Achille Lauro was originally the liner Willem Ruys when sold to the Italian Lauro Organization in 1966. Achille Lauro left the Riuniti yards as a newborn star. After being hijacked by Palestinian warriors (PLO), in October 1985, the blue liner and cruiser made international headlines. Swept by a catastrophic fire Achille Lauro sank 2 December 1994 off the Somalian coast.

The Leiden Lectures on Arabic Language and Culture were initiated in 2013 on the occasion of the 400-year anniversary of the founding of the chair of Arabic at Leiden University. Each year an outstanding scholar in the field is invited to present a lecture on the rich and enjoyable variety of classical Arabic texts and their significance and relevance for today's world.

This book contains the first three lectures delivered by Petra Sijpesteijn, James E. Montgomery and Geert Jan van Gelder. F...

Europeanisation of Public Law? (second edition) is a study about the relation between European and national public law. Familiar EU doctrines on ?procedural autonomy?, ?direct effect?, ?consistent interpretation?, ?ex officio application of European law? and ?state liability? are used as a starting point for examining the effects of these doctrines in the various Member States. Consideration is also given to important questions concerning the enforcement of European law in the national legal ...

Language Law of the European Union gives a comprehensive account of all language regulations and arrangements which currently exist in EU law. First and foremost, it covers the various explicit and implicit language regimes of EU institutions, bodies and agencies, explaining how and why they came about. It also explores numerous other EU language provisions in the area of freedom, security and justice, relating to quite diverse topics such as road traffic offences, recognition of national cou...

A little girl from a small village.

Born into a poor Christian family.

Faith has always been the center point of my life. A few years ago I fully surrendered my life over to Christ, after being a muslim for eight years. At that point I began to grasp the concept of Christ's true love and forgiveness.

My childhood was a dark time. My parents did not raise me. Therefore there was always a feeling of loneliness. I started to have problems with my eye sight. Decades later I found out that I have...

Legal English is a professional language. This means that a good command of ordinary English does not make a student automatically proficient in legal English. Many foreign law students on English language programmes experience problems when suddenly all their lectures, textbooks, discussions and written work have to be in English. A lack of familiarity with legal English canseriously impede their progress. And a command of legal English is not just a desirable academic skill. It has become a...

This book contains an up-to-date analysis on the legal aspects of nuclear non-proliferation

and disarmament. It scrutinizes the effectiveness, the limits, the adaptation, and the future

challenges of the regime on the control of nuclear weapons which is still based on the 1968

Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) and supported by the IAEA

controls.

It also deals with new challenges to the non-proliferation legal order deriving mainly from

new nuclear weapon states, the Nor...

Heat waves will occur in Rotterdam with greater frequency in the future. Those affected most will be the elderly – a group that is growing in size. In the light of the Paris heat wave of August 2003 and the one in Rotterdam in July 2006, mortality rates among the elderly in particular are likely to rise in the summer.

Method

The aim of the Hotterdam research project was to gain a better understanding of urban heat. The heat was measured and the surface energy balance modelled from that pers...

A system reset seems imminent. The world's financial system will need to find a new anchor before the year 2020. Since the beginning of the credit crisis, the US realized the dollar will lose its role as the world's reserve currency, and has been planning for a monetary reset. According to Willem Middelkoop, this reset will be designed to keep the US in the driver's seat, allowing the new monetary system to include significant roles for other currencies such as the euro and China's renminbi.

P...