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The Nigerian Dwarf Goat is a miniature goat breed reared by goat lovers across the globe. You can accommodate the Nigerian Dwarf Goat in your backyard reasonably easy. The feeding costs are affordable as they are less than the feeding costs of other barn goats. It is important to understand when you are bringing home a pet goat that this animal needs special care and attention. If you are planning to bring home a goat you must invest a lot of time doing your homework and research about this animal. You must be sure that you can take on this responsibility before you make a commitment. This book covers all the subjects including choosing your goats, how to take care of your goats, how to feed them and how to ensure that they are always healthy. This book is perfect for a first time Nigerian Dwarf Goat owner. Covered in this book: - History - Things you must know - Where to buy - Making a home for your goats - First days at their new home - Housing - Daily care - Seasonal care - Feeding - Grooming - Understanding goat behavior - Training - Transport - Milking - Breeding - Health and well being .... and a lot more.

David and Robert grew up thinking that Calvandrian was a land of fairy tales. Neither of them knew that Robert was the heir to the throne, living in exile, on Earth. When thirteen-year-old Robert was abducted from his home on earth, his parents couldn''t tell anyone who the real abductors were. They knew it was the work of Varlusk, the man that had betrayed the king and taken over Calvandrian. Four years later, when the beasts, sent by Varlusk, returned for the now thirteen-year-old David, he couldn''t leave his father to fight them alone. During the fight, he ascended to the throne of Calvandrian. Now, with the possibility of his brother being dead, he has to return to Calvandrian in order to try to win back the throne. Robert struggles with his identity under the mind control of Varlusk, and when his family shows up, in Calvandrian, he doesn''t know what to believe. David struggles as he comes to grips with being the King and is the last hope of a struggling kingdom.

In the sea of Business Analysis knowledge, don''t go crazy trying to find all the good bits... Business Analysis Wisdom contains gems of inspiring, thought-provoking, Business Analysis wisdom. Each distilled from the writings and conversations of more than fifty well-known Business Analysts including: Laura Brandenburg, Roxanne E Miller, Ellen Gottesdiener, Stephen White, Michael Sampson, Howard Podeswa, ... and more Matched with each piece of wisdom is a beautiful full-page image that enhances the value of the quote. You can read Business Analysis Wisdom: From cover to cover, By searching for quotes from your favorite Business Analyst, By searching for wisdom relevant to specific areas within business analysis, Or just by opening the book to a random page It doesn''t matter which method you use.... You''ll find awesome words of wisdom, and images, that are relevant to you and your work, as a Business Analyst.

How does one engage in the study of strategy? Strategy: Context and Adaptation from Archidamus to Airpower argues that strategy is not just concerned with amassing knowledge; it is also about recognizing our imperfect understanding of the environment and respecting the complex nature of adaptation to the unforeseen or unexpected. In essence, the strongest strategists are those who commit to an education that cultivates a more holistic and adaptive way of thinking. With that thought in mind, the contributors to Strategy, each a current or former professor at the School of Advanced Air and Space Studies, widely considered the Department of Defense''s premier school of strategy, offer ways of thinking strategically about a variety of subject matters, from classical history to cyber power. Practitioners in the profession of arms, perhaps more than any other profession, must employ critical thinking where the application of power on land, at sea, in the air, and in space and cyberspace are concerned. Strategy examines various sub-disciplines regarding the use of power, and illuminates different approaches to thinking which have implications beyond the implementation of force.

Recounts definitive moments from the author''s career as a Navy SEAL, discussing the missions that had the greatest personal meaning for him and explaining the lessons and values he hopes to pass on to the next generation.

"This is a compilation of stories that cumulatively have become an explanation of how lucky and unlucky a person like me can be," Mark Owen Cope Sr. writes in the introduction to this book. In his seventy years of life, he has witnessed over and over again the manic whims of Fortune-often with hilarious consequences. Whether it''s the baseball bat he''d always wanted leading to the near-drowning of an old lady ("A Lovely Little Baseball Bat") or a former circus performer''s mobile home falling literally under the Arkansas Guarantee ("The Dog Poop Lady and the Arkansas Guarantee"), each story turns on those real-life twists of irony that are always stranger than fiction. Some of these anecdotes are jokes, others probe at darker points in Mr. Cope''s life, but throughout this collection of stories, as in life, the author never loses his sense of humor. Mark Owen Cope Sr., originally from Idaho, has lived across the United States, in California, Pennsylvania, Georgia, and North Carolina. Since his teenage years, he''s worked a number of jobs, from electrician''s helper to air-conditioning repairman to mobile-home salesman to plumber (and everything in between)-jobs which have brought him into contact with the comical cast of characters that populates this book. In his youth, Mr. Cope spent two terms enlisted in the Air Force, working primarily in radio repair, photo interpretation, and intelligence. Mr. Cope has four children and survives his late wife, Betty, to whom he was married for more than forty-five years and to whom this book is dedicated.

"Harmony... is a most wonderful thing. Within harmony everything has balance. Good and evil, joy and sadness are all in tune and perfectly aligned. Yet harmony is difficult to achieve in a world of constant change"."Love and Other Poems", is a collection of poems by British born poet, Mark Williams. This is Mark''s fourth collection of published works and his first to explore poetry within a classical Japanese context. Having a modern, philosophical feel, each poem is accompanied by an explanation, as well as both English and Kanji translations. Yet, while having the elements of classical Japanese styling, Mark''s poems are still very approachable and easy to relate to, covering a wide range of issues placed into three broad categories - wisdom, love, and life. Within each category is a plethora of ideas and concepts, some full of joy, others, torrid despair. These poems will touch and guide you on a pathway, a pathway perhaps to... harmony itself.

u200bThis book takes a theoretical enterprise in Christian philosophy of religion and applies it to Buddhism, thus defending Buddhism and presenting it favorably in comparison. Chapters explore how the claims of both Christianity and Theravada Buddhism rest on people’s experiences, so the question as to which claimants to religious knowledge are right rests on the evidential value of those experiences. The book examines mysticism and ways to understand what goes on in religious experiences, helping us to understand whether it is good grounds for religious belief. The author argues that religious language in both Christian and Buddhist traditions is intelligible as factual discourse, and so reports of mystical experience are true or false. The book contends that those experiences can be fruitfully thought of as perceptual in kind and that they are therefore good prima facie grounds for religious belief, in the absence of defeating conditions. The work goes on to explore Christian and Buddhist testimony and how the likelihood of self-deception, self-delusion, imaginative elaboration and the like constitutes a defeating condition. It is shown that this defeater has less scope for operation in the Buddhist case than in the Christian case, and therefore Theravada Buddhism is better grounded. This work will appeal to students and scholars of philosophy and philosophy of religion, and those interested in the study of religious experience.

A New York Times BestsellerA Publishers Weekly BestsellerA Washington Post BestsellerA Wall Street Journal BestsellerFor the first time anywhere, the first-person account of the planning and execution of the Bin Laden raid from a Navy Seal who confronted the terrorist mastermind and witnessed his final moments.From the streets of Iraq to the rescue of Captain Richard Phillips in the Indian Ocean, and from the mountaintops of Afghanistan to the third floor of Osama bin Laden''s compound, operator Mark Owen of the U.S. Naval Special Warfare Development Group -- commonly known as SEAL Team Six -- has been a part of some of the most memorable special operations in history. No Easy Day puts readers alongside Owen and the other handpicked members of the twenty-four-man team as they train for and execute the biggest mission of their lives.

The Taking Sides Collection on McGraw-Hill CreateTM includes current controversial issues in a debate-style format designed to stimulate student interest and develop critical thinking skills. This Collection contains a multitude of current and classic issues to enhance and customize your course. You can browse the entire Taking Sides Collection on Create, or you can search by topic, author, or keywords. Each Taking Sides issues is thoughtfully framed with Learning Outcomes, an Issue Summary, an Introduction, and an Exploring the Issue section featuring Critical Thinking and Reflection, Is There Common Ground?, and Additional Resources and Internet References. Go to McGraw-Hill CreateTM at www.mcgrawhillcreate.com, click on the "Collections" tab, and select The Taking Sides Collection to browse the entire Collection. Select individual Taking Sides issues to enhance your course, or access and select the entire Harf/Lombardi: Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Global Issues, 8/e ExpressBook for an easy, pre-built teaching resource by clicking here. An online Instructor''s Resource Guide with testing material is available for each Taking Sides volume. Using Taking Sides in the Classroom is also an excellent instructor resource. Visit the Create Central Online Learning Center at www.mhhe.com/createcentral for more details.

Intrastate conflicts, ranging from localized rebellions to civil war, increased linearly from 1946 through 1992 and then dramatically decreased in the post-Cold War era. This rise and fall of subnational conflict closely mirrors the proxy wars fought by or between the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and the United States. Proxy refers to (g)reat power hostility expressed through client states and describes superpower use of these states to pursue strategic and ideological goals within the confines of nuclear deterrent postures extant during the Cold War.1 This was done in large part to achieve strategic national interests and other political goals without risking nuclear war. In its waning years, the USSR could no longer afford to fund these wars; America ended support to many of these commitments soon after the Cold War ended.2 The United States emerged from the Cold War as the sole superpower in a unipolar international system. However, evidence suggests this unipolarity could soon change as a new bipolar system emerges with China as the next challenger superpower. Scholars debate the likelihood of future war with a rising China, with each side arguing With resources dried up, former client states and subgroups had little choice but to resolve these conflicts, either via negotiation or decisive victory.

This is a true story about a Christian Athlete''s purpose in life and how he accomplished God''s mission. Blake Christiaan LaForce gave himself to the Lord, then asked how he could help show others the way, well before he was diagnosed with life threatening blood cancer; acute lymphoblastic leukemia. God had already been working through Blake, for quite some time, and soon after the diagnosis Blake knew why he was stricken with leukemia. Blake painfully and obediently realized he was chosen, because God had a plan and mission for him. God works in mysterious ways and continues to work through Blake''s legacy for the better and benefit of us all. Blake''s journey and purpose in life is a heart wrenching story of Strong Faith, Obedience, Praise, Hope, Amazing Physical and Mental Strength, Stamina, Sheer Courage, Pride and True Love 4-1.

The principles of signal processing are fundamental to the operation of many everyday devices. This book introduces the basic theory of digital signal processing, with emphasis on real-world applications. Sampling, quantisation, the Fourier transform, filters, Bayesian methods and numerical considerations are covered, then developed to illustrate how they are used in audio, image, and video processing and compression, and in communications. The book concludes with methods for the efficient implementation of algorithms in hardware and software. Intuitive arguments rather than mathematical ones are used wherever possible, and links between various signal processing techniques are stressed. The advantages and disadvantages of different approaches are presented in the context of real-world examples, enabling the reader to choose the best solution to a given problem. With over 200 illustrations and over 130 exercises (including solutions), this book will appeal to practitioners working in signal processing, and undergraduate students of electrical and computer engineering.

This book introduces the basic theory of digital signal processing, with emphasis on real-world applications.

Study includes: South Dakota Public Universities and Research Center (Sioux Falls, S.D.); University Center of Lake County (Grayslake, Ill.); University of Houston System at Sugar Land (Sugar Land, Tex.); and The Universities at Shady Grove (Rockville, Md.).

There''s a new breed of terrorist living in America. He''s a nationalized citizen educated at a prestigious university, trained by a high-tech corporation, and all the while he''s been biding his time, building his army, waiting to strike. When he sets his diabolical plans in motion, there''s only one man and one organization that can stop him. Jason Talbot is the leader of Strike Squad Alpha, an elite fighting force in the Terrorism Prevention Agency (TEPA), a secret organization within the Department of Homeland Security. He is authorized to operate outside the law to put a stop to terrorist attacks before they occur. But now he faces his greatest challenge. From a hijacked oil tanker in the Mediterranean Sea, to a castle in the woods of Northern Virginia, to an abandoned missile base in Washington State, Jason Talbot, aided by the capable Sarah Ruger of the NTSB, races to stop a modern-day Armageddon. ''Engineering Evil grips you from the beginning and will not let you go! This author knows his way around the guarded world of special operations. You will not be disappointed!"-Lieutenant Colonel Storm Savage, U.S. Army

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