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Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Series Introduction -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- A Brief Note on Language -- Timeline -- Introduction: Toward "Peace" -- 1 Richard Nixon, the Cold War, and Southeast Asia -- 2 Vietnamization and the Illusion of Peace -- 3 Nixon and the Bloodbath Theory -- 4 The "Great Silent Majority" and Right-Wing Revanchism -- Epilogue: Conjuring Nixon in the Twenty-First Century -- Documents -- Index.

Legal academics in Europe publish a wide variety of materials including books, articles and essays, in an assortment of languages, and for a diverse readership. As a consequence, this variety can pose a problem for the evaluation of academic legal research. This thought-provoking book offers an overview of the legal and policy norms, methods and criteria applied in the evaluation of academic legal research, from a comparative perspective.

Front Cover -- Title Page -- Half Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword to the English Edition -- Preface by Andrej Grubačić -- Introduction -- Afrin and the "Mountain of the Kurds" -- Population and Language -- Religious Communities -- History -- Democratic Confederalism in the Canton of Afrin -- Development of the Canton of Afrin from 2012 to 2018 -- Kurdish Enclaves in the Afrin Area -- The War against Afrin -- Voices from Afrin -- What Next? -- Acronym Key -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Authors.

Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Word security areas, bodies, and measures -- Chapter 3. Spatial grasp model and technology (SGT) -- Chapter 4. Spatial grasp language (SGL) -- Chapter 5. Security related management examples under SGT -- Chapter 6. Networked security related solutions -- Chapter 7. Managing security by spatial control of moving objects -- Chapter 8. Investigating nuclear war dangers under SGT -- Chapter 9. Distributed mosaic-based organizations -- Chapter 10. -- Conclusions.

Biographical note: Hans-Herbert Kögler ist Professor am Department of Philosophy der University of North Florida. Seine Forschungsschwerpunkte sind Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Culture, Social and Political Theory. Alice Pechriggl, Philosophin und Gruppenpsychoanalytikerin, ist Professorin für Philosophie am Institut für Philosophie der Alpen-Adria-Universität in Klagenfurt am Wörthersee. Ihre Forschungsschwerpunkte sind u.a. Politische und antike Philosophie, philosophische Geschlechteranthropologie sowie Philosophie und Psychoanalyse. Rainer Winter ist Professor für Medien- und Kulturtheorie am Institut für Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaft der Alpen-Adria-Universität in Klagenfurt am Wörthersee. Seine Forschungsschwerpunkte sind Cultural Studies, Kritische Theorie, Qualitative Forschung

Thinking about decisions -- Origins, characteristics, and controversies regarding the process of evidence-based practice -- Evidence: sources, uses and controversies -- Steps in the process of evidence-based practice -- Critically appraising research -- Cultivating expertise in decision making -- Argumentation: its central role in deliberative decision making -- Avoiding fallacies -- The influence of language and social psychological persuasion strategies -- Communication skills (continued) -- Challenges and obstacles to evidence-informed decision making -- Being and becoming an ethical professional

'Religion and the Philosophy of Life' considers how religion as the source of civilization transforms the fundamental bio-sociology of humans through language and the somatic exploration of religious ritual and prayer. Gavin Flood offers an integrative account of the nature of the human, based on what contemporary scientists tell us, especially evolutionary science and social neuroscience, as well as through the history of civilizations.

Zero=nothing=everything : recasting the "indigenous" subject in the making -- "The Indian problem" : contouring the retina and the Indian, and pre and post war educational and social policies pro diversity -- Language heritage(s) and the role of "indigenous" and "non-indigenous" missionaries and experts in curricular foundations -- Anthropological borders and the performance of diversity in teacher preparations classrooms -- Authoritarian regimes in reform and fractal curricular possibilities in protests -- No closure

Legal Usage A Modern Style Guide is a clear, unambiguous guide to good legal usage. It highlights the techniques that legal writers in the common law tradition need for effective, compelling and readable legal writing. The easy-to-use layout facilitates ready understanding of best practice for legal vocabulary and drafting style. It adopts a plain language approach to legal writing, in line with modern practice

Inhaltsverzeichnis: "Four american moslem ladies": early U.S. Muslim women in the Ahmadiyya Movement in Islam, 1920-1923 -- Insurgent domesticity: race and gender in representations of NOI Muslim women during the Cold War era -- Garments for one another: Islam and marriage in the lives of Betty Shabazz and Dakota Staton -- Chadors, feminists, terror: constructing a U.S. American discourse of the veil -- A third language: Muslim feminism in Smerica -- Conclusion: Soul Flower Farm.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Tyranny and History -- 1. Tyrannus fulminatus: Power and Praise -- 2. Justice and Power: The Language of Early Greek Tyranny -- 3. The Lawgiver's Struggle with Tyranny: Solon and the Excluded Middle -- 4. Master and Slave: The Fall of Tyranny -- 5. Narratives of Autonomy: Greek Founders -- 6. Lovers of the City: Tyranny and Democracy in Classical Athens -- Afterword: Justice and Liberation -- Bibliography -- Index

Cover -- Half Title -- Dedication -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Revealing Disclosure -- 1. Publicity in the Political Arena: Metaphors of Spectacle, Combat and Display -- 2. Language and Disclosure: Habermas and the Struggle for Reason -- 3. Baring All: Self-Disclosure as Moral Exhortation -- 4. Shifting Policy Frameworks: Disclosure and Discipline -- 5. Therapeutic Self-Disclosure: The Talking Cure -- 6. Applying the Gag -- 7. Silence -- Index

Human Rights Activism Directed Across the Iron Curtain -- A Double Standard Abroad and at Home? : Rhodesia's Unilateral Declaration of Independence -- Causing Us "Real Trouble" : The 1967 Coup in Greece -- Does the United States Stand for Something? : Human Rights in South Korea -- Translating Human Rights into the Language of Washington : American Activism in the Wake of the Coup in Chile -- "A Call for U.S. Leadership" : Congressional Activism on Human Rights

Introduction and preliminaries -- Introduction -- Representation -- Reasoning -- Analogy -- Dynamics -- Quantity -- Relationships between quantities -- Qualitative process theory -- Examples using QP theory -- Causality -- Qualitative simulation and reasoning about change -- Modeling -- Analogy in dynamics -- Dynamics in language -- Space -- Qualitative spatial reasoning: a theoretical framework -- Qualitative spatial calculi -- Understanding sketches and diagrams -- Learning and reasoning -- Learning and conceptual change -- Commonsense reasoning -- Expert reasoning -- Summary and new directions -- Summary -- New directions -- Bibliography -- Notes -- Index

Introduction -- Anglo-American Postmodernity -- Philosophy of Science -- Scientific Realism and Postmodern Philosophy -- Postmodern Antirelativism -- Postmodern Proliferation and Progress in Science -- Philosophy of Religion -- Beyond Modern Liberalism and Fundamentalism -- Philosophical Resources for Postmodern Conservative Theology -- Postmodern Philosophy of Language and Textual Relativism -- Science, Religion, and Ethics -- Theology and Postmodern Philosophy of Science -- Theology and Ethics in the Hierarchy of the Sciences -- Supervenience and the Nonreducibility of Ethics to Biology -- Postscript