This book describes a variety of patterns for internet-based solutions that support e-Business & its underpinnings. The sequence of patterns flows from business to process to commerce comprising a fundamental view of e-Business, e-Process & e-Commerce. ...

Western set in the 1880s, directed by Kevin Costner. Robert Duvall heads the cast as Boss Spearman, who, along with his partner Charley Waite (Costner) & their two helpers, Mose (Abraham Benrubi) & Buttons (Diego Luna), has been leading a quiet nomadi ...

A guide to Costa Rica that offers readers a small number of great choices & itineraries for one-day, weekend, one-week & two-week trips. It helps you explore the majestic rain forests of Monteverde & Corcovado's remote & unspoilt national parks, or go get your adrenalin going with some white-water rafting, zip-lining, or horseback riding. ...

The story of the woman who rose to be Director-General of Britain's Security Service, MI5, in a career that lasted from 1969 to 1996. Stella Rimington worked to Director level in all main fields of the Service's responsibilities, counter-subversion, counter-espionage & counter-terrorism, ...

Dario Ezcurra is one of the thousands of Argentinians unlucky enough to be 'disappeared' by the military government-murdered by the local chief of police with the complicity of his friends & neighbours. Twenty years later, Fefe returns to the town where Dario met died & attempts to discover how the community let such a crime happen. ...

We regularly employ classically-derived expressions in our everyday language, yet many of us have little understanding of the origin of these common phrases. This title offers a look at the stories behind the expressions. It provides an introduction to classical mythology, & also offers insights into our language. ...

It has been one of those days. You've worked like a Trojan, displaying titanic strength & stoic endurance to overcome the Herculean labours that have faced you in order to meet that deadline. We regularly employ classically-derived expressions in our everyday language, yet many of us have little understanding of the origin of these common phrases. But an incomplete classical education need no longer be your Achilles heel. Opening Pandora's Box offers a light-hearted yet fascinating look at the stories behind the expressions. For example, did you know that the phrase 'the face that launched a thousand ships' originates from the story of the kidnapping of Helen of Troy, but the actual line comes from a poem by Christopher Marlowe? Opening Pandora's Box provides a useful introduction to classical mythology as well as giving an insight into our language. ...

Through a time-travel tunnel, linking Ireland & Egypt, Isis sent a small group of masters to prepare for the day when her mysteries would once again be released to the world to restore balance & enhance life. They established the Order of the White Rose to guard the sacred objects & the secrets of Isis. ...

Recounts the adventures of the top-secret government department ' The Ministry of Letters', the place where all the letters & all the words in the world are created. This title tells the story of ' Operation Alphabet', one of the most famous adventures ever to have happened to the letters who work in the Ministry. ...

David Glantz challenges the time-honoured explanation that poor weather, bad terrain & Hitler's faulty strategic judgement produced German defeat, & reveals how the Red Army thwarted the German Army's dramatic & apparently inexorable invasion before it achieved its ambitious goals. ...