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Vietnam remains a mystery to the American mind. A former enemy which somehow defeated the American war machine with few weapons or uniformed military, Vietnam remains a significant presence in Southeast Asia. This book present issues important to understanding Vietnam today as well as a historical background on the country.
This book analyzes the impact of the U.S. Supreme Court rulings deeming juvenile life without parole (LWOP) sentences to be cruel and unusual punishment. These Court decisions brought about controversy and resistance in the criminal justice field, while at the same time providing hope for those 2,300 people who never thought they had a chance to experience life as an adult outside prison. By looking in depth at the lives of some of the individuals serving life terms, and understanding both the prosecutors who oppose review and resentencing of juvenile lifers and those who are sincerely following the Supreme Court’s guidelines, this book provides a comprehensive understanding of the issues ...
This book aims to provide state-of-the-art knowledge in the field of Intelligence of Things to both academic and industrial readers. In particular, undergraduate, graduate, and researchers may find valuable information to drive their future research. This book is considered a reference for numerous courses such as Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things, Intelligent Systems, and Mobile Networks. In the industrial area, this book provides information on recent studies in applying AI to IoT developments, which help to align and shorten R&D processes to introduce new classes of intelligent IoT products. This book provides a technical reference for interdisciplinary studies which utilize machine learning and IoT as tools in their fields such as constructional management, smart agriculture, Earth sciences and geo-spatial analysis, intelligent business, and digital transformation in education.
Despite the historical importance of the Vietnam War, we know very little about what the Vietnamese people thought and felt prior to the conflict. Americans have tended to treat Vietnam as an extension of their own hopes and fears, successes and failures, rather than addressing the Vietnamese record. In this volume, David Marr offers the first serious intellectual history of Vietnam, focusing on the period just prior to full-scale revolutionary upheaval and protracted military conflict. He argues that changes in political and social consciousness between 1920 and 1945 were a necessary precondition to the mass mobilization and people's war strategies employed subsequently against the French a...
Get the single-source solutions guide to the sustainable management of water resources. Why is water the environmental issue? The answer is simple: without it, life on this planet could not exist. Yet, despite this fact, reckless consumption practices from a growing population are drying up the Earth's already limited water resources. Other factors, such as river and lake contamination, rising temperatures, and disproportionate geographic accessibility further contribute to the fresh water crisis. To confront this pressing concern, this enlightening guide, which covers over twenty case studies offering insights into real-world projects, uses a holistic, integrated approach to illustrate ways...
The architects, selected by the Architectural League of New York in their annual Young Architects Competition, present forward-thinking projects that imagine an effective role for architecture in the years to come. -- back cover.
Es wird eine Reise mit meiner Ehefrau Hafida beschrieben, die uns im März 2018 in nur 15 Tagen durch ganz Vietnam führte und bei der wir mit Begeisterung den Wiederaufbau des Landes nach den schrecklichen Zerstörungen durch viele Kriege, die aufgeschlossene, stets sehr gastfreundliche und äußerst künstlerisch und handwerklich gewandte Bevölkerung kennen und lieben lernten und die hervorragende, vielseitigeLandwirtschaft und erstklassische Wiederaufforstung sowie die traditionelle und moderne Architektur bewunderten und natürlich auch die einmalig schöne Natur mit Bergen, Flüssen und Meer entlang des Pazifischen Ozeans.