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Nicholas Turner
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R384
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Nicholas Turner
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R525
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This is a running book like no other. The stories are those of an
unremarkable man who sleptwalked into what transpired to be a
series of remarkable running adventures around the world as he
completed 100 marathons. Adventures which traversed highs and lows,
from glorious ultramarathon victories and befriending natives to
ignominious withdrawals and encounters with the local constabulary
in three different countries. In short, the stuff of a mother's
nightmares, but a bar room dream. As the title implies, this book
might not be one for the running purists, but it hopefully shows
that even long distance running can be pursued without unduly
sacrificing less wholesome aspects of life. It is a book primarily
intended to make the reader smile and persuade them to run a little
(for the non-runners) or a little more (for the runners).
The Darker Side of Evil debunks the popular myth that all serial
killers are White. Quite to the contrary, a great many of the most
prolific serial killers in American history are Black. Taking
advantage of America's infatuation with murder, Hollywood has
reaped untold millions from their constant portrayal of the
Caucasian serial murderer. All the while media outlets refuse to
acknowledge the existence of the African-American serial killer.
The unwillingness of the media to recognize the existence of these
predators not only allow them to hide in plain sight but may have
cost many innocent victims their lives as a result.
Countries recovering from conflicts face economic and institutional
devastation - of vital infrastructure such as schools, factories,
communication networks, roads, railways, and water systems, as well
as diminished human resources, a very weak legal structure and
governmental institutions. In this context, policymakers are faced
with the task of creating an integrated and comprehensive approach
to post-conflict reconstruction with a view to sustainable economic
development, political stability and peace consolidation. This
volume critically examines the various approaches to encouraging
and regulating foreign investment in post-conflict countries. From
the perspectives of both the foreign investor and the host country,
it suggests how policymakers in post-conflict countries can design
a foreign investment strategy that brings real and meaningful
economic development as part of the wider peace-building process.
FDI in post-conflict countries is discussed from different
methodological perspectives, including comparative law and
comparative politics, based on case studies of Afghanistan, Rwanda,
DRC, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Colombia, Angola and Mozambique.
_______________________________ *Virtus C. Igbokwe was an in-house
counsel at Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited,
Port Harcourt in the early 90s. He obtained his LL.B from the
University of Benin, Nigeria; LL.M from the University of British
Columbia, Vancouver, Canada and a PhD in foreign investment
arbitration from Osgoode Hall Law School of York University,
Toronto, Canada. His research and writing interests are foreign
investment arbitration, alternative dispute resolution and
international business transactions. He is widely published in
these areas. He is a member of Nigeria and Ontario Bars. *Nicholas
Turner is Academic Programme Associate in the United Nations
University's Institute for Sustainability and Peace in Tokyo. He
holds an MA in international relations from the University of Kent
in the UK, and previously worked for local government and charities
there, as well as for Qinetiq Ltd on a Defence Training Review for
the UK Armed Forces. He lectures at Aoyama Gakuin University and
Hosei University in Tokyo, Japan. His research interests lie in
human rights and ethics, focusing on just war theory, the
responsibility to protect, and non-state actors in military
conflict - including private military companies. His publications
include World Religions and Norms of War (co-edited with Gregory M.
Reichberg and Vesselin Popovski, United Nations University Press,
2009). *Obijiofor Aginam is Academic Programme Officer and Director
of Studies in the United Nations University's Institute for
Sustainability and Peace in Tokyo. Before joining the United
Nations, he was a tenured Associate Professor of Law at Carleton
University, Ottawa, Canada. In 1999-2001, he was Global Health
Leadership Fellow and Legal Officer at the World Health
Organization headquarters, Geneva. Dr. Aginam has held numerous
research fellowships including the Social Science Research Council
(SSRC) of New York Fellow on Global Security and Cooperation, and
Fellow of the 21st Century Trust, U.K. He has been a visiting
professor at universities in Costa Rica, Italy, South Africa, and
Nigeria, and a recipient of the competitive research grant of the
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada.
He holds law degrees from Nigeria, Master of Laws from Queen's
University at Kingston, Canada, and a Ph.D. from the University of
British Columbia. He is the author of numerous academic
publications including Global Health Governance: International Law
and Public Health in a Divided World (Toronto: University of
Toronto Press, 2005).
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly
growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by
advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve
the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own:
digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works
in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these
high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts
are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries,
undergraduate students, and independent scholars.Western literary
study flows out of eighteenth-century works by Alexander Pope,
Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Frances Burney, Denis Diderot, Johann
Gottfried Herder, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and others.
Experience the birth of the modern novel, or compare the
development of language using dictionaries and grammar discourses.
++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields
in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as
an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification:
++++British LibraryT136079With a half-title and a final errata
leaf. This edition has press figures and is of a different setting
of type from the edition without press figures.London: printed for
R. Baldwin, and J. Bew. And sold by W. Wilson, Dublin, 1784. 4],
x,86, 2]p.; 8
The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly
growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by
advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve
the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own:
digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works
in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these
high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts
are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries,
undergraduate students, and independent scholars.Medical theory and
practice of the 1700s developed rapidly, as is evidenced by the
extensive collection, which includes descriptions of diseases,
their conditions, and treatments. Books on science and technology,
agriculture, military technology, natural philosophy, even
cookbooks, are all contained here.++++The below data was compiled
from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of
this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping
to insure edition identification: ++++British LibraryT136080With a
half-title and an errata. This edition is without press figures and
is of a different setting of type from the edition with press
figures.London: printed for R. Baldwin, and J. Bew. And sold by W.
Wilson, Dublin, 1784. 2], x,86, 2]p.; 8
Countries recovering from conflicts face economic and institutional
devastation - of vital infrastructure such as schools, factories,
communication networks, roads, railways, and water systems, as well
as diminished human resources, a very weak legal structure and
governmental institutions. In this context, policymakers are faced
with the task of creating an integrated and comprehensive approach
to post-conflict reconstruction with a view to sustainable economic
development, political stability and peace consolidation. This
volume critically examines the various approaches to encouraging
and regulating foreign investment in post-conflict countries. From
the perspectives of both the foreign investor and the host country,
it suggests how policymakers in post-conflict countries can design
a foreign investment strategy that brings real and meaningful
economic development as part of the wider peace-building process.
FDI in post-conflict countries is discussed from different
methodological perspectives, including comparative law and
comparative politics, based on case studies of Afghanistan, Rwanda,
DRC, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Colombia, Angola and Mozambique.
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