Conflict is inherent to all human and inter-state relations, but it is not inevitable. Since the end of the Cold-War, the prevention of conflict escalation into violence through management and resolution has become a fundamental objective of the international system.
So how does prevention work when it works, and what can be done when tried and tested practices fail? In this book, I. William Zartman offers a clear and authoritative guide to the key challenges of conflict prevention and the norms, processes and methods used to dampen and diffuse inter and intra-state conflict in the contemporary world. Early-stage techniques including ?awareness? ?de-escalation?, ?stalemate?, ?ripening?, and ?resolution?, are explored in full alongside the late or ?crisis? stage techniques of ?interruption?, ?separation? and ?integration?. Prevention, he argues, is a battle that is never won: there is always more work to be done. The search for prevention – necessary but still imperfect – continues into new imperatives, new mechanisms, new agents, and new knowledge, which this book helps discover and apply.
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Author: I. William Zartman Publisher: Wiley ISBN: 9780745686950 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: October 2015 284 pages
Labour and Difference in Britain, the USA and Africa
What are the different ways in which racial and class identities intersect? The ten essays in this volume explore this question from a number of different angles and in a variety of geographic settings ranging from the copper belt of the American Southwest to the coal mines of Nigeria. Sharing a common concern with the construction of working-class identities, the authors employ a range of methodologies as they examine the construction of group consciousness. Sensitive to the roles of culture and ideology, they ground their analyses firmly within economic life and the labour process. Rather than seeing identities as imposed upon working people from above, either by capital, culture brokers or political leaders, these essays restore to workers a sense of agency. Empirically rich and theoretically informed, the articles here deepen an understanding of the international dimension of labour history.
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Author: Peter Alexander; Rick Halpern Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan ISBN: 9780230500969 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: December 1999 263 pages
Ökonomische Analyse der Abhängigkeit von Erscheinungsformen von Unternehmenszusammenschlüssen und ihrer Abbildung im externen Rechnungswesen
Milovan Smigic untersucht den Zusammenhang zwischen den Erscheinungsformen von Unternehmenszusammenschlüssen und ihrer Abbildung im externen Rechnungswesen und beurteilt die Zweckmäßigkeit der verschiedenen Vollkonsolidierungsmethoden.
Author: Prof. Dr. Hannes Streim; Milovan Smigic Publisher: Deutscher Universitätsverlag ISBN: 9783835091283 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: December 2007 281 pages
Animal Vigilance builds on the author’s previous publication with Academic Press (Social Predation: How Group Living Benefits Predators and Prey) by developing several other themes including the development and mechanisms underlying vigilance, as well as developing more fully the evolution and function of vigilance.
Animal vigilance has been at the forefront of research on animal behavior for many years, but no comprehensive review of this topic has existed. Students of animal behavior have focused on many aspects of animal vigilance, from models of its adaptive value to empirical research in the laboratory and in the field. The vast literature on vigilance is widely dispersed with often little contact between models and empirical work and between researchers focusing on different taxa such as birds and mammals. Animal Vigilance fills this gap in the available material.
Tackles vigilance from all angles, theoretical and empirical, while including the broadest range of species to underscore unifying themes
Discusses several newer developments in the area, such as vigilance copying and effect of food density
Highlights recent challenges to assumptions of traditional models of vigilance, such as the assumption that vigilance is independent among group members, which is reviewed during discussion of synchronization and coordination of vigilance in a group
Written by a top expert in animal vigilance
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Author: Guy Beauchamp Publisher: Elsevier Science ISBN: 9780128019948 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: June 2015 272 pages
Advanced routine imaging techniques have made it possible to diagnose localized abnormalities often before they have produced irreversible damage. PET permits visualization of the metabolic or physiologic characteristics of tumors. MRI shows exclusive morphologic abnormalities, and functional MRI depicts the motor and sensory status in the vicinity of tumors. MRS offers biochemical information of tumors and surrounding normal tissues. Combining PET, MRI and MRS information we should be able to differentiate tumors from non-tumor lesions, to characterize types or grades of tumors, and to monitor tumor regression, recurrence or response to therapy. This book reports updated techniques, instrumentation and clinical application of PET, MRI and MRS in cancer management.
Author: E. Edmund Kim; J. Aoki; H. Baghaei; Edward F. Jackson; S. Ilgan; T. Inoue; H. Li; J. Uribe; F.C.L. Wong; W.-H. Wong; D.J. Yang Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg ISBN: 9783642598791 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: December 2012 291 pages
Rebecca has a most unusual problem: no matter how hard she tries, she can’t stop broadcasting her feelings to people around her. Luckily, she’s discovered how to trap and store her feelings in personal objects — but just how much emotional baggage can Unit 207, E.Z. Self Storage hold? Lewis is grieving for his wife, Lisa, Rebecca’s sister. Inconsolable, he skips Lisa’s funeral, flies to Winnipeg, gets a haircut and meets a woman who claims to be God. At the wheel of a stolen Honda Civic is Aberystwyth, aka Aby, driving across Canada to save the soul of her dying mother. She is green, gill-necked, and very uncomfortable out of the water. An unexpected encounter with Aby sets off a chain of events which sends each of them on a personal quest. Can Rebecca, Lewis and Aby find redemption before a terrible flood destroys their chance at happiness? “A quirky, tender, fantastical page-turner” The Globe and Mail
Author: Andrew Kaufman Publisher: Saqi ISBN: 9781846590986 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: August 2011 302 pages
An evocative coming-of-age novel about growing up gay in Sri Lanka during the Tamil-Sinhalese conflict—one of the country’s most turbulent and deadly periods.
Arjie is “funny.”
The second son of a privileged family in Sri Lanka, he prefers staging make-believe wedding pageants with his female cousins to battling balls with the other boys. When his parents discover his innocent pastime, Arjie is forced to abandon his idyllic childhood games and adopt the rigid rules of an adult world. Bewildered by his incipient sexual awakening, mortified by the bloody Tamil-Sinhalese conflicts that threaten to tear apart his homeland, Arjie painfully grows toward manhood and an understanding of his own “different” identity.
Refreshing, raw, and poignant, Funny Boy is an exquisitely written, compassionate tale of a boy’s coming-of-age that quietly confounds expectations of love, family, and country as it delivers the powerful message of staying true to one’s self no matter the obstacles.
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The King James translation of the Bible ushered in a new eloquence that until 1611had not existed in the English language. Four centuries later, the literary and historical power of this Bible continues to awe. Originally conceived to help unify Protestants during the English Reformation, many of the Bible’s phrases still saturate popular prose—as evidenced by sayings such as “an eye for an eye” and Abraham Lincoln’s famous “a house divided against itself,” and even in the intonations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the music of Johnny Cash. The King James Bible and the World It Made brings into conversation leading contemporary scholars who articulate how this celebrated translation repeatedly influenced the language of politics, statecraft, and English literature while offering Christians a unique resource for living the faith.
Including Mark Noll, Alister McGrath, Lamin Sanneh, David Bebbington, Robert Alter, Philip Jenkins, and Laura Knoppers, this collection highlights the most notable facets of the King James Bible and the history it created, and astutely reflects on its relevance to the modern world.
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Author: David Lyle Jeffrey Publisher: Baylor University Press ISBN: 9781602584174 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: November 2011 213 pages
First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author: Jae Shim; Anique A. Qureshi; Joel G. Siegel Publisher: Taylor and Francis ISBN: 9781135961732 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: November 2013 400 pages
The Principles of Heterocyclic Chemistry presents a unified account of fundamental heterocyclic chemistry with the emphasis placed on the correlations between the methods of preparation and the properties of the various ring systems. This book opens with an introductory chapter that discussesfundamental concepts of the electronic theory of organic chemistry and the relationship of heterocyclic and carbocyclic aromatic compounds. This is followed by separate chapters on the chemistry of the six-membered ring compounds containing one or more heteroatoms, five-membered ring compounds, three- and four-membered rings, and the physical properties of representative heterocyclic compounds.
Each chapter begins with introductory section that surveys the various ring types, gives the systems of nomenclature and numbering, and mentions a few important natural and synthetic compounds. Syntheses starting from aliphatic and carbocyclic compounds are then given. The preparation of one heterocyclic compound from another is considered as a reaction of the starting material. The reactions of aromatic and non-aromatic compounds are discussed separately. This book contains the essential heterocyclic chemistry required by an Undergraduate or Graduate student for his course-work, and it is hoped that it will be found stimulating by many a more senior teacher and researcher.
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Author: Alan R. Katritzky; J. M. Lagowski Publisher: Elsevier Science ISBN: 9781483274515 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: October 2013 199 pages
