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This report from the Council on Foreign Relation's Center for Preventive Action examines how best to avert conflict in Papua by supporting greater self-government and helping citizens realize greater benefits from development of natural resources.

This text examines how businesses and the environment interact. It is ideal for students with no previous knowledge of business studies. It examines in depth the ways in which business, industry, the physical environment, environmentalism and social change have evolved alongside each other. The authors use boxed case-studies to highlight how business practice and the environment interact at levels from local to global, with examples from multi...

A tiny man saves a young girl's life three times. The third time, she has no way of repaying him, so he asks for her first-born child. What will the girl do when the little man comes to collect?

The Columbine tragedy on April 20, 1999 began a new era in law enforcement as it became apparent that the police response to such mass shootings must be drastically altered. By the time the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting occurred on December 14, 2012, outdated police response strategies had been replaced with new, aggressive tactics used by the first officers on the scene. The frequency with which these events occur remind us time and a...

This book is an extension of the discussions presented in Blair’s 1990 book "Language and Representation in Information Retrieval", which was selected as the "Best Information Science Book of the Year" by the American Society for Information Science (ASIS). That work stated that the Philosophy of Language had the best theory for understanding meaning in language, and within the Philosophy of Language, the work of philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstei...

The Paegonaean Empire now spans the continents and oceans of Earth, all but one final patch of land that they have left abandoned for eighty years. With the world teetering on the brink of everlasting peace, there remains only one thing left to do. A Paegonaean prophecy will bring together three very different people from this forsaken land and set them on a mission of the utmost importance. "A king, a wise man and a thief, to decide the fate ...

Zum ersten Mal ist Archer Kapitän eines schwulen Fußballteams. Endlich erhält er die Chance, mit Klischees aufzuräumen und das zu tun, was er am meisten liebt: Gewinnen! Aber vorher muss er seine chaotische Mannschaft zur Räson bringen, um gegen das härteste Fußballteam Londons bestehen zu können. Dabei hat er weder mit flamboyanten Förderern, hysterischen One-Night-Stands noch mit seinem "Out & Proud" Boyfriend gerechnet, der der Equipe erst ...

Excerpt from The Universal Preceptor: Being a General Grammar of Arts, Sciences, and Useful Knowledge The author of, this work has been many years anxious to achieve his present under taking. His experience, reason, and feelings. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses ...

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Excerpt from The Master Key: A New Philosophy Address to Psychologists, Scientists, Theologians, Christians, Jews, Agnostics, Spiritists, Ascetics, Orientalists, and Educated Persons Generally There are certain things that cannot be explained. It is the chief business of philosophy to determine what these things are, so that we may not waste time and ingenuity in trying to explain the inexplicable. In this essay it is assumed that consciousn...

Excerpt from The History of Australasia The present volume is the first complete history of Australasia that has ever been given to the world. In a work intended for popular circulation, and of such extent, there must of necessity be much more of compilation than of original composition. The Compiler has therefore to acknowledge that he has made free use of all the works hitherto published relating to the Southern Colonies, either collectivel...

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The fascinating story of the race to detect gravitational waves--those magnificent ripples that will finally let us "listen" to the universe.

An easy-to-read retelling of a classic tale in which a strange man spins straw into gold, asks a huge reward, and offers a seemingly impossible way out of the deal.

This collection contains works by such writers as Poe, Hawthorne, Gaskell, Dickens and M.R. James. It brings together stories from the earliest decades of Gothic writing with later 19th and early 20th century tales.