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Not only are there 50 manga babes, but there are tips on setting up your studio, a good list of materials, and books and videos of the best of manga/anime to review. The only problem as I see it is that the book is heavily oriented towards digital work instead of hands-on drawing. Each section (babe) has a particular set of tips, which are helpful, but it would have been better to have more of these, even at the cost of increasing the size and cost of the book. I would be willing to pay more for more advice.

Accountability of Peace Support Operations by Marten Zwanenburg (International Humanitarian Law: Springer) Quis custodiet ipsos custodies? In other words, who guards the guardians? At a time when the mandate of many peace support operations includes halting violations of international humanitarian law by third parties, there is still a lack of clarity concerning accountability of peace support operations themselves. This book addresses that accountability, focusing on peace support operations under the command and control of the United Nations and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It is concerned with the accountability of international organizations as well as troops contributing and member states, but not of individuals.
Drawing on existing and emerging doctrines of international law, including the law of state responsibility, the law of responsibility of international organizations, international institutional law and international humanitarian law, and on the basis of state practice, this book makes a strong plea for improving mechanisms to implement the accountability of peace support operations under international humanitarian law.
Readership: This book will be of interest to academics as well as to practicing lawyers involved in peace support operations.
The object of this study is the conduct of peace support operations. In particular, this study focuses on peace support operations under the command and control of the [IN and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Other international organiza¬tions have also undertaken peace support operations or are making preparations for undertaking them. The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) for example has carried out peace support operations in Liberia and Sierra Leone, and in December 2002 decided to deploy an operation in Ivory Coast. The European Union (EU) is likely to play an important role in the deployment of peace support operations in the future. The 1999 Cologne European Council decided that the Coun¬cil should have the ability to take decisions on the full range of conflict prevention and crisis management tasks, referred to as the `Petersberg tasks', defined in the Maastricht Treaty. To this end, it decided that the Union must have the capacity for autonomous action, backed up by credible military forces, the means to decide to use them, and a readiness to do so, in order to respond to international crises. This decision set in motion a process that has led to the deployment by the European Union of an interna¬tional civil police force in Bosnia Herzegovina in January 2003, the deployment of an EU operation in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, and a decision to take over the lead of the peace support operation iii Bosnia Herzegovina from NATO.
Despite the role of these other organizations, this study is limited to UN and NATO peace support operations, because these two organizations presently appear to dominate the scene in respect of peace support operations and it is likely that they will continue to play an important role in the future. These two organizations have proven military structures, whereas the EU, for example, does not at present. Peace support operations by African organizations are limited by financial constraints.
This study is divided into three parts. The first part is concerned with the. attribution of conduct of peace support operations. Second, the scope of applicability of rules of international humanitarian law in peace support operations is examined. the third and final part contains an analysis of the existing possibilities for invoking respon¬sibility and accountability of peace support operations for breaches of international humanitarian law, complemented by proposals for improving the means for invoking responsibility and accountability.
Part I starts with a discussion in Chapter 1 of the content of the expression `peace support operation' as it is used in this study. This requires a historical overview of the creation and the evolution of such operations, from the United Nations Emergency Force (UN El") established in 1956 to the variety of operations presently deployed by the UN and NATO. Such an overview is necessary to understand the distinctions between the many existing 'peace' terms, and to define the object of study. Special legal and operational characteristics of peace support operations are identified. These char¬acteristics are essential as the basis for an examination of the attribution of the con-duct of peace support operations in Chapter 2. A theory on the attribution of conduct of peace support operations to the international organization establishing the opera¬tion, troop contributing states and the member states of the organization is presented, based on an analysis of elements of the law of state responsibility and the emerg¬ing law of the responsibility of international organizations as mainly demonstrated through state and organization practice as well as the. work of the ILC.
Part II in Chapter deals with the question of the scope of application of inter-national humanitarian law to peace support operations. This requires a discussion of the extent to which the UN and NATO are bound by general international law, and the consequences of the special position of the UN Security Council in this respect. It also requires an examination of the threshold of application of international humanitarian law; that is, when a peace support operation can be considered to be a party to an armed conflict or in occupation of a territory, triggering the application of interna¬tional humanitarian law. Chapter 4 addresses the legal consequences of responsibility and accountability for violations of international humanitarian law, based on a discus¬sion of the law of state responsibility and responsibility of international organizations and the practice in peace support operations.
Part III focuses on the practical implementation of responsibility and account-ability, particularly the possibilities for the invocation of these concepts. Chapter 5 provides an overview of the existing mechanisms for invoking responsibility and accountability. The chapter focuses in particular on the mechanisms that are at the disposal of individuals. The idea underlying this approach is that since international humanitarian law grants rights to individuals, there should also be a mechanism for individuals to obtain redress when these rights are violated. The chapter concludes that present mechanisms are not effective. Consequently, Chapter 6 proposes the modification of existing mechanisms and the establishment of new mechanisms to improve the legal position of individuals that are injured by breaches of international humanitarian law by peace support operations.The chapter includes an exploration of the ombudsperson concept, which is the basis for a proposal to establish an interna¬tional humanitarian law ombudsman in peace support operations.
Part IV recapitulates the main findings of this study and its conclusions.

This book is a thorough presentation on the subject of portable document formats or PDFs. PDFs, independent of platform and application, are a saving grace in the growing complexity of the computer world. Taz Tally's book addresses the variables involved in optimizing PDFs, starting from the creation of the original document all the way to the end product, the PDF. The book explains how to customize each file depending on its use. The author also covers manipulations of Acrobat Distiller and the versatile application Acrobat 6.

The book is well written and repetitive enough so if the reader missed the message on the first round, he or she will catch it again within just a few pages. The summaries, tables, and screen samples are particularly good and support the text. The author's style is as conversational as it gets within a technical book. I enjoyed his exclamations and honesty.

I am always interested in the completeness of the index since I often have the need to solve a specific problem. The sixteen-page index held enough detail to locate a reference in the book rather than having to search from page to page. The table of contents is also complete and easy-to-use.

This Sybex manual is an excellent resource for folks creating forms, presentations, and collaborative publications as well as learning about the more conventional conversion of digital documents to PDFs. This edition comes with a CD of material supporting the text including a demo of Sonar Bookends for automatic hyperlinking (to create a table of contents, an index, and more), FlightCheck, a prepress problem identifier, and a trial version of PitStop for visually checking and editing PDFs.

Dr. Tally is author of Avoiding the Scanning Blues, a guide to desktop scanning, and Electronic Publishing: Avoiding the Output Blues, a book on desktop publishing and Postscript files. Tally is also known for his entertaining seminars and instructional videos on a variety of computer topics.

The book titled "Adaptive Nonlinear System Identification: The Volterra and Wiener Model Approaches" by Tokunbo Ogunfunmi is a very good introductory book to the area of Adaptive Signal Processing in general with a focus on nonlinear adaptive signal processing.

The author begins by reviewing a lot of the fundamental ideas in linear systems theory that have been extended to the area of nonlinear systems. This helps the reader to be equipped with the simple DSP fundamentals needed to understand the area of nonlinear systems.

The second chapter of this book presents a very important introduction to nonlinear system. It treats very well the concept of orthogonality which is the reasoning behind the functionality of the nonlinear adaptive filter algorithms presented in later chapters. It is also required for the understanding of the relationship between the Volterra and Wiener filter models.

The following chapters of the book develop several algorithms first for Volterra models and later for Wiener models of nonlinear adaptive filters. The algorithms are based on stochastic ideas of the classical Wiener filter (resulting in the least mean square LMS algorithm) and least squares optimization (resulting in the recursive least square RLS algorithm) which have been commonly used for linear adaptive filters.

Unlike a lot of the books written in the area of Nonlinear systems, the author devotes a lot of work to the development and analysis of digital nonlinear adaptive algorithms. The analysis is particularly well presented and easy to follow. This makes it easily understood by students with a background in digital signal processing. The book also has a lot of simulation examples which illustrate the usefulness of the algorithms presented in the book.

The book ends with a chapter exploring future possible work in this area.

Based on these highlights, I will strongly recommend this book for an introductory class in nonlinear signal processing and an advanced class in adaptive systems or adaptive signal processing.

A very informative book. It covers CA from the basics till the research that is going on now in this field. The Author is on eof the pioneers in this field. A must reading.

This is the second experience I've had with Adobe's Classroom in a Book series and it hasn't let me down yet. The book is divided up into several lessons and forces the reader to apply the methods as they go from chapter to chapter. This system helps the student retain the information much more effectively because it's interactive, unlike many software help manuals. The terminology is easy to pick up and the instructions are simple to follow. I highly recommend for anyone using the Adobe software!

I am just starting out as a WBT developer and this book provides a good foundation for anyone new or even those who are familar with previous Captivate versions. It also gives a brief synopsis of how to set up a plan for developing a WBT. The quality of the book is great too with plenty of screen shots of the software.

Thanks to the publishers I had it just when I needed it.

Kate

Excellent book!! I learned so much from this fun, easy-to-understand book. I had been working with adobe illustrator for a year and a half before I decided to get this book and take a course. Turns out there was so much more to adobe illustrator than I had realized. This book is beautifully written and I want to give the author a huge "Thank you" for writing such a great learning tool.

This is a nice book, that has lots of pictures and anyone can learn illustrator in a day just by reading this book. It comes with a easy to disk with samples and hands-on activities.

This is the best workbook on Indesign CS3. I went through 3 other books. This is the best. Neatly laid out. Simple steps given. Perfect if you know nothing about Indesign. This is worth the money, even though it is a high price book. After going through this, you will not be groping in the dark with Indesign.