The Sahel is the borderland of 3 million square kilometres between the Sahara Desert and the African savannah and forest lands further south. Much of this huge area is inhospitable.  Meer

Writing for all individuals, teams, and organizations who want to achieve more with Scrum, Zombie Scrum Survival Guide combines theoretical foundations with practical approaches, exercises, and facilitation techniques for making progress in widely diverse situations, and engaging everyone in the organization to get more out of Scrum.  Meer

Region by region, discover the causes, contexts, participants and likely outcomes of every globally significant struggle now underway.  Meer

A new history of how Putin and his conflicts have inexorably reshaped Russia, including his devastating invasion of Ukraine.  Meer

In Narconomics, Tom Wainwright meets everyone from coca farmers in secret Andean locations, deluded heads of state in presidential palaces, journalists with a price on their head, gang leaders who run their empires from dangerous prisons and teenage hitmen on city streets - all in search of the economic truth.  Meer

This guide will help meet tomorrows challenges by adopting network programmability based on Application Programming Interfaces (APIs).  Meer

This new textbook provides students with a multidisciplinary theoretical and methodological introduction to terrorism studies. The book identifies the main theories proposed in the field of terrorism studies as they relate to several issues: -why and how individuals and organizations get involved in terrorism; -the definition and concept of terrorism; -state terrorism; -leaving terrorism behind; -counter-terrorism; -manifestations of terrorism in time and space.  Meer

Over the last decade, the rapid pace of innovation with drone technology has led to dozens of new and innovative commercial and scientific applications, from Amazon drone deliveries to the patrolling of national parks with drones.  Meer

Our economy, Piketty observes, is not a natural fact. Markets, profits, and capital are all historical constructs that depend on choices.  Meer

In 'Leadership on the Line' laten Heifets en Linsky zien dat het mogelijk is naar voren te treden, zonder het gevaar beschadigd te raken. Zij geven aan hoe leiders zichzelf kunnen beschermen tegen de risico's en gevaren die zijn verbonden aan leidinggeven en hoe mensen kunnen overleven in hun rol als leider.  Meer

In 'Black Hat Go', you'll learn how to write powerful and effective penetration testing tools in Go, a language revered for its speed and scalability.  Meer

This book is about reactions to interpersonal conflict such as avoiding, negotiating, and fighting. It breaks away from the prevailing assumption that conflict behaviours are mutually isolated reactions having mutually isolated effects.  Meer

From the authors of the best-selling 'The Second Machine Age', a leader's guide to success in a rapidly changing economy.  Meer

The contribution of psychological research to the prevention of miscarriages of justice and the development of effective investigative techniques is now established to a point where law enforcement agencies in numerous countries either employ psychologists as part of their staff, or work in cooperation with academic institutions.  Meer

We live in the age of the algorithm. Increasingly, the decisions that affect our lives—where we go to school, whether we get a car loan, how much we pay for health insurance—are being made not by humans, but by mathematical models.  Meer

In 'The Ideal Team Player', Lencioni tells the story of Jeff Shanley, a leader desperate to save his uncle’s company by restoring its cultural commitment to teamwork.  Meer