“…The contributions draw on history, politics, geography, cultural studies and sociology to interrogate the continuities and tensions that have shaped national commemoration and the social and political forces that condition this unique international event. …”

“…Negative assessments of institutional competition emphasize that such competition may lead to a race to the bottom in terms of eroding government revenues, redistributing wealth from workers to capitalists, and limiting democracy by forcing politicians to prioritize international investment capital rather than working for their voters. …”

“…The Saudi royal family ultimately compromised with the rebels' supporters, helping to set free the forces that produced the attacks of 9/11 and the harrowing circumstances that surround us today.…”

“…This book shows how contemporary art achieved definitive force in the markets and museums of the major art centres during the 1980s. …”

“…This study offers a different view of both Romantic irony and Romantic nationalism: irony is examined as an outgrowth of commercial society and as a force that holds together center and periphery, superiors and subordinates, in the culture of nationalism…”
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“…Jenkins embraces individuals from Julius Caesar and Joan of Arc, to Wellington and Angela Merkel, as well as cultural figures from Aristotle to Shakespeare and Picasso. …”

“…Most of the women studied in this volume hoped to retain their original culture and lifestyle at least to some extent but found that the exigencies of being migrants and refugees forced them to examine their preconceptions and to adopt roles, both social and economic, which they would have rejected at home. …”
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“…Readers will gain an understanding of what happens during the perinatal period, why it happens, and options for intervention when expected events go awry…”

“…Modernity and its Futures is a major introductory textbook which examines the forces reshaping modern industrial societies and the new patterns, structures and relationships that are emerging in the contemporary world. …”

“…One is legendary: the Sun-fort of Grianan, home of the warrior Fianna; the Field of the Disappeared, over which no gulls fly; the house in Donegal where children are stolen away by demonic forces. The other is actual: the city of Derry in the Northern Ireland of the 40s and 50s; a place that is also haunted by political enmities, family secrets, lethal intrigue. …”

“…Eliot, of Kingsley Amis and Philip Larkin, from the end of the post-war slump to the technicolor explosion of the 1960s, to free love and punk rock, and from Thatcher to Blair.A vividly readable, richly peopled tour de force, Innovation is Peter Ackroyd writing at the height of his powers" -- Editor…”

“…As they faced either nuclear annihilation or peaceful reconciliation, Christians were forced to take stands on such issues as war, communism, and their relationship to Christians in Eastern Europe. …”

“…This book provides a forceful rebuttal of such claims. In successive chapters the author explains the historical precedents of the modern opposition to time flow, giving careful expositions of matters relevant to becoming in classical physics, the special and general theories of relativity, and quantum theory, without presupposing prior expertise in these subjects. …”

“…Análisis descriptivo de los hallazgos en los computadores del terrorista Raúl Reyes cabecilla de las Farc abatido por las Fuerzas Militares colombianas en territorio ecuatoriano, donde era protegido por el gobierno comunista de Rafael Correa. …”

“…En el homenaje por el décimo aniversario de la muerte del capitán Rodríguez Plata, su hijo Gus se da cuenta de que la vida de su padre es un misterio para él. …”

“…En s’appuyant sur les résultats d’une enquête ethnographique inédite de cinq mois dans un centre de rétention, cet ouvrage revient sur les paradoxes engendrés par cette configuration spécifique. Comment le droit est-il mobilisé en rétention, avec quels effets sur la mise en œuvre ordinaire de la force publique ? …”

“…L’identification des dynamiques propres à cette « société guerrière » permet de comprendre jusqu’à quel point ses éléments constitutifs reproduisaient et propageaient l’état de guerre lui-même.Cet ouvrage est issu d’une thèse de doctorat en Histoire et Civilisations, soutenue le 19 janvier 2010 devant l’École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales de Paris. Cette thèse, réalisée sous la direction de Juan Carlos Garavaglia, a reçu le Prix d’Histoire Militaire 2010décerné par le Ministère de la Défense.Prix d’Histoire militaire 2010.…”

“…Offensive topics include brute force, port scanning, packet injection, web scraping, social engineering, and post exploitation techniques. …”

“…This description of an American society in which Judaism and Catholicism stood as equal partners to Protestantism begs explanation, as Protestantism had long been the dominant religious force in the U.S. How did Americans come to embrace Protestantism, Catholicism, and Judaism as “the three facets of American religion?”…”

“…Using traditional supply/demand economic analysis in combination with the Kano model, the authors explain the dynamic forces which move existing products from premium pricing to a state of commoditization. …”