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Introduction -- Colonialism, Orientalism, Nationalism and the Shaping of Popular -- History and Religion -- James Tod and Popular Indian Nationalism -- War and Violence in Savarkar's View of Indian History -- The Vishva Hindu Parishad's Fantasmagorical History -- The Politics of Vishva Hindu Parishad Conversion -- An Other history of Religion -- Myth and Medical Pluralism as Resistance to Hindu Nationalism.

The American Revolution ignites social movements -- The Sons of Liberty and the creation of a movement model -- From boycott mobilization to the American Revolution -- Wilkes, liberty, and the Anglo American crisis -- The British Association movement and parliamentary reform -- The Irish Volunteers and militant reform -- Religious freedom, political liberty, and Protestant Dissenter civil rights -- British abolitionism and the broadening of social movements -- The French Revolution radicalizes social movements -- The genesis of the French Jacobins -- French revolutionary polarization and the coming of the Haitian Revolution -- The French Jacobin network in power -- Radicalizing club life in 1790s Britain -- The United Irishmen in an Atlantic crosswind -- The French Revolution and the making of the American Democratic Party -- From revolutionary committees to American electoral party politics.

Offers a treatment of the topic of the Rights of the Child as reflected in the jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. This book reviews various decisions of the Inter-American Court relating to the Rights of the Child and analyses the principles held therein. It is intended for practitioners and students of this area of law.

Los detectores y arreglos de detectores de imágenes de radiación infrarroja (IR), también conocidos como detectores térmicos, son utilizados en una amplia variedad de aplicaciones, que van desde las aplicaciones militares hasta comerciales, incluyendo imágenes térmicas, aplicaciones médicas, detección de fuego, visión nocturna, y seguridad. En un detector térmico la radiación IR incidente es absorbida por el dispositivo y esto cambia la temperatura del material termo-sensible lo que resulta en el cambio de algunas de sus propiedades físicas, esto es aprovechado para obtener una señal eléctrica de salida que varia con el incremento de temperatura. Los micro-bolómetros son detectores térmicos, que fabricados por la técnica de micromaquinado superficial, pueden operar a temperatura ambiente. Esta característica les brinda ventajas operativas y resultan en detectores de bajo costo de manufactura y operación.

The Paralympic Games have the potential to change popular perceptions of disability. 1- Is the specific legacy potential of the Paralympic Games taken seriously by politicians and Games organisers? 2- Could stories about the Paralympic Games and disabled athletes have a negative impact on disabled people? 3- Is it asking too much of the Paralympic Games to change people's attitudes towards disability?