This book provides a comprehensive overview of the current state of the Russian armed forces.

Aircraft ground damage, particularly in view of the airline industry’s thin profit margins, is a significant financial, operational and safety issue. The Flight Safety Foundation several years ago estimated that ramp accidents cost major airlines worldwide at least $10 billion a year. These accidents affect airport operations, result in personnel injuries and damage aircraft, facilities and ground-support equipment. The Foundation also estimated that 27,000 ramp accidents and incidents - one per 1,000 departures - occur worldwide annually. Ground damage is associated with safety risks that cannot be underestimated. About 243,000 people are injured each year in ground-occurrence accidents and incidents; the injury rate is 9 per 1,000 departures. This book addresses the issue of ground-damage reduction at the level of a single service provider. Several industry bodies have tried to address the problem by launching a number of programs and promoting a number of initiatives. However, the industry has lacked what this book now offers: guidance on how to manage airline ground operations more efficiently from an aviation management perspective. It deals with many of the causes of ground damage not contemplated by the existing programs, such as the low sophistication of an average ground-handling company’s management system, the infrastructural constraints at airports, the airline enforced policy of fast turnarounds, the insufficient training of personnel, the lack of human factors awareness, the high turnover rate of personnel and thus their low motivation in the performance of duties. Reducing Aircraft Ground Damage sets out to fill the void in the literature, targeting those causes of ground damage under the reasonable control of an organization’s management which the existing ground-damage reduction initiatives fail to address. The readership will include ground-handling managers at an executive level, ground safety managers and station managers. The book c

Human living entails the perpetual exploration of both natural and built-up environments, including physical movement ΓÇô all modes of sensory involvement, and psychological movement ΓÇô the movement of the mind. This book takes human movement as a central concept to understanding the richness and complexity of living and explores how both forms of movement, the body and the psyche, intersect and interact. Chapters examine how the higher and lower psychological functions converge in a meaning-making process and provide a theoretical development of semiotic mediation and ambivalence. A series of case studies offer concrete examples of the application of the theory of meaning-making, and consider the relationship between continental traditions (e.g. hermeneutics and phenomenology) and semiotic cultural psychology.

Workplace Clinics and Employer Managed Healthcare: A Catalyst for Cost Savings and Improved Productivity, 2nd Edition is not another diatribe on the national healthcare problem. Instead, it is a book about what is possible. Mike LaPenna shares with readers the actual experiences of those self-funded employers who are moving healthcare access on-site and directly managing all aspects of their own healthcare delivery system.

The first book ever published on a vast archive of 'Top Secret' WWII aerial reconnaissance photography. Includes never-before-seen and previously classified MoD imagery from across Europe that gives a new perspective on key moments in world history.

Forty years prior to the Holocaust, German colonial troops in German Southwest Africa (known today as Namibia) murdered up to 80000 Herero and 20000 Nama, and caused many more thousands to perish in the desert and as slave laborers in concentration camps. This book examines the relationship between colonialism and the Holocaust, and situates Nazi crimes firmly within the global history of mass violence.

This book offers a systematic and detailed analysis of the integration of gay and lesbian personnel into state militaries, and the implications of this for feminist scholarship. The author argues that the integration of sexual minorities into the military is not inherently subversive of the military gender order but that this does not mean they have been successfully co-opted either. This is because attempts to integrate sexual minorities into the military gender order are unstable and open to contestation. This book will appeal to a wide interdisciplinary audience including feminist and critical IR, Critical Military Studies, sociology, anthropology, queer theory and sexuality studies.

The compliance function is vital to any financial services firm, protecting it from potentially severe legal, financial, and reputational risk. However, the regulatory environment is complex, and the correct course of action is not always clear. Human factors and ethical dilemmas further complicate matters, meaning that in practice, beyond ticking the boxes of basic regulatory compliance, officers must exercise discretion and judgement, taking a risk-based approach when making compliance decisions in more advanced areas.Advanced Strategies for Financial Services Compliance outlines the more advanced issues compliance officers are likely to face, including conflicts of interest, Chinese walls and above the wall conditions, conduct risk, market manipulation, bribery and corruption, and advanced anti-money laundering. The book then goes on to offer guidance on techniques and approaches for managing the compliance function and its relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including inherent quality of controls, handling relations with regulators, dealing with difficult people, reporting, and training. Throughout the book, points are illustrated with case studies from the author's extensive experience.

Wars are becoming asymmetrical conflicts where one party adopts often morally controversial strategies to gain the upper hand. Chehtman examines how the law must adapt to contemporary conflicts, and weighs conflicting theories that either see the law as accepting the reality of war or consider that the rules should be constant in war and peace.

This highly-awaited second edition of Multi-Party Actions represents an updated, authoritative text on various collective action mechanisms in the civil procedure of England and Wales. The text boasts new analysis, coverage of the new competition damages mechanisms, and fresh collections of cases organised by subject matter.

This book examines one of the most frequently used-but least understood-forms of humanitarian intervention: international commissions of inquiry (ICOIs). The international community is increasingly dispatching these investigative bodies to conflict zones in an effort to respond to atrocities from civil war to genocide. With a cast of expert contributors from different fields, Jens Meierhenrich examines the politics, power, and pathologies of these internationalinstitutions.

This text is a guide for students undertaking research projects, and offers options to instructors, in planning such projects, with a clear view in mind of the distinctive learning objectives which typically motivate the requirements for them in economics. These include the desire to deepen students¿ appreciation of, and competence in economic ways of thinking and of assessing evidence, and sets of transferable skills in research, report preparation and writing.

A comprehensive legal and economic analysis of economic evidence in EU competition law.

Marion Nairn, a young widow, is spending the summer together with her young sister Lucy at Boulogne with Justice Proudfoot and his wife. The Duke of Hermanos, who is also passing his Summer at Boulogne, one day catches sight of Marion, and becomes her devoted admirer. He admires for a few days, but finally, he enters the house and declared his passion. Marion, ostensibly to get rid of him, tells him that she is married, whereupon he declares that her husband must die, and goes forth in search of him. One after another, the men in the piece are mistaken by the impetuous foreigner for the husband of his adored one, and one after another, he tries to fight them all.-5 women, 4 men

A CSIS report which explains why AIDS is a security issue, an economic-development issue, a human-rights issue, and an issue for corporate interest. It argues that deterring the spread of AIDS is a global challenge requiring a global strategic response.

This report, phase III of CSIS's research on defence reform, builds on the Center's previous analyses. Phase I assessed the implementation of the Packard Commission recommendations and the Goldwater-Nichols legislation, while phase II focused on the Bush administraton and the 101st Congress.

This new edition of one of the leading text books on private party judicial review in the EU explains how, when and why EU instruments are enforceable before national courts, and describes in detail the rules on the types of remedies that Member State courts must make available to protect the enforcement of EU measures.

A fascinating insight to a selection of the show's best episodes, published to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the popular Radio 4 programme.

The book introduces the reader to different settings, life stories, and encounters with bureaucracy, transparency and accountability to show how these encounters are inflected by social position and practical knowledge.

From No.1 New York Times bestseller Sherrilyn Kenyon comes the first book in a new trilogy about three inspiring women who forever changed the world and the very laws of their nation...

This book is aimed to fill a gap in the current market at the interjunction between EU administrative law and EU external relations law. So far, no book consistently and in a comprehensive approach covered the consequences on the one hand of the extension of EU administrative action in policy areas with an external dimension and on the other hand addresses the EU's contribution to the globalisation of administrative law. This books aims to provide academics, practitioners and students with a structured and combined overview on these interrelated subjects.