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Brings together a wide variety of resources on the history, structure, and mandate of the ICC. It presents a general overview of court and offers a series of articles on the challenges facing the international tribunal. Chapters include: History, Structue, Complementarity America and the ICC, International Implementation and Objections, Gender crimes, Aggression, Security Council and Darfur Referral, Enforcement and the ICC today. The antholog...

The papers in this volume are the refereed application papers presented at AI-2007, the Twenty-seventh SGAI International Conference on Innovative Techniques and Applications of Artificial Intelligence, held in Cambridge in December 2007. The papers present new and innovative developments in the field, divided into sections on Synthesis and Prediction, Scheduling and Search, Diagnosis and Monitoring, Classification and Design, and Analysis and...

Research Methods in Criminal Justice and Criminology is a core text for criminology and criminal justice research methods courses. It strives to offer a general foundation of knowledge that transcends particular topics or subject areas, allowing students to apply research methods and concepts to a multitude of scenarios. Even though the textbook has been written primarily for criminal justice and criminology majors, there is an underlying reco...

Famed marine researcher and illustrator Richard Ellis brings us a work of scientific achievement that will forever change the way we think about fish, fishing, and the dangers inherent in the seafood we eat. The bluefin tuna is one of the world's biggest, fastest, and most highly evolved marine animals, as well as one of its most popular delicacies. Now, however, it hovers on the brink of extinction. Here Ellis explains how a fish that was onc...

El arte curativo conocido como Reiki, tiene como fin equilibrar y armonizar el cuerpo a través de la trasnmisión de energía que el practicante canaliza por medio de sus manos, y que a su vez despierta la propia energía sanadora del paciente tanto a nivel físico y mental como emocional. En este libro, el autor nos ofrece una perspectiva de la práctica del Reiki basada en su propia experiencia de varios años en la que utiliza un recorrido a trav...

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed w...

In this volume, the author discusses the widely-discussed, but poorly-understood phenomenon of presidential "lightning rods" - administration officials who, either through intent or circumstances, divert criticism and deflect blame away from their president.

Polar bears-fierce and majestic-have captivated us for centuries. Feared by explorers, revered by the Inuit, and beloved by zoo goers everywhere, they are a symbol for the harsh beauty and muscular grace of the Arctic. But as global warming threatens the ice caps' integrity, the polar bear has also come to symbolize the environmental peril that has arisen due to harmful human practices. In the past twenty years alone, the world population of p...

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed w...

The most common document formalisation for text classi?cation is the vector space model founded on the bag of words/phrases representation. The main advantage of the vector space model is that it can readily be employed by classi?cation - gorithms. However, the bag of words/phrases representation is suited to capturing only word/phrase frequency, structural and semantic information is ignored. It has been established that structural informatio...

Als auf der Geburtstagsfeier ihres Vaters ein Spiegel von der Wand fällt und am Boden zerschmettert, witzelt Gina unbefangen über sieben Jahre Unglück, die ihnen nun bevorstehen. Trotz großem Gelächter hängt die Erwähnung des Aberglaubens den restlichen Abend wie eine Warnung in der Luft. Am nächsten Tag auf dem Rückweg von der Arbeit glaubt Gina sich selbst - oder ist es eine Doppelgängerin? - an sich vorbeifahren zu sehen. Die junge Rad...

Als auf der Geburtstagsfeier ihres Vaters ein Spiegel von der Wand fällt und am Boden zerschmettert, witzelt Gina unbefangen über sieben Jahre Unglück, die ihnen nun bevorstehen. Trotz großem Gelächter hängt die Erwähnung des Aberglaubens den restlichen Abend wie eine Warnung in der Luft. Am nächsten Tag auf dem Rückweg von der Arbeit glaubt Gina sich selbst - oder ist es eine Doppelgängerin? - an sich vorbeifahren zu sehen. Die junge Rad...

Cada día intentamos comunicarnos con otras personas: ¿somos conscientes de lo que sucede en realidad cuando lo hacemos? Con el fin de darnos algunas pistas, el presente libro combina hábilmente una sencilla introducción al estudio teórico de la comunicación humana, con un agradable conjunto de ejercicios prácticos que permitan al estudiante observar cómo se aplica realmente la teoría en la práctica: juegos, representaciones de roles y experime...

Armorwear is compelling and intelligent, touching every emotion as it explores the infinite purposes of God, even in a single, life-changing moment. Eric Simmons is analytical, creative, resourceful. In essence, he's the proverbial renaissance man. He lov

The mysterious, elusive and largest of all sea creatures, the giant squid, remained a mystery. Until now. Examine a thorough, compelling study of this exotic animal that has never been studied alive. 56 illustrations.

The healing art of Reiki is a practice that restores balance and harmony within the body through the transmission of healing energy through the hands of the practitioner, bringing relief to a wide range of physical, mental, and emotional afflictions. Reiki practitioner Richard Ellis offers a unique perspective on the practice of Reiki, drawing on his own experience, coupled with an in-depth, step-by-step journey through the main chakras--the s...

It is becoming common in many states: citizens seizing the opportunity to reclaim government from politicians by signing a petition to put an initiative on the ballot and then voting on it. During the past decade alone, Americans voted on nearly 500 statewide initiatives. Particularly in the West, direct legislation increasingly defines and dominates the political agenda.Although this may appear to be democracy in action, Richard Ellis warns u...

Ever since Plato created the legend of the lost island of Atlantis, it has maintained a uniquely strong grip on the human imagination. For two and a half millennia, the story of the city and its catastrophic downfall has inspired people--from Francis Bacon to Jules Verne to Jacques Cousteau--to speculate on the island's origins, nature, and location, and sometimes even to search for its physical remains. It has endured as a part of the mytholo...

Photography in Colorado was encouraged as early as 1861, when newspaper editor William Byers wrote in the Rocky Mountain News, "Secure the shadow, ere the substance perish, " and roused the citizenry to take photographs of their families, friends, landscape, homes, and mills in order to document their lives and share them with others. The revised edition of Colorado: A History in Photographs draws on this rich legacy, portraying Colorado's his...

From one of the world's leading experts on the sea comes this ocean-sized compendium of aquatic life and lore. Richard Ellis--who is also recognized as America's foremost painter of marine subjects--gives us a masterful synthesis of years of investigation and tens of thousands of disparate sources. The result is the first comprehensive, fully illustrated, and highly readable reference on almost everything that is known about the sea. Ellis's r...