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Listening For The Bomb A Study In Nuclear Arms Control Verification Policy


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English | 2019 | ISBN: 0813377021, 0367012642, 0367162512 | EPUB | pages: 137 | 0.2 mb
Graham Allison’s book Essence of Decision changed the way in which academic analysts think about how governments make major foreign and defense policy decisions.1 Before Allison’s book appeared in 1971, even the leading writers on foreign policy tended to describe and explain governmental decisions almost exclusively as if governments were rational human beings making carefully considered choices among available options. This book applies the Allisonian framework to the response of the United States government to a private arms control initiative undertaken in 1986 by the Natural Resources Defense Council, an environmental organization.

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A Transdisciplinary Study of Global Mobilities Identities on the Move


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English | ISBN: 3031745388 | 2024 | 299 pages | EPUB, PDF | 10 MB + 7 MB
Identities on the Move interrogates the categories given and adopted by people on the move through a transdisciplinary and global approach that includes social and political sciences and the arts. It brings together experiences of displacement from a variety of cultural and national backgrounds, including Brazilians, Chinese, Koreans, South Italians, Africans, Muslims, Arabophobe migrants, Iranians, Pakistanis, Bosnians, Latin Americans and Eastern Europeans. It looks at their identity-negotiating processes in different geographies across the globe, namely Japan, UK, Palestine, Italy, Australia, Europe and North America. This multi-geographical and multi-disciplinary approach allows us to decentralise previous narratives of migration by reformulating them against coloniality and invisibility and presenting them within a richer and changing contemporary map of dynamic identities. The global scale of the case studies included in this volume also allows for a wider exploration of thematic concepts within the (trans)formation of displaced identities, such as assimilation versus alienation, memory and trauma, stigmatisation, enculturation, acculturation and deculturation. In a nutshell, this volume highlights current complexities of identity formation in a global scene that is moving away from homogenous nations by presenting a multi-layered and multi-spatial notion of belonging.

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Historical Study of Women in Jamaica, 1655-1844


Free Download Hilary McD. Beckles, Verene A. Shepherd, "Historical Study of Women in Jamaica, 1655-1844"
English | 2007 | pages: 529 | ISBN: 9766401780 | PDF | 1,7 mb
In 1974 Lucille Mathurin Mair defended her dissertation, which has since become a classic work in Caribbean historiography and influenced generations of scholars. Through extensive archival work with estate records, legal records, family papers and private correspondence, she sought out the women of Jamaica’s past during slavery, women of all classes, all colours, black, brown and white. The work stands as a convincing exposure of women as agents of history – a path-breaking achievement at a time when Caribbean historiography ignored women. From her meticulous research emerged a powerful statement that has shaped subsequent understandings of gendered and cultural relations in Jamaican society: the white woman consumed, the coloured woman served and the black woman laboured. Over three decades Mair’s dissertation became the most sought after unpublished work among students and scholars of Caribbean history and culture. Now available as a published monograph, the work will be more widely available to a new generation of scholars concerned with Atlantic history, slavery, culture and gender. bibliography, containing the original bibliography in the dissertation now supplemented by bibliographies detailing Mathurin Mair’s subsequent publications, subsequent UWI theses on women or gender, and books, articles and papers on Caribbean gender issues since 1974. Co-published with the Centre for Gender and Development Studies, University of the West Indies, Jamaica.

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Augustus the Strong A Study in Artistic Greatness and Political Fiasco


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English | 3 Oct. 2024 | ISBN: 0241705142, 1802066411 | True EPUB | 432 pages | 10.9 MB
From the acclaimed author of The Pursuit of Glory and Frederick the Great, a riotous biography of the charismatic ruler of 18th-century Poland and Saxony – and his catastrophic reign.

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NMLS Study Guide The Most Comprehensive Mortgage Loan Originator Test Prep!


Free Download NMLS Study Guide: The Most Comprehensive Mortgage Loan Originator Test Prep! Includes 8 Full-Length MLO Practice Exams and 1000+ Questions with Detailed by Jeremy Crainstone
English | December 11, 2024 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0DQ71GTLZ | 279 pages | EPUB | 1.63 Mb
Get ready to pass your NMLS exam with confidence using the NMLS Study Guide, the ultimate tool for aspiring Mortgage Loan Originators (MLOs)!

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Poison, Play, and Duel A Study in Hamlet


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English | 2022 | ISBN: 103235920X | PDF | pages: 232 | 14.3 mb
First published in 1971, Poison, Play and Duel explores the dominant symbols of the language and action of Hamlet. The Ghost first reveals that Claudius murdered his brother by poison, and this act of poisoning is then dramatically presented before the King. The ultimate consequence of the ‘poison in jest’ performed by the actors is the poisoned ‘play’ with rapiers between Laertes and Hamlet. This representation of violence, and the vengeful response to violence, creates the moral and the psychological problems of Hamlet. Critics naturally question, and disagree about, the way that Hamlet plays his role in this play because the role of Hamlet is a theatrical device designed to bring all human actions into debate and question. It is hardly surprising that audiences have seen mirrored in Hamlet their own most fundamental and inescapable problems.

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The Magic Door – A Study on the Italic Hermetic Tradition Myth, Magic, and Metamorphosis in the Western Inner Tradition


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2019 | 223 Pages | ISBN: 0648499642 | PDF | 26 MB
The Magic Door explores a wide spectrum of inner traditions, highlighting the heroes and teachings that have layed the foundations for initiation in Italy-from Roman times to the present-in the broader context of an esoteric Occidental Tradition.The overarching themes that constitute this tradition include Hesperia, Atavistic Resurgences, and internal practices specific to the Ars Italica: Magia, Amatoria, Memoria, Imaginatio, and Insomnium. Initiation is defined as the individual internal journey to integrate with the Principle (Self, Soul, Numen) and the corresponding Tradition (Olympia, Heroi, Aeneades). In this sense, initiation refers to a process of self-discovery, identity, and tradition.

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