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"This volume explores the nature of civil war in the modern world and in historical perspective. Civil wars represent the principal form of armed conflict since the end of the Second World War, and certainly in the contemporary era. The nature and impact of civil wars suggests that these conflicts reflect and are also a driving force for major societal change. In this sense, Understanding Civil War: Continuity and Change in Intrastate Conflict argues that the nature of civil war is not fundamentally changing in nature. The book includes a thorough consideration of patterns and types of intrastate conflict and debates relating to the causes, impact, and 'changing nature' of war. A key focus is on the political and social driving forces of such conflict and its societal meanings, significance and consequences. The author also explores methodological and epistemological challenges related to studying and understanding intrastate war. A range of questions and debates are addressed. What is the current knowledge regarding the causes and nature of armed intrastate conflict? Is it possible to produce general, cross-national theories on civil war which have broad explanatory relevance? Is the concept of 'civil wars' empirically meaningful in an era of globalization and transnational war? Has intrastate conflict fundamentally changed in nature? Are there historical patterns in different types of intrastate conflict? What are the most interesting methodological trends and debates in the study of armed intrastate conflict? How are narratives about the causes and nature of civil wars constructed around ideas such as ethnic conflict, separatist conflict and resource conflict? This book will be of much interest to students of civil wars, intrastate conflict, security studies and IR in general"--

"A practical guide to leveraging your data to spur innovation and growth. Your business generates reams of data, but what do you do with it? Reporting is only the beginning. Your data holds the key to innovation and growth - you just need the proper analytics. In Big Data, Big Innovation: Enabling Competitive Differentiation Through Business Analytics, author Evan Stubbs explores the potential gold hiding in your un-mined data. As Chief Analytics Officer for SAS Australia/New Zealand, Stubbs brings an industry insider's perspective to guide you through pattern recognition, analysis, and implementation. Big Data, Big Innovation: Enabling Competitive Differentiation Through Business Analytics details a groundbreaking approach to ensuring your company's upward trajectory. Use this guide to leverage your customer information, financial reports, performance metrics, and more to build a rock-solid foundation for future growth. Build an effective analytics team, and empower them with the right tools Learn how big data drives both evolutionary and revolutionary innovation, and who should be responsible Identify data collection and analysis opportunities and implement action plans Design the platform that suits your company's current and future needs Quantify performance with statistics, programming, and research for a more complete picture of operations Effective management means combining data, people, and analytics to create a synergistic force for innovation and growth. If you want your company to move forward with confidence, Big Data, Big Innovation: Enabling Competitive Differentiation Through Business Analytics can show you how to use what you already have and acquire what you need to succeed"--

"Do you really think you are getting a good deal when given that free mobile phone for switching service providers, if a multinational retailer undercuts its competitors or by the fact that food is relatively cheaper today in many countries than ever before? Think again! As Michael Carolan clearly shows in this compelling book, cheapness is an illusion. The real cost of low prices is alarmingly high. It is shown for example that citizens are frequently subsidising low prices through welfare support to poorly-paid workers in their own country, or relying on the exploitation of workers in poor countries for cheap goods. Environmental pollution may not be costed into goods and services, but is paid for indirectly by people living away from its source or by future generations. Even with private cars, when the total costs of this form of mobility are tallied it proves to be an astronomically expensive model of transportation. All of these costs need to be accounted for. The author captures these issues by the concept of cheaponomics . The key point is that costs and risks are socialised: we all pay for cheapness, but not at the point of purchase. Drawing on a wide range of examples and issues from over-consumption and waste to over-work, unemployment, inequality, and the depersonalising of communities, it is convincingly shown that cheapness can no longer be seen as such a bargain. Instead we need to refocus for a better sense of well-being, social justice and a balanced approach to prosperity."--Publisher description

The recent global economic crisis has highlighted the importance of strong corporate governance systems. The failure of many of the 'gatekeepers' (i.e. auditors) to protect the efficiency of the financial markets has left many wondering whether there exists a sound model of corporate governance and if so, what the features of such a model are. The International Corporate Governance System: Audit Roles and Board Oversight provides a comprehensive legal, economic and financial approach to corporate governance. It addresses the practical aspects of corporate governance, auditing and risk management whether within principles-based regulatory approach or the rules-based approach. Starting with the OECD principles, their application by both the IMF and the World Bank, the book analyzes and compares corporate governance systems in the US, the UK, Canada, Australasia, Japan, Continental Europe, the BRICS, Saudi Arabia. The book moves on to analyze the audit roles and legislations in the US (SOX Act), the EU Statutory Audit Directive, the ROSC, the Audit Scandals, the auditors' liabilities, and the future of auditing. Finally, the author provides comprehensive coverage of the board oversight function, the management fraud types and the role of the audit committee. The International Corporate Governance System is geared to a large public of lawyers, economists, financiers, and accountants who want to enhance their knowledge and skills in this interdisciplinary field. Business school students, law graduates, economics graduates will learn how law and regulation affect management practices, strategies and aims. Likewise, government officials, risk managers, chief financial officers, chief operating officers in charge of supervision and enforcement of laws and regulations will find a guide in their difficult environment.

Since 2007-08 the global economy has faced two global food price crises, placing the issue of food security firmly back on national and international agendas. In this thought-provoking and persuasively argued book, Jane Harrigan, Professor of Economics at SOAS, examines the impact of the food price hikes on the Arab region and illuminates the linkages between the food price crisis, the Arab Spring, and the growing practice of foreign land acquisition. This book provides a political economy analysis of the history of food security in the Arab world, including the geopolitics of food and its use as a foreign policy tool by the Western world. It contains an in-depth examination of the role played by the global food crisis of 2007-11 as a trigger factor in the Arab Spring. The responses of the governments of the Arab states to these events are presented using the concept of food sovereignty, defined by the author as power and control over food supplies in ways that often violate economic and market forces. The recent push for food sovereignty has involved both a new drive to increase domestic Arab food production and land acquisition overseas -- the so-called land grab phenomenon. Both of these dynamics are analysed in depth from a political and an economic perspective, including a detailed study of Saudi Arabia. The Political Economy of Arab Food Sovereignty presents the first comprehensive study of the interplay between food politics and power in the Arab region, making it indispensable reading for all those interested in the political economy of the Arab world and food security.

Understanding the entrepreneurial nature of universities—in particular, the relationship between education and health in relation to development and wellness of communities—this volume provides a description/narration of the efforts in how universities can address their shifting contexts while engaging their communities in social change. In the development of this book, we have explored how reforms in American higher education are impacting the role of universities and their faculty. Contributors were asked to imagine possibilities for research and outreach by providing salient examples of how higher education can lead and change how we view the role of health and education within institutions and society. Each author writes across common themes that address the problems and possibilities of higher education curriculum and projects aligned with the mission of stewardship. The authors highlight interdisciplinary approaches and projects for faculty work, modification of the Teaching-Research-Service expectations, and community initiatives that can emerge from real-life problems (to impact wellbeing) and create rich and deep research possibilities for practitioners to impact both higher education and society. The process and research approaches used by the authors include imagining the community as part of a process of the change and part of what changes, exploring how community change can build on the strengths of local people, and why community organization and advocacy should revolve around social learning and community capacity theories. Given the diversity of topics and approaches, as editors we have tried to honour both the authors' words and style in expressing their opinions to provide a forum for the readers to envision stewardship.

Cover -- Advance Praise -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Acknowledgments -- About the Author -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Foreword -- Introduction: Witnessing Leadership Valor -- Part I-Understanding and Claiming Leadership Valor -- Chapter 1-Leadership Valor in Action -- Chapter 2-Valor Interrupted: Leadership Seductions and Their Impact -- Chapter 3-The Four Steps of Leadership Valor -- Chapter 4-Beyond the Steps: What Else Is Required for Valiant Leadership? -- Part II-Leading Valiantly in Real Life -- Vignette 1-Seductions in Real Life -- Vignette 2-When Being "Right" Trumps Good Intentions -- Vignette 3-When Being "Right" Is More Important Than Being Fired -- Perspectives and Tips: Realizing You May Be Wrong...Even When Your're Sure You're Right -- Vignette 4-The Destructive Power of Storytelling -- Perspectives and Tips: Six Stories That Keep Us Stuck -- Perspectives and Tips: Sustaining Valor in the Face of Storytelling -- Vignette 5-Distraction Two Ways -- Vignette 6-The Echo Chamber of Team Seductions -- Perspectives and Tips: How to Stay Valiant When the Seductions Call Your Name -- Vignette 7-Initiating and Illuminating Transform a Leader's Life -- Perspectives and Tips: Initiating and Illuminating -- Vignette 8-Curating at Its Best -- Vignette 9-Creating and Calibrating When the Stakes are High -- Perspectives and Tips: Expanding Your Capacity to Calibrate -- Vignette 10-The Value of Integrating -- Vignette 11-Leading Valiantly With a Single Word -- Perspectives and Tips: Questions, Answers, and Practices -- Perspectives and Tips: Recognizing Leadership Valor in Others -- Perspectives and Tips: Recognizing Leadership Valor in Yourself -- Part III-Sustaining Success as a Valiant Leader -- Chapter 5-How to Use the Cycle and the Steps of Leadership Valor -- Chapter 6-Mastering Valiant Leadership.

America's most notorious family feud began in 1865 with the murder of a Union McCoy soldier by a Confederate Hatfield relative of "Devil Anse" Hatfield. More than a decade later, Ranel McCoy accused a Hatfield cousin of stealing one of his hogs, triggering years of violence and retribution, including a Romeo-and-Juliet interlude that eventually led to the death of one of McCoy's daughters. In a drunken brawl, three of McCoy's sons killed Devil Anse Hatfield's younger brother. Exacting vigilante vengeance, a group of Hatfields tied them up and shot them dead. McCoy posses hijacked part of the Hatfield firing squad across state lines to stand trial, while those still free burned down Ranel McCoy's cabin and shot two of his children in a botched attempt to suppress the posses. Legal wrangling ensued until the US Supreme Court ruled that Kentucky could try the captured West Virginian Hatfields. Seven went to prison, and one, mentally disabled, yelled, "The Hatfields made me do it!" as he was hanged. But the feud didn't end there. Its legend continues to have an enormous impact on the popular imagination and the region. With a charming voice, a wonderfully dry sense of humor, and an abiding gift for spinning a yarn, bestselling author Lisa Alther makes an impartial, comprehensive, and compelling investigation of what happened, masterfully setting the feud in its historical and cultural contexts, digging deep into the many causes and explanations of the fighting, and revealing surprising alliances and entanglements. Here is a fascinating new look at the infamous Hatfield-McCoy feud

Intro -- Title Page -- DEDICATION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- FOREWORD -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER ONE -- GUAM'S HIGHS AND LOWS -- GUAM, HERE I COME! -- CHINA WHITE -- MY FIRST YEAR OF MARRIAGE -- DRUG RUNNING -- A BUNCH OF RED BALLOONS -- ASSAULT AND ATTEMPTED MURDER -- JAIL TIME -- FAILED MARRIAGE -- CHAPTER TWO -- MY YOUTH -- LOST…AND FOUND -- MY HIGH SCHOOL DAYS -- ART CLUB -- CHAPTER THREE -- HOME AT LAST -- ADDICTED IN THAILAND -- "MULES" -- CLOSE CALL AT THE AIRPORT -- HUMILIATION -- AWOL -- IN THE BRIG -- "ABANDON SHIP!" -- RELEASED -- CHAPTER FOUR -- LIVING THE WILD LIFE -- INNOCENT SEEDS -- A SANDWICH BAG OF POT -- MY BUDDY HEROIN -- PRESERVED BY GRACE -- "THE RED-BEARDED ROBBER" -- LOCKED UP -- CHAPTER FIVE -- 1,213 DAYS IN HELL -- SET UP -- LEATHER AND "STEEL" -- "BAT" -- FREE BUT NOT FOR LONG -- "GIVING BACK" -- HOMELESS -- OUT OF THE RAIN -- IN THE SLAMMER AGAIN -- JACK FILES -- NEAR DEATH -- SHOPLIFTING -- "STICK-A-MORE" WING -- HIV? -- MY NEW CELLMATE -- THE MAKING OF A MIRACLE -- WORKING FOR TEEN CHALLENGE -- CHAPTER SIX -- UNEXPLAINED OCCURRENCES -- ANGELS UNAWARE -- WALKING ORDERS -- MY TRUMPET -- KAREN REVISITED -- SNOW BOOTS FROM HEAVEN -- REALITY CHECK -- DERAILED! -- CHAPTER SEVEN -- MY CALLING -- BACK ON TRACK -- TEEN CHALLENGE MINISTRY INSTITUTE -- DIVINELY APPOINTED TRACT -- THE MOTOR LODGE INN -- "SHIP-A-HOY!" -- LETTER TO GRANDPA -- ALL THINGS ARE POSSIBLE -- HONDURAS, HERE WE COME! -- CHAPTER EIGHT -- IS THAT MY WIFE? -- HELEN WAS HER NAME -- MORE THAN A FRIEND -- POPPING THE QUESTION -- FLOWERS ANYONE? -- THE WEDDING -- CHAPTER NINE -- GOD'S PROVISION -- TWO-CYCLE OIL -- GOD AND THE WHEELIE -- YOU'RE HIRED! -- GOD'S COURT -- SIZE 11 -- MIRACLE BABY MOA HOPE -- TWO WEEKS -- A GOD-SENT PHONE CALL -- MOM WENT TO HEAVEN -- THE END…IS THE BEGINNING -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR.

Intro -- 1 Shakespeare`s tertium non datur -- 1.1 Author`s note -- 1.2 On the state of science -- 1.3 To be, or not to be? -- 1.4 Meta linguistic mathematics -- 1.5 Existential Term Logic -- 1.5.1 The First Axiom of Contradictio in Existentia -- 1.5.2 The Second Axiom of Contradictio in Existentia -- 1.5.3 The Third Axiom of Contradictio in Existentia -- 1.5.4 The Fourth Axiom of Contradictio in Existentia -- 1.5.5 The Fifth Axiom of Contradictio in Existentia or Gödel`s Hamlet -- 1.5.6 The Sixth Axiom of Contradictio in Existentia or the broken crosses -- 1.5.7 The rise of the Phoenix: Transformatio Capitalis and Temperatio Entis -- 1.6 Under the spell of the Ultimus Moriturorum -- 2 Abbasidien Trumen or the deconstruction of reality -- 2.1 Showtime -- 2.2 Meta coding, ever so clever -- 2.3 Mind the gap -- 2.4 Set director Sir Isaac Newton -- 2.5 Truman economist Léon Walras -- 3 Exchange, price and money -- 3.1 The meta arithmetic locality functions -- 3.2 The basic exchange function -- 3.3 The basic price function -- 3.4 Why money matters in microeconomic theory -- 3.5 The microeconomic exchange model -- 3.6 The Six Arithmetic Incompleteness Theorems -- 3.7 Labour and property rights -- 3.7.1 Why labour has no price -- 3.7.2 Reenthroning Locke The Elder -- 3.8 "Bank book credit" -- 3.8.1 The exchange of claims -- 3.8.2 "Bank interest" -- 3.8.3 The Circuit Multiplier -- 3.9 New corporate finance -- 3.9.1 Cashflow based bills of exchange -- 3.9.2 Red Bonds as non-legal tender -- 3.9.3 Red Bonds in online exchange communities -- 3.9.4 Red Bonds comparative cost of capital analysis -- 4 Colour Capital markets -- 4.1 The Colour Capital stock market -- 4.2 The Colour Capital fixed income market -- 4.3 The future of money capital -- Formulary -- Bibliography.

Praise for Working With Grieving and Traumatized Children and Adolescents "This much-needed book effectively argues for the use of structured activities as the basis for exploring trauma-specific questions in clinical work with traumatized children and adolescents. Numerous examples of children's artwork enhance the book and illustrate the effectiveness of the treatment. The authors' methods have been used successfully for many years and represent a major contribution to the study of trauma that will be welcomed by both students and seasoned practitioners." -Nancy Boyd Webb, DSW, LICSW, RPT-S Professor of Social Work Emerita, Fordham University, Author: Play Therapy With Children in Crisis "The authors provide a clear theoretical framework and demonstrate practical sensory-based activities so kids can discover and reconnect with their bodies' agency and vitality. Refreshingly, this vehicle creates an emotionally safe journey for the child into the mystery of the experiential, embedded in implicit memory. It's chock-full of invitations to explore self-impressions and worldviews in a way that children feel seen, not assessed." -Peter A. Levine, PhD, and Maggie Kline, MS, LMFT, Coauthors: Trauma Through a Child's Eyes and Trauma-Proofing Your Kids A structured, sequential, and evidence-based approach for the treatment of children and adolescents experiencing trauma or grief Working With Grieving and Traumatized Children and Adolescents features the Structured Sensory Interventions for Traumatized Children, Adolescents and Parents (SITCAP) intervention model, proven in successfully addressing violent situations such as murder, domestic violence, and physical abuse, as well as non-violent grief- and trauma-inducing situations including divorce, critical injuries, car fatalities, terminal illness, and environmental disasters. Filled with practical and

In From One Winning Career to the Next, author J. David Quilter expertly guides the security professional through the corporate landscape. Having transitioned into the private sector from a long career in public service with the DEA, Quilter offers valuable perspective on the differences in culture and priorities between the public and private sectors, and how those differences can affect efforts in organizational security. Readers will benefit from the author's insights on researching and joining a new organization, exploring a business' structure and culture, and getting to know the executives and leaders within a business. Chapters contain practical advice on specific challenges (crisis management, assaultive behavior, threats to corporate assets, etc.), forming an effective team, and making a business case to gain executive support for a security agenda. This book is vital background for security professionals considering career changes. It will also aid those in established positions in their efforts to communicate, strategize, and implement security programs and goals within a business. From One Winning Career to the Next is a part of Elsevier's Security Executive Council Risk Management Portfolio, a collection of real world solutions and "how-to" guidelines that equip executives, practitioners, and educators with proven information for successful security and risk management programs. Provides tips for all aspects of a career change, including narrowing the job search, preparing for an interview, presenting yourself in an interview, researching a company, and evaluating a position Prepares security leaders for specific challenges they may face during the transition into a new position Includes easily adaptable, on-the-job lessons for a newly hired security leader.

Intro -- Title Page -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR -- FOREWORD -- INTRODUCTION -- STATE OF THE UNION AND DEMOCRACY FOR CENTRAL ASIA -- THE MOCKERY OF DEMOCRACY -- THE BOOK "THE GODFATHER-IN-LAW" CONFIRMS THE GENETICALLY INHUMANE AND ANTIDEMOCRATIC NATURE OF THE NAZARBAYEV REGIME -- THE PRESIDENTIAL PALACE SHOULD EXPECT MORE REVELATIONS -- WILL POWER IN KAZAKHSTAN SOBER UP IN TIME? -- THE ATAMEKEN PARTY IS NOW TWO YEARS OLD, BUT WITHOUT AN OATH OF LOYALTY TO THE PRESIDENT IT REMAINS UNREGISTERED -- KHAN NURSULTAN [NAZARBAYEV] TEMPTS EUROPE -- I AM NEVER GOING TO PLAY THE ROLE OF A SWATTED FLY -- WILL EX-AMBASSADOR RAKHAT ALIYEV MANAGE TO CLEAN UP THE KAZAKHSTAN POLITICAL FIELD? -- IF PRESIDENT NAZARBAYEV GAVE THE ORDER TO MURDER ALTYNBEK SARSENBAYEV, HE MUST RESIGN NOW -- EVIDENCE REVEALS WHO ORDERED THE MURDER OF ALTYNBEK SARSENBAYEV - SHOCK AWAITS KAZAKHSTAN AND THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY -- EX-AMBASSADOR ALIYEV'S STATEMENT PROVES THAT THE OFFICIALLY REGISTERED OPPOSITION PARTIES ARE A SHAM -- ACCORDING TO THE SCENARIO: THE NEXT KAZAKH PRESIDENT - IMANGALI TASMAGAMBETOV -- I ALERT EVERYONE THAT WHAT IS HAPPENING IS THE GOVERNMENT'S DIRECT INTERFERENCE IN PARTY AFFAIRS -- MY REFUSAL TO ACCEPT REGISTRATION CONDITIONS IRKS TIMUR KULIBAYEV -- ONE DAY OF FREEDOM IS MORE PRECIOUS THAN 40 YEARS OF SLAVERY! -- IF TIMUR KULIBAYEV BECOMES A HINDRANCE WE WILL GO OUR SEPARATE WAYS -- DEMOCRACY SHOULD BECOME AS ACCESSIBLE AS AIR AND AS NATURAL AS BREATHING -- CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM: A GIANT'S VICTORY OVER A BABY -- WE HAVE COME TO A CRITICAL POINT -- MR. YERTYSBAYEV - MINISTER OF CULTURE AND INFORMATION, NOT TIMUR KULIBAYEV'S PRESS SECRETARY -- THE PRESIDENT HAS BECOME A PROPERTY OF THE BUREAUCRACY -- WHO STANDS BEHIND THE ATAMEKEN PARTY? -- WE ARE NOT IMITATORS OR PUPPETS -- THE POWER IS IN HUMAN CAPITAL.

Curriculum and the Life Erratic: The Geographic Cure lays bare the untold damage done to children who are forced to endure the toxic combination of 'fermented parenting' (as author Leslie Nissen has termed it) and frequent family moves at the hands of alcoholic parents who perpetually seek the elusive Geographic Cure. While such parents deceive themselves that in the next new place, sobriety will prevail, their children know better. Alcoholics who chronically uproot their families for a fresh start usually carry along every reason to drink. For the school-age children of such cure-seeking alcoholics, the torment of life with a volatile, unpredictable and chronically intoxicated parent is intensified by the anguish of being "the new kid" who changes schools at the whim of the parent. Highly mobile children, bearing an alarmingly long list of prior schools, may be part of a group which Nissen calls Geographic Cure Children, whose chances of finding help are nearly non-existent, despite their acute need for care. The dilemma of this unique subset of Children of Alcoholics is examined via autobiographical, psychoanalytic and fictional lenses. Nissen also recounts her own urge to hit the road when diagnosed with cancer, and explores the Geographic Cure writ large, observing how the current "testing frenzy" and clamor for cures for low test scores dominate educational policy. Could teachers' panic about accountability cause them to resent new students who appear at their classroom doors mid-year? Is education encumbered because, at the hands of policy-makers, educators are working the Life Erratic?

"The Bet uses a legendary wager between the Stanford biologist Paul Ehrlich and the conservative University of Illinois economist Julian Simon to examine the roots of modern environmentalism and its relationship to broader political conflicts in the nation. Ehrlich, author of the landmark 1968 book The Population Bomb, believed that rising populations would cause overconsumption, scarcity, and disastrous famines. Simon countered that flexible markets, technological change, and human ingenuity would allow societies to adapt to changing circumstances and continue to improve human welfare. In 1980, they made a much-ballyhooed bet about the future prices of five metals that served as a proxy for their arguments about the future. The Bet weaves intellectual biographies of Ehrlich and Simon into the history of late twentieth-century environmental politics and other struggles of the era between liberals and conservatives. Humanity's larger gamble on the future still remains unresolved. By wrestling with the different sides of these arguments, The Bet encourages a more nuanced approach to environmental problems, one that acknowledges the limitations of both ecology and economics in guiding policy, and that instead emphasizes the conflicting values that underlie political choices. The Bet is structured around three bets: first, the $1000 bet that Ehrlich (and two colleagues) made with Simon over the prices of chromium, copper, nickel, tin, and tungsten; second, the bet that the United States faced in the 1980 presidential election in choosing between Carter and Reagan; and third, the larger gamble that we as a society continue to make as we make choices"--