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The fear of losing the national essence is central in Cambodia. Argues that the cult of the Angkor allowed France to give Cambodian nationalism an ideological form which oppressed the people it claimed to represent. The Khmer Rouge, fed and armed by Peking, Washington, Bangkok and the UN, now seek to capture the temples of Angkor and make it their capital. (SJK)

THIS ESSAY PRESENTS AN ALTERNATIVE SCENARIO TO THAT WHICH IS USUALLY PRESUMED, NAMELY, THE POSSIBILITY OF A SOLUTION TO THE CAMBODIAN PROBLEM THAT STEMS FROM THE NORTH RATHER THAN THE WEST, FROM A DETENTE BETWEEN HANOI AND BEIJING RATHER THAN THE CURRENT DE FACTO COLLABORATION IN THAILAND OF BEIJING AND WASHINGTON.

"Barnett was relieved as Commandant in 1920. In retirement, he dictated his recollections of 45 years of service, including his education at Annapolis, overseas service in Sitka, Samoa and Peking, and encounters with prominent people. This edited version of his story provides an unprecedented look at the Corps between the Civil War and the Spanish-American War"--

"Hilaire Barnett's Constitutional and Administrative Law has consistently provided students with reliable, accessible and comprehensive coverage of the Public Law syllabus. Mapped to the common course outline, the Fifteenth edition equips students with a thorough understanding of the UK constitution's past, present and future by analysing and illustrating the political and socio-historical contexts that have shaped the major rules and principles of constitutional and administrative law, as well as ongoing constitutional reform. This edition has been fully updated throughout, including a restructure to Chapters 22 and 26, as well as additional pause and reflect sections in order to aid student understanding of this complex area of the law. The online digital content also includes updates to the Multiple Choice Questions, Instructor Test Bank and Web Links. Ideal for students studying constitutional and administrative law for the first time, this is an indispensable guide to the challenging concepts and legal rules in public law"--

This book addresses a central urban design issue: how to bring an urban design from concept to reality. The book will interest community leaders, urban design professionals, and the students, instructors, and practitioners of urban design and city planning.

Hilaire Barnett's Constitutional and Administrative Law has consistently provided students with reliable, accessible and comprehensive coverage of the Public Law syllabus. Mapped to the common course outline, the Fifteenth edition equips students with a thorough understanding of the UK constitution's past, present and future by analysing and illustrating the political and socio-historical contexts that have shaped the major rules and principles of constitutional and administrative law, as well as ongoing constitutional reform. This edition has been fully updated throughout, including a restructure to Chapters 22 and 26, as well as additional pause and reflect sections in order to aid student understanding of this complex area of the law. The online digital content also includes updates to the Multiple Choice Questions, Instructor Test Bank and Web Links. Ideal for students studying constitutional and administrative law for the first time, this is an indispensable guide to the challenging concepts and legal rules in public law.

"Implementing Urban Design: Green, Civic, and Community Strategies addresses a central urban design issue: how to bring an urban design from concept to reality. When implementation strategies are made an integral part of urban design, the result becomes more detailed, more situational, and much more likely to be related to the natural landscape and the character already present in the community. The strategies described in this book range from neighborhoods to downtown business districts, and from designs for whole suburbs and cities to designs at the scale of the region and megaregion. They deal with every-day situations, although some of the issues can be complicated. This book will interest community leaders, urban design professionals, and the students, instructors, and practitioners of urban design and city planning"--

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: how is democracy? -- 1 Spaces of representation: where is the public? -- 2 The production of communicative spaces: formations of the public -- 3 Media, communication and legitimacy: representing the public sphere -- 4 Technologies of citizenship: assembling media publics -- 5 The public use of legal reasoning: the First Amendment as communications policy -- 6 Deficits of communication: practising democracy in European Union media policy -- 7 Media, development and democratisation: mediated citizenship in South Africa -- Conclusion: culture and democracy -- Bibliography -- Index