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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction to the Transaction Edition -- Preface -- Foreword -- I. Preliminaries and Introduction to the Study -- PART ONE: The Culture and Society of the Valley Bisa -- II. History and Population Characteristics of the Valley Bisa -- III. Social and Ideological Organizition -- IV. Technology, Subsistence, and Seasonal Activities -- PART TWO: Cultural Dimensions of the Hunting Process -- V. Hunting in Prologue and Process -- VI. Programming a Hunter -- VII. Drama of the Hunt -- PART THREE: Configurations of the Hunting System -- VIII. Description of Habitats and Bisa Influences -- IX. Population Structure and Ecology of the Larger Mammals -- X. Valley Bisa Hunters and Their Prey -- XI. Prospects for the Future -- Afterword -- Appendixes -- Bibliography -- Index

Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction. A Brief History of Molly's Hannibal -- Prologue. Lifeboat No. 6 -- Part I. John Tobin's Journey -- Part II. How the Other Half Lived -- Part III. Women in a Man's World -- Part IV. Margaret Goes to War -- Part V. Dreaming of a Different Life -- Part VI. On the Road to Riches -- Part VII. Culture Knows No Boundaries -- Epilogue. Titanic -- Bibliography -- About the Authors.

Warum begeisterten sich Millionen von Menschen für Adolf Hitler? Wieso konnten sie sich so verführen lassen? Alles nur Vergangenheit? Durch Interviews mit ehemaligen HJ-Funktionären, SS-Offizieren und NSDAP-Mitgliedern - 24 Männer und 19 Frauen - zeigt Stephan Marks, dass der Nationalsozialismus seine Anhänger begeisterte, indem er ihre Gefühle ansprach, sich ihre emotionale Bedürftigkeit zunutze machte - nicht ihren Verstand. Vor allem Schamgefühle, Kriegstraumata, psychische Abhängigkeiten wurden und könnten auch heute genauso instrumentalisiert werden, so die erschreckende Botschaft des Buches.

"Social entrepreneurs are people who launch ventures that they believe will promote positive change - locally, nationally, and/or globally. Their bottom line is not financial profit; rather, it is a commitment to improving the human condition. To this end, when seeking to change status quos that may benefit certain parties involved to the detriment of others, or exist because "that's the way things are," negotiation and the ability to resolve conflicts are essential skills Drawing on the author's NGO career leading Search for Common Ground, from using children's television to mitigate ethnic tensions in Macedonia to promoting mediation for conflict resolution in Morocco, this book will provide readers with an on-the-ground perspective on being a social entrepreneur. Readers will learn useful principles -- such as adapting to unexpected impasses or outcomes, communicating effective models and stories, and being transformationally incremental -- so that they can negotiate, resolve conflicts, and solve problems to successfully bring change."

"A Professional Foreigner aims to provide insight into the profession itself, what it was like at a particular period of history to play even a minor role in the steady stream of history, in the more mundane world of daily events, often out of the view of the media and world attention. It portrays a workday American professional diplomat - a Foreign Service officer - what they think and what they do all day"--

"A Professional Foreigner aims to provide insight into the profession itself, what it was like at a particular period of history to play even a minor role in the steady stream of history, in the more mundane world of daily events, often out of the view of the media and world attention. It portrays a workday American professional diplomat - a Foreign Service officer - what they think and what they do all day"--

For many Southern men living in or close to rural landscapes, hunting is a passion. But it is not a timeless activity in a cultural void. Whether pursuers of fox or raccoon, deer or rabbits, quail or dove, Southern hunters reveal for Stuart Marks complex patterns of male bonding, social status, and relationships with nature. Marks, who has written two outstanding books on hunting in Africa, was born and has long lived in the South. Examining Southern hunting from frontier times through the antebellum era to the present day, he shows it to be a litmus test of rural identity. "Drawing on the latest anthropological theory, statistical sources, extensive interviews, and historical research, [Marks] has crafted a multifaceted account of Southern hunting. Relations of race, property, gender, and region appear in fresh guises in this innovative and intriguing study. The portrayal of the contemporary state of hunting is especially interesting, revealing both the continuities with the past and the new pressures on the sport."--Virginia Quarterly Review

Welcome to the personal archives of Britain's biggest dope smuggler. For 40 years Howard Marks traversed the globe: an international businessman who became an inmate in America's toughest penitentiary before standing for election in the United Kingdom. Becoming Mr Nice reveals an extraordinary montage of previously unseen material from his roller-coaster life, interwoven with his daughter's incisively researched and deadpan commentary. It includes surveillance footage, intelligence reports, phone transcripts, the business cards and letterheads used as trading fronts, driving licences and passport applications in multiple identities, and cryptic faxes from the Far East. But more than that, it offers a vista onto his many and varied experiences and escapades, through notebooks, personal items and correspondence with the bizarre, wonderful, comic or downright suspicious characters who surrounded him. It includes extracts from a lavishly detailed and hitherto unpublished account of Howard's years on the run (written in confidence for the benefit of his otherwise baffled defence team) together with transcripts from his trial at the Old Bailey, in which he successfully claimed that his involvement in the biggest ever importation of cannabis into the United Kingdom was on behalf of the secret services. Peppered with comic observations from Howard's private letters, this book provides a uniquely personal insight into one of Britain's most remarkable characters

Dyma gyfrol sy'n cynnig golwg ffres ar ffuglen fer y llenor cyfoes Mihangel Morgan. Mae'n arbrofi â beirniadaeth greadigol er mwyn cyfleu cysyniadau ynghylch llenyddiaeth mewn modd sy'n ddealladwy ac yn ddarllenadwy ar gyfer cynulleidfa greadigol ac academaidd fel ei gilydd.

This book is concerned with the history of the idea of human rights. It offers a fresh approach that puts aside familiar questions such as 'Where do human rights come from?' and 'When did human rights begin?', for the sake of looking into connections between debates about the rights of man and developments within the history of capitalism.

This work is concerned with the history of the idea of human rights. It offers a fresh approach that puts aside familiar questions such as 'Where do human rights come from?' and 'When did human rights begin?' for the sake of looking into connections between debates about the rights of man and developments within the history of capitalism. The focus is on England, where, at the end of the 18th century, a heated controversy over the rights of man coincided with the final enclosure of common lands and the momentous changes associated with early industrialisation. Tracking back still further to 16th and 17th-century writing about dispossession, resistance and rights, the text reveals a forgotten tradition of thought about central issues in human rights, with profound implications for their prospects in the world today.