An introduction to Putin’s formidable intelligence and security organization
Since its founding in 1995, the FSB, Russia’s Federal Security Service, has regained the majority of the domestic security functions of the Soviet-era KGB. Under Vladimir Putin, who served as FSB director just before becoming president, ......
Comme on dit with website, a comprehensive first-year French textbook program, engages students in the learning process from day one using an inductive methodology centered on guided observation and rule discovery. Together with students' communicative needs and an analysis of their most pervasive transfer errors from English, the everyday speech ......
A riveting introduction to the complex and evolving field of geospatial intelligence, Geospatial Intelligence: Origins and Evolutions tells the story of how the current age of geospatial knowledge evolved from its ancient origins to become ubiquitous in daily life across the globe.
The definition and understanding of "terrorism" is in a state of unprecedented evolution. No longer are acts of terrorism rare and far-flung. Following the horrendous attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, U.S.
Commanding Attention at Work (and at Home) by Managing Your Social Presence
Being Present offers a framework to navigate social presence at work and at home. By exploring four primary communication choices-budgeted, entitled, competitive, and invitational-author Jeanine W. Turner shows when and where to employ each strategy to most effectively communicate in modern life.
Leading authorities analyze growing tensions in US-China relations and what this means for the future The US-China relationship is now defined by "strategic competition." In Cold Rivals, a distinguished group of scholars from the United States and China examine the reasons for this deterioration and its implications for world politics. The ......
A Case Study Approach to Anti-Money Laundering Compliance
In The Flow of Illicit Funds, Ola M. Tucker uses recent case studies to provide compliance professionals with a holistic understanding of the modern money laundering system and to give them a foundation to better detect and deter it.
In The Future of Business Journalism, Chris Roush shows the causes and consequences of business journalism's increasing focus on national coverage at the expense of local news and explains how the field can once again provide the content a broad society needs to make informed financial decisions.
Cest ce quon dit with Website is a second-year (intermediate-level) companion textbook to the beginning-level textbook Comme on dit, and as such follows the same basic format and principles: students work with hundreds of samples of authentic, nonscripted spoken and written French and are led in a step-by-step manner
