Aspen Publishers, 2019. — 1055 p. International Intellectual Property in an Integrated World Economy, Fourth Edition by Frederick M. Abbott, Thomas Cottier, and Francis Gurry, provides a comprehensive treatment of the international intellectual property system across the spectrum of intellectual property rights and interests. It introduces the institutional architecture at the...
Routledge, 2022. — 560 p. First published in 1907 and this edition in 1971 with a preface by C. C. Arsonfeld, Israel in Europe outlines the fortunes of the Jews of the Diaspora from the earliest times until the twentieth century. It is indeed no exaggeration to say that the Jews have been in Europe for a longer period than some of the nations which glory in the title European....
Library of Alexandria, 2021. — 195 p. The late convulsions in Greece and Turkey, and the consequent revival of all the mis-statements which, during the Great War, flowed from ignorance or malice, render the publication of this book particularly opportune. Mr. Abbott deals with his subject in all its aspects, and presents for the first time to the British public a complete and...
Yesterday's Classics, 2010. — 228 p. — (Makers of History). Rome or Carthage: the struggle between these two great powers of the ancient world determined the course of Western civilization. This mighty clash of civilizations was fought out in Spain, the Alps, the length and breadth of Italy, and in North Africa, where the legions of Rome finally laid waste to the city of Carthage....
Madison and Adams Press, 2018. — 436 p. History of the Habsburg Empire embraces all that is wild and wonderful in history; early struggles for aggrandizement, the fierce strife with the Turks, as wave after wave of Moslem invasion rolled up the Danube, the long conflicts and bloody persecutions of the Reformation, the thirty years' religious war, the meteoric career of Gustavus...
Musaicum Books, 2018. — 435 p. History of the Austrian Empire embraces all that is wild and wonderful in history; early struggles for aggrandizement, the fierce strife with the Turks, the long conflicts and bloody persecutions of the Reformation, the thirty years' religious war, the meteoric career of Gustavus Adolphus and Charles XII. Shooting athwart the lurid storms of...
Dundurn Group, 2000. — 193 p. In early 1812, as the British and the Americans were on the brink of war in North America, Fort St. Joseph was not thought to be of much importance to the British cause. It was disregarded as a useless, poorly located post. But when war was delcared, the garrison at Fort St. Joseph pulled off a miracle: it captured the American Fort Mackinac, and...
Routledge, 2021. — 302 p. This book collects and integrates Abbott and Snidal’s influential scholarship on indirect global governance, with a new analytical introduction that probes the role of indirect governance techniques in the universe of global governance arrangements. The volume presents the Governance Triangle, a now widely-used figure that demonstrates and helps to...
Routledge, 2021. — 302 p. This book collects and integrates Abbott and Snidal’s influential scholarship on indirect global governance, with a new analytical introduction that probes the role of indirect governance techniques in the universe of global governance arrangements. The volume presents the Governance Triangle, a now widely-used figure that demonstrates and helps to...
University of Chicago Press, 1946. — 287 p. Khaizuran. Mistress of the Harem. Power behind the Throne. Humiliation. Triumph. Zubaidah. Royalty and Romance. Heirs to Harun's Empire. War and Peace. In the Hail of Fame. Table of Family Relationships.
Foundry, 2010. — 200 p. Covering those Asian armies which fought alongside the British, from the foundations laid in 1497 to the demise of company rule. This book traces the developments in the structure, armament, and uniforms of the armies maintained by the imperial powers in Asia throughout the colonial period, with illustrative order of battle material wherever possible....
Foundry Books, 2006. — 224 p. In the second half of the 19th century, European-led columns began to fan out across the African continent from their coastal footholds, smashing whatever forces could be brought against them, no matter how brave or determined the latter were. The process began at different dates in different parts of the continent, but much of the main activity...
Routledge, 2012. — 168 p. International Relations scholarship posits that legitimacy, authority and violence are attributes of states. However, groups like Hizballah clearly challenge this framing of global politics through its continued ability to exercise violence in the regional arena. Surveying the different and sometimes conflicting interpretations of state-society...
Ithaca Press, 1988. — 265 p. A detailed scholarly account of early Yemeni islam political history. The only sober detailed scholarly study of early Yemeni history. Anyone seriously interested in the country should own this copy. During the 6th century, the Yemen was involved in the power struggles between the Christian Byzantine Empire and the Zoroastrian Sasanian Empire....
Mizan Press, 1983. — 300 p. Foreword. Preface: Evaluating Islamic movements from the Western perspective. Syria: Its Make-up and Recent History. The Regime of Hafiz Asad. The Syrian Muslim Brotherhood. The Islamic Front in Syria. The Ideology and Program of the Syrian Islamic Front. Postscript Appendix Notes.
Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. — 153 p. This textbook provides a comprehensive resource for translation students and educators embarking on the challenge of translating into and out of English and Arabic. Combining a solid basis in translation theory with examples drawn from real texts including the Qu'ran, the author introduces a number of the problems and practical considerations...
American University in Cairo Press, 2009. — 246 p. For generations, travelers have been lured by the beauty and mesmerizing stillness of Egypt’s deserts, leaving behind the comfort of what is familiar in a quest for adventure, knowledge, and escape, and for others still, a taste of eternity. Traveling Through the Deserts of Egypt is a compilation of some of the most fascinating...
Springer, 2022. — 282 p. This book examines the role of government fiscal and non-fiscal incentives in spurring innovation and entrepreneurship in developed and developing economies. It explores and examines the role of government programs in different stages of firm growth pre-startup, startup, and scale-up. By developing a theoretical framework and reviewing international...
Random House, 1968. — 457 p. This book Egypt: Military Society' is the full historical story of fifteen years (1952-1967) - the final stage of Egypt's national revolution--and of the military political regime of Nasser's Egypt, full of contradictions, contentions, repression of the Left.
Routledge, 1994. — 318 p. The Islamic Movement in Egypt focusses on the global vision of the various components of the Islamic movement in Egypt from 1967 to 1981. This is a detailed case study of the perception of foreign policy issues and the international system by the Islamic movement in Egypt during that specific period. While acknowledging that the subject matter has...
Archaeopress Archaeology, 2017. — 115 p. This book examines different forms of ritual activities performed in houses of Graeco- Roman Egypt. It draws on the rich archaeological record of rural housing and evidence from literature or papyrological references to both urban and rural housing. The introduction critically considers the literature relevant to the topic in order to...
Archaeopress, 2015. — 256 p. Egyptian Cultural Identity in the Architecture of Roman Egypt (30 BC–CE 325) considers the relationship between architectural form and different layers of identity assertion in Roman Egypt. The Roman province of Aegyptus was a peculiar province such that many scholars have generally assumed that it was given a special status in the Roman Empire. The...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. — 610 p. This handbook brings together a range of global perspectives in the field of critical studies in education to illuminate multiple ways of knowing, learning, and teaching for social wellbeing, justice, and sustainability. The handbook covers areas such as critical thought systems of education, critical race (and racialization) theories of...
Columbia University Press, 2018. — 272 p. Despite a decade of sociological research documenting black fathers’ significant level of engagement with their children, stereotypes of black men as “deadbeat dads” still shape popular perceptions and scholarly discourse. In Fathering from the Margins, sociologist Aasha M. Abdill draws on four years of fieldwork in low-income,...
I.B. Tauris, 2016. — 384 p. In the years following Nasser's rise to power, the demographic landscape and the economy of Egypt underwent a profound change. Related to the migration of diverse communities, that had a distinguished role in Egyptian economy, from Egypt, these shifts have mostly been discussed in the light of postcolonial studies and the nationalisation policies in...
Pen and Sword Books, 1990. — 224 p. Mansur Abdulin fought in the front ranks of the Soviet infantry against the German invaders at Stalingrad, Kursk and on the banks of the Dnieper. This is his extraordinary story. His vivid inside view of a ruthless war on the Eastern Front gives a rare insight into the reality of the fighting and into the tactics and mentality of the Red...
Routledge, 2020. — 164 p. The Translation Movement of the Abbasid Period, which lasted for almost three hundred years, was a unique event in world history. During this period, much of the intellectual tradition of the Greeks, Persians, and Indians was translated into Arabic―a language with no prior history of translation or of science, medicine, or philosophy. This book...
Third Edition. — Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2018. — 648 p. Tajikistan is the poorest and only Persian-speaking country among the post-Soviet independent states. Historically, the Tajiks of Central Asia and Afghanistan along with the Persians of modern Iran came from a related ethnic group. When the Tajik Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was established in late 1924,...
Third Edition. — Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2018. — 648 p. Tajikistan is the poorest and only Persian-speaking country among the post-Soviet independent states. Historically, the Tajiks of Central Asia and Afghanistan along with the Persians of modern Iran came from a related ethnic group. When the Tajik Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic was established in late 1924,...
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009. — 295 p. The papers in this book explore language use in a broad range of discourse fields. They provide theoretical perspectives on global orientations to social, political and economic transformations in the 'New World Order' (NWO), and extend these with studies on the impacts of such transformations at the local, national, regional and...
Routledge, 2014. — 212 p. This accessible guide has been fully updated to take into account the Iraq War and subsequent developments, whilst retaining its character as a non-partisan and approachable text for students and interested readers alike. The twentieth century witnessed the transformation of the area known currently as Iraq from a backward region of the Ottoman Empire,...
Routledge, 2022. — 339 p. Combining theory and practice, this book is a model for Arabic translation and prepares students for the translation industry. Containing 22 approaches, An Introduction to Arabic Translation provides the normative principles to guide training in Arabic-English-Arabic translation. It revitalizes Arabic-English-Arabic translation through its empirical...
Routledge, 1995. — 150 p. The recognised success of the post-war Japanese economy has rested on the qualities of its manufacturing industries. This book explores the origins, rationale, and consequences of this transformation. Using theoretical insights and detailed evidence, it reviews the rise of the Japanese economy and the nature, causes, and changing objectives of vertical...
Routledge, 2019. — 162 p. The traditional view of the Hong Kong colonial economy is that it was dominated by Western companies, notably the great British merchant houses, and that these firms enlisted support from Chinese middlemen – the compradors – who were effectively agents working for the Western firms. This book, which presents a comprehensive overview of the compradors...
Routledge, 2022. — 200 p. This book examines the contemporary and contentious question of the critical connections between business and human rights, and the implementation of socially responsible norms in developing countries, with particular reference to Kenya, Nigeria, and South Africa. Business enterprises and transnational corporate actors operate in a complex global...
Springer, 2018. — 210 p. This book discusses the political economy of African state formation, using Ethiopia as a case study. This book advances the argument that the Achilles' heel of Ethiopian, and more generally African, state formation is the chronic failure to nurture an independent economic base for hegemonic state elites in order to fully consolidate central authority....
Lexington Books, 2014. — 275 p. This book examines the role of the emerging African nations in the new international order of the twenty-first century. Since the end of the Cold War, little significance has been placed on the African continent in the security and political considerations of the Western world. However, post-9/11 international security has been redefined, and new...
Actes Sud, 2021. — 2592 p. La première grande grammaire de la langue écrite et parlée contemporaine, mettant à l’honneur la diversité de tous les usages écrits et oraux, y compris quand ils s’écartent des normes enseignées. L’outil indispensable pour les étudiants et les enseignants, et tous les amoureux de la langue. Il serait présomptueux, si peu de temps après la parution,...
11th Edition, Global Edition. — Pearson Education, 2023. — 686 p. Macroeconomics presents macroeconomic theory in a big-picture way. The text focuses on a single model, to provide you with a clear understanding of macroeconomics and its classical and Keynesian assumptions. Comprehensive coverage helps you analyze real macroeconomic data that real policy makers and researchers...
University of Oklahoma Press, 2015. — 297 p. If there was one man, other than Napoleon himself, who determined the course of the Napoleonic Wars, it was Jacques-Antoine-Hippolyte, comte de Guibert, the foremost military theorist in France from 1770 to his death in 1790. Taking in the full scope of the times, from the ideas of the Enlightenment to the passions of the French...
University of North Texas, 2011. — 147 p. The eighteenth century was a time of intense upheaval in France. The death of Louis XIV in 1715 and the subsequent reign of Louis XV saw the end of French political and martial hegemony on the continent. While French culture and language remained dominant in Europe, Louis XV's disinterested rule and military stagnation led to the...
Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017. — 254 p. Broadly defined, urban planning today is a process one might describe as half design and half social engineering. It considers not only the aesthetic and visual product, but also the economic, political, and social implications, as well as the environmental impact. This collection of essays explores the question of whether this sort...
Hart Publishing, 2022. — 680 p. This book presents an invaluable collection of essays by eminent scholars from a wide variety of disciplines on the main issues currently confronting legal professions across the world. The period since 1988 has seen an acceleration and intensification of the global socio-economic, cultural and political developments that in the 1980s were...
Cambridge University Press, 2018. — 935 p. The US 'war on terror', which Bush declared and Obama continued, repeatedly violated fundamental rule of law values. Law's Wars: The Fate of the Rule of Law in the US 'War on Terror' is the first comprehensive account of efforts to resist and correct those violations. It focuses on responses to abuses in Abu Ghraib, efforts by...
Transaction Publishers, 2012. — 337 p. This book identifies the main factors by which the Nazi movement rose to power and measures their relative importance. It discusses Hitler's leadership, the strategy of party tacticians, and the favorable circumstances of popular economic and social discontent. Based on more than 600 autobiographies obtained from followers of Hitler, The...
The Lyons Press, 2004. — 342 p. International terrorism aimed at American cities did not begin two Septembers ago. In 1942, a team of Nazi saboteurs emerged from a submarine near Amagansett, New York, bearing fake documents and crates of explosives. Chosen for their English language ability and their knowledge of American customs, they were to destroy factories and bomb public...
Siland Press, 2022. — 92 p. According to the mainstream Western narrative, Vladimir Putin is an insatiable, Hitler-like expansionist who invaded Ukraine in an unprovoked land grab. That story is incorrect. In reality, the United States and NATO bear much of the responsibility for the Ukraine crisis. Through a series of misguided policies, Washington and its European allies...
T.M.C. Asser Press, 2012. — 847 p. Little has been written about the legal position and conditions of detention of persons detained by international criminal tribunals, particularly as regards their internal legal position (their rights and duties inside the remand facility). The primary purpose of this book is to set out the law governing the detention of persons detained...
Routledge, 2021. — 447 p. This Handbook maps the expanding field of gender and EU politics, giving an overview of the fundamentals and new directions of the sub- discipline, and serving as a reference book for (gender) scholars and students at different levels interested in the EU. In investigating the gendered nature of European integration and gender relations in the EU as a...
De Gruyter, 2012. — 332 p. — (Linguistische Arbeiten 543). The minimalist notion of a phase has often been investigated with a view to the interfaces. ‘Phases’ provides a strictly syntax-internal perspective. If phases are fundamental, they should provide the grounds for a unifying treatment of different syntactic phenomena. Concentrating on displacement, the book argues that...