Hassan Hassan

Michael Weiss

A revelatory look inside the world's most dangerous terrorist group. Initially dismissed by US President Barack Obama, along with other fledgling terrorist groups, as a “jayvee squad” compared to al-Qaeda, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has shocked the world by conquering massive territories in both countries and promising to create a vast new Muslim caliphate that observes the strict dictates of Sharia law. In ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror, American journalist Michael Weiss and Syrian analyst Hassan Hassan explain how these violent extremists evolved from a nearly defeated Iraqi insurgent group into a jihadi army of international volunteers who behead Western hostages in slickly produced videos and have conquered territory equal to the size of Great Britain. Beginning with the early days of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the founder of ISIS’s first incarnation as “al-Qaeda in Iraq,” Weiss and Hassan explain who the key players are—from their elusive leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi to the former Saddam Baathists in their ranks—where they come from, how the movement has attracted both local and global support, and where their financing comes from. Political and military maneuvering by the United States, Iraq, Iran, and Syria have all fueled ISIS’s astonishing and explosive expansion. Drawing on original interviews with former US military officials and current ISIS fighters, the authors also reveal the internecine struggles within the movement itself, as well as ISIS’s bloody hatred of Shiite Muslims, which is generating another sectarian war in the region. Just like the one the US thought it had stopped in 2011 in Iraq. Past is prologue and America’s legacy in the Middle East is sowing a new generation of terror.

Inside the Army of Terror

ISIS

Tocharian B, an Indo-European language spoken in the first millennium C.E. in western China, is of great importance to numerous disciplines, from Indo-European historical linguistics to the study of Central Asia, the Silk Road, and Buddhism. This first-ever textbook in the language makes Tocharian B, hitherto familiar mostly to specialists, readily accessible to a broad audience. In twenty graduated lessons, the student is introduced to all the language's grammar, with translation exercises between English and Tocharian in both directions and numerous passages taken from original texts. The book assumes no familiarity with the scholarly disciplines above, but simultaneously contains much information useful to specialists by virtue of the author's broad knowledge and full familiarity with the most up-to-date literature. A full glossary, together with tables of declensions and conjugations, key to the exercises, and bibliography round out the volume..

Elementary Lessons in Tocharian B

Kuśiññe Kantwo

Hardcover edition has a map on the endpapers.

Inside the Army of Terror (Updated Edition)

Tocharian B, an Indo-European language spoken in the first millennium C.E. in western China, is of great importance to numerous disciplines, from Indo-European historical linguistics to the study of Central Asia, the Silk Road, and Buddhism. This first-ever textbook in the language makes Tocharian B, hitherto familiar mostly to specialists, readily accessible to a broad audience. In twenty graduated lessons, the student is introduced to all the language's grammar, with translation exercises between English and Tocharian in both directions and numerous passages taken from original texts. The book assumes no familiarity with the scholarly disciplines above, but simultaneously contains much information useful to specialists by virtue of the author's broad knowledge and full familiarity with the most up-to-date literature. A full glossary, together with tables of declensions and conjugations, key to the exercises, and bibliography round out the volume.

Kuśinne Kantwo

"A comprehensive overview of the historical and comparative grammar of Latin, with chapters detailing the phonological, morphological, and syntactic prehistory of the language. There are also chapters devoted to Etruscan and the development of Latin into the Romance languages. There is also extensive up-to-date bibliography. The book has a wealth of knowledge for both the generalist and the specialist, with the basic information presented in outline format and additional details populating the footnotes"--

Outline of the Historical and Comparative Grammar of Latin

Peter Kropf

Gilbert Babin

This volume constitutes the proceedings of the 4th International Conference on E-Technologies, MCETECH 2009, held in Ottawa, Canada, during May 4-6, 2009. The 23 full and 4 short papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 42 submissions. They cover topics such as inter-organzational processes, service-oriented architectures, security and trust, middleware infrastructures, open source and open environments, and applications including eGovernment, eEducation, and eHealth.

4th International Conference, MCETECH 2009, Ottawa, Canada, May 4-6, 2009, Proceedings

E-Technologies: Innovation in an Open World

Stille Berühren Leere

A Presentation is not a meeting; itâ€™s a Performance! Itâ€™s your time to stand up, shine and win over your audience with your ideas and your stories. This book is for anyone who has to present their ideas to internal teams, clients, the board of directors or who aspires to give a TED talk. Too often the fear of vulnerability stands in the way of delivering a rock solid presentation. We get hung up on how we talk, how we look, how we move and we forget that we are given the chance to educate and entertain. With the tools included in Presentation Elevation you will soon be the presenter you always wanted to be! How? By focusing on YOU and your style, how to win THEM over finally HOW to create a presentation slide deck that will make you a rock star in the eyes of your audience. If you find yourself opening old Powerpoint Slide decks when creating a new presentation, then this book is for you! If you often find your audience reaching for their smart phones, then this book is for you. If you want to educate, inspire and entertain your audiences of 5 or 500 people then Presentation Elevation is for you! There are many books on HOW to become a better presenter. And many of them are very good yet exhaustive. The goal of this book is for you to be able to read it on the plane from New York to LA and step off inspired and ready to rock and roll your next presentation!

Educate, Inspire and Engage Your Audience

Presentation Skills

Hafedh Mili

Morad Benyoucef

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on E-Technologies, MCETECH 2015, held in Montréal, Canada, in May 2015. The 18 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 42 submissions. They have been organized in topical sections on process adaptation; legal issues; social computing; eHealth; and eBusiness, eEducation and eLogistics.

6th International Conference, MCETECH 2015, Montréal, QC, Canada, May 12-15, 2015, Proceedings

E-Technologies

Gregory Arone

John Hubbuck

Ran Levi

The book consists of articles at the frontier of current research in Algebraic Topology. It presents recent results by top notch experts, and is intended primarily for researchers and graduate students working in the field of algebraic topology. Included is an important article by Cohen, Johnes and Yan on the homology of the space of smooth loops on a manifold M, endowed with the Chas-Sullivan intersection product, as well as an article by Goerss, Henn and Mahowald on stable homotopy groups of spheres, which uses the cutting edge technology of "topological modular forms".

International Conference in Algebraic Topology, Isle of Skye, Scotland, June 2001

Categorical Decomposition Techniques in Algebraic Topology

Esma Aïmeur

Umar Ruhi

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on E-Technologies, MCETECH 2017, held in Ottawa, ON, Canada, in May 2017. This year’s conference drew special attention to the ever-increasing role of the Internet of Things (IoT); and the contributions span a variety of application domains such as e-Commerce, e-Health, e-Learning, and e-Justice, comprising research from models and architectures, methodology proposals, prototype implementations, and empirical validation of theoretical models. The 19 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 48 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: pervasive computing and smart applications; security, privacy and trust; process modeling and adaptation; data analytics and machine learning; and e-health and e-commerce.

7th International Conference, MCETECH 2017, Ottawa, ON, Canada, May 17-19, 2017, Proceedings

E-Technologies: Embracing the Internet of Things

English summary: Based on the German Corporate Governance Code, Michael Weiss studies the legal, real and extra-territorial effects of national corporate governance codes. He classifies these as hybrid regulatory instruments, which like a living institution are caught between state regulation and private commitment. German description: Die durch grosse Unternehmenskrisen ausgeloste Diskussion um Fragen guter Unternehmensfuhrung hat zu Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts weltweit zur Herausbildung von Corporate-Governance-Kodizes auf unterschiedlichen Ebenen gefuhrt. Ausgehend vom Deutschen Corporate-Governance-Kodex untersucht Michael Weiss die rechtlichen und faktischen Wirkungen nationaler Corporate-Governance-Kodizes. Er ordnet sie als Hybride Regulierungsinstrumente ein, die sich wie eine atmende Grosse im Spannungsfeld zwischen staatlicher Regulierung und privater Selbstverpflichtung bewegen und je nach dem, wie stark die Rolle des Staates bei der Erstellung und Uberwachung des jeweiligen Kodexes ist, als staatliche oder private Massnahme zu qualifizieren sind. Daruber hinaus entwickelt der Autor Ansatze zur Losung extraterritorialer Konflikte im Zusammenhang mit derartigen Hybriden Regulierungsinstrumenten.

eine Analyse rechtlicher, faktischer und extraterritorialer Wirkungen nationaler Corporate-Governance-Kodizes

Hybride Regulierungsinstrumente

In this engaging text, Michael Weiss offers an advanced view of the secondary mathematics curriculum through the prism of theory, analysis, and history, aiming to take an intellectually and mathematically mature perspective on the content normally taught in high school mathematics courses. Rather than a secondary mathematics textbook, Weiss presents here a textbook about the secondary mathematics curriculum, written for mathematics educators and mathematicians and presenting a long-overdue modern-day integration of the disparate topics and methods of secondary mathematics into a coherent mathematical theory. Areas covered include: Polynomials and polynomial functions; Geometry, graphs, and symmetry; Abstract algebra, linear algebra, and solving equations; Exponential and logarithmic functions; Complex numbers; The historical development of the secondary mathematics curriculum. Written using precise definitions and proofs throughout on a foundation of advanced content knowledge, Weiss offers a compelling and timely investigation into the secondary mathematics curriculum, relevant for preservice secondary teachers as well as graduate students and scholars in both mathematics and mathematics education.

A View from Above

Secondary Mathematics for Mathematicians and Educators

Poznejte hrozbu zvanou ISIS. Islámský stát v Iráku a Sýrii (ISIS) šokoval svět svou brutální silou a odporným stínáním hlav rukojmích. V obou zemích dobyli jeho příslušníci velká území – rovnající se velikosti Velké Británie – a slíbili vytvořit nový muslimský chalífát pod přísnými pravidly zákona šaría. V knize Islámský stát – Uvnitř armády teroru vysvětluje americký novinář Michael Weiss a syrský analytik Hassan Hassan, jak se tito násilničtí extremisté přerodili z povstalecké skupiny, která byla v Iráku téměř poražena, do džihádistické armády mezinárodních dobrovolníků, kteří natáčeli profesionální videa a šířili násilí a chaos po celém Blízkém východě. Počínaje prvními dny Abú Mus’aba az-Zarqáwího, zakladatele prvního ztělesnění ISIS ve formě „al-Káidy v Iráku“, Weiss a Hassan vysvětlují, kdo jsou klíčoví hráči – od nepolapitelného vůdce Abu Bakra al-Bagdádího až po bývalé Saddámovy baasisty v jeho řadách – odkud přišli, jak získávali místní i globální podporu a jak fungují – od jejich sociální mediální strategie až po pokoutní zisky z obchodu s ropou. Politické a vojenské manévrování Spojených států, Iráku, Íránu a Sýrie podnítilo překvapivou a prudkou expanzi ISIS. Na základě původních interview s bývalými americkými vojenskými činiteli a současnými bojovníky ISIS odhalují autoři také bratrovražedný boj uvnitř tohoto hnutí, stejně jako neskutečnou nenávist příslušníků ISIS vůči šíitským muslimům, což je příčinou další sektářské války v tomto regionu – přesně té, o které si Spojené státy myslely, že ji v Iráku zastavily v roce 2011. Ve světě se zrodila nová generace teroru, a chceme-li vědět, jak ji zastavit, musíme vědět, o koho jde. „První kniha, která dokáže uceleně vysvětlit, o co ISIS usiluje a proč je takovou hrozbou pro svět. Nepochybně povinná četba pro kohokoliv, kdo chce pochopit rizika radikálního islámu, kterému všichni čelíme.“ - DOUGLAS E. SHOEN, politický analytik, autor knihy „The Russia-China Axis: The New Cold War and America’s Crisis of Leadership“ „Vynikající žurnalistické dílo, nešetřící ve své analýze nekompetentnost Obamovy vlády.“ - Nick Cohen, The Spectator (UK) „... detailní reportáž, postihující i jemné rozdíly.“ - James Traub, Wall Street Journal „Podrobné a čtivé“ - Guardian „Weiss a Hassan napsali dosud nejzávažnější knižní studii Islámského státu.“ - New York Times, rubrika Book Review Editor’s Choice MICHAEL WEISS je sloupkař v magazínu Foreign Policy, The Daily Beast a NOW Lebanon. Je rovněž spolupracovníkem Institutu moderního Ruska, kde je šéfredaktorem v The Interpreter, což je online překladatelský žurnál. HASSAN HASSAN je analytik pro Blízký východ a sloupkař v periodiku The National. Jeho články byly publikovány mezi jiným v Guardianu, Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs a New York Times. Je nositelem titulu MA v oboru mezinárodních vztahů na Univerzitě v Nottinghamu. Objevný pohled do nitra nejnebezpečnější teroristické skupiny na světě.

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