Provides information on the Department of Defense's (DODs) progress toward developing an acquisition process for information capabilities & discusses the time frame for implementation. This title discusses the legislative changes that may be required to fully implement the acquisition process. ...

A primary mission of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is to prevent terrorist attacks within the United States. This book provides an overview of the DHS Intelligence Enterprise & how it is organised & examines the key departmental activities & issues involved in thwarting terrorism. ...

A guide to one of the regular appropriations bills that Congress considers each year. It is designed to supplement the information provided by the Subcommittees on Transportation, Housing & Urban Development, & Related Agencies of the House & Senate Committees on Appropriations. It summarises legislative status of the bill. ...

Financial institutions serve a vitally important function in the US economy by allowing capital to seek out its most productive uses in an efficient matter. This book considers the structure of its regulation worthy of examination & re-examination. ...

All 28 episodes of the crimefighting drama series about an elite branch of Interpol agents who take on the cases no-one else can solve. A trio of ace investigators led by suavely assured novelist Jason King (Peter Wyngarde), hard-nosed professional Stewart Sullivan (Joel Fabiani) & coolly efficient computer expert Annabelle Hurst (Rosemary Nichols) try to outdo each other as they seek to solve the cases baffling police forces throughout Europe. Episodes comprise: ' Six Days', ' The Trojan Tanker', 'A Cellar Full of Silence', ' The Pied Piper of Hambletown', ' One of Our Aircraft Is Empty', ' The Man in the Elegant Room', ' Handicap Dead', ' Black Out', ' Who Plays the Dummy', ' The Treasure of the Costa Del Sol', ' The Man Who Got a New Face', ' Les Fleurs Du Mal', ' The Shift That Never Was', ' The Man from 'X', ' Dead Men Die Twice', ' The Perfect Operation', ' The Duplicated Man', ' The Mysterious Man in the Flying Machine', ' Death On Reflection', ' The Last Train to Redbridge', 'A Small War of Nerves', ' The Bones of Byrom Blain', ' Spencer Bodily Is Sixty Years Old', ' The Ghost of Mary Burnham', 'A Fish Out of Water', ' The Soup of the Day', 'A Ticket to Nowhere' & ' The Double Death of Charlie Crippen'. ...

Japanese comedy drama starring Masahiro Motoki as Daigo Kobayashi, a professional cellist who loses his job when his orchestra disbands. He & his wife Mika (Ryoko Hirosue) move back into his childhood home & he begins to look for work. When he answers a classified advert entitled ' Departures', he assumes it is for a travel agency; it is in fact an undertakers. To the bemusement of his wife & friends, Daigo throws himself into his unusual new work with pride & vigour, & learns a lot about life, death & love in the process. ...

Japanese comedy drama starring Masahiro Motoki as Daigo Kobayashi, a professional cellist who loses his job when his orchestra disbands. He & his wife Mika (Ryoko Hirosue) move back into his childhood home & he begins to look for work. When he answers a classified advert entitled ' Departures', he assumes it is for a travel agency; it is in fact an undertakers. To the bemusement of his wife & friends, Daigo throws himself into his unusual new work with pride & vigour, & learns a lot about life, death & love in the process. ...

' Whatever else we remember of our travels, we remember our departures & arrivals. Often they are the most enduring of all our memories of them.' From one of Britain's best-loved travel writers comes a fascinating collection of incredible highlights from an eventful life. ...