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Examines how changes in Russian politics, society and economy have influenced post-Soviet Russian foreign policy from the mid-1990s.

Providing a comprehensive analysis of comparative gender difference in the EU, this book addresses a spectrum of gender issues. From employment and households, to culture, sexuality and male violence, the book transcends any 'economy/culture' divide. This wide coverage is placed within a conceptual view of structured 'gender cultures' which vary spatially and historically. Individual chapters are written around this common theme by an expert b...

Providing a brief introduction to basic CSI photographic techniques, this book shares the author's techniques for capturing scenes by taking photographs that reveal facts in the most compelling way.

For ages 9-12. Sandy Frances Duncan has woven a fascinating tale of hardship and adventure based on her grandfather's gold rush journal entries of his 1898 trip to the Klondike. The arduous trek to the goldfields comes alive in the fictionalised story of Jeremy Britain, a young teen who joins James Fraser and his companions to search for the gold that would make their fortunes. Duncan begins the story in the gold rush port of Skagway where Jer...

Excerpt from History of the Royal Regiment of Artillery, Vol. 2 of 2: Compiled From the Original RecordsIs incumbent on the Author now to acknowledge, with gratitude, the assistance he has received during its execu tion. Acting on a suggestion made by one Of the reviewers Of the first volume, he has noted in the margin the various authorities on which the narrative is based, and, as in many instances these are manuscript letters in the Record ...

Excerpt from Our Garrisons in the West: Or Sketches in British North America Confined to his room for a few weeks by the effects of an accident, the author of the following pages undertook the task of committing to paper some reminiscences of six years' service in our Arne rican colonies. At a. Time when we have compara. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgotten...

Bullying is one of the most destructive but common social practices that young people experience in schools, and one of the most difficult for teachers to manage successfully. Sexual bullying is even more difficult to deal with. Most adults can recall the important part sexual reputation played in the hierarchies of peer-group popularity during secondary schooling. The significance of this formative period of our sexual identities seems obviou...

This book highlights the crossroads between concepts of lifestyle and the growing body of work on 'mobilities'. The study of lifestyle offers a lens through which to study the kinds of moorings, dwellings, repetitions and routines around which mobilities become socially, culturally and politically meaningful. Bringing together scholars from geography, sociology, tourism, history and beyond, the authors illustrate the breadth and richness of mo...

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This book aims to improve understanding of the broad trends in the utilisation of political violence by examining the use of state terror in world politics.

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Amateur sleuth Mordecai Tremaine is back in another classic mystery from the author of Murder for ChristmasMordecai Tremaine's hobby of choice - crime detection - has left him in need of a holiday. With a killer stalking the sand dunes, it falls to Mordecai to piece together the truth about just who has smuggled murder on to the island idyll...

Amateur sleuth Mordecai Tremaine is back in another classic mystery from the author of Murder for ChristmasMordecai Tremaine and Chief Inspector Jonathan Boyce are never pleased to have a promising game of chess interrupted - though when murder is the disrupting force, they are persuaded to make an exception.

Amateur sleuth Mordecai Tremaine is back in another classic mystery from the author of Murder for ChristmasAdrian Carthallow, enfant terrible of the art world, is no stranger to controversy.

Amateur sleuth Mordecai Tremaine is back in another classic mystery from the author of Murder for ChristmasWhen Mordecai Tremaine emerges from the train station, murder is the last thing on his mind. The star of the show has been found dead, and the spotlight is soon on Mordecai, whose reputation in the field of crime-solving precedes him.

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Excerpt from Our Insect Friends and FoesInsect Life which have come within my own sphere of observation, I have not hesitated to avail myself of the confirmatory and wider in vestigations of leading authorities on this fas cinating subject, so that my readers might have the facts placed before them as broadly and clearly as possible. I believe that in every case where I have so utilized the opinions and obser vations of other investigators, I ...

Across a series of radical re-reappraisals of canonical postmodern texts, primarily films, from Fredric Jameson¿s Postmodernism to David Cronenberg¿s Crash and Harmony Korine¿s Gummo, Duncan shows that the same postmodern archive that has proven resistant to strongly subject-based and object-oriented emotions, like anger and sadness, proves all too congenial to the idiosyncratic, borderline emotions, from knowingness, fascination and bewilderm...

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