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Israel's Wars of Attrition

Attrition Challenges to Democratic States

By: Avi Kober

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Israel's Wars of Attrition

Attrition Challenges to Democratic States

By: Avi Kober

This book analyzes the way Israel has coped with nine wars of attrition from the 1950s to the recent Second Lebanon War (2006), questioning the belief that Western democracy cannot sustain prolonged wars of attrition. Challenging Israel with attrition has been compatible with the 'Arab way of war', which emphasizes staying power, and with the belief that democracies cannot tolerate wars of attrition, either economically or psychologically. Israel for its part developed a self-image of incapacity to sustain prolonged wars, committing itself to a traditional offensive approach to blitzkrieg, whenever possible. The book offers an account of nine wars of attrition that Israel was involved in over almost 60 years, from Palestinian infiltration and fedayeen activities against Israel in the early 1950s, through to the Second Lebanon War in 2006. The author uses these cases to challenge the myth that Israel cannot afford to become involved in a draining war of attrition. Focusing on central aspects typical of Western democracies engaged in wars of attrition – operational effectiveness; the societal staying power; the economic burden of the war; moral dilemmas; and conflict management problems - the book challenges the myth that Israel cannot afford to become involved in a draining war of attrition, while at the same time highlighting the fact that in its wars of attrition Israel has not always succeeded in avoiding undesired escalation. This book will be of much interest to students of strategic studies, Israeli history, Middle Eastern politics, and security studies in general. Avi Kober is a member of the Department of Political Studies at Bar Ilan University, Israel and is a Senior Research associate with the BESA Center for Strategic Studies.

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Routledge

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1135255512

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9781135255510

Learning Motor Skills

From Algorithms to Robot Experiments

By: Jens Kober,Jan Peters

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Learning Motor Skills

From Algorithms to Robot Experiments

By: Jens Kober,Jan Peters

This book presents the state of the art in reinforcement learning applied to robotics both in terms of novel algorithms and applications. It discusses recent approaches that allow robots to learn motor. skills and presents tasks that need to take into account the dynamic behavior of the robot and its environment, where a kinematic movement plan is not sufficient. The book illustrates a method that learns to generalize parameterized motor plans which is obtained by imitation or reinforcement learning, by adapting a small set of global parameters and appropriate kernel-based reinforcement learning algorithms. The presented applications explore highly dynamic tasks and exhibit a very efficient learning process. All proposed approaches have been extensively validated with benchmarks tasks, in simulation and on real robots. These tasks correspond to sports and games but the presented techniques are also applicable to more mundane household tasks. The book is based on the first author’s doctoral thesis, which won the 2013 EURON Georges Giralt PhD Award.

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201

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Springer

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3319031945

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9783319031941

Practical Soldiers: Israel’s Military Thought and Its Formative Factors

By: Avi Kober

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Practical Soldiers: Israel’s Military Thought and Its Formative Factors

By: Avi Kober

This book suggests a general framework for the analysis of formative factors in military thought and offers an account of the Israel Defense Force’s state of intellectualism and modernity. This account is followed by an attempt to trace the factors that have shaped Israeli military thought. The explanations are a mixture of realist and non-realist factors, which can be found at both the systemic and the state level of analysis. At the systemic level, realist evaluations focus on factors such as the dominance of the technological dimension and the pervasiveness of asymmetrical, low-intensity conflict; whereas at the state level one can find realist explanations, cultural factors, and societal influences. Moral and legal constraints also factor into both the systemic and state levels.

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210

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BRILL

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9004306862

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9789004306868

Coalition Defection

The Dissolution of Arab Anti-Israeli Coalitions in War and Peace

By: Avi Kober

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Coalition Defection

The Dissolution of Arab Anti-Israeli Coalitions in War and Peace

By: Avi Kober

Since the creation of Israel, during both wartime and peacetime, many Arab coalitions have formed. Every one of these anti-Israel coalitions has failed to achieve its goals due to the defection of one or more major parties. Kober explores the forces behind the dissemination of these alliances to determine why Arab states chose defection; whether or not a distinction can be made between defection patterns in times of war and patterns related to peace processes; and possible explanations for different behavior patterns. The multi-polar structure of the Arab subsystem, the decisions of pivotal members, and the negative reputations earned by such coalitions have always made defection an easy alternative. The choice to defect was, Kober contends, nurtured by a sense of military weakness and by the priority that coalition members attached to their particular interests over general Arab concerns. Kober finds that defection in time of war has arisen mainly through evasion-passive avoidance of coalition obligations with the hope of escaping or minimizing expected losses. Defection from military coalitions often deprived the defector of maximizing gains, all the while weakening the remaining coalition members. However, defection during the peace process served not only to optimize the defector's utilities, but eventually proved beneficial for the parties left behind. Kober determines that the peace process, mainly due to superpower involvement, transformed the scenario from a zero-sum to a non-zero-sum game, by rewarding the parties for signing treaties with Israel. Also, the first defectors, such as Egypt, established pay-off precedents, creating the foundation for future negotiations between the Arab players and Israel.

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236

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313012539

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9780313012532

Lead With Your Customer, 2nd Edition

Transform Culture and Brand into World-Class Excellence

By: Mark David Jones,J. Jeff Kober

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Lead With Your Customer, 2nd Edition

Transform Culture and Brand into World-Class Excellence

By: Mark David Jones,J. Jeff Kober

Your one-stop shop for world-class results The most admired organizations in the world have the same basic resources that you have—offices, computers, pencils, pens, phones, Internet, people. The primary difference is the way they use those resources. How do successful organizations consistently succeed? We witness their extraordinary results, but the secrets often remain hidden. In Lead With Your Customer, authors Mark David Jones and J. Jeff Kober offer the key success tools all world-class organizations have in common and explain how your organization can adopt them. To understand their customer-first approach, they offer the World Class Excellence Model—the result of decades of success as leaders at the Walt Disney Company and years of experience and research working with over two dozen Fortune 500 companies. The authors explain how “world class” status can be attained by many organizations, and isn’t the domain of only the most expensive, luxurious, or popular brands. Jones and Kober guide you by detailing benchmark practices and illustrating how they are followed by all best-in-class organizations by viewing each person inside and around the organization as your “customer”—internally, as you engage your employees and build your organization’s culture, and externally, as you engage your customers and build your brand. For this second edition, the authors present updated examples from organizations including IKEA, Harley-Davidson, Southwest Airlines, Ritz-Carlton, MD Anderson Cancer Center, and, of course, Walt Disney.

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Association for Talent Development

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ISBN 10

1947308858

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9781947308855

Garth's Close Encounter

By: Clayton Kober

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Garth's Close Encounter

By: Clayton Kober

One day on his morning walk, Garth the monster discovers a human boy in his forest! Garth tries to play with his new friend, but the scared boy runs away and tells Garth to leave him alone. Can Garth convince him that there's nothing to be afraid of and make a friend for life? Find out in The Adventures of Garth: Garth's Close Encounter.

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Tate Publishing

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1617776165

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9781617776168

Milk and Dairy Foods

Nutrition, Processing and Healthy Aging

By: A. K. M. Humayun Kober

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Milk and Dairy Foods

Nutrition, Processing and Healthy Aging

By: A. K. M. Humayun Kober

Milk and Dairy Foods: Nutirtion, Processing and Healthy Aging focuses on updated knowledge about the effect of milk and dairy foods on healthy aging. It outlines the nutritional and health benefits of milk and major dairy foods. This book also covers the milk processing and manufacturing process of value-added dairy foods such as yogurt, cheese, cream, butter, ghee, powdered milk, condensed milk, ice cream, and traditional dairy foods. The text discusses the global milk and dairy-food production trends, opportunities, and challenges along with the chemistry and microbiology of milk. The book also includes in-depth discussions of the immunomodulation potential of dairy foods particularly probiotics fermented dairy foods. Key Features Emphasizes that eating whole and low-fat dairy products is not linked to an increased risk of cardiovascular diseases Focuses the processing techniques of high-quality value-added products Covers various kinds of dairy foods, their production, nutritive values, and health attributes Includes quality control and the chemotherapeutic value of different dairy foods including South Asian traditional dairy foods Reviews a range of dairy foods such as yogurt, cheese, cream, butter, ghee, powdered milk, condensed milk, ice cream, and traditional dairy foods Discusses dairy food innovations from production to nutritional and health attributes Illustrates more than 200 key concepts Highlights the role of the dairying in supporting the achievement of the UN sustainable development goals Each chapter includes learning objectives as well as a bubble box for the convenience of readers Each chapter contains value-added dairy items/issues with the latest information that is crucial for students, professionals, and readers This book is meant for undergraduate and postgraduate students in food science, dairy science, nutrition, microbiology, medical, veterinary, biotechnology & allied disciplines, and those involved in formulating and producing dairy foods.

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324

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CRC Press

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ISBN 10

1040042155

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9781040042151

Best Swimming Quotes

By: Piotr J. Kober

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Best Swimming Quotes

By: Piotr J. Kober

You find the best motivational quotes about swimming. Quotes that can help you push a little harder during training, a race or life. Statements of some of the world's best swimmers and other famous people: Aleksandr Popov, Michael Phelps, Kieren John Perkins, Ian Thorpe, Ryan Lochte, Debbie Meyer, Leisl Jones, Dara Torres, Lenny Krayzelburg, Elka Grahamn, Libby Lenton, Mark Spitz, Pieter van den Hoogenband, Megan Quann ... Read on and be inspired!

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Piotr J. Kober

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8393689759

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9788393689750

Silent Voices Hidden Wisdom

Telepathic Conversations the Frontier of a New Era in Human Evolution

By: Karen Kober

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Silent Voices Hidden Wisdom

Telepathic Conversations the Frontier of a New Era in Human Evolution

By: Karen Kober

SILENT VOICES HIDDEN WISDOM Is it fearful, the unknown silent voices so long hidden? Or to hold all the emotions of sentient life? Telepathy is thought transference of mental energy from one being to another. Humans use telepathic energy constantly. We are aware the voice in our mind is never silent. We are unaware of our capability to use telepathic energy with intent. We use it every day and often do not recognize our oldest form of communication. Animals vocal cords, due to their physical structure, were not able to attain formed language as humans did. They continue to express themselves telepathically or with behavior when humans deny to acknowledge their inner ability to hear them telepathically. Discover the widening scope of using telepathic communication in our daily life. We would discover there are no secrets in the thread of life! Just imagine using telepathy to converse with all creation on earth, in heaven or other dimensions. The messages received are the wisdom of the ages and encompass the full spectrum of eternity. Telepathically conversing with sentient beings in all dimensions is funny, surprisingly delightful and compassionate. The silent voices impart wisdom and guidance in every moment of our everyday life. Our mind seeks a place for discovery in curiosity. The silent voices and hidden wisdom within us holds the key to answers from all dimensions. Journey the joy and hidden wisdom in the silent voices, in their words and prayers.

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159

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Balboa Press

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1504368592

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9781504368599

An Open Economy Quarterly Projection Model for Sri Lanka

By: Chandranath Amarasekara,Rahul Anand,Kithsiri Ehelepola,Hemantha Ekanayake,Vishuddhi Jayawickrema,Sujeetha Jegajeevan,Csaba Kober,Tharindi Nugawela,Sergey Plotnikov,Adam Remo,Poongothai Venuganan,Rasika Yatigammana

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An Open Economy Quarterly Projection Model for Sri Lanka

This study documents a semi-structural model developed for Sri Lanka. This model, extended with a fiscal sector block, is expected to serve as a core forecasting model in the process of the Central Bank of Sri Lanka’s move towards flexible inflation targeting. The model includes a forward-looking endogenous interest rate and foreign exchange rate policy rules allowing for flexible change in policy behavior. It is a gap model that allows for simultaneous identification of business cycle position and long-term equilibrium. The model was first calibrated and then its data-fit was improved using Bayesian estimation technique with relatively tight priors.

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International Monetary Fund

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1484364511

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9781484364512

Legal Lobbying

How To Make Your Voice Heard

By: Mark Kober Smith

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Legal Lobbying

How To Make Your Voice Heard

By: Mark Kober Smith

This text is about changing the law and how to do it. Its aim is to help others gain the confidence to do the same and give practical advice. It covers the workings of Parliament, approaching MPs, setting up campaigns; getting into the newspapers and dealing with civil servants.

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121

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Cavendish Publishing

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1843140934

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9781843140931

Win 95 RX

By: Ralf Kober,R. Kober,F. Buechel,Kober

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Win 95 RX

By: Ralf Kober,R. Kober,F. Buechel,Kober

Shows how to save time and money by solving one's own tech-support problems. Covers recovering from system crashes, making DOS and Windows 3.X programs compatible, avoiding installation problems and more.

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Abacus Software

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ISBN 10

1557552975

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9781557552976

Win 98 RX

Solve Your Own Windows 98 Computing Problems Easily

By: Ralf Kober,Franck Buechel,Markus Baecker,R Kober,F Buechel,M Baecker

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Win 98 RX

Solve Your Own Windows 98 Computing Problems Easily

By: Ralf Kober,Franck Buechel,Markus Baecker,R Kober,F Buechel,M Baecker

A troubleshooting guide for diagnosing and solving problems with Windows 98.

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Abacus Software

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1557553491

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9781557553492

Book's by Kober

Israel's Wars of Attrition

Israel's Wars of Attrition

Learning Motor Skills

Learning Motor Skills

Practical Soldiers: Israel’s Military Thought and Its Formative Factors

Practical Soldiers: Israel’s Military Thought and Its Formative Factors

Coalition Defection

Coalition Defection

Lead With Your Customer, 2nd Edition

Lead With Your Customer, 2nd Edition

Garth's Close Encounter

Garth's Close Encounter

Milk and Dairy Foods

Milk and Dairy Foods

Best Swimming Quotes

Best Swimming Quotes

Silent Voices Hidden Wisdom

Silent Voices Hidden Wisdom

An Open Economy Quarterly Projection Model for Sri Lanka

An Open Economy Quarterly Projection Model for Sri Lanka

Legal Lobbying

Legal Lobbying

Win 95 RX

Win 95 RX

Win 98 RX

Win 98 RX

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