Україна вперше стала місцем проведення саме у Східній Європі 35-ї Міжнародної баладної конференції SIEF, яка відбулася в Києві 6–11 липня 2005 року в Інституті мистецтвознавства, фольклористики та етнології ім. М. Т. Рильського НАН України.

This text shows how the integration of PDM and SCM can help organizations quickly and efficiently develop new products and efficiently maintain and update existing products.

Scripted GUI Testing with Ruby" is a practical, quick-moving tutorial based on real life, and real-world GUI applications. Right out of the gate you'll start working with code to drive a desktop GUI. You'll discover the kinds of gotchas and edge cases that don't exist in simple, toy programs. As you add more tests, you'll learn how to organize your test code and write lucid examples. The result is a series of "smoke tests" team will run on Continuous Integration servers.

These 400 alphabetically arranged articles provide detailed accounts of how Western maritime empires and their customs and values spread to all corners of the globe, ultimately shaping the development of non-European societies. Each one presents not only facts, but also interpretations of the impact of European colonialism and is well supported by charts, tables, maps, and black-and-white illustrations. The entries make extensive use of primary-source material and contain both see-also references and bibliographies. A glossary of key terms is appended, as is a collection of historical documents that are directly linked to Western colonial expansion and policies. The text flows easily and information retrieval is facilitated by the effective use of subtitles in many of the entries and the variety of access points in the index. A wide range of topics, such as the Boxer Uprising, censorship, diamonds, and Vasco da Gama, provides a comprehensive treatment of the subject. Falling neatly between general and scholarly reference, this set would be a fine addition.

The aim of this book is to provide readers with the tools to understand the historical evolution of terrorism and counterterrorism over the past 150 years. In order to appreciate the contemporary challenges posed by terrorism it is necessary to look at its evolution, at the different phases it has gone through, and the transformations it has experienced. The same applies to the solutions that states have come up with to combat terrorism: the nature of terrorism changes but still it is possible to learn from past experiences even though they are not directly applicable to the present. This book provides a fresh look at the history of terrorism by providing in-depth analysis of several important terrorist crises and the reactions to them in the West and beyond. The general framework is laid out in four parts: terrorism prior to the Cold War, the Western experience with terrorism, non-Western experiences with terrorism, and contemporary terrorism and anti-terrorism. The issues covered offer a broad range of historical and current themes, many of which have been neglected in existing scholarship; it also features a chapter on the waves phenomenon of terrorism against its international background. This book will be of much interest to students of terrorism studies, political violence, international history, security studies and IR.

Vol. 1 : Abortion - Cognitive Dissonans. - 756 p.

The subject of economic regulation has become more important in the study of economics over the last 30 years because of important advances in theory and because of major changes in public policy, which have led to the privatization of a number of state-owned, monopoly industries and the introduction of competition. This has been occurring in both advanced and developing economies and, most strikingly, in the former command economies of Central and Eastern Europe. Growing concerns about ‘global warming’ have sparked off theoretical and policy initiatives related to environmental regulation; while development economics places emphasis on the importance of regulatory ‘institutions’ in explaining impediments to sustained economic growth.

This text provides techniques to build better, richer Web applications, including hands-on examples that integrate Flash interfaces with database data.

Arbitration is an essential component in business. In an age when transparency is a maxim, important issues which the laws governing arbitration currently fail to address are the extent to which disclosure of information can be constrained by private agreement along with the extent to which the duty to preserve confidentiality can be stretched. Absent a coherent legal framework and extensive qualitative and quantitative data, it is equally difficult to suggest and predict future directions. This book offers a tool for attaining centralised access to otherwise fragmentary and dispersed material, as well as a comprehensive analysis and detailed exposition of the position in relation to confidentiality in arbitration in the jurisdictions of England, USA, France and Germany.

The history of a language can be understood as the combination of its internal history and external history. The internal history of a language includes all events of a linguistic nature, such as phonological, grammatical, and lexical changes. Among the questions it addresses are these:What changes have occurred in the language’s inventory of sounds over time?What grammatical structures have been lost, and what other structures have arisen to replace them?What have been the most important sources of new words? To what extent have other words become obsolete? External history is the history of the people or peopleswho speak the language, though naturally a language history focuses principally on the events that have had linguistic repercussions. Thus, external history addresses questions such as the following:What peoples spoke the language originally?What other peoples adopted the languag and under what circumstances?What invasions, migrations, and other events have contributed to the current geographic and demographic distribution of the language? What cultural developments have affected the evolution of the language? Ideally, we would like to find one-to-one correspondences between these two perspectives—the internal and the external—but in practice this is rarely possible. Even if it is unquestionable that cultural events such as the Renaissance and the technological revolution of the twentieth century have fostered the acceptance of largen umbers of neologisms—in the first case primarily from Italian and in the second from English—in general it is difficult to find concrete correspondences, for example, between the pace of phonological change and periods of peace or war, or between specific grammatical changes and migrations of populations.

UNIX gateways introduce massive performance possibilities at a fraction of the price of dedicated proprietary appliances by performing network tasks entirely in software. With Cisco Systems routers dominating the Internet and enterprise networking and UNIX routing and gateway solutions spreading from within server farms and data centers, new opportunities and possibilities arise for system and network administrators who understand the benefit of integrated designs. For example, the use of UNIX gateways can enable intrusion detection, firewalling, cable and DSL access, terminal servers and access concentrators, VPNs, roaming user support, and other LAN and WAN services. Far from being mutually exclusive, Cisco devices, UNIX operating systems, and open source applications can enjoy a peaceful, perhaps even inevitable, coexistence for years to come. Integrated Cisco and UNIX Network Architectures shows how Cisco routers, switches, and firewalls seamlessly work together with UNIX operating systems in an integrated networking and security environment.

Surrealist Women displays the range and significance of women's contributions to surrealism. Penelope Rosemont, affiliated with the Paris Surrealist Group in the 1960s and now a Chicago poet and painter, has assembled nearly three hundred texts by ninety-six women from twenty-eight countries. She opens the book with a succinct summary of surrealism's basic aims and principles, followed by a discussion of the place of gender in the origins of the movement.The texts are organised into historical periods ranging from the 1920s to the present, with introductions describing trends in the movement for each period; and each surrealist's work is prefaced by a brief biographical statement.

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У довіднику комплексно розкривається історія створення, розширення, інституційна структура Європейського Союзу, становлення його правової бази та загальні відомості про держави-члени ЄС. Також, книга висвітлює основні етапи побудови відносин Україна - ЄС, напрями співпраці, формування євроінтеграційної політики України та перспективи набуття Україною членства в ЄС. Видання орієнтоване на Центри івропейської інформації для швидкого отримання відвідувачами інформації з євроінтеграційної проблематики. Також матеріали довідника можуть бути використані учнями і, особливо, студентами, які навчаються за напрямками "державне управління", "міжнародні відносини", "політологія", "історія".

Це перше українське видання книги, що вже стала класичною працею про османську цивілізацію, а її автор - професор Чікагського університу Галіль Іналджик, здобув визнання як найбільший авторитет в галузі османістики. В ній показується, як за короткий час маленьке прикордонне князівство перетворилося на світову потугу, лідера ісламського світу. Розкриваються рушійні сили османського піднесення. Османська династія, Палац, центральна і провінційна адміністрація, правлячі класи, військо, право, судочинство, релігійні інститути, селянство та сільське господарство, міжнародна торгівля, ремісничі цехи, освіта, інтелектуальне життя, духовність та культура - ось ті проблеми, які розглядаються в цій книзі. Певну увагу приділено також Північному Причорномор’ю, що пропонує українському читачеві ширшу перспективу історії України. Книга вдало поєднує наукову грунтовність з барвистими деталями східної екзотики і тому розрахована як на фахівця-сходознавця, так і на аматора історії.