This is the first definitive history of the UDA and follows its trajectory from mass loyalist movement in the early 1970s to the lethal hotbed of feuding and criminality it is today. It includes the real Johnny Adair story a tale symptomatic of the essential fault line running through the UDA since its inception.Written by two distinguished journalists, The UDA is a work of rigorous research and analysis, and also a riveting yarn of sex, drugs, murder and mayhem.
Reviews previous career of David Lilienthal as TVA chairman. Also discusses priority to be accorded civil vis-a-vis military atomic energy projects. Includes discussion on transfer of Manhattan Project personnel, functions, and facilities to AEC.
We thank Ekman & Co AB and Gadelius Holding Ltd for their kind and generous support, making this research available online for free. Lottaz and Ottosson explore the intricate relationship between neutral Sweden and Imperial Japan during the latter’s 15 years of warfare in Asia and in the Pacific. While Sweden’s relationship with European Axis powers took place under the premise of existential security concerns, the case of Japan was altogether different. Japan never was a threat to Sweden, militarily or economically. Nevertheless, Stockholm maintained a close relationship with Tokyo until Japan’s surrender in 1945. This book explores the reasons for that and therefore provides a study on the rationale and the value of neutrality in the Long Second World War. Sweden, Japan, and the Long Second World War is a valuable resource for scholars of the Second World War and of the history of neutrality.
KELAHIRAN Asha tidak dinantikan kerana dianggap membawa sial. Perniagaan keluarga yang sebelum ini sukses, akhirnya merudum. Kecewa dengan kenyataan itu, Asha sering bertindak di luar batasan. Bukan niatnya untuk menconteng arang, dia cuma mengharapkan sedikit perhatian. Kehadiran Zaiffudin membawa seribu makna dalam hidupnya. Bukan saja terhutang nyawa dan budi, bahkan lelaki itu telah memberi nafas baru dalam denyutan nadinya. Kerana lelaki itu juga, dia bangkit membina kecemerlangan diri. Tanpa sedar, perasaan aneh itu kian bercambah dengan sendirinya. Kepulangannya dari London membawa sejuta impian. Impian yang tergantung selama ini harus disandarkan. Apatah lagi nur Islam telah menyinari jiwanya. Kini, nama Asha sudah tiada. Yang ada adalah sebuah nama yang cukup indah... Aisyah. Detik yang berlalu menjadikan Aisyah seorang pencinta yang setia. Namun, siapa sangka saat bahagia berlegar di depan mata, akhirnya musnah dalam sekelipan saja. Bakal ibu mertua yang diharap dapat menyirami hatinya yang ketandusan kasih sayang rupa-rupanya meracun diri. Mampukah Aisyah bertahan sedangkan dia tahu syurga suami terletak di bawah telapak ibunya?
This book improves our understanding of terrorists’ motivations and rationality and may, ultimately, also indicate how to respond to the phenomenon of terrorism. In his research studies, Eric van Um explores the political rationality of terrorist groups. The political rationality model builds on rational choice theory. It demands that terrorist groups take into account the costs and benefits of their available options and choose the option promising them the highest political utility. Testing the explanatory power of this model is relevant, as rational choice approaches have become very prominent in terrorism research. But, at the same time, their empirical power remains highly contested. Increased knowledge of the political rationality model not only promises added value for terrorism research itself, but also for social sciences more generally.
