Liberating Kosovo: Coercive Diplomacy and U. S. Intervention

A compelling account of the diplomatic and military actions that led to Kosovo's independence and their implications for future U.S. and UN interventions.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

The history and romance of crime from the earliest time to the present day

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I. Chronicles of Newgate from the twelfth to the eighteenth century.--II. Chronicles of Newgate from

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Screen Ecologies: Art, Media, and the Environment in the Asia-Pacific Region

Images of environmental disaster and degradation have become part of our everyday media diet. This visual culture focusing on environmental deterioration represents a wider recognition of the political, economic, and cultural forces that are responsible for our ongoing environmental crisis. And yet efforts to raise awareness about environmental issues through digital and visual media are riddle…

Biopolitical Screens: Image, Power, and the Neoliberal Brain

"In Biopolitical Screens, Pasi V?aliaho charts and conceptualizes the imagery that composes our affective and conceptual reality under twenty-first-century capitalism. V?aliaho investigates the role screen media play in the networks that today harness human minds and bodies--the ways that images animated on console game platforms, virtual reality technologies, and computer screens capture human…

Infidel death-beds

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Investigating the Psychological World: Scientific Method in the Behavioral Sc…

"A Bradford book."Brian Haig constructs a broad theory of scientific method, which speaks to the conduct of psychological research. This abductive theory of method (ATOM) portrays research as a bottom-up process comprising two broad phases: the detection of empirical phenomena, and the construction of explanatory theories in order to explain claims about the phenomena. ATOM functions as a broad…

In quest of peril : being the thrilling adventures of Major Brand, his son Di…

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Reference and Referring

Original essays on reference and referring by leading scholars that combine breadth of coverage with thematic unity. These fifteen original essays address the core semantic concepts of reference and referring from both philosophical and linguistic perspectives. After an introductory essay that casts current trends in reference and referring in terms of an ongoing dialogue between Fregean and Ru…

Humanity Enhanced: Genetic Choice and the Challenge for Liberal Democracies

Emerging biotechnologies that manipulate human genetic material have drawn a chorus of objections from politicians, pundits, and scholars. In Humanity Enhanced, Russell Blackford examines them in the context of liberal thought, discussing the public policy issues they raise from legal and political perspectives. Some see the possibility of genetic choice as challenging the values of liberal dem…

Transportation and revolt :pigeons, mules, canals, and the vanishing geograph…

"Modes of transportation understood, by political regimes in different times and places, as intrinsically useful for clandestine movement, subversive mobility, and smuggling for revolt. Contents: Chapters look at canal transportation, several types of animal transportation (mules, elephants, camels and sled-dogs are all treated at some length), and inner-city freight-carrying infrastructure"--P…