Search Results - "King

Profiles in humanity the battle for peace, freedom, equality, and human rights / by Cohen, Warren I.

Table of Contents: “…Mahatma Gandhi and nonviolent resistance -- Václav Havel and the power of the powerless -- Aung San Suu Kyi, martyr for democracy -- Margaret Sanger and the liberation of women -- Muslim feminists -- Jack Greenberg and the NAACP-Legal Defense Fund -- Martin Luther King, Jr., and the struggle for racial equality -- Donald Woods, Bram Fischer, Helen Suzman and the fight against apartheid -- Nelson Mandela : grace in victory -- Holocaust rescuers -- Pope John XXIII and Catholic humanism -- Mikhail Gorbachev, Andrei Sakharov, and human rights in Europe -- Liu Binyan : the quest for truth and justice in China -- Franklin D. and Eleanor Roosevelt and the welfare state -- Muhammad Yunus, microfinance, and an end to poverty.…”
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Spain, Europe & the wider world, 1500-1800 by Elliott, John Huxtable

Table of Contents: “…A Europe of composite monarchies -- Learning from the enemy : early modern Britain and Spain -- The general crisis in retrospect : a debate without end -- A non-revolutionary society : Castile in the 1640's -- Europe after the Peace of Westphalia -- The seizure of overseas territories by the European powers -- Illusion and disillusionment : Spain and the Indies -- Britain and Spain in America : colonists and colonised -- King and patria in the Hispanic world -- The same world, different worlds -- Starting afresh? …”
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New perspectives on ancient warfare

Table of Contents: “…Weapons, technological determinism, and ancient warfare / Fernando Echeverria Rey -- Chariotry to calvary : developments in the early first millennium / Robin Archer -- "I fell upon him like a furious arrow" : toward a reconstruction of the Assyrian tactical system / Garrett G. Fagan -- All the king's horse : in search of Achaemenid Persian cavalry / Christopher Tuplin -- A cup by Douris and the Battle of Marathon / Peter Krentz -- "Those who sail are to receive a wage" : naval warfare and finance in Archaic Eretria / Hans van Wees -- Coinage and the transformation of Greek warfare / Matthew Trundle -- The Carthaginian navy : questions and assumptions / Louis Rawlings -- Phalanges in Rome? …”
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A fleeting empire early Stuart Britain and the merchant adventurers to Canada / by Nicholls, Andrew D., 1965-

Table of Contents: “…The Huron Mission and the promise of New France -- Early English and British expeditions in the North Atlantic Theatre -- King James VI/I and the challenge of Anglo-Scottish co-operation -- The poet courtier : Sir William Alexander and his charter -- The paper Colony : Charles's privateers and the proxy war -- The demands of honour and Charles I's unfolding strategy -- A man of controversy : James Stewart of Killeith, fourth Lord Ochiltree -- Mixed motives and the company of merchant adventurers to Canada -- Shifting loyalties and the case of the embezzled furs -- Lord Ochiltree's Gamble and the abandonment of Port Royal -- The treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye and the end of a partnership.…”
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Rhetorics and technologies new directions in writing and communication /

Table of Contents: “…Jimmie Killingsworth -- Unfitting beauties of transducing bodies / Anne Frances Wysocki -- The rhetorics of online autism advocacy: a case for rhetorical listening / Paul Heilker and Jason King -- Narrating the future: scenarios and the cult of specification / John M. …”
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Rethinking diasporas hidden narratives and imagined borders /

Table of Contents: “…: the Zena Project and Bosnian migrant women in Ireland / Maja Halilovic-Pastuovic -- Remembering and forgetting diaspora : immigrant voices and Irish historical memories of migration / Jason King -- Ireland's hidden diaspora? : finding a place for the Ulster-Scots in Ireland's national tale / Carol Baraniuk and Linda Hagan -- Accidental diasporas : a perspective on Northern Ireland's nationalists / Kevin Howard.…”
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Terrorism issues, policies and legislation

Table of Contents: “…Thomas -- Summary of the White House review of the December 25, 2009 attempted terrorist attack / Office of the Press Secretary -- Ocean piracy and its impact on insurance / Rawle 0. King -- Latin America : terrorism issues / Mark P. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Profiles in humanity the battle for peace, freedom, equality, and human rights / by Cohen, Warren I.

Table of Contents: “…Mahatma Gandhi and nonviolent resistance -- Václav Havel and the power of the powerless -- Aung San Suu Kyi, martyr for democracy -- Margaret Sanger and the liberation of women -- Muslim feminists -- Jack Greenberg and the NAACP-Legal Defense Fund -- Martin Luther King, Jr., and the struggle for racial equality -- Donald Woods, Bram Fischer, Helen Suzman and the fight against apartheid -- Nelson Mandela : grace in victory -- Holocaust rescuers -- Pope John XXIII and Catholic humanism -- Mikhail Gorbachev, Andrei Sakharov, and human rights in Europe -- Liu Binyan : the quest for truth and justice in China -- Franklin D. and Eleanor Roosevelt and the welfare state -- Muhammad Yunus, microfinance, and an end to poverty.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Spain, Europe & the wider world, 1500-1800 by Elliott, John Huxtable

Table of Contents: “…A Europe of composite monarchies -- Learning from the enemy : early modern Britain and Spain -- The general crisis in retrospect : a debate without end -- A non-revolutionary society : Castile in the 1640's -- Europe after the Peace of Westphalia -- The seizure of overseas territories by the European powers -- Illusion and disillusionment : Spain and the Indies -- Britain and Spain in America : colonists and colonised -- King and patria in the Hispanic world -- The same world, different worlds -- Starting afresh? …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

New perspectives on ancient warfare

Table of Contents: “…Weapons, technological determinism, and ancient warfare / Fernando Echeverria Rey -- Chariotry to calvary : developments in the early first millennium / Robin Archer -- "I fell upon him like a furious arrow" : toward a reconstruction of the Assyrian tactical system / Garrett G. Fagan -- All the king's horse : in search of Achaemenid Persian cavalry / Christopher Tuplin -- A cup by Douris and the Battle of Marathon / Peter Krentz -- "Those who sail are to receive a wage" : naval warfare and finance in Archaic Eretria / Hans van Wees -- Coinage and the transformation of Greek warfare / Matthew Trundle -- The Carthaginian navy : questions and assumptions / Louis Rawlings -- Phalanges in Rome? …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

A fleeting empire early Stuart Britain and the merchant adventurers to Canada / by Nicholls, Andrew D., 1965-

Table of Contents: “…The Huron Mission and the promise of New France -- Early English and British expeditions in the North Atlantic Theatre -- King James VI/I and the challenge of Anglo-Scottish co-operation -- The poet courtier : Sir William Alexander and his charter -- The paper Colony : Charles's privateers and the proxy war -- The demands of honour and Charles I's unfolding strategy -- A man of controversy : James Stewart of Killeith, fourth Lord Ochiltree -- Mixed motives and the company of merchant adventurers to Canada -- Shifting loyalties and the case of the embezzled furs -- Lord Ochiltree's Gamble and the abandonment of Port Royal -- The treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye and the end of a partnership.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Rhetorics and technologies new directions in writing and communication /

Table of Contents: “…Jimmie Killingsworth -- Unfitting beauties of transducing bodies / Anne Frances Wysocki -- The rhetorics of online autism advocacy: a case for rhetorical listening / Paul Heilker and Jason King -- Narrating the future: scenarios and the cult of specification / John M. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Rethinking diasporas hidden narratives and imagined borders /

Table of Contents: “…: the Zena Project and Bosnian migrant women in Ireland / Maja Halilovic-Pastuovic -- Remembering and forgetting diaspora : immigrant voices and Irish historical memories of migration / Jason King -- Ireland's hidden diaspora? : finding a place for the Ulster-Scots in Ireland's national tale / Carol Baraniuk and Linda Hagan -- Accidental diasporas : a perspective on Northern Ireland's nationalists / Kevin Howard.…”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Terrorism issues, policies and legislation

Table of Contents: “…Thomas -- Summary of the White House review of the December 25, 2009 attempted terrorist attack / Office of the Press Secretary -- Ocean piracy and its impact on insurance / Rawle 0. King -- Latin America : terrorism issues / Mark P. …”
An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

Journal of Petroleum Exploration and Production Technology

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Framing Africa portrayals of a continent in contemporary mainstream cinema /

Table of Contents: “…the re-presencing of Africa in twenty-first-century film / Nigel Eltringham -- "Print the legend": myth and reality in The last King of Scotland / Mark Leopold -- Black Hawk down: recasting U.S. military history at Somali expense / Lidwien Kapteijns -- Pharma in Africa: health, corruption and contemporary Kenya in The constant gardener / Daniel Branch -- War in the city, crime in the country: Blood diamond and the representation of violence in the Sierra Leone War / Danny Hoffman -- Showing what cannot be imagined: Shooting dogs and Hotel Rwanda / Nigel Eltringham -- Torture, betrayal and forgiveness: Red dust and the search for truth in post-apartheid South Africa / Annelies Verdoolaege -- Go Amabokoboko! …”
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Journal of Petroleum Exploration and Production Technology

Open Access

Paisanos : A Folklore Miscellany

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The House of Death : Messages from the English Renaissance by STEIN, ARNOLD

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Africa : altered states, ordinary miracles / by Dowden, Richard

Table of Contents: “…Somalia -- Forward to the past: Zimbabwe -- Breaking apart: Sudan -- A tick bigger than the dog: Angola -- Missing the story and the sequel: Burundi and Rwanda -- God, trust and trade: Senegal -- Dancers and the leopard men: Sierra Leone -- The positive women: AIDS in Africa -- Copying King Leopold: Congo -- Not just another country: South Africa -- Meat and money: eating in Kenya -- Look out world: Nigeria -- New colonists or old friends? …”