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Many countries confront similar human rights controversies, but, despite the claimed universality of human rights values they are not always resolved in the same way. Why? What role do local legal conditions play? Is human rights discourse more potent where rights are constitutionally entrenched, rather than where there is a tradition of respect for underlying human rights values but no bill of rights? Comparative socio-legal examination of th...

A risky and risque prison memoir depicts the collective nightmare of life under Saddam.

Failures of nano-metric technologies owing to defects and shrinking process tolerances give rise to significant challenges for IC testing. As the variation of fundamental parameters such as channel length, threshold voltage, thin oxide thickness and interconnect dimensions goes well beyond acceptable limits, new test methodologies and a deeper insight into the physics of defect-fault mappings are needed. In Defect-Oriented Testing for Nano-Met...

This book was developed to support students following Human and Social Biology syllabus for CSEC.

The story of how the fearsome Atlantic Ocean was explored by early sailors, including the Vikings, whose brilliant navigation matched their bravery.

An intricate, complex autobiographical comic blending multiple threadsof reality and fantasy, each drawn in a different style, comingtogether as one story questioning change, progress, and worth in theauthor's life.

A richly valuable source of knowledge. MEDIUM AEVUM

Looks at the military airfields of the British Isles. This work contains: history of the airfield, construction and use including decoy sites, comprehensive list of flying units with dates and aircraft types, list of HQ units based at the airfield, details of memorials, maps and plans of almost every airfield, and more.

Der Autor Matthias Hoffmann lädt uns ein, auf die Erfahrungen, die er mit Gott gemacht hat, zu hören und sie zu verarbeiten. Es ist die Liebe des Vaters, die uns so kostbar macht. Unser himmlischer Vater hat Sehnsucht nach jedem einzelnen seiner einzigartigen Kinder!

Assesses Messiaen's position as a creative artist of the twentieth century in the light of a research. This volume presents some of the fruits of this research, concentrating on three broad, interrelated areas: Messiaen's relationship with fellow artists, key developments in the composer's musical language and technique, and his influences.

The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Religion contains newly commissioned chapters by 21 prominent experts who cover the field in a comprehensive but accessible manner. Each chapter is expository, critical, and representative of a distinctive viewpoint.

An introduction to the legends of Saints Thaïs and Pelagia, together with critical editions of the five Castilian redactions.

Extracts from journals, diaries and official guidelines give a full picture of the role of the Victorian Deaconness.

Ancient & Medieval wargaming

What is contemporary punk culture and how are those that practice it attempting to define their generation? We are all aware of the clichés of the leather clad and mohawked figure spitting and snarling into the camera. It has been seen a thousand times on TV, in the press and even on London's souvenir postcards. This is the image that, while once feared by conservative societies across the globe, has become a cartoon or pastiche of itself. Ren...

The contributions to this volume deliberate the electrical and magnetic properties of materials relevant to the design of unconventional antennas, microwave circuits/components, anti-reflection media and coatings, EMI shielding structures, radomes, etc. Though a classical research topic, some recent advancements in technology have led to new capabilities to create and control fine-scale structures. This has inspired scientists to develop new m...

In the 1850's a Scotsman comes to California with a new bride to build a new home and start a family. Tragedy strikes the entire family. The first born daughter is institutionalized for mental illness, the wife dies in a questionable accident and the patriarch begins to sexually abuse his second daughter. Eventually the patriarch is murdered in his bed. Strange things begin to happen in the house and eventually both his daughters commit suicid...

Around December of 2002, writer and photographer Waswo X. Waswo gifted his assistant, M. Srinivas Rao, a small digital camera. "A Three Megapixel Journal" tells an intimate, confessional story of the entry of digital photography into the life of a chemical-process, black-and-white "purist". Waswo X. Waswo finds himself becoming more and more fascinated with his assistant's "toy", eventually using the three megapixel to document a journey he an...

In the middle of the Spanish-American War in 1898, sea pilot Peter Long receives a mysterious request for his services. He is asked to guide a three-masted coasting schooner to the mouth of the Atlantic Ocean. But the ship's master is none other than Ebenezer Soule, Long's rival from their apprentice days aboard the pilot schooner Tunnell. A pacifist Quaker sympathizer, Soule was ousted from the sea pilot service for his activist ways. Despite...

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