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Argues that informal state power explains the institutional design, performance shortcomings and legitimacy problems in international organizations.

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Excerpt from Gypsum Products: Their Preparation and Uses In response to requests from the public, received by bureaus of the Department of the Interior, for information about the method of making gypsum plaster, the writer has prepared the general description given in this paper, which is based on various published reports, including the bulletin on gypsum and salt in Oklahoma, by the Oklahoma Geological Survey, 6 the volume on gypsum in Cana...

The Airlift Master Plan was developed as a guide for achieving long-term military airlift objectives. The cornerstone of the plan is the development and acquisition of the C-17. Although the C-17's 'direct-delivery' concept is new, the quest for expanded aircraft versatility has been continually pursued in previous airlift aircraft development programs. Thus the C-17 is not the first aircraft that has attempted to combine the traditionally sep...

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As a successful trial lawyer, Mike Beck uses his personality and his skill with the letter of the law to win in a courtroom. As a Marine Reservist ordered to Iraq on an unexpected deployment, he finds himself in a different world where the law of war often conflicts with common sense and his own feel for what's right and what's wrong. When an embedded female correspondent reveals what appears to be an illegal killing of Iraqi civilians by a U....

The Globalization and Labor Standards (GALS) Annotated Bibliography is a compendium of articles about international labor rights, national and transnational labor standards, and comparative labor law that have been published in law journals. All of the articles in the library are abstracted and cross-referenced by subject. Each article is accompanied by an annotation that describes its contents clearly and concisely. The annotations have been ...

Stone effects a return to gender in Shakespeare studies through a feminist psychoanalytic look at those of the Bard's tragedies and comedies that include elements of gender crossing or cross-dressing. Through close, linguistic readings of plays including Othello, Hamlet, Richard II, Antony and Cleopatra, Twelfth Night, and Cymbeline, Stone offers a sophisticated critique of gender and difference as depicted in Renaissance and Shakespearean texts.

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This is a compilation of family notes on the Genealogy of "The Family of Cephus French Stone and Eliza Jane Fowler Stone", who lived in Carroll and Wythe counties of southwestern Virginia during the late 1800's. Cephus and Eliza had ten children, who gave them sixty grandchildren. The book traces ancestry lineage back to the birth of Christopher Hurste, who was born in Buckinghamshire, England, in 1525, and connects it to the thousands of livi...

Excerpt from Standardized Reasoning Tests in Arithmetic and How to Utilize Them The occasion for publishing this manual of directions for the Stone Reasoning Tests is the exhaustion of the edition of the book, Arithmetical Abilities and Some Factors Determining Them, in which Reasoning Test I first appeared. Then, too, it has been found that the brief record of the test as given in the original book does not give adequate help for those who m...

Excerpt from Festival of the Sons of New Hampshire: With the Speeches of Messrs. Webster, Woodbury, Wilder, Bigelow, Parker, Dearborn, Hubbard, Goodrich, Hale, Plummer, Wilson, Chamberlain, and Others, Together With the Names of Those Present, and Letters From Distinguished Individuals, Celebrated in Bosto By an examination of the various Speeches, and other accompanying illustrations of the manner of conducting the Festival, it will be appar...

Excerpt from The Biography of Eld: Barton Warren Stone For these imperfections, under the circumstances, his friends, and the candid reader, will make due allowance. But from the whole tribe of snarling critics he neither hopes, nor fears any thing. If they shall show him his errors, he will endeavor to correct them. He aspires only to be a follower of Jesus - a doer of good, that he may hear the plaudit of his Master at last Well done, good ...

Excerpt from Elementary Lessons on Sound The object of the present work, besides giving a concise outline of subjects required for examination, is. 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 state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the orig...

Excerpt from The Principles of Urban Traffic The subject dealt with in the following pages is one which up till now has received very little thoughtful attention from the world at large. Possibly the reason for this is that, until the advent of mechanical transport, the pressure on our roads was not sufficiently great to necessitate any serious effort to relieve it. Of late, however, the problem has forced itself into the public eye very ins...

Excerpt from Shakspere's Holinshed: The Chronicle and the Historical Plays ComparedThe historical authority used for some of the plays (when other we? were not consulted) was apparently the second edition of Holinshed. In the subjoined parallel columns certain different readings of the two editions are collated, and a few enlargements of the second edition are noted. The left-hand column's references indicate the pages of this book, where the ...

Excerpt from Elements of Radiotelegraphy Although this text was written primarily for the guidance and instruction of radio students in the Communication Service of the Navy, it is believed that it will be found help ful in radio instruction in the other military branches of the Government, in civilian radio schools, and for the self instruction of those interested in the subject. Every attempt has been made to present the subject from the p...