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Why I Hate Abercrombie & Fitch: Essays On Race and Sexuality (SEXUAL CULTURES Series)

8:20 PM 2005, life style, New York University Press, Sexuality No Comments

Why I Hate Abercrombie & Fitch: Essays On Race and Sexuality Publisher: New York University Press | ISBN: 0814756859 | edition 2005 | PDF | 240 pages | 1,79 mb "Where does the black gay man go where he can see himself reflected back to himself in all the complex ways in which he exists in the world?" asks the chair of the African American Studies department at Northwestern University. In this collection of 10 smart, provocative essays, McBride explores, from varying vantage points...

The Works of Archimedes, Volume 1: The Two Books On the Sphere and the Cylinder

8:13 PM 2004, Cambridge, Mathematics No Comments

Archimedes, Reviel Netz, "The Works of Archimedes, Volume 1: The Two Books On the Sphere and the Cylinder" Cambridge University Press | 2004 | ISBN: 0521661609 | 386 pages | PDF | 1,7 MB The works translated here–the two books On the Sphere and Cylinder–were a source of great pride for Archimedes, the greatest scientist of antiquity. Accompanying this translation is the first scientific edition of the diagrams, which incorporates new information from the recently discovered Archimedes...

The Weight of a Mustard Seed: The Intimate Story of an Iraqi General and His Family During Thirty Years of Tyranny

8:08 PM 2009, Harper, Iraq, Political Science No Comments

The Weight of a Mustard Seed: The Intimate Story of an Iraqi General and His Family During Thirty Years of Tyranny by Wendell Steavenson Publisher: Harper | Number Of Pages: 304 | Publication Date: 2009-03-01 | ISBN-10: 0061721786 | PDF | 1 Mb General Kamel Sachet was a favorite of Saddam Hussein's, a hero of the Iran-Iraq war, head of the army in Kuwait City during Desert Storm, governor of the province of Maysan, and father of nine children. When author Wendell Steavenson became intrigued...

The Rise of Neoliberalism in Advanced Capitalist Economies: A Materialist Analysis

7:57 PM 2008, Economic, Palgrave Macmillan No Comments

Michael C. Howard, John E. King - The Rise of Neoliberalism in Advanced Capitalist Economies: A Materialist Analysis Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan | 2008-06-24 | ISBN: 0230537030 | PDF | 328 pages | 1.07 MB This book is a strikingly original and provocative interpretation of the rise of neoliberalism, drawing on the principles of historical materialism.It explains why the rise of neoliberalism didn't happen until the 1970s. It presents controversial argument on causes behind the development...

The Perils And Promise of Global Transparency: Why the Information Revolution May Not Lead to Security, Democracy, or Peace

7:53 PM 2007, Political Science, Security, State University of New York Press No Comments

The Perils And Promise of Global Transparency: Why the Information Revolution May Not Lead to Security, Democracy, or Peace (Suny Series in Global Peace) By Kristin M. Lord Publisher: State University of New York Press 2007 | 210 Pages | ISBN: 0791468860 , 0791468852 | File type: PDF | 1 mb "The topic is very significant, and while there is considerable literature on the subject, the author has found something new to say about it. She takes on the conventional wisdom, challenging...

The Kantian Imperative: Humiliation, Common Sense, Politics (by Paul Saurette)

7:48 PM 2005, Political Science, Social Sciences, University of Toronto Press No Comments

Paul Saurette - The Kantian Imperative: Humiliation, Common Sense, Politics Publisher: University of Toronto Press | 2005-08-13 | ISBN: 0802038824 | PDF | 310 pages | 1.49 MB Immanuel Kant's moral philosophy is almost universally understood as the attempt to analyse and defend a morality based on individual autonomy. In The Kantian Imperative, Paul Saurette challenges this interpretation by arguing that Kant's 'imperative' is actually based on a problematic appeal to 'common sense' and...

Perspectives on Sino-American Strategic Nuclear Issues (Initiatives in Strategic Studies Issues and Policies Series)

7:44 PM 2008, Nuclear, Palgrave Macmillan, Political Science No Comments

Perspectives on Sino-American Strategic Nuclear Issues Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan | ISBN: 0230606601 | edition 2008 | PDF | 240 pages | 1.5 mb Sino-American nuclear relations are critical given ongoing modernization efforts on both sides and an increasingly complex regional and global nuclear environment. This volume pairs Chinese and American authors together to offer national perspectives on contemporary nuclear issues, including perceptions of strategic context, national security...

Poverty justice western political thought (Lexington Books 2008)

7:32 PM 2008, Lexington Books, Social Sciences No Comments

Poverty, Justice, and Western Political Thought Sharon K. Vaughan | Lexington Books | 2008 | ISBN: 0739122681 | Pages: 234 | PDF | 1.2MB The number of people who live in poverty has always far exceeded the number who do not. Poverty, Justice, and Western Political Thought examines the main arguments of some of the most prominent Wester political theorists about the causes, effects, and solutions to the problem of pover...

The Political Economy of Human Rights Enforcement (Global Ethics Series)

7:27 PM 2008, Economic, Palgrave Macmillan, Political Science No Comments

Ivan Manokha, "The Political Economy of Human Rights Enforcement: Moral and Intellectual Leadership in the Context of Global Hegemony" Palgrave Macmillan | 2008 | ISBN: 023055072X | 304 pages | PDF | 1,1 MB This book examines humanitarian interventions in the post-Cold War era within the context of the development of global capitalism. It argues that protection of human rights is a noble idea and it is often our duty to use force to uphold these rights. However, Ivan Manokha shows...

The Philosophy of the Coen Brothers (The Philosophy of Popular Culture Series)

7:11 PM 2008, Culture, Movie Making, people, University Press of Kentucky No Comments

Mark T. Conard - The Philosophy of the Coen Brothers Publisher: University Press of Kentucky | 2008-12-12 | ISBN: 081312526X | PDF | 304 pages | 1.20 MBIn 2008 No Country for Old Men won the Academy Award for Best Picture, adding to the reputation of filmmakers Joel and Ethan Coen, who were already known for pushing the boundaries of genre. They had already made films that redefined the gangster movie, the screwball comedy, the fable, and the film noir, among others. No Country is just...

Philosophical Myths of the Fall by Stephen Mulhall

7:06 PM Philosophy, Social Sciences No Comments

Stephen Mulhall - Philosophical Myths of the Fall Publisher: Princeton University Press | 2007-08-06 | ISBN: 0691133921 | PDF | 136 pages | 1.11 MB Did post-Enlightenment philosophers reject the idea of original sin and hence the view that life is a quest for redemption from it? In Philosophical Myths of the Fall, Stephen Mulhall identifies and evaluates a surprising ethical-religious dimension in the work of three highly influential philosophers--Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Wittgenstein....

News Values, by Paul Brighton, Dennis Foy (SAGE Publications 2007)

7:03 PM 2007, people, Sage Publications Ltd, Social Sciences, Technology No Comments

News Values, by Paul Brighton, Dennis Foy Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd (December 7, 2007) | ISBN-10: 141294600X | 216 pages | PDF | 1.1 MBWritten by two practitioner-academics (who between them have more than fifty years of news industry experience), News Values for the 21st Century analyses the shape of the news industry - a world of rolling news and multimedia platforms, and a world where broadcast news is increasingly considered another element of show busines...

Medicalization of society (The Johns Hopkins University Press 2007)

6:56 PM 2007, Society, The Johns Hopkins University Press No Comments

The Medicalization of Society: On the Transformation of Human Conditions into Treatable Disorders By Peter Conrad Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press 2007 | 224 Pages | ISBN: 080188585X , 0801885841 | PDF | 1.5 MB Over the past half-century, the social terrain of health and illness has been transformed. What were once considered normal human events and common human problems -- birth, aging, menopause, alcoholism, and obesity -- are now viewed as medical conditions. For better...

Majority Cultures and the Everyday Politics of Ethnic Difference: Whose House is This?

6:49 PM 2008, Palgrave Macmillan, Political Science No Comments

Bo Petersson, Katharine Tyler - Majority Cultures and the Everyday Politics of Ethnic Difference: Whose House is This? Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan | 2008-08-19 | ISBN: 0230507484 | PDF | 272 pages | 1.4 MB Examining the ways in which majority Western cultures govern, represent and exclude those that are considered to be ethically "other," this book asks what is the impact of globalization, governance and Western immigration controls on the construction of the majority "self" and the ...

The Least Worst Place: Guantanamo's First 100 Days

6:39 PM 2009, Political Science No Comments

The Least Worst Place: Guantanamo's First 100 Days Oxford | 2009 | 288 pages | ISBN: 0195371887 | PDF | 1.7 Mb The Least Worst Place is a gripping narrative account of the first one hundred days of Guantanamo. Greenberg, one of America's leading experts on the Bush Administration's policies on terrorism, tells the story through a group of career officers who tried--and ultimately failed--to stymie the Pentagon's desire to implement harsh new policies in Guantanamo and bypass...

The Jewish Political Tradition Volume I: Authority

9:32 PM 2000, Jewish, Political Science, Religion, Yale University Press No Comments

The Jewish Political Tradition Volume I: Authority, by Michael Walzer, Mr. Menachem Lorberbaum, Mr. Noam J. Zohar, and Yair Lorberbaum Publisher: Yale University Press | 2000 | ISBN-10: 030010 | 640 pages | 2 MB In this first book of a four-volume series originating from a conference on Jewish philosophy, religion, and politics sponsored by the Shalom Harman Institute of Jerusalem, the political arguments of two millennia are made accessible to a new generation of general readers. ...

The Indian Renaissance: India's Rise After a Thousand Years of Decline

9:21 PM 2008, history, people, World Scientific No Comments

The Indian Renaissance: India's Rise After a Thousand Years of Decline by Sanjeev Sanyal World Scientific | 2008 | ISBN: 9812818774 | IBN13: 9789812818775 | Page: 264| 1.44 MB India's recent economic performance has been attracting world attention, but the phenomenon needs to be appreciated in the larger context of its long history. After a thousand years of decline, India is re-awakening not just as an economy, but as a civilization. The country now has a genuine opportunity to re-establish...

Fall of Roman Empire film history : Film and History (Wiley 2009)

9:12 PM 2009, archaeology, history, Political Science, Wiley No Comments

Martin M. Winkler "The Fall of the Roman Empire: Film and History" Wiley-Blackwell | English | 2009-05-04 | ISBN: 1405182237 | 352 pages | PDF | 2 MB The essays collected in this book present the first comprehensive appreciation of The Fall of the Roman Empire from historical, historiographical, and cinematic perspectives. The book also provides the principal classical sources on the period. It is a companion to Gladiator: Film and History (Blackwell, 2004) and Spartacus: Film and History...

European Identity (Contemporary European Politics)

9:09 PM 2009, Cambridge, Economic, Political Science No Comments

Jeffrey T. Checkel, Peter J. Katzenstein "European Identity (Contemporary European Politics)" Cambridge University Press | English | 2009-02-23 | ISBN: 0521883016 | 280 pages | PDF | 1,5 MB Why are hopes fading for a single European identity? Economic integration has advanced faster and further than predicted, yet the European sense of 'who we are' is fragmenting. Exploiting decades of permissive consensus, Europe's elites designed and completed the single market, the euro, the Schengen passport-free...

The Essential Herman Kahn: In Defense of Thinking

9:05 PM 2009, College-level, Lexington Books, Skills No Comments

The Essential Herman Kahn: In Defense of Thinking Publisher: Lexington Books | ISBN: 0739128299 | edition 2009 | PDF | 286 pages | 1.06 mb The copyrights of Herman Kahn’s most significant works are held by Hudson Institute. The selection of texts resented in this book is based on these works. We would like to thank Hudson Institute, its Board of Trustees, and especially Deborah Kahn Cunningham for the copyright permissions.In preparing this book we benefited from the help of Claire Morgan,Evan...

The Enlightenment and the Intellectual Foundations of Modern Culture

9:03 PM 2004, Culture, Yale University Press No Comments

The Enlightenment and the Intellectual Foundations of Modern Culture Publisher: Yale University Press | ISBN: 0300100329 | edition 2004 | PDF | 416 pages | 1.3 MB The prestige of the Enlightenment has declined in recent years. Many consider its thinking abstract, its art and poetry uninspiring, and the assertion that it introduced a new age of freedom and progress after centuries of darkness and superstition presumptuous. In this book, an eminent scholar of modern culture shows that the...

Engaging the Moving Image

8:45 PM 2003, Image Processing, Movie Making, Yale University Press No Comments

Engaging the Moving Image Yale University Press | ISBN: 0300091958 | 2003-12-01 | PDF | 448 pages | 1.4 Mb No'l Carroll, a brilliant and provocative philosopher of film, has gathered in this book eighteen of his most recent essays on cinema and television-what Carroll calls "moving images." The essays discuss topics in philosophy, film theory, and film criticism. Drawing on concepts from cognitive psychology and analytic philosophy, Carroll examines a wide range of fascinating topics. These...

Emergencies and the Limits of Legality, by Victor V. Ramraj

8:37 PM 2008, Cambridge, Law No Comments

Emergencies and the Limits of Legality, by: Victor V. Ramraj, National University of SingaporeCambridge University Press | November 2008 | ISBN: 9780521895996 | 428 pages | 2.6 MB Most modern states turn swiftly to law in an emergency. The global response to the 11 September 2001 attacks on the United States was no exception, and the wave of legislative responses is well-documented. Yet there is an ever-present danger, borne out by historical and contemporary events, that even...

The Elements of Ethics For Professionals (PALGRAVE MACMILLAN 2008)

8:32 PM 2008, ethics, Palgrave Macmillan, Skills No Comments

The Elements of Ethics: For Professionals by W. Brad Johnsonand Charles R. Ridley Palgrave Macmillan | 2008 | 0230603912 | 240 pages | 1.1 MB The Elements of Ethics is a brief guide to the essential elements of professional ethics. Designed for students and professionals in all vocational fields, this book is the definitive, nuts-and-bolts, must-have reference for anyone striving...

Lonely Planet Afghanistan (Lonely Planet Travel Guides) (Country Guide)

8:01 PM 2007, guidebook, Lonely Planet, Travel No Comments

Lonely Planet Afghanistan (Lonely Planet Travel Guides) (Country Guide) by Paul ClammerPublisher: Lonely Planet | August 15, 2007 | ISBN-10: 1740596420 | 244 pages | 5.82 MB Discover Afghanistan Blink as you emerge from the cliffs at the top of one of Bamiyan's enormous Buddha niches, p.117 Stop pedalling for a moment and drift in your swan-shaped pedalo on the waters of Band-e Amir, p.122 Utter a great smoking sigh of contentment as you puff on a sheesha at Mirwais Shandaiz, p.1...

English Grammar Understanding the Basics (Cambridge University Press 2010)

7:40 PM 2010, Cambridge, College-level, learn english No Comments

Evelyn P. Altenberg, Robert M. Vago, "English Grammar: Understanding the Basics" Cambridge University Press | 2010 | ISBN: 0521732166, 0521518326 | 284 pages | PDF | 5 MB Looking for an easy-to-use guide to English grammar? This handy introduction covers all the basics of the subject, using a simple and straightforward style. Students will find the book's step-by-step approach easy to follow and be encouraged by its non-technical language. Requiring no prior knowledge of English grammar,...

Children Learning English (Teacher Development)

7:33 PM 2000, learn english, Macmillan Education, Teacher-Level No Comments

Children Learning English Macmillan Education | 2000 | ISBN:043524096X | 192 pages | PDF | 11.6 MB Children Learning English by Jayne Moon is an excellent resource book for teachers who are interested in teaching young learners, specifically children from six to twelve years of age. It is a well balanced combination of theory and practice. Although its main focus is on teaching and learning EFL, some examples from the ESL area are also included. Although this book is not a book of teaching...

A Companion to the Philosophy of Technology (Blackwell Companions to Philosophy)

6:36 PM Blackwell Companions, Philosophy, Technology No Comments

Jan Kyrre Berg Olsen, Stig Andur Pedersen, Vincent F. Hendricks, "A Companion to the Philosophy of Technology (Blackwell Companions to Philosophy)" Wiley-Blackwell | 2009 | ISBN: 140514601X | 592 pages | PDF | 2,2 MB Drawing on essays from leading international and multi-disciplinary scholars, A Companion to the Philosophy of Technology is the first comprehensive and authoritative reference source to cover the key issues of technology’s impact on society and our lives. Presents the first...

A Companion to the Philosophy of Biology (Blackwell Companions to Philosophy)

6:32 PM 2008, Biology, Blackwell Companions, Philosophy, Wiley No Comments

A Companion to the Philosophy of Biology By Sahotra Sarkar, Anya Plutynksi Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell | 03-03-2008 | ISBN: 1405125721 | 616 pages | 2.68 Mb Comprised of essays by top scholars in the field, this volume offers concise overviews of philosophical issues raised by biology. •Brings together a team of eminent scholars to explore the philosophical issues raised by biology •Addresses traditional and emerging topics, spanning molecular biology and genetics, evolution, developmental biology,...

Dreams in Exile: Rediscovering Science and Ethics in Nineteenth-Century Social Theory

6:23 PM 2009, Society, State University of New York Press No Comments

George E. McCarthy - Dreams in Exile: Rediscovering Science and Ethics in Nineteenth-Century Social Theory Publisher: State University of New York Press | 2009-04-09 | ISBN: 1438425872 | PDF | 374 pages | 1.8 MB Examines the influence of Aristotle and Kant on the nineteenth-century social theory of Marx, Durkheim, and Weber. The classical origins of nineteenth-century social theory are illuminated in this sequel to the award-winning Classical Horizons: The Origins of Sociology in Ancient Greece....

Discipline and Punishment in Global Politics: Illusions of Control, by Janie Leatherman

6:19 PM 2008, Palgrave Macmillan, Political Science No Comments

Janie Leatherman - Discipline and Punishment in Global Politics: Illusions of Control Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan | 2008-06-10 | ISBN: 0230605842 | PDF | 260 pages | 1.11 MB Global politics is a crowded stage of players competing for power and authority. Who is in charge of what? How do they stay in charge and what are the effects? This volume raises these questions in case studies on regimes of torture and surveillance in women’s rights, border control, media, global capital and religion....

Rameau's Nephew and First Satire (Oxford World's Classics)

6:17 PM 2009, Oxford University Press, people No Comments

Rameau's Nephew and First Satire (Oxford World's Classics Series) by Denis Diderot Publisher: Oxford University Press | March 15, 2009 | ISBN-10: 0199539995 | 176 pages | 1.22 MB In his brilliant and witty dialogue, Denis Diderot invents a chance encounter in a Paris café between two acquaintances. Their talk ranges broadly across art, music, education, and the contemporary scene, as the nephew of composer Rameau, amoral and bohemian, alternately shocks and amuses the moral, bourgeois...

Consumer Culture and postmodernism (Theory, Culture & Society Series)(SAGE Publications 2007)

5:58 PM 2007, Marketing, Sage Publications Ltd, Society No Comments

Consumer Culture and Postmodernism (Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society) Sage Publications Ltd | ISBN: 1412910145 | 2007-08-10 | PDF | 232 pages | 2 Mb The First Edition of this contemporary classic can claim to have put ‘consumer culture’ on the map, certainly in relation to postmodernism. Updated throughout, this expanded new edition includes a fully revised preface that explores the developments in consumer culture since the First Edition. Among the most noteworthy...

The Complete Aeschylus: Volume II: Persians and Other Plays (Greek Tragedy in New Translations)

5:53 PM 2009, archaeology, history, Oxford University Press, people No Comments

The Complete Aeschylus: Volume II: Persians and Other Plays (Greek Tragedy in New Translations) by Peter Burian, Alan Shapiro Publisher: Oxford University Press | ISBN: 0195373375 | edition: 2009 | PDF | 432 Pages | 1,3 Mb Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning...

Comparative Politics: Rationality, Culture, and Structure (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics 2009)

5:47 PM 2009, Cambridge, Political Science No Comments

Comparative Politics: Rationality, Culture, and Structure by Author: Mark Irving Lichbach, Alan S. Zuckerman Publisher: Cambridge University Press | ISBN: 0521885159 | pages: 520 | 4 MB Comparative Politics: Rationality, Culture, and Structure is a completely revised second edition of the volume that guided thousands of scholars through the intellectual demands and gratifications of comparative political science. Retaining a focu...

Building party systems developing democracies (Cambridge University Press 2009)

5:42 PM 2009, Cambridge, Political Science No Comments

Allen Hicken - Building Party Systems in Developing Democracies Publisher: Cambridge University Press | 2009-01-12 | ISBN: 0521885345 | PDF | 222 pages | 1.50 MB This book addresses the question of why a party system with a modest number of nationally oriented political parties emerges in some democracies but not others. The number of parties and nationalization are the product of coordination between voters, candidates, and party leaders within local electoral districts and coordination...

After the Last Man Excurses to the Limits of the Technological System (Lexington Books 2008)

5:34 PM 2009, Lexington Books, Science, Technology No Comments

After the Last Man: Excurses to the Limits of the Technological System By Toivo Koivukoski Publisher: Lexington Books 2009 | 146 Pages | ISBN: 0739118749 | PDF | 1.53 MB The meditations in this book map out the hypertextual pathways of our global techonological system, looking for its limits and ours, by drawing on the philosophy of German idealism and Homeric and pre-Socratic views on identity, substance, hospitality, and homecomin...

Advertising and the Mind of the Consumer (This edition Allen & Unwin 2008)

5:30 PM 2009, Allen and Unwin, Marketing, Skills 2 Comments

Max Sutherland "Advertising and the Mind of the Consumer: What Works, What Doesn't, and Why" Allen & Unwin | English | 2009-10-01 | ISBN: 1741755999 | 352 pages | PDF | 1,2 MB Advertising is an established and ever-present force and yet just how it works continues to be something of a mystery. From an industry insider, this fully-updated guide unveils the secrets of leading a successful campaign over a wide range of media, including the web. Drawing on many well-known international ads...

, 1400–1700 (Cambridge University Press 2009)

3:56 PM 2009, Cambridge, history, people, Political Science No Comments

A History of Women's Political Thought in Europe, 1400-1700 Publisher: Cambridge University Press | ISBN: 0521888174 | edition 2009 | PDF | 346 pages | 2,1 MB This ground-breaking book surveys the history of women's political thought in Europe from the late medieval period to the early modern era. The authors examine women's ideas about topics such as the basis of political authority, the best form of political organisation, justifications of obedience and resistance, and concepts of liberty,...

Confronting Evil in International Relations: Ethical Responses to Problems of Moral Agency

2:55 PM 2008, Palgrave Macmillan, Political Science No Comments

Renee Jeffery - Confronting Evil in International Relations: Ethical Responses to Problems of Moral Agency Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan | 2008-05-27 | ISBN: 0230602630 | PDF | 240 pages | 1.08 MB This book brings together seven original essays on the subject of evil in international relations. It considers questions of moral agency associated with the perpetration of evil acts by individuals and groups in the international sphere, and the range of ethical responses the international community...

Making the Law Explicit The Normativity of Legal Argumentation- Matthias Klatt

8:43 AM 2008, Business and Management, Hart Publishing, Skills No Comments

Matthias Klatt - Making the Law Explicit: The Normativity of Legal Argumentation Publisher: Hart Publishing (UK) | 2008-08 | ISBN: 1841134910 | PDF | 303 pages | 3 MB Legal argumentation consists in the interpretation of texts. Therefore, it has a natural connection to the philosophy of language. Central issues of this connection, however, lack a clear answer. For instance, how much freedom do judges have in applying the law? How are the literal and the purposive approaches related to one...

James Joyce in Context, by John McCourt - Cambridge - 2009

8:38 AM 2009, Cambridge, Culture, people, sociality No Comments

John McCourt - James Joyce in Context Publisher: Cambridge University Press | 2009-03-02 | ISBN: 0521886627 | PDF | 434 pages | 3 MB This collection of original, cohesive and concise essays charts the vital contextual backgrounds to Joyce's life and writing. The volume begins with a chronology of Joyce's publishing history, an analysis of his various biographies and a study of his many published and unpublished letters. It goes on to examine how his works were received in the main twentieth-century...

The Iraq War and International Law

8:36 AM 2008, Hart Publishing, Military Science, Political Science No Comments

The Iraq War and International Law Hart Publishing (UK) | ISBN: 1841136697 | 2008-08-18 | PDF | 352 pages | 3 Mb The decision by the US and UK governments to use military force against Iraq in 2003 and the subsequent occupation and administration of that State, has brought into sharp focus fundamental fault lines in international law. The decision to invade, the conduct of the war and occupation, and the mechanisms used to administer the country all challenge the international legal community...

An Introduction to the International Law of Armed Conflicts, by Richard Hyde and Robert Kolb

8:32 AM 2008, Hart Publishing, Military Science, Political Science No Comments

An Introduction to the International Law of Armed Conflicts, by Richard Hyde and Robert Kolb Hart Publishing | ISBN: 1841137995 | 2008 | PDF | 348 pages | 3 Mb This book provides a modern and basic introduction to a branch of international law constantly gaining in importance in international life, namely international humanitarian law (the law of armed conflict). It is constructed in a way suitable for self-study. The subject-matters are discussed in self-contained chapters,...

Historical Dictionary of the Tamils (Historical Dictionaries of Peoples and Cultures)

8:24 AM 2007, archaeology, Culture, dictionary, history, sociality, The Scarecrow Press No Comments

Historical Dictionary of the Tamils (Historical Dictionaries of Peoples and Cultures) By Vijaya Ramaswamy Publisher: The Scarecrow Press, Inc. | ISBN: 0810853795 | edition 2007 | PDF | 448 pages | 1,6 mb The Tamils, like most other peoples in this series, do not occupy a specific country of their own, although they do inhabit one of the larger states in India, Tamil Nadu. This state, however, also includes persons who would not regard themselves particularly as Tamil, while many who do...

Academic's Support Kit , Sage Publications Ltd

8:20 AM 2005, College-level, Sage Publications Ltd, Skills 2 Comments

Academic's Support Kit Sage Publications Ltd 'Thanks for the brilliance, wisdom and humour of Boden, Epstein and Kenway. I will buy this KIT for all of my students, as they leave graduate school and venture into university life on their own. The Academic's Support Kit provides a virtual support group for young academics groping to find their way in the rapidly changing terrain of higher education. And there are some tips for those of us who have been around too long, as well' -Michelle...

Confronting Tyranny: Ancient Lessons for Global Politics

8:19 AM 2005, Political Science, Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, sociality No Comments

Confronting Tyranny, by Toivo Koivukoski and David Edward TabachnickPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers | 2005 | ISBN-10: 074254401X | 256 pages | 3.5 MB Motivated by the reentry of tyranny into political discourse and political action, this new work compares ancient and contemporary accounts of tyranny in an effort to find responses to current political dilemmas and enduring truths. In our globally interconnected world, tyrants are no longer dangerous solely to their subjects and...

Multisite Commerce: Proven Principles for Overcoming the Business, Organizational, and Technical Challenges

8:02 AM 2009, Business and Management, E-commerce, IBM Press, Internet and Web No Comments

Lev Mirlas, "Multisite Commerce: Proven Principles for Overcoming the Business, Organizational, and Technical Challenges" IBM Press | 2009 | ISBN: 0137148879 | 432 pages | PDF | 13 MB Plan, Manage, and Architect Multiple Web Sites for Maximum Efficiency and Business Value. For many companies, one Web site is no longer enough. Business strategy requires multiple Web sites, each with carefully targeted audiences and marketing approaches. However, managing multiple sites introduces costs...

Surviving the War for Talent in Asia: How Innovation Can Help

7:47 AM 2009, IBM Press, Skills No Comments

Christina S S Ooi, "Christina S S Ooi" IBM Press | 2009 | ISBN: 0137009518 | 216 pages | PDF | 1,7 MB Find and Keep the Outstanding Leaders You Need to Win in Asia! Specific solutions for recruiting and retaining great people in North Asia, South Asia, Australia, and New Zealand. Seven new case studies, plus in-depth insight into IBM’s experience. For every CxO, director, manager, HR leader, strategist, or consultant working with or for companies in As...

Innovation Passport: The IBM First-of-a-Kind (FOAK) Journey From Research to Reality

7:42 AM 2009, Business and Management, IBM Press No Comments

Mary Jo Frederich, Peter Andrews, "Innovation Passport: The IBM First-of-a-Kind (FOAK) Journey From Research to Reality" IBM Press | 2009 | ISBN: 0132390760 | 288 pages | PDF | 1,9 MB Finally! A book that lays out a thorough yet workable path to collaborative innovation! With a highly readable style and using great examples, Frederich and Andrews describe the process by which IBM makes collaborative innovation work from a process, company, and customer standpoint....

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