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by John Stuart Mill, Le Monnier, P.-L
Language: French
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Il y a, dans la situation actuelle du savoir humain, une circonstance bien remarquable, bien inattendue, et surtout bien caractéristique de l’état de certaines grandes et importantes questions spéculatives, c’est le peu de progrès qu’a fait la discussion...
Raoul Peck
Power, Politics, and the Cinematic Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
This comprehensive collection of essays dedicated to the work of filmmaker Raoul Peck is the first of its kind. The essays, interview, and keynote addresses collected in Raoul Peck: Power, Politics, and the Cinematic Imagination focus on the ways in which power and politics traverse the work of Peck...
by John P. Walker
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2013
Pablo Escobar Pablo Escobar (disambiguation) Colombian people Drug lord Cocaine Illegal drug trade Rionegro Smuggling University of Antioquia Fabio Ochoa Restrepo The Bahamas Robert Vesco Hacienda Nápoles Carlos Lehder Triangulation Barrio Cali Cartel Ernesto Samper
by John P. Walker
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2013
Death (personification) Sentience Cloak Scythe Bible Satan Abaddon Archangel Samael Sisyphus Slavic languages Psychopomp Romance languages Ancient Greece Thanatos Hypnos Hades Charon (mythology) Styx Charon's obol Keres (mythology) Ankou Dullahan Cù Sìth Dialogue
Mexico's Criminal Insurgency
A Small Wars Journal—El Centro Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
In sum, this anthology represents some of the best and brightest scholars of today who are writing on the evolving security environment in Mexico and the implications this may hold for the United States. They have greatly enhanced our understanding of crime wars and criminal insurgencies—21st century...
Urban Neighborhoods in a New Era
Revitalization Politics in the Postindustrial City
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015
For decades, North American cities racked by deindustrialization and population loss have followed one primary path in their attempts at revitalization: a focus on economic growth in downtown and business areas. Neighborhoods, meanwhile, have often been left severely underserved. There are, however,...
The Routledge Encyclopaedia of UK Education, Training and Employment
From the earliest statutes to the present day
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
A comprehensive guide to all the main labour market initiatives and agencies combining education and employment in the UK, this encyclopaedia presents an historical progression from the Guilds and Statute of Artifices in 1563 through to present day initiatives and changes. Fully cross-referenced throughout,...
Redlegs
The U.S. Artillery from the Civil War to the Spanish American War, 1861–1898
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
This volume in the popular G.I. series illustrates a much-neglected aspect of American military history – the U.S. Army artillerymen, named redlegs after the red stripes on their trousers. The photographs, most of them rarely seen in other sources, range from the Civil War and the campaigns against...
Achieving sustainable production of pig meat Volume 3
Animal health and welfare
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
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by Marc Blecher, John P. Burns, Du Jie
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2003
Over the past two decades, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has paradoxically steered the development of a thriving capitalist economy. Unlike many faltering post-socialist states with fragile economies and weakly institutionalised democratic structures, China has witnessed a tide of economic entrepreneurialism...
Reflections on Sentiment
Essays in Honor of George Starr
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015
Reflections on Sentiment not only addresses current scholarly interest in feeling and affect but also provides an occasion to celebrate the career of George Starr, who, in more than fifty years of incisive scholarship and committed teaching, haselucidated the work of Daniel Defoe and the role of sentimentalism...
Unfinished Business
Why International Negotiations Fail
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Most studies of international negotiations take successful talks as their subject. With a few notable exceptions, analysts have paid little attention to negotiations ending in failure. The essays in Unfinished Business show that as much, if not more, can be learned from failed negotiations as from...
by Jennifer Backman, Simon Cook, Inger H. Dalsgaard
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
Thomas Pynchon’s fiction has been considered masculinist, misogynist, phallocentric, and pornographic: its formal experimentation, irony, and ambiguity have been taken both to complicate such judgments and to be parts of the problem. To the present day, deep critical divisions persist as to whether...
by John Macalister, I.S.P. Nation
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
Crystal-clear and comprehensive yet concise, this text describes the steps involved in the curriculum design process, elaborates and justifies these steps, and provides opportunities for practicing and applying them. The description of the steps is done at a general level so that they can be applied...