Through his professional and church experiences, Dr. Wolthuis worked with and observed the power-brokers, the ordinary, and the down-trodden. As he visited several refugee camps, he saw thousands who practiced daily Christ-like charity and exemplified "doing it unto the least of these my brethren."

"The extreme right-wing National Front is now France's fourth largest political party. In 1986 under a proportional electoral system it won thirty-five seats in the French National Assembly. At the 1995 Presidential election its leader, Jean-Marie Le Pen, obtained fifteen per cent of the popular vote. Over the past decade it has won representation at virtually all levels of French politics." "Le Pen's xenophobic anti-immigrant message has attracted significant support in France. Indeed the National Front leader has had a major influence upon the terms in which issues like immigration, nationality and racism are debated in France. Drawing on personal interviews with Le Pen and other National Front leaders, Jonathan Marcus traces the rise of Le Pen's party, and its impact on the French political scene, and in the process raises important questions about the future of French, European and world politics. How far have the mainstream parties of both Left and Right faced up to Le Pen's challenge? Is the National Front now a permanent feature of French politics? To what degree is Le Pen a threat to French democracy? And finally, how successful will Le Pen be in pushing his agenda in the European Parliament?"--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

This publication sets out the Commission's provisional findings of its investigation into the market for classified directory advertising services (CDAS) in the UK. This type of advertising is often referred to as directional advertising and includes media such as classified directories, classified adverts in newspapers, online directories and certain forms of internet advertising. The Commission's inquiry focuses on advertising in printed classified directories, and the three largest classified directory publishers are Yell, Thomson and BT. Issues discussed include: the Yell undertakings in relation to prices and directory areas, market definition and concentration, pricing and revenues, barriers to entry and expansion, buyer power, the impact on competition of 'second tiering' or the introduction of additional directory publications in a given geographic area. Amongst its provisional findings, the report concludes that this sector is highly concentrated with Yell, Thomson and BT have a market share of around 98 per cent. Yell has market power and is the price setter in the market. The Commission will consider options to remedy the adverse effect on competition and will report on these separately.

For more than 20 years, Network World has been the premier provider of information, intelligence and insight for network and IT executives responsible for the digital nervous systems of large organizations. Readers are responsible for designing, implementing and managing the voice, data and video systems their companies use to support everything from business critical applications to employee collaboration and electronic commerce.

* People who are interested in accessing directory services (and particularly Active Directory) from .NET code: 1. System administrators who need to write code to automate Active Directory and/or Exchange related tasks. 2. Developers who need to access objects in a directory service programmatically. * The only book dedicated to Directory Service programming on the .NET platform. * Goes beyond theory to show real uses of Directory Service programming, such as automated administration of users and groups, network resources such as computers and printers, and Exchange mailboxes. * Contains many real applications that can be used to perform directory service administration tasks.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on E-business and Telecommunication Networks, ICETE 2005. The 85 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 151 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on global communication information systems and services, security and reliability in information systems and networks, wireless communication systems and networks, and multimedia signal processing.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Enterprise Applications and Services in the Finance Industry, FinanceCom2008, held in Paris, France, on December 13, 2008. The workshop spans multiple disciplines, including technical, economic, sociological and behavioral sciences. The guiding theme of this workshop was concerned with innovations in the financial services industry, driven by either new business models or changed regulations. The nine presented papers and the keynote speech were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The topics covered are financial markets and customers, service-oriented architectures, and regulation and compliance.