Illicit Antiquities

Illicit Antiquities

The exploitation of archaeological sites for commercial gain is a serious problem worldwide. In peace and during wartime archaeological sites and cultural institutions, both on land and underwater, are attacked and their contents robbed for sale on an international ‘antiquities’ market. Objects are excavated without record, smuggled across borders and sold for exorbitant prices in the salesrooms of Europe and North America. In some countries this looting has now reached such a scale as to threaten the very survival of their archaeological and cultural heritage.

Illicit Antiquities

Soil Security for Ecosystem Management

Soil Security for Ecosystem Management

The term ‘Soil Security’ is used in the context of maintaining the quality and quantity of soil needed in order to ensure continuous supplies of food and fresh water for our society. Topics in this unique book on the management of soil sustainability in the Mediterranean region include: soil information, land degradation, land desertification, pedoenvironments, and the carbon cycle and sequestration. One main focus of the book is the description of new approaches that have been adapted with regards to interdisciplinary soil ecosystem management to combat and mitigate desertification. The contributing authors are renowned experts in their fields which cover the subjects on traditional as well as innovative land use and management.

Soil Security for Ecosystem Management

The Bloodstained Throne

The Bloodstained Throne

The new Sir Geoffrey Mappestone mystery – When the former crusader knight Geoffrey Mappestone and his friend Roger of Durham try to slip out of England to the Holy Land, a ferocious storm destroys the ship they are on and casts them ashore. The two knights are unwillingly thrust into the company of other shipwrecked passengers, and while attempting to evade the unwelcome attention of the more dangerous members of the group, they become unwillingly drawn into a plot to overthrow the king and return England to Saxon rule . . .

The Bloodstained Throne

Strategy and Intellegence

Strategy and Intellegence

Strategy and Intelligence, which brings together original essays by a number of leading authorities on various aspects of the First World War, aims both to summarise the latest literature on Britain’s participation in that war and also to open up new lines of investigation. These include the role of intelligence in land and air battles; Anglo-American financial relations; Anglo-Russian and Anglo-Irish relations; the British Labour movement in the war; and the final campaigns of 1918, which led to the Allied victory. These essays are written not only for the specialist but also to be accessible to students and to the general reader.

Strategy and Intellegence

Beyond Patriotism

Beyond Patriotism

Beyond Patriotism argues that some millions of Americans have become post-national people who put the good of humanity ahead of patriotism or national honour. It discusses the decisions that disillusioned them from the Vietnamese War, to the attempt to put Pol Pot back into power, to the sanctions against Iraq. Rather than lamenting the heyday of patriotism, post-national people should congratulate themselves on attaining moral maturity. They should clarify their thinking about why nationalism is bankrupt, what Americans should do to pacify the world, what they owe to their native land, and what they owe to themselves.

Beyond Patriotism

This Dark Road to Mercy

This Dark Road to Mercy

Hailed as ‘mesmerizing’ (New York Times Book Review) and ‘as if Cormac McCarthy decided to rewrite Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird’ (Richmond Times-Dispatch), A Land More Kind Than Home made Wiley Cash an instant literary sensation. His resonant new novel, This Dark Road to Mercy, is a tale of love and atonement, blood and vengeance, a story that involves two young sisters, a wayward father, and an enemy determined to see him pay for his sins.

This Dark Road to Mercy

With Autumns Return

With Autumns Return

Elizabeth Harding arrives in Cheyenne, Wyoming, to establish her medical practice thanks to the wooing of her two older sisters who extolled the beauty of the land. She’s certain she’ll have a line of patients eager for her expertise and gentle bedside manner. However, she soon discovers the town and its older doctor may not welcome a new physician. Even more frustrating, the handsome young attorney next door may not be ready for the idea of a woman doctor. For his part, Jason Nordling has nothing against women, but he’s promised himself that the woman he marries will be a full-time mother.

With Autumns Return

A Frozen Hell

A Frozen Hell

This is a book of battles — savagely fought, often with great heroism on both sides, under brutal, subarctic conditions. Guerrillas on skis, heroic single-handed attacks on tanks, unfathomable endurance, and the charismatic leadership of one of this century’s true military geniuses — these were the elements of Finland’s short-lived victory. For all the epic resistance of the Finns, the outcome was foreordained. Belatedly the Russians realized that an expected easy triumph over a vastly outnumbered foe had become a slaughterhouse. Incompetent commanders were replaced, more and better troops were moved into position, and orders were given to overwhelm and crush the Finns by the sheer weight of massed numbers. But even though they lost on the battlefield, the Finns’ pointed resistance kept the Iron Curtain from drawing closed around their land and allowed Finland to remain free, even as other countries fell one by one.

A Frozen Hell

Romantic Escapes in the Caribbean

Romantic Escapes in the Caribbean

The Caribbean is a land of marriages performed at the water’s edge, and honeymoons celebrated in luxurious resorts. This guide offers lovers information on staying in the Caribbean. For each location, it provides a description of the island, how to gain entry, the resorts, where to dine and the nightlife. Every type of area is covered, from the sleepy inns in Nevis and tiny Tobago, to pulsating resorts in Jamaica and Puerto Rico. For those considering a wedding or vow-renewal on an island, the guide also covers marriage regulations and the best places for an island ceremony.

Romantic Escapes in the Caribbean

Underwater Tailing Placement at Island Copper Mine

Underwater Tailing Placement at Island Copper Mine

By their very nature, mining operations generate significantly more waste than ore. For a large-scale mine, this can translate into several hundred million tons of waste rock and tailings that must stored and eventually reclaimed. Waste storage on this scale requires vast land mass and significant expense for site reclamation once the mine is closed.

Underwater Tailing Placement at Island Copper Mine

The North Korean Peoples Army

The North Korean Peoples Army

For more than fifty years, the combined armed forces of the United States and the Republic of Korea have faced down the North Korean People’s Army (NKPA) along the world’s most militarized stretch of land known as the demilitarized zone. Despite the prolonged standoff, much remains unknown about the world’s third largest army. In this authoritative study, James M. Minnich blends academic knowledge with nearly twenty-five years of military experience to explain the NKPA’s origins, military ideology, strategy, combat formations, and tactics to ensure a full understanding of this reclusive belligerent. At the outset, Minnich examines the first crucial years of the North Korean state and its army. Solidly grounded in primary sources and buttressed by the judicious use of secondary sources, his work traces the formative elements of the Korean partisans, Soviet Army, and Chinese communists to show how each group contributed to the NKPA’s development and its ability to mount the first shooting campaign of the Cold War. This timely book then presents a vitally relevant examination of the NKPA’s current military tactics, including its seven forms of offensive maneuver, two forms of defense, and tactical artillery groupings. Required reading for military planners and personnel who must remain prepared to rapidly deploy to Korea, this concise profile will also appeal to students of Korean history and those seeking a deeper understanding of the NKPA.

The North Korean Peoples Army

The Dead Can Wait

The Dead Can Wait

Deep in England’s green and pleasant land something evil lurks

The Dead Can Wait

Encyclopedia of Judaism

Encyclopedia of Judaism

Encyclopedia of Judaism explores a religion that has a 2,000-year recorded history and has been a part of the culture of almost every country and society around the globe. Encapsulating all things Jewishlanguage, laws, literature, arts, theology, ritual, land, culture, and personalitiesthis authoritative volume offers readers access to Judaism from both a historical and contemporary perspective.

Encyclopedia of Judaism

The War on the Land, 1935-45

The War on the Land, 1935-45

‘This anthology is… a distillation of what the fighters put down at the time or in retrospect to tell others (or perhaps convince themselves) what it was all about. Here are the words of the wise, the witty, the nonchalant, the devil-may-care: the poets and the prodigals.’ From the Editor’s Foreword

The War on the Land, 1935-45

The God Engines

The God Engines

Devoted to the Bishopry Militant and to his crew, ship captain Ean Tephe is given a secret mission to a hidden land.

The God Engines

Macs All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies

Macs All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies

Welcome to the wonderful world of the Mac! Whether you’ve just decided to switch from , or you’ve been using a , for awhile and want to take advantage of all its bells and whistles, Macs All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies is the perfect guidebook to Mac land.,

You probably already know that Macs were made for media. There’s iPhoto for organizing, editing, and sharing your digital photos; iMovie to let you become a moviemaker; iDVD for preserving that movie and playing your favorites; and of course, iTunes for managing your music.

Macs All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies

MacBook For Dummies

MacBook For Dummies

Tired of being tethered to your desktop computer? If you’re ready to break free with a laptop, the new MacBook could be just what you’re looking for.,

Whether you already have your new MacBook or are still weighing the pros and cons of various models, MacBook For Dummies is a valuable resource. For newcomers to laptop land, it’s packed with , information about using and caring for , laptops. It also walks you through Mac OS X, the revolutionary Macintosh operating system that makes your laptop tick. Then it’s on to all the fun stuff you can do with your MacBook, like making music, editing photos and turning them into a book, creating DVDs on the road, or adding a wireless keyboard.

MacBook For Dummies