Download or read book Capacity Swaps by Global Crossing and Qwest written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 1070 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The God Strategy written by David Domke and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2008 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a timely and dynamic study of the rise of religion in American politics, examining the public messages of political leaders over the past seventy-five years. The authors show that U.S. politics today is defined by a calculated, deliberate, and partisan use of faith that is unprecedented in modern politics. Beginning with the election of Ronald Reagan in 1980, America has seen a no-holds-barred religious politics that seeks to attract voters, identify and attack enemies, and solidify power. Domke and Coe identify a set of religious signals sent by both Republicans and Democrats in speeches, party platforms, proclamations, visits to audiences of faith, and even celebrations of Christmas. The updated edition of this ground-breaking book includes a new preface, an updated analysis of the last Bush administration, as well as a new final chapter on the Jeremiah Wright controversy, the candidacies of Mike Huckabee and Sarah Palin, and Barack Obama's victory.
Download or read book The Kaliningrad Challenge written by Hanne-Margret Birckenbach and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2003 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Kaliningradskaya Oblast, Russia's Baltic enclave which soon will turn into an island amid the enlarged EU and NATO, constitutes a twofold challenge to European politics: Due to its economic, social, historical, geographical, strategic, and cultural peculiarities the detached region may become a source of instability. However, due to the same peculiarities the region also bears the potential to serve as a pilot-region for an EU-Russian partnership. To meet the latter perspective all actors concerned need to engage in a dialogue-based, coordinated, and problem-solving approach. This study provides recommendations to a wide range of actors on how to approach the Kaliningrad challenge in a proactive manner. It presents a policy paper drafted by a group of Kaliningrad experts from eight countries and is complemented by fourteen issue-oriented chapters which provide in-depth reasoning on the suggestions made by the group. Hanne-Margret Birckenbach is professor of political sciences at the University of Giessen, Germany. Christian Wellmann is deputy director of SHIP--The Schleswig-Holstein Institute for Peace Research, Germany.
Download or read book Montrose Paranormal Academy Book 1 written by Barbara Hartzler and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-30 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to Montrose Paranormal Academy-where the Three Societies rule all. Hi, I'm Lucy. And I just found out I'm not normal. There are three secrets I must keep to stay under the radar: 1. Don't show anyone the cryptic postcard my brother sent me from Europe. 2. Don't let anyone know the truth, that I can see angels and demons. 3. Don't fall for one of the dreamy leaders of one of the Three Societies ... or don't let anyone know if I do. Three years ago my brother went missing in Europe without a word. Until the strange postcard I got six months ago. So I enrolled at Montrose to find him. I just have to play nice with the Three Societies long enough to dig up some dirt ... Before they figure out who I really am. Let them think my brother is the Seer. Because if any of these power-hungry secret societies find out the truth, they'll never let me go. For now, I'll need to stay under the radar. But that's hard to do when two rival society presidents take an interest in me. Can I find my brother and master my surprise powers without getting caught? I guess we're about to find out. Montrose Paranormal Academy, The Nexis Secret is book 1 in the 4-book Clean Academy Paranormal YA series for teens. It's a saga full of slow burn romance, snarky dialogue, and urban fantasy adventure set in New York City. Think Shadow Hunters meets Shatter Me with a dash of Bloodline Academy. Scroll up and click Read Now or Download for FREE for your chance to enter the secret world of Montrose Paranormal Academy.
Download or read book Terrorism Studies written by John Horgan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive reader seeks to equip the aspiring student, based anywhere in the world, with a comprehensive introduction to the study of terrorism.
Download or read book Crossing Borders Shifting Boundaries written by Franz Höllinger and published by Campus Verlag. This book was released on 2012-03 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the impact of social phenomena such as recently created nation states, emerging international confederations, cross-national migration, and contemporary global forces on ethnic and national identities in Europe and beyond. The articles in this volume are written by leading international scholars, based on a variety of theoretical and empirical approaches, and offer a multifaceted discussion of the challenging issue of collective identities.
Download or read book Arms on the Market written by Suzette Grillot R and published by Routledge. This book was released on 1998-07-17 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost overnight, the massive military-industrial assets of the Soviet Union came under the jurisdiction of fifteen states instead of one established government. While only four states inherited weapons of mass destruction, most of the fifteen states of the former Soviet Union can produce sensitive materials and equipment. Because all the states se
Download or read book Transforming Latin America written by Craig Arceneaux and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2005-07-14 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ambitious book offers a clear and unified framework for understanding political change across Latin America. The impact of U.S. hegemony and the global economic system on the region is widely known, and scholars and advocates alike point to Latin America's vulnerability in the face of external forces. In spite of such foreign pressure, however, individual countries continue to chart their own courses, displaying considerable variation in political and economic life. Looking broadly across the Western Hemisphere, with examples from Brazil, the Southern Cone, the Andes, and Central America, Arceneaux and Pion-Berlin identify general rules that explain how international and domestic politics interact in specific contexts. The detailed, accessible case studies cast new light on such central problems as neoliberal economic reform, democratization, human rights, regional security, environmental degradation, drug trafficking, and immigration. And they consider not only what actors, institutions, and ideas matter in particular political contexts, but when, where, and how they matter. By dividing issues into the domains of "high" and "low" politics, and differentiating between short-term problems and more permanent concerns, they create an innovative typology for analyzing a wide variety of political events and trends.
Download or read book Conversations with Joseph Flummerfelt written by Joseph Flummerfelt and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2010-06-16 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Conversations with Joseph Flummerfelt: Thoughts on Conducting, Music, and Musicians, Donald Nally presents a window into the mind and heart of one of America's most celebrated and distinguished choral conductors. This captivating narrative traces Flummerfelt's formative years and influences, his most important artistic collaborations, and his approach to conducting and music. There is also a philosophical discussion of cultural influences and obstacles in art, how one teaches conducting, and the foundations of ensemble music-making. This book explores the conductor's early career influences from musicians such as Robert Shaw and Nadia Boulanger and reveals his thoughts on composers Igor Stravinsky, Samuel Barber, Benjamin Britten, and Olivier Messiaen, among others. Topics range from his approaches to style, conducting gesture, sound generation, and choral sound to the psychology of music-making and the contemporary environment of art-making. Nally's interview style captures the energy and rhythm of Flummerfelt's speech so the conductor's voice and passion is readily evident. Through these intimate conversations, Flummerfelt reveals his life, art, and ideas-from close collaborations with some of the world's greatest orchestral conductors to his work as artistic director of Westminster Choir College. More than thirty photos present a visual record of Flummerfelt's collaborations with many of the great musicians of our time; a biographical timeline, list of collaborating orchestras and conductors, and discography are also included. Book jacket.
Download or read book An Air War with Cuba written by Daniel C. Walsh and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2011-11-16 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1985, Radio Marti, a Radio Free Europe-type station, has broadcast American news and propaganda in Cuba. Its sister station, TV Marti, debuted in 1990. Respected operations at the start, Radio and TV Marti fell under the influence of the Cuban American National Foundation--a group of hard-line Cuban exiles--who intensified the anti-Castro rhetoric the stations sent to the island and promoted its leaders as the heirs to a post-Castro Cuba. Though the initial goal of the two stations was to increase pro-American sentiment among the island nation's citizens, the stations have succeeded only in driving the two nations further apart. This history of American propaganda broadcasting in Cuba describes how Castro used radio to obtain power; explores the impact of Radio and TV Marti on U.S.-Cuba relations, including the phenomenon of Cuban rafters; and chronicles the domestic political struggles to keep the stations on the air.
Download or read book Border Crossing Japanese Literature written by Akiko Uchiyama and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-21 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection focuses on metaphorical as well as temporal and physical border-crossing in writing from and about Japan. With a strong consciousness of gender and socio-historic contexts, contributors to the book adopt an intercultural and interdisciplinary approach to examine the writing of authors whose works break free from the confines of hegemonic Japanese literary endeavour. By demonstrating how the texts analysed step outside the space of ‘Japan’, they accordingly foreground the volatility of textual expression related to that space. The authors discussed include Takahashi Mutsuo and Nagai Kafū, both of whom take literary inspiration from geographical sites outside Japan. Several chapters examine the work of exemplary border-crossing poet, novelist and essayist, Itō Hiromi. There are discussions of the work of Tawada Yōko whose ability to publish in German and Japanese marks her also as a representative writer of border-crossing texts. Two chapters address works by Murakami Haruki who, although clearly affiliating with western cultural form, is rarely discussed in specific border-crossing terms. The chapter on Ainu narratives invokes topics such as translation, indigeneity and myth, while an analysis of Japanese prisoner-of-war narratives notes the language and border-crossing nexus. A vital collection for scholars and students of Japanese literature.
Download or read book The Nexis Secret written by Barbara Hartzler and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-19 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two guys. Two secret societies. One girl who sees angels. Is she the one they've all been waiting for? Lucy McAllen was a typical snarky teen, until her parents shipped her off to boarding school in New York City. Now she's unraveling a centuries-old mystery hidden behind the scenes-and discovering powers she didn't even know she had. Lucy's parents want her to join the elite Nexis Society so she can get into Yale. Fortunately, the super-hot Nexis president offers to sign her up. But Nexis isn't the only group on campus. Enter the equally dreamy Guardian leader, who claims there's more to Nexis than Ivy League acceptance. So why are two rival Romeos after her heart and her allegiance? Because Lucy's been seeing strange visions of a supernatural variety. Shadows. Prophetic scenes. Angels of pure light. Not your garden-variety daydreams. Maybe she's got the gift both societies have waited 100 years to find. With the help of her new-found friends, amid spectacular angel battles, Lucy must find a way to harness her gift. And stop one society's twisted plan. Can a girl who sees the supernatural find her own path as The Seer? The Nexis Secret is a fast-moving, visually-descriptive fantasy full of intrigue, sass, and life or death choices. This coming of age romance blurs the lines of prep school with angels and spiritual warfare. It has scary parts, action, adventure, romance, and really makes you think. Making a splash in Clean Paranormal Romance, one reviewer called The Nexis Secret, "The best paranormal book of 2015." Pick it up today for your chance to enter the secret world of The Nexis Society. The Nexis Secret -A YA Novel- Categories -YA Novel -YA Angels -Coming of Age Romance Clean -Prep School Romance -Clean Paranormal Romance -YA Paranormal -YA Christian Fantasy -Spiritual Warfare Fiction -Supernatural
Download or read book The Working Landscape written by Peter F. Cannavo and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2007-06-22 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In America today we see rampant development, unsustainable resource exploitation, and commodification ruin both natural and built landscapes, disconnecting us from our surroundings and threatening our fundamental sense of place. Meanwhile, preservationists often respond with a counterproductive stance that rejects virtually any change in the landscape. In The Working Landscape, Peter Cannavò identifies this zero-sum conflict between development and preservation as a major factor behind our contemporary crisis of place. Cannavò offers practical and theoretical alternatives to this deadlocked, polarized politics of place by proposing an approach that embraces both change and stability and unifies democratic and ecological values, creating a "working landscape." Place, Cannavò argues, is not just an object but an essential human practice that involves the physical and conceptual organization of our surroundings into a coherent, enduring landscape. This practice must balance development (which he calls "founding") and preservation. Three case studies illustrate the polarizing development-preservation conflict: the debate over the logging of old-growth forests in the Pacific Northwest; the problem of urban sprawl; and the redevelopment of the former site of the World Trade Center in New York City. Cannavò suggests that regional, democratic governance is the best framework for integrating development and preservation, and he presents specific policy recommendations that aim to create a "working landscape" in rural, suburban, and urban areas. A postscript on the mass exile, displacement, and homelessness caused by Hurricane Katrina considers the implications of future climate change for the practice of place.
Download or read book Crossing Boundaries written by Austin Sarat and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1998-09-02 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps no idea is more emblematic of the field of law and society than crossing boundaries. From the founding of the Law and Society Association in the early 1960s, participating scholars aspired to create a field that crossed boundaries in at least two senses: by undertaking research that questioned and often bridged traditional methodological and disciplinary divisions, and by using nontraditional approaches to explore the interconnections between law and its social context. These essays reflect both aspirations.
Download or read book Spell Crossed 3 Book Bundle written by Robert Priest and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2016-11-08 with total page 773 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the spell-crossed Phaer Isle, young Xemion and his friend Saheli just made one little mistake, but now they’re in a fight for their own lives and the future of all Phaer. Up against Thralls, Triplicants, dragons, rage-wraiths, will they find the key to victory in the Great Kone, the source of all magic? And what will it cost them? Includes: The Paper Sword – Spell Crossed #1 After shaking hands with a man with a red hand, Xemion and Saheni must flee their forest home and cross dangerous lands haunted by creatures caught in the forces of conflicting spells, while being pursued by a traitorous Examiner. They head for the city of Ulde, where a rebellion is brewing against the ruthless rulers of Phaer Isle, the Pathans. Second Kiss – Spell Crossed #2 Young Xemion is at a crossroads. War looms on the horizon, and his dream of becoming a swordfighter is finally a reality, but without his warrior beloved, Saheli, by his side, he’s incomplete. He must break the spell that separates them and find his way back to her. For one more kiss. Missing Piece – Spell Crossed #3 Xemion has great power as a mage and as a warrior, but none of that means anything to him if he cannot bring back his beloved Saheli. And with war looming, the evil Montither is set on taking care of Saheli once and for all. Can Xemion save her in time? And will she still remember him and their promise of long ago?
Download or read book Spell Crossed 2 Book Bundle written by Robert Priest and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the spell-crossed Phaer Isle, young Xemion and his friend Saheli just made one little mistake, but now they’re in a fight for their own lives and the future of all Phaer. Up against Thralls, Triplicants, dragons, rage-wraiths, will they find the key to victory in the Great Kone, the source of all magic? And what will it cost them? Includes: The Paper Sword – Spell Crossed #1 After shaking hands with a man with a red hand, Xemion and Saheni must flee their forest home and cross dangerous lands haunted by creatures caught in the forces of conflicting spells, while being pursued by a traitorous Examiner. They head for the city of Ulde, where a rebellion is brewing against the ruthless rulers of Phaer Isle, the Pathans. Second Kiss – Spell Crossed #2 Young Xemion is at a crossroads. War looms on the horizon, and his dream of becoming a swordfighter is finally a reality, but without his warrior beloved, Saheli, by his side, he’s incomplete. He must break the spell that separates them and find his way back to her. For one more kiss.
Download or read book Searcher written by and published by . This book was released on 2006-06 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
