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Von den vielen Geschichten, die ich erlebt und erzählt bekommen habe in den nunmehr 88 Jahren, ist dies eine kleine Auswahl. Gar viel ist in der Vergangenheit verborgen, vielleicht kommt es im nächsten Buch ans Licht.

Finale in Südafrika Das Lüderitzfragment ... ein wahrhaft spannender Politthriller, der den Leser von der ersten Seite an mitnimmt auf eine atemberaubende Jagd kreuz und quer durch die beeindruckende landschaftliche Vielfalt Südafrikas und ihn tief eintauchen lässt in die dortige Gesellschaft mit ihren unterschiedlichen Volksgruppen zwischen Tradition und Moderne. Sie ahnen nichts voneinander und teilen das gleiche Schicksal. Zwei junge Fra...

Gnukural ist ein Gnom, der seit vierhundert Jahren allein in einem großen Wald lebt. Eines winterlichen Morgens stößt er bei seiner Suche nach Feuerholz auf fünf Kinder mit einem seltsamen Gerät, das Musik macht und redet - ein Radio. Da er so etwas noch nie gesehen hat, stiehlt er es den Kindern, aber diese lassen ihn nicht entkommen. Es kommt zu einer Begegnung, die zu einer wundervollen, einzigartigen Freundschaft und großen Gefahren führt....

Edgar award--winning author of The naming of the dead"--Cover.

A bestselling author examines the perspectives and principles of three pillars of the financial world--as well as their judgments on the current crisis and the path to recovery.

A longtime military affairs correspondent for the "Washington Post" offers a revealing portrait of Donald Rumsfeld, the controversial Defense Secretary, and his impact on U.S. national security affairs.

FGMOS, a MOSFET with an additional electrically isolated gate known as floating-gate, has been used in digital circuit design for quite some time with applications in the design of memories. The charge stored on the floating-gate affects the conductivity of the channel and in turn alters the threshold voltage. This imparts programmability to threshold voltage of a FGMOS to make it suitable for low voltage analog circuit structures. Analog circ...

In response to the growing awareness of groundwater degradation, there has been increased concern about nitrate mobility and retention in soils and water resources. Nitrate might be released from various sources, transport through vadose zones and contaminate groundwater as the sole source of water in many parts of the world. This book, therefore provides impacts of different landuses on nitrate transport in an unconfined calcareous sandy aqui...

This study is the first comprehensive work in the literature to investigate service quality dimensions in the contexts of retail/business customers of traditional and Islamic banks. The first phase of the study explored concepts, dimensions and models of service quality. The hypotheses were developed in the second phase. The third phase was concerned with the empirical work. The findings are firstly- technical quality, functional quality and i...

Soft Computing is an emerging approach which parallels the remarkable ability of the human brain to reason and learn in an environment of uncertainty and imprecision. It is one of the most emerging consortiums of methodologies including artificial neural networks (ANNs), fuzzy logic (FL) etc. They provide tractable, robust and lower cost solutions to the complex and gigantic real world-problems with the help of functional approximations and le...

DDoS attack is the greatest threat of today in the field of Network Security. The ability to detect and prevent a network from DDoS attack and to ensure the high quality infrastructure is a back bone of today's network security issues. In this book, it has successfully validated an algorithm using OmNet++ Ver. 4.0 simulation to show how a DDoS attack can be detected and how the nodes can be protected from such an attack using GOSSIP protocol.

Since the 1990s, oil violence in the Niger Delta has constituted festering sores on the thumbs of the Nigerian state, the Multinational Oil Companies (MNOCs), and the Niger Delta communities. The deployment of physical force by the dramatis personae in petro-business, for the achievement of their respective goals with regards to the appropriation of crude oil and its accruable benefits had continued unabated until the granting of general amnes...

The present work aims to describe the "Design of the Robust Gripper for Hoisting Mechanism". As an overview, this project is developed the gripper for handling or transporting delicately the Nata de Coco jelly blocks, this type of gripper commonly found in the food industry. The goal of this project is to design, build and control an automation robust gripper in small scale and thus, experimentally analyze the load and stability of the robust ...

In this review I will show the connection between diabetes, stress and barriers to care and the impact these have on Maori who have type 2 diabetes. I have undertaken an extensive literature review, which focused mainly on indigenous peoples, and more specifically on Maori. I explored the connection between all the factors involved and combined these with reflections from my own clinical practice experience. My conclusion will show that stress...

Electronically monitored sanctions have become an emerging force in the field of corrections in the Western world during the last two decades. Although these sanctions have been promoted as providing a punitive aspect to community sentences, they are considered by many observers to be relatively 'non-deprivative' compared to the more traditional sanction of imprisonment. However, research analysing the offender's opinions of the perceived seve...

A number of studies have aimed to find those factors affecting the drag coefficient at the ocean surface. The direction of swell relative to the local wind has been proposed as a contributing factor. Different approaches have been used, but the results have been inconclusive. Here observed and modelled 2D wave spectra are compared. The data is obtained by the microwave MIROS-radar and the WAM-model (cycle-4) at different locations in the North...

The security in MANET has become a significant and active topic within the research community. In spite of the several attacks aimed at specific nodes in MANET that have been uncovered, some attacks involving multiple nodes still receive little attention. Furthermore, it may also have to do with the fact that no survey or taxonomy has been done to clarify the characteristics of different multiple node attacks. This thesis addresses the aforeme...

Turbulent flows are generally forced and dissipative with fluxes of energy and enstrophy through the system. For such flows one must rely on direct numerical simulations or develop statistical closure theories. In order to describe the statistical behaviour of a turbulent flow the underlying non-linear dynamical equations must be averaged thereby producing an infinite hierarchy of moment equations. Statistical turbulence theory is principally ...

Testing Challenges in Web Applications This thesis research focuses specifically on testing challenges of Web-based application with respect to interoperability and integration, further research in this domain can be more beneficial for both academia and industry. Industrial survey shows that most of the companies are doing integration and interoperability testing manually. Though automated testing tools are very beneficial and helpful to spee...