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The Evolution of War: A Study of Its Role in Early Societies
Thorough, highly informative and exhaustive study presents an exceptional collection of cases examining such topics as warfare as the business of one sex, religion as a cause of war, and war for the sake of glory. Cannibalism, human sacrifice, blood-revenge, and other factors in warfare among primit... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2003 -
Civil-military Relations: Building Democracy And Regional Security In Latin America, Southern Asia, And Central Europe (Latin America In Global Perspective Ser.)
With the end of the Cold War the attention of policymakers, political activists, and academics has focused on the factors which promote democracy and regional peace. From both a theoretical and empirical perspective, the contributors to this volume examine the claim that civilian domination is the o... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2000 -
Violent Peace: Militarized Interstate Bargaining in Latin America (International Relations)
When is military force an acceptable tool of foreign policy? Why do democracies use force against each other? David R. Mares argues that the key factors influencing political leaders in all types of polities are the costs to their constituencies of using force and whether the leader can survive thei... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2001 -
Resource Nationalism and Energy Policy: Venezuela in Context (Center on Global Energy Policy Series)
It is widely thought that state ownership of natural resources, oil and natural gas in particular, causes countries to fall under the sway of the “resource curse.” In such cases, governments allegedly display “resource nationalism,” which destabilizes the economy, society, and politics. In this book... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
Power, Institutions, and Leadership in War and Peace: Lessons from Peru and Ecuador, 1995-1998
In January 1995, fighting broke out between Ecuadorian and Peruvian military forces in a remote section of the Amazon. It took more than three years and the interplay of multiple actors and factors to achieve a definitive peace agreement, thus ending what had been the region's oldest unresolved bor... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2012 -
Fetal and Neonatal Brain Injury: Mechanisms, Management And The Risks Of Practice
Improvements in the detection of fetal and neonatal brain injuries, advances in our understanding of the pathophysiology, cellular and molecular bases of encephalopathy, and new treatment options have all combined to produce significant changes in the management of neonatal brain disorders in the pa... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2009 -
Fetal and Neonatal Brain Injury
Improvements in the detection of fetal and neonatal brain injuries, advances in our understanding of the pathophysiology, cellular and molecular bases of encephalopathy, and new treatment options have all combined to produce significant changes in the management of neonatal brain disorders in the pa... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2009 -
Aspirational Power: Brazil on the Long Road to Global Influence
As the largest country in South America by land mass and population, Brazil has been marked since its' independence by a belief that it has a potential to be more than merely a very large country. Set apart from the rest of the hemisphere by culture, language and history, Brazil has also been viewed... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2011 -
Routledge Handbook of Latin American Security
This new Handbook is a comprehensive collection of cutting-edge essays on all aspects of Latin American Security by a mix of established and emerging scholars. The Routledge Handbook of Latin American Security identifies the key contemporary topics of research and debate, taking into account that t... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
United States and Chile: Coming in From the Cold
First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2002 -
A Practical Manual of Diabetes in Pregnancy (Practical Manual of Series)
Edited and authored by international experts,A Practical Manual of Diabetes in Pregnancy presents multi-disciplinary evidence-based guidance relevant for all those caring for women with pre-existing or gestational diabetes. Divided into five sections, the book covers everything from preconception to... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2010 -
The Black Intellectual Tradition: African American Thought in the Twentieth Century (New Black Studies Series #1)
by Derrick P. Alridge • Keisha N. Blain • Cornelius L. Bynum • Jeffrey Lamar Coleman • Pero Gaglo Dagbovie • Stephanie Y. Evans • Aaron David Gresson • Claudrena N. Harold • Leonard Harris • Maurice J. Hobson • La TaSha Levy • Layli Maparyan • Zebulon V. Miletsky • R. Baxter Miller • Edward Onaci • Venetria K. Patton • James B. Stewart • Nikki M. TaylorConsidering the development and ongoing influence of Black thought From 1900 to the present, people of African descent living in the United States have drawn on homegrown and diasporic minds to create a Black intellectual tradition engaged with ideas on race, racial oppression, and the world. Thi... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2021 -
Information Systems and Neuroscience: NeuroIS Retreat 2022 (Lecture Notes in Information Systems and Organisation #58)
by Jan Vom Brocke • René Riedl • Pierre-Majorique Léger • Fred D. Davis • Adriane B. Randolph • Gernot R. Müller-PutzThis book presents the proceedings of the NeuroIS Retreat 2022, June 14-16, Vienna, Austria, reporting on topics at the intersection of information systems (IS) research, neurophysiology and the brain sciences. Readers will discover the latest findings from top scholars in the field of NeuroIS, whic... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
The U.S.-China Military Scorecard: Forces, Geography, and the Evolving Balance of Power, 1996-2017
by David R. Frelinger • Martin C. Libicki • Forrest E. Morgan • Jeff Hagen • Eric Heginbotham • David A. Shlapak • Paul Deluca • Kyle Brady • Lyle J. Morris • Jeffrey Engstrom • Michael Nixon • Jacob L. Heim • Sheng Li • Burgess LairdA RAND study analyzed Chinese and U. S. military capabilities in two scenarios (Taiwan and the Spratly Islands) from 1996 to 2017, finding that trends in most, but not all, areas run strongly against the United States. While U. S. aggregate power remains greater than China s, distance and geograp... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2015 -
After Print: Eighteenth-Century Manuscript Cultures
by Michelle Levy • Beth Fowkes Tobin • Rachael Scarborough King • Philip S. Palmer • Leith Davis • Brian Rejack • Margaret J. M. Ezell • Emily C. Friedman • Collin Jennings • Kathryn R. King • Marissa Nicosia • Colin T. Ramsey • Andrew O. WincklesThe eighteenth century has generally been understood as the Age of Print, when the new medium revolutionized the literary world and rendered manuscript culture obsolete. After Print, however, reveals that the story isn’t so simple. Manuscript remained a vital, effective, and even preferred forum fo... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
Aphids as Crop Pests
by Mark Stevens • Jeremy Pritchard • Jacques Brodeur • Rosemary Rosemary • Rufus Isaacs • Christophe Lacomme • Jean-Philippe Deguine • Robert R Martin • Caroline S Awmack • Sebastiano Barbagallo • Chris Bass • James R Bell • A Nicholas Birch • Roger Blackman • Thierry Brévault • Toby J Bruce • Mauricio G Chang • Giuseppe Massimino Cocuzza • Piero Cravedi • T G Davies • Charles-Antoine Dedryver • Ian Denholm • Gregor Devine • Alan Devonshire • Alan M Dewar • Angela E Douglas • Victor Eastop • Owain Edwards • Frédéric Fabre • Alberto Fereres • Linda M Field • Stan Finch • Stephen P Foster • Michael P Garratt • Robert T Glinwood • Fiona L Goggin • Geoff Gurr • Ann E. Hajek • Thierry Hance • Jim Hardie • Udo Heimbach • George E. Heimpel • Gemma L Hough • Maurice Hullé • Michael E. Irwin • Gail E. Kampmeier • Fatemeh Kohandani-Tafresh • Shinkichi Komazaki • Simon R Leather • Samuel G Leigh • Hugh D Loxdale • Manfred Mackauer • J P Michaud • Françoise Munaut • Xinzhi Ni • Judith K. Pell • Jan Pettersson • John A. Pickett • Jon Pickup • Jean-Sébastien Pierre • Hans-Michael Poehling • Sharron S. Quisenberry • Pierre J. Silvie • John J. Sloggett • Denis Tagu • Mark Tatchell • Thomas Thieme • W Fred Tjallingii • Jason M Tylianakis • Laura H Vickers • Christoph Vorburger • Susan E Webb • Martin S Williamson • Steve Wratten • Jing-Jiang ZhouAphids are among the major global pest groups, causing serious economic damage to many food and commodity crops in most parts of the world. This revision and update of the well-received first edition published ten years ago reflects the expansion of research in genomics, endosymbionts and semiochem... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2017 -
Transforming the Quality of Life for People with Dementia through Contact with the Natural World: Fresh Air on My Face
by Malcolm Goldsmith • Claire Craig • John Killick • Caren Price-Hunt • Brian Hennell • David G Mcnair • June Hennell • Johanna M. Wigg • Trevor Jarvis • Lynda Hughes • Simone De Bruin • Javier Sánchez Merina • Jane Gilliard • Rachael Litherland • Marcus Fellows • Daniel R. George • Peter J. Whitehouse • Neil Mapes • Mary Marshall • Brett Joseph • James Mckillop • Manjit Kaur Nijjar • Lorraine Robertson • Marie-José Enders-SlegersThis important book simply but persuasively demonstrates why we should provide the opportunities for people with dementia to experience the great outdoors. It also gives a voice to people with dementia who have felt the benefit of getting closer to nature. The contributors explore many different way... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2012 -
Transgenic Insects: Techniques and Applications (CABI Biotechnology Series #3)
by Brian L. Weiss • Arvind Sharma • Andrew Hammond • Nicole Klein • John Mumford • Ricardo Pereira • Lucy Carter • Claudia Emerson • Guy Smagghe • Ravi V. Durvasula • Tony Nolan • Serap Aksoy • Aaron Roberts • Hassan M. Ahmed • Omar S. Akbar • Yehonatan Alcalay • Luke Alphey • Yael Arien • Rotem Daniel Avraham • Camilla Beech • Nicholas J. Bongio • Vanessa Bottino-Rojas • L. Roman Carrasco • Jackson Champer • Isabelle Coche • Carolina Concha • Rocco D’Amato • Brinda Dass • Jason A. Delborne • Ellen M. Dotson • Matthew P. Edgington • Guido Favia • Adam P. Forshaw • Alexander W.E. Franz • Marisa L. Guido • Monika Gulia-Nuss • Daniella An Haber • Alfred M. Handler • Keith R. Hayes • Ivy Hurwitz • Anthony A. James • Thomas P. Kelly • Ana Kormos • Lee Benjamin Lamdan • David J. Lampe • Rosemary S. Lees • Maria Vittoria Mancini • Aditi Mankad • Andrew Nuss • David A. O’Brochta • Riccardo Papa • Philippos Aris Papathanos • Michael Pham • Megan Quinlan • Robyn Raban • Jason L. Rasgon • Yasha Rohwer • Nathan Rose • Marc F. Schetelig • Kristof De Schutter • Hideki Sezutsu • Gregory S. Simmons • Toshiki Tamura • Delphine Thizy • Lea Pare Toe • Ernst A. Wimmer • Liu YangTechnology for modifying the genotypes and phenotypes of insects and other arthropods has steadily progressed with the development of more precise and powerful methods, most prominently transgenic modification. For many insect pests, there is now almost unlimited ability to modify phenotypes to bene... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
Community Organizing and Community Building for Health and Social Equity, 4th edition
by Barack Obama • Stephen B. Thomas • Rinku Sen • John P. Kretzmann • Rachel Morello-Frosch • Meredith Minkler • Nina Wallerstein • Barbara A. Israel • Eugenia Eng • Edith A. Parker • Tom Wolff • Celina Su • Manuel Pastor • Jason Corburn • Whitney Johnson • Ronald Labonté • Mark S. Homan • Christine Mitchell • Michelle C. Kegler • Patricia Wakimoto • Lionel J. Beaulieu • Adam B. Becker • Lynn Blanchard • Anne Bluethenthal • Frances Dunn Butterfross • Lisa Cacari Stone • Caricia Catalani • Charlotte Yu-Ting Chang • Roxana Chen • Wayland X. Coleman • Chris M. Coombe • Lori Dorfman • Nancy Epstein • Jessica Estrada • Jennifer Falbe • Stephanie A. Farquhar • Prisila Gonzalez • Joseph Griffin • Leslie Grover • Lorraine Gutiérrez • Trevor Hancock • Susana Hennesey Laverty • Reva Hines • Lili Farhang • Solange Gould • Cheryl A. Hyde • Anthony B. Iton • Josh Kirschenbaum • Blishda Lacet • Pam Tau Lee • Edith A. Lewis • Jennifer Lifshay • Laura Linnan • Shaw San Liu • Shaddai Martinez Cuestas • Marty Martinson • John L. McKnight • Mary Anne Morgan • Angela Ni • Susan Racine Passmore • Amber Akemi Piatt • Cheri A. Pies • Clara Pinsky • R. David Rebanal • Kathleen M. Roe • Zachary Rowe • Alicia L. Salvatore • Shannon Sanchez-Youngman • Amy J. Shulz • Lee Staples • Makani Themba • Maria Elena Torre • Evan Vandommelen-Gonzalez • Dierde Visser • Kirsten Wysen • Marisa Ruiz Asari • Nickie Bazell • Derek M Griffith • Heather CameThe fourth edition of Community Organizing and Community Building for Health and Social Equity provides both classic and recent contributions to the field, with a special accent on how these approaches can contribute to health and social equity. The 23 chapters offer conceptual frameworks, skill- bu... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
Knowing Him by Heart: African Americans on Abraham Lincoln
by Frederick Douglass • James Smith • Julius Lester • Barack Obama • Clarence Thomas • Langston Hughes • Benjamin Quarles • John Hope Franklin • Daisy Bates • Elizabeth Keckley • Mary Frances Berry • Richard Carwardine • James Weldon Johnson • Paul Laurence Dunbar • T. Thomas Fortune • James Oakes • Douglas L. Wilson • Charles Chesnutt • Gwendolyn Brooks • W. E. Du Bois • George Washington • Vincent Harding • Jackie Robinson • Sojourner Truth • Henry Johnson • St. Clair Drake • Thomas Hamilton • Michael Burlingame • Matthew Pinsker • Kelly Miller • Elizabeth Thomas • Rodney O. Davis • Hannah Johnson • Walter White • John Proctor • Claude McKay • Booker T Washington • Martin Delany • Robert Hamilton • Henry Louis Gates • Henry Highland Garnet • Edna Greene Medford • Alice Dunbar-Nelson • Thurgood Marshall • Gerald J Prokopowicz • John R Sellers • Jennifer L Weber • H. Ford Douglas • Jabez P Campbell • Henry McNeal Turner • Daniel Alexander Payne • Philip A Bell • Edward M Thomas • Alfred P Smith • Frances Ellen Harper • George B Vashon • Thomas Strother • Ezra R Johnson • Alexander T Cps • Alexander T Augusta • Jeremiah B Sanderson • Osborne P Anderson • Thomas Morris Chester • James H Hudson • Robert Purvis • Leonard A Grimes • Jeremiah Asher • John Willis Menard • Henry African Civilization Society • William Florville • Thomas R Street • John H Morgan • Mattild Burr • Amos G Beman • Richard H Cain • Jean Baptiste Roudanez • Arnold Bertonneau • George E North Carolina Freedmen • Don Carlos Rutter • George E Stephens • James W.C Pennington • S. W. Africano" • Annie Davis • S. W. Chase • Isaac J Hill • Alexander H Newton • Jacob Thomas • Angeline R Demby • Henry O Wagoner • George W Le Vere • Paul Trevigne • Thomas N.C Liverpool • H Cordelia • Emmanuel K Love • William S Scarborough • John Mercer Langston • Peter H Clark • Ews Hammond • Charles W Anderson • Harriet Tubman • Julius F Taylor • Ida B Wells-Barnett • Archibald H Grimke • Elizabeth Keckly • William A Sinclair • Jesse Max Barber • Mary Church Terrell • Reverdy C Ransom • William Monroe Trotter • Maude K Griffin • Hightower T Kealing • Silas X Floyd • George L Knox • Thomas S Inborden • George W Henderson • William Pickens • Etta M. Cottin • John M Gandy • Fred R Moore • Sylvanie F Williams • Harry C Smith • James H Magee • James L Curtis • John W. Bowen • Cora J Ball • Thomas Nelson Baker • Josephine Silone Yates • William H Lewis • John H Murphy • Robert R Wright • Theophile T Allain • Oliva Ward Bush-Banks • Richard W Gadsden • Edward A Johnson • Hubert H Harrison • Carter G Woodson • Robert R Moton • Georgia Douglas Johnson • Lamar Perkins • Samuel A Haynes • William E Lilly • Robert L Vann • William Lloyd Imes • Eugene Gordon • Arthur W Mitchell • Grace Evans • Aaron H Payne • Roscoe Conkling Simmons • Joel A Rogers • Mary McLeod Bethune • Ella Baker • Luther Porter Jackson • Willard Townsend • Ralph J Bunche • Roy Wilkins • Mordecai W Johnson • Carl J Murphy • Martin Luther King • Edith Sampson • Charles H Wesley • Julius Malcolm X • Lerone Bennett • Henry Lee Moon • John H Sengstacke • Norman E. Hodges • Arvarh E. Strickland • Barbara Jeanne FieldsThough not blind to Abraham Lincoln's imperfections, Black Americans long ago laid a heartfelt claim to his legacy. At the same time, they have consciously reshaped the sixteenth president's image for their own social and political ends. Frederick Hord and Matthew D. Norman's anthology explores the ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2023