Since the second edition of this commentary on the Charter of the United Nations was published the text of the Charter may not have changed but the world has. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have had a lasting impact on international law and the Commentary has been fully updated to take their impact into account. The new edition has been completely revised and features a completely new chapter on UN reform, analyzing the effect of reforms which have already been implemented and examining why other proposals for reform have failed. It will assess how these proposals could be improved, with a particular focus on the Security Council. This new edition also includes coverage of the creation of the Human Rights Council and the impact of the Responsibility to Protect doctrine.

This is the authoritative, article-by-article account of the legislative history, interpretation, and practical application of each and every Charter provision. Written by a team of distinguished scholars and practitioners, this book combines academic research with the insights of practice, and is an indispensable work of reference for all those interested in the UN. The Commentary will be crucial in providing new directions for the development of international law and the United Nations in the twenty-first century.

Since the publication of the second edition on Bone Dysplasias ten years ago, there has been an explosion of knowledge about skeletal dysplasias. The molecular basis of a great number of disorders has been delineated, and many new conditions have been recognized. Now more than ever, the importance of accurate diagnosis cannot be overstated. Given the growth of activity and research in the field, practitioners must acknowledge that many conditions with superficial similarities have different inheritance patterns and prognoses. Various research and routine laboratories can pinpoint specific diagnoses, but before the appropriate laboratory can be consulted and eventual costs considered, clinical and radiographic features must be identified with a high degree of precision.

Fully updated and expanded, this new edition of Bone Dysplasias contains:

- More than 100 chapters on newer entities to assist the practitioner in narrowing a group of diagnostic possibilities to a specific disorder
- Over 2,500 diagnostic radiographs with concise clinical and biological information on a total of 275 rare constitutional skeletal diseases
- Concise data on the etiopathogenesis, natural course, complications, and differential diagnosis of rare conditions.

A true landmark in the study and investigation of bone dysplasias, this comprehensive volume will be a must-have resource radiologists, medical geneticists, orthopedic surgeons, pediatricians, and genetic counselors caring for patients with bone dysplasias.

Today we are witnessing dramatic changes in the way scientific and scholarlyknowledge is created, codified, and communicated. This transformation is connected to the use ofdigital technologies and the virtualization of knowledge. In this book, scholars from a range ofdisciplines consider just what, if anything, is new when knowledge is produced in new ways. Doesknowledge itself change when the tools of knowledge acquisition, representation, and distributionbecome digital?

Issues of knowledge creation and dissemination go beyond thedevelopment and use of new computational tools. The book, which draws on work from the VirtualKnowledge Studio, brings together research on scientific practice, infrastructure, and technology.Focusing on issues of digital scholarship in the humanities and social sciences, the contributorsdiscuss who can be considered legitimate knowledge creators, the value of "invisible"labor, the role of data visualization in policy making, the visualization of uncertainty, theconceptualization of openness in scholarly communication, data floods in the social sciences, andhow expectations about future research shape research practices. The contributors combine anappreciation of the transformative power of the virtual with a commitment to the empirical study ofpractice and use.

Today we are witnessing dramatic changes in the way scientific and scholarlyknowledge is created, codified, and communicated. This transformation is connected to the use ofdigital technologies and the virtualization of knowledge. In this book, scholars from a range ofdisciplines consider just what, if anything, is new when knowledge is produced in new ways. Doesknowledge itself change when the tools of knowledge acquisition, representation, and distributionbecome digital?

Issues of knowledge creation and dissemination go beyond thedevelopment and use of new computational tools. The book, which draws on work from the VirtualKnowledge Studio, brings together research on scientific practice, infrastructure, and technology.Focusing on issues of digital scholarship in the humanities and social sciences, the contributorsdiscuss who can be considered legitimate knowledge creators, the value of "invisible"labor, the role of data visualization in policy making, the visualization of uncertainty, theconceptualization of openness in scholarly communication, data floods in the social sciences, andhow expectations about future research shape research practices. The contributors combine anappreciation of the transformative power of the virtual with a commitment to the empirical study ofpractice and use.

The prelude to the X-Men event of 2011! What does it mean to be a leader? What does it do to a person? What do the choices you make mean about the person you are? This is a story that delves into these issues and will give an X-Men reader what they need to know about their favorite mutants - before everything changes!

COLLECTING: X-Men: Prelude to Schism 1-4; X-Men FIrst Class SpotlIght (JenkIns Interview)

Today's Developmental Math students enter college needing more than just the math, and this has directly impacted the instructor's role in the classroom. Instructors have to teach to different learning styles, within multiple teaching environments, and to a student population that is mostly unfamiliar with how to be a successful college student. Authors Andrea Hendricks and Pauline Chow have noticed this growing trend in their combined 30+ years of teaching at their respective community colleges, both in their face-to-face and online courses. As a result, they set out to create course materials that help today's students not only learn the mathematical concepts but also build life skills for future success. Understanding the time constraints for instructors, these authors have worked to integrate success strategies into both the print and digital materials, so that there is no sacrifice of time spent on the math. Furthermore, Andrea and Pauline have taken the time to write purposeful examples and exercises that are student-centered, relevant to today's students, and guide students to practice critical thinking skills. Beginning and Intermediate Algebra and its supplemental materials, coupled with ALEKS or Connect Math Hosted by ALEKS, allow for both full-time and part-time instructors to teach more than just the math in any teaching environment without an overwhelming amount of preparation time or even classroom time.

This volume constitutes the proceedings of the 4th IFIP WG 8.1 Working Conference on the Practice of Enterprise Modeling, held in Oslo, Norway, during November 2-3, 2011. The conference series is a dedicated forum where the use of enterprise modeling (EM) in practice is addressed by bringing together researchers, users, and practitioners in order to develop a better understanding of the practice of EM, to contribute to improved industrial EM applications, and to share knowledge and experiences.The 18 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 38 submissions. Authored by both researchers and practitioners, they reflect the fact that EM encompasses human, organizational issues as well as technical aspects related to the development of information systems. The papers are organized in five thematic sessions on process modeling, business modeling, enterprise architecture, EM, and model-driven development. In addition, two keynotes on EM in an agile world and on intra- and inter-organizational process mining complete the volume.

Tra il 1944 e il 1946, a New York, Dwight Macdonald dà vita a Politics, una rivista radicale che raccoglie le idee di intellettuali americani ed europei di particolare raffinatezza. Tra questi si possono ricordare i nomi di Andrea Caffi, Albert Camus, Nicola Chiaromonte, Paul Goodman, Mary McCarthy, George Orwell e Simone Weil. Autori di provenienza differente ma accomunati da uno spirito 'irregolare', capaci di riflettere con profondità di giudizio su questioni centrali come il socialismo, la società dei consumi, la minaccia atomica, i limiti della democrazia rappresentativa. I saggi raccolti in questo volume, di Caffi, Goodman e Macdonald, sono tra gli scritti più rappresentativi apparsi su Politics; ad essi si è voluto aggiungere un articolo di Hannah Arendt. I temi trattati riguardano la critica al progresso tecnologico in quanto portatore più di distruzione che di benessere, la riflessione sulla minaccia rappresentata dalla società dei consumi per l'autonomia degli individui, la ricerca di un rinnovamento non-violento della vita degli uomini.

ogni otto minuti nel mondo una donna viene assassinata. Per gelosia, perché non si vuole accettare la fine di una relazione o perché la sua debolezza la rende una preda facile e indifesa. La misteriosa morte di Simonetta Cesaroni, il delitto dell'Olgiata, i treni silenziosi sui quali ammazzava Donato Bilancia, sono solo alcuni dei casi che hanno occupato per anni le pagine di cronaca. Se per alcuni di essi il rigoroso esame della scena del delitto ha condotto in tempi brevi gli inquirenti alla cattura del colpevole, per altri il contributo essenziale è arrivato dopo anni con l'ausilio dell'attività tecnico-scientifica, e in particolare grazie alla prova del Dna. In 'Uomini che uccidono le donne', Luciano Garofano, ex comandante del Ris di Parma, ripercorre i crimini italiani più celebri e controversi, risolti proprio attraverso le più avanzate analisi di laboratorio e l'utilizzo della 'prova regina'. Dall'inchiesta sull'omicidio di Dobbiaco del 2002, che portò all'arresto del responsabile per mezzo di uno screening genetico di massa (lo stesso metodo che potrebbe risolvere il caso di Yara a Brembate) alla ricostruzione della folle dinamica della strage di Erba; dalla scarcerazione di due innocenti accusati per errore dello 'stupro della Caffarella', alle ultime rivelazioni sull'omicidio della studentessa sedicenne Elisa Claps, scomparsa nel lontano 1993. Garofano ci guida sui luoghi del delitto, ripercorrendo le indagini della polizia scientifica.

'L'idea dei tre, di vivere in comune per mandare avanti un progetto di studi filosofici, diventa a un certo punto un grandioso pettegolezzo collettivo. Madri e sorelle, amici e conoscenti si rilanciano attraverso un'Europa ancora sonnacchiosa e vittoriana la grande questione: Nietzsche è forse impazzito? Tra equivoci da vaudeville, viaggi a Bayreuth per sentire il Parsifal, incontri e incomprensioni tra Roma, Lucerna e Lipsia, la storia si ingarbuglia. Sia Nietzsche che Rée si innamorano della 'giovane russa'... Tre anni dopo, a Torino, Nietzsche si butterà al collo di un cavallo picchiato dal padrone chiamandolo fratello. Prima che impazzisse Lou von Salomé aveva detto del suo pensiero: 'Sembra quasi che, dalla segreta oscurità del manicomio, il suo spirito si affacci ancora con un'opera - sia pure una gigantesca smorfia'. Ed è giusto dentro quella gigantesca smorfia che questo romanzo epistolare ci sprofonda: tra immoralisti sublimi e un po' ridicoli, mamme gelose e filosofi egoisti, proposte di concubinaggio e romanzi metafisici, ben dentro un pensiero segreto e inesauribile, in una ferita che può ancora non far dormire la notte: 'l'amore è sempre al di là del bene e del male'.'

Routledge English Language Introductions cover core areas of language study and are one-stop resources for students.

Assuming no prior knowledge, books in the series offer an accessible overview of the subject, with activities, study questions, sample analyses, commentaries and key readings – all in the same volume. The innovative and flexible ‘two-dimensional’ structure is built around four sections – introduction, development, exploration and extension – which offer self-contained stages for study. Each topic can also be read across these sections, enabling the reader to build gradually on the knowledge gained.

Language and Power:

• offers a comprehensive survey of the ways in which language intersects and connects with the social, cultural and political aspects of power;
• provides a comprehensive introduction to the history of the field, and covers all the major approaches, theoretical concepts and methods of analysis in this important and developing area of academic study;
• covers all the ‘traditional’ topics, such as race, gender and institutional power, but also incorporates newer material from forensic discourse analysis, the discourse of new capitalism and the study of humour as power;
• includes readings from works by seminal figures in the field, such as Roger Fowler, Deborah Cameron and Teun van Dijk;
• uses real texts and examples throughout, including advertisements from cosmetics companies; newspaper articles and headlines; websites and internet media; and spoken dialogues such as a transcription from the Obama and McCain presidential debate;
• is accompanied by a supporting website that aims to challenge students at a more advanced level and features a complete four-unit chapter which includes activities, a reading and suggestions for further work.

Language and Power will be essential reading for students studying English language and linguistics.

Paul Simpson is Professor of English Language in the School of English at Queen’s University Belfast, UK, where he teaches and researches in stylistics, critical linguistics and related fields of study.

Andrea Mayr is Lecturer in Modern English Language and Linguistics at Queen’s University Belfast, UK, where she teaches and researches in media discourse and in multimodal critical discourse analysis.

In a firsthand look at bipolar disorder, a stand-up comedian offers a candid, often humorous look at what it is like living with the ailment, dispelling common myths surrounding mental illnesses, documenting the challenges of living with bipolar disorder, and sharing hard-won practical advice on every aspect of the problem. Original.

Discover How to Gain Maximum Muscle-Strength in Minimum Time, Using Breakthrough Techniques That Blow the Roof Off Traditional Ab Exercises.As a former Soviet Union Special Forces conditioning coach Pavel Tsatsouline already knew a thing or two about how to create bullet-stopping abs. Since then, he has combed the world to pry out this select group of primevally powerful ab exercises-guaranteed to yield the fastest, most effective results known to man. According to Pavel, "Crunches belong on the junk pile of history, next to Communism. 'Feeling the burn' with high reps is a waste of time!" Save yourself countless hours of unrewarding, if not useless-if not damaging-toil. Get with the program. Make fast gains and achieve blistering, rock-hard abs now.Fry your abs without the spine-wrecking, neck-jerking stress of traditional crunches-using this radical situp designed by the world's leading back and muscle function expert, Professor Janda, from Czechoslovakia.No one-but no one-has ever matched Bruce Lee's ripped-beyond-belief abs. What was his favorite exercise? Here it is. Now you can rip your own abs to eye-popping shreds and reclassify yourself as superhuman.When it came to wanting titanium abs yesterday, the Soviet Special Forces didn't believe in delayed gratification. Pavel gave them what they wanted. If you want abs that'll put you in the world's top one percent, this cruel and unusual drill does the trick.

Fra l'aprile e l'ottobre 1882 Friedrich Nietzsche, allora all'apice della sua creatività ma ignoto al pubblico più vasto, la giovane e affascinante russa Lou von Salomé e il filosofo Paul Rée furono legati da un sodalizio vibrante, fonte di innumerevoli pettegolezzi, ricostruzioni, interpretazioni. Il fatto centrale e più significativo di questo rapporto triangolare fu che Nietzsche riconobbe in Lou l'unico essere femminile che avrebbe desiderato iniziare alle sue scoperte. Questa lacerante vicenda si è dispiegata davanti ai nostri occhi solo in anni recenti, allorché Ernst Pfeiffer ha potuto radunare tutti i documenti: lettere, ma anche testimonianze laterali.