Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction: the Middle Eastern mosaic -- Kurds: a legacy of struggle and suffering -- Berbers: between rebellion and submission -- Baluch: from obscurity to geostrategic importance -- Druzes: freedom without independence -- ʻAlawites: to power and the unknown -- Copts: from majority people to minority religion -- Armenians: talent, tragedy, and territorial loss -- Assyrians: an ancient people, a perennial struggle -- Maronites: sophistication and missed opportunities -- Sudanese Christians: tribulations and war in Black Africa -- Jews: Zionist achievement, lingering question -- Jews, Israel, and the minorities…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Chapter 1 Nuclear Opportunism How States Use Nuclear Weapons in International Politics -- Chapter 2 Independence and Status The British Nuclear Experience -- Chapter 3 Apartheid and Aggression South Africa, Angola, and the Bomb -- Chapter 4 The Foundations of a New World Order The United States and the Start of the Nuclear Era -- Chapter 5 Past and Future Proliferators -- Conclusion Nuclear Revolution or Nuclear Revolutions? …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…149 -- 7 Prosperity in crisis and the longue durée in Africa 179 -- farming in Marakwet Kenya 201 -- Epilogue 221 -- Index 225 -- Copyright…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Domestic space and social organisation -- House-form and social complexity : the transformation of early Iron Age Greece -- A space for "hurling the furniture" : the architecture and the development of Greek domestic symposia -- Housing and cultural identity : Delos, between Greece and Rome -- Seeing the domus behind the dominus in Roman Pompeii : artefact distributions as evidence for the whole household -- Housing as symbol : elite self-preservation in North Africa under Roman rule -- Epilogue: Domestic space and social organisation in classical antiquity -- Glossary -- Period names and dates referred to in this book…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Beginnings of genetics: from Mendel to Hitler -- The double helix: this is life -- Reading the code: bringing DNA to life -- Playing God: customized DNA molecules -- DNA, dollars, and drugs: biotechnology -- Tempest in a cereal box: genetically modified agriculture -- The human genome: life's screenplay -- Reading genomes: evolution in action -- Out of Africa: DNA and the human past -- Genetic fingerprinting: DNA's day in court -- Gene hunting: the genetics of human disease -- Defying disease: treating and preventing genetic disorders -- Who we are: nature vs. nurture…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction: Little Africa -- Jail : southern detention to global liberation -- Friends like these : race and neoconservatism -- After civil rights : the rise of black public intellectuals -- Have mask, will travel : centrists from the Ivy League -- A capital fellow from Hoover : Shelby Steele -- Reflections of a first amendment trickster : Stephen Carter -- Man without connection : John McWhorter -- American myth : illusions of liberty and justice for all -- Prison : colored bodies, private profit -- Conclusion: What then must we do?…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Preface: My Roman empire -- Imperialisms and colonialisms -- From imperium to imperialism : writing the Roman empire -- From one colonialism to another : imperialism and the Maghreb -- Regime change, resistance, and reconstruction : imperialism ancient and modern -- Power, sex, and empire -- Ruling regions, exploiting resources -- Landscapes of imperialism : Africa, a landscape of opportunity? -- Metals and metalla : a Roman copper-mining landscape in the Wadi Faynan, Jordan -- Identity and discrepancy -- Family values : art and power at Ghirza in the Libyan pre-desert -- Afterword: Empire experienced…”

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