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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- The Poet: Julius Caesar and the Democracy to Come -- Not Now -- Or Again, Meddling -- Derrida's Event -- Woo't -- Jacques Derrida's Language (Bin Laden on the Telephone) -- Impossible Uncanniness: Deconstruction and Queer Theory -- Forgetting Well -- Last -- Index of Works by Derrida -- Index of Names

This book, first published in 1990, is a provocative collection of military quotations that captures the human essence of warfare. From the skirmishes beneath the walls of Troy to the dropping of the atomic bomb, nearly 3,500 quotations distil the experiences of generations of soldiers, depicting the preparation for and the waging of war. Read the words of field marshals and generals, kings and dictators, and follow them into battle - Alexander the Great at Issus, Wellington at Waterloo, Sitting Bull at Little Big Horn and Montgomery at El Alamein. Here too are the recorded details of life among the ranks as diverse as ammunition and uniform, sick parade and comradeship, discipline and Dear John' letters. A final section, Last Post', deals with the tragic aftermath of conflict.

Intro -- Title Page -- Dedication -- Pre-word -- Marbles -- If you can't remember -- Surface -- Epistolary -- Maxwellian -- Who's turned the lights out? -- Out of the picture -- Gugga -- Simon -- Permissive -- Nurse -- Chote -- Demonic -- Polar bear -- Snap -- Emily's analyses -- Way-on-High -- Painter -- Speechless -- Speechful -- With best wishes -- Air -- Ghosts -- Wit -- Earth -- A dream -- To catch a mouse -- Giftie -- Little creatures -- Bombs away -- Woman reader -- Meat -- Perspectives -- Beyond recognition -- Water -- Fizzog -- Dreamother -- Funereal -- Trap -- Autobiography -- Worlds not realised -- Machine -- Mother tongue -- B-r-ring! -- Flowers -- Handbag -- The instant of her death.

'Islamic Development in Palestine' assesses the capabilities of an Islamic approach in aiding self-organisation by examining the case of the occupied Palestinian territories in conjunction with a comparative analysis of four other diverse nations. The book identifies and focuses on three main mechanisms of Islamic development; Islamic finance, Islamic Microfinance and Islamic charity. Identifying the need to recognise the non-linear nature of societal interaction at the individual, community and state levels, the book turns to complexity theory as a solution to better understand development. It assesses the role of Islamic development at both macro and micro levels as it seeks to identify issues pertaining to rigid and hierarchical policy making in development. It also highlights the importance of local knowledge and the need to allow for sufficient freedom to emerge in support of a sustainable self-organised development process. Utilising complexity theory in a discussion of political-economics and development with regards to Islam and Islamic development, this book is of interest to students, scholars and policymakers working in Middle East studies, Islamic studies and development studies.

From Charles Darwin's enlightening voyage to the Galapagos Islands to moat-encased prisons incarcerating the world's deadliest prisoners, islands have been sites of immense scientific, political, and creative importance. An inspiration for artists and writers, they can be lively centers of holiday revelry or remote, mysterious spots; places of escape or of exile and imprisonment. In this cultural and scientific history of these alluring, isolated territories, Stephen A. Royle describes the great variety of islands, their economies, and the animals, plants, and people who thrive on them.

This text has established itself as the best short account of the Chartist movement available. It considers its origins and development, placing the movement within its broad social and economic context. Dr Royle also provides clear analysis of its strategy and leadership and assesses the conflicting interpretations for the failure of Chartism.