Freelance journalist Dorlores Gunn is a night crawler armed with a ruthless curiosity and a knack for self-preservation. With her drugged-out TV crew in tow, she scours the night city for saleable stories: violent death in the street is just a service industry providing her next clip, and every victim is a potential actor. Criss-crossing her path is Eli, a bike courier who travels with ease through the clogged arteries of the urban core and rides the periphery when the media pounces on a suspected serial killer. Both become entangled in the police investigation when Dolores becomes the target of a stalker and Eli is hunted by a rogue SUV. In the struggle to survive, neither can be sure if they own the streets or the streets own them.
From the Paperback edition.
Author: John M. Gray Publisher: Random House of Canada ISBN: 9780307369338 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release:
This book explains characteristics of renewable fuels, especially biomass and wood, and the cost-effective and environment-friendly methods of handling, storing and burning these fuels. It is complete with the economic evaluation method, introduction of the pollution control equipment for limiting the emission from fuel combustion, case studies, and costs and carbon emission comparisons between conventional and alternate fuels. Many case studies are introduced here too.
This book is an update and expansion of the “Industrial Wood Energy Handbook” by a team from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1984. It introduces new technologies new technologies not available at the time of the early version.
Author: Thomas F. McGowan; James L. Walsh; Michael L. Brown; William S. Bulpitt Publisher: Wiley ISBN: 9781118211120 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: August 2010 280 pages
A Handbook of Assessment, Management, and Performance
Risk is of fundamental importance in this era of the global economy. Supply chains must into account the uncertainty of demand. Moreover, the risk of uncertain demand can cut two ways: (1) there is the risk that unexpected demand will not be met on time, and the reverse problem (2) the risk that demand is over estimated and excessive inventory costs are incurred. There are other risks in unreliable vendors, delayed shipments, natural disasters, etc. In short, there are a host of strategic, tactical and operational risks to business supply chains. This book will focus on how to assess, evaluate, and control these various risks.
SUPPLY CHAIN RISK: A Handbook of Assessment, Management, and Performance provides the parameters of risk management as applied to Supply Chain Management. The book outlines these parameters in six sections, which are: (1) Risk Analysis, Assessment, and Tools; (2) Risk Theory; (3) Supply Chain Design and Risk; (4) Supply Chain Risk Management; (5) Risk and Performance Measurement in Supply Chains; and (6) Supply Chain Security. The book’s introductory chapter covers the development of the field, reviewing both its recent research and practical developments. The final chapter outlines open questions and discusses future directions where research and practice may take Supply Chain Risk as a field. The individual chapters report both quantitative and qualitative studies while emphasizing the relevance, understanding and application by those in the research community, knowledgeable practitioners, and policy makers.
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Author: George A. Zsidisin; Bob Ritchie Publisher: Springer US ISBN: 9780387799346 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: September 2008 364 pages
In 1615 the poet and writer Gervase Markham published an extraordinary handbook for housewives, containing advice on everything from planting herbs to brewing beer, feeding animals to distilling perfume, with recipes for a variety of dishes such as trifle, pancakes and salads (not to mention some amusingly tart words on how the ideal wife should behave). Aimed at middle-class women who would share in household tasks with their servants in the kitchen, this companionable and opinionated book offers a richly enjoyable glimpse of the way we lived, worked and ate 400 years ago.
Publishers of the science publishing scene comment on key developments throughout the 20th century. Some characteristic publishing enterprises, commercial and society owned, are described in a series of articles, followed by analysis of developments and possible changes to come.
Financial institutions, as gateways to the financial system, to economic power and possibilities, are one of the major vehicles for money laundering and therefore also represent an important means to prevent this type of crime. The compliance officer symbolises a part of this private investment in anti money laundering (AML) and as a bank employee is responsible for the implementation of governmental objectives, trapped between crime fighting objectives and commercial goals. The duality of the involvement of private partners in the AML complex and the vastness of the system serves as a background for a new book looking at the functioning, values and perceptions of actors within this system.
With thorough analysis of original empirical date, Verhage provides a rich and illustrative insight in the world of compliance officers and the sometimes paradoxical AML system that they have to work within.
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Author: Antoinette Verhage Publisher: Taylor and Francis ISBN: 9781136808647 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release:
Liquid crystals are fluids with a directionality defined. Polymers are long molecules with a shape that can be changed. As a network, polymers form rubber – a soft solid that is locally liquid-like and capable of huge extension. Liquid crystal elastomers are a combination of all these curious aspects, but with additional, revolutionary new phenomena – for example, spontaneous shape changes of several hundred percent induced by temperature change, with equally largeopto-mechanical responses, shape change without energy cost (“soft elasticity”), colour change with strain, lasing and photonics, sensitivity to molecular handedness and soft solid ferroelectricity. This book is a primer for liquid crystals, polymers, rubber, and elasticity. It then describes thetheory and experiment of these remarkable materials for the first time as a monograph. Worked examples are solved so that the reader can become proficient in the field himself. The book is directed at physicists, chemists, material scientists, engineers and applied mathematicians at the graduate student level and beyond
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Author: Mark Warner; Eugene Michael Terentjev Publisher: OUP Oxford ISBN: 9780191523632 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: October 2003 422 pages
This book examines the reality behind the myths of the legendary German fighter aces of World War II. It explains why only a small minority of pilots – those in whom the desire for combat overrode everything – accounted for so large a proportion of the victories. It surveys the skills that a successful fighter pilot must have – a natural aptitude for flying, marksmanship, keen eyesight – and the way in which fighter tactics have developed. The book examines the history of the classic fighter aircraft that were flown, such as the Messerschmitt Bf 109 and the Focke Wulf Fw 190, and examines each type's characteristics, advantages and disadvantages in combat. The accounts of the experiences of fighter pilots are based on archival research, diaries, letters, published and unpublished memoirs and personal interviews with veterans. The pilots included are Werner Molders, Gunther Rall, Adolf Galland, Erich Hartmann and Johannes Steinhoff.
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Author: Philip Kaplan Publisher: Pen and Sword ISBN: 9781473814073 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: March 2007 208 pages
Two countervailing trends mark the intellectual tenor of our age – the spread of naturalistic worldviews and religious orthodoxies. Advances in biogenetics, brain research, and robotics are clearing the way for the penetration of an objective scientific self-understanding of persons into everyday life. For philosophy, this trend is associated with the challenge of scientific naturalism. At the same time, we are witnessing an unexpected revitalization of religious traditions and the politicization of religious communities across the world. From a philosophical perspective, this revival of religious energies poses the challenge of a fundamentalist critique of the principles underlying the modern Wests postmetaphysical understanding of itself. The tension between naturalism and religion is the central theme of this major new book by Jürgen Habermas. On the one hand he argues for an appropriate naturalistic understanding of cultural evolution that does justice to the normative character of the human mind. On the other hand, he calls for an appropriate interpretation of the secularizing effects of a process of social and cultural rationalization increasingly denounced by the champions of religious orthodoxies as a historical development peculiar to the West. These reflections on the enduring importance of religion and the limits of secularism under conditions of postmetaphysical reason set the scene for an extended treatment the political significance of religious tolerance and for a fresh contribution to current debates on cosmopolitanism and a constitution for international society.
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Author: Jürgen Habermas Publisher: Wiley ISBN: 9780745694603 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: November 2014 240 pages
Identify and safeguard your network against both internal and external threats, hackers, and malware attacks
About This Book
Lay your hands on physical and virtual evidence to understand the sort of crime committed by capturing and analyzing network traffic
Connect the dots by understanding web proxies, firewalls, and routers to close in on your suspect
A hands-on guide to help you solve your case with malware forensic methods and network behaviors
Who This Book Is For
If you are a network administrator, system administrator, information security, or forensics professional and wish to learn network forensic to track the intrusions through network-based evidence, then this book is for you. Basic knowledge of Linux and networking concepts is expected.
What You Will Learn
Understand Internetworking, sources of network-based evidence and other basic technical fundamentals, including the tools that will be used throughout the book
Acquire evidence using traffic acquisition software and know how to manage and handle the evidence
Perform packet analysis by capturing and collecting data, along with content analysis
Locate wireless devices, as well as capturing and analyzing wireless traffic data packets
Implement protocol analysis and content matching; acquire evidence from NIDS/NIPS
Act upon the data and evidence gathered by being able to connect the dots and draw links between various events
Apply logging and interfaces, along with analyzing web proxies and understanding encrypted web traffic
Use IOCs (Indicators of Compromise) and build real-world forensic solutions, dealing with malware
In Detail
We live in a highly networked world. Every digital device—phone, tablet, or computer is connected to each other, in one way or another. In this new age of connected networks, there is network crime. Network forensics is the brave new frontier of digital investigation and information security professionals to extend their abilities to catch miscreants on the network.
The book starts with an introduction to the world of network forensics and investigations. You will begin by getting an understanding of how to gather both physical and virtual evidence, intercepting and analyzing network data, wireless data packets, investigating intrusions, and so on. You will further explore the technology, tools, and investigating methods using malware forensics, network tunneling, and behaviors. By the end of the book, you will gain a complete understanding of how to successfully close a case.
Style and approach
An easy-to-follow book filled with real-world case studies and applications. Each topic is explained along with all the practical tools and software needed, allowing the reader to use a completely hands-on approach.
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Author: Samir Datt Publisher: Packt Publishing ISBN: 9781785282126 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release:
