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Combines a critical analysis of Nigeria's nationality problem and a brutal personal account of how the author was placed under a fatwa for speaking out against Islamization. The book argues that the precarious state of political affairs in Nigeria lay in a jihadist plan that has allowed the Boko Haram insurgency to emerge.

Adopts semiotics as a framework to compare football to literature. The football field is akin to the plot or stage in narrative or dramatic modes, and the players are viewed as characters whose metamorphoses, in the text of football, are occasioned from the label of their positions to the completeness of the plot by the kinetic power of the ball.

Examines the economics and legal doctrine of private equity. After a consideration of private equity's origins, the book explores the evolution of private equity in the United States and Europe. The reference economic model is then reconstructed, with particular attention to financial flows to and from private equity firms and funds.

This collection of essays reflect the prolific philosopher David Kuhrt's prescient thesis that subjectivity can be bypassed, thereby exploding the myth of positivist philosophy. Kuhrt argues that Western intellect and abstract truths still prevail at the expense of practicality, negotiation, and face-to-face meetings.

Examines the relationship between governments and international organizations under international law. After surveying the policing powers of international organizations under international law, the book illustrates some normative aspects of law that distinguish regulation from enforcement via study of recent legal cases.

In this work by F. Willard Brown, the author presents established facts on a range of topics - from education to religious belief to health and wellness - that are crucial for an understanding of life, but often remain strikingly unknown to the public.

The death of Spain's Don Carlos, Prince of Asturias, on July 24, 1568, remains an enigma. Several accounts insinuated that the Spanish Crown Prince was murdered while incarcerated by order of his father, King Philip II. The mystery of Don Carlos's death, supported by ambassadorial accounts that implied foul play, became a fertile subject for defamation campaigns against Philip, fostering an extraordinary fluidity between history and fiction. This book investigates three treatments of the Don Carlos legend on which this fluidity had a potent, transformational impact: Cesar Vichard de Saint-Real's novel, Dom Carlos, nouvelle historique (1672), Friedrich Schiller's play, Don Karlos, Infant von Spanien (1787), and Giuseppe Verdi's opera, Don Carlos (1867). Through these cultural variations on a historical theme, the authors and composer contributed innovative elements to their genres. In The Don Carlos Enigma, the exciting young scholar Maria-Cristina Necula explores how the particular blend of history and fiction around the personage of Don Carlos inspired such artistic liberties with evolutionary outcomes. Saint-Ral advanced the nouvelle historique genre by developing the element of conspiracy. Schiller's play began the transition from the Sturm und Drang literary movement towards Weimar Classicism. Verdi introduced new dramatic and musical elements to bring opera closer to the realism of dramatic theatre. Within each of these treatments, pivotal points of narrative, semantic, dramatic, and musical transformation shaped not only the story of Don Carlos, but the expressive forms themselves. In support of the investigation, selected scenes from the three works are explored and framed by an engagement with studies in the fields of French literature, German theatre, French and Italian opera, and Spanish history. The enigma of the Spanish prince may never be solved, but Saint-Ral, Schiller, and Verdi have offered alternatives that, in a sense, unburden history of truth that it could never bear alone. In the case of Don Carlos, history is in itself an encyclopedia of variations

When Japan attacked Pearl Harbor and other Western positions in the Asia-Pacific World in December 1941, it was unprepared to go to war with the United States and the Western Democracies generally and even realized it could not win.

Focusing on one of Russia's most powerful and wide-reaching institutions, this book addresses manifestations of religious thought, practice, and artifacts revealing the permeability of political boundaries and fluid transfers of ideas, texts, people, objects, and ""sacred spaces"" with the rest of the Christian world.

Patriarch Nikon was the most energetic, creative, influential, and obstinate of Russia's early religious leaders. This exceptional volume contextualizes Nikon's Patriarchate as part of the broader continuities in Russian history and serves as a bridge to the present, where Russia is forging new relationships between Church and power.

Nwankwo Nwaezeigwe's revelatory study of the Igbo people and their Nri neighbors presents a paradigm shift in the interpretation of Igbo history and culture. Politics, Culture, and Origins in Nigeria posits that the Nri were not originally Igbo but recent immigrants from Igala kingdom of Idah who arrived in the early sixteenth century.

Offers the first serious study of the crowdfunding phenomenon, which has developed deep meaning for various stakeholders benefiting from this funding collection mechanism and its innovative new role, especially in the processes of business creation and spread of entrepreneurship.

Higher education is undergoing profound change at an unprecedented pace in today's academic marketplace. This accelerating and precipitating change has motivated the authors of this volume to read well-chosen publications about meeting demands and responding to needs among America's historically Black universities and colleges.

Concentrates on issues of friction between member states of the UN. Dimitris Liakopoulos hypothesizes that "practical guides" based on custom often catalyze the positions taken by states, courts, scholars, and other actors, constituting an "orthodox" position against which formulaic legal opposition will become predictably more difficult.

This translation of Plato's Phaedrus, with detailed summary and full philological and exegetical notes taking into consideration all commentaries since Hermias, followed by a painstaking dialogical analysis of the text that shows what we must think at every moment in order to understand the thinking that brings the Greek text to life.

Drawing on a distinguished 40-year university career, Allen Thiher probes the subjects that serve as a basis for higher education in the twenty-first century. Addressing the general reader as well as the scholar, he argues that all the best about contemporary culture springs directly from the unfettered rationalism of the Enlightenment.

Presented by Russian author and attorney Ilya Milyukov, Chronicles of the First and Second Chechen War presents the main events of the First (1994-1996) and Second (1999-2009) Wars in Chechnya, Russia's deadliest conflicts since World War II.

Offers an analyses of the causes, nature, and changing patterns of armed conflict in Africa as well as the reasons for these patterns. The book also situates conflicts that have been haunting the African continent since decolonization within various theoretical schools, such as ""new war"", ""economic war"", ""neo-patrimonial"", and ""globalization"".

An emerging generation of African scholars examines specific states in Africa where instability is the order of the day. Considerations of African instability are highly relevant in today's world, where one examines the types of regimes that were put in place after the Cold War and their effects on Africa.

Presents for the first time in English the annotated 1916-1918 diaries and letters of Russia's Grand Duke Michael, from the murder of the Siberian mystic Grigorii Rasputin through the Revolution of 1917, which dethroned the Romanov dynasty after Michael briefly found himself named Emperor when his brother Nicholas II abdicated.

In 1806 an anonymous Greek book called for a republican government, patterned on that of the young United States, to be established in Greece. The book's author, Count John Capo d'Istria, was also in touch with another inspirational power, Russia. In this revelatory new book, Dimitris Michalopoulos follows Capo d'Istria's career.

Identifies and explores relevant considerations in the work of the United Nations International Commission and offers an overview of the status of international law as defined by the United Nations authority responsible for its codification and development.

Globalization is posing enormous challenges to development efforts in many African countries. This book asks whether African stock exchange might become more effective in enhancing development. It adopts a legal approach in analysing various laws and texts.

In this intriguing book, Onianwa Oluchukwu Ignatus investigates Britain's decision to engage the Royal Air Force (RAF) in the relief operations during the Nigerian Civil War. Despite the existing research on humanitarianism of the Nigerian Civil War, until now no scholar has explored the British move to deploy the RAF for relief flights to Biafra.

Willem de Kooning's six numbered Woman paintings have incited a maelstrom of critical controversy. Marlene Clark argues that these canvases could be read as self-portraits, negating claims of misogyny and explaining the presence of figuration amidst abstraction.

Argues that feminist international relations (IR) theory has inadvertently resulted in a biased worldview, the very opposite of what feminist IR set out to try to rectify. This book contests theoretical presumptions of Western feminist IR and attempts to reformulate it in contexts of non-Western cultures.

In this highly original new book, Cameroonian legal scholar Moye Godwin Bongyu explores the intersection of public administration and the state, colonization and administrative systems, public and private laws, rule of law, and comparative administrative law.

Explores the content of powers attributed by the Statute of Rome to the UN Security Council. The book begins by investigating the power to activate the investigations of the prosecutor before examining the power to suspend judicial activity. It then defines the characteristics of Security Council intervention.

In this extraordinary history, James Driscoll reveals the untold story of how AIDS activists, by thwarting bureaucratic plans imposed by the US Federal Drug Administration (FDA), both saved HIV patients and rescued the FDA itself from a self-inflicted public health catastrophe.

While Thomas Jefferson's affinity for Italy is well known, studying his role in assimilating Italian culture into the American project is a new venture. Surveying Jefferson as an Italophile reveals a wide spectrum of cultural appreciation.