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From June 25 to 27, 2008, the Naval War College had the honor to convene an International Law Expert's Workshop, "The War in Afghanistan - A Legal Analysis." This volume captures the legal lessons of the war in Afghanistan as reported, studied and debated by a rare gathering of eminent scholars and practitioners of international law. The workshop's mission was to provide a comprehensive legal examination of the Afghan conflict-from the decisio...

You First All Luke had to do was come after Justin. How difficult could that possibly be? There was only one thing that stopped sex with Justin being completely perfect for Luke. The timing. That wasn't so perfect. In fact, the timing really sucked - and not in the fun, fellatio related way. Justin was five years younger than Luke and relatively inexperienced. Luke had enjoyed more lovers than he could count or remember - he knew he was goo...

The photos in this edition are black and white.Years ago, enthusiasts had limited in-car entertainment system options. One could install a high-performance head unit, amp, speakers, and upgrade a few other components, and that was about it. Today, in-car entertainment system options are virtually limitless, and they are one of the most popular automotive upgrades. In fact, upgrading or replacing a stock stereo system is just the tip of the in-...

These two phonologies of the Chadic languages Muyang and Mbuko present typologically unusual data, the bulk of which is found in the vowel systems. Prosodies of labialization and palatalization can span entire words, affecting both vowels and consonants. Morphemes are of three types: neutral, labialized, and palatalized. At a deep level, these languages have only one or two basic vowels, all other vowel qualities result from the interplay of o...

Animation: Art and Industry is an introductory reader covering a broad range of animation studies topics, focusing on both American and international contexts. It provides information about key individuals in the fields of both independent and expe

This work develops an African indigenous discourse paradigm for interpreting and understanding literary and cultural materials. By returning the African knowledge system back to its roots and placing it side by side with Western paradigms, Na'Allah has produced a text that will be required reading for scholars and students of African culture and literature.

Provokes thought, insight, and smiling reverence for all beings and each moment.

This is the first study of the rich history of our food, its fads and its fashions to be combined with a practical cookbook of over 200 recipes from each age for use today.

The law of presumptions has never been popular among commentators. It has attracted few scholars, and most of the few who have ventured into the subject have come away as critics rather than admirers. Certainly, there are plausible reasons for this bad reputation. Presumptions are evidently inferior to more direct forms of proof, indeed they may not be forms of proof at all. They raise difficulties of definition and classification. Some presum...

Exploring theories of difference in labor market participation, network formation and the immigrant organising process, on belonging and diaspora, and a theory of `vulnerability, ¿ A Global History of Gender and Migration looks critically at two centuries of the migration experience from the perspectives of women and men separately and together.

This long-awaited autobiography is a wonderful testament to an exceptional figure in football, and a treaure trove of memories for anyone interested in the history of the game.

Argues that the Victorians created a concept of adolescence that lasted into the twentieth century and yet is strikingly at odds with post-Second World War notions of adolescence as a period of 'storm and stress'.

We are pleased to present the proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Discovery Science (DS 2009), held in Porto, Portugal, October 3¿5, 2009. DS 2009 was collocated with ALT 2009, the 20th International Conference on AlgorithmicLearningTheory, continuingthesuccessfulDSconferenceseries. DS 2009 provided an open forum for intensive discussions and the exchange of new ideas among researchers working in the area of discovery science. ...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Stochastic Algorithms, Foundations and Applications, SAGA 2009, held in Sapporo,  Japan, in October 2009. The 15 revised full papers presented together with 2 invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 22 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on learning, graphs, testing, optimization and caching, as well as stochastic algorit...

VolumesofLNCS 5821andCCIS51aretheproceedingsofthe 4thInternational Symposium on Intelligence Computation and Applications (ISICA 2009) held in Huangshi, China, October 23¿25, 2009. These two volumes are in memory of Prof. Lishan Kang, the ISICA 2009 Honorary General Chair, who was a leading ?gurein the ?elds of domain decomposition methods and computational intelligence. ISICA 2009 successfully attracted over 300 submissions. Through rigorous ...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Security, IWSEC 2009, held in Toyama, Japan, in October 2009. The 13 revised full papers presented together with 1 invited talk were carefully reviewed and selected from 46 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on block cipher, cryptographic protocols, contents protection and intrusion detection, as well as authentication.

A fascinating portrait of betrayal - part gothic tale, part historical fiction - set against the backdrop of tragedy, slavery and war.

A bracing and beguiling quest for the world's deepest, purest snowfall that takes us from carrot-nosed snowmen in frosty gardens to the most perilous peaks on earth - a book that does for the white stuff what Robert Macfarlane did for mountains.

The original 'Angel Lady', Jacky Newcomb is an award winning, Sunday Times bestselling author and the UK's leading expert on spontaneous afterlife communication and angel experiences. Jacky is regularly interviewed in the national press and radio and has appeared on This Morning, LK Today (The Lorraine Kelly Show) and others. Author website: www.jackynewcomb.com

A boy suspects his mother is a witch (and isn't entirely wrong) in this wonderfully irreverent, humorous rhyming story with Quentin Blake-esque illustrations