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In 922 AD, an Arab envoy from Baghdad named Ibn Fadlan encountered
a party of Viking traders on the upper reaches of the Volga River.
In his subsequent report on his mission he gave a meticulous and
astonishingly objective description of Viking customs, dress, table
manners, religion and sexual practices, as well as the only
eyewitness account ever written of a Viking ship cremation. Between
the ninth and fourteenth centuries, Arab travellers such as Ibn
Fadlan journeyed widely and frequently into the far north, crossing
territories that now include Russia, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan.
Their fascinating accounts describe how the numerous tribes and
peoples they encountered traded furs, paid tribute and waged wars.
This accessible new translation offers an illuminating insight into
the world of the Arab geographers, and the medieval lands of the
far north.
This detailed, practitioner text, explains national security law in
all its aspects. It collates and explains the core elements of the
law, both substantive and procedural, and the practical issues
which may arise in national security litigation. The book draws on
the professional experience of a team of expert contributors. The
first part explores the meaning of "national security", examines
the respective roles in this area of Parliament, the executive and
the courts, and explains the law relating to the security and
intelligence agencies, their powers and oversight. The core of the
book addresses the various executive measures used to disrupt
terrorism, espionage and other hostile state activity, usually on
the basis of secret intelligence, and the civil proceedings that
may result from executive action taken for the national security
purposes. The third part addresses national security and the
criminal law. The remaining chapters address national security law
in such diverse contexts as inquests, inquiries, employment,
vetting, family, freedom of information, and data protection
proceedings. National security law is now of relevance to a wide
range of practising lawyers, judges, legislators, policymakers,
oversight bodies, and academic experts working in a variety of
legal fields well beyond public law. The highly-specialised nature
of the topic make this book a vital text not only for those seeking
an overview of the law, but also for experienced practitioners
instructed to act in proceedings in which national security issues
may arise. The intense media and public scrutiny which accompanies
many national security cases will also make this book of interest
to a wider audience seeking to understand the legal context of such
cases. The enhanced digital product (included) provides both
offline and online access wherever you are on OUP LawReader.
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An Account of Japan, 1609 (Hardcover)
Roderigo De Vivero; Introduction by Caroline Stone; Notes by Caroline Stone; Translated by Caroline Stone
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R872
Discovery Miles 8 720
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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In 1608, Roderigo de Vivero, soldier and administrator, set out
from Acapulco to take up his post as interim Governor of the
Philippines. On the way home, his ship was wrecked off the coast of
Japan and he lost everything. While in the Philippines, he had been
in communication with the Shogun, Tokugawa Ieyasu, who now treated
him as an honoured guest and informal ambassador. Trade, security
for the expanding Christian population, mining technology and the
problem of Dutch piracy were all discussed. When Vivero left Japan
- in a ship built by the Englishman, Will Adams - he took with him
the first Japanese trade delegation to the New World. Enormously
impressed by Japan and the Japanese, he wrote an account of his
stay and a series of 'recommendations' to the King, Philip III of
Spain - who, of course, ignored them. This new translation aims to
make accessible an account that is unusual for being written by a
military man rather than one in Holy Orders, and for bringing an
extraordinary number of different civilizations into contact.Short,
introductory, pieces to the account itself provide fascinating
background information on some of the lesser known aspects of the
region and period, including piracy, trade and the introduction of
firearms into Japan.
Helena Gleichen, Queen Victoria's great-niece and cousin to George
V, gives the lie to the belief that Victorian women were meek,
submissive and led restricted lives. A passionate horsewoman and
successful artist, the autobiographical anecdotes in the earlier
part of the book are lively and amusing. The longer second section
gives a detailed account of how she and Nina Hollings, her
long-term companion and sister of the composer and suffragette
Ethel Smyth, raised and manned one of the first mobile X-Ray units
to be used by the British in World War I - Marie Curie was
organizing the French radiography service - for which they both
received numerous decorations. Helena Gleichen paints a vivid
picture of the war in Italy, which tends to be little remembered
compared to the Western Front, and above all gives an extremely
interesting account of how the X-ray Unit was set up and operated,
and the considerable impact it had on the treatment and survival
rate of the wounded. Gleichen's fascinating writings are here given
a new Introduction by Caroline Stone.
"From the age of thirteen I wandered abroad and at twenty-one I
decided to take a little trip across France dressed as a man....."
Maria ter Meetelen tells the story of her capture by Barbary
pirates and twelve years as a slave at Meknes in Morocco.
Straightforward and with no literary pretensions, her voice comes
down the centuries, robust, clear, personal and often surprising:
"I do not complain at having been so far across the world, nor of
my twelve years of slavery, nor of the suffering the Turks caused
me, I can rise above that. But the spitefulnessand derision that my
husband and I suffered from our fellow-countrymen cannot be
forgotten, and is impossible for me to set it down here in writing.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
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The Story of My Life (Paperback)
Fadhma Aith Mansour Amrouche; Translated by Caroline Stone; Introduction by Caroline Stone
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R729
Discovery Miles 7 290
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This moving autobiography of a Berber woman from the village of
Tizi-Hibel in the Kabilie Mountains of Algeria is unique on a
number of levels. Illegitimate, Fadhma Amrouche would have been
killed with her mother to preserve the honour of the family, but
for the intervention of the French authorities. Because of this,
she received an education and eventually married a Christian
convert, although they remained closely linked to their families of
origin. Her account of battling poverty, illness and exile is a
gripping story. Fadhma's fight for an education in a world of
almost universal female illiteracy was nothing short of heroic. She
and her children moved from the harsh, fixed hierarchies of a
traditional Berber village with archaic means of production to
become cosmopolitan Parisians. The journey was filled with
heartbreak, and Fadhma never overcame her nostalgia for what she
had lost, but never doubted that the journey had to be made. Her
unassuming narrative throws an unforgettable light on Berber life,
women's position in traditional societies and the tensions between
governed and governors in the colonial world.
Odette du Puigaudeau is best known for her major ethnographic work,
Arts et Coutumes des Maures, a detailed study, in words and
drawings, of the cultural world of the nomads of Mauretania. The
present work explains how she came to write it. Barefoot Through
Mauretania is an account of her first journey across the country by
camel in 1933-4, with her life-long companion, Marion Snones. The
book records the adventures of the two women during that year,
often with a touch of humour. Above all, however, it presents a
picture of a way of life that has, as they feared, almost vanished,
and their determination that it should be recorded. Odette du
Puigaudeau wrote a number of other books on different aspects of
nomad life, such as the salt caravans and date markets, as well as
articles on prehistoric rock-drawings, and a charming tribute to
her pet leopard, Rachid.
Miss Tully's Letters form a clear and eminently readable narrative
of her years in Tripoli and the political situation there in the
late 18th c, as well as a unique account of relationships within
the harem of the ruler. She and her nieces had free access to the
women of the family of the Bashaw (Pasha) and an intimate
relationship developed. The Preface to the first edition of 1816,
tells us that Miss Tully's nieces had spoken Arabic all their
lives, and she herself clearly learned some, but it would still be
fascinating to know whether this was the only common language of
the harem or whether they also made use of the lingua franca in use
at the time. The ruler's wife was a Georgian, his favourite was a
local, presumably Arabic-speaking, Jewish woman, his daughters were
married to renegade south Italians and the other inmates of the
harem were of European, Circassian and possibly Berber origin,
together with numerous Africans from various points south of the
Sahara. Not much is known of the Tully family and a summary of the
little available background is given below. The following notes
attempt to provide a historical context for some of the main issues
mentioned by Miss Tully: nomad raids, piracy, slaving and famine
had been problems on and off for a couple of thousand years. Miss
Tully sets down the story of the bitter quarrels among the young
Karamanli brothers and their conclusion has been added for the sake
of completeness and because of its broader historical interest. The
period between the writing of the letters and their publication saw
major changes in Europe, among them the French Revolution, the
Napoleonic Wars and the abolition of slavery; optimism and the hope
of political advance was in the air. The words of the 1816 Preface,
explaining why Miss Tully's view of Tripoli is of particular
interest, seem to echo a very modern preoccupation: ..".the
expectation of seeing there a nearer approximation to the
enlightened principles of other nations, with regard to the
personal rights and liberties of mankind....."
In the year 1400 the princes of Europe sympathetically were much
bestirred, fearing the imminent fall of Constantinople and the
extinction of the Eastern Empire. The Ottoman Sultan Bazayid
(otherwise Bajazet) was already in possession of almost the whole
of what subsequently became Turkey in Europe. The Emperor Manuel
still was lord of Constantinople, but beyond the city walls
possessed a mere strip of territory along the north coast of the
Sea of Marmora, and extending to the Black Sea, a strip some fifty
miles in length but under thirty in breadth. Four years before
(September 1396) an immense composite crusading army under the
leadership of the Count of Nevers (a cousin of king Charles VI of
France) had marched against the Turks to the support of king
Sigismund of Hungary. But the Christians had been completely routed
by Sultan Bayazid at Nicopolis on the lower Danube, an immense
number of them had been killed, a lesser number made prisoners (who
later had to be ransomed at heavy cost), and Europe in terror, the
Emperor Manuel now shut up in Constantinople, all were waiting to
learn what the Sultan next would do.From their capital established
at Brusa the Turkish Sultans, past and present, had fomented many
conspiracies at the Imperial Court. The father of Manuel had been
the Emperor John Palaologus (1341a'1391) and Manuel's elder brother
Andronicus had at an early age been proclaimed Emperor elect.1 In
the days of Bayazid's father Sultan Murad (1360 to 1389) his eldest
son Savaji had made a conspiracy with Andronicus whereby these two
young princes had purposed to dethrone their respective fathers.
The conspiracy miscarried, Savaji was put to death which brought
his younger brother Bayazid later to be Sultan, and Andronicus (in
company with his young son John) was shut up in the Constantinople
State prison, the celebrated Tower of the Anemas. As a result
Manuel his younger brother then became heira'apparent and
coa'Emperor. But in Constantinople after two years the tables were
turned by a palace plot. The Emperor John Palaologus and Manuel
found themselves in the Anemas Tower, while Andronicus (with John
the younger) assumed the purple.Kaleidoscopic changes again ensued;
the old Emperor and Manuel after two years' detention managed to
make their escape from durance and regained power: Andronicus was
outlawed and banished. Later, however, with John the younger, he
was established in the government of Selymbria, a city on the Sea
of Marmora, a few miles west of Constantinople, and the peace
lasted some years.
This detailed, practitioner text, explains national security law in
all its aspects. It collates and explains the core elements of the
law, both substantive and procedural, and the practical issues
which may arise in national security litigation. The book draws on
the professional experience of a team of expert contributors. The
first part explores the meaning of "national security", examines
the respective roles in this area of Parliament, the executive and
the courts, and explains the law relating to the security and
intelligence agencies, their powers and oversight. The core of the
book addresses the various executive measures used to disrupt
terrorism, espionage and other hostile state activity, usually on
the basis of secret intelligence, and the civil proceedings that
may result from executive action taken for the national security
purposes. The third part addresses national security and the
criminal law. The remaining chapters address national security law
in such diverse contexts as inquests, inquiries, employment,
vetting, family, freedom of information, and data protection
proceedings. National security law is now of relevance to a wide
range of practising lawyers, judges, legislators, policymakers,
oversight bodies, and academic experts working in a variety of
legal fields well beyond public law. The highly-specialised nature
of the topic make this book a vital text not only for those seeking
an overview of the law, but also for experienced practitioners
instructed to act in proceedings in which national security issues
may arise. The intense media and public scrutiny which accompanies
many national security cases will also make this book of interest
to a wider audience seeking to understand the legal context of such
cases.
Des tableaux luminescents forment le focus visuel de "Mary
Pratt," une retrospective de sa carriere qui examine chaque aspect
du parcours creatif de Pratt. Les peintures de Mary Pratt -- "y
compris OEufs dans un casier, Saumon sur Saran, Poulets evisceres,
Filets de morue sur papier d'aluminium, Je vous presente Donna" --
ont atteint un statut d'icone. Capturant ce qu'elle decrit comme
les choses de la vie, l' oeuvre de Mary Pratt eleve le mondain au
monumental, creant des moments silencieux qui sont infuses de
signification.
Ce volume majeur, le premier sur le travail de Mary Pratt depuis
presque vingt ans, presente soixante-quinze reproductions de ses
oeuvres les plus celebres ainsi que des essais de cinq des
ecrivains canadiens les plus talentueux: la journaliste et critique
de l'art Sarah Milroy; Catharine Mastin de la Galerie d'art de
Windsor; Mireille Eagan et Caroline Stone du Musee provincial de
beaux-arts The Rooms et Ray Cronin et Sarah Fillmore du Musee des
beaux-arts de la Nouvelle-Ecosse. Ensemble ils creent un dialogue
autour de la technique et des influences de Pratt, examinant les
themes qui tissent son art en long et en large: le role du lieu et
de la biographie personnelle, le passage du temps, l'acte simple de
regarder et, bien sur, les choses de la vie.
Le livre "Mary Pratt" est concu pour accompagner une exposition
organisee par le Musee provincial des beaux-arts The Rooms et le
Musee des beaux-arts de la Nouvelle-Ecosse et presentee en tournee
nationale.
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