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      • Trusted Partner
        February 2006

        Alles Nano?!

        by Boeing, Niels

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        January 2008

        Propaganda der Tat

        Die RAF und die Medien

        by Andreas Elter

        Schleyer als Gefangener der RAF, die Trümmer der PanAm-Boeing im schottischen Lockerbie, die brennenden Türme des World Trade Centers – Bilder, die sich ins kollektive Gedächtnis eingebrannt haben. Terroranschläge gelten nie nur den Opfern, sie zielen auf die jeweilige Gesellschaft. Es gehört zum Wesen des Terrors, mit minimalem Aufwand maximalen Schrecken zu verbreiten. Dabei sind die Attentäter auf die Massenmedien angewiesen. Öffentlichkeit als Lebenselixier des Terrorismus, das ist das Thema von »Propaganda der Tat«. Andreas Elter erörtert zentrale Begriffe, gibt einen Überblibk über die Geschichte der Theorie und der Praxis des Terrorismus und untersucht anhand zum Teil bisher unveröffentlichter Dokumente die Medienstrategie der RAF. So entwickelt er eine Theorie zunm Verhältnis von Terror und Massenmedien.

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      • Teacher training
        January 1992

        Teacher Supply, Demand, and Quality

        Policy Issues, Models, and Data Bases

        by Erling E. Boe and Dorothy M. Gilford, Editors; Committee on National Statistics, National Research Council

        This book examines policy issues, projection models, and data bases pertaining to the supply of, demand for, and quality of teachers in the United States from kindergarten to twelfth grade. It identifies additional data needed to clarify policy issues or for use in projection models, with a long-range view of contributing to the development of a teaching force of higher quality in the United States. The book has major implications for the teacher work force and for statisticians and researchers involved in investigating, modeling, and projecting teacher supply, demand, and quality.

      • December 2015

        Everything We Had

        A Novel of the Southwest Pacific Air War, November-December 1941

        by Tom Burkhalter

        November 1941: In the Pacific, war looms with Japan. In Europe, the Nazis are triumphant. England is under siege by air and sea. France has fallen, and the Nazi Wehrmacht is at the gates of Moscow itself. Japan has been at war with China since 1937. Japan’s war industries depend upon imports of scrap metal and oil from the Allied nations. The Allies place an embargo on imports to Japan in 1941. The Japanese have a year's supply of oil to supply their armed forces. Japan surrounds American possessions in the Philippines with overwhelming force on three sides. The US Army makes a desperate attempt to reinforce the Philippines garrison, but the clock is also ticking for the Japanese. The armed forces of Imperial Japan may attack the Philippines at any moment. Two brothers, Jack and Charlie Davis, are pilots in the US Army Air Forces. They are part of the reinforcements sent to the Far Eastern Air Force, charged with air defense of the Philippines. For Jack and Charlie, in a time when the US is on the brink of world war, a simple question must soon be answered: what will I do when the Japanese come?

      • Project management

        Advanced Multi-Project Management

        Achieving Outstanding Speed and Results with Predictability

        by Gerald I. Kendall, PMP, and Kathleen M. Austin

        Even in a well-managed multi-project environment, it is not unusual to see half of all projects completed either late, over budget or with cuts to original scope. However, the proven approach presented in Advanced Multi-Project Management has enabled large, medium, and even small organizations to consistently complete their projects faster, within original scope and budget, and increase the number of projects executed with the same resources by as much as 70%. The list of companies that have used this methodology for stunning results includes some of the biggest, well-known names in the world—Boeing, Rio Tinto, ABB, and Chrysler. This guide details the six gears that must work in unison to drive speed and predictability within an organization.

      • Humanities & Social Sciences
        February 1991

        People and Technology in the Workplace

        by National Academy of Engineering; Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education; National Research Council

        Quick introduction of new technology is essential to America's competitiveness. But the success of new systems depends on their acceptance by the people who will use them. This new volume presents practical information for managers trying to meld the best in human and technological resources. The volume identifies factors that are critical to successful technology introduction and examines why America lags behind many other countries in this effort. Case studies document successful transitions to new systems and procedures in manufacturing, medical technology, and office automation--ranging from the Boeing Company's program to involve employees in decision making and process design, to the introduction of alternative work schedules for Mayo Clinic nurses. This volume will be a practical resource for managers, researchers, faculty, and students in the fields of industry, engineering design, human resources, labor relations, sociology, and organizational behavior.

      • September 2017

        Sous le rideau, la petite valise brune

        by Thiry, Françoise

        During the winter of 1966, a Boeing 707 of Sabena arriving from Bujumbura landed on Belgian soil. A half-asleep girl, holding a small brown suitcase in her hand, trotted behind a flight attendant, who handed it over to a man wearing a white shirt with a funny white collar, a black suit, and on the back of the jacket a small golden cross. The hostess greets "Monseigneur" before splitting the crowd and disappearing. The heroine of the novel is a Métis child of a Burundian mother and an unknown Belgian father, taken from her maternal family to be, like many others, given in adoption to a "good Catholic family" in Belgium. Throughout the narration, the hidden part of the narrator questions her "licit" part in the hope that one day both will join. The reader follows the slow metamorphosis of the child and the amputation of his memory until his fierce struggle against oblivion, his efforts to "reattach" his broken halves lead to the discovery of his astonishing identity. To raise the curtain, to open the padlock of the little brown suitcase, is to traverse a singular journey imbricated in a collective history long shelved in the cupboard, a secret of state and a secret of Church: the forced rapt of the half-breeds, “the children of shame” born under Belgian colonization before the Independences. A moving and lucid autofiction, which shows to what extent a religious institution can place itself above the laws and make suffer in the name of a distorded pseudo-morals.

      • Business competition

        Get Your Money Where Your Mouth Is

        How to Use Seminars and Public Speaking to Market and Promote Your Business, Profession, or Passion — Profitably

        by David R. Portney

        We are in an age where the battle to get your customers’ attention is fierce and advertising options are becoming more expensive and less effective. In Get Your Money Where Your Mouth Is, you will learn everything you need to know to market yourself and your business in the least expensive and most effective way possible — by using the power of seminars and public speaking. With seminar and public speaking expert David Portney as your guide, you’ll learn how to ▪ organize a seminar for little or no money, ▪ sell from the stage, ▪ write a presentation in four easy steps, ▪ brand yourself as the expert in your field, ▪ get your customers to come to you. Get Your Money Where Your Mouth Is contains all of the information and know-how so that you can go from stage-wary beginner to awe-inspiring speaker in no time flat, including ▪ a 30-day fast-start action plan, ▪ a cornucopia of resources, ▪ tons of advice and methods for overcoming stage fright and fear of public speaking, ▪ how to combine your Internet strategy with your seminar strategy, ▪ and all the tips and techniques you need to market whatever you’re selling effectively, inexpensively—and profitably.

      • October 2013

        Data Engineering

        by Brian Shive

        If you found a rusty old lamp on the beach, and upon touching it a genie appeared and granted you three wishes, what would you wish for? If you were wishing for a successful application development effort, most likely you would wish for accurate and robust data models, comprehensive data flow diagrams, and an acute understanding of human behavior. The wish for well-designed conceptual and logical data models means the requirements are well-understood and that the design has been built with flexibility and extensibility leading to high application agility and low maintenance costs. The wish for detailed data flow diagrams means a concrete understanding of the business' value chain exists and is documented. The wish to understand how we think means excellent team dynamics while analyzing, designing, and building the application. Why search the beaches for genie lamps when instead you can read this book? Learn the skills required for modeling, value chain analysis, and team dynamics by following the journey the author and son go through in establishing a profitable summer lemonade business. This business grew from season to season proportionately with their adoption of important engineering principles. All of the concepts and principles are explained in a novel format, so you will learn the important messages while enjoying the story that unfolds within these pages. The story is about an old man who has spent his life designing data models and databases and his newly adopted son. Father and son have a 54 year age difference that produces a large generation gap. The father attempts to narrow the generation gap by having his nine-year-old son earn his entertainment money. The son must run a summer business that turns a lemon grove into profits so he can buy new computers and games. As the son struggles for profits, it becomes increasingly clear that dad's career in information technology can provide critical leverage in achieving success in business. The failures and successes of the son's business over the summers are a microcosm of the ups and downs of many enterprises as they struggle to manage information technology. Brian started his data modeling career in the late 1970s while working as a consultant to the relational database gurus at IBM. Brian learned from John Zachman at IBM how to use the discipline of engineering when designing data. Brian works at Microsoft where during his 18 years he has served as Microsoft Corporate Data Administrator, Enterprise Architecture Lead Information Architect, Principal Architect, Development Manager and most-fun-one Developer. He spent 16 years with Boeing IT. Brian also worked as Solar Energy Designer, Executive of Boy Scouts of America, musician, comedian and poet and janitor. Brian and his wife and two children live in the Seattle area. He teaches Aramaic in his Methodist church and can be seen on YouTube sounding at times like Jimi Hendrix. He is working on a book of poetry and loves teaching data modeling, database design and data integration. The human brain and the behavior it elicits have provided Brian with years of study in neurology, psychology, sociology and history.

      • September 2021

        The Escape Agent (Der Rausholer)

        by Max Claro

        Shortly before taking the school certificate exams, the hippy and opponent of the war in Vietnam, Michael Müller, drops out of high school. In response, his mother coldly tosses him out into the street. Following a revealing travel odyssey throughout America, the country of his dreams, he obtains US citizenship in the name of Michael Miller and finally winds up signing on the dotted line to serve in the U.S. Army. Once in Vietnam, Miller deserts in such a high profile and adventurous manner, that the eyes of the CIA fall on him. To avoid prosecution, and a certain prison sentence for desertion, Miller agrees on behalf of Langley to extract chosen Assets out of the Warsaw Pact and Middle East States to the West. His finest coup, on behalf of the BND, to free 141 German hostages from the firm clutches of the Islamic Republic of Iran had gone almost unnoticed by the press and the general public at the time. The gripping story of an agent who never actually wanted to be one.

      • In Other Wor(l)ds

        by Mikko Metsähonkala

        In Other Wor(l)ds is a book which defies all classification. It’s not exactly a comic, nor is it an art book. It is something in between, aphoristic cartoons perhaps. Accompanied by one or two sentences of the most gnomic kind, architect Mikko Metsähonkala’s illustrations speak volumes. The images in the book are basically single-frame comics - a bit like Gary Larson’s The Far Side. Topics in Metsähonkala’s illustrations range from history and natural sciences to arts, myths, and everyday life. Humour is based on the mundane and sublime, fairy tale and the real world.

      • July 2015

        Quiero ser artista

        by Pablo Ottonello

        Nothing is known beforehand of these blind, halftruths distributed in “Kovacic,” nor of the apparent lack of turbulence that imprints “Founding a sex” with a kind of backdrop scenery, or of the speck of flour or talcum powder that confines “Buy cream” to a whiteness that plays on two points, from the hinting glimpse to the concluding sentence with experimentation and innocence. Quiero ser artista changes from a yearning and methodical aspiration into a tautological confession: Literature is the best possible means for such things to happen.

      • Fiction

        Scorpions In Stilettos

        by Hinemura Ellison and Ted D Hughes

        Caught in a compromising position, Clara AKA Flat White, the classy, conservative career girl of the Trinity Trio, struggles as her carefully constructed life comes crashing down around her. Juggling a complicated love life, a career with bullying managers, a domineering mother and her own demons from the past, may be just a little too much even for her. Can Clara recover and navigate her way back with the help of her friends? Book Three in the Trinity Trilogy following on from Sharks With Lipstick and Snakes In Suits.

      • July 2023

        Code Peking Duck

        by Max Claro (author); Nicholas Corwin (translator)

        West German pacifist Michael Müller ends up as a GI in the U.S. Army after a wild cross-country odyssey through America, the land of his dreams. Now Michael Miller, he’s a medic in Vietnam. Shaken by combat’s horrors, Miller decides to desert. Eluding the authorities halfway around the world, he returns to the United States. To avoid prison for desertion, Miller pledges to smuggle defectors and dissidents from hostile countries for the CIA. After thrilling operations in the Eastern Bloc and the Middle East, he faces the ultimate challenge: rescuing 141 German civilians from the chaos of revolutionary Iran.An incredible story—based on true events.

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