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Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Chapter One The Development of the Archipelagic Concept in International Law of the Sea: From Straight Baselines to the Archipelagic Regime of the Law of the Sea Convention -- Chapter Two The Application of Straight Baselines on the Basis of Article 7 LOSC and State Practice: Implications for Coastal Archipelagos -- Chapter Three Dependent Outlying Archipelagos: Straight Baselines, the LOSC and State Practice -- Chapter Four Law-Creating Value of the Practice of States in Outlying Archipelagos with an Emphasis on Customary International Law -- Chapter Five The Archipelagic Concept and Special Customary and Historic Rights: Three Case Studies -- Chapter Six Legitimacy of the Archipelagic Regime and Future Developments -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index.

This unique book offers clear definitions of Gurdjieff's teaching terms, placing him within the political, geographic and cultural context of his time. Entries look at diverse aspects of his Work, including:* possible sources in religious, Theosophical, occult, esoteric and literary traditions* the integral relationships between different aspects of the teaching* its internal contradictions and subversive aspects* the derivation of Gurdjieff's cosmological laws and Ennegram* the passive form of ""New Work"" teaching introduced by Jeanne de Salzmann

"The issue of living standards is arguably the biggest challenge facing economists and politicians in the United States and the United Kingdom today. The product of a year-long fellowship at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, "The Squeezed Middle" brings together leading experts from both sides of the Atlantic to ask what the UK can learn from the US experience of stagnating wages and rising living costs. American workers have not benefited from growth for an entire generation: adjusting for inflation, the average American worker today earns as much as the average American worker did in 1975. During the last decade British workers have had a similar experience--they can no longer assume that when the economy grows their wages will grow with it. With contributions from a number of leading economic and policy thinkers, this collection analyzes the impact of different policies on those with low to middle incomes and explains what lessons the UK can learn from America's so-called lost generation"--Provided by publisher.

It's time for a REDEFINITION among black women in America.In its 2011 hardcover release, Black Woman Redefined was a top-selling book and took home a 2011 Best Non-Fiction Book of the Year Award from the African American Literary Awards. Author Sophia A. Nelson won the 2012 Champions of Diversity Award, given each year by diversity business executives in Fortune 100 companies.Black Woman Redefined was inspired in part by what Nelson calls ?open season on accomplished black women": from Don Imus's name-calling of black female basketball players in 2007 and a 2009 Yale University study titled ?M

Wie wurde es moeglich, dass Oesterreich, ein neutraler Staat, der zum Zeitpunkt der Gruendung der Montanunion noch als verhindertes Gruendungsmitglied galt, schliesslich 1995 doch noch seinen Weg in die Europaeische Union fand? In dieser Arbeit wird anhand einer parallelen Darstellung der Geschichte und Entwicklung der Europaeischen Union, von der Gruendung der Montanunion 1950 bis zur Union in der heute bekannten Gestalt, und dem Weg der Republik Oesterreich vom Aussenstehenden in die Union, gezeigt, wie sich Europa in den letzten 60 Jahren entwickelte. Die zwei gescheiterten oesterreichische

Ein Theorienvergleich zwischen der Systemtheorie von Niklas Luhmann und der Lebensphänomenologie von Michel Henry Dieses Buch ist nur in zweiter Linie ein Buch über die Liebe. In erster Linie ist es ein Vergleich zwischen der Systemtheorie von Niklas Luhmann (1927-1998) und der Lebensphänomenologie von Michel Henry (1922-2002). Die Erkenntnisse über die Liebe entsprechen den Analysen der beiden Autoren zu diesem Thema. In der Debatte zwischen Phänomenologie und Systemtheorie, zu der dieses Buch beitragen möchte, kann es im Hinblick auf den Begriff der Intentionalität zu Missverständnissen kom

Intro -- COTTON MARKET AND TRADE ISSUES FOR THE U.S. AND CHINA -- COTTON MARKET AND TRADE ISSUES FOR THE U.S. AND CHINA -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1 FIBER USE FOR TEXTILES AND CHINA'S COTTON TEXTILE EXPORTS -- ABSTRACT -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- ESTIMATING COTTON MILL-USE EQUIVALENTS OF TEXTILE PRODUCTS -- FIBER REUSE AND ITS EFFECTS ON CONSUMPTION ESTIMATES -- RECYCLING AND REUSE OF TEXTILE WASTE -- FIBER BLENDS -- TRENDS IN CHINA'S TEXTILE INDUSTRY WASTE -- REVISED ESTIMATES OF TEXTILE TRADE IN COTTON MILL-USE EQUIVALENTS -- FACTORS AFFECTING CHINA'S TEXTILE TRADE -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 2 CHINA'S COTTON SUPPLY AND DEMAND: ISSUES AND IMPACT ON THE WORLD MARKET -- ABSTRACT -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- ESTIMATING THE FIBER-EQUIVALENCE OF TEXTILE TRADE -- DOMESTIC DEMAND FOR COTTON TEXTILES IN CHINA -- Estimated Cotton End-Use, 1999-2004 -- COMPARING CHINA'S END-USE WITH OTHER COUNTRIES' -- FORECASTING CHINA'S DOMESTIC COTTON TEXTILE CONSUMPTION -- TRENDS IN CHINA'S TEXTILE TRADE -- CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS -- APPENDIX: CALCULATING FIBER-EQUIVALENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 3 U.S. COTTON PRICES AND THE WORLD COTTON MARKET: FORECASTING AND STRUCTURAL CHANGE -- ABSTRACT -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- SUMMARY -- What Is the Issue? -- What Did the Study Find? -- How Was the Study Conducted? -- INTRODUCTION -- DATA -- COTTON PRICE MODEL -- Theoretical Model -- Empirical Analysis -- STRUCTURAL CHANGE TEST -- ESTIMATION RESULTS -- CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS -- REFERENCES -- End Notes -- Chapter 4 TRENDS IN U.S. COTTON BASIS SINCE 2001 -- ABSTRACT -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- DATA AND METHODS -- RESULTS AND DISCUSSION -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- End Notes -- Chapter 5 BRAZIL'S WTO CASE AGAINST THE U.S. COTTON PROGRAM -- SUMMARY -- OVERVIEW -- Report Phases

Common sense has always been a cornerstone of American politics. In 1776, Tom Paine's vital pamphlet with that title sparked the American Revolution. And today, common sense--the wisdom of ordinary people, knowledge so self-evident that it is beyond debate--remains a powerful political ideal, utilized alike by George W. Bush's aw-shucks articulations and Barack Obama's down-to-earth reasonableness. But far from self-evident is where our faith in common sense comes from and how its populist logic has shaped modern democracy. Common Sense: A Political History is the first book to explore this essential political phenomenon. The story begins in the aftermath of England's Glorious Revolution, when common sense first became a political ideal worth struggling over. Sophia Rosenfeld's accessible and insightful account then wends its way across two continents and multiple centuries, revealing the remarkable individuals who appropriated the old, seemingly universal idea of common sense and the new strategic uses they made of it. Paine may have boasted that common sense is always on the side of the people and opposed to the rule of kings, but Rosenfeld demonstrates that common sense has been used to foster demagoguery and exclusivity as well as popular sovereignty. She provides a new account of the transatlantic Enlightenment and the Age of Revolutions, and offers a fresh reading on what the eighteenth century bequeathed to the political ferment of our own time. Far from commonsensical, the history of common sense turns out to be rife with paradox and surprise.