Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9780835246804
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages :
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El-Hi Textbooks & Serials in Print, 2005
Author: El-Hi Textbooks & Serials in Print, 2003
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9780835245463
Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 2126
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Above the Pacific
Author: William Joseph HorvatPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 234
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Information Gathering in Classical Greece
Author: Frank Santi RussellPublisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472110643
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
"Information Gathering in Classical Greece opens with chapters on tactical, strategic, and covert agents. Methods of communication are explored, from fire-signals to dead-letter drops. Frank Russell categorizes and defines the collectors and sources of information according to their era, methods, and spheres of operation, and he also provides evidence from ancient authors on interrogation and the handling and weighing of information. Counterintelligence is also explored, together with disinformation through "leaks" and agents. The author concludes this fascinating study with observations on the role that intelligence-gathering has in the kind of democratic society for which Greece has always been famous"--Publisher description.
State of the World's Children
Author: UNICEF.Publisher: UNICEF
ISBN: 9280644424
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
On 20 November 2009, the global community celebrates the 20th anniversary of the adoption by the United Nations General Assembly of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the unique document that sets international standards for the care, treatment and protection of all individuals below age 18. To celebrate this landmark, the United Nations Children's Fund is dedicating a special edition of its flagship report The State of the World's Children to examining the Convention's evolution, progress achieved on child rights, challenges remaining, and actions to be taken to ensure that its promise becomes a reality for all children.
Sixty Years of California Song
Author: Margaret Blake-AlversonPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3734069777
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Sixty Years of California Song by Margaret Blake-Alverson
The Dynamics of Ancient Empires
Author: Ian MorrisPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199707618
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
The world's first known empires took shape in Mesopotamia between the eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea and the Persian Gulf, beginning around 2350 BCE. The next 2,500 years witnessed sustained imperial growth, bringing a growing share of humanity under the control of ever-fewer states. Two thousand years ago, just four major powers--the Roman, Parthian, Kushan, and Han empires--ruled perhaps two-thirds of the earth's entire population. Yet despite empires' prominence in the early history of civilization, there have been surprisingly few attempts to study the dynamics of ancient empires in the western Old World comparatively. Such grand comparisons were popular in the eighteenth century, but scholars then had only Greek and Latin literature and the Hebrew Bible as evidence, and necessarily framed the problem in different, more limited, terms. Near Eastern texts, and knowledge of their languages, only appeared in large amounts in the later nineteenth century. Neither Karl Marx nor Max Weber could make much use of this material, and not until the 1920s were there enough archaeological data to make syntheses of early European and west Asian history possible. But one consequence of the increase in empirical knowledge was that twentieth-century scholars generally defined the disciplinary and geographical boundaries of their specialties more narrowly than their Enlightenment predecessors had done, shying away from large questions and cross-cultural comparisons. As a result, Greek and Roman empires have largely been studied in isolation from those of the Near East. This volume is designed to address these deficits and encourage dialogue across disciplinary boundaries by examining the fundamental features of the successive and partly overlapping imperial states that dominated much of the Near East and the Mediterranean in the first millennia BCE and CE. A substantial introductory discussion of recent thought on the mechanisms of imperial state formation prefaces the five newly commissioned case studies of the Neo-Assyrian, Achaemenid Persian, Athenian, Roman, and Byzantine empires. A final chapter draws on the findings of evolutionary psychology to improve our understanding of ultimate causation in imperial predation and exploitation in a wide range of historical systems from all over the globe. Contributors include John Haldon, Jack Goldstone, Peter Bedford, Josef Wiesehöfer, Ian Morris, Walter Scheidel, and Keith Hopkins, whose essay on Roman political economy was completed just before his death in 2004.
173d Airborne Brigade
Author: Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
ISBN: 1596520167
Category : Airborne troops
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
Getting Real About Race
Author: Stephanie M. McClurePublisher: SAGE Publications
ISBN: 1506339328
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
Getting Real About Race is an edited collection of short essays that address the most common stereotypes and misconceptions about race held by students, and by many in the United States, in general.
The Many-Headed Muse
Author: Pauline A. LeVenPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107018536
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
This book examines Greek songs composed between 440 and 323 BC and argues for the vividness and diversity of lyric culture.