Boston / Moscow Connection is the story of two Viet Nam veteran pilots, Ron Moscow and Tyrell Boston, who have partnered to create the Boston/Moscow Air Freight Company. While waiting for their license to fly to Moscow, they deliver electronics to Central and South America. During a trip to Corozal, Belize, they encounter a beautiful American woman, Barbara Wales, whose husband, Ed, has been arrested for drug smuggling. She recruits Ron and Tye to help rescue Ed. They join Barbara's millionaire father in law, George, who provides financial and logistical support for a military style operation. While conducting the rescue effort Ron and Tye, who had been confirmed bachelors, find their soul mates. Their romantic encounters lead to additional conflicts and connections. Once the rescue is completed, our heroes and heroines leap frog from Boston, to Virginia, to Reno, Nevada and, finally, to Moscow usually finding themselves in unexpected predicaments. The Boston/Moscow connection is completed when our heroes attempt to smuggle an ailing Russian Scientist out of his native country.

Destination: Croatia, the sequel to Dan's first novel, Boston / Moscow Connection, follows the exploits of newly married Viet Nam veteran pilots Ron Moscow and Tyrell Boston and their wives, Barbara, and Duffy. Ron and Tye begin a business oriented life as the operators of both the Boston/Moscow Airfreight and the Wales Aircraft Refurbishing Companies. All goes well, at first. But, unusual circumstances and an old nemesis threaten their lives, their businesses, and their families. Dan has taken his original story, Boston/Moscow Connection full circle to its smashing conclusion.

A novel about the Russian mafia stealing nuclear weapons for sale abroad. The protagonists are Peter Nikhilov, and American agent sent to Moscow to bust the operation, and Oksana Martinova, daughter of a high-ranking official who falls in love with him.

Adventure set in 1991 during the time of the disintegration of the Soviet Union. Based on a real-life leader of the Russian Mafioso.

This double-volume work focuses on socio-demographics and the use of such data to support strategic resource management and planning initiatives. Papers go beyond explanations of methods, technique and traditional applications to explore new intersections in the dynamic relationship between the utilization and management of resources, and urban development. International authors explore numerous experiences, characteristics of development and decision-making influences from across Asia and Southeast Asia, as well as recounting examples from America and Africa. Papers propound techniques and methods used in geographical research such as support vector machines, socio-economic correlates and travel behaviour analysis. In this volume the contributors examine cutting-edge theories explaining diversity and dynamics in urban development. Topics covered include human vulnerability to hazards, space and urban problematic, assessment and evaluation of regional urban systems and structures and urban transformations as a result of structural change, economic development and underdevelopment. The significance of these topics lie in the pace and volume of change as is happening in geography reflecting continued development within established fields of inquiry and the introduction of significantly new approaches during the last decade. Readers are invited to consider the dynamics of spatial expansion of urban areas and economic development, and to explore conceptual discussion of the innovations in and challenges on urbanization processes, urban spaces themselves and both resource management and environmental management. Together, the two volumes contribute to the interdisciplinary literature on regional resources and urban development by collating recent research with geography at its core. Scholars of urban geography, human geography, urbanism and sustainable development will be particularly interested in this book.

Gandhāran art is often regarded as the epitome of cultural exchange in antiquity. The ancient region of Gandhāra, centred on what is now the northern tip of Pakistan, has been called the ‘crossroads of Asia’. The Buddhist art produced in and around this area in the first few centuries AD exhibits extraordinary connections with other traditions across Asia and as far as the Mediterranean. Since the nineteenth century, the Graeco-Roman associations of Gandhāran art have attracted particular attention. Classically educated soldiers and administrators of that era were astonished by the uncanny resemblance of many works of Gandhāran sculpture to Greek and Roman art made thousands of miles to the west. More than a century later we can recognize that the Gandhāran artists’ appropriation of classical iconography and styles was diverse and extensive, but the explanation of this ‘influence’ remains puzzling and elusive. The Gandhāra Connections project at the University of Oxford’s Classical Art Research Centre was initiated principally to cast new light on this old problem. This volume is the third set of proceedings of the project’s annual workshop, and the first to address directly the question of cross-cultural influence on and by Gandhāran art. The contributors wrestle with old controversies, particularly the notion that Gandhāran art is a legacy of Hellenistic Greek rule in Central Asia and the growing consensus around the important role of the Roman Empire in shaping it. But they also seek to present a more complex and expansive view of the networks in which Gandhāra was embedded. Adopting a global perspective on the subject, they examine aspects of Gandhāra’s connections both within and beyond South Asia and Central Asia, including the profound influence which Gandhāran art itself had on the development of Buddhist art in China and India.

This century has witnessed the creation of new sciences extending the frontiers of knowledge to an unprecedented degree. We have seen the birth of cybernetics and bionics, bringing together such apparently distantly related branches of science as neurohistology and automation, synaptology and electronics. The electron microscope has resolved tissues almost down to the molecular level, and histochemistry has led to the fine analysis of brain structure. However, before these and other new sciences can develop properly and scientifically, a precise knowledge of the structure of the material with which they are concerned is absolutely essential. That is why the need exists at the present time for a detailed study of the larger units, i. e. , the neurons, their interrelationships and the pathways by which excitation is conducted. Biologists, neurologists, physicists, and specialists in other technical disci plines will find this study highly useful. During recent years many advances have been made in knowledge of the central visual system and its pathways. Above all, it has been found that the visual system is very extensive. The optic tract is connected, not only with the lateral geniculate body, but with the superior colliculus and the pulvinar. Besides the discovery of these principal pathways, connections have also been studied with the hypothalamus, the pretectal region, the medial geniculate body, subthalamus, and other parts of the brain stem. The visual system is thus connected with the reflex apparatus, the autonomic nervous system, and the auditory and reticular systems.