Tag: State

Free Download Werner Somers, "The State of Taiwan: From International Law to Geopolitics "
English | ISBN: 900472009X | 2024 | 916 pages | PDF | 23 MB
China claims Taiwan as a renegade province. While saying it prefers peaceful unification, it has consistently refused to renounce the use of force to incorporate the democratic island. Increasingly, Taiwan has become a potential flash point for military conflict between China and the United States. After exploring the historical roots of the Taiwan question, The State of Taiwan offers an in-depth analysis of the international legal status of Taiwan. An extensive epilogue throws the bridge between the international legal findings and geopolitics, and outlines the strategy the world’s democracies should adopt in light of those findings.

Free Download Nelida Fuccaro, "Histories of City and State in the Persian Gulf: Manama since 1800"
English | 2012 | pages: 278 | ISBN: 1107404444 | PDF | 2,9 mb
In this path-breaking and multi-layered account of one of the least explored societies in the Middle East, Nelida Fuccaro examines the political and social life of the Gulf city and its coastline, as exemplified by Manama in Bahrain. Written as an ethnography of space, politics and community, it addresses the changing relationship between urban development, politics and society before and after the discovery of oil. By using a variety of local sources and oral histories, Fuccaro questions the role played by the British Empire and oil in state-making. Instead, she draws attention to urban residents, elites and institutions as active participants in state and nation building. She also examines how the city has continued to provide a source of political, social and sectarian identity since the early nineteenth century, challenging the view that the advent of oil and modernity represented a radical break in the urban past of the region.

Free Download Timothy M. Shaw, "Commonwealth: Inter- and Non-state Contributions to Global Governance"
English | 2007 | pages: 177 | ISBN: 0415351200 | PDF | 1,2 mb
The Commonwealth consists of only a quarter of the world’s states and yet the Commonwealth Secretariat and Foundation have made and continue to make a significant contribution to global politics.

Free Download Dean Baker, "The Conservative Nanny State: How the Wealthy Use the Government to Stay Rich and Get Richer"
English | 2006 | ISBN: 1411693957 | EPUB | pages: 113 | 0.3 mb
In his new book, economist Dean Baker debunks the myth that conservatives favor the market over government intervention. In fact, conservatives rely on a range of "nanny state" policies that ensure the rich get richer while leaving most Americans worse off. It’s time for the rules to change. Sound economic policy should harness the market in ways that produce desirable social outcomes – decent wages, good jobs and affordable health care. Dean Baker is co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research. You may also download this title for FREE atwww.conservativenannystate.org.

Free Download State of Agricultural Finance in India
by N Srinivasan
English | 2022 | ISBN: 9354793746 | 240 Pages | AZW3 | 9.1 MB

Free Download Stuart Laycock, "Britannia – The Failed State: Tribal Conflict and the End of Roman Britain"
English | ISBN: 0752446142 | 2008 | 256 pages | AZW3, EPUB | 6 MB + 7 MB
Attempts to understand how Roman Britain ends and Anglo-Saxon England begins have been undermined by the division of studies into pre-Roman, Roman and early medieval periods. This groundbreaking new study traces the history of British tribes and British tribal rivalries from the pre-Roman period, through the Roman period and into the post-Roman period. It shows how tribal conflict was central to the arrival of Roman power in Britain and how tribal identities persisted through the Roman period and were a factor in three great convulsions that struck Britain during the Roman centuries. It explores how tribal conflicts may have played a major role in the end of Roman Britain, creating a ‘failed state’ scenario akin in some ways to those seen recently in Bosnia and Iraq, and brought about the arrival of the Anglo-Saxons. Finally, it considers how British tribal territories and British tribal conflicts can be understood as the direct predecessors of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms and Anglo-Saxon conflicts that form the basis of early English History.

Free Download Liver Transplantation: State Of The Art
English | 2018 | ISBN: 9813234679 | 393 Pages | PDF (True) | 37 MB
The field of liver transplantation has undergone tremendous change and continues to evolve at a fast pace. This book covers topics beyond standard care and discusses issues that are new and rapidly evolving in the field. These include innovative surgical methods to maximize the donor pool, non-surgical methods to expand the existing pool of additional donors, the changing face of liver rejection, and management of infections in the presence of new antivirals.This book is an interesting read for surgeons, hepatologists, and healthcare workers looking after patients who need or have had a liver transplant.

Free Download American Statesmen: Secretaries of State from John Jay to Colin Powell by Edward Mihalkanin
English | August 30, 2004 | ISBN: 0313308284 | 608 pages | PDF | 47 Mb
The Secretary of State is in charge of defining and implementing U.S. foreign policy. While that role has weakened some over the past 50 years, a mere roll call of illustrious past Secretaries of State invokes the position’s importance. Thomas Jefferson, Henry Kissinger, John Quincy Adams, William Jennings Bryan, Henry Clay, James Madison, George C. Marshall, George Schultz, and Daniel Webster are just a few of the Secretaries profiled within these 65 entries. Arranged A-to-Z, each essay is multifaceted, offering information personal, professional, and political. The majority of each piece deals with foreign policy ideas before he or she became the Secretary, what American foreign policy was like while in office, and the major foreign policy issues during tenure. Each piece concludes with a concise and useful bibliography.

Free Download Bryan Jennett, "The Vegetative State: Medical Facts, Ethical and Legal Dilemmas"
English | 2002 | pages: 244 | ISBN: 0521441587 | PDF | 1,5 mb
This unique account surveys the medical, ethical, and legal issues that surround the vegetative state. The volume discusses the medical definition and criteria for diagnosis, its frequency and causes, and possible outcomes. The author also explores ethical arguments, including the conflict between sanctity of life and respect for the autonomy and best interests of the victim, and between killing and letting die. Legal issues are explored with details of landmark court cases from the U.S., Britain, and elsewhere. This well-informed and carefully constructed account will be a benchmark for medical specialists, ethicists, lawyers, and philosophers.

Free Download The Theatre of Tibet: The State of the Art and Studies by Antonio Attisani
English | April 3, 2024 | ISBN: 8869774694 | 522 pages | PDF | 13 Mb
The theatrical culture of Tibet is probably the last to remain virtually unknown to the outside world, and to the West in particular. As well as describing the current situation of studies on Tibetan theatre, the current volume also provides an essay on imagination and how it is concretely manifested by the Tibetan people and their actors.