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Introduces readers to both realpolitik and neo-liberalism. However, rather than focusing on only one as the proper framework for analyzing international events, the text presents readers with a comparative ethos, and stresses the value of choosing the most appropriate framework for analysis in a particular situation.

The author joins LAPD in the fading "Noir" era and is assigned to Hollywood. Ride with him as he encounters thugs, colorful pimps, and other characters in patrol & vice. MAX is "The crow collecting shiny things---the bits and pieces that color life." He writes with wit and humor of incidents and characters. MAX heads north to Alaska to police the Aleutian Chain, the Pribilofs, and Kodiak Island. He gives a "Sourdough's" insight into some pecul...

Susan James explores the revolutionary political thought of one of the most radical and creative of modern philosophers, Baruch Spinoza. His Theologico-Political Treatise of 1670 defends religious pluralism, political republicanism, and intellectual freedom. James shows how this work played a crucial role in the development of modern society.

The book "Similar but Different. Bell Beakers in Europe" deals with a cultural phenomenon, known as the Bell Beaker culture, that during the 3rd millennium B.C. was present throughout Western and Central Europe. This development played an important role in the formation of the Bronze Age at the turn of the 3rd and the 2nd millennium BC. This book consists of 10 chapters, in each a specific issue is discussed connected with Bell Beakers. The...

The amount of different types of diets on the market can be overwhelming, especially when you don't have enough information on exactly what constitutes a particular diet. If you are looking into protein diets, this book "Easy To Follow Protein Diets - Protein Diets & Diet Plans" is a great little guide for gaining a better understanding of different types of protein diets and their claims. The Dukan diet is especially popular, but how much do ...

You can find information on starting your own business almost anywhere - on television, on the radio, on the Internet, in books, etc. But have you ever really thought about why you should start your own business? Whether you have or not, this book "Habits for Success - Why You Should Start Your Own Business Today" gives you compelling reasons to do so. It goes into great detail on the benefits and advantages of being an entrepreneur. Even if y...

In the USA, Patricia is running from her psychotic, murderous ex-husband. She thinks she will b e safe when she takes a job in a distant land-Australia. She is confident in the knowledge that he cannot follow her. In Australia, she makes a new, happy life: and a new love. Her world crashes down when she sees her ex-husband in town. Again she must run, and hide. She thinks will be safe in Arnhem Land. A vast, uninhabited jungle in northern, ...

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In 1920, an unknown journalist named Katherine Anne Porter first sojourned in Mexico. When she left her "familiar country" for the last time in 1931, she was the celebrated author of Flowering Judas and Other Stories and had accumulated a wealth of experiences and impressions that would inspire numerous short stories, essays, and reviews, as well as the opening section of her only novel, Ship of Fools. In this perceptive study of Porter's Mexi...

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The aim of the Adelphi is to both highlight and develop the ongoing discussions and debates about Gulf security that have taken place in the Manama Dialogue over the previous decade, and that will continue to do so over the next ten years.

La sabiduría no estriba exclusivamente en saber cosas, ese es el trabajo de libros y ordenadores. La sabiduría consiste en saber interpretar y manejar las muchas o pocas cosas que se saben, incluidos libros y ordenadores. Conozco tantos casos de "libros andantes", como de sabios recluidos en su humilde puesto de trabajo (hoy en su humilde cola del paro).

SINOPSIS Cuentos-enigma en los que excepcionalmente la realidad se parece a sí misma. No aptos para leguleyos, amantes desengañados y deprimidos, machistas y/o feministas recalcitrantes, ni para sus propios protagonistas. ¿Cuantos desenlaces eres capaz de prever? ¿Cualquiera puede acabar en la cárcel ? ¿Cómo se vive en una prisión española ? ¿Te gusta ligar por la red ? ¿Te han puesto los cuernos ? ¿Tus socios te quieren vacilar ? ¿Seguro que ...

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World Politics in a New Era is a comprehensive and thought-provoking text for introductory courses on world politics. Reflecting the changes that have occurred worldwide - from the collapse of the Berlin Wall to recent upheavals in the global financial sphere - the book integrates coverage of the competing threads of globalization and fragmentation.

YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION / Mathematics / General

During a seashell hunt on Oak Island in North Carolina, the author of this charming picture book encountered Herman the hermit crab. Herman was the only one in his seaside traveling pack of hermit crabs that didn't have a shell. Or did he? His was a tiny one at the end of his tail. He had long since outgrown his former home. The rhyming text and peaceful illustrations will put readers in the middle of the beach scene. The author has emotio...

War is raging in Georgia, Russian fighter planes are thundering overhead, and yet, for some, the falling bombs cause no more impact than the slight ripple moving through the purified water of their swimming pools, or the rattling of a spoon in their cappuccino cups. Filtered through the bleary and cynical mind of Shako--a journalist famed for his appearance in Georgian Pepsi ads--"Adibas" is a tragic satire describing the progressive falsifica...

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