New Releases by Howard Porter

Before Josef Stalin''s death in 1953, the USSR had, at best, an ambivalent relationship with noncommunist international organizations. Although it had helped found the United Nations, it refused to join the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and other major agencies beyond the Security Council and General Assembly, casting them as foreign meddlers. Under new leadership, the USSR joined UNESCO and a slew of international organizations for the first time, including the World Health Organization and the International Labor Organization. As a result, it enabled Soviet diplomats, scholars, teachers, and even some blue-collar workers to participate in global discussions on topics ranging from their professional specialties to worldwide problems. Reds in Blue investigates Soviet relations with one of the most prominent of these organizations, UNESCO, to present a novel way of thinking about the role of the United Nations in the Soviet experience of the Cold War. Drawing on unused archival material from the former USSR and elsewhere, the book examines the forgotten stories of Soviet citizens who contributed to the nuts-and-bolts operations and lesser-known activities of world governance. These unexamined dimensions of everyday participation in the UN''s bureaucracy, conferences, publications, and technical assistance show the body''s importance for a group of Soviet "one-worlders," who used the UN to imagine and work for a better world amidst the realities of the Cold War. Meanwhile, the Khrushchev and early Brezhnev governments sought to use their participation as a means of spreading Soviet influence within Western-dominated international organizations but discovered that this required risk-taking and a degree of openness for which the Soviet leadership and domestic institutions were often unprepared. Moving beyond debates over the successes and failures of UN diplomatic activities, Reds in Blue offers fresh perspectives on how Soviet citizens became citizens of the world and advocated for opening up Soviet society in ways that transcended Cold War categories without abandoning a sense of loyalty to their homeland. In doing so, it recaptures a space where East and West worked together towards a future without international conflict in the years before détente.

When Deathstroke assassinates Ra’s al Ghul, Talia al Ghul demands revenge and sends her League of Shadows to kill Deathstroke and Deathstroke Inc.! Ra''s al Ghul is dead, and Talia is out for revenge! Batman is on the case to find Deathstroke before Talia''s elite killers do! But Batman starts to piece together that not everything is what it seems in Ra''s''s death…and knows whom he must interrogate to get answers…Talia herself! Can the two former lovers ever work together again? This hardcover collects all the parts of the SHADOW WAR story from Batman #122-123; Robin #13-14; Deathstroke Inc. #8-9; Shadow War: Alpha #1; Shadow War: Omega #1; Shadow War Zone #1.

From aviation and safety critical applications to personal navigation; Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) technology has found a place in everyday civilian life and will only become more intertwined as the technology continues to improve. One of the issues with GNSSs is that they are susceptible to interference in the forms of intentional (i.e., jamming) or unintentional sources. As this interference is a threat to civil applications, this thesis focuses on providing the framework to understand the performance degradation of GNSS receivers in the presence of interference. More specifically, this paper focuses on the high accuracy user, and how interference affects a commercially available differential GNSS (DGNSS) receiver system. A comparison was done to investigate differences between two commercially available DGNSS receivers’ performances as well as analyze the different approaches manufactures take in the integration of multi-constellation GNSS signals.

We draw from social categorization theory and the actor-observer hypothesis to extend previous research regarding receiving high levels of help from team members. Specifically, we explore how a team member''s performance feedback on how they handled a disproportionately heavy share of the team''s workload and how their racial distance from the rest of their teammates affect the amount of helping that person receives from their teammates. Results from a laboratory study in which 79 teams worked on a computerized, decision-making task demonstrated a three-way interaction between workload, performance feedback, and the racial distance between the feedback recipient and the rest of their teammates. Racially distant negative feedback recipients who had a disproportionately heavy share of their team''s workload received less help from teammates than their racially similar counterparts.

First Wave, un nouveau monde qui vous emportera au coeur de mille dangers et où la justice retrouve son bon droit à coups de poings virils ! Après les événements de First Wave, Doc Savage débarque enfin dans sa nouvelle série ! A peine rentré en son fief de New York, l''Homme de Bronze est pris pour cible par une bande organisée de criminels. Il n''en faut pas plus à Doc pour foncer tête baissée face au danger...

Superman, Batman, Green Lantern, Flash, Wonder Woman and the Martian Manhunter find themselves up against a new, deadly Injustice Gang led by Lex Luther. With Prometheus as well as the General and Queen Bee, it looks as if the Justice League may lose even if they win.

Doc Savage is the target of a brazen attack on New York City, and tragedy strikes one of Doc''s compatriots. He and his crew must take the fight to the sinister mercenaries who''ve targeted them.

Magog decides to take justice into his own hands and track down who''s dealing high-tech arms to lowlife scum around the DC Universe. Be here as the hunt starts Magog on the path to discovering his own identity.

The JLA''s very first foe, Starro the Conqueror, returns in a new guise as The Star Conquerer. The JLA is powerless to awaken a slumbering world trapped in the endless nightmares caused by the menace formerly known as Starro. But help arrives in the form of an unexpected ally: Daniel, The Lord of Dreams.

Written by Judd Winick Art by Howard Porter, Julian Lopez, J. Calafiore and others Cover by Howard Porter There''s a traitor in the Titans'' midst! Now, the Titans headquarters is under lockdown until the team can discover who betrayed them. Will they have the strength to take down one of their own? And will they want to? Collecting TITANS #7-11! Advance-solicited; on sale September 9 - 128 pg, FC, $14.99 US

"The powerful wizard Shazam has been destroyed and his vast responsibility for presiding over the realm of all magic has been shifted to his mightiest champion, Billy Batson. Such a job can only be performed from the Rock of Eternity -- thus, earth is without a defender to balance the worlds of magic and humanity, for the first time in centuries. Freddy Freeman wants to be that protector, but that is an honor that must be earned. Powerless, Freddy must embark on a quest to prove to the Gods that he is worthy to weld the power of Shazam"--Page 4 of cover

When Batman''s arch-enemy, the immortal mastermind R''as al Ghul resurfaces with a plan to destroy all means of communication, the world''s superheroes - Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman and Green Lantern - rally to stop him. But it soon emerges that not all of their number have the same agenda.

Written by Grant Morrison; Art by Howard Porter, John Dell, and others In this trade paperback, the Universe''s greatest heroes face two deadly threats that could mean both the end of the Justice League and the world. First, the Justice League must battle Mageddon, the doomsday weapon of the Old Gods, and prevent his attempt to end all of existence. Then Superman, Batman, Green Lantern, Flash, Wonder Woman, and the Martian Manhunter find themselves up against a new, deadlier Injustice Gang led by Lex Luthor. With the addition of Prometheus, the man who almost single-handedly defeated the JLA, as well as the General and Queen Bee, it looks as if the Justice League may lose even if they win.

Written by Grant Morrison; Art by Howard Porter, John Dell, and others The World''s Greatest Heroes have reformed the Justice League of America to act as Earth''s protector against all threats. But as Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Batman, the Flash, Green Lantern, and the Martian Manhunter are joined by a Superman demonstrating new and different energy-based powers, they find themselves facing off against deadly old enemies like the Key and getting caught in the middle of a war between Heaven and Hell. Featuring appearances by Supergirl and the new Green Arrow, this trade paperback also includes the first appearance of rogue angel and future JLA member, Zauriel.