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The period 1995 to 2004 was the UN's International Decade of World Indigenous Peoples. This reflected the increasing organisation of indigenous peoples around a commonality of concerns, needs and ambitions. In both New Zealand and Canada, these politics challenge the colonial structures that social and political systems are built upon.

Updates and expands science fiction scholar James Gunn's definitive, Hugo Award-winning critical volume about Isaac Asimov and his contributions to the science fiction genre.

In diesem Buch wird die Geschichte des Diskurses über die Rechtschreibreform aus diskurslinguistischer Perspektive nachgezeichnet. Auf der Basis eines umfangreichen Korpus - mit 733 Zeitungsartikeln und über 300 000 Wörtern aus den Focus-, Spiegel- und SZ-Jahrgängen 1994 bis 1999 - konzentriert sich die Analyse auf die Selektivität und Emotionalität des Diskurses. Die Selektivität des Diskurses schlägt sich in einer Reihe von Beispielen wie da...

In den drei kurzen Abhandlungen der 1798 erschienenen Schrift "Der Streit der Fakultäten" erörtert Kant (1724-1804) das Verhältnis der traditionell als 'untere' Fakultät angesehenen Philosophie zu den drei 'oberen' Fakultäten Theologie, Jura und Medizin. Das revolutionäre Moment der Erörterung liegt darin, daß Kant allein der philosophischen Fakultät die uneingeschränkte Freiheit in Forschung und Lehre zuschreibt sowie die Fähigkeit zur Kritik...

The Selected Writings of Sir Edward Coke contains the most important works of the great English jurist-politician who set out to codify English common law. In his Reports, which are reports of court proceedings, and his Institutes, which state the law, Coke set down a view of English law that has had a powerful influence on lawyers, judges, and politicians through the present day. Liberty Fund's Selected Writings of Sir Edward Coke includes no...

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There is an increasing awareness that rivers need more room in order to safeguard flood safety under climate change conditions. Contemporary river management is creating room in the floodplains and allowing, within certain bounds, natural processes of sedimentation and erosion. One of the aims is to restore dynamic conditions, so as to get a sustainable and more diverse river ecosystem that can cope with floods. This new approach requires unde...

Series: Pericope 5 - Scripture as written and read in antiquity A lucid delimitation of textual units appears to have been a serious concern of ancient scribes. In this fifth volume of the Pericope series this is demonstrated in the papers read at the Fourth Pericope Meeting held in connection with the SBL International Meeting at Cambridge, 2003. For the first time articles on text division in New Testament manuscripts are included: one on th...

Throughout his political career, Charles J. Haughey has been involved in major political scandals of Watergate proportions: The Arms Crisis, the telephone tapping scandal, the Beef Tribunal, the Ben Dunne payments, tax evasion, the Terry Keane revelations, the Moriarity Tribunal and the McCracken Tribunal, to name a few. In this up-to-date recoed of Haughey's controversial career, T.Ryle Dwyer delivers his conclusions on the Haughey years. Liv...

The path of women to achieve equal rights has been and remains a deeply uphill climb. The recent Martha Stewart case is a prime example of unfair treatment of women. Here is a women who could lose her business and go to prison for lying. The same act Clinton, Bush and Blair practice on a global scale. If all the Wall Street titans and soliticians went to jail for lying, we would have to build a prison on every street. Women are moving upward i...

This book is a literary history of the Noble Savage and a comprehensive metamorphology of the American mind. Wide-ranging and deep-diving, this book suggests many reevaluations of American heroes and attitudes.

Here, the author offers a comprehensive guide to copyright liability issues aimed at libraries and information centers. This guide covers direct, contributory, and vicarious infringement, immunity, damage remission, and more. His coverage of print, non-print, and new technologies makes it useful for public, academic, and school librarians.

In And Justice for Some , you'll find tools to explore those crucial moments in our nation's history when circumstances have collided with principles, demonstrating through drama the vital importance of safeguarding our rights so that all people can share them equally. Lement and Dunakin present four original plays that document instances of injustice perpetrated in pivotal cases from four key epochs of U.S. history: the Salem witch trials, th...

Go beyond your textbook's facile depiction of the Underground Railroad, energize your teaching of antebellum history with In Pursuit of Freedom, and watch as your students make a journey of their own-into knowledge of the past, empathy for the people of another time, and a love of historical inquiry.

This is the first English edition of a work that, though written some years ago, has been extensively updated. Silently Silenced examines the largely unseen processes that serve to stifle genuine critique ofor involvement inthe creation of policy and the exercise of power. A central theme of Silently Silenced is the existence of numerous imperceptible methods and processes of silencing opposition. This book is of particular interest at a time ...

This outstanding work is a manual that enables one to identify pupae, or empty pupal skins, of about two thirds (some 2, 600 species) of the Central European Lepidoptera. The text consists of 560 pages comprising a short introduction, identification keys, and species. The species accounts include succinct descriptions of pupal morphology as well as information about habitats, life-style and food plants. The section of illustrations consists of...

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The rise of the Islamic fundamentalist movement as a social and political force is the most important development in the modern Arab world. Beginning in the late 1970s, radical Islam directly affected Egypt and Jordan, neighbours and co-signatories of peace treaties with Israel. The radical Islamic movement in both these countries assumed two forms -- non-violent, represented mainly by the Muslim Brotherhood, and violent, represented by variou...

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