Technology and Security: Governing Threats in the New Millennium (Rappert Brian)(Pevná vazba)

Technology and Security: Governing Threats in the New Millennium (Rappert Brian)(Pevná vazba)

This book takes forward the existing state of academic understanding where security and technology intersect. It assesses the challenges posed by emerging scientific and technological developments for security while understanding how perceptions of security threats are themselves formed in relation

Risk Analysis and the Security Survey (Broder James F.)(Pevná vazba)

As there is a need for careful analysis in a world where threats are growing more complex and serious, you need the tools to ensure that sensible methods are employed and correlated directly to risk. Counter threats such as terrorism, fraud, natural disasters, and information theft with the Fourth

Finance and Security: Global Vulnerabilities, Threats and Responses (Navias Martin S.)(Pevná vazba)

The global financial sector is increasingly vulnerable to penetration by criminal money-launderers, financiers of terrorism, and proliferators of weapons of mass destruction. At the same time, it offers instruments that can be usefully employed to pursue foreign and security policy objectives. It

Threats and Alliances in the Middle East (Darwich May)(Pevná vazba)

Examining differing perceptions of threats and the subsequent alliance choices of two Arab states, Saudi Arabia and Syria, during three pivotal wars in the region: the Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988), the Lebanon War (2006), and the Gaza War (2009), May Darwich analyses how ideational and material forces

Beauty Will Save the World (Zahnd Brian)(Paperback)

In today's world we have technology, convenience, security, and a measure of prosperity, but where is the beauty? For thousands of years, artists, sages, philosophers, and theologians have connected the beautiful and the sacred and identified art with our longing for God. Now we live in a day

Dune: The Lady of Caladan (Herbert Brian)(Pevná vazba)

From Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, Dune: The Lady of Caladan is a brand new novel in the internationally bestselling Dune series. Lady Jessica, mother of Paul, and consort to Leto Atreides. The choices she made shaped an empire, but first the Lady of Caladan must reckon with her own betrayal

Spanish Cinema of the New Millennium (Deveny Thomas G.)(Pevná vazba)

Spanish Cinema of the New Millennium provides a new approach to the study of contemporary Spanish cinema between 2000 and 2015, by analysing films that represent both 'high' and 'popular' culture side by

Option Trading: Pricing and Volatility Strategies and Techniques (Sinclair Euan)(Pevná vazba)

An A to Z options trading guide for the new millennium and the new economy Written by professional trader and quantitative analyst Euan Sinclair, Option Trading is a comprehensive guide to this discipline covering everything from historical background, contract types, and market structure to

New Media Installation (Publications Sandu)(Pevná vazba)

Recent innovations in access to technology have led to an explosion in the number and variety of interactive art installations. Art pieces that would have been inconceivable twenty years ago are now popping up in galleries and public spaces around the world, expanding the range of human experience

The Annapolis Book of Seamanship (Rousmaniere John)(Pevná vazba)

Completely revised and updated to address changes in technology and safety standards, this new edition is the definitive guide to the art and science of sailing. 'The art of sailing, maneuvering, and preserving a ship or a boat in all positions and under all reasonable circumstances.' With the

Rosey (Rose Brian)(Pevná vazba)

The autobiography of the Somerset and England cricketer Brian Rose, the most successful captain in Somerset's

Politics and Technology in the Post-Truth Era (Visvizi Anna)(Pevná vazba)

This book examines the relationship between information and communication technology (ICT) and politics in a global

Securing Europe: Western Interventions Towards a New Security Community (Moustakis Fotios)(Pevná vazba)

The new model of intervention that emerged from Bosnia and Kosovo signalled a revolution in International Affairs. The crises in the Balkans revealed a new division of labor among Western states: US forces are primarily responsible for military action while European partners are more committed to

Eric Ravilious: Design (Webb Brian)(Pevná vazba)

The latest in the acclaimed Design Series, focussing on Ravilious as a designer, by Brian Webb and Peyton

Brian Froud's Faeries' Tales (Froud Brian)(Pevná vazba)

Following in the footsteps of Trolls, Brian and Wendy Froud lead readers deep into the world of faeries. Humans throughout history have always had special relationships and bonds with faeries, whether loving and helpful or at times destructive. This new book explores that complex relationship and

New Technologies and National Security Challenges (Kent Neil)(Pevná vazba)

Hybrid Conflicts and Information Warfare - Old Labels, New Politics (Fridman Ofer)(Pevná vazba)

Russian and Western experts explore the theory and realities of contemporary hybrid threats and information warfare, including the case of the Islamic

Japan's new security partnerships: Beyond the security alliance (Vosse Wilhelm)(Pevná vazba)

This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of Japan's new security partnerships with Australia, India, countries and multilateral security fora in East Asia, as well as with the EU and some of its member

Francis Bacon's New Atlantis in the Foundation of Modern Political Thought (Hale Kimberly Hurd)(Pevná vazba)

The relationship between technology, philosophy, and politics is both contentious and vital to our understanding of human nature and the ways human beings interact with one another in society; Francis Bacon outlined the wild potential and great danger of this relationship. Francis Bacon's New

Reordering Life: Knowledge and Control in the Genomics Revolution (Hilgartner Stephen)(Pevná vazba)

How the regimes governing biological research changed during the genomics revolution, focusing on the Human Genome Project.The rise of genomics engendered intense struggle over the control of knowledge. In Reordering Life, Stephen Hilgartner examines the 'genomics revolution' and develops a novel

Moocs, High Technology, and Higher Learning (Rhoads Robert A.)(Pevná vazba)

In MOOCs, High Technology, and Higher Learning, Robert A. Rhoads places the OpenCourseWare (OCW) movement into the larger context of a revolution in educational technology. In doing so, he seeks to bring greater balance to increasingly polarized discussions of massively open online courses (MOOCs)

Governing the Social in Neoliberal Times (Brock Deborah)(Pevná vazba)

Neoliberalism is most commonly associated with free trade, the minimal state, and competitive individualism. But it is not simply national economies that are being neoliberalized - it is us. Inspired by Michel Foucault and other governmentality theorists, this volume's contributors reveal how

Race on the Line: Gender, Labor, and Technology in the Bell System, 1880-1980 (Green Venus)(Pevná vazba)

Security, Resilience and Planning: Planning's Role in Countering Terrorism (Coaffee Jon)(Pevná vazba)

Security, Resilience and Planning offers key concept and practical guidance about the role of planners in countering terrorist risk, using a range of international case