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Black Dragon : Afro Asian Performance and the Martial Arts Imagination
In Black Dragon, Zachary F. Price illuminates martial arts as a site of knowledge exchange between Black, Asian, and Asian American people and cultures to offer new insights into the relationships among these groups. Drawing on case studies that include Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s appearance in Bruce Lee’s film Game of Death, Ron Van Clief and the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, the Wu-Tang…
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- 9780814214602
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- 240 halaman
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- Black Performance and Cultural Criticism
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- 700 PRI b
Essays in Conveyancing and Property Law : in Honour of Professor Robert Rennie
Professor Robert Rennie has been one of the most influential voices in Scots private law over the past thirty years. Highly respected as both an academic and a practitioner, his contribution to the development of property law and practice has been substantial and unique. This volume celebrates his retirement from the Chair of Conveyancing at the University of Glasgow in 2014 with a selection of…
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- 9781783741496
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- 340 ESS
Climate Change : International Law and Global Governance - Volume II : Policy…
It is with great pleasure and honour that I am writing a foreword for this eminent work, which seeks to promote the international rule of law, contribute to durable global peace, avoid conflict, lead to more effective protection of human rights, as well as sustain economic progress and development. The two volumes ofClimate Change: International Law and Global Governancedescribe important to…
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- 9783845242774
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- 340 RUP c
Mirage of Police Reform : Procedural Justice and Police Legitimacy
In the United States, the exercise of police authority—and the public’s trust that police authority is used properly—is a recurring concern. Contemporary prescriptions for police reform hold that the public would trust the police more and feel a greater obligation to comply and cooperate if police-citizen interactions were marked by higher levels of procedural justice by police. In this b…
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- 9780520292413
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- 340 WOR m
Fresh Perspectives on the 'War on Terror'
On 20 September 2001, in an address to a Joint Session of Congress and the American people, President George W Bush declared a ‘war on terror’. The concept of the ‘war on terror’ has proven to be both an attractive and a potent rhetorical device. It has been adopted and elaborated upon by political leaders around the world, particularly in the context of military action in Afghanistan a…
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- 9781921313745
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- 320 GAN f
The United States Bayh-Dole Act and its Effect on University Technology Transfer
This publication discusses one of the most influential pieces of legislation relating to technology transfer in the United States: The Bayh-Dole Act. The publication discusses the history that led to the groundbreaking Act, characterizes strengths and weaknesses of the Act from an economic and a policy standpoint, and details the recent Supreme Court Stanford v. Roche case, which may carry impl…
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- 9783845242217
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- 340 GOT u
A Kind of Mending : Restorative Justice in the Pacific Islands
With their rich traditions of conflict resolution and peacemaking, the Pacific Islands provide a fertile environment for developing new approaches to crime and conflict. Interactions between formal justice systems and informal methods of dispute resolution contain useful insights for policy makers and others interested in socially attuned resolutions to the problems of order that are found incr…
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- 9781921666834
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- 340 KIN
Indigenous Peoples' Innovation : Intellectual Property Pathways to Development
Traditional knowledge systems are also innovation systems. This book analyses the relationship between intellectual property and indigenous innovation. The contributors come from different disciplinary backgrounds including law, ethnobotany and science. Drawing on examples from Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands, each of the contributors explores the possibilities and limits of inte…
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- 9781921862779
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- 340 IND
EDucation & GEnder : Gender-specific education in different countries. Histor…
A study funded by the European Commission, relating to gender specific differences in learning achievements, shows among other things that whilst gender equality is a hot topic in many countries a general equality policy is not always advocated. More importantly, measures to reduce gender differences in achievement seem to focus primarily on the underachievement of boys.
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- 9783830928683
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- 370 HOL e
Border Crossing : Russian Literature into Film
Each time a border is crossed there are cultural, political and social issues to be considered. Applying the metaphor of the ‘border crossing' from one temporal or spatial territory into another, this book examines the way classic Russian texts have been altered to suit new cinematic environments. In these essays, international scholars examine how political and economic circumstances ââ…
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- 9781474411424
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- 272 halaman
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- 800 BUR b
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