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In recent years, in the context of the War on Terror and
globalization, there has been an increased interest in terrorism
and organized crime in academia, yet historical research into such
phenomena is relatively scarce. This book resets the balance and
emphasizes the importance of historical research to understanding
terrorism and organized crime. This book explores historical
accounts of organized crime and terrorism, drawing on research from
around the world in such areas as the USA, UK, Ireland, France,
Colombia, Somalia, Burma, Turkey and Trinidad and Tobago. Combining
key case studies with fresh conceptualizations of organized crime
and terrorism, this book reinvigorates scholarship by comparing and
contrasting different historical accounts and considering their
overlaps. Critical 'lessons learned' are drawn out from each
chapter, providing valuable insights for current policy, practice
and scholarship. This book is an indispensable guide for
understanding the wider history of terrorism and organized crime.
It maps key historical changes and trends in this area and
underlines the vital importance of history in understanding
critical contemporary issues. Taking an interdisciplinary approach
and written by leading criminologists, historians and political
scientists, this book will be of particular interest to students of
terrorism/counter-terrorism, organized crime, drug policy,
criminology, security studies, politics, international relations,
sociology and history.
Painting Labour in Scotland and Europe, 1850-1900 explores hitherto
unrecognised European variations in the phenomena of rural labour
imagery, particularly in Scotland. In exploring these distinctions
relative to Scotland and Europe it looks to develop a new
understanding of the commonalities and idiosyncrasies of rural
labour imagery which have often been treated as homogenous. Lacking
the detailed analysis that has been accorded other images, writing
about Scottish painting has often been appended to analyses of
English or French imagery. It has generally been understood as
intellectually divorced from the sometimes brutal realities of
evolving Scottish nineteenth century urbanism, or simply ignored.
Painting Labour in Scotland and Europe, 1850-1900 sets out
systematically to discuss the Scottish rural painting in relation
to its particular Scottish historical context, both sociological
and aesthetic and its English and European counterparts. Alongside
canonical Scottish images by major figures such as James Guthrie,
the book explores many hitherto under researched and unconsidered
paintings by nineteenth century Scottish artists, and considers
them in relation to major English and Continental Realist and
Romantic painters. The juxtaposition of J.F. Millet with W.D.
McKay, and Edwin Landseer with George Reid makes for a volume that
will appeal both to an academic audience and to one interested in
European art history more generally.
At Easter of 1916 an armed insurrection, launched by paramilitary
republicans, took place in Ireland. When the General Post Office in
Dublin was seized on Easter Monday, the rebels declared a free
Irish Republic, independent from Great Britain. In the century that
has passed since the Easter Rising, each generation of Irish
republicans has mounted their own paramilitary campaign to bring
about an independent united Ireland, from the War of Independence,
to The Troubles, and right up to the modern-day dissident
republican violence. By bringing together a range of researchers,
from across a variety of academic disciplines, this edited volume
analyses the one hundred years of Irish republican violence from
1916 to 2016. The assembled authors assess the evolution of
paramilitary violence through a variety of themes, including the
IRA from 1919-21, the case of 'the Disappeared', the relationship
between counterterrorism killings and Provisional IRA bombings, and
the analysis of modern-day violent dissident republican statements.
Bringing the volume to a close are two long-form interviews with
two key actors within the Troubles, Danny Morrison and Billy
Hutchinson. In these interviews they discuss their own perspective
on one hundred years of Irish republican paramilitary violence.
This book was originally published as a special issue of Terrorism
and Political Violence.
At Easter of 1916 an armed insurrection, launched by paramilitary
republicans, took place in Ireland. When the General Post Office in
Dublin was seized on Easter Monday, the rebels declared a free
Irish Republic, independent from Great Britain. In the century that
has passed since the Easter Rising, each generation of Irish
republicans has mounted their own paramilitary campaign to bring
about an independent united Ireland, from the War of Independence,
to The Troubles, and right up to the modern-day dissident
republican violence. By bringing together a range of researchers,
from across a variety of academic disciplines, this edited volume
analyses the one hundred years of Irish republican violence from
1916 to 2016. The assembled authors assess the evolution of
paramilitary violence through a variety of themes, including the
IRA from 1919-21, the case of 'the Disappeared', the relationship
between counterterrorism killings and Provisional IRA bombings, and
the analysis of modern-day violent dissident republican statements.
Bringing the volume to a close are two long-form interviews with
two key actors within the Troubles, Danny Morrison and Billy
Hutchinson. In these interviews they discuss their own perspective
on one hundred years of Irish republican paramilitary violence.
This book was originally published as a special issue of Terrorism
and Political Violence.
Painting Labour in Scotland and Europe, 1850-1900 explores hitherto
unrecognized European variations in the phenomena of rural labour
imagery, particularly in Scotland. In exploring these distinctions
relative to Scotland and Europe it looks to develop a new
understanding of the commonalities and idiosyncrasies of rural
labour imagery which have often been treated as homogenous. Lacking
the detailed analysis that has been accorded other images, writing
about Scottish painting has often been appended to analyses of
English or French imagery. It has generally been understood as
intellectually divorced from the sometimes brutal realities of
evolving Scottish nineteenth-century urbanism, or simply ignored.
Painting Labour in Scotland and Europe, 1850-1900 sets out
systematically to discuss the Scottish rural painting in relation
to its particular Scottish historical context, both sociological
and aesthetic and its English and European counterparts. Alongside
canonical Scottish images by major figures such as James Guthrie,
the book explores many hitherto under researched and unconsidered
paintings by nineteenth-century Scottish artists, and considers
them in relation to major English and Continental Realist and
Romantic painters. The juxtaposition of J.F. Millet with W.D.
McKay, and Edwin Landseer with George Reid makes for a volume that
will appeal both to an academic audience and to one interested in
European art history more generally.
In recent years, in the context of the War on Terror and
globalization, there has been an increased interest in terrorism
and organized crime in academia, yet historical research into such
phenomena is relatively scarce. This book resets the balance and
emphasizes the importance of historical research to understanding
terrorism and organized crime. This book explores historical
accounts of organized crime and terrorism, drawing on research from
around the world in such areas as the USA, UK, Ireland, France,
Colombia, Somalia, Burma, Turkey and Trinidad and Tobago. Combining
key case studies with fresh conceptualizations of organized crime
and terrorism, this book reinvigorates scholarship by comparing and
contrasting different historical accounts and considering their
overlaps. Critical 'lessons learned' are drawn out from each
chapter, providing valuable insights for current policy, practice
and scholarship. This book is an indispensable guide for
understanding the wider history of terrorism and organized crime.
It maps key historical changes and trends in this area and
underlines the vital importance of history in understanding
critical contemporary issues. Taking an interdisciplinary approach
and written by leading criminologists, historians and political
scientists, this book will be of particular interest to students of
terrorism/counter-terrorism, organized crime, drug policy,
criminology, security studies, politics, international relations,
sociology and history.
A distinctive and direct guide to legitimacy in business, focusing
on the new benchmark of a 'Social License to Operate'. Featuring
case studies of what is and isn't working, this book explains how
business owners and CSR professionals can integrate legitimacy into
the heart of their company strategy, beyond CSR and good PR.
Business and government leaders need to understand how they gain,
and how they might lose, legitimacy, in order to operate in the
emerging economies and new forms of democracy of tomorrow.
Based on thirty years of first-hand experience, this distinctive
and direct guide to legitimacy in business focuses on the new
benchmark of a 'Social License to Operate'. Drawing on examples of
what is and isn't working in the field of corporate responsibility,
including BP in the Gulf of Mexico, Shell in Nigeria, the
leadership of The Body Shop, and the economic opening of Burma,
readers will be offered an insight to how the social license to
operate is transforming power relationships.
In the new edition only minor modifications have been made. Some
print ing errors have been corrected and a few clarifications have
been made. In recent years the activity in relativistic many-body
theory has increased con siderably, but this field falls outside
the scope of this book. A brief summary of the recent developments,
however, has been included in the section on "relativistic effects"
in Chap. 14. In addition, only a very limited number of references
have been added, without any systematic updating of the material.
Goteborg, December 1985 l. Lindgren. J. Morrison Preface to the
First Edition This book has developed through a series of lectures
on atomic theory given these last eight years at Chalmers
University of Technology and several oth er research centers. These
courses were intended to make the basic elements of atomic theory
available to experimentalists working with the hyperfine structure
and the optical properties of atoms and to provide some insight
into recent developments in the theory."
Most of the walks feature a pub along the route - for rest and
refreshment - and none of them are overly strenuous, suitable for a
young family or just a group of friends out to enjoy the priceless
Cumbrian countryside.
Modern Physics with Modern Computational Methods, Third Edition
presents the ideas that have shaped modern physics and provides an
introduction to current research in the different fields of
physics. Intended as the text for a first course in modern physics
following an introductory course in physics with calculus, the book
begins with a brief and focused account of experiments that led to
the formulation of the new quantum theory, while ensuing chapters
go more deeply into the underlying physics. In this new edition,
the differential equations that arise are converted into sets of
linear equation or matrix equations by making a finite difference
approximation of the derivatives or by using the spline collocation
method. MATLAB programs are described for solving the eigenvalue
equations for a particle in a finite well and the simple harmonic
oscillator and for solving the radial equation for hydrogen. The
lowest-lying solutions of these problems are plotted using MATLAB
and the physical significance of these solutions are discussed.
Each of the later chapters conclude with a description of modern
developments.
A collection of some of the most memorable matches featuring the
WWE star Sheamus. Nicknamed Great White, Sheamus hails from Ireland
and has enjoyed great success in WWE, becoming World Heavyweight
Champion in 2011. The featured matches include his battles against
John Cena, John Morrison, Daniel Bryan and his memorable
involvement in a 30-man royal rumble match at Royal Rumble 2012.
The year 2001 marked the fiftieth anniversary of the Convention
Relating to the Status of Refugees. The Refugee Convention at Fifty
is a commemorative volume, but it is one that points toward a
future that will see a continued need for refugee protection. The
volume performs a much-needed task for the current era: it
carefully examines this key legal text, which impacts not only the
law but also the politics and sociology of forced migration. Joanne
van Selm and her coeditors have collected essays by scholars from a
wide range of disciplines, NGO staff members, international
organization professionals, and national-level policy makers who
discuss the impact of this legal document on forced migrants, the
states they migrate from and to, and the societies they join and
leave behind. Sub-themes covered include the potential for
solidarity between states in ensuring that legal and political
commitments are upheld; regional approaches to refugee protection
and displacement; and the human and social consequences of forced
migration for those covered by, or excluded from, refugee
protection. The geographic and disciplinary spread of the book is
unparalleled, and The Refugee Convention at Fifty sets for the
contentious and critical study of refugees the high standards for
scholarship and innovative thinking that will serve as precedent
for future policy making and implementation in the field.
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