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This thesis examines DTIM at the US Army installation level. It reviews the Army's view of domestic threat based on current doctrine, as well as the joint view of terrorism as the predominate threat. It suggests a revised approach that fuses both Army and joint sources by combining the USACIDC's criminal categories with joint terrorism threat indicators. This model envisions threat as a hierarchy of seven criminal categories or threat groups r...

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As scientists confidently look forward to average life expectancies hitting 100+ years in some Western societies, it¿s easy to forget how precarious our grasp on good health has been. It is a struggle no better demonstrated than by the myriad and extraordinary measures that humans have gone to ¿ as diverse as animal sacrifice to stem cell transplants ¿ in their quest to stave off death and disease.Acclaimed historian Mark Jackson takes a fresh...

How do Black men imagine who they are and what they must do ...within their families, communities, and the world? The essays in this collection both ask and attempt to answer this question. Based in communication, and drawing from diverse disciplines, Masculinity in the Black Imagination seeks to address identity, race, and gender by examining the communicative dimensions of Black manhood. The collection works to define, deconstruct, and conte...

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Medical devices and surgical tools that contain micro and nanoscale features allow surgeons to perform clinical procedures with greater precision and safety while monitoring physiological and biomechanical parameters more accurately. While surgeons have started to master the use of nanostructured surgical tools in the operating room, this book addresses for the first time the impact and interaction of nanomaterials and nanostructured coatings ...

Features adjustable double-sided star maps featuring all 88 constellations. This title contains pull-out Sky Guide booklet, with tips for safe star gazing, big, double-sided poster featuring rockets, spaceships, satellites and spacestations on one side, and an illustrated Sky Map on the other, and, pop-up Big Bang pull-out cards.

Abrasive machining is one of the most important processes used in manufacturing engineering. It is key to removing unwanted material, as well as to obtain the desired geometry and surface quality in manufacturing. "Machining with Abrasives" discusses the fundamentals and advances in the abrasive machining processes, and provides a complete overview of newly-developing areas in the field. Abrasive machining processes where material is removed f...

Although Walt Disney is best known as a filmmaker, perhaps his greatest skill and influence was as a reader. He appealed to his audience by selecting familiar stories, but transformed them to suit audience sensibilities. Many of the tales he chose to adapt to film went on to become literary classics. This collection of essays addresses Disney as a reader and shows how his responses to literature fuelled his success.

China is an amazing country. A place that needs time and complete immersion to be able to understand. I took a job as a tour leader, and instantly I was out of my depth. I experienced places and situations that I could never have been prepared for and all with a group of paying tourists who were looking to me for guidance. However, this was a steep learning curve covering language, culture, and history. It was not long before I saw that the pe...

China is an amazing country. A place that needs time and complete immersion to be able to understand. I took a job as a tour leader, and instantly I was out of my depth. I experienced places and situations that I could never have been prepared for and all with a group of paying tourists who were looking to me for guidance. However, this was a steep learning curve covering language, culture, and history. It was not long before I saw that the pe...

The book is a collection of poems I have compiled over the past 30 years. Each poem expresses my feelings to life experiences, as they happened through the years. The titles cover many topics ranging from my deepest feelings to washing machines.

This charts the history and evolving perception of allergy, from a rare and non-fatal condition one hundred years ago to a widepread, potentially fatal and lucrative clinical specialism today. Offers critical insights into the historical geography of disease.

The ultimate reference tool and lab partner for any student of science, durably laminated, authored and designed to fit as much info as possible in this handy 6-page format. Separate property tables are broken out for the ease of locating trends while studying and working while other pages offer essential notes about the table's organization and history. Consistently, a best seller since it's first creation, the lamination means you will have ...

As the biomedical device industry grows substantially worldwide over the next few decades, significant issues regarding the health and safety of the manufacturing worker must be controlled and managed effectively in order to minimize unwanted exposures to chemical, biological and physical hazards encountered in the workplace. It is also important to bear in mind that safe delivery is not less important than efficient delivery. Medical devices ...

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Jackson, Tushnet, and their contributors, distinguished jurists and legal scholars from around the world, seek to define the field of constitutional law, sometimes expressly but more often by illustrating the way in which each writer thinks about comparative constitutional law. Viewed as a whole, the collection points to common constitutional themes even though how nations responded to these issues differed substantially based on different his...

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In the years following World War II the health and well-being of the nation was of primary concern to the British government. The essays in this collection examine the relationship between health and stress in post-war Britain through a series of carefully connected case studies.

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