Oxford University Press, 1998. — 364 p. This dictionary lists alphabetically the food materials, the food ethos, cuisines and recipes in India as well as Indian foods viewed in relations to health perceptions. It draws upon literature, archaeology, historical writing, botany and genetics to situate Indian foods in time and place.
Stanford University Press, 2016. — 240 p. Since the first wave of uprisings in 2011, the euphoria of the "Arab Spring" has given way to the gloom of backlash and a descent into mayhem and war. The revolution has been overwhelmed by clashes between rival counter-revolutionary forces: resilient old regimes on the one hand and Islamic fundamentalist contenders on the other. In...
Haymarket Books, 2023. — 425 p. A leading international relations expert uncovers the key stages that led from the end of the Cold War to the War in Ukraine. With the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, warnings of a new Cold War proliferated. In fact, argues Gilbert Achcar in this timely new account, the New Cold War has been ongoing since the late 1990s. Racing to solidify...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. — 295 p. As the first translation into any modern language of Achenwall's Ius naturae, from the 1763 edition used by Immanuel Kant, this is an essential work for students and Kant scholars. For over twenty years, Kant used this book as the basis for his lectures on natural law. It has influenced his legal and political philosophy, as well as his...
Cambridge University Press, 1992. — 310 p. This book examines the fifteenth-century gentry of Leicestershire under five broad headings: as landholders, as members of a social community based on the county, as participants in and leaders of the government of the shire, as members of the wider family unit and, finally, as individuals. Economically assertive, they were also socially...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. — 225 p. Reading Texts on Sovereignty charts the development of the concept from the classical period to the present day. Defined in antiquity as an absolute or supreme type of power, sovereignty's history has been marked ever since by numerous moments of crisis and contestation through which its meaning has been redefined and reconfigured. Using...
Springer, 2023. — 416 p. This book addresses the most widespread forms of financial crime today, namely corporate fraud, corruption, tax fraud, the shadow economy, informal entrepreneurship, money laundering, international informal capital flows, cybercrimes, and cryptocurrency scams. Given the rapid rise of digitalization, especially due to the COVID-19 pandemic, there has...
Grove Atlantic, 2020. — 336 p. A brilliantly conceived and vividly drawn story―Washington, D.C. on the eve of Abraham Lincoln’s historic second inaugural address as the lens through which to understand all the complexities of the Civil War. By March 4, 1865, the Civil War had slaughtered more than 700,000 Americans and left intractable wounds on the nation. After a morning of...
Springer, 2021. — 278 p. The book examines the nexus between political and religious thought within the Prussian old conservative milieu. It presents early-nineteenth-century Prussian conservatism as a phenomenon connected to a specific generation of young Prussians. The book introduces the ecclesial-political ‘party of the Evangelische Kirchenzeitung’ (EKZ), a religious party...
IUniverse, 2007. — 202 p. Scipio Africanus was one of the greatest generals and statesmen of the Ancient World. When he was 18, he saved his father's life in battle during the Second Punic War and later survived the horrific Roman defeat at Cannae. At the age of 26, he was named Commander-in-Chief of the Roman army in Spain and in 4 years, by daringly storming the city of...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2012. — 434 p. The present volume contains a selection of papers presented at the 23rd and 24th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop held at the University of Edinburgh and the Hogeschool-Universiteit Brussels. The contributions provide new perspectives on several topics of current interest for syntactic theory on the basis of comparative data...
Tuttle Publishing, 2011. — 100 p. Learn the ancient art of Japanese archery or Kyudo with this illustrated guide. The Japanese Art of Archery, is deeply rooted in tradition. It not only continues to enjoy widespread popularity in Japan, but is also attracting the interest of more and more foreigners, in much the same manner as Japan's other distinctive sports, such as judo,...
Blackwell Publishing, 2012. — 598 p. — (Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World). A Companion to Marcus Aurelius presents the first comprehensive collection of essays to explore all essential facets relating to contemporary Marcus Aurelius studies. First collection of its kind to commission new state-of-the-art scholarship on Marcus Aurelius. Features readings that cover all...
Yale University Press, 2006. — 238 p. Terrorist attacks regularly trigger the enactment of repressive laws, setting in motion a vicious cycle that threatens to devastate civil liberties over the twenty-first century. In this clear-sighted book, Bruce Ackerman peers into the future and presents an intuitive, practical alternative. He proposes an “emergency constitution” that...
Yale University Press, 2002. — 255 p. The Supreme Court's intervention in the 2000 election will shape American law and democracy long after George W. Bush has left the White House. This book brings together a broad range of preeminent legal scholars who address the larger questions raised by the Supreme Court's actions. Did the Court's decision violate the rule of law? Did it...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 208 p. In Mexico (1921) and Bolivia (1952), nationalist insurrections with armies largely composed of peasants triumphed over oligarchical regimes. In the aftermath of these uprisings, parties led by members of an urban middle-class intelligentsia adopting a populist agrarian discourse attempted to incorporate this predominantly peasant base....
Groupe Robert Laffont, 2022. — 430 p. Le 24 février 2022, en lançant son armée contre l'Ukraine, Vladimir Poutine a pris une décision qui bouleverse l'équilibre politique et économique mondial, et qui aura de tragiques répercussions sur la société russe comme sur l'image du pays. Cette guerre provoque tragédies humaines et immenses destructions matérielles, et pose une question...
Viral History Press, 2011. — 437 p. William Magear Tweed, America's most corrupt politician ever, ruled New York City in the 1860s and 1870s. He rigged the votes, bribed the legislature, and stole on a massive scale. But even in prison, even after escaping, being recaptured, and confessing it all, people still loved and admired him. Tweed's is a stunning tale of pride, fall,...
Viral History Press, 2011. — 496 p. James Garfield’s 1880 dark horse nomination for president after the longest-ever Republican convention, his victory in the closest-ever presidential popular vote, his struggle against feuding factions once elected, and its climax of violence, all produced one of the most dramatic presidential odysseus of the Gilded Age. The era’s decency is...
Counterpoint, 2016. — 400 p. Lev Davidovich Trotsky burst onto the world stage in November 1917 as co-leader of a Marxist Revolution seizing power in Russia. It made him one of the most recognized personalities of the Twentieth Century, a global icon of radical change. Yet just months earlier, this same Lev Trotsky was a nobody, a refugee expelled from Europe, writing obscure...
Viking, 2021. — 448 p. An impressive combination of diligence and verve, deploying Ackerman's deep stores of knowledge as a national security journalist to full effect. The result is a narrative of the last 20 years that is upsetting, discerning and brilliantly argued. An examination of the profound impact that the War on Terror had in pushing American politics and society in...
Jist Works, 2002. — 275 p. The definitive guide to acing the FBI's rigorous selection process-for special agents as well as professional support personnel. Part. FBI Basics The History and Organization of the FBI Salary and Benefits Part. Getting into the FBI FBI Special Agent Career Opportunities The Special Agent Hiring Process Professional Support Career Opportunities The...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2018. — 335 p. — (Studies in Language Companion Series 193). The papers in this volume focus on the dynamics of one specific cell in morphological paradigms - the genitive. The high amount of diachronic and synchronic variation in all Germanic languages makes the genitive a particularly interesting phenomenon since it allows us, for example,...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2022. — 261 p. This book explores the creation and career of the French Constitution of 1795, operative from the start of the Directory until Napoleon’s takeover in 1799. It explores the composition, history and replacement of the French Revolution’s third Constitution through a focus on the speeches and writings of four sets of political voices discernible...
Frances Lincoln, 2022. — 255 p. Think of the colors of London and what do you imagine? The reds of open-top buses and terracotta bricks? The grey smog of Victorian industry, Portland stone, and pigeons in Trafalgar square? Or the gradations of yellows, violets, and blues that shimmer on the Thames at sunset—reflecting the incandescent light of a city that never truly goes dark....
St. Martin's Press, 2017. — 416 p. In Revolution, Peter Ackroyd takes readers from William of Orange's accession following the Glorious Revolution to the Regency, when the flamboyant Prince of Wales ruled in the stead of his mad father, George III, and England was—again—at war with France, a war that would end with the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo. Late Stuart and Georgian...
Anchor Books, 1999. — 480 p. — ISBN 9780385496933, 0385496931. Peter Ackroyd's The Life of Thomas More is a reconstruction of the life and imagination of one of the most remarkable figures of history - and arguably the most brilliant lawyer the English-speaking world has ever known. Sir Thomas More (1478-1535) was a renowned statesman, the author of a political fantasy that...
Cavendish Square Publishing, 2019. — 128 p. Historically, American labor conflicts have been the most violent in the world, with workers fighting their employers in the streets as well as the courtrooms. Workers have fought for their right to be paid enough to feed themselves, to work in safe conditions, and to not be discriminated against because of their gender, race,...
Paladin Press, 1994. — 192 p. Learn to detect and evade surveillance efforts that threaten your personal security. These time-tested tactics of observation, detection and evasion are proven effective against the most sophisticated surveillance techniques used in the world.
Электронная онлайн-публикация автора, 2014. — 129 p. Интересное и увлекательное исследование молодого испанского ученого детально рассказывает о противостоянии двух великих античных полководцев - карфагенянина Ганнибала Барки и римлянина Публия Сципиона Африканского в заключительном и решающем сражении Второй Пунической Войны - битве при Заме (202 год до н.э.). В начальных главах...
Электронная онлайн-публикация автора, 2017. — 136 p. Книга испанского ученого подробно рассказывает о знаменитых фиванских полководцах стратегах Пелопиде и Эпаминонде, и об их упорном и успешном военном противостоянии против тогдашнего гегемона Античной Греции - Спартанского царства (в 379-362 годах до н.э.). Si portentosas son las hazañas logradas por los espartanos, titulares...
Newton Compton Editori, 1978. — 214 p. La civiltà Cartaginese, maturata sulla base dei contatti a lungo raggio con i popoli dell'occidente e dei legami mai disciolti con la madrepatria fenicia, è qui esaminata alla luce della straordinaria capacità che rivelò nell'operare una sintesi di elementi culturali eterogenei, che recentissime scoperte svelano in piena luce.
Bloomsbury Academic, 2001. — 800 p. Critical Companion to the Russian Revolution, 1914-1921 constitutes a landmark in the study of the Russian Revolution and the ensuing Civil War. Published in parallel in English and Russian, it provides direct access to modern research on the subject. It is able to reflect the impact on the study of the Revolution made by the collapse of the...
Routledge, 1995. — 416 p. This text has established itself as the best general introduction to Russian history, providing a forceful and highly readable survey from earliest times to the post-Soviet State. At the heart of the book is the changing relationship between the State and Russian society at large. The second edition has been substantially rewritten and updated and new...
Routledge, 2023. — 248 p. This book provides an overview of the structures, topics and main theories of syntactic processing. It covers the last 40 years of sentence-level psycholinguistic research and debates and makes it accessible to both theoretical linguists and experimental psychologists. Tying linguistically relevant issues to psycholinguistic theory, this book: Covers...
Routledge, 2013. — 214 p. This book illustrates the importance of global cities for world politics and highlights the diplomatic connections between cities and global governance. While there is a growing body of literature concerned with explaining the transformations of the international order, little theorisation has taken into account the key metropolises of our time as...
Routledge, 2021. — 186 p. Adachi presents a comprehensive analytical framework for analysing norm dynamics, incorporating the existing literature, while expanding the norm life cycle model to address contestation of, resistance to diffusion of, and disappearance of norms. He also examines the changing nature of international society, and how the evolving characteristics of this...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. — 408 p. Responsible Management in Emerging Markets: A Multisectoral Focus is in response to the dearth of literature on responsible management in emerging economies. It discusses diverse themes at the intersection of corporate social responsibility (CSR), green business (marketing) and sustainability management, with the view to addressing some...
Pan Macmillan, 2009. — 192 p. Leaders play an essential role in every aspect of our modern lives and good leadership is an art that is highly prized. Effective leaders not only control, appraise and analyse, they also encourage, improve and inspire. In Effective Leadership John Adair, Britain's foremost expert on leadership training, shows how every manager can learn to lead....
Kogan Page, 2010. — 145 p. A strategic leader is essentially the leader of any organization and someone who has to steer the company in times of change, whilst motivating and inspiring their team. Strategic Leadership from the renowned leadership expert John Adair encourages leaders to focus on tomorrow rather than yesterday. It explores the nature and origin of strategic...
Tuduv, 2003. — 293 p. Dieses Buch entstand aus dem Wunsch heraus, den Stellenwert der ortsansässigen Fremden in der athenischen Gesellschaft näher zu erfassen. Im Gegensatz zu früheren Arbeiten, wo hauptsächlich juristische Aspekte der Metökie behandelt wurden, wird eine mentalitätshistorische Sichtweise geboten. Die Metöken standen über ihre rechtlich fixierten Verpflichtungen...
I.B. Tauris, 2022. — 232 p. The veiling and unveiling of women have been controversial issues in Turkey since the late-Ottoman period. It was with the advent of local campaigns against certain veils in the 1930s, however, that women's dress turned into an issue of national mobilisation in which gender norms would be redefined. In this comprehensive analysis of the anti-veiling...
Second Edition. — Scarecrow Press, 2010. — 750 p. There are two Armenias: the current Republic of Armenia and historic Armenia. The modern state dates from the early 20th century. Historic Armenia was part of the ancient world and expired in the Middle Ages. Its people, however, survived, and from its residue recreated a new country. The history of the Armenians is the story of...
Second Edition. — Scarecrow Press, 2010. — 750 p. There are two Armenias: the current Republic of Armenia and historic Armenia. The modern state dates from the early 20th century. Historic Armenia was part of the ancient world and expired in the Middle Ages. Its people, however, survived, and from its residue recreated a new country. The history of the Armenians is the story of...
De Gruyter, 2008. — 220 p. Zeugnisse Antiker Geschichtsschreibung finden sich aus dem antiken Griechenland späauml, testens seit Herodot. Bereits zuvor entsteht geschichtliches Bewusstsein, das sich in historischen Omina, epischer Literatur aus Mesopotamien, in Brief- und Vertragstexten der Hethiter und in ägyptischen Quellen niederschlägt. Konzeptionellen und formalen...
Springer International Publishing, 2016. — 107 p. This book tackles the legal problem of the insufficient and expensive charging infrastructure in Germany. It assesses the lack of charging infrastructure for electric vehicles with regard to regulatory and competition law, as well as economic aspects. The legal solutions proposed here could ultimately serve to offer e-motorists...
Columbia University Press, 2002. — 253 p. The twelfth-century bishop Otto of Freising was the outstanding historian of his century. The Two Cities was his masterwork, spanning in time from Adam and Eve to the coming of the last days -- which he believed had actually begun. In form and philosophy, it stands as a landmark in medieval historiography. As a brother of the Emperor,...
ABC-CLIO, 2005. — 1365 p. From the medical discoveries of Dr. Johann Siegert, surgeon general to Simon Bolivar, to the amazing explorations of the early-19th-century German explorer Alexander von Humboldt, whose South American and Caribbean travels made him one of the most celebrated men in Europe, Germany and the Americas examines both the profound Germanic cultural and...
Pen and Sword Military, 2017. — 304 p. Through his daily involvement with them, Wilhelm Adam is able to perfectly describe the characters involved, the tensions and despair amongst them and the pressure Paulus and his staff found themselves under as the Soviet pincers closed around the men of the abandoned 6th Army. The reader is presented with the hopeless situation faced by...
Routledge, 2021. — 188 p. Monetisation and Commercialisation in the Baltic Sea, 1050–1450 explores the varied uses of silver and gold in the Baltic Sea zone during the medieval period. Ten original contributions examine coins and currencies, trade, economy, and power, taking care to avoid an out-of-date approach to economic history which assumes a progression from ‘primitive’...