An "e;enthralling"e; memoir of a woman who risked her life to help a people under siege and a country caught between freedom and oppression (Publishers Weekly-starred review).
To the unfortunate citizen threatened by the demolition of his house to make way for a new road, or by the shattering of his peace through the building of a new airport, the public inquiry can provide a last hope of reprieve.
This 3-volume set examines how suburban spaces shape and reflect human experiences in North America, Europe, and Asia, bringing together works by an international group of scholars who explore suburbia through critical analyses of literature, culture, sociology, history, politics, and urban planning.
Über 100 Jahre hat „German Engineering“ in der Fahrzeugindustrie mit seiner vielfältigen und äußerst innovativen Zulieferlandschaft für weltweite Anerkennung und Wohlstand gesorgt.
This volume explores the relationship between humans and technology across a variety of contexts, with particular attention to how technology mediates interactions between individuals.
Auto/Biography and Reputation Politics brings together for the first time these two research fields to demonstrate that life writing is reputation politics.
Novel insights into Russian military thoughtfrom the Crimean War to the war in UkraineThe development of the Russian military's strategic thought is an understudied and thus misunderstood subject in the West.
A revealing look at differing threat perceptions in six key NATO countriesWhen Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, analysts and policymakers highlighted the unifying shock that NATO members experienced.
Cet ouvrage propose une exploration approfondie du territoire de Faradje a travers l'histoire geopolitique de ses chefferies, mettant en lumiere l'evolution de leur role et leur impact sur la gouvernance locale.
Collective Liberation and Work That Reconnects How do we create group spaces that are truly safe, inclusive, and transformativeespecially when patterns of harm still show up within them?
A groundbreaking analysis of how the genomic revolution is transforming American society and creating new social divisions-some along racial lines-that promise to fundamentally shape American politics for years to come.
Addressing the issue of scale in governance, legal and extra-legal, the book draws on post-colonial studies, Indigenous geography and empirical and historical studies of the legal logics of Empire.
Big Brother Gone: Die Krise der amerikanischen Demokratie"e;Der gro e Bruder ist zuruck"e;, titelte das Magazin Stern im Marz 2023, knapp ein Jahr nach Beginn des russischen Uberfalls auf die Ukraine.
Bürgerliches Engagement in KommunenWie gemeinschaftliches Handeln Zukunft gestaltet – Wege, Chancen und PraxisbeispieleBürgerschaftliches Engagement ist das Rückgrat lebendiger Kommunen.
This book provides in-depth critical analysis of the international legal framework on violence against women and, crucially, the need for reform of this framework.
Exploring the history of American protest movements through an archaeological perspective, connecting protests of the past with resistance todayIn this book, April Beisaw and Dania Jordan-Talley use historical and contemporary archaeology to explore the past 400 years of American protest history.
This volume offers a multidisciplinary reflection on the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies and digitalization in technology, epistemology, ethics, and governance.
This 3-volume set examines how suburban spaces shape and reflect human experiences in North America, Europe, and Asia, bringing together works by an international group of scholars who explore suburbia through critical analyses of literature, culture, sociology, history, politics, and urban planning.
A broad-based coalition of conservative southern politicians, countercultural activists, environmental scientists, sportsmen, devout Christians, garden clubs in Atlanta, and others came together to push the Coastal Marshlands Protection Act of 1970 through the Georgia state legislature.
In Deutschland gibt es eine hohe Anzahl von Kindern, die erst in der Kindertageseinrichtung (Kita) systematischen Kontakt zur Umgebungssprache erhalten.
This book examines Greece's evolving relationship with the West from 1974 to 1983, focusing on the country’s transition from a peripheral European state to a central member of the Western community.
The International Monetary Fund and World Bank were founded at the 1944 Bretton Woods conference on the premise that international cooperation and multilateralism would be to the benefit and enrichment of all.
