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Covers pressing issues of environmental politics, such as environmental activism and litigation, climate change, conservation, the challenges of coastal communities, flood prevention, and waste management. Oil subsidy removal, rule of law, and the roles of media and religion are also closely considered.

As the Nigerian historian Onianwa Oluchukwu Ignatus observes in this study, British women played a vital role in the civil war that broke out in Nigeria in 1967. They saw the war as a challenge to womanhood in a male-dominated society, and became part of the formidable force that brought the issue of the war to the global community.

"Jewish Neighborhoods in California: History and Development amplifies the essence of Judaism as experienced in California's historic Jewish neighborhoods."--

Examines the nexus between housing and stewardship in peri-urban areas outside of Harare, Zimbabwe. Housing in Zimbabwe explores the factors that shape peri-urban environments into better managed and sustainable areas where housing development is the major activity.

Addresses the fragility of state institutions in terms of their ability and capacity to manage diversity, corruption, inequality, human rights violations, environmental degradation, weak security, and judicial problems, as well as the current security challenges in Africa.

Presents assessments of African international politics, governance, conflict dynamics, and peacekeeping efforts, focusing on the national conflicts in Central African Republic and Somalia, protests in South Africa, terrorism in Nigeria, and insecurity in West African states.

Analyses US bankruptcy law with a focus on the concept of automatic stay. Dimitris Liakopulos' work identifies legal sources and authorities having repercussions in terms of operational protection. He then examines their functional profiles, with specific regard to procedure.

In this groundbreaking collections of essays, Canada-based Chinese scholar Simin Li explores the latest insights into information, knowledge, political communication, and identity in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and their neighbors, friends, and adversaries.

Soon after a series of protests in Ferguson, Missouri, African-American protestors there and Palestinian protestors in the West Bank began to use the slogan ""From Ferguson to Palestine, Occupation is a Crime"". Randa Serhan explores how these communities found common cause in protesting the militarization of the forces that policed them.

A collection of more than 125 letters written by Private 1st Class Raymond W. Maker, to his sister, Eva, a county nurse living in Framingham, Massachusetts, describing his everyday service in combat during World War 1. The lettersare accompanied by 365 pocket-diary entries that Raymond kept throughout 1918.

In Diversity, Funding, and Standardized Testing in American Education, noted education expert Jose Martinez's examines current aspects of inequality in American education, examining the complex nexus of funding, diversity, and the increasingly contentious role of standardized testing. A readable narrative format assesses the extensive documentation, which demonstrates that inequality is becoming entrenched throughout the education system, in no small measure due to biases in standardized testing systems. Students from kindergarten through university face the arising challenges while their environments are becoming more diverse. Funding levels in education are also posited as causes of inequality. This complements the view that standardized testing at all levels of education mirrors and exacerbates entrenched economic inequality. Education funding and standardized testing at all levels have thus become basic mechanisms that purposefully reproduce and maintain a two-tiered society. The solutions are not difficult to discern, as other societies can attest, but Martinez's thought-provoking new book moves toward engaging them.

Offers an analysis of the social and cultural influences in the Latino community and its effect on the development of Latino racial identity. The book addresses what it means to be a ""Latino"" in the US, including the origins of the term and its use to describe individuals from Central America, South America, and the Caribbean.

As far as philosophy is concerned, David Kuhrt argues in this incisive collection of essays, doubt about the motivation of human conduct and truthfulness is prerequisite. Were ever a desired global consensus to triumph over trumpeted histories, today's notion of certain knowledge in "scientific" terms must be called in question.

In this incisive interpretation of Margaret Atwood's prose, Candy D'Cunha argues that the novelist's ecosophical vision provides valuable lessons that could help in creating a greater and more responsible awareness in the modern psyche about the environment.

Explores the power of working for social justice and community building at the grass roots level. Marguerite Bouvard reveals that while views may clash at the federal and state level, the local level is a very important venue, where individuals and groups can create understanding between different faiths and help marginalized people feel empowered.

Presents a thorough examination of American higher education, and particularly the emergence of dual credit education, as a viable program of teaching and learning, within the higher education paradigm. The book also provides helpful pedagogical suggestions for dual credit teachers.

Gerald Alper is the author of eleven books including Portrait of the Artist as a Young Patient: Psychodynamic Studies of the Creative Personality, The Puppeteers: Studies of Obsessive Control, Narcissistic Giving: A Study of People Who Cheat in Relationships, and Control Games: Avoiding Intimacy on the Singles Scene. He is a psychotherapist who has been in private practice in Manhattan the past twenty years. He is a reviewer for the Journal of Contemporary Psychology and a Fellow of The American Institute for Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis." New York City based psychotherapist Gerald Alper adeptly filters materials glean from clinical vignettes through a discerning screen of psychoanalysis. In this manner ,Alper's sharp blade of psychoanalytic acumen cuts deeply into the core of a self help ethos which strives futilely to force the square of complexity into a circle of simplicity. The self help industry's flawed attempt to "dumb down" human complexity is examined in the context of the medium of film and with a regard to a multitude of power transactions. Cinema is only one of a number of media that Alper uses as he adroitly discuses contemporary psycho dynamics. Practitioners,students and general readers will be fascinated and informed by this psychologically insightful and thought provoking book"Leo Uzych,JD,MPH

Deals with the topic of the literature of the Irish Argentine. This work features material on specific authors, their economic and their demographic milieu as well as assessments on Irish allied cultural activities (journalism, politics and music).

A monograph that helps to understand one of the seminal moments of 20th century British theatre - the rise of the verse drama and the re-invigoration of Christian belief based on historical figures on England's past. It places Christopher Fry back in the literary canon and argues for his centrality - albeit a brief one - in dramatic history.

Explores what is defined as Visual Poetry. This work discusses the techno-visual elements of poetry creation. It includes material that helps the 'reading' and 'decoding' process stimulated by a combination of elements in poetic discourse and example. It features research work on the semantics of verbal and visual images, color and form.

The leader of Zimbabwe's opposition Movement for Democratic Change as been demonized by President Robert Mugabe and his regime as a neo-colonial stooge and traitor. Mr. Tvangirai has been imprisoned by British; white Rhodesian and Zimbabwean authorities in the course of a career marked by non violent protest leadership and de facto recognition as the one person who can save his country from complete collapse and chaotic self destruction. What does Tvangirai really want and really believe in? What are his ambitions and plans for his country? And how did Zimbabwe, once seen as the hope of Central Africa, descend into a spiral of failure and violence? These are the questions Professor Stephen Chan poses to Morgan Tvangirai in this revealing study of politics and personality in Africa. The author posits Tsvangirai as a deep thinker, a solid democrat, an honest man and a patient leader. But will this citizen of Africa live to see his ideas triumph or will he and his movement be destroyed? Dr. Chan's original research and quantitative and qualitative overview will prove an important document in Zimbabwe's possible escape from disaster and central Africa's future.

With a combination of robust research and coherent overview, Dr. Hutchinson argues that the origins of the Conservative Party in Britain begin with Henry VII's attempt to define and order a Tudor solution to the chaos and civil war of the preceding century.

This text studies the effects and consequences of the ceaseless travels of Irish poets to America in search of an audience and a paycheck.

Ivan Ivanovich Pouschine is most recognised for his leadership role in the 1825 Decembrist uprising agains Russia's tsarist government and his memoirs about his friend Alexander Pushkin. Princeton scholar Anna Pouschine explores her ancestor's correspondence, examining how his letters created personal fulfillment in a desolate environment.

This compendium of speeches chronicles statements delivered by notable participants in the Nigerian-Biafran War (1967-1970) in local and global forums. This second volume chronicles African and global perspectives.

This compendium of speeches chronicles statements delivered by notable participants in the Nigerian-Biafran War (1967-1970) in local and global forums. The first volume includes speeches on the civil war from the Biafran and Nigerian Federal perspectives.

The period 1789-1939 was a time of dramatic, global social, political and economic transformation, with considerable ramifications for Jews and Judaism. This collection of essays explores this period, with particular attention to the project of synthesizing Jewish tradition and engagement with modernity in Western Europe and the US.

For forty years, Jackie Frame stood at the centre of business, entertainment, and publicity in Classic Hollywood. This stunning collection of never before told vignettes reveals that lost world in all its splendour and with all its quirks. Jackie Frame's journey to the entertainment capital of the world is a truly remarkable twentieth-century tale.

The phrase ""solidarity of the shaken"" was introduced into the today's political vocabulary by Jan Patocka, one of the last students of the philosopher Edmund Husserl. In January 1977, Patocka became one of the first three spokespersons of Charter 77, Czechoslovakia's anti-communist resistance movement.

Presents insights from a conference hosted by the Vaclav Havel Program for Human Rights and Diplomacy at Florida International University. The book's fundamental topic is memory, the human capacity to retain its contents in the flux of time, which is explored and discussed both theoretically and in terms of current action-oriented public discourse.