This book is designed to give contemporary strategists and current military leaders a solid, common understanding of an ever complex and ever evolving reality driven and influenced by perceptions in any domain rather than a logic, linear, factual, and well defined conceptual framework. As stressed in his preface to this book by Lieutenant General John T. Thomson, US Army, by “leveraging timeless classics by military theorists as well as historical examples and recent operations, it provides the foundation on “how to think” about today’s geo-political security environment”. It is primarily meant to educate the mind of future leaders and commanders or, more accurately, to guide them in their self-education; and it is also addressed to Governments, Universities, Organizations and all those who keep the responsibility to educate future generations, our future leaders, to be prepared to participate intelligently in the strategy-making process of their Nations or systems. In the post-modern environment, future leaders will battle for “perception dominance” in order to drive the course of future conflicts and confrontations where people, not systems or machinery, will define success.
As towns and cities worldwide deal with fast-increasing land pressures, while also trying to promote more sustainable, connected communities, the creation of green spaces within urban areas is receiving greater attention than ever before. At the same time, the value of the 'green belt' as the most prominent model of green space planning is being widely questioned, and an array of alternative models are being proposed. This book explores one of those alternative models – the 'green wedge', showing how this offers a successful model for integrating urban development and nature in existing and new towns and cities around the world. Green wedges, considered here as ducts of green space running from the countryside into the centre of a city or town, are not only making a comeback in urban planning, but they have a deeper history in the twentieth century than many expect – a history that provides valuable insight and lessons in the employment of networked green spaces in city design and regional planning today. Part history, and part contemporary argument, this book first examines the emergence and global diffusion of the green wedge in town planning in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, placing it in the broader historic context of debates and ideas for urban planning with nature, before going on to explore its use in contemporary urban practice. Examining their relation to green infrastructures, landscape ecology and landscape urbanism and their potential for sustainable cities, it highlights the continued relevance of a historic idea in an era of rapid climate change.
This brief provides a valuable reference for the contribution of essential oils in the green chemistry, mainly in terms of their characteristics corresponding to their compositions, the development of their extraction technologies including both conventional and green process (e.g. microwave, ultrasound), and their sustainable applications as antioxidants, antimicrobials, insecticides, green solvents and synthons for the green synthesis.
The knife was in reaching distance near my right foot. The hilt was in the air towards the ceiling. How is it I could be insane when it is my own intellect that allows my understanding and articulation of the savage and diabolical? Who could be writing this piece, and whom was I listening to? Was it at length my own imagination? They are notoriously motivated to have the title doctor, a prefix in front of their name, like honorable sir, doesn't allow them contentment. Is this the reason (doctor, master, prince) a man puts forth his hand to the plow? Whose words are in my mouth? With a flair for the grisly and macabre, Wayne Fabiano welcomes readers to his banquet of dread. The winemaker whose secret ingredient requires murder, the preacher whose sins will surely find him out, and the madman who hatches a perfect plan to escape the asylum: these characters and more populate this collection that simultaneously fascinates and horrifies. As the characters slowly spiral into insanity, the reader cannot help but be drawn into their world of bloodshed, madness, and death. Wayne is clearly familiar with the gothic horror tradition, which he channels here. A Distinguished Collection of Dark Tales will have you sitting on the edge of your seat, leaving the light on at night, and questioning your own assumptions of reality and sanity.
HOW TO HARNESS CONVERGING TECHNOLOGIES, DIVERGING AUDIENCES AND SPLINTERING MEDIA CHANNELS TO CREATE HYPER-RELEVANCE AND UNPRECEDENTED MARKETING ROI. This book defines a new marketing methodology that enables you to soar on the currents of the Google era, rather than being blown away by them. Understand how to align classical branding strategies with current conditions in order to maximize every facet of your brand. Learn how to leverage emerging technologies, including database, dialogue, and personalized variable capabilities, to achieve true one to one communications. And learn to deploy in all existing and emerging communication channels to create ultra-personalized relevancy. Based on first-hand experience at the leading edge of the industry, this book provides a clear perspective on the new marketing landscape and step-by-step guidance on leveraging its unique opportunities. “This book does for marketing what the transistor did for radio. Neuromarketology offers the kind of thinking that promotes second order change. The author offers gems of knowledge that range from black powder to rocket fuel; loved the book.” – Mikel Harry, principal architect of Six Sigma and the world’s leading authority within his field. His book, Six Sigma: The Breakthrough Management Strategy Revolutionizing the World’s Top Corporations, has been on the best seller list of the Wall Street Journal, Business Week, and Amazon.com. “Finally a ‘bible’ on cross-channel, dynamic one to one marketing. This book shows us how to overcome challenges to create effective content, liberate and empower your data, leverage software platforms and benefit from converging technology and media channels.” – John Foley, Jr., Founder, President and CEO of interlinkONE, the leading multichannel marketing software solutions provider www.neuromarketology.com
What would you do if you were launched thousands of years back into Florida's prehistoric era? What would it look like? How would you feel? And how would you return home? Bling! Bling! JJ, Isabella, and Zeke enter a contest at old Fort DeSoto. Their mission is to answer history clues written on a Letter of Marque. But when JJ finds an old Spanish doubloon, the trio is mysteriously lanuched backward in time. Startled, yet quite curious, the teenagers begin their journey home by following the distant lighthouse on neighboring Egmont Key. Crossing the Egmont Passage, however, won't be that easy. The teens must avoid the Tocobaga Indians and the Spanish Fleet, face a crew of drunken pirates, and weather the storm of a major hurricane. And if they are to return safely to present-day Florida, JJ, Isabella, and Zeke must learn that trust is their most important weapon against the unknown dangers of the passage. Set on the subtropical islands that lay between Tampa Bay and the Gulf of Mexico, Egmont Passage: Tale of the Seventh Mystery explores Florida's rich past as the teenagers uncover the mysteries on their journey. It is an enchanting and inspiring story that leaves you believing anything is possible on the Egmont Passage.To read a review of this book, please visit http://www.isladelsolnews.com/history.html
This book is designed to give contemporary strategists and current military leaders a solid, common understanding of an ever complex and ever evolving reality driven and influenced by perceptions in any domain rather than a logic, linear, factual, and well defined conceptual framework. As stressed in his preface to this book by Lieutenant General John T. Thomson, US Army, by “leveraging timeless classics by military theorists as well as historical examples and recent operations, it provides the foundation on “how to think” about today’s geo-political security environment”. It is primarily meant to educate the mind of future leaders and commanders or, more accurately, to guide them in their self-education; and it is also addressed to Governments, Universities, Organizations and all those who keep the responsibility to educate future generations, our future leaders, to be prepared to participate intelligently in the strategy-making process of their Nations or systems. In the post-modern environment, future leaders will battle for “perception dominance” in order to drive the course of future conflicts and confrontations where people, not systems or machinery, will define success.
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