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Joe Allen, Jr.'s poetry reflects and echoes the hard life on the streets. His new collection speaks of redemption and rebirth. His visceral and powerful poetry reveals his struggles, triumphs, and evolution. This is a poet whose voice must be heard. From hopelessness to a state of grace, Joe's journey is compelling." Anthony Vigorito, author of "Pier 48 South Brooklyn", "Clefs & Palettes", "17 West", and "Seeing in 17: Art Haiku", and host of ...

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Bookstore owner Willa Chance has no idea that things in Mystic Notch are about to take a turn for the worse.When a string of robberies escalates to murder, Willa is baffled by the behavior of her sister, the county sheriff. Normally the gung-ho lawwoman would be all over the case, but she seems more interested in doing her nails and picking out jazz music instead.Willa has no choice but to take it upon herself to investigate. After all, her si...

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Traduit directement du russe et précédés d'une introduction par ROGER LAMBELIN. Edition définitive non censurée. Avec une reproduction de la couverture de l'édition russe de 1912.

The articles selected for this volume consider the application of dispute resolution theory and practice to international conflicts. The use of formal processes such as diplomacy or treaty formation, as well as more informal processes such as multiple-track private negotiations or peace workshops is covered alongside material on more innovative forms of complex transnational or sub-national conflict resolution.

This series of articles charts the development of thinking about space, place, and transport. Divided into four parts, the articles cover fundamental concepts, individual behaviour in urban spatial context, inter-regional transport and policy issues. Taken together, the articles highlight the role that a geographic perspective has played in transport studies, raise questions about transport policy, and point to additional questions worthy of r...

In this important collection of papers, Dennis Patterson continues to show the importance of Wittgenstein's thought for problems in legal theory. Ranging across issues in the philosophy of mind to questions of meaning and normativity, this collection of papers is essential reading for anyone with an interest in legal theory.

The studies in this second volume by Martin Rudwick focus on the figures of Charles Lyell and Charles Darwin. Lyell rose to be of pivotal importance because he challenged other geologists throughout Europe by probing their methods and conclusions to the limit. His younger friend Charles Darwin first made his name as a Lyellian geologist, Darwin's early work in geology, studied here, provided important foundations for his later and more famous ...

The studies collected here deal with social and cultural changes in Polish lands during the early phases of industrialisation, i.e. the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Attention is first given to the stabilisation of urban agglomerations and workers' communities, and the accompanying transformations in social status, family structure and collective life and culture of the workers. A particular focus is the time of the 1905-1907 revolution ...

An element common to all the articles collected here is the attempt to make parallel use of sources from different cultures - Biblical and Talmudic Hebrew, Greek and Latin, Arabic and Judaeo-Arabic - comparing these different but complementary sources in the investigation of topics in Jewish and Arabic history. In the first studies Professor Gil deals primarily with the Roman and Byzantine periods, elucidating how a Biblical term was understoo...

The essays in this volume deal with the history of rhetoric and education for the thousand years from the early Middle Ages to the European Renaissance. They represent the author's pioneering efforts over four decades to piece together a kind of mosaic which will provide elements necessary to construct a history of that thousand years of language activity.

Detention and occupation are two challenging aspects of international humanitarian law in 21st century warfare. The essays selected for this volume examine both the historical foundations of these issues and contemporary practices surrounding them. The suitability of traditional detention and occupation law in the face of today's circumstances is discussed as well as claims that aspects of humanitarian law are outmoded and must be reassessed. ...

The essays selected for this volume examine discrete topics of international humanitarian law that are particularly relevant to 21st century warfare and set forth competing contemporary perspectives as well as historical perspectives. Topics include: the adequacy of traditional weapons law in the light of modern weaponry, the protection of civilians and especially vulnerable groups during armed conflict, the protective regime for civilian obje...

This volume features essays on the legal regime governing the use of force during armed conflicts, otherwise known as 'Hague Law' or 'conduct of hostilities rules'. The articles reflect research into the theoretical and practical difficulties of maintaining humanitarian law's delicate balancing of military necessity and humanitarian considerations in the face of evolving means and methods of warfare and competing perspectives as to how the bal...

This collection of studies by James M. Powell focuses on two related centers of attention. The first is the crusade campaigns undertaken by western Europeans in the eastern Mediterranean during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, the reasons for them, and the manner in which they were organized and promoted. The second is the society, economy and Muslim population of the Kingdom of Sicily under Frederick II, himself a crusader.

At the time of his death in 1998, at the age of 47, Norman Calder had become the most widely-discussed scholar in his field. The present volume of twenty-one of his articles and book chapters represents the full richness and diversity of Calder's oeuvre, from his initial doctoral research on Shii Islam to his later more philosophical writings on Sunni hermeneutics, in addition to his numerous studies on early Islamic history and jurisprudence....