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A tragic and heroic story that readers will love." -Lost in a Book Review"…I love you. God help me, but I do." The air lay heavy between them. Her eyes were glossy with moisture, his intense with emotion. "Tell me, if you can, you do not feel the same." He whispered so low it might have been silence, "And make me believe it."Sometimes love crosses boundaries, breaks chains, and demands freedom.The social-order of the eighteen-sixties compels J...

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Essay from the year 2008 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Development Politics, grade: 1, 0, Stockholm University, language: English, abstract: In this course report I will focus on the relationship between civil society and democracy on the national and global level. The discussion is based upon the hypothesis that civil society can only constitute itself and act within democratic structures and will address the probl...

Ron Teachworth is an artist, filmmaker and a writer. In all of these mediums he deals with the metaphysical. His thirty years of painting, and his independent feature film Going Back, as writer/director, contributed to his ability to tell a story that brings people back. His college teaching experience and his Jungian background has given him insight into the universal psyche of young people. Two Stones is a combination of story, photography, ...

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The authors present 404 glass vessels excavated in the Athenian Agora. Although mostly fragmentary, examples are given of almost every type of glass known from the Classical, Hellenistic, and Roman periods, and representative finds from Byzantine and later times. The remarkable value of this contribution to the history of glass is that so many of the fragments from the Agora can be dated by context. The catalogued objects are discussed by peri...

Still in love after a break-up? Have you tried everything you can think of to get over him only to find yourself still crying yourself to sleep? If you're looking for real solutions that actually work to get over the pain, Get OVER Him FAST is the book that will give you immediate answers and fantastic insights to swiftly guide you out of Misery Valley. Dr. Barbara Rose reveals how she got over the same misery. The unparalleled insight and tra...

Focusing on one of the oldest and most important Tantric traditions, based in Assam, northeast India, Hugh B. Urban shows that Tantra is less about optimal sexual pleasure than about harnessing the divine power of the goddess that flows alike through the cosmos, the human body and political society. In a fresh and vital contribution to the field, the author suggests that the "real" meaning of Tantra lies in helping us rethink not just the hist...

Presents a study of Violent Non-State Actors (VNSA), groups who carry out atrocities such as the 2008 attacks on Mumbai. This book maps the relationship between VNSAs and the state, following the political, economic, and social processes that contribute to the emergence of these groups.

For years, pro-whaling forces and ardent anti whaling organizations in Japan and abroad have wrestled with a contentious and highly emotive issue, while proponents of whaling have sought to control the parameters of the debate by limiting it to a discussion of catchphrases such as 'sustainable use, ' 'Japan's whaling traditions' and 'whale-eating culture'. "Whaling in Japan" seeks to broaden the terms of reference by providing a wider, objecti...

Throughout the twentieth century, especially during wartime and the Cold War, intelligence agents routinely used the media to publish and broadcast material that would deceive external enemies, thwart domestic subversion or simply to change the way readers thought about fascism or communism. Today stories are chanelled to journalists in order to promote a news agenda deemed favourable to MI5, MI6 or to the CIA, or to 'spin' the coverage of key...

This book contains chapters from experts in the fields of brain imaging, clinical neuroscience, and cognitive neuroscience who have studied the aging brain. Topics covered include technical factors in brain imaging, pathological basis of age-related structural and functional changes, neurochemistry and genetics of brain imaging in aging, and the use of imaging techniques in diagnosis, longitudinal testing, drug development and testing, and pre...

Olivier Roy argues that the unintended and unforeseen consequences of the "war on terror" have artificially conflated conflicts in the Middle East such that they appear to be the expression of a widespread "Muslim anger" against the West. In this new book he seeks to restore the individual logic and dynamics of each of these conflicts, the better to understand the widespread political discontent that sustains them. Instead of two opposed sides...

Genera Orchidacearum is the first reference work of the world's orchid genera that reflects their long evolutionary history and reveals relationships based on genealogical descent and the most up-to-date DNA data. This fifth volume treats 186 genera of the largest subfamily, Epidendroideae.

The New Oxford History of New Zealand is a new, multi-authored revisionist history of Aotearoa New Zealand. The book tests the idea that New Zealand history can be explained as a quest for 'national identity' and considers whether narratives that rely on the 'colony-to-nation' storyline are still relevant in the early twenty-first century. The book proposes instead that history and identity have been shaped by culture, community, class, region...

Resolving Conflict is a practical guide to conflict-resolution principles, processes and skills.

From the ferment of recent debates about the intellectual virtues, Roberts and Wood develop an approach they call 'regulative epistemology', exploring the connection between knowledge and intellectual virtue. In the course of their argument they analyse particular virtues of intellectual life - such as courage, generosity, and humility - in detail.