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Screening Ireland: Film and Television Representation - Lance Pettitt - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=6r22SC1uF1kC&pg=PA126
Screening Ireland examines a century of screen representations of Ireland from a cultural studies perspective. Skillfully analyzing historical and contemporary examples from both film and television, this innovative book provides a clear,…
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The Art, Science, and Technology of Medieval Travel - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=2dt9WrHyed4C&pg=PA51#v=onepage
This volume examines the practicalities of medieval travel, with particular attention to logistical planning and vehicle use, addresses the relationship of travel to the visual arts, considers the representation of the world in maps, and discusses the…
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Torturing Terrorists: Exploring the limits of law, human rights and academic ... - Philip N.S. Rumney - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=mipWBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA101
This book considers the theoretical, policy and empirical arguments relevant to the debate concerning the legalisation of interrogational torture. Torturing Terrorists examines, as part of a consequentialist analysis, the nature and impact of torture and…
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History Education in the Formation of Social Identity: Toward a Culture of Peace - K. Korostelina - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=-TKwAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA93&dq=chuch%E2%80%99e+post-communist
In order to determine how history education can be harnessed to reduce conflict attitudes and intentions and create a culture of peace, this book examines how history curricula and textbooks shape the identities of their students through their portrayals…
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The State and Labor in Modern Japan - Sheldon Garon - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=1qjrpOeKRWMC&pg=PA250&dq=%C5%8Cura+Kanetake&hl=de&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi66ammjOPdAhWHY1AKHV0GDsIQ6AE
In this meticulously researched study, Sheldon Garon examines the evolution of Japan's governmental policies toward labor from the late nineteenth century to the present day, and he substantially revises prevailing views which depict relations between the…
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Afghanistan: A New History - Martin Ewans - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=8FGcw89YADcC&pg=PA132&dq=daoud+economic+reforms#PPA131,M1
Sir Martin Ewans, former Head of the British Chancery in Kabul, puts into an historical and contemporary context the series of tragic events that have impinged on Afghanistan in the past fifty years. The book examines the roots of these developments in…
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The Romantic Imagination and Astronomy: On All Sides Infinity - Dometa Wiegand Brothers - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=wqGGDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA14
In the nineteenth century the beauty of the night sky is the source of both imaginative wonder in poetry and political and commercial power through navigation. The Romantic Imagination and Astronomy examines the impact of astronomical discovery and…
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Genocide: A Comprehensive Introduction - Adam Jones - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=HXXJ4I4XuV8C&pg=PA46
An invaluable introduction to the subject of genocide, explaining its history from pre-modern times to the present day, with a wide variety of case studies. Recent events in the former Yugoslavia, Rwanda, East Timor and Iraq have demonstrated with…
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Rethinking Peacekeeping, Gender Equality and Collective Security - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=UkFvBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA159&lpg=PA159&dq=Permanent+Members+security+council+Arm+Dealers!&source=bl&ot
This book examines how the Security Council has approached issues of gender equality since 2000. Written by academics, activists and practitioners the book challenges the reader to consider how women's participation, gender equality, sexual violence and…
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The Chemical Components of Tobacco and Tobacco Smoke - Alan Rodgman, Thomas A. Perfetti - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=D2HvBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA18#v=onepage
Authored by two longtime researchers in tobacco science, The Chemical Components of Tobacco and Tobacco Smoke, Second Edition chronicles the progress made from late 2008 through 2011 by scientists in the field of tobacco science. The book examines the…