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Conflict and Catastrophe Medicine: A Practical Guide 3e follows its successful predecessors in providing a framework for use by health professionals visiting a resource-constrained environment. Aimed at health professionals, Conflict and Catastrophe Medicine: A Practical Guide 3e encompasses problems brought about by local conflict or natural disasters. It covers preparation, organisation, logistics, treatment of major trauma and medical emerg...

In many commodity-based economies, rollercoaster boom-and-bust cycles have come to be viewed almost as an unavoidable characteristic. Framed mainly in the context of the Alberta economy, the articles in this volume explore a wide range of issues associated with the historical phenomenon of recurring periods of boom and bust, including reasons for their apparent inevitability, dealing with revenue volatility, possible diversification strategies...

Elizabeth Van Lew was a spy during the Civil War. The diary Van Lew kept during those years provides an account of the life of a Civil War spy. Her sporadic notations reveal her fears, her triumphs, and the danger she faced in sending information through the lines to the Yankees, while aiding the escape attempts of Union prisoners in Richmond.

The prospect of entering treatment is overwhelming for anyone facing a diagnosis of cancer. While patients have access to a vast amount of medical information online, this advice is often unreliable or confusing. In Living with Cancer, Drs. Vicki Jackson and David Patrick Ryan have crafted the first step-by-step guide aimed at helping people with this life-defining disease grasp what's happening to them while coping physically and emotionally ...

The RAND Program Manager's Guide is a tool to help those responsible for managing or implementing programs to assess program performance, consider improvement options, implement solutions, and assess how well the changes worked.

This is an outstanding collection of essays, organized around questions of identity and 'othering'. The editors are themselves prominent scholars of United States foreign policy. They have assembled an impressive collection of scholars to examine the interplay of identity and policy from colonial times to the 21st century. The combination of social constructivist methodology and historically rigorous scholarship gives this collection an origin...

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Brief Encounters is a very interesting work at a number of levels. The author had the opportunity to work in a nationwide capacity as an Apple Education Trainer for a two-year period between 2013 and 2015. This work involved a lot of travel, with time spent in airports and hotels. Over the period, he was able to undertake several observations that he would then mould to create Brief Encounters, which would then be written when he was travellin...

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US Foreign Policy in World History is a survey of US foreign relations and its perceived crusade to spread liberty and democracy in the two hundred years since the American Revolution. David Ryan undertakes a systematic and material analysis of US foreign policy, whilst also explaining the policymakers' grand ideas, ideologies and constructs that have shaped US diplomacy.US Foreign Policy explores these arguments by taking a thematic approach ...

Conflict and Catastrophe Medicine: A Practical Guide 3e follows its successful predecessors in providing a framework for use by health professionals visiting a resource-constrained environment. Aimed at health professionals, Conflict and Catastrophe Medicine: A Practical Guide 3e encompasses problems brought about by local conflict or natural disasters. It covers preparation, organisation, logistics, treatment of major trauma and medical emerg...

Includes essays which offer a series of perspectives on connections and parallels between the Vietnam War and the 2003 invasion of Iraq. This work examines the impact of the Vietnam analogy on the War in Iraq, assessing the military tactical lessons learned from the Vietnam War, exploring the influence and persistence of its legacy in US politics.

This Festschrift volume is published in honor of David Kahn and is the outcome of a Fest held in Luxembourg in 2010 on the occasion of David Kahn's 80th birthday. The title of this books leans on the title of a serious history of cryptology named "The Codebreakers", written by David Kahn and published in 1967. This book contains 35 talks dealing with cryptography as a whole. They are organized in topical section named: history, technology - pa...

A systematic look at modern China's military campaigns and the actual fighting conducted by the People's Liberation Army since the founding of the People's Republic. It offers a general overview of the evolution of PLA military doctrine, and then focuses on major combat episodes from 1949 to 1999.

A systematic look at modern China's military campaigns and the actual fighting conducted by the People's Liberation Army since the founding of the People's Republic. It offers a general overview of the evolution of PLA military doctrine, and then focuses on major combat episodes from 1949 to 1999.

This book explores the links between self-harm and suicide and presents international approaches to training in suicide prevention for professionals. It debates the legality and morality of assisted self-harm and analyse the rate and causes of suicide among specific groups, people in custody and people with mental illnesses.

This book provides coverage of the diversity of Australian film and television production between 2000 and 2015. In this period, Australian film and television have been transformed by new international engagements, the emergence of major new talents and a movement away with earlier films' preoccupation with what it means to be Australian. With original contributions from leading scholars in the field, the collection contains chapters on parti...

A Simple Look at Earth Changes - Past Results and Future Implications. "Have you ever wondered what is behind some of the World's mysteries? Do you ponder Earth changes and natural climate swings? If so, this is a book for you. Addressed herein is a primary thought that when first published by another author "electrified" Albert Einstein. Yet, a cause for the theory was not previously given. This book will show the process steps needed to brin...

US Foreign Policy in World History is a survey of US foreign relations and its perceived crusade to spread liberty and democracy in the two hundred years since the American Revolution. David Ryan undertakes a systematic and material analysis of US foreign policy, whilst also explaining the policymakers' grand ideologies and the ideas that have shaped US diplomacy.US Foreign Policy explores these arguments by taking a thematic approach structur...