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Title Page -- Dedication -- What IS Respect? -- The Golden Rule -- How to Show Respect -- What NOT to Do -- Different Is GOOD! -- Try to Understand -- Magic Words -- Pay Attention -- When You're Angry -- Respect for the Whole World -- Fairness -- Expect Respect -- Good Habits -- A Way to Love -- About the Author -- Copyright Page

The Ugly Animals is a collection of 60 of the world's most ugly (and endangered) animals, featuring rare imagery and explanatory text. The author is a high-profile biologist and TV presenter but also a stand-up comedian, and the text combines expert research with a lightness of tone.

As national leaders struggle to revive their economies, the people of Europe face a stark reality, which has created an opportunity for local leaders and citizen movers and shakers to rise to the occasion to spur revitalization from the bottom up. The author offers a six-point plan to prosperity.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Seeking Paradise in the New World -- 2. Camelot in the Tobacco Fields -- 3. Declaring Independence -- 4. The Kentucky Pioneers Speak Out -- 5. The Civil War, Real and Unreal -- 6. Damned Yankees -- 7. Grandmother Grace -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author -- Back Cover.

The author re-examines the concept of equality in international society, past and present. The view that equality necessarily flows from sovereignty is considered a contingent rather than a necessary contention. A new framework for equality in international society is sketched out emphasising the normative strength of the principle of equality.

Membership in Service Clubs provides the first rigorous assessment of the activities of Rotary, a global service organization founded in 1905 that implements projects and helps build goodwill and peace throughout the world. Author Quentin Wodon: Quentin Wodon is an Adviser and Coordinator in the Education Global Practice at the World Bank.

This is a history of the Norwegian Intelligence Service (NIS) during the Cold War, based on its secret archives. The author describes a service that grew from a handful of specialists in 1946 to a multi-faceted organization with a personnel of about 1000 by the end of the 1960s

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. The Politics of Disease Causation -- 2. Disciplining Difference -- 3. The Contested Meanings and Intersections of Race -- 4. An Apparent Consensus on Class -- 5. The Dichotomy of Gender -- 6. Individualizing "Difference" and the Production of Scientific Credibility -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Methodology -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the Author

In this book, author Henri Parens discusses and documents the core psychodynamics that lead groups to war. Detailing some of the psychodynamics that led from World War I to World War II and their respective aftermath, Parens addresses how major factors that gave rise to these wars must, can, and have been counteracted.

The history, identity and memory of the Sephardim in their Mediterranean dispersal are analysed by the author with a special reference to the Sephardi community of Jerusalem and to the political, social and cultural changes through which the speakers of Jewish-Spanish went since the turn of the nineteenth century

"Unlike other books about conflict resolution and negotiations over water resources, this volume is unique in focusing exclusively on conflicts over groundwater and aquifers. The author explores the specific challenges presented by these "hidden" resources, which are shown to be very different from those posed by surface water resources"--

John A. Kirk is George W. Donaghey Professor and chair of the History Department at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. He is the author or editor of several books, including Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement and Arsnick: The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in Arkansas.

The third edition of Contemporary Russia is fully revised to provide a comprehensive introduction to the society, politics and culture of one of the most important countries in global affairs today. The author details Russia's historical background as well as the nation's current concerns and distinctive features in this accessible analysis.

The author examines new development strategies in the context of globalisation and the crisis of the Washington Consensus. Critiquing both protectionism and the free market he points to the influence and evolution of Keynesian ideas for the management and stabilisation of development in an era marked by the unravelling of neoliberal prosperity.

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Schooling Racial Illiteracy -- Chapter 1: If Elephants Could Talk -- Chapter 2: Recasting the History of Racial "Firsts" -- Chapter 3: Fearing Racial Discourse -- Chapter 4: Recasting Racial Threat -- Chapter 5: Walking While Talking -- Chapter 6: Racial Literacy as Civil Disobedience -- References -- Index -- About the Author.