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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction to the Transaction Edition -- Preface -- Foreword -- I. Preliminaries and Introduction to the Study -- PART ONE: The Culture and Society of the Valley Bisa -- II. History and Population Characteristics of the Valley Bisa -- III. Social and Ideological Organizition -- IV. Technology, Subsistence, and Seasonal Activities -- PART TWO: Cultural Dimensions of the Hunting Process -- V. Hunting in Prologue and Process -- VI. Programming a Hunter -- VII. Drama of the Hunt -- PART THREE: Configurations of the Hunting System -- VIII. Description of Habitats and Bisa Influences -- IX. Population Structure and Ecology of the Larger Mammals -- X. Valley Bisa Hunters and Their Prey -- XI. Prospects for the Future -- Afterword -- Appendixes -- Bibliography -- Index

Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction. A Brief History of Molly's Hannibal -- Prologue. Lifeboat No. 6 -- Part I. John Tobin's Journey -- Part II. How the Other Half Lived -- Part III. Women in a Man's World -- Part IV. Margaret Goes to War -- Part V. Dreaming of a Different Life -- Part VI. On the Road to Riches -- Part VII. Culture Knows No Boundaries -- Epilogue. Titanic -- Bibliography -- About the Authors.

Warum begeisterten sich Millionen von Menschen für Adolf Hitler? Wieso konnten sie sich so verführen lassen? Alles nur Vergangenheit? Durch Interviews mit ehemaligen HJ-Funktionären, SS-Offizieren und NSDAP-Mitgliedern - 24 Männer und 19 Frauen - zeigt Stephan Marks, dass der Nationalsozialismus seine Anhänger begeisterte, indem er ihre Gefühle ansprach, sich ihre emotionale Bedürftigkeit zunutze machte - nicht ihren Verstand. Vor allem Schamgefühle, Kriegstraumata, psychische Abhängigkeiten wurden und könnten auch heute genauso instrumentalisiert werden, so die erschreckende Botschaft des Buches.

"A Professional Foreigner aims to provide insight into the profession itself, what it was like at a particular period of history to play even a minor role in the steady stream of history, in the more mundane world of daily events, often out of the view of the media and world attention. It portrays a workday American professional diplomat - a Foreign Service officer - what they think and what they do all day"--

For many Southern men living in or close to rural landscapes, hunting is a passion. But it is not a timeless activity in a cultural void. Whether pursuers of fox or raccoon, deer or rabbits, quail or dove, Southern hunters reveal for Stuart Marks complex patterns of male bonding, social status, and relationships with nature. Marks, who has written two outstanding books on hunting in Africa, was born and has long lived in the South. Examining Southern hunting from frontier times through the antebellum era to the present day, he shows it to be a litmus test of rural identity. "Drawing on the latest anthropological theory, statistical sources, extensive interviews, and historical research, [Marks] has crafted a multifaceted account of Southern hunting. Relations of race, property, gender, and region appear in fresh guises in this innovative and intriguing study. The portrayal of the contemporary state of hunting is especially interesting, revealing both the continuities with the past and the new pressures on the sport."--Virginia Quarterly Review

Welcome to the personal archives of Britain's biggest dope smuggler. For 40 years Howard Marks traversed the globe: an international businessman who became an inmate in America's toughest penitentiary before standing for election in the United Kingdom. Becoming Mr Nice reveals an extraordinary montage of previously unseen material from his roller-coaster life, interwoven with his daughter's incisively researched and deadpan commentary. It includes surveillance footage, intelligence reports, phone transcripts, the business cards and letterheads used as trading fronts, driving licences and passport applications in multiple identities, and cryptic faxes from the Far East. But more than that, it offers a vista onto his many and varied experiences and escapades, through notebooks, personal items and correspondence with the bizarre, wonderful, comic or downright suspicious characters who surrounded him. It includes extracts from a lavishly detailed and hitherto unpublished account of Howard's years on the run (written in confidence for the benefit of his otherwise baffled defence team) together with transcripts from his trial at the Old Bailey, in which he successfully claimed that his involvement in the biggest ever importation of cannabis into the United Kingdom was on behalf of the secret services. Peppered with comic observations from Howard's private letters, this book provides a uniquely personal insight into one of Britain's most remarkable characters

Dyma gyfrol sy'n cynnig golwg ffres ar ffuglen fer y llenor cyfoes Mihangel Morgan. Mae'n arbrofi â beirniadaeth greadigol er mwyn cyfleu cysyniadau ynghylch llenyddiaeth mewn modd sy'n ddealladwy ac yn ddarllenadwy ar gyfer cynulleidfa greadigol ac academaidd fel ei gilydd.

This book is concerned with the history of the idea of human rights. It offers a fresh approach that puts aside familiar questions such as 'Where do human rights come from?' and 'When did human rights begin?', for the sake of looking into connections between debates about the rights of man and developments within the history of capitalism.

"One of the most successful Wall Street investors of all time provides practical insight and keen analysis on how to track, and react to, the ups and downs of the stock market. Marks reveals the hidden logic in carefully pinpointing market trends so that every investor can profit. "When I see memos from Howard Marks in my mail, they're the first thing I open and read. I always learn something." -Warren Buffett Economies, companies, and markets operate according to patterns or cycles. These cycles arise from naturally occurring phenomena in everyday business, and to a large extent, from the simple ups and downs of human psychology and behavior. When should you pull out of the market? When should you stay in? These fundamental psychological influences-including greed and fear-can and do profoundly affect investors. If you carefully study past cycles, understand their origins and import, and remain alert for the next up or down cycle, you won't have to reinvent the wheel in order to understand every investment environment. And you're less likely to be blind-sided by unexpected events. By following Marks's insights-which are drawn from his memorable memos to clients-you can master these recurring patterns for your own financial gain and psychological benefit."

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- CHAPTER 1 1925-1943 My childhood and life as an evacuee -- CHAPTER 2 University and the army -- CHAPTER 3 From lorry driver to principal in general practice -- CHAPTER 4 My involvement in abortion law reform -- CHAPTER 5 I get further involved in medical politics -- CHAPTER 6 I get started in medical politics at the national level -- CHAPTER 7 A Royal College, an academic approach and a doctorate -- CHAPTER 8 Early attempts at NHS reform and heart transplants -- CHAPTER 9 An outdated constitution and Sir Paul Chambers' report -- CHAPTER 10 I become involved in national negotiations -- CHAPTER 11 I appear before a disciplinary body and I lose some friends -- CHAPTER 12 I represent the profession at home and abroad -- CHAPTER 13 AIDS and the BMA -- CHAPTER 14 A Royal sesquicentennial year -- CHAPTER 15 International problems and political speculation -- CHAPTER 16 Two crises and one election -- CHAPTER 17 Princess Diana opens the library and I have a rough ARM -- CHAPTER 18 The approaching storm -- CHAPTER 19 A storm breaks: The White Paper -- CHAPTER 20 The profession rejects the Reforms -- CHAPTER 21 The campaign continues -- CHAPTER 22 The Bill and reactions to it -- CHAPTER 23 The campaign continues: mysterious faxes and the Oxford debate -- CHAPTER 24 My last few months in the chair -- CHAPTER 25 I am a past Chairman -- CHAPTER 26 A variety of activities including boxing and lecturing and a disputed SRM -- CHAPTER 27 Doctors in the Dock -- CHAPTER 28 A quiet retirement, a general election and a question mark -- Index