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Pierce Brosnan makes his 007 debut, replacing Timothy Dalton as
Britain's most celebrated secret agent. On his first post-Cold War
mission, Bond is sent to blow up a Soviet chemical weapons factory
with agent 006 (Sean Bean). Nine years later, Bond becomes involved
in the break-up of the Soviet Union, and soon finds himself
involved with a blitzkrieg of stolen helicopters, beautiful female
assassins, Russian Mafiosi and the race for a vital piece of
weaponry - the credit-card sized 'GoldenEye'.
In May 1943 US forces clashed with Japanese invaders in an epic
battle on the Alaskan island of Attu. Fighting through the fog and
icy rain, avoiding pot-shots from snipers in mountain crevices,
lugging heavy machine guns up slippery inclines, and ultimately
scaling a 250-foot cliff, the 17th Infantry willed its way to a
crucial victory in what the author calls, 'The Queen of Battles.'
Includes footnotes and photographs from the Aleutian Islands
Campaign.
With twelve original essays that characterize truly international
ecocriticisms, New International Voices in Ecocriticism presents a
compendium of ecocritical approaches, including ecocritical theory,
ecopoetics, ecocritical analyses of literary, cultural, and musical
texts (especially those not commonly studied in mainstream
ecocriticism), and new critical vistas on human-nonhuman relations,
postcolonial subjects, material selves, gender, and queer
ecologies. It develops new perspectives on literature, culture, and
the environment. The essays, written by contributors from the
United States, Canada, Germany, Turkey, Spain, China, India, and
South Africa, cover novels, drama, autobiography, music, and
poetry, mixing traditional and popular forms. Popular culture and
the production and circulation of cultural imaginaries feature
prominently in this volume-how people view their world and the
manner in which they share their perspectives, including the way
these perspectives challenge each other globally and locally. In
this sense the book also probes borders, border transgression, and
border permeability. By offering diverse ecocritical approaches,
the essays affirm the significance and necessity of international
perspectives in environmental humanities, and thus offer unique
responses to environmental problems and that, in some sense, affect
many beginning and established scholars.
With the aid of the most extensive and comprehensive survey data
extracted from voters during the 2011 Scottish General, this book
analyses the reasons behind why the SNP not only retained their
mandate from the people to govern Scotland but further succeeded in
winning a resounding majority in the Scottish Parliament. In
tackling this overarching question other complex issues are also
explored such as whether a pre-occupation with events at
Westminster confined the Scottish Elections to the realm of
'second-order' elections? What impact the financial crisis had on
elected a parliament that in reality has little economic power? The
volume also has a broader appeal to devolved parliamentary
elections more broadly by exploring what matters to voters when
they cast their ballots for their national parliament in a complex,
multi-level Political system. Examining performance evaluations,
party loyalties and constitutional preferences, the authors show
that Scottish elections are increasingly Scottish affairs, where
voters are concerned with government competence - in domestic
matters and in managing relations with Westminster.
A new account of voting between the First and Second Reform Bills,
outlining a new interpretation of electoral behaviour, and
emphasizing the links between individual electors and their social
context. It also explores the consequences of these ideas for local
political organization, suffragism, and the development of the
party system.
The "illuminating" (Los Angeles Times) answer to why Israel and
Palestine's attempts at negotiation have failed and a practical,
"admirably measured" (The New York Times) roadmap for bringing
peace to the Middle East--by an impartial American diplomat
experienced in solving international conflicts.George Mitchell
knows how to bring peace to troubled regions. He was the primary
architect of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement for peace in Northern
Ireland. But when he served as US Special Envoy for Middle East
Peace from 2009 to 2011--working to end the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict--diplomacy did not prevail. Now, for the first time,
Mitchell offers his insider account of how the Israelis and the
Palestinians have progressed (and regressed) in their negotiations
through the years and outlines the specific concessions each side
must make to finally achieve lasting peace.
Over the last two decades, mobile telecommunications has grown
dramatically, from a small niche technology to a massive industry.
Mobile telephones are now ubiquitous, and the divisions between
PCs, PDAs, mobile telephones and other mobile devices are becoming
increasingly blurred. Against this background, the security of
information of both the devices themselves, and the information
handled by these devices, is becoming ever more important. Security
for Mobility pulls together up to the minute research from an
international group of academics and professionals working in
industry. The main text of the book is divided into five parts -
underlying technologies; network security; mobile code issues;
application security; and the future. Each chapter of the book is
the collaboration of different authors, including many of the
leading European experts currently working within the field. Thus
each chapter is self-contained and can be read independently,
although there are many relationships between the various chapters.
The book will be of interest to engineers and computer scientists
working in security-related aspects of the communications,
computing and telecommunications industries, as well as
postgraduate students and academics working within these fields.
Medieval writers were fascinated by fortune and misfortune, yet
the critical problems raised by such explorations have not been
adequately theorized. Allan Mitchell invites us to consider these
contingencies in relation to an "ethics of the event." His book
examines how Middle English writers including Chaucer, Gower,
Lydgate, and Malory treat unpredictable events such as sexual
attraction, political disaster, social competition, traumatic
accidents, and the textual condition itself--locating in fortune
the very potentiality of ethical life. While earlier scholarship
has detailed the iconography of Lady Fortune, this book alters and
advances the conversation so that we see fortune less as a negative
exemplum than as a positive sign of radical phenomena.
Why did democracy survive in some European countries between the
wars while fascism or authoritarianism emerged elsewhere? This
innovative study approaches this question through the comparative
analysis of the inter-war experience of eighteen countries within a
common comprehensive analytical framework. It combines (social and
economic) structure- and (political) actor-related aspects to
provide detailed historical accounts of each case which serve as
background information for the systematic testing of major theories
of fascism and democracy.
* The Mental Models construction creates a simple framework that
can be easily retrieved from memory and applied to policing
problems * Designed to accompany the lessons of the American
Society of Evidence-Based Policing's curriculum to teach
practitioners, researchers, and academics the necessary skills to
identify, interpret, integrate, and produce research to inform
police policies and practices * Equips readers with multiple models
with which to deal with a problem rather than proposing a
simplistic strategy
This is the first English translation of the seminar Martin
Heidegger gave during the Winter of 1934-35, which dealt with
Hegel's Philosophy of Right. This remarkable text is the only one
in which Heidegger interprets Hegel's masterpiece in the tradition
of Continental political philosophy while offering a glimpse into
Heidegger's own political thought following his engagement with
Nazism. It also confronts the ideas of Carl Schmitt, allowing
readers to reconstruct the relation between politics and ontology.
The book is enriched by a collection of interpretations of the
seminar, written by select European and North American political
thinkers and philosophers. Their essays aim to make the seminar
accessible to students of political theory and philosophy, as well
as to open new directions for debating the relation between the two
disciplines. A unique contribution, this volume makes available key
lectures by Heidegger that will interest a wide readership of
students and scholars.
The whole world in the palm of your hand Ever wonder how you can
have a rainforest on one side of a mountain and a desert on the
other? Or zoom around the globe with Google Maps and wonder how
everything got to where it is now? The answer is...geography. In
Geography For Dummies, you'll discover that geography is more than
just cool trivia--it explains tons about the world around us. From
understanding the basics--like how to read maps and geographic
coordinates--to learning about how the continents got to their
current positions, you'll learn fascinating things about the
planet's people, cities, resources, and more. In this book, you'll
discover: How geographers make and use maps to understand and tell
useful stories about the earth How weather and climate shape the
planet, impact the water supply, and change landscapes How humans
use (and overuse) the planet we live on to our advantage Geography
For Dummies is an incredible exploration of our planet and the
people who live on it. This book takes a huge subject and makes it
accessible for the rest of us!
* The Mental Models construction creates a simple framework that
can be easily retrieved from memory and applied to policing
problems * Designed to accompany the lessons of the American
Society of Evidence-Based Policing's curriculum to teach
practitioners, researchers, and academics the necessary skills to
identify, interpret, integrate, and produce research to inform
police policies and practices * Equips readers with multiple models
with which to deal with a problem rather than proposing a
simplistic strategy
An evolutionary case for the existence of free will Scientists are
learning more and more about how brain activity controls behavior
and how neural circuits weigh alternatives and initiate actions. As
we probe ever deeper into the mechanics of decision making, many
conclude that agency—or free will—is an illusion. In Free
Agents, leading neuroscientist Kevin Mitchell presents a wealth of
evidence to the contrary, arguing that we are not mere machines
responding to physical forces but agents acting with purpose.
Traversing billions of years of evolution, Mitchell tells the
remarkable story of how living beings capable of choice arose from
lifeless matter. He explains how the emergence of nervous systems
provided a means to learn about the world, granting sentient
animals the capacity to model, predict, and simulate. Mitchell
reveals how these faculties reached their peak in humans with our
abilities to imagine and to be introspective, to reason in the
moment, and to shape our possible futures through the exercise of
our individual agency. Mitchell’s argument has important
implications—for how we understand decision making, for how our
individual agency can be enhanced or infringed, for how we think
about collective agency in the face of global crises, and for how
we consider the limitations and future of artificial intelligence.
An astonishing journey of discovery, Free Agents offers a new
framework for understanding how, across a billion years of Earth
history, life evolved the power to choose, and why it matters.
New approaches to both cultural landscapes and historic urban
landscapes increasingly recognize the need to guide future change,
rather than simply protecting the fabric of the past. Challenging
traditional notions of historic preservation, Conserving Cultural
Landscapes takes a dynamic multifaceted approach to conservation.
It builds on the premise that a successful approach to urban and
cultural landscape conservation recognizes cultural as well as
natural values, sustains traditional connections to place, and
engages people in stewardship where they live and work. It brings
together academics within the humanities and humanistic social
sciences, conservation and preservation professionals,
practitioners, and stakeholders to rethink the meaning and practice
of cultural heritage conservation, encourage international
cooperation, and stimulate collaborative research and scholarship.
With twelve original essays that characterize truly international
ecocriticisms, New International Voices in Ecocriticism presents a
compendium of ecocritical approaches, including ecocritical theory,
ecopoetics, ecocritical analyses of literary, cultural, and musical
texts (especially those not commonly studied in mainstream
ecocriticism), and new critical vistas on human-nonhuman relations,
postcolonial subjects, material selves, gender, and queer
ecologies. It develops new perspectives on literature, culture, and
the environment. The essays, written by contributors from the
United States, Canada, Germany, Turkey, Spain, China, India, and
South Africa, cover novels, drama, autobiography, music, and
poetry, mixing traditional and popular forms. Popular culture and
the production and circulation of cultural imaginaries feature
prominently in this volume-how people view their world and the
manner in which they share their perspectives, including the way
these perspectives challenge each other globally and locally. In
this sense the book also probes borders, border transgression, and
border permeability. By offering diverse ecocritical approaches,
the essays affirm the significance and necessity of international
perspectives in environmental humanities, and thus offer unique
responses to environmental problems and that, in some sense, affect
many beginning and established scholars.
Bars in New York are to New Yorkers what pubs are to the English -
a place for friends, laughter, and entertainment. And now, more
than ever, enjoying mouthwatering food, from some of the world's
best chefs, is part of that experience."Belly Up to the Bar" is the
perfect guide to eating at the bar in Manhattan's top 101
restaurants - as rated by Zagat and the Michelin Guide. Featuring a
two-page look at each bar, with descriptions of everything you need
to know to choose a bar that suits you - from ambience and dress
code, to price, location and, of course, the food.Whether it's an
appetizer with an apple Martini or a gourmet burger with a beer,
this is the ultimate companion for anyone wanting to experience New
York's finest cuisine, in the friendliest surroundings.
New approaches to both cultural landscapes and historic urban
landscapes increasingly recognize the need to guide future change,
rather than simply protecting the fabric of the past. Challenging
traditional notions of historic preservation, Conserving Cultural
Landscapes takes a dynamic multifaceted approach to conservation.
It builds on the premise that a successful approach to urban and
cultural landscape conservation recognizes cultural as well as
natural values, sustains traditional connections to place, and
engages people in stewardship where they live and work. It brings
together academics within the humanities and humanistic social
sciences, conservation and preservation professionals,
practitioners, and stakeholders to rethink the meaning and practice
of cultural heritage conservation, encourage international
cooperation, and stimulate collaborative research and scholarship.
In this book Mitchell investigates how the natural limitations
of youth shape not only the day-to-day life of teens, but the
entire culture. This book analyzes how adolescents are prone toward
critical decision-making errors; how they are vulnerable to
exploitation in their peer groups, in their friendships, and in
their love relationships; how they are inclined to confuse fact
with fable; how they are shaped by narcissistic idelogy and
ego-enhancing belief systems; how they are inclined toward poor
partner selection in their romantic involvements; and, finally, why
they need dignified adult mentors if they are to achieve a
dignified identity of their own.
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