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This collection gathers together the most important articles written by the pioneering historian of international law, Charles Henry Alexandrowicz (1902-1975). The essays shed new light on the development of international law, and particularly the influence of states outside the West --Source other than Library of Congress

The World Yearbook of Education 2010: Education and the Arab World: Political Projects, Struggles, and Geometries of Power opens up discussions about improving the relationship between the Arab World and the West, beyond the divide of most current approaches

This work is a study of administrative corruption from an historical perspective. It aims to answer questions such as :Can we find general patterns in the development of corruption? And what are the connections between administrative corruption, political corruption and development?

This volume brings together a collection of papers on the general theoretical and methodological problems in the historiography of semiotics. It is not a history in the conventional sense, even though the main periods and figures in the development of semiotics are given due prominence. Nevertheless, it should offer the reader stimulation and food for thought in the critical approach to even the least questioned facts of semiotic history and the emphasis given to hitherto neglected problems and persons.

Naseema Mohamed, National Centre for Linguistic and Historical Research, Male' (Republic
of Maldives)
Note on the Early History of the Maldives
Cette note fait le point, dans un rapide survol, sur ce que l'on sait de l'histoire des Maldives avant leur islamisation au XIIe siècle.