The 2nd edition of Global Politics: A New Introduction continues to provide a completely original way of teaching and learning about world politics. The book engages directly with the issues in global politics that students are most interested in, helping them to understand the key questions and theories and also to develop a critical and inquiring perspective.
Completely revised and updated throughout, the 2nd edition also offers additional chapters on key issues such as environmental politics, nationalism, the internet, democratization, colonialism, the financial crisis, political violence and human rights.
Global Politics:
Examines the most significant issues in global politics – from war, peacebuilding, terrorism, security, violence, nationalism and authority to poverty, development, postcolonialism, human rights, gender, inequality, ethnicity and what we can do to change the world
Offers chapters written to a common structure which is ideal for teaching and learning and features a key question, an illustrative example, general responses and broader issues
Integrates theory and practice throughout the text, by presenting theoretical ideas and concepts in conjunction with a global range of historical and contemporary case studies
Drawing on theoretical perspectives from a broad range of disciplines including international relations, political theory, postcolonial studies, sociology, geography, peace studies and development this innovative textbook is essential reading for all students of global politics and international relations.
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Author: Jenny Edkins; Maja Zehfuss Publisher: Taylor and Francis ISBN: 9781135128135 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: August 2013 712 pages
Winner of the 2010 Mortgage Investment Trust Book Fiction Award “A global novel with a local accent. It invites comparison with Flann O’Brien, Jonathan Swift, John Kennedy Toole, Ken Kalfus. Hugh MacDiarmid…would have loved it,” – Scotland on Sunday “You’ll be hard pushed to find a more cleverly constructed read this year. Quite superb,” – The List ‘Before you could sort a city out, you had to clean up the source.’ That is the challenge Lucy faces… For years she made that common mistake: her heart was blocked, she thought she was alone. Now, as predatory LeopCorp gets set to pounce on a bankrupt Uberdeen, her quest for fellow-resisters has to speed up pronto. Feisty Alison? Subtle anarchist Iris? Ruthless young Gwen? The big fisherman with a chip on his deck, the Cretan professor – or the smart anti-capitalist clowns? Perhaps the overcrowded Polish workers – or the wounded haunting stranger that has rolled back into town? Or is Lucy simply past it? Might as well retreat to Morocco and let GrottoLotto take over the streets for a new global bonanza…? Black political satire meets salty, funny love story. Strip the Willow reveals itself as a dance of vision, desire, plotting and despair. The apocalypse when it comes is pretty damn sharp, the tenderness real. A vivid, breathtaking tale, Strip the Willow is the long-awaited second novel by the author of Saltire award-winning Amande’s Bed.
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Author: John Aberdein Publisher: Birlinn ISBN: 9780857900104 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: May 2011 256 pages
Over the course of history, many wars have changed the political and cultural landscape of our world. While these events are defined by their upheaval and violence, they frequently contribute to the formation of the identity of entire generations or groups of people, and thus have significant cultural effects. Despite the physical and emotional destruction that occurs during these turbulent periods, they have inspired prolific artistic creation. In the wake of traumatic events over the centuries, a myriad of artists have produced works that immortalise the most dramatic moments of these wars in order to establish them in history forever.This book presents beautiful images depicting famous battles and war scenes, accompanied by the iconic text of the legendary Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu, as well as texts documenting notable moments of different wars, each written by well-known writers. From Uccello’s The Battle of San Romano to Picasso’s Guernica, this work offers a captivating look at artworks inspired by war and what they reveal about humanity’s history.
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Author: Victoria Charles; Sun Tzu Publisher: Parkstone International ISBN: 9781783107797 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: May 2012 350 pages
Le Traité de Lisbonne, entré en vigueur le 1er décembre 2009, a profondément remanié le droit des relations extérieures de l’Union européenne. Cet ouvrage, issu d’un colloque, évalue les apports, limites et perspectives des modifications apportées par ce traité de révision.
Cette étude du droit des relations extérieures de l’Union européenne après le Traité de Lisbonne confronte les moyens juridiques établis par le Traité de Lisbonne aux objectifs internationaux rénovés de l’Union européenne. Cet ouvrage est structuré autour de deux questions :
– L’Union européenne, acteur en droit international : nouvelles perspectives et limites ?
– Quels objectifs internationaux pour l’Union européenne ?
Les objectifs internationaux de l’Union européenne ayant été réagencés dans un souci de cohérence et enrichis par le Traité de Lisbonne, ceux-ci ont été rassemblés autour des priorités contemporaines que sont le développement durable décliné dans ses dimensions économique, sociale et environnementale, et le maintien de la paix et de la sécurité internationale. Chacune de ces deux questions a été l’objet, d’une part, de communications et, d’autre part, de tables rondes réunissant des personnalités provenant d’États tiers, exprimant leur point de vue sur l’action internationale de l’Union. Cet ouvrage interroge donc autant le nouveau statut de sujet de droit international de l’Union européenne que le rôle de cette entité sur la scène internationale.
Cet ouvrage est principalement destiné aux chercheurs et enseignants-chercheurs, aux doctorants, et aux étudiants de master 1 et master 2 (droit de l’Union européenne, droit international, environnement et développement durable, sécurité et défense) des facultés de droit et des sciences politiques, des instituts d’études politiques et des grandes écoles.
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Author: Anne-Sophie Lamblin-Gourdin; Eric Mondielli Publisher: Primento Digital Publishing ISBN: 9782802742616 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: July 2013 472 pages
This book focuses on quantum groups, i.e., continuous deformations of Lie groups, and their applications in physics. These algebraic structures have been studied in the last decade by a growing number of mathematicians and physicists, and are found to underlie many physical systems of interest. They do provide, in fact, a sort of common algebraic ground for seemingly very different physical problems. As it has happened for supersymmetry, the q-group symmetries are bound to play a vital role in physics, even in fundamental theories like gauge theory or gravity. In fact q-symmetry can be considered itself as a generalization of supersymmetry, evident in the q-commutator formulation. The hope that field theories on q-groups are naturally reguralized begins to appear founded, and opens new perspectives for quantum gravity. The topics covered in this book include: conformal field theories and quantum groups, gauge theories of quantum groups, anyons, differential calculus on quantum groups and non-commutative geometry, poisson algebras, 2-dimensional statistical models, (2+1) quantum gravity, quantum groups and lattice physics, inhomogeneous q-groups, q-Poincaregroup and deformed gravity and gauging of W-algebras.
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Author: L. Castellani; J. Wess Publisher: IOS Press ISBN: 9781614992134 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: January 1996 652 pages
The smart, the silly and the downright strange are brought together in a miscellany of extraordinary information that’s essential for every girl to know. Packed full of fascinating facts and tantalizing trivia from the top ten problems for cave girls to the superpowers every girl should have. Learn how to confuse a pigeon, read about some truly gruesome girls and discover which woman has the longest legs in the world. This book will teach, inspire and amuse any girl for hours on end.
Meet Laura. She’s the tall girl holding two stray cats. Laura loves caring for animals. But lately, the animals in the forest near her home have been acting strange. Bats swarm and attack in broad daylight. On her walks, Laura hears eerie howls and inhuman cries. And now, she is about to meet another animal. An animal so ugly and evil, it can only be described as a creature. Poor Laura. Sometimes a path through the forest can lead to The Nightmare Room
How an Asian batting champ became American baseball’s newest star!
Meet baseball’s rookie sensation Ichiro Suzuki…from the top spot in Japan to the Seattle Mariners’ right field.
Seven-time batting champion for Japan’s Pacific League, he is a paradoxical combination of modesty and ego, calling himself simply “Ichiro.” But when the Seattle Mariners signed him to a fourteen-million-dollar contract, scoffers said the 5-foot-9 inch, 156-pound Ichiro wasn’t even in the ballpark. He proved them wrong. With fast legs and an even faster bat, he led the Mariners to their best start in franchise history.
Now, sportswriter Rob Rains takes an in-depth look at Ichiro and the new wave of talented Japanese players, including last year’s Rookie of the Year, Kazuhiro Sasaki of the Seattle Mariners, and Hideo Nomo of the Boston Red Sox, former Yankee Hideki Irabu and Mets outfielder Tsuyoshi Shinjo. American fans are learning what the Japanese already know– these amazing players are already mapping out baseball’s future, proving that this grand slam Asian invasion is here to stay…
With 8 pages of thrilling photos.
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Author: Rob Rains Publisher: St. Martin’s Press ISBN: 9781429937429 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: September 2001 224 pages
Studien zu Kriminalität in der deutschsprachigen Literatur (1570-1920)
Since the 1980s, philologists have cooperated with penal, social, and cultural historians to unearth factual and fictional interrelationships in stories about criminality. This volume presents research articles on the history of German-language prose literature from 1983 to 2007, illuminating new methodological approaches.
Author: Jörg Schönert Publisher: De Gruyter ISBN: 9783110428933 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: July 2015 239 pages
David Lange ushered in a revolution in New Zealand when he came to power in 1984, aged just 41. His Labour government introduced sweeping new legislation that unchained the country from its old conservative bonds, established the world’s first nuclear free state and let loose a free market economic agenda that radically transformed the country. It was a rapid climb to the very top for the overweight doctor’s son from working class South Auckland. As leader during the final years of the Cold War he confronted the agendas of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, and lived through the political upheavals of the fall of the Soviet Union, post-apartheid South Africa and Rajiv Ghandi’s India. Along the way he memorably defeated the Reverend Jerry Falwell in a famous Oxford Union debate about the morality and sanity of the nuclear arms race, and negotiated the aftermath of the tragic bombing of the Rainbow Warrior by French agents in Auckland harbour.
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Author: David Lange Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd ISBN: 9781742287478 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: August 2006 300 pages
