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This book is about the ideas and policies that characterised the rightward trajectory of Austrofascism in the 1930s. It is the first major Anglophone study of Austrofascism in over two decades and provides a fresh perspective on the debate over whether Austria was an authoritarian or fascist state. The book is designed to introduce specialists, general scholars of fascism, and undergraduate students of interwar Austrian and Central European hi...

Jews on trial concentrates on Inquisitorial activity during the period which historians have argued was the most active in the Inquisition's history: the first forty years of the tribunal in Modena, from 1598 to 1638, the year of the Jews' enclosure in the ghetto. Scholars have in the past tended to group trials of Jews and conversos in Italy together. This book emphasises the fundamental disparity in Inquisitorial procedure, as well as the ev...

Kant's Critique of Pure Reason" remains one of the landmark works of Western philosophy. This book outlines conceptual problems Kant sought to resolve, and his conclusions concerning the nature of the faculty of human knowledge and possibility of metaphysics, and the arguments for those conclusions, are explored.

This book draws on aesthetic theory, including ideas from the history of painting, music and dance, to offer a fresh perspective on the video game as a popular cultural form. It argues that games like Grand Theft Auto and Elektroplankton are aesthetic objects that appeal to players because they offer an experience of form, as this idea was understood by philosophers like Immanuel Kant and Theodor Adorno. Video games are awkward objects that ha...

Quelle: Wikipedia. Seiten: 55. Kapitel: Marsilio Ficino, Philosophie der Renaissance und des Humanismus, Höninger Lateinschule, Johannes Rivius, Lorenzo Valla, Dunkelmännerbriefe, Deutscher Humanismus, Adam Werner von Themar, Französischer Humanismus, Studia humanitatis, Englischer Humanismus, Arnold Birckmann, Poetenkolleg, Franz Birckmann, Humanistenbibliothek in Schlettstadt, Ambrogio Traversari, Ciceronianismus, Francesco Filelfo, Giovanni...

Normandy, Flanders Field and other cemeteries for American war dead buried outside the United States are well known. However, lesser-known burial sites exist all over the world - in Australia and across the Pacific Rim, in Canada and Mexico, Libya and Spain, even as far north as the Russian Arctic. The story of who these soldiers were and how they ended up in foreign cemeteries traces the evolution of American attitudes toward its war dead and...

Detailed guidance on how to develop appropriate indoor and outdoor environments for practitioners working with the very youngest children.

Film historian Leonard Maltin has defined the character actors who appeared in films of the 30s and 40s as "Hollywood's Real Stars." Roy William Neill, who directed nearly all of the Sherlock Holmes mystery-adventures of the 1940s that starred Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, had, as was the case with directors John Ford and Preston Sturges, a repertory company of character actors and actresses whom he liked to use.This book is a tribute to tho...

International Negotiation Series, 6 (International Studies Library, 6) Attempts to negotiate peace agreements are frequently accompanied by terrorist attacks, political assassinations, and massacres. Why do peace talks sometimes fall apart as a result of violence, while belligerents at other times are brought to the negotiation table in the wake of violence? This book addresses this serious conundrum. Firmly anchored in theories on conflict re...

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International Negotiation Series, 2 (International Studies Library, 2) This volume presents a focused thematic effort that reviews the state-of-the-art on research methods in negotiation. It provides a series of chapters that span both traditional and innovative methods, common and less than common, all that move the field forward. It shows that there is a wealth of methodological tools that negotiation and conflict researchers have at hand, a...

International Negotiation Series, 1 (International Studies Library, 1) Negotiating with terrorists is possible, within limits, as the chapters in this book show and explore. Limits come initially in the distinction between absolute and contingent terrorists, and then between revolutionary and conditional absolutes and between barricaders, kidnappers and hijackers in the contingent category. Revolutionary absolutes are nonnegotiable adversaries...

International Negotiation Series, 5 (International Studies Library, 8) Many analysts theorize that negotiation processes determine negotiated outcomes, but none have empirically tested this hypothesis across multiple cases of international negotiation. This book examines the process-outcome relationship in thirteen bilateral and multilateral negotiations involving the United States. Declassified reports from U.S. negotiators about discussions ...

International Relations Studies Series, 3 (International Studies Library, 9) Can the European Union transform Greek-Turkish relations? The contributors to In the Long Shadow of Europe examine the ambiguities of Europe's historical role in its Southeastern corner to shed light on the possible paths lying ahead. From various angles, they highlight the paradoxes of a relationship between intimate adversaries, marred by tormented histories, nation...

History of International Relations, Diplomacy and Intelligence, 4 (History of International Relations Library, 4) France and the Netherlands were both important European colonial powers in the nineteenth century. This book, based primarily on archival research, is a contribution to the study of the relations between France and the Netherlands overseas in the nineteenth century. It focuses on those regions of the world where these two nations s...

Praise for The Kingdom Where Nobody Dies"Hills weaves her tale skillfully with a plot as richly textured as her Midwestern landscape. Her characters-untamed, reticent, lonely and proud-are exquisitely rendered in this postwar morality tale." -Publishers WeeklyAs 11-year-old Claire Hofer nears the field where her father was raking hay, she sees a skinny, unfriendly-looking stranger scuffling through the stubble toward her. The man is Township C...

Praise for Server Down..."Full of outrageous humor and a plot that will leave even the most jaded readers demanding more, Hayes's latest gives Janet Evanovich a run for the wackiest characters and most bizarre plots in crime fiction." -Library Journal starred review"A fifth action-packed adventure...full of just the right mix of action and humor." -BooklistAttending the Yaqui tribe's Easter Ceremonies in Tucson should be a dream come true for ...

3 On 22 February 2002, Jonas Malheiro Savimbi, who led the UNITA rebel move- 4 ment during the bloody armed conflict in Angola and who had battled to take power by force since Angola's independence from Portugal in 1975, was killed in 5 a gun battle with the Angolan Army. During the Cold War, Savimbi was a proxy for the United States against the then-Marxist government of Angola. But after the end of the Cold War, he lost international support...

History of International Relations, Diplomacy and Intelligence, 6 (History of International Relations Library, 6) Contested Space fills a gap on the Persian Gulf in accounts of global Anglo-American rivalries during the Second World War. It goes beyond existing country, oil and cold war strategic studies to trace a broad ideological as well as material contest between two variants of overseas capitalism: neo-corporatist British 'guided develop...

History of International Relations, Diplomacy and Intelligence, 2 (History of International Relations Library, 2) International non-governmental organisations and transnational activism are a prominent feature of contemporary world politics. This book sheds uniquely valuable historical light on these phenomena by providing an in-depth study of one of the most substantial international non-governmental campaigns ever to have been undertaken: th...