A year has passed since the Judgment… …and Merelin wonders if she will ever return to Arah Byen. Then the visions begin. Memories of a life and love she left behind begin to twist into something dark and terrible. Is it guilt that haunts her… …or is she foreseeing a terrifying future yet to come? Her role in Arah Byen is far from over, but nothing can prepare her for what she will find when she returns. She thought she had won peace for the world, but a new enemy lurks in the shadows and plots the overthrow of all that Merelin and Yatol fought for. With everything turned upside-down, Merelin must discover whose side she is really on—and who she can trust—before it is too late. But how can she know who to trust… …when she isn't even sure she can trust herself? You'll love this YA fantasy adventure, because every hero is someone's villain.

A fast-paced, gripping history of meddling, manipulation, and skulduggery among great power rivals In 2016, the United States was stunned by evidence of Russian meddling in the US presidential elections. But it shouldn't have been. Subversion--domestic interference to undermine or manipulate a rival--is as old as statecraft itself. The basic idea would have been familiar to Sun Tzu, Thucydides, Elizabeth I, or Bismarck. Russia's operation was just the latest episode, and there will be more to come. It came as a surprise in 2016 because the sole superpower had fallen asleep at the wheel. But what's really new? Have we entered a new age of vulnerability? To answer these questions, and to protect ourselves against future subversion, we need a clear-eyed understanding of what it is and how it works. In A Measure Short of War, Jill Kastner and William C. Wohlforth provide just that, taking the reader on a compelling ride through the history of subversion, exploring two thousand years of mischief and manipulation to illustrate subversion's allure, its operational possibilities, and the means for fighting back against it. With vivid examples from the ancient world, the great-power rivalries of the 19th century, epic Cold War struggles, and more, A Measure Short of War shows how prior technological revolutions opened up new avenues for subversion, and how some democracies have been fatally weakened by foreign subverters while others have artfully defended themselves--and their democratic principles. A primer on the history of subversive statecraft in great power rivalry, A Measure Short of War will leave readers smarter about foreign meddling, more prepared to debate national responses, and better able to navigate between the twin temptations of insouciance and overreaction.

The three-volume set LNCS 10624, 10625, 10626 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptology and Information Security, ASIACRYPT 2017, held in Hong Kong, China, in December 2017.The 65 revised full papers were carefully selected from 243 submissions. They are organized in topical sections on Post-Quantum Cryptography; Symmetric Key Cryptanalysis; Lattices; Homomorphic Encryptions; Access Control; Oblivious Protocols; Side Channel Analysis; Pairing-based Protocols; Quantum Algorithms; Elliptic Curves; Block Chains; Multi-Party Protocols; Operating Modes Security Proofs; Cryptographic Protocols; Foundations; Zero-Knowledge Proofs; and Symmetric Key Designs.

Motivation; Understanding and working security issues; Database security.

The Essential 120,000 English-Dutch Words Dictionary is a great resource anywhere you go; it is an easy tool that has just the words you want and need! The entire dictionary is an alphabetical list of English words and their Dutch equivalent translations. It will be very useful for everyone (home, school, students, travel, interpreting and learning Dutch or English). The words you will learn will help you in any situation! De Essential 120.000 Engels-Nederlands Woordenwoordenboek is een geweldige bron waar u ook bent; het is een eenvoudige tool die precies de woorden bevat die jij wilt en nodig hebt! Het gehele woordenboek is een alfabetische lijst van Engelse woorden en hun equivalente vertalingen in het Dutch. Het zal zeer nuttig zijn voor iedereen (thuis, op school, studenten, reizen, tolken en Dutch of Engels leren). De woorden die u leert, helpen u in elke situatie!

How did the United States defeat the Soviet Union from its own backyard? How is China undermining freedom of the sea? Are these subversive activities new or do they reflect ancient wars? This book explores how state and non-state actors subvert one another. The core question is: why do strategies of subversion, whereby a weaker political entity undermines the dominant entity within a system to increase the weaker entity's relative power, appear to have so many commonalities across different situations and by both state and non-state actors? I theorize that underlying principles exist within all subversive strategies. This question is timely amid a rising China, aggressive Russia, rogue Iran, and a global Salafi-Jihadist insurgency. The current US National Security Strategy identifies these challenges as four of the five greatest threats to US national security. These challenges each involve entities subverting US dominance as a major component of adversary strategies. This new theory, the theory of strategic subversion, outlines fundamental principles regarding strategies of subversion to better enable policy makers and analysts to understand and respond to current security challenges. This book reviews existing literature on subversive strategies and synthesizes a new fundamental theory. The book then tests the theory of strategic subversion against four case studies: US support to the Mujahedeen in Afghanistan, Rising Athens at the onset of the Peloponnesian Wars, China's current rise, and Russian subversion.

The entire dictionary is an alphabetical list of English words and their French equivalent translations. It will be very useful for everyone (home, school, students, travel, interpreting and learning French or English). முழு அகராதியில் ஆங்கில வார்த்தைகளின் அகரவரிசை பட்டியல் மற்றும் அவற்றின் பிரெஞ்சு மொழிகளுக்கான மொழிபெயர்ப்பாகும். இது எல்லோருக்கும் மிகவும் பயனுள்ளதாக இருக்கும் (வீடு, பள்ளி, மாணவர்கள், பயணம், மொழிபெயர்ப்பு அல்லது பிரெஞ்சு அல்லது ஆங்கிலம் கற்க).