Author : Michael Lamke
Publisher : Knightime Publishing
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 43,48 MB
Release : 2010-08-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0984598510
Former Army Captain Lane Evans, the aide to the U.S. Ambassador to Thailand, unmasks a Thai blogger and discovers that anonymous anti-American bloggers are being killed. His intrusions haven't gone unnoticed. Now, he and those he loves are being targeted.
Author : Janna Hill
Publisher : JHill Ink
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 43,83 MB
Release : 2015-02-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
A short fictional biography based on the true accounts of a man, his sexuality and his unrelenting feelings of helplessness. **This story is also found in Short Stories & Such which is an anthology of short stories, flash fiction and poetry written by Janna Hill with contributions by Joe Hill. Excerpt: A coward dies a thousand deaths; a brave man dies but once. Tom considered the modern adage and decided he preferred William Shakespeare’s version. A thousand wouldn’t cover it for him. He had longed for death at least that many times since the age of ten; by the age of forty he had quit counting.
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Page : 360 pages
File Size : 39,98 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Black market
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Page : 898 pages
File Size : 31,54 MB
Release : 1911
Category : Automobile industry and trade
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Page : 1100 pages
File Size : 26,9 MB
Release : 1908
Category : Automobiles
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Author : Lee Manion
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 22,98 MB
Release : 2014-04-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139917188
In Narrating the Crusades, Lee Manion examines crusading's narrative-generating power as it is reflected in English literature from c.1300 to 1604. By synthesizing key features of crusade discourse into one paradigm, this book identifies and analyzes the kinds of stories crusading produced in England, uncovering new evidence for literary and historical research as well as genre studies. Surveying medieval romances including Richard Cœur de Lion, Sir Isumbras, Octavian, and The Sowdone of Babylone alongside historical practices, chronicles, and treatises, this study shows how different forms of crusading literature address cultural concerns about collective and private action. These insights extend to early modern writing, including Spenser's Faerie Queene, Marlowe's Tamburlaine, and Shakespeare's Othello, providing a richer understanding of how crusading's narrative shaped the beginning of the modern era. This first full-length examination of English crusading literature will be an essential resource for the study of crusading in literary and historical contexts.
Author : Kathryn C. Lavelle
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 30,56 MB
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : International cooperation
ISBN : 0300230451
An accessible history of multilateralism from its origins in the 1800s to the present Multilateralism has long been a study of contrasts. Nationalist impulses, diverging and shifting goals, and a lack of enforcement methods have plagued the international organizations that facilitate multilateralism. Yet the desire to seek peace, reduce poverty, and promote the global health of people and the planet pushes states to work together. These challenges, across time and the globe, have brought about striking, yet diverging, results. Here, Kathryn Lavelle offers a history of multilateralism from its origins in the nineteenth century to the present. Lavelle focuses on the creation and evolution of major problem-solving organizations, examines the governmental challenges they have confronted and continue to face from both domestic and transnational constituencies, and considers how nongovernmental organizations facilitate their work. Comprehensive and narrative-driven, this book should appeal to students with interests in global development, public health, the environment, trade, international finance, humanitarian law, and security studies.
Author : Kam Wing Chan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 41,3 MB
Release : 2018-04-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1351658263
Many agree that rapid urbanization in China in the late 20th and early 21st centuries is a mega process significantly reshaping China and the global economy. China’s urbanization also carries a certain mystique, which has long fascinated generations of scholars and journalists alike. As it has turned out, many of the asserted Chinese feats are mostly fancied claims or gross misinterpretations (of statistics, for example). There does exist, however, an urbanization that displays rather uncommon "Chinese" characteristics that remain to inadequately understood. Building on his three decades of careful research, Professor Kam Wing Chan expertly dissects the complexity of China’s hukou system, migration, urbanization and their interrelationships in this set of journal articles published in the last ten years. These works range from seminal papers on Chinese urban definitions and statistics; and broad-perspective analysis of the hukou system of its first semi-centennial; to examinations of migration trends and geography; and critical evaluations of China’s 2014 urbanization blueprint and hukou reform plan. This convenient assemblage contains many of Chan’s recent important works. Together they also form a relatively coherent set on this topic. They are essential readings to anyone serious about gaining a true understanding of the prodigious urbanization in contemporary China.
Author : Gul Asiye Aycik
Publisher : Springer
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 25,26 MB
Release : 2009-01-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 1402096003
Nuclear and radioactive agents are considerable concerns especially after the early 1990s and more attention has been focused on the radiation detection technologies. This book comprises the selected presentations of NATO Advanced Training Course held 26-30 May 2008 in Mugla, Turkey. The contributions represent a wide range of documents related to control, monitoring and measurement methods of nuclear / radioactive isotopes and agents for both fundamental and applied works dealing with their use for different purposes. This book presents environmental data from many locations of different countries and also contains the contributions in the detection/monitoring programs of some authors from CIS countries. The basic goal of this book is to deal with recent developments and applications of environmental monitoring and measurement techniques of environmental radionuclides and nuclear agents as well as the auxiliary techniques. The many recent examples contributed by authors will be useful in monitoring/ measurement studies of radioactive/nuclear agents in the present environment, and can help, not only in carrying out outdoor and laboratory experiments, but also in protection of possible sources of radionuclides and nuclear agents. Especially the contributions of experts and specialists involved in this book assured the highest level of knowledge in the field of techniques for the detection of radioactive and nuclear agents.
Author : Miguel de Larrinaga
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 22,89 MB
Release : 2010-05-21
Category : History
ISBN : 1135233055
This book examines global governance through Foucaultian notions of governmentality and security, as well as the complex intersections between the two. The volume explores how Foucault's understanding of the general economy of power in modern society allows us to consider the connection of two broad possible dynamics: the global governmentalization of security and the securitization of global governance. If Foucault's work on governmentality and security has found resonance in IR scholarship in recent years it is in large part due to his understanding of how these forms of power must necessarily take into account the management of circulation that, in seeking to maximize ‘good’ versus ‘bad’ circulatory flows, brings into play and problematizes the 'inside'/'outside' upon which domestic and international spaces have been traditionally understood. Indeed, Foucault introduces a set of conceptual tools that can inform our analyses of globalization, global governance and security in ways that have been left largely unexplored in the discipline of IR. Miguel de Larrinaga is Assistant Professor at the University of Ottawa where he has been teaching since 2002. Marc G. Doucet is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Saint Mary’s University.
