Product Description: This story opens in 1961 and, right away, the reader discovers that peace and violence, beauty and evil, can co-exist in the same place, casting a contradiction into every story. Mike appears to be a sweet and innocent three-year-old boy but, at his core, is an unfathomable wickedness, with his younger brother, Jerry, squarely in his sights...read more

Product Description: This book provides a succinct but sophisticated understanding of humanitarianism and insight into the on-going dilemmas and tensions that have accompanied it since its origins in the early nineteenth century. Combining theoretical and historical exposition with a broad range of contemporary case studies, the book: provides a brief survey of the history of humanitarianism, beginning with the anti-slavery movement in the early nineteenth century and continuing to today’s challenge of post-conflict reconstruction and saving failed states explains the evolution of humanitarianism...read more

Product Description: One of the genuinely remarkable but relatively unnoticed developments of the last half-century is the blossoming of an international humanitarian order – a complex of norms, informal institutions, laws, and discourses that legitimate and compel various kinds of interventions by state and nonstate actors with the explicit goal of preserving and protecting human life...read more

Product Description: This project focused on the system in Jacksonville, FL (JEA ), which is supplied by ground water with high service pumping. Using the model developed by AwwaRF's EWQMS projects, this project extends prior experience to software implementation, installation, testing, calibration, and daily operations associated with an optimization system, particularly day-to-day optimization...read more

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