A definitive look at Michael Jackson's final minutes, revealing for the first time the shocking details behind the tragic death of one of the world's biggest pop stars.

On June 25th, 2009, the world was rocked by the shocking news that Michael Jackson, the biggest and most influential music icon since Elvis, was pronounced dead on arrival at a Los Angeles hospital. He was 50 years old. This comprehensive and truly horrifying account of the crucial 83 minutes leading up to Jackson's death provides a multi-perspective look that tracks everyone involved at the scene of and in the days before and after Jackson's tragic passing. Official court transcripts and other legal documentation provide a compelling and accurate account of some of the darkest minutes in music history, including the shocking cocktail of drugs employed to keep Jackson alive and the harrowing and squalid conditions in which the troubled singer ended his life.

On June 25th, 2009, the world was rocked by the tragic, shocking news that Michael Jackson - the biggest and most influential music icon since Elvis Presley - was pronounced dead on arrival at a Los Angeles hospital. He was 50 years old. As the news reverberated around the world, it was accompanied by even more shocking and controversial information - a sickening revelation to Jackson's millions of fans: that Jackson had died in the care of his personal physician, Doctor Conrad Murray - a whole 83 Minutes before Murray put a 911 call in to emergency services. In this, a comprehensive and truly horrifying account of those crucial minutes - Murray's frantic attempts to cover his tracks and revive his client before the truth could be revealed - are laid bare. This is a compelling, multi-perspective tracking of all who were involved at the scene, and their part to play in the events surrounding Jackson's tragic passing. The shocking cocktail of drugs employed to keep Jackson alive, administered by Murray himself; the harrowing and squalid conditions in which this troubled musical genius ended his life, all is 100% accurately described from official court transcripts and documents.

Since the turn of the twenty first century, there has been a trend for urban "mega events" to be awarded to cities and nations in the East and Global South. Such events have been viewed as economic stimulant as well as opportunities to promote national identity, gain greater international recognition and exercise a form of 'soft power.' However, there has also been on-going controversy about the value, impact and legacy of global mega events in these cities and nations.

This book provides a critical examination of the ambition for spectacle that has emerged across the East and Global South. The chapters explore the theoretical and conceptual issues associated with mega-events and new forms of globalization, from the critical political economy of mega-events in a changing world order to the contested social and economic legacies of mega-events and the widespread opposition that increasingly accompanies these events. The book also explores questions of urban development and governance, the role of new communications technologies in global economic expansion, the high security State, and the growing global influence of international non-governmental organizations.

This book offers a rich collection of original theoretical contributions and global case studies from leading international scholars from the social sciences and humanities. It offers a fresh and unique interdisciplinary perspective that synthesizes cutting edge research on mega-events and urban spectacles while simultaneously contributing to a broader understanding of the dynamics of global capitalism and international political power in the early twenty first century.

Since commerce started millennia ago, businesses have been trying to ensure their growth and survival with an eye to beating the competition. For about the last 100 years, businesses have used the principles of scientific management in order to make sense of their world of commerce, using a variety of models and techniques to improve the way businesses operate. However, these methods are all based on a premise that we have an array of various business processes, and that each process can be understood by analyzing their component elements of Inputs, Processes and Outputs: the I-P-O as it is known. The I-P-O model is one of the most fundamental models used in business analysis. In this model, we seek first to identify the Inputs, the resources needed for a business process to happen. Then we examine the specific Process itself, a component of the broader process consisting of specific, individual steps along the way that are needed to produce some desired outcome. Finally we consider the Outputs, or what is actually produced for the customer. This mental model is as valid today as it ever was. However, what if we are wrong about our underlying premise? What if business operations are not made up of a conglomeration of individual and independent processes? In order to understand and refine the whole, we study the component parts. But does this model adequately and authentically account for our known universe of situations in business? Is it possible that we need to draw on other sources to complete and improve our existing model, thereby enhancing its relevance to and our understanding of the business domain? This book proposes that we consider an ecosystems model as an alternative or supplement to the I-P-O model. It will examine the use of the ecosystems model in business analysis in order to provide a more holistic model and to link the micro-level factors with their macro-level linkages.

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3D printing is no longer just figment of your imagination. This remarkable technology is coming to the masses with the growing availability of 3D printers. 3D printers create 3-dimentional layered models and they allow users to create prototypes that use multiple materials and colors. This friendly-but-straightforward guide examines each type of 3D printing technology available today and gives artists, entrepreneurs, engineers, and hobbyists insight into the amazing things 3D printing has to offer. You’ll discover methods for the creation of 3D printable objects using software, 3D scanners, and even photographs with the help of this timely For Dummies guide.

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This guide to functional assessment procedures includes a variety of strategies for assessing problem behavior situations, and presents a systematic approach for designing behavioral support programs based on those assessments. Professionals and other readers learn to conduct functional assessments and develop their own intervention programs.

2012 is the two-hundredth anniversary of the birth of one of our greatest and most important novelists, Charles Dickens. This title includes six of his works.

Doomsday . . . Judgment Day . . .

Day of Reckoning . . . The Apocalypse . . .

As the man with the sandwich board might say, 'The end of the world is nigh.' Nobody knows for sure whether it will be an act of God, a natural event, or a man-made disaster that causes the final bell to toll for humankind, but it is surely primed and ready to clang.

A Is for Armageddon is your ruthlessly clever and gorgeously hopeless guide to the possible?if not imminent?ultimate destruction of our civilization and planet. From animal flatulence to economic collapse to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse?from lethal genetic modification to runaway obesity, super volcanoes, and World War III?the seeds of our doom have been sown . . . and our most dire possible fates have been stunningly illustrated in this edifying and uniquely entertaining volume of inescapable horrors, fatal missteps, and the end of everything.

This Norton Critical Edition of The Blithedale Romance is based on the Centenary Edition of the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne, widely considered the best available edition. It is accompanied by explanatory annotations to help readers with Hawthorne’s many historical and literary references as well as with other possible sources of difficulty in the text.

“Contexts” is thematically organized and includes a rich and varied selection of materials, both public and private, focusing on Hawthorne’s inspirations for the novel. Included are letters, excerpts from journals, published accounts of Brook Farm and the growth of antebellum social reform, Hawthorne’s letters to Sophia Peabody and Louisa Hawthorne about his first days at Brook Farm, and later letters describing his growing reservations about and decision to leave the utopian community. The Blithedale Romance raises interesting questions about the role of women, the popularity of mesmerism, and the growth of cities in mid-nineteenth-century America. Margaret Fuller, Charles Baudelaire, and Hawthorne, among others, provide invaluable insight.

“Criticism” begins with major contemporary reviews by Herman Melville, William B. Pike, George S. Hillard, James T. Fields, Henry Fothergill Chorley, and others that suggest The Blithedale Romance’s initial reception. “Selections from Classic Studies” reprints key excerpts from influential essays published through the 1970s, including those by Henry James, D. H. Lawrence, Irving Howe, and James McIntosh.

“Recent Criticism” collects a striking range of scholarly interpretation by Nina Baym, Joel Pfister, Gillian Brown, Richard H. Brodhead, Lauren Berlant, Russ Castronovo, Robert S. Levine, and Richard H. Millington.

A Chronology and a Selected Bibliography are also included.

'This text includes usefully illustrated new material on issues like climate change, tracks diplomatic actors (notably NGOs) and reflects the changes in diplomatic practice wrought by the IT revolution.'-Sir Ivor Roberts, President of Trinity College, Oxford, former British Ambassador and Editor of 'Satow's Diplomatic Practice'.

'In this revised edition of a classic text, the authors trace the historic roots of current diplomatic practices, such as conference diplomacy and summitry. The new agents, issues and practices associated with contemporary diplomacy are analysed in lucid detail.-Christer Jonsson, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Lund University, Sweden.

Christer J÷nsson, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Lund University, Sweden.

Topics new and updated for this edition include:

Discussion of Ancient and non-European diplomacy, including a more thorough treatment of pre-Hellenic, early Arab and Chinese diplomacy and the practices prevalent in the inter-state system of the Indian sub-continent

Examination of the diplomacy of pre-colonial Africa and the diplomatic methods devised for combating the slave trade

An expanded account of the multilateral and summit diplomacy of the Cold War, drawing on the latest scholarship in the field

An entirely new chapter discussing the diffusion of diplomacy in an era of globalization; NGOs and coalitions of NGOs; the influence of trans-national corporations; developmental and transformational assistance; the impact of the revolution in electronic communications; and the new public diplomacy.

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De Cive (On the Citizen) is the first full exposition of the political thought of Thomas Hobbes, the greatest English political philosopher of all time. Professors Tuck and Silverthorne have undertaken the first complete translation since 1651, a rendition long thought (in error) to be at least sanctioned by Hobbes himself. On the Citizen is written in a clear, straightforward, expository style, offering students a more digestible account of Hobbes' political thought than even Leviathan itself. This new translation is itself a very significant scholarly event.