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Shaking the Heavens and Splitting the Earth

Chinese Air Force Employment Concepts in the 21st Century

By: Roger Cliff

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Shaking the Heavens and Splitting the Earth

Chinese Air Force Employment Concepts in the 21st Century

By: Roger Cliff

Less than a decade ago, China's air force was an antiquated service equipped almost exclusively with weapons based on 1950s-era Soviet designs and operated by personnel with questionable training according to outdated employment concepts. Today, the People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) appears to be on its way to becoming a modern, highly capable air force for the 21st century. This monograph analyzes publications of the Chinese military, previously published Western analyses of China's air force, and information available in published sources about current and future capabilities of the PLAAF. It describes the concepts for employing forces that the PLAAF is likely to implement in the future, analyzes how those concepts might be realized in a conflict over Taiwan, assesses the implications of China implementing these concepts, and provides recommendations about actions that should be taken in response.

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Rand Corporation

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083305113X

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9780833051134

Introduction to Corporate and White-Collar Crime

By: Frank J. DiMarino,Cliff Roberson

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Introduction to Corporate and White-Collar Crime

By: Frank J. DiMarino,Cliff Roberson

White-collar crime costs the United States more than $300 billion each year. It is surprisingly common, with one in every three Americans eventually becoming a victim. The criminals often dismiss these crimes as victimless, but those unfortunate enough to fall prey would disagree. An Introduction to Corporate and White-Collar Crime provides readers with an understanding of what white-collar crime is, how it works, and the extent to which it exists in our society. The broad-based coverage in this text analyzes the opportunity structures for committing white-collar crime and explores new ways of thinking about how to control it. Topics include: Theories behind white-collar crime, including social and psychological theories Routine activity, crime pattern, and situational crime prevention theories Laws that govern the securities industries, including the Securities Exchange Act and Sarbanes–Oxley Bank fraud, money laundering, racketeering, and organized crime Crimes involving public officials and obstruction of justice Control and prevention of white-collar crimes and sanctions for white-collar criminals The material is organized and presented in a logical fashion, with each chapter building from the previous content. Every chapter begins with objectives to help readers focus on the topic and concludes with review questions to test assimilation of the material and promote debate. Several chapters conclude with a practicum to facilitate real-world understanding of the material.

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CRC Press

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1439851581

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9781439851586

China's Military Power

Assessing Current and Future Capabilities

By: Roger Cliff

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China's Military Power

Assessing Current and Future Capabilities

By: Roger Cliff

Once termed the 'world's largest military museum', the Chinese military has made enormous progress over the past twenty years. With skyrocketing military budgets and new technology, China's tanks, aircraft, destroyers, and missile capabilities are becoming comparable to those of the United States. If these trends continue, how powerful will the Chinese military be in the future? Will its capabilities soon rival or surpass those of the United States? The most comprehensive study of its kind, this book provides a detailed assessment of China's military capabilities in 2000 and 2010 with projections for 2020. It is the first of its kind in outlining a rigorous, theoretically and empirically grounded framework for assessing military capability based on not just weaponry but also doctrine, training, equipment, and organizational structure. This framework provides not only the most accurate assessment of China's military to date but an important new tool in the study of military history.

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Cambridge University Press

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131635248X

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9781316352489

Contesting the New South Order

The 1914-1915 Strike at Atlanta's Fulton Mills

By: Cliff Kuhn

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Contesting the New South Order

The 1914-1915 Strike at Atlanta's Fulton Mills

By: Cliff Kuhn

In May 1914, workers walked off their jobs at Atlanta's Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills, launching a lengthy strike that was at the heart of the American Federation of Labor's first major attempt to organize southern workers in over a decade. In its celebrity

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807849731

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9780807849736

Sigma 9 Observatory and the Benghazi Incursion

By: Cliff Rhodes

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Sigma 9 Observatory and the Benghazi Incursion

By: Cliff Rhodes

This book relates a tale of terrorism and artificial intelligence which takes over the entire world, creeping into all phases of U.S. economics, political, military, and electronic communication. Prevention is the best medicine, and being farsighted gives warnings of premonitions and bad dreams of a possible dystopian future, not just a projection for terrorist takeover. To become aware of how it could be done is a must read for the espionage and CIA enthusiast and those who want to prevent electronic terrorism by changing the present."--Jacket.

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Lulu.com

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1329688341

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9781329688346

Preparing and Training for the Full Spectrum of Military Challenges

Insights from the Experiences of China, France, the United Kingdom, India, and Israel

By: David E. Johnson,Jennifer D. P. Moroney,Roger Cliff,M. Wade Markel,Laurence Smallman

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Preparing and Training for the Full Spectrum of Military Challenges

Insights from the Experiences of China, France, the United Kingdom, India, and Israel

By: David E. Johnson,Jennifer D. P. Moroney,Roger Cliff,M. Wade Markel,Laurence Smallman

What can the United States learn from other militaries about how better to prepare for full-spectrum operations and deployments? The authors examine the militaries of China, France, the UK, India, and Israel to (1) identify different approaches to readiness, adaptability, and operational issues and (2) assess the ways in which units are trained both for specific and general deployments and for train, advise, and assist missions.

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Rand Corporation

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0833049380

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9780833049384

Families Child Downs Syndrome

By: Elizabeth Byrne,Cliff Cunningham

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Families Child Downs Syndrome

By: Elizabeth Byrne,Cliff Cunningham

First published in 1988. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Routledge

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113498717X

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Built to Learn

By: Cliff Purington,Chris Butler,Sarah Fister Gale

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Built to Learn

By: Cliff Purington,Chris Butler,Sarah Fister Gale

Aerospace giant Rockwell Collins typified the old-fashioned corporate approach to organizational learning: lackluster offerings in bland classroom settings, with little connection to the needs of employees or the goals of the company. Enter Cliff Purington and Chris Butler, who in three years transformed Rockwell into a full-fledged learning organization. With a strategy-based and technology-driven learning approach, a 400 percent increase in offerings, 24/7 access for 17,000 worldwide employees, and cost savings of $23 million, Rockwell is lauded and emulated by organizations all over the world. For this vital book, Purington and Butler have organized their revolutionary approach into 10 clear steps that can similarly transform any company. Readers will learn new ways to build relationships, define core learning objectives, present a solid business case, and implement programs and assess their value. Each step offers detailed processes to follow, and explains what worked (and what didn’t), revealing the secrets behind Rockwell’s stunning transformation.

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AMACOM

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0814427189

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9780814427187

Families and Their Children with Down's Syndrome

One Feature in Common

By: Elizabeth A. Byrne,Cliff Cunningham,Patricia Sloper

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Families and Their Children with Down's Syndrome

One Feature in Common

By: Elizabeth A. Byrne,Cliff Cunningham,Patricia Sloper

The authors present research based on interviews with families in the Manchester Down's Syndrome Cohort given to professionals involved in the welfare of children with Down's Syndrome or in the provision of community care and support for their families.

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Psychology Press

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0415006082

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9780415006088

Yesterday's Buses

The Fascinating Quantock Collection

By: Cliff Marsh,Peter Snowden

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Yesterday's Buses

The Fascinating Quantock Collection

By: Cliff Marsh,Peter Snowden

AEC, Bristol, Crossley, Daimler, Dennis, Leyland and others were all manufacturers of passenger vehicle chassis which could be seen throughout the country in the years following the end of World War Two. They produced a wide range of double deck and single deck buses and coaches, bodied by a considerable number of body builders. With the exception of Dennis, all those chassis makers have now disappeared, along with nearly all the body builders. In addition, most operators of this variety of vehicles are no longer in existence, being primarily absorbed into larger operations. This book can only give a small indication of the major role Steve and his Quantock Heritage fleet have played in preserving not only part of the engineering history of this country, but its effect also on social history. In practical terms he has displayed this by enabling the general public to see, enjoy, and also use vehicles of a bygone era.

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Pen and Sword Transport

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1526701189

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9781526701183

If Bill Gates Were An African…

The Plight of Africans and a call for Transformative Actions

By: Cliff Awah

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If Bill Gates Were An African…

The Plight of Africans and a call for Transformative Actions

By: Cliff Awah

It is not a common feat for an African to produce a well-researched work on the life of one of America’s richest persons and put it alongside Africa’s predicaments. In this spell-bounding publication, Cliff brings in the African continent with its rich natural and human resources but with a very sorry story. He has masterfully explained the colonization of Africa and Africans by European Powers. But, the wounds and scars of slavery which were aggravated by the impact of colonialism, tribalism, Neo-colonialism and the failure of African leaders and policy-makers to create a conducive atmosphere for the socio-economic and political development of African countries are largely responsible for the miseries in Africa. In this soul-searching book, Africans and more especially African leaders, policy-makers and businessmen and women should not willy-nilly transplant what exists in the USA and/or in Europe but should rather adapt what is good, taking into account the African context (Victor Julius Ngoh, ‘Foreword’). If Bill Gates Were An African, is a wakeup call appealing to the consciences of Africans especially its leaders to make use of the various cultures and civilizations of the world to build a better Africa – the Africa we want, that meets the needs and aspirations of Africans. An Africa with Good Governance, free from corruption, embezzlement, nepotism and a land of freedom and opportunities for Africans to exploit and have better living conditions worthy of their human dignity (Cliff Awah, ‘Preface’).

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Notion Press

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9798894150420

Ethics for Criminal Justice Professionals

By: Cliff Roberson,Scott Mire

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Ethics for Criminal Justice Professionals

By: Cliff Roberson,Scott Mire

Increasing concerns about the accountability of criminal justice professionals at all levels has placed a heightened focus on the behavior of those who work in the system. Judges, attorneys, police, and prison employees are all under increased scrutiny from the public and the media. Ethics for Criminal Justice Professionals examines the myriad of e

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1420086723

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Folk on the Delaware General Corporation Law

Fundamentals, 2022 Edition

By: Robert S. Saunders,Allison L. Land,Jennifer C. Voss,Cliff C. Gardner

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Folk on the Delaware General Corporation Law

Fundamentals, 2022 Edition

By: Robert S. Saunders,Allison L. Land,Jennifer C. Voss,Cliff C. Gardner

For quick access to Delaware Corporation Law when you're away from the office, here's a handy portable version of Folk you can easily carry to court in your briefcase. Adapted from the major 4-volume analysis of the Delaware General Corporation Law the Delaware Limited Liability Company Act that is constantly cited by courts and relied upon daily by corporate lawyers everywhere, Folk Fundamentals gives you: The complete text of the Delaware General Corporation Law The complete text of the Delaware Limited Liability Company Act The essential and most commonly used analytic elements of the larger set's commentary Take this convenient one-volume softcover "distillation" any place you need to refer to Folk on the spot. Organized for Quick and Easy Reference! Following the unique and convenient organizational format of the 4-volume set, Folk Fundamentals provides annotated commentary with each section of the statutes. Each section's commentary incorporates discussion of every significant court decision (including non-Delaware cases) that interprets the language and intent of that section, and adds the incisive analysis of Folk and his successor authors. This expert commentary synthesizes statutes, cases, and analysis into clear, up-to-date guidance that can be put to immediate use in any business activity or situation affected by Delaware Corporation Law or the Delaware Limited Liability Company Act. With Folk Fundamentals, you'll be able to: Locate any provision of the Delaware General Corporation Law--quickly Locate any provision of the Delaware Limited Liability Company Act--quickly Quote directly from the statutes or commentary in the office or the courtroom Support or counter arguments with Folk's proven analysis

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Wolters Kluwer Law & Business

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1543836682

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9781543836684

Body First

By: Cliff Osia Berry

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Body First

By: Cliff Osia Berry

Body First is a book that’s main goal is to tell others how wonderful the fitness lifestyle can be. The author explores the combination of weight training, cardiovascular health, and nutrition. This book encourages others to run on their own track and work with their God-given strengths. It also discusses the mistakes that first-time clients often make and how to avoid trying to start with too much at one time. About the Author Cliff Osia Berry was born in 1968 in Troy, Alabama. He currently resides in Meridian, Mississippi. Berry worked as a personal trainer for more than a decade. He believes that health is wealth and wants to share this message with others.

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Dorrance Publishing

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What's Your Competitive Advantage?

7 Strategies To Discover Your Next Source Of Value

By: Cliff Bowman,Paul Raspin

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What's Your Competitive Advantage?

7 Strategies To Discover Your Next Source Of Value

By: Cliff Bowman,Paul Raspin

What’s Your Competitive Advantage? offers a way to work with the realities of a complex world and the changing needs of your business. No-one can predict the future and we can’t predict the ultimate effect of any actions we take. What’s your Competitive Advantage? sets out an approach to managing change that reflects this complex reality. Built on insights from research into value creation and complex systems the book explains seven value creating strategies and the practices and change processes they require. Each play has an associated set of capabilities which deliver customer value efficiently: SPECIALISATION - choose to focus on a single product or product group and compete through superior product performance. ADAPTIVE - increase the system’s ability to respond to changing circumstances, particularly to changing customer needs. LOW COST - Deliver equivalent product quality compared to competitors but with a continual and relentless focus on cost reduction INNOVATION - Competing through product innovations. EXCELLENCE - Continuous incremental improvement of product or service quality NO-FRILLS - Serve price sensitive customers with a stripped down alternative product or service. TARGETING - Focus on a specific market segment and serve the needs of these customers more effectively than less targeted rivals The full text downloaded to your computer With eBooks you can: search for key concepts, words and phrases make highlights and notes as you study share your notes with friends eBooks are downloaded to your computer and accessible either offline through the Bookshelf (available as a free download), available online and also via the iPad and Android apps. Upon purchase, you'll gain instant access to this eBook. Time limit The eBooks products do not have an expiry date. You will continue to access your digital ebook products whilst you have your Bookshelf installed.

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Pearson UK

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1292259418

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9781292259413

The Revelation of Number 10

A Galactic Neighbor’S Appeal

By: Cliff Joseph

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The Revelation of Number 10

A Galactic Neighbor’S Appeal

By: Cliff Joseph

One night in August of 1998, artist Mark DeLouise sees a bright light in the sky. At first, he believes its a star, and when he wishes his wife, Gracie, was awake to see it, he finds that he has telepathically called her out of sleep. Together they see the shining point of light suddenly zip toward themcoming close enough to make it clear that it is, in fact, a UFO. Although they go about their daily lives the following day, the experience has a profound effect on Mark as he attempts to understand the aftermath of the event. Whats more, his work begins to reflect that shift immediately. Although his next painting, the last in a series of ten, is meant to be about homelessness, he is compelled to recreate a mysterious structure hes never seen before, with a speed and detail well beyond his usual work. He labels the painting Number 10, not knowing how much the work will change his life. As time goes on, Mark finds himself in a confrontation with the governments authority, in a struggle for both personal and global liberation. In this science fiction novel, an artist witnesses the flight of UFO one night and soon discovers that his world has been forever altered.

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iUniverse

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1532042264

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9781532042263

Urban Design

Health and the Therapeutic Environment

By: Cliff Moughtin,Paola Signoretta,Kate McMahon Moughtin

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Urban Design

Health and the Therapeutic Environment

By: Cliff Moughtin,Paola Signoretta,Kate McMahon Moughtin

This title shows how the theory and practice of urban design and planning impact on public health issues and sustainable development. With cities increasingly crowded and the need for new homes paramount, the authors explore the concept of what makes a physically and psychologically 'healthy' environment.

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Routledge

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1856176142

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9781856176149

Bodybuilding

The Complete Contest Preparation Handbook

By: Peter J. Fitschen,Cliff Wilson

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Bodybuilding

The Complete Contest Preparation Handbook

By: Peter J. Fitschen,Cliff Wilson

The popularity of bodybuilding is at an all-time high, and the sport is continuing to grow. But seasoned competitors and beginners often have questions about how to look their best on show day. Written by expert bodybuilding coaches Peter Fitschen and Cliff Wilson, Bodybuilding: The Complete Contest Preparation Handbook will guide you through every step of the process to select a competition, prepare for the contest, and make the transition to the off-season. With no other book like it on the market, Bodybuilding offers you scientifically supported and experience-based guidelines to help you have your best show ever. Bodybuilding takes the guesswork out of preparing for a contest and answers common questions such as these: How do I choose the competition and division that are right for me? What mandatory poses do I need to learn for my competition? What is the best workout to do during contest prep? What should I do if I start to spill over during peak week? How long is too long to maintain stage-lean levels of body fat? The authors have created an easily accessible handbook that guides you step by step. The chapters begin with a background of the sport, followed by a discussion of the competitive division options for both men and women. The next chapters will help you through the process of obtaining a stage-ready physique with an evidence-based approach that combines scientific literature with practical experience. These chapters discuss important topics such as nutrition, training, and preparation timing. The next chapters address posing, peak week, tanning, and a number of other topics that will help you bring your most polished physique to the stage. More than 60 full-color photos show body types for each division and each mandatory pose, offering a visual guide to the proper positions for each pose. You will also find information on how to handle the transition to the off-season. With unparalleled detail, Bodybuilding is your go-to guide for bodybuilding success!

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Human Kinetics

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1492587494

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9781492587491

Embedded Computing

A VLIW Approach to Architecture, Compilers and Tools

By: Joseph A. Fisher,Paolo Faraboschi,Cliff Young

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Embedded Computing

A VLIW Approach to Architecture, Compilers and Tools

By: Joseph A. Fisher,Paolo Faraboschi,Cliff Young

The fact that there are more embedded computers than general-purpose computers and that we are impacted by hundreds of them every day is no longer news. What is news is that their increasing performance requirements, complexity and capabilities demand a new approach to their design. Fisher, Faraboschi, and Young describe a new age of embedded computing design, in which the processor is central, making the approach radically distinct from contemporary practices of embedded systems design. They demonstrate why it is essential to take a computing-centric and system-design approach to the traditional elements of nonprogrammable components, peripherals, interconnects and buses. These elements must be unified in a system design with high-performance processor architectures, microarchitectures and compilers, and with the compilation tools, debuggers and simulators needed for application development. In this landmark text, the authors apply their expertise in highly interdisciplinary hardware/software development and VLIW processors to illustrate this change in embedded computing. VLIW architectures have long been a popular choice in embedded systems design, and while VLIW is a running theme throughout the book, embedded computing is the core topic. Embedded Computing examines both in a book filled with fact and opinion based on the authors many years of R&D experience.· Complemented by a unique, professional-quality embedded tool-chain on the authors' website, http://www.vliw.org/book· Combines technical depth with real-world experience · Comprehensively explains the differences between general purpose computing systems and embedded systems at the hardware, software, tools and operating system levels. · Uses concrete examples to explain and motivate the trade-offs.

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Elsevier

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0080477542

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Urban Design: Street and Square

By: Cliff Moughtin

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Urban Design: Street and Square

By: Cliff Moughtin

This book, part of a series of four, offers a detailed analysis of urban design, covering the streets, squares and buildings that make up the public face of towns and cities. It outlines the theory of the principal features of urban design from which method is developed and provides a better understanding of the main elements of urban design. This includes the arrangement, design and details of the streets and squares, and the roles they play in city planning. This third edition includes chapters on "Sustainable Urban Design" and "Visual Analysis", introducing the latest theories and influences in the field and bringing greater practical significance to the book. Cliff Moughtin explores the street and square in terms of function, structure and symbolism and examines fine examples in their historical context. These are set against the background of the laws of urban design composition, culled from Renaissance and modern writers.

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Routledge

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1136350349

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9781136350344

Introducing Social Policy

By: Cliff Alcock,Guy Daly,Edwin Griggs

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Introducing Social Policy

By: Cliff Alcock,Guy Daly,Edwin Griggs

The completely revised second edition of this highly respected textbook provides a comprehensive yet digestible and accessible introduction to the theoretical foundations, development and crucial areas of contemporary concern in social policy and welfare. Fully up to date, it provides a concise but thorough overview of the context for the provision of social welfare in contemporary Britain and beyond. Providing an integrated framework to highlight the relationships between theory, policy and practice, Introducing Social Policy examines social policy from a multi-disciplinary perspective. It therefore encourages a broad understanding of the importance of the subject within social policy itself, as well in social work, healthcare, education and beyond.

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Routledge

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1317864565

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9781317864561

Do No Harm

By: Cliff Bacchus M.D.

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Do No Harm

By: Cliff Bacchus M.D.

Dr. Al Chandlers medical practice is growing by leaps and bounds, but his reputation as an advocate of healthcare reform is growing even faster. Not only is he well-informed and respected, but Chandler oozes charisma, charm, and successso much so that the newly elected president, Abraham King, taps him to be part of the administration. He believes his life couldnt be much betteruntil he meets the mysterious and attractive Pandora Coltman. Pandora can offer him a completely different life. She recruits Chandler to be an emergency room doctor on Atlantic Isle, a tropical paradise in the Bahamas. Chandler cant refuse her. His sense of adventure draws him to the island, as does his attraction to Pandora. Upon his arrival, however, Chandler comes to realize Atlantic Isle houses many unexpected, dangerous secrets, including some kept by Pandora herself. Soon, Pandora turns up dead, and Chandler has to wonder if he might be the killers next target. He doesnt trust his new boss, Obi Falconer, who runs the Bahamas medical center. Falconer will do anything for power and moneymaybe even murder. Chandler wants to avenge Pandoras death and bring health reform to Atlantic Isle but someone might kill him first.

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Abbott Press

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1458200957

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9781458200952

User Friendly

How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play

By: Cliff Kuang,Robert Fabricant

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User Friendly

How the Hidden Rules of Design Are Changing the Way We Live, Work, and Play

By: Cliff Kuang,Robert Fabricant

AMAZON BEST BOOKS OF 2019 PICK FORTUNE WRITERS AND EDITORS' RECOMMENDED BOOKS OF 2019 PICK "User Friendly is a tour de force, an engrossing fusion of scholarly research, professional experience and revelations from intrepid firsthand reporting." —EDWARD TENNER, The New York Times Book Review In User Friendly, Cliff Kuang and Robert Fabricant reveal the untold story of a paradigm that quietly rules our modern lives: the assumption that machines should anticipate what we need. Spanning over a century of sweeping changes, from women’s rights to the Great Depression to World War II to the rise of the digital era, this book unpacks the ways in which the world has been—and continues to be—remade according to the principles of the once-obscure discipline of user-experience design. In this essential text, Kuang and Fabricant map the hidden rules of the designed world and shed light on how those rules have caused our world to change—an underappreciated but essential history that’s pieced together for the first time. Combining the expertise and insight of a leading journalist and a pioneering designer, User Friendly provides a definitive, thoughtful, and practical perspective on a topic that has rapidly gone from arcane to urgent to inescapable. In User Friendly, Kuang and Fabricant tell the whole story for the first time—and you’ll never interact with technology the same way again.

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MCD

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0374713154

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9780374713157

Structure for Dependability: Computer-Based Systems from an Interdisciplinary Perspective

By: Denis Besnard,Cristina Gacek,Cliff Jones

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Structure for Dependability: Computer-Based Systems from an Interdisciplinary Perspective

By: Denis Besnard,Cristina Gacek,Cliff Jones

System developers, stakeholders, decision makers, policymakers and academics will find this book a one-stop resource highlighting the core issues for all those involved in dependability in a complex computer-based environment.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1846281113

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9781846281112

The Court at War

FDR, His Justices, and the World They Made

By: Cliff Sloan

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The Court at War

FDR, His Justices, and the World They Made

By: Cliff Sloan

The inside story of how one president forever altered the most powerful legal institution in the country—with consequences that endure today By the summer of 1941, in the ninth year of his presidency, Franklin Roosevelt had molded his Court. He had appointed seven of the nine justices—the most by any president except George Washington—and handpicked the chief justice. But the wartime Roosevelt Court had two faces. One was bold and progressive, the other supine and abject, cowed by the charisma of the revered president. The Court at War explores this pivotal period. It provides a cast of unforgettable characters in the justices—from the mercurial, Vienna-born intellectual Felix Frankfurter to the Alabama populist Hugo Black; from the western prodigy William O. Douglas, FDR’s initial pick to be his running mate in 1944, to Roosevelt’s former attorney general and Nuremberg prosecutor Robert Jackson. The justices’ shameless capitulation and unwillingness to cross their beloved president highlight the dangers of an unseemly closeness between Supreme Court justices and their political patrons. But the FDR Court’s finest moments also provided a robust defense of individual rights, rights the current Court has put in jeopardy. Sloan’s intimate portrait is a vivid, instructive tale for modern times.

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1541736451

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Manuka

The biography of an extraordinary honey

By: Cliff Van Eaton

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Manuka

The biography of an extraordinary honey

By: Cliff Van Eaton

New Zealand's manuka honey is known around the world. It fetches extremely high prices, and beekeepers do everything in their power to produce as much of it as they can. Wound dressings containing manuka honey are used in leading hospitals, and it has saved the lives of patients infected with disease-causing bacteria that are resistant to standard antibiotic drugs. In so doing, it has forced the medical profession to re-think its position on the therapeutic properties of natural products. This book chronicles the remarkable 'rags-to-riches' story of manuka honey, as seen through the eyes of a beekeeping specialist who watched it unfold from the very beginning. It's a great science tale of an unassuming university lecturer and his hardworking lab assistant who found something totally unexpected in a product everyone had written off. And it's an entertaining account of the way that simple discovery magically caught the international media's attention, helping some enterprising New Zealanders with a love of bees to develop manuka honey-based products and take them to the rest of the world. The book describes the remarkable antibacterial and therapeutic properties of manuka and the range of uses it has.

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1775591638

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The Ed Letters

Memories of a New England Boyhood

By: Edwin Ashley,Cliff Ashley,Diane deManbey Duebber

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The Ed Letters

Memories of a New England Boyhood

By: Edwin Ashley,Cliff Ashley,Diane deManbey Duebber

Born in 1909 and 1913 respectively in a little town called Marion, on the south coast of Massachusetts, brothers Ed and Cliff Ashley shared a childhood filled with simple country adventures and colorful characters, from old whalers who boasted of gigantic harpoons, to Civil War veterans who told magnificent stories of glory on the battlefield.Remarkably, the Ashleys' cherished memories have been preserved in the letters that Cliff, who moved to Maine as a young man, wrote to his brother Ed over the course of 60 years. Cliff wrote of the scrapes they'd gotten into as kids, the games they'd played, the townsfolk they'd known, and the sleepy little town they called home. Ed read and saved each of those letters, and when his failing eyesight prevented him from reading the ones he continued to receive, a caregiver read them to him. After hearing each new treasure, he'd put it in a box in his closet with the others. Realizing the value of those stored memories, the caregiver compiled Cliff's letters in a book, putting Ed's memories to writing in the form of replies.Here, then, is the result...a wonderful collection of letters, filled with quaint stories and a colorful cast of small-town characters, reminiscent of television's Andy Griffith Show. Readers will enjoy stories about Mr. Midnight, the mysterious traveling salesman...ornery Bessie Nelson and her cats...Mr. Whitmarsh and his boney old horse, Gracie...Neal Potter, who hornswoggled the grocer with a bottle-return scheme...and many other delightfully funny characters.

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Spinner Publications

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0932027628

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A Fundamental Mistake

Human Nature, Coercion and Bad Behaviour

By: Graham Cliff

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A Fundamental Mistake

Human Nature, Coercion and Bad Behaviour

By: Graham Cliff

Does it puzzle you that, despite ever-increasing rules, controls and counter-measures, antisocial behaviour is seemingly spiralling out of control? Why have there been riots in Britain? Why is law enforcement failing to make our society a better place in which to live? Have our politicians lost the plot? Are our values wrong? A Fundamental Mistake explains why a change of direction is needed in society's thinking about how to get people to behave themselves; it also offers a carefully argued strategy by which to achieve this. The emphasis needs to shift away from coercion and punishment, and towards inducement and reward. The remarkable thing is that although we already have the necessary knowledge, it's not put to good use. Taking a fresh approach, Graham Cliff draws on mainstream behavioural psychology and applied ethics to make his case for challenging some of our time-honoured cultural assumptions and practices. Be prepared to re-think your position. Despite the weightiness of the subject, this is a book for everyone because it works up from first principles in a readily readable way. No expertise is needed to follow the flow from the basics of human nature to the way our minds work, then through the web of customs and rules that make up society, on to government, laws and punishment, and finally to how and why things might be done differently. Nobody will agree with everything that A Fundamental Mistake has to say, because that's what debate is all about. However, it's as well to remember this: when it comes to tackling antisocial behaviour, it's not enough just to get tough – we must get clever, too.

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Troubador Publishing Ltd

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1780880790

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9781780880792

Aim and Fire

By: Cliff Ryder

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Aim and Fire

By: Cliff Ryder

ON ALERT… A nuclear bomb has gone missing. At the same time Room 59, a covert unit of the International Intelligence Agency created to fi ght terrorist cells, intercepts a communiqué from U.S. Border Patrol agent Nathaniel Spencer. A known terrorist, thought to be dead, is back in business. …AND UNDERCOVER Tracy Wentworth is working for the Department of Homeland Security when she’s contacted by Room 59 for an inside job. Aligned with Agent Spencer and backed up by Room 59’s considerable resources, they are to assess and eliminate the threat, using any means necessary. But as they delve deeper into Mexico’s criminal underworld, it soon becomes clear that someone is planning a massive attack against America…one that would render the entire nation completely defenseless!

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Gold Eagle

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1426819544

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Team of Vipers

My 500 Extraordinary Days in the Trump White House

By: Cliff Sims

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Team of Vipers

My 500 Extraordinary Days in the Trump White House

By: Cliff Sims

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Sims’s vivid portrait of Trump shrewdly balances admiration with misgivings, and his intricate, engrossing accounts of White House vendettas and power plays have a good mix of immersion and perspective. The result is one of the best of the recent flood of Trump tell-alls." —Publishers Weekly The first honest insider’s account of the Trump administration. If you hate Trump you need the truth; if you love Trump you need the truth. After standing at Donald Trump’s side on Election Night, Cliff Sims joined him in the West Wing as Special Assistant to the President and Director of White House Message Strategy. He soon found himself pulled into the President’s inner circle as a confidante, an errand boy, an advisor, a punching bag, and a friend. Sometimes all in the same conversation. As a result, Sims gained unprecedented access to the President, sitting in on private meetings with key Congressional officials, world leaders, and top White House advisors. He saw how Trump handled the challenges of the office, and he learned from Trump himself how he saw the world. For five hundred days, Sims also witnessed first-hand the infighting and leaking, the anger, joy, and recriminations. He had a role in some of the President’s biggest successes, and he shared the blame for some of his administration’s worst disasters. He gained key, often surprising insights into the players of the Trump West Wing, from Jared Kushner and John Kelly to Steve Bannon and Kellyanne Conway. He even helped Trump craft his enemies list, knowing who was loyal and who was not. And he took notes. Hundreds of pages of notes. In real-time. Sims stood with the President in the eye of the storm raging around him, and now he tells the story that no one else has written—because no one else could. The story of what it was really like in the West Wing as a member of the President’s team. The story of power and palace intrigue, backstabbing and bold victories, as well as painful moral compromises, occasionally with yourself. Team of Vipers tells the full story, as only a true insider could.

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Thomas Dunne Books

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1250223903

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9781250223906

Behaving Badly: Richard Harris

By: Cliff Goodwin

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Behaving Badly: Richard Harris

By: Cliff Goodwin

Richard Harris was never an easy person to get along with. He was a difficult schoolboy (and was later disowned by his Limerick teachers), then he went to work in the family flour and milling business - where he organised a strike against his father. It was as a gifted and compelling actor that Richard Harris dominated stage and screen for more than four decades. He was nominated for an Oscar twice: for his earthy portrayal of a rugby player in This Sporting Life and as a dominant and bullish Irish farmer in The Field. More recently he delivered gripping screen performances in Gladiator and two Harry Potter films. But it was his violent, drunken, womanising private life that fed the public myth and made Harris, one of a new breed of rogue male actors, an international celebrity. Married and divorced twice, with three sons - two actors, one a film director - he claimed the only time he had been miscast was as a husband. His lovers included legends such as Merle Oberon, Sophia Loren, Ava Gardner and Vanessa Redgrave.

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Random House

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0753546515

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The Biblically-Driven Church: How Jesus Builds His Body

How Jesus Builds His Body

By: Cliff McManis

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The Biblically-Driven Church: How Jesus Builds His Body

How Jesus Builds His Body

By: Cliff McManis

How does a church grow? Who builds the church? What is the real, honorable church anyway?

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Xlibris Corporation

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1524539309

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Wealth, Women and War

By: Cliff Potts

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Wealth, Women and War

By: Cliff Potts

Based on the analysis of his last 50 years, Clifford Allen Potts, Ph.D., brings another thought-provoking page turner as we delve once again into our world's dynamic human environment. Wealth, Women, and War brings a unique perspective upon our nation's finances, gender roles, and who has the biggest bomb of them all. This book is a unique accounting on our world's history and possible future, from theology to capitalism and beyond. Wealth, Women, and War is a gem in the collection of books written by Clifford Allen Potts, Ph.D. Other written works include Well Past Midnight, Radicals, Religion, and Revelation, and Conspirators, Confederates, and Cronies. I look forward to joining the brilliant Dr. Potts as he unravels more mysteries in future works. Matthew Doherty Readers Daily Review

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1312175834

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