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Despite many negative expectations of the 2018 FIFA World Cup,
Russia delivered one of the best World Cups in living memory. This
book brings together leading scholars working in Russian studies,
sociology and political science to analyse the 2018 World Cup and
assess its significance for sport, Russia and the world. The book
explores the connections between sport, soft power, populism,
protest, and international politics, and investigates topics
including security, surveillance, social media and patriotic
mobilization, shining new light on key contemporary themes in the
social sciences. It reflects upon the importance of sporting
mega-events for public diplomacy, and considers what the 2018 World
Cup can tell us about the current condition of Russian society and
the Russian state. This is fascinating reading for anybody with an
interest in soccer, sport and society, Russia, international
politics, events, or post-Soviet societies.
Nationalism is now the dominant narrative in Russian politics, and
one with genuine popularity in society. Russian Nationalism and
Ethnic Violence is a theoretical and empirical study which seeks to
break the concept of "ethnic violence" into distinguishable types,
examining the key question of why violence within the same conflict
takes different forms at certain times and providing empirical
insight into the politics of one of the most important countries in
the world today. Theoretically, the work promises to bring the
content of ethnic identity back into explanations of ethnic
violence, with concepts from social theory, and empirical and
qualitative analysis of databases, newspaper reports, human rights
reports, social media, and ethnographic interviews. It sets out a
new typology of ethnic violence, studied against examples of
neo-Nazi attacks, Cossack violence against Meskhetian Turks, and
Russian race riots. Russian Nationalism and Ethnic Violence brings
hate crimes in Russia into the study of ethnic violence and
examines the social undercurrents that have led to Putin's embrace
of nationalism. It adds to the growing body of English language
scholarship on Russia's nationalist turn in the post-Cold War era,
and will be essential reading for anyone seeking to understand not
only why different forms of ethnic violence occur, but also the
potential trajectory of Russian politics in the next 20 years.
Nationalism is now the dominant narrative in Russian politics, and
one with genuine popularity in society. Russian Nationalism and
Ethnic Violence is a theoretical and empirical study which seeks to
break the concept of "ethnic violence" into distinguishable types,
examining the key question of why violence within the same conflict
takes different forms at certain times and providing empirical
insight into the politics of one of the most important countries in
the world today. Theoretically, the work promises to bring the
content of ethnic identity back into explanations of ethnic
violence, with concepts from social theory, and empirical and
qualitative analysis of databases, newspaper reports, human rights
reports, social media, and ethnographic interviews. It sets out a
new typology of ethnic violence, studied against examples of
neo-Nazi attacks, Cossack violence against Meskhetian Turks, and
Russian race riots. Russian Nationalism and Ethnic Violence brings
hate crimes in Russia into the study of ethnic violence and
examines the social undercurrents that have led to Putin's embrace
of nationalism. It adds to the growing body of English language
scholarship on Russia's nationalist turn in the post-Cold War era,
and will be essential reading for anyone seeking to understand not
only why different forms of ethnic violence occur, but also the
potential trajectory of Russian politics in the next 20 years.
Soil classification and terminology are fundamental issues for the
clear understanding and communication of the subject. However,
while there are many national soil classification systems, these do
not directly correlate with each other. This leads to confusion and
great difficulty in undertaking comparative scientific research
that draws on more than one system and in making sense of
international scientific papers using a system that is unfamiliar
to the reader. This book aims to clarify this position by
describing and comparing different systems and evaluating them in
the context of the World Reference Base (WRB) for Soil Resources.
The latter was set up to resolve these problems by creating an
international 'umbrella' system for soil correlation. All soil
scientists should then classify soils using the WRB as well as
their national systems. The book is a definitive and essential
reference work for all students studying soils as part of life,
earth or environmental sciences, as well as professional soil
scientists. Published with International Union of Soil Sciences
Despite many negative expectations of the 2018 FIFA World Cup,
Russia delivered one of the best World Cups in living memory. This
book brings together leading scholars working in Russian studies,
sociology and political science to analyse the 2018 World Cup and
assess its significance for sport, Russia and the world. The book
explores the connections between sport, soft power, populism,
protest, and international politics, and investigates topics
including security, surveillance, social media and patriotic
mobilization, shining new light on key contemporary themes in the
social sciences. It reflects upon the importance of sporting
mega-events for public diplomacy, and considers what the 2018 World
Cup can tell us about the current condition of Russian society and
the Russian state. This is fascinating reading for anybody with an
interest in soccer, sport and society, Russia, international
politics, events, or post-Soviet societies.
Soil classification and terminology are fundamental issues for the
clear understanding and communication of the subject. However,
while there are many national soil classification systems, these do
not directly correlate with each other. This leads to confusion and
great difficulty in undertaking comparative scientific research
that draws on more than one system and in making sense of
international scientific papers using a system that is unfamiliar
to the reader. This book aims to clarify this position by
describing and comparing different systems and evaluating them in
the context of the World Reference Base (WRB) for Soil Resources.
The latter was set up to resolve these problems by creating an
international 'umbrella' system for soil correlation. All soil
scientists should then classify soils using the WRB as well as
their national systems. The book is a definitive and essential
reference work for all students studying soils as part of life,
earth or environmental sciences, as well as professional soil
scientists. Published with International Union of Soil Sciences
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Ireland [1913] (Hardcover)
Richard Arnold Bermann; Translated by Leesa Wheatley; Edited by Florian Krobb
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R793
Discovery Miles 7 930
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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The volume contains the first, and only, English translation of
Richard Bermann's Ireland, produced by Dr Leesa Wheatley, a
professional translator and author of a major study on German
travel writing on Ireland since 1780, and Professor Florian Krobb,
School of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures, Maynooth
University, who counts amongst his specialisms the writings of
Richard Arnold Bermann (1883-1939), one of the most prominent and
the most travelled of journalists of the first decades of the 20th
century. This translation is complemented by comprehensive notes
and explanations, an introduction and a list of Further Reading.
The volume constitutes a unique source on Ireland immediately
before World War I; it places Irish conflicts in international
Imperialist scenarios, displays the sensitivities of an Austrian
Jew working from Berlin on nationhood, federalism, diversity of
(religious and political) cultures; it affords an insight into
Irish culture and society that is astute, entertaining, diverse,
informed and independent. Many of the author's impressions on
political movements, cultural displays and national characters
still, and in a truly astounding way, resonate today.
Renowned researchers summarize the current knowledge on ammonoid
paleobiology. The book begins with a description of the systematic
position of the Ammonoidea within the Cephalopoda, providing the
phylogenetic framework for the rest of the book. Following
discussions include soft- and hard-part morphology of ammonoids,
rate of growth and ontogeny, and taphonomy and ecology. Closing
chapters explore the distribution of ammonoids in time and space as
well as their extinction at the end of the Cretaceous. With its
diverse viewpoints and new material, this resource will benefit
researchers and graduate students in paleontology, marine biology,
and evolutionary biology.
The region around Cincinnati, Ohio, is known throughout the
world for the abundant and beautiful fossils found in limestones
and shales that were deposited as sediments on the sea floor during
the Ordovician Period, about 450 million years ago some 250 million
years before the dinosaurs lived. In Ordovician time, the shallow
sea that covered much of what is now the North American continent
teemed with marine life. The Cincinnati area has yielded some of
the world's most abundant and best-preserved fossils of
invertebrate animals such as trilobites, bryozoans, brachiopods,
molluscs, echinoderms, and graptolites. So famous are the
Ordovician fossils and rocks of the Cincinnati region that
geologists use the term "Cincinnatian" for strata of the same age
all over North America. This book synthesizes more than 150 years
of research on this fossil treasure-trove, describing and
illustrating the fossils, the life habits of the animals
represented, their communities, and living relatives, as well as
the nature of the rock strata in which they are found and the
environmental conditions of the ancient sea."
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Irland (Hardcover)
Richard Arnold Bermann
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R912
Discovery Miles 9 120
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Irland (Paperback)
Richard Arnold Bermann
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R598
Discovery Miles 5 980
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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This book brings together international scientists who focus on
present-day and fossil cephalopods, ranging broadly from Paleozoic
ammonoids to today's octopods. It covers systematics and evolution;
hard- and soft part morphology; and ecology, biogeography, and
taphonomy. The book also includes new evidence for the existence of
an ink sac in fossil ammonoids and features the first record of an
in-depth study of octopus ecology in Alaska.
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