sind hingegen die eingestreuten Kurzporträts der bedeutenden Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler des Bereichs. Auch das fast 20-seitige Glossar ist sehr hilfreich. ... Doch für Studierende oder Personen mit Vorkenntnissen handelt es sich um eine sehr empfehlenswerte Literatur, die ein solides Selbststudium der Grundlagen und Möglichkeiten der künstlichen Intelligenz ermöglicht.” (Michael Hedenus, in: Spektrum.de, 4. Oktober 2021)

Was steckt hinter der Technologie der Zukunft?

Künstliche Intelligenz

Miami Purity

Dieser atemberaubende Kalender begleitet Sie durch das Jahr und zeigt die faszinierende Vielfalt der Waldbewohner in ihrer natürlichen Umgebung

Naturparadies Wald (Wandkalender 2025 DIN A2 quer), CALVENDO Monatskalender

The Lady of The Barge

WAS IST WAS Junior Band 36 Natur- und Umweltschutz Das kannst du tun!

’The Dual State is a powerful and provocative interrogation of contemporary politics of security, based on a critical reinterpretation of Carl Schmitt’s political thought. The contributors trace the operation of the para-political logic in a dazzling variety of settings, demonstrating the continuing dependence of the global liberal order on disavowed and covert structures of authority. Combining theoretical sophistication with empirical diversity, this volume is essential reading for anyone interested in understanding contemporary world politics.’  Sergei Prozorov, University of Helsinki, Finland  ’Recent history (with its seminal falsifications like the false-flag US anthrax attacks) has served to increase the relevance of parapolitical analysis. This anthology shows the recurrence of parapolitics in many different countries, and also contributes to a theoretical understanding of both the phenomenon and the study of it, the latter in the context of officially funded (and CIA-subsidized) academic social science. Most of the investigative essays are open-ended, as they should be. In all, this important and wide-ranging collection is an excellent introduction to parapolitical studies, the best that I know.’ Peter Dale Scott, University of California, Berkeley, USA

Parapolitics, Carl Schmitt and the National Security Complex

The Dual State

Ein Finale voller Spannung und Liebe - Bad Girl trifft auf Good Guy - Romantic-Suspense

Before the Moon Falls (Scandalous Secrets, Band 2)

A True Account Of The Home Of The Fairy Tales (1882)

Moonfolk

'This probing, ambitious and lucid book is the first major attempt to connect Hannah Arendt's work to contemporary sociology. It succeeds brilliantly and will be a vital source for all who wish to engage with Arendt's challenge to sociology and to the social sciences more generally.' 
Peter Baehr, Lingnan University, Hong Kong
'Philip Walsh has accomplished something remarkable in this book. He has combined a contextual history of Arendt’s problematic relations to sociology, a deep reflection on some of the central themes of recent sociological thought, and an explication of her complex scheme of surrogates for more traditional social theoretical concepts.' 
Stephen Turner, University of South Florida, USA 
'This is an important and accessible book that critically mediates debates in contemporary sociology in light of Hannah Arendt's work. Addressed primarily to sociologists, it successfully moves beyond Arendt's critique of sociology to show the way her insights can provide a significant and much needed corrective to the discipline's current state of theoretical pluralism. The book's great accomplishment is the way it uses Arendt's formulations to examine the conceptual strengths and deficiencies of theorists from Marx, Weber, Simmel, Mead and Mannheim, to Goffman, Giddens, Bourdieu, Baumann, Marcuse, Habermas, Archer and Lukes.' 
Kieran Bonner, St. Jerome's University at the University of Waterloo, Canada [Translated from French] 
'Rich in detail and explanation but still very clear, Walsh’s book performs the painstaking work of constructing the thought of Arendt (or even re-constructing when it comes to the question of knowledge) to engage or re-engage and question the concepts themselves away from the subject as a whole, in a complete perspective of the discipline which thus allows the thinking on not only the proliferation of theoretical paradigms and concepts (p. 3). Since this is the explicit objective of the book, it appears not only to have fulfilled its goal, but to have opened the door to resolutely heuristic discussion that has perhaps become too rare.' 
Lectures, an International Journal of Reviews in Social Sciences
'He gives a survey of her triadic understanding of human activity, which she divides into labor, work, and action. Walsh underlines that Arendt does not suggest a classifying typology in the manner of Weber, but that she ratherdefines these categories as ontological, that is, as basic aspects of human existence.'
Tomas Stølen, Acta Sociologica

Theory, Society and its Science

Arendt Contra Sociology

How Your Food Choices Affect Your Health, Your Happiness, and the Future of Life on Earth

Diet for a New America 25th Anniversary Edition

’’Legal Education scholarship has grown and developed enormously in recent decades, and this text is a significant contribution to this continued development.’ SCOLAG Legal Journal  The Moral Imagination and the Legal Life examines innovative ways to incorporate non-textual and non-legal materials such as visual art, literature, film, performing arts, and simulations into law school curricula. For those interested in how to deepen moral perception, this edited collection provides a wealth of new ideas and theoretical insights.’ Deborah L. Rhode, Stanford Law School, USA  ’Together with its companion volume The Arts and the Legal Academy, this collection is essential reading for anyone concerned about legal education in these times when quantifiable student satisfaction often trumps the quality of teaching. Bankowski and his colleagues argue forcefully that there need not be a contradiction between the two: quality legal education conducted with imagination can be a deeply satisfying experience.’ Panu Minkkinen, University of Helsinki, Finland

Beyond Text in Legal Education

The Moral Imagination and the Legal Life

DOGS OF LONDON

The French Language and British Literature, 1756-1830

Concepts and Places

Flagship Marketing

Squealer's Adventures

Ein Syrer entdeckt das österreichische Liebesleben

Gspusis, Gspür und wilde Gschichten

A work reflecting impeccable scholarship, deep understanding of performance issues, and obvious reverence for the music. This volume will long be consulted by anyone taking the plunge into the Musical Offering or the Art of Fugue.

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