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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Delve into this stunning gift edition boasting the complete
collection of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Other Tales and
original, iconic illustrations by John Tenniel. The next elegant
edition in the Timeless Classics series, Alice's Adventures in
Wonderland and Other Talesis unabridged and complete, and comprised
of: Both Alice books (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through
the Looking-Glass) The nonsense poems, including "The Hunting of
the Snark" and "Jabberwocky" The novels Sylvie and Bruno and Sylvie
and Bruno Concluded Carroll's essays and other miscellaneous
writings Also included are the original, iconic illustrations by
John Tenniel and an introduction by Lori Campbell. Lewis Carroll
fans worldwide will fall in love with this stunning hardcover gift
edition complete with gorgeous foil cover detail, decorative
endpapers, and a ribbon marker. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
and Other Tales contains every piece ever written by this master of
puns, puzzles, and fantasy that have been delighting adults and
children alike for over 150 years. The Timeless Classics series
from Rock Point brings together the works of classic authors from
around the world. Complete and unabridged, these elegantly designed
gift editions feature luxe, patterned endpapers, ribbon markers,
and foil and deboss details on vibrantly colored cases. Celebrate
these beloved works of literature as true standouts in your
personal library collection.
Justice, Indigenous Peoples, and Canada: A History of Courage and
Resilience brings together the work of a number of leading
researchers to provide a broad overview of criminal justice issues
that Indigenous people in Canada have faced historically and
continue to face today. Both Indigenous and Canadian scholars
situate current issues of justice for Indigenous peoples, broadly
defined, within the context of historical realities and ongoing
developments. By examining how justice is defined, both from within
Indigenous communities and outside of them, this volume examines
the force of Constitutional reform and subsequent case law on
Indigenous rights historically and in contemporary contexts. It
then expands the discussion to include theoretical considerations,
particularly settler-colonialism, that help explain how ongoing
oppressive and assimilationist agendas continue to affect how
so-called "justice" is administered. From a critical perspective,
the book examines the operation of the criminal justice system,
though bail, specialized courts, policing, sentencing,
incarceration, and release. It explores legal frameworks as well as
current issues that have significantly affected Indigenous peoples,
such as the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the Inquiry into
Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, human rights,
resurgence and identity. This unique collection of perspectives
exposes the disconcerting agenda of historical and modern-day
Canadian federal government policy and the continued denial of
Indigenous rights to self-determination. It is essential reading
for those interested in the struggles of the Indigenous peoples in
Canada as well as anyone studying race, crime and justice.
Bigfoot and Nessie return for another adventure, and things are
getting particularly eerie as they uncover the secrets of Loch Ness
Castle in the latest installment of Chelsea M. Campbell and
Laura Knetzger's chapter-book graphic novel series. Bigfoot
and Nessie are visiting Nessie's home, the underwater Loch Ness
Castle, and Bigfoot couldn't be more excited! The castle is huge,
lavish, and it seems like Nessie has everything she could possibly
want. Â Only things are not exactly what they seem: Nessie
can't get away from her "overbearing momager" and endless celebrity
duties -- and to make matters worse, there's a ghost roaming around
in the house. Can Bigfoot and Nessie confront the ghost, stand up
to Nessie's mom, and uncover the castle's haunting secrets? Â
This latest installment of Chelsea M. Campbell and Laura Knetzger's
heartfelt and irresistible series is filled with endless adventure
and exploration of new feelings, brought to life with hilarious,
accessible text and vibrant four-color art.Â
Gorbachev's Third World Dilemmas (1989) examines the strategic,
political and ideological criteria which shaped Soviet policies
toward the developing world. Organized around particular themes and
issues, it pays attention to both theoretical fundamentals in
Soviet doctrine and to Soviet actions in specific regions. The
topics range widely and include: the Soviet conception of regional
security; Soviet arms transfers and military aid to the developing
world; the developing world in Soviet military thinking; the USSR
and crisis in the Caribbean; Soviet policy towards Southern Africa,
notably Angola and Mozambique; and Soviet policy towards Southwest
Africa. It looks at the activist foreign policy that Gorbachev
inherited, and explores the elements of change and continuity that
Gorbachev and the Soviets faced.
This book exposes the myriad of victims of wrongful conviction by
going beyond the innocent person who has been wrongfully
incarcerated to include the numerous indirect victims who suffer
collaterally. In no way overlooking the egregious effects on the
wrongfully convicted, this book widens the net to also examine
consequences for family, friends, co-workers, witnesses, the
initial victims of the crime, and society in general-all indirect
victims who are often forgotten in treatments of wrongful
conviction. Utilizing interviews of exonerees and indirect victims,
the authors capture the tangible and intangible costs of
victimization across the board. The prison experience is examined
through the lens of an innocent person, and the psychological
impact of incarceration for the exoneree is explored. Special
attention is given to the often-ignored experience of female
exonerees and to the impact of race as a compounding factor in a
vast number of miscarriages of justice. The book concludes with an
overview of the victimization experiences that follow exonerees
upon release. Unique to this book is its interdisciplinary approach
to the troubling subject of wrongful conviction, combining
perspectives from a number of fields, including criminal justice,
criminology, victimology, psychology, sociology, social justice,
history, political science, and law. Undergraduate and graduate
students in these disciplines will find this book helpful in their
respective areas of study, and professionals in the legal system
will benefit from appreciation of the far-reaching costs of
wrongful convictions.
This book exposes the myriad of victims of wrongful conviction by
going beyond the innocent person who has been wrongfully
incarcerated to include the numerous indirect victims who suffer
collaterally. In no way overlooking the egregious effects on the
wrongfully convicted, this book widens the net to also examine
consequences for family, friends, co-workers, witnesses, the
initial victims of the crime, and society in general-all indirect
victims who are often forgotten in treatments of wrongful
conviction. Utilizing interviews of exonerees and indirect victims,
the authors capture the tangible and intangible costs of
victimization across the board. The prison experience is examined
through the lens of an innocent person, and the psychological
impact of incarceration for the exoneree is explored. Special
attention is given to the often-ignored experience of female
exonerees and to the impact of race as a compounding factor in a
vast number of miscarriages of justice. The book concludes with an
overview of the victimization experiences that follow exonerees
upon release. Unique to this book is its interdisciplinary approach
to the troubling subject of wrongful conviction, combining
perspectives from a number of fields, including criminal justice,
criminology, victimology, psychology, sociology, social justice,
history, political science, and law. Undergraduate and graduate
students in these disciplines will find this book helpful in their
respective areas of study, and professionals in the legal system
will benefit from appreciation of the far-reaching costs of
wrongful convictions.
This remarkable collaboration between an anthropologist and a
Nunamiut Eskimo tribesman offers a rare, often poignant glimpse
into history, legends, lore material culture and daily life of a
traditional society that no longer exists. Simon Paneak's drawings
constitute the heart of the book depicting from a memory a way of
life that in a very short time had been lost irretrievably.
The revised and expanded edition of the bestseller that changed
millions of lives The science is clear. The results are
unmistakable. You can dramatically reduce your risk of cancer,
heart disease, and diabetes just by changing your diet. More than
30 years ago, nutrition researcher T. Colin Campbell and his team
at Cornell, in partnership with teams in China and England,
embarked upon the China Study, the most comprehensive study ever
undertaken of the relationship between diet and the risk of
developing disease. What they found when combined with findings in
Colin's laboratory, opened their eyes to the dangers of a diet high
in animal protein and the unparalleled health benefits of a whole
foods, plant-based diet. In 2005, Colin and his son Tom, now a
physician, shared those findings with the world in The China Study,
hailed as one of the most important books about diet and health
ever written. Featuring brand new content, this heavily expanded
edition of Colin and Tom's groundbreaking book includes the latest
undeniable evidence of the power of a plant-based diet, plus
updated information about the changing medical system and how
patients stand to benefit from a surging interest in plant-based
nutrition. The China Study Revised and Expanded Edition presents a
clear and concise message of hope as it dispels a multitude of
health myths and misinformation. The basic message is clear. The
key to a long, healthy life lies in three things: breakfast, lunch,
and dinner.
Until recently, historians tended to stress the perceived
technological and ecological shortcomings of medieval agriculture.
The ten essays assembled in this volume offer a contrary view.
Based upon close documentary analysis of the demesne farms managed
for and by lords, they show that, by 1300, in the most
commercialized parts of England, production decisions were based
upon relative factor costs and commodity prices. Moreover, when and
where economic conditions were ripe and environmental and
institutional circumstances favourable, medieval cultivators
successfully secured high and ecologically sustainable levels of
land productivity. They achieved this by integrating crop and
livestock production into the sort of manure-intensive systems of
mixed-husbandry which later underpinned the more celebrated output
growth of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. If medieval
agriculture failed to fulfill the production potential provided by
wider adoption of such systems, this is more appropriately
explained by the want of the kind of market incentives that might
have justified investment, innovation, and specialization on the
scale that characterized the so-called 'agricultural revolution',
than either the lack of appropriate agricultural technology or the
innate 'backwardness' of medieval cultivators.
The famed B-29 Superfortress is presented in this all new
collection of World War II and Korean War era photographs. Many of
the 850+ photographs appear here for the first time and are
identified as to unit and location. John Campbell is also the
author of Consolidated B-24 Liberator, and Talisman: A Collection
of Nose Art (available from Schiffer Publishing Ltd.).
New presidents have no honeymoon when it comes to foreign
policy. Less than three months into his presidency, for example,
John F. Kennedy authorized the disastrous effort to overthrow Fidel
Castro at the Bay of Pigs. More recently, George W. Bush had been
in office for less than eight months when he was faced with the
attacks of September 11. How should an incoming president prepare
for the foreign policy challenges that lie immediately ahead?
That's the question Kurt Campbell and James Steinberg tackle in
this compelling book. Drawing on their decades of government
service --in the corridors of Capitol Hill, the intimate confines
of the White House, the State Department, and the bare-knuckles
Pentagon bureaucracy --Campbell and Steinberg identify the major
foreign policy pitfalls that face a new presidential
administration. They explain clearly and concisely what it takes to
get foreign policy right from the start. The authors set the scene
with a historical overview of presidential transitions and foreign
policy including case studies of such prominent episodes as the
"Black Hawk Down" tragedy in Somalia that shook the Clinton
administration in its first year and the Bush administration's
handling of the collision between a U.S. reconnaissance plane and a
Chinese fighter jet in the spring of 2001. They pinpoint the
leading causes of foreign policy fiascos, including the tendency to
write off the policies of the outgoing administration and the
failure to appreciate the differences between campaign promises and
policy realities. Most important, they provide a road map to help
the new administration steer clear of the land mines ahead.
America's next president will confront critical foreign policy
decisions from day one. Dif "ficult Transitions pr"ovides essential
guidance for getting those choices right.
More than half a century after the advent of the nuclear age, is
the world approaching a tipping point that will unleash an epidemic
of nuclear proliferation? Today many of the building blocks of a
nuclear arsenal -scientific and engineering expertise, precision
machine tools, software, design information -are more readily
available than ever before. The nuclear pretensions of so-called
rogue states and terrorist organizations are much discussed. But
how firm is the resolve of those countries that historically have
chosen to forswear nuclear weapons? A combination of changes in the
international environment could set off a domino effect, with
countries scrambling to develop nuclear weapons so as not to be
left behind -or to develop nuclear "hedge" capacities that would
allow them to build nuclear arsenals relatively quickly, if
necessary. The Nuclear Tipping Point examines the factors, both
domestic and transnational, that shape nuclear policy. The authors,
distinguished scholars and foreign policy practitioners with
extensive government experience, develop a framework for
understanding why certain countries may originally have decided to
renounce nuclear weapons -and pinpoint some more recent
country-specific factors that could give them cause to reconsider.
Case studies of eight long-term stalwarts of the nonproliferation
regime -Egypt, Germany, Japan, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Syria,
Turkey, and Taiwan -flesh out this framework and show how even
these countries might be pushed over the edge of a nuclear tipping
point. The authors offer prescriptions that would both prevent such
countries from reconsidering their nuclear option and avert
proliferation by others. The stakes are enormous and success is far
from assured. To keep the tipping point beyond reach, the authors
argue, the international community will have to act with unity,
imagination, and strength, and Washington's leadership will be
essential. Contributors include Leon Feurth, George Washington
University; Ellen Laipson, Stimson Center; Thomas W. Lippman,
Middle East Institute; Jenifer Mackby, Center for Strategic and
International Studies; Derek J. Mitchell, Center for Strategic and
International Studies; Jonathan D. Pollack, U.S. Naval War College;
Walter B. Slocombe, Caplin and Drysdale; and Tsuyoshi Sunohara,
Center for Strategic and International Studies.
The North American XB-70 is one of the most unusual looking
aircraft in aviation history, and only two were constructed. It was
originally designed as a Mach 3 high-altitude bomber, but was later
used as a research aircraft. This new book by John Campbell and
Garry Pape gives a short, detailed history of the XB-70, including
production, flight tests, and the fatal crash of Aircraft #2 in
1965. Aircraft #1 is now at the U.S. Air Force Museum at
Wright-Patterson AFB.
This remarkable collaboration between an anthropologist and a
Nunamiut Eskimo tribesman offers a rare, often poignant glimpse
into history, legends, lore material culture and daily life of a
traditional society that no longer exists. Simon Paneak's drawings
constitute the heart of the book depicting from a memory a way of
life that in a very short time had been lost irretrievably.
To understand why mathematics exists and why it is perpetuated one
must know something of its history and of the lives and results of
famous mathematicians. This three-volume collection of entertaining
articles will captivate those with a special interest in
mathematics as well as arouse those with even the slightest
curiosity about the most sophisticated sciences.
Forests and woodlands provide an enormous range of goods and
services to society, from timber and firewood to medicinal plants,
watershed protection, destinations for tourists and sacred sites.
Only when these are understood and valued can forests and their
resources be properly managed and conserved. This work shows how
the complicated network of benefits can be untangled and sets out
the different approaches needed to value them. It covers the
analysis of plant-based markets, non-market valuation and decision
frameworks such as cost-benefit analysis.
This new large format volume is a grand tribute to all of those who
served in SAC from its inception in 1947 to its disestablishment in
1992. The great variety of aircraft and missile systems of
Strategic Air Command are shown in over 800 color and black and
white photographs, making this volume one of the definitive
pictorials on the subject.
This new book is an in-depth study covering John K. "Jack"
Northrop\s quest for a clean flying machine. Covered are:
Northrop\s initial N-1M project, the N-9M, XP-56, through the B-35
project, B-49 project, and the huge bombers planned only on the
drawing board.\nIncluded are over 300 black and white and color
photographs, as well as drawings and statistical data on all of the
Northrop flying wing and tailless aircraft.\nGarry Pape is also the
author of Queen of the Midnight Skies: The Story of American\s Air
Force Night Fighters. John and Donna Campbell are also the authors
of Talisman: A Collection of Nose Art. Both books are available
from Schiffer Publishing Ltd.
The later Middle Ages was an overwhelmingly rural world, with
probably three out of four households reliant upon farming for a
living. Yet conventional accounts of the period rarely do justice
to the variety of ways in which the land was managed and worked.
The thirteen essays collected in this volume draw upon the abundant
documentary evidence of the period to explore that diversity. In
the process they engage with the issue of classification - without
which effective generalisation is impossible - and offer a series
of solutions to that particularly thorny methodological challenge.
Only through systematic and objective classification is it possible
to differentiate between and map different field systems, husbandry
types, and land-use categories. That, in turn, makes it possible to
consider and evaluate the relative roles of soils and topography,
institutional structures, and commercialised market demand in
shaping farm enterprise both during the period of mounting
population before the Black Death and the long era of demographic
decline that followed it. What emerges is an agrarian world more
commercialised, differentiated, and complex than is usually
appreciated, whose institutional and agronomic contours shaped the
course of agricultural development for centuries to come.
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