In this book, Ariel Cohen makes the novel proposal that an implicit quantifier isn’t simply an empty category, but is generated by well-defined reinterpretation mechanisms. He demonstrates how this theory naturally accounts for puzzling properties of implicit quantification.
Il romanzo "Hamas Project" ultimo capitolo della serie "Israel Jihad", narra le vicende di una squadra del Mossad guidata dall'esperta agente Yael dalla mente acuta e dalla squadra composta da individui con un QI eccezionale, si trova ad affrontare un attentato terroristico di portata inaudita in Francia. Le democrazie vacillano sotto la morsa di forze islamiche radicalizzate, e la tensione sale alle stelle. La storia si svolge sullo sfondo di un Medio Oriente teso e instabile, dove la minaccia del terrorismo è sempre presente. La squadra di Yael si trova ad affrontare una nuova e pericolosa missione: sventare un attentato pianificato da un gruppo di jihadisti ed i colpevoli dell'attentato in Francia. Oltre all'azione e al suspense, il romanzo esplora anche le relazioni tra i personaggi, che vengono messe a dura prova dalle sfide che devono affrontare. Le loro storie personali e le loro motivazioni aggiungono profondità al racconto e lo rendono più coinvolgente per il lettore. Il sette ottobre, un attacco orchestrato da Hamas scuote Israele fino al midollo. Una strage di civili lascia un bilancio tragico, mentre un numero imprecisato di ostaggi viene fatto prigioniero a Gaza. Il ricercato numero uno è Sinwar, il capo dell'ala militare di Hamas, un fantasma inafferrabile che sembra giocare a scacchi con la vita di innocenti, sfuggendo alla cattura mimetizzandosi tra la popolazione civile. La linea tra bene e male si confonde, e la squadra di Yael si trova ad affrontare un intrigo complesso dove non esiste una verità assoluta. Per scoprire la realtà, dovranno addentrarsi in quella zona grigia che separa la giustizia dalla vendetta. Yael e la sua squadra si ritrovano immersi in un campo minato dove i confini tra il bene e il male si sfumano in una distesa di grigi. Non ci sono eroi senza macchia, né nemici completamente malvagi. La linea tra giustizia e vendetta diventa sempre più sottile, costringendoli a confrontarsi con scelte morali estreme. L'indagine si snoda tra intrighi politici, operazioni clandestine e scontri a fuoco adrenalinici. Yael e i suoi compagni si avventurano nel cuore del territorio nemico, rischiando la vita per fermare il sanguinoso piano di Hamas e riportare a casa gli ostaggi. La squadra di Yael si ritrova coinvolta nel tentativo di liberare gli ostaggi e di fermare i terroristi. dove quanto successo il sette di ottobre diviene un evento drammatico che segna l'inizio di una nuova fase di tensione e di prigionia per gli ostaggi. Il romanzo si conclude lasciando il lettore con il fiato sospeso, in attesa di scoprire come si evolveranno le vicende e quale sarà il destino dei protagonisti. Conclusione: "Il romanzo Hamas Project di Ariel Lilli Cohen " è un thriller avvincente che esplora temi importanti come il terrorismo e la violenza. La storia è ricca di azione e suspense, ma anche di umanità e di emozioni. I personaggi sono ben delineati e la loro psicologia è approfondita. Il romanzo è un must-read per tutti gli amanti dei thriller e delle spy story. Sinossi Un thriller mozzafiato che esplora i lati oscuri del terrorismo e le zone grigie della giustizia. Un racconto teso e ricco di suspense, dove la mente acuta di Yael si scontra con la brutalità della guerra e la complessità della natura umana.
This important study explains how Russia, with its private sector and policy makers working in tandem, has exerted a significant amount of control over Kazakhstanâs vast natural resources and its economic freedom. It looks at the way Russia and Kazakhstan agreed to divide the Caspian Sea shelf and how Kazakhstan has managed to maintain good relations with Moscow overall, despite its insistence on exporting energy resources to China and Europe directly and its hopes to export through Iran. This series of reports establishes for the first time the confluence of Russian foreign policy with the acquisition of foreign energy assets by Russian entities. Nine specific country profiles focus on the oil, gas, electricity and nuclear power industries. Each report written by an author of international standing, explains how Russian foreign energy downstream mergers and acquisitions are transpiring to consolidate the new Russian empire.
Nella nuova versione Delux. Dal best seller della stessa autrice Israel Jihad, qui si uniscono in un volume solo i quattro romanzi principali. Un cammino che comincia prima della guerra a Gaza. Il lavoro di un gruppo di amici che, in pochi mesi, sono diventati una delle migliori squadre operative del Mossad. Questa è una grande storia d'amore, o meglio, è l'atto d'amore di un popolo intero verso il suo Paese. La lotta quotidiana per la sopravvivenza, la morte sempre in agguato, nemici conosciuti e sconosciuti determinati a seminare terrore e distruzione, l'angoscia per ciò che potrebbe accadere tra un mese, tra un giorno, tra un'ora… Tutto questo è anche una storia d'amore nel senso più classico del termine, un amore appassionato e impossibile tra un uomo e una donna che si amano disperatamente ma che il destino ha schierato sui fronti opposti della barricata. La famiglia Cohen ha dato un grande contributo di sangue alla causa israeliana: papà Eran è rimasto ucciso eroicamente in combattimento. Mamma Hodaya è una vera madre coraggio, premurosa e amorevole con i suoi familiari, ma anche fieramente consapevole del valore del sacrificio per la difesa dello Stato. Avner è il primogenito, poi altre due figlie: Ariel, una quindicenne inquieta, ansiosa di dare un contributo alla causa del suo Paese e Yael, 21 anni, arruolata come agente dei servizi di sicurezza per la sua innata attitudine al comando e soprattutto per il suo prodigioso eQI. Ben presto la ragazza assumerà la guida di una squadra speciale di analisti, programmatori informatici e matematici, in grado di svelare e sventare i più gravi attentati al cuore dello Stato di Israele.
This is a journey to the outer fringes of the law, which started in 2014, before the war in Gaza. It's the work of a group of friends, who became, in the space of a few months, one of Mossad's best operative teams."In Israel, no one really dies. In Israel no one really lives."Ariel Lilli Cohen was born on 6th December 1988 in Haifa (Israel) and is the third of three siblings. Her father Darius Cohen was a former Agent of Ha'Mossad and her mother Noha Avner is now a High Official on Shin Bet, the Israeli Security Agency. She was in the past a Lion Soldier of Magav, the Israeli Border Police in Jerusalem.They are a Jewish family.Ariel speaks fluently Hebrew, English, French, Arabic, Russian, Urdu and Italian. She also likes travelling and having fun like a girl of her age, but fighting against Islamic terrorism is her mission. Ariel becomes a soldier at the age of sixteen . After her sixteenth birthday, the Army enlists her thanks to her high IQ (she scored 164). She has been since part of a special team called "Genius", with the task to solve problems in unconventional ways. Ariel is a "former" soldier of the Israeli Security Forces Special Unit (IDF). She joined various "undercover" military actions, living many lives in one.To avoid going crazy and find herself again, she decided to write this book. To tell all her experiences, fears, hopes, loves, and untold truths, she chose the form of the novel. She started writing her story in 2014, before the last war in Gaza. This novel was published in Hebrew, English, Arabic, Russian, French and Italian. She cares about her Country and believes that Israeli people's desire is to live in peace, but unfortunately they always have to defend themselves, not only from foreign enemies but from their own citizens, too.
Since the breakup of the Soviet Union, a number of gas disputes between Russia and Central and Eastern European countries have unveiled the strategic dependence of Europe on Russian piped gas. The recent Ukrainian crisis demonstrated that Europe has a desperate need to improve the security of its gas supply. The United States is interested in the economic stability and growth of Europe, because the European Union (EU) is its principal and largest economic partner. The United States and the EU enjoy the largest trade and investment relationship in the world, which should not be jeopardized by disruptive, anti-status-quo powers. America has economic, political, and security interests in Europe's energy independence. Europe's dependence on Russian natural gas undermines European unity and weakens the primary U.S. allies in their relations with Russia. U.S. Armed Forces in Europe and the U.S. Army, in particular, can and should play an important role in promoting energy security. This involvement includes: increased situational awareness; deployment to the sensitive areas; and enhanced training activities, including with the allies of the U.S. military in Central and Eastern Europe. Related items: Other resources produced by the Strategic Studies Institute, US Army War College can be found here: https: //bookstore.gpo.gov/agency/1609 Democratization and Instability in Ukraine, Georgia, and Belarus can be found here: https: //bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/008-000-01118-4 Breaking the Nordic Defense Deadlock can be found here: https: //bookstore.gpo.gov/products/sku/008-000-01141-9
Our knowledge about the world is often expressed by generic sentences, yet their meanings are far from clear. This book provides answers to central problems concerning generics: what do they mean? Which factors affect their interpretation? How can one reason with generics? Cohen proposes that the meanings of generics are probability judgments, and shows how this view accounts for many of their puzzling properties, including lawlikeness. Generics are evaluated with respect to alternatives. Cohen argues that alternatives are induced by the kind as well as by the predicated property, and thus provides a uniform account of the varied interpretations of generics. He studies the formal properties of alternatives and provides a compositional account of their derivation by focus and presupposition. Cohen uses his semantics of generics to provide a formal characterization of adequate default reasoning, and proves some desirable results of this formalism.
The North Caucasus region has been a source of instability for the past several centuries. Most recently, Chechen aspirations to achieve full independence after the break-up of the Soviet Union led to two disastrous wars. While the active phase of the Chechen conflict ended in 2000 -- more than a decade ago -- the underlying social, economic, and political issues of the region remain. A low-level insurgency continues to persist in the North Caucasus region, with occasional terrorist attacks in the Russian heartland. There are few reasons to expect any substantial improvement in the situation for years to come. Chechnya functions as a de facto independent entity; Islamist influence in Dagestan is growing, terror attacks continue, and the rest of the North Caucasus requires massive presence of Russian security services to keep the situation under control. Preventing the North Caucasus from slipping back into greater instability requires tackling corruption, cronyism, discrimination, and unemployment -- something the Kremlin has so far not been very willing to do. "Small wars" in the Caucasus resonated as far away as Boston, MA, and more international attention and cooperation is necessary to prevent the region from blowing up.
Israel Jihad in Jerusalem, the second chapter of the narration, tells the story of a group of friends that in a few months had become one of Mossad's best operative teams. Many questions and mysteries were uncovered in the first novel.Who is responsible for the attack in Tel Aviv?Who wants to destroy the State of Israel?Will Trump and Putin seal a peace agreement for the Middle East?December 6th, 2018 is the date the civil world is looking forward to since as of now it is the only hope for peace.The Daesh is weakened to its roots, the foreign fighters are assaulting the symbols of democracy from within like a metastasis. Day-to-day life is devastated.The evil in this novel has taken the likeness of Hamza Bin Laden. Al Qaeda wants to extinguish the Occident in the most religious city in the world. The city that divides and unifies the religions and the political beliefs in the world. No democracy, not even in Canada, France, Italy, Russia, Belgium, America, and Australia, can feel safe from the murderous madness of those who take the religion hostage to create terror.Who is Hamza bin Laden and why does he crave to destroy Israel?From the ashes of Daesh, Al Qaeda rises and Israel is its target.No one is safe on his own land.The Western Wall and the Al-Aqsa mosque, could they coexist peacefully?A thriller that accompanies the reader in a journey along those who experienced these events firsthand, narrating the antecedents and the stories -never told or captured by cameras- where, at the sidelines of our consciousness, politics oftentimes shakes bloody hands in that strip of gray land; where conspiracies and allegiances are mushed with political and military analyses that are unlikely to be addressed in newspapers.
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