A mysterious disaster. Four lives torn apart. A world changed forever. This original graphic novel charts the arc of one man's evolution from human to hero to-- something else, as seen through the eyes of his family and his best friend"--P. [4] of cover.
The Hansen Clan: Trouble in the Grand Canyon is an exciting action and adventure tale that places four children in a desperate battle for survival. The Hansen family sets out on a huge vacation each summer to search for adventure and explore the world. This year’s trip to the Grand Canyon, however, gives them a bit more excitement than they bargained for. While visiting the Grand Canyon, Hannah Hansen slips and falls into the Canyon, pulling her three brothers, TJ, Noah, and Eli in with her. But the fall into the Canyon is just the beginning of their adventure. They stumble upon an Indian boy in desperate need for their help and a gang of men set out to steal treasures from a local Indian tribe. The Hansen children risk life and limb to stop the bad guys, rescue the Indian boy, and save their own lives in the process.
A stagecoach carrying a fortune in gold was held up at gunpoint south of Deadwood, South Dakota, in 1876. The mastermind of the crime made off with more than $1 million then quickly disappeared like smoke in the wind. The gold has never been found. The Hansen kids, while vacationing in South Dakota, stumble across a cave and some artifacts that might lead them to discover the truth about this mystery and recover a fortune in lost gold. But what they encounter during their quest is far more than a simple treasure hunt. They find themselves in a desperate struggle with modern-day armed bandits that threaten the lives of the children and their parents! It is up to Hannah, TJ, Noah, and Eli to save their parents and bring the bandits to justice.
The Hansen Clan: Trouble in the Grand Canyon is an exciting action and adventure tale that places four children in a desperate battle for survival. The Hansen family sets out on a huge vacation each summer to search for adventure and explore the world. This year’s trip to the Grand Canyon, however, gives them a bit more excitement than they bargained for. While visiting the Grand Canyon, Hannah Hansen slips and falls into the Canyon, pulling her three brothers, TJ, Noah, and Eli in with her. But the fall into the Canyon is just the beginning of their adventure. They stumble upon an Indian boy in desperate need for their help and a gang of men set out to steal treasures from a local Indian tribe. The Hansen children risk life and limb to stop the bad guys, rescue the Indian boy, and save their own lives in the process.
The Hansens look forward to a long family trip each summer, usually an RV trip to explore the amazing sites in the US. This year's trip to Washington, DC, however, gives them more excitement than they bargained for. During a visit to Ford's Theater, the site of President Abraham Lincoln's assassination, siblings TJ and Hannah Hansen believe they witness someone steal something from the theater's museum. They try in vain to convince their parents and the park rangers of what they saw, but no one believes them. To discover the truth, they enlist the help of their two younger brothers and embark on a dangerous journey, which leads them through the back streets and alleys of our nation's capital and threatens their very lives.
Many developing countries have introduced policies to tackle ill-gotten money over the past years. Perception remains that such moves were more a result of international pressure being exercised than genuine ownership of such an agenda. There is not enough analysis and literature of how an anti-financial crime framework does (or does not) contribute to the development path of developing countries – or how best to use these tools in a developing country environment. This study was aimed at initially exploring the effects of ill-gotten money or proceeds of crime and anti-money laundering policies on economic development. The study focused on two developing countries: Malawi, (a low-income country) and Namibia (an upper-middle-income country). The starting point of this analysis is that anti-money laundering is essentially a tool to address criminal activities – and that, as a result, understanding criminal activities and how proceeds of crime impact development. The purpose of this study was: (i) to provide an initial answer to the question if and how measures to address proceeds of crime contributes to economic development; and (ii) to develop a framework that enable governments in developing countries to analyze the main sources of ill-gotten money and its effects on the economy.
Many developing countries have introduced policies to tackle ill-gotten money over the past years. Perception remains that such moves were more a result of international pressure being exercised than genuine ownership of such an agenda. There is not enough analysis and literature of how an anti-financial crime framework does (or does not) contribute to the development path of developing countries or how best to use these tools in a developing country environment. This study was aimed at initially exploring the effects of ill-gotten money or proceeds of crime and anti-money laundering policies on economic development. The study focused on two developing countries: Malawi, (a low-income country) and Namibia (an upper-middle-income country). The starting point of this analysis is that anti-money laundering is essentially a tool to address criminal activities and that, as a result, understanding criminal activities and how proceeds of crime impact development. The purpose of this study was: (i) to provide an initial answer to the question if and how measures to address proceeds of crime contributes to economic development; and (ii) to develop a framework that enable governments in developing countries to analyze the main sources of ill-gotten money and its effects on the economy.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis, SCIA 2007, held in Aalborg, Denmark in June 2007. It covers computer vision, 2D and 3D reconstruction, classification and segmentation, medical and biological applications, appearance and shape modeling, face detection, tracking and recognition, motion analysis, feature extraction and object recognition.
Hex is the subject of books by Martin Gardner and Cameron Browne. Hex theory touches on graph theory, game theory and combinatorial game theory, with elegant proofs that the game has no draws and that the first player can win. From machines built by Claude Shannon to agents using Monte Carlo Tree Search, Hex is often used in the study of artificial intelligence. Written for a wide audience, this is the full story of Hex, inside and out, with all its twists and turns: Hein’s creation, Lindhard’s puzzles, Nash’s proofs, Gale’s Bridg-it, the game of Rex, Shannon’s machines, Bridg-it’s fall, Hex’s resilience, Hex theory, the hunt for winning strategies, and the rise of Hexbots.
Qeqertasussuk and Qajaa are the only known sites of the Early Arctic Small Tool tradition in the Eastern Arctic, where all kinds of organic materials - wood, bone, baleen, hair, skin - are preserved in permafrozen culture layers. Together, the sites cover the entire Saqqaq era in Greenland (c. 2400-900 BC). Technological and contextual analyses of the excellently preserved archaeological materials from the frozen layers form the core of this publication. Bjarne Grønnow draws a new picture of a true Arctic pioneer society with a remarkably complex technology. The Saqqaq hunting tool kit, consisting of bows, darts, lances, harpoons, and throwing boards as well as kayak-like sea-going vessels, is described for the first time. A wide variety of hand tools and household utensils as well as lithic and organic refuse and animal bones were found on the intact floor of a midpassage dwelling at Qeqertasussuk. These materials provide entirely new information on the daily life and subsistence of the earliest hunting groups in Greenland. Comparative studies put the Saqqaq Culture into a broad cultural-historical perspective as one of the pioneer societies of the Eastern Arctic.
The symposium 'Sleepers, Moles, and Martyrs: Secret Identifications, Societal Integration, and the Differing Meanings of Freedom' held in Reinhausen, 2002, formed the basis of this issue of Ethnologia Europaea. Occasioned by the social, political and mass media discourses after the bombings of New York's World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, an interdisciplinary group of scholars came together to explore the connotations and implications of the term 'sleeper'. The biographies of terrorist perpetrators are but one of many permutations of sleeper-like phenomena in late modern polities. Clandestine operatives of the state are sleepers, and both willing and unwilling victims of terrorism are discursively transformed from sleepers into martyrs. Starting with analyses of the discourses about sleepers in Part I-their historical antecedents, narrative emplotment, and semantic differentiation-Part II turns to the hidden or unspoken of aspects of the state, the challenge of fundamentalist terrorism to the modern political project and the tensions between neighbourly discourse, public display and the state. Part III juxtaposes changing depictions of Shiite martyrdom with the violence done to the term 'martyr' within the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In Part IV, cultural secrets encoded in memorials and public silences in academic discourse are addressed. The different cases assembled offer comparative materials and perspectives from the USA, France, the Netherlands, Pakistan, Spain, Iran, Israel, Istria and Sweden.
In Nine of Mine, Bjarne Steen Jensen shares a number of the models that have brought him value and utility in his work as an executive in companies such as Gillette, Colgate, Carlsberg and Unilever. Nine of Mine gives the students, managers and employees insight into how a managing director perceives a company's business overall, and how it is broken down. There are nine models, which all appear simple and practical, spiced up with the author's own experience and supported by examples from business. In addition, the models are tested one by one, using fictitious examples.
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