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Thoroughly revised and updated, this comprehensive reference encompasses thousands of facts and trivia about the worlds of geography, world history, the arts, sports, politics, agriculture, and economics
Author : Hana Umlauf Lane
Publisher : Pharos Books
Page : 928 pages
File Size : 44,38 MB
Release : 1986-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780345340610
Thoroughly revised and updated, this comprehensive reference encompasses thousands of facts and trivia about the worlds of geography, world history, the arts, sports, politics, agriculture, and economics
Author : World Almanac
Publisher : World Almanac Books
Page : 926 pages
File Size : 41,4 MB
Release : 1986-11
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780345337405
The latest edition of the annual one-of-a-kind informational bestseller.
Author : Hoffman Mark
Publisher :
Page : 928 pages
File Size : 17,2 MB
Release : 1958-08
Category : Almanac
ISBN : 9780886872922
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 714 pages
File Size : 12,85 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Diplomatic and consular service, American
ISBN :
Author : Norma Olin Ireland
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 36,73 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Nineteenth century
ISBN : 9780810821705
Author : Howard Adelman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 29,28 MB
Release : 2020-02-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0429722850
Of the world's refugees, more than a third live in Africa, displaced from their homelands by war, poverty, famine and political persecution. In this book, contributors explore key issues related to these refugee populations. The first section looks at the legal framework for defining and assisting refugees, and the second deals with the issue of relief by considering specific cases, the general problems faced and particular relief efforts. Subsequent chapters examine forced migration, resettlement and repatriation, conflict with local populations, integration of refugees, and sustainable development.
Author : David Brion Davis
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 10,31 MB
Release : 2015-01-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0307389693
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award 2014 With this volume, Davis presents the age of emancipation as a model for reform and as probably the greatest landmark of willed moral progress in human history. Bringing to a close his staggeringly ambitious, prizewinning trilogy on slavery in Western culture Davis offers original and penetrating insights into what slavery and emancipation meant to Americans. He explores how the Haitian Revolution respectively terrified and inspired white and black Americans, hovering over the antislavery debates like a bloodstained ghost. He offers a surprising analysis of the complex and misunderstood significance the project to move freed slaves back to Africa. He vividly portrays the dehumanizing impact of slavery, as well as the generally unrecognized importance of freed slaves to abolition. Most of all, Davis presents the age of emancipation as a model for reform and as probably the greatest landmark of willed moral progress in human history.
Author : Ike Jeanes
Publisher : Ike Jeanes
Page : 804 pages
File Size : 21,63 MB
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 9780936015620
EVERYONE'S GUIDE - FORECAST & SOLUTION introduces new, easy-to-use statistical methods so that the reader can answer the questions: How long will nuclear peace tend to continue? And, what can be done to extend it further? Dietrich Fischer, a past MacArthur Fellow at Princeton, was emphatic: "This is an original & highly readable contribution to the most important issue facing humanity today - surviving the nuclear threat. Jeanes combines lucid common sense with mathematical rigor in this landmark work. Anyone with an interest in having a future should read this work." Similarly, another distinguished scholar & author in the field declared, "It was more than interesting: it was completely fascinating." The general literate reader can assess when a nuclear use (small or otherwise) would tend to occur at probabilities from 1% to 99.9%, & what precisely can be done to forestall such use. Jeanes debunks deterrence theory, illustrates consequences of proliferation, & provides a unified explanation for warfare, conventional & nuclear. A comprehensive work - ethical, political, historical, analytical. 100+ Graphs & Tables, 1,500+ footnotes. TOLL-FREE, 24 hours-a-day, credit card line (800) 448-3330; Publisher: (800) 446-0467.
Author : Pedro Fierro Jr.
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 1728 pages
File Size : 10,27 MB
Release : 2007-02-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 1000713458
Just do an Internet search. It's on the Internet These phrases have quickly become a part of the vernacular. The quintessential book of data relating to water, The Water Encyclopedia: Hydrologic Data and Internet Resources, Third Edition arose from the premise that most of the information provided within this publication could be easily
Author : Sandra Ann Wawrytko
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 40,97 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Good and evil
ISBN : 9789042004795
Annotation Comprises 18 revised studies based on presentations and discussions at the Fourth Conference of the International Society for Philosophy and Psychotherapy held in Montreal, Canada in June 1994. Contributions to the five sections address evil in Asian thought, Western theories of evil, evil and cosmic order, the psychology of evil, and the practice of evil. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR.