Assuring the Safety of Systems contains papers presented at the twenty-first annual Safety-Critical Systems Symposium, held in Bristol, UK, in February 2013. The Symposium is for engineers, managers and academics in the field of system safety, across all industry sectors, so the papers making up this volume offer a wide-ranging coverage of current safety topics, and a blend of academic research and industrial experience. They include both recent developments in the field and discussion of open issues that will shape future progress. The topics covered by the 20 papers in this volume include safety certification, regulation and acceptance in a number of industry sectors; identification of potentially hazardous control actions; safety cases; product safety; risk management; formal methods; hazard analysis; formal proofs and testing; the balance between designed-in and procedural approaches to safety; human factors; and safety culture. This book will be of interest to both academics and practitioners working in the safety-critical systems arena.

Assuring the Safety of Systems: Proceedings of the Twenty-first Safety-critical Systems Symposium, Bristol, UK, 5-7th February 2013 (Proceedings of the Safety-critical Systems Symposium)

Computers & Technology

Dale, Chris

Computer Science

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

Even You Can Start a Business: From Startup to Success, a Step-by-Step Guide

Business & Money

Management & Leadership

Houndstooth Press

This book will empower experienced project managers and their business counterparts to understand and manage the risks of challenging business change projects. It does this by focusing on setting projects up for success and emphasising the importance of understanding the business context. Providing principles and guidance that can be adapted and applied to different situations, it will show project managers and owners how to guide difficult projects home when mere excellence of technique or blind adherence to procedures would leave them at sea. REVIEWS "An excellent resource for practitioners reflecting good practice in managing projects [...]. This much needed and well thought out book should enable managers and team members to improve their track record in delivering large business change projects." Professor Darren Dalcher, Director, National Centre for Project Management; Professor, University of Hertfordshire Business School -- "This book will get experienced project managers to the next level, showing them what they need to do to build a platform for success, then keep the project on track. If you've mastered the basics, got some battle scars, and want to succeed with bigger challenges, this is the book for you." Charles Change, FBCS CITP-- "Managing projects, particularly ICT projects is a subjective, hands-on process. Who better to write a book on this important topic than two guys who have seen the inside of many successful and some not so successful projects. They do not attempt to document a prescription for success, but offer clear guidelines for decision making at critical times. Readers will gain much by reading this book before, during and after a project journey." W. G. (Bill) Hewett, FACS CP, Indepedent IT and Services Professional

Managing IT Projects for Business Change: From Risk to Success

Morgan, Jeff

From the Boxer Rebellion to Tsingtao to German East Africa (Tanzania), and colonies across Africa and the central Pacific, the Kaiser's Second Reich created a worldwide empire, and then lost it. 
Following Prussia's victory over France in 1871 and German unification, the invigorated Second Reich sought international status alongside the older colonial powers - Britain, France, Spain and Russia. Actual overseas settlement was always sparse, counted in the low tens of thousands only, but by the mid-1880s German trading companies had established footholds in what became German East Africa (Tanzania), German South-West Africa (Namibia), and German West Africa (Cameroon, and Togo). To consolidate their position against native resistance, and to extend their frontiers, the German Imperial government soon took over these enclaves as colonies or 'protectorates'. In the 1890s it established a new branch of the armed forces, the Schutztruppe, composed largely of African askaris with German officers and NCOs, backed up by German artillery and machine guns. In parallel, the Imperial Navy raised marine battalions - eventually, three Seebataillone - to protect its overseas bases and to reinforce the colonies as needed. After German participation in putting down the Boxer Rebellion (1900) their primary responsibility was the German concession territory at Tsingtao in China, where Germany also raised a local East Asia Brigade; but the marines also served in the German Pacific possessions - Samoa, New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago, the Northern Solomon Islands, the Marshalls, Marianas and Carolines. Marine companies were also rotated through the African colonies at need. In addition to small-scale 'police' work, the brief German colonial period involved putting down rebellions in East Africa (1888-98) and Cameroon, and crushing - with great ruthlessness - the determined resistance of the Herero and Nama tribes in SW Africa (1890-1907), where there was a degree of German settlement. In World War I, Germany soon lost almost all her colonies to much stronger Allied forces. In China, Tsingtao was captured late in 1914 by a Japanese force with token British assistance. Resistance was minimal in the Pacific; and in 1915 the last defenders of German South-West Africa surrendered to South African forces. However, in East Africa the Schutztruppe, commanded by the very able Col (later MajGen) Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, fought a skillful mobile war against much larger British and Empire forces, and were the very last German troops to surrender in November 1918. Meanwhile, the Navy's marine infantry branch had been enlarged, forming first one, then two Marine Divisions, which fought on the Western Front - including the Ypres and Somme sectors - throughout the war. Featuring specially drawn full-colour artwork, this book tells the story of Imperial Germany's colonial and overseas troops, who fought in a host of environments including China, Africa, and the Western Front of World War I.

Imperial German Colonial and Overseas Troops 1885–1918 (Men-at-Arms, 490)

History

Quesada, Alejandro de

Europe

Osprey_Publishing

The Magic Christmas Table No one knows where The Table came from. No one knows how old The Table is. No one knows how The Table was made or what it’s made from. But everyone fears its powers. Because ... it’s magical. This is a mystical story that follows the lives of a Lincolnshire family who acquire The Table for their new dining room, unsuspecting that it isn’t what it portrays to be. It has the ability to see inside people’s minds, causing suspicion and mayhem. It has a long history and chooses its owners. It has magical powers unknown in this world.

The Magic Christmas Table: A Tale of Magical Mystery and Imagination

Literature & Fiction

Action & Adventure

Independently published

Inside the Skunkworks Machine: Bruce Dickinson's Most Mysterious Musical Project 1994-96

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Traditions of the Imperial German Infantry Regiments: their Histories, Uniforms & Pickelhauben

Papi

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