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This book, which is the first comprehensive analysis of financial integration and regulation in Africa, fills a huge gap in the literature on financial regulation and constitutes an invaluable source of information to policy makers, investors, researchers and students of financial regulation from an emerging and frontier markets perspective. It considers how financial integration can facilitate African financial markets to achieve their full p...

Henry VIII remains the most iconic, controversial and enigmatic of all English Kings. For over four-hundred years he has been lauded, reviled and mocked, but rarely ignored. In this collection, Henry's historical reputation is systematically examined, charting the various ways it has been manipulated and presented since the sixteenth century, constantly being reinvented at different times to reflect the cultural, political and religious needs ...

Theoretically, this book develops new insights by bringing together human geography, biogeography and archaeology to provide a long term perspective on human-wheat relations. Although the relational, more-than-human turn in the social sciences has seen a number of plant-related studies, these have not yet fully engaged with the question of what it means to be a plant. The book draws on diverse literatures to tackle this question, advancing thi...

This volume suggests that there is a 'third way' of addressing global tensions - one that rejects the extremes of both universalism and particularism. This third way acknowledges the 'dignity of difference' and promotes both self-respect and respect for others. It is also a radical call for an epistemic shift in our understanding of 'us-other' and 'good-evil'. The authors strengthen their alternative approach with a practical policy guide, by ...

Premised on the belief that a social and an ecological agenda are compatible, this collection offers readings in the ecology of left and radical writing from the Romantic period to the present. In historicizing and connecting environmentally sensitive literature with socialist thought, these essays explore the interactive vision of nature and society in the work of writers ranging from William Wordsworth and John Clare to John Berger and John ...

OEdoen von Horvath's startling tale of displacement and isolation in the aftermath war, boldly adapted by Duncan Macmillan.

Business leader and arts patron Sir Edwin A. G. Manton (1909-2005) and his wife Florence, Lady Manton, assembled an outstanding collection of 18th- and 19th-century British art. A gift to the Clark Art Institute from the Manton Foundation in 2007, their collection features more than three hundred oil paintings, watercolors, drawings, and prints, including works by John Constable, J. M. W. Turner, Thomas Gainsborough, and William Blake.In a ser...

Theodora Saxby is the last woman anyone expects the gorgeous James Ryburn, heir to the Duchy of Ashbrook, to marry. But after a romantic proposal before the prince himself, even practical Theo finds herself convinced of her soon-to-be duke's passion. Still, the tabloids give the marriage six months. Theo would have given it a lifetime . . . until she discovers that James desires not her heart, and certainly not her countenance, but her dowry.S...

Das hier vorliegende Material spielte Zappa plus Band im Studio ein. Zu hören ist das finale Line-Up der Mothers, sehr Jazz-orientiert mit Keyboarder George Duke, Saxofonist Napoleon Murphy Brock und Perkussionistin Ruth Underwood. Gäste sind Captain Beefheart (Harmonika) wie auch Zappas Jugend-Idol: der Sänger und Gitarrist Johnny "Guitar" Watson. Nach den verschachtelten Jams von "Roxy & Elsewhere" gibt sich Zappa auf "One Size Fits All" wie...

Denim Mitchell is excited to learn that she's been selected to tutor students after school. Not only will this earn her extra credit in her honors classes, but it will also look good on her college applications. Fourteen-year-old Julius Graham enjoys working with his new tutor, but when he becomes the only witness to a horrific crime in his neighborhood, Julius shuts down emotionally. He hasn't told anyone what he saw, but with the detectives ...

Drawing on detailed case studies and making use of a mix of qualitative and quantitative data, this book offers the first systematic investigation of Time Banking in the United States, exploring the most popular forms of 'community currencies', in which localized systems based on time or dollar equivalents act as the medium of exchange.

Blending concepts from 'dramatism' such as 'victimage ritual' with Foucault's approach to modern power and knowledge regimes, this book presents a novel and illuminating perspective on political power and domination resulting from the global war on terrorism. A compelling analysis of ritual rhetoric and political violence, Power, Discourse and Victimage Ritual in the War on Terror will be of interest to sociologists, political theorists and sc...

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For four years, Farrah has been Khalil's lover, friend, confidant, and more. In return, he's lied, cheated, and disregarded her feelings. Despite the disapproval of her family and friends, Farrah has stayed true to this self-destructive, irresponsible alcoholic. But as her career as a celebrity stylist begins to skyrocket, Khalil's is faltering, and he uses this as an excuse to treat her even worse. Farrah finally faces the fact that Khalil wi...

A collection of plays from leading contemporary dramatists, charting the political history of the nuclear bomb and its proliferation.

A pair of plays are from Scottish theatre company Random Accomplice and writer Johnny McKnight.

The English language translation of the French sensation Le Mardi à Monoprix, a touching and beautiful exploration of gender.

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Quelle: Wikipedia. Seiten: 141. Nicht dargestellt. Kapitel: Antiproton Decelerator, Cast-Experiment, Large Hadron Collider, Ua1-Detektor, Atlas, Alice, Brian Cox, Proton Synchrotron, Globe of Science and Innovation, Compact Muon Solenoid, Intersecting Storage Rings, Sergio Fubini, Lhcb, Lhcf, Gargamelle, Rolf Hagedorn, Na48, Proton Synchrotron 2, John Ellis, Lhc@home, Hephy, Opal, Large Electron-Positron Collider, Rolf-Dieter Heuer, Totem, Rob...

Quelle: Wikipedia. Seiten: 27. Kapitel: Genossenschaft, Konsumgenossenschaft, Wohnungsbaugenossenschaft, Genossenschaftsbank, Hauberg, Wassergenossenschaft, Realgemeinde, Waldgenossenschaft, Seniorengenossenschaft, Winzergenossenschaft, Dienstleistungsgenossenschaft, Mediengenossenschaft, Förderungsgenossenschaft, Waldgeding. Auszug: Eine Genossenschaft ist ein Zusammenschluss von natürlichen bzw. juristischen Personen, die sich gemeinsam unte...