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This book tells the previously untold stories of six major art thefts at the Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, written by its former Chief Security Officer, John Barelli. Reader will be taken into the loading docks and curatorial offices, to the Temple of Dendur and the American Wing and its magnificent Engelhard Courtyard, the majestic Main Hall where the author stood opening many mornings as the world poured in, the Astor Courtyard and the Valez Blanco Patio. In the museum's Arms and Armor department the author will point out that museum staff helped create the helmets that our soldiers used in World War, he'll share with readers what happen to the coins in the museum's fountains. At the heart of this book there will always be art-those who love it and those who take it, two groups of people that are far from mutually exclusive.

Ronen Bergman offers a riveting inside account of Israel's targeted killing programs: their successes, their failures, and the moral and political price exacted on the men and women who approved and carried out the missions. Including never-before-reported, behind-the-curtain accounts of key operations, Rise and Kill First brings us deep into the heart of Israel's most secret activities. Bergman traces, from statehood to the present, the gripping events and thorny ethical questions underlying Israel's targeted assassination campaign, which has shaped the Israeli nation, the Middle East, and the entire world

Zero=nothing=everything : recasting the "indigenous" subject in the making -- "The Indian problem" : contouring the retina and the Indian, and pre and post war educational and social policies pro diversity -- Language heritage(s) and the role of "indigenous" and "non-indigenous" missionaries and experts in curricular foundations -- Anthropological borders and the performance of diversity in teacher preparations classrooms -- Authoritarian regimes in reform and fractal curricular possibilities in protests -- No closure

"This study provides a comprehensive examination of the breaking of political relations between China and the Soviet Union. Based on archival materials from several countries...particularly China...the authors analyze the split from 1959, when visible cracks in the relationship appeared, to China's foreign policy shift toward the United States in 1973"...

Using historical anecdotes as well as modern story-telling and basic science, this book describes how humans are changing the chemistry of our air and oceans. The great life-giving cycles that maintain a livable environment are being altered, causing wide range of consequences. Very real solutions, technological and economic are also addressed.

Cultural Science is a new way of thinking about culture. The book synthesises recent work across different disciplines, setting out a new, evolutionary approach to cultural studies. Engaging with scientific traditions in a way that previous literature has failed to do, it promises to be break new ground in social scientific scholarship.

Menexenus is one of the least studied among Plato's works, mostly because of the puzzling nature of the text, which has led many scholars either to reject the dialogue as spurious or to consider it as a mocking parody of Athenian funeral rhetoric. In this book, Pappas and Zelcer provide a persuasive alternative reading of the text, one that contributes in many ways to our understanding of Plato, and specifically to our understanding of his political thought.The book is organized into two parts. In the first part the authors offer a synopsis of the dialogue, address the setting and its backgrou

Against the psychology of system: hope through narrativePolitical morality: agency, situation, and practical commitments; Avoiding the intellectually worst: realism versus speculative fiction; 8 The new realism: from modus vivendi to justice; Introduction; Raymond Geuss: from modus vivendi to legitimacy I; Bernard Williams: from modus vivendi to legitimacy II; James Tully: from legitimacy to justice I; Agonistic realism: from legitimacy to justice II; Relative value and assorted historical lessons: an afterword; Relative value and the ranking problem; Relative value, as distinct from ...