30 Ergebnisse für: bythe
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Locating Urban Conflicts: Ethnicity, Nationalism and the Everyday - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=kVmYAAAAQBAJ
Cities have emerged as the epicentres for many of today's ethno-national and religious conflicts. This book brings together key themes that dominate our current attention including emerging areas of contestation in rapidly changing and modernising cities…
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George Best and 21 Others - Colin Shindler - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=R6LFGH8D4DYC
In the spring of 1964 more than 50,000 people turned out to watch the two-legged semi-final of the FA Youth Cup between Manchester City and Manchester United. It was a time of great hope and excitement: a new era was to be ushered in, with the virtues of…
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Sidewinder: Creative Missile Development at China Lake - Ron Westrum - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=xVEgAQAAQBAJ
In the mid-1950s a small group of overworked, underpaid scientists and engineers, working on a remote base in the Mojave Desert, developed a weapon no one had asked for but that everyone was looking for. Sidewinder is the story of how that unorthodox team…
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Parenting Culture Studies - Ellie Lee, Jennie Bristow, Charlotte Faircloth, Jan Macvarish - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=td_EAgAAQBAJ
Why have the minutiae of how parents raise their children become routine sources of public debate and policy making? This book provides in-depth answers to these features drawing on a wide range of sources from sociology, history, anthropology and…
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Iraqi Federalism and the Kurds: Learning to Live Together - Dr Alex Danilovich - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=gyFgAwAAQBAJ
Iraq today faces a whole gamut of problems associated with post-war recovery and state-rebuilding compounded by age old mistrust and suspicion. The situation in Iraq resembles a huge experiment in which social scientists can observe the consequences of…
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Smersh: Stalin's Secret Weapon - Dr. Vadim Birstein - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=kg2uAwAAQBAJ
SMERSH is the award-winning account of the top-secret counterintelligence organisation that dealt with Stalin's enemies from within the shadowy recesses of Soviet government. As James Bond's nemesis in Ian Fleming's novels, SMERSH and its operatives were…
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Establishing Religious Freedom: Jefferson's Statute in Virginia - Thomas E. Buckley - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=tdV6AAAAQBAJ
The significance of the Virginia Statute for Establishing Religious Freedom goes far beyond the borders of the Old Dominion. Its influence ultimately extended to the Supreme Court’s interpretation of the separation of church and state. In his latest book,…
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War and Independence In Spanish America - Anthony McFarlane - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=TdZtAQAAQBAJ
During the period from 1808 to 1826, the Spanish empire was convulsed by wars throughout its dominions in Iberia and the Americas. The conflicts began in Spain, where Napoleon’s invasion triggered a war of national resistance. The collapse of the Spanish…
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Media and Cultural Transformation in China - Haiqing Yu - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=BDt8AgAAQBAJ&dq=%22false+fire%22+falun+gong&hl=de
This book examines the role played by the media in China’s cultural transformation in the early years of the 21st century. In contrast to the traditional view that sees the Chinese media as nothing more than a tool of communist propaganda, it demonstrates…
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Empire of Difference: The Ottomans in Comparative Perspective - Karen Barkey - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=4Di3Zxls4X8C
This book is a comparative study of imperial organization and longevity that assesses Ottoman successes as well as failures against those of other empires with similar characteristics. Barkey examines the Ottoman Empire's social organization and mechanisms…