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Cover of Date Rape: It's Not Your Fault
by Joan Meijer
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2014

  If You Want To Avoid Being Raped Or Need To Get Over It If You Have Been Raped This Is the Book For You.              There is no innocent rape and there is no legitimate rape. Rape is Rape. It is a crime. *...
Cover of Canada and Canadians
by Susan Hall
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2017

This is a collection pf poem, songs about Canada and Canadians. 
Cover of Marion Butler and American Populism
by James L. Hunt
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2003

Exploring the life and leadership of Populist Marion Butler (1863-1938), James Hunt offers new insight into the challenges of American reform politics. The son of North Carolina farmers and a graduate of the University of North Carolina, Butler displayed an early proclivity for agrarian reform....
Cover of Public Power in California
by Ted Bradshaw
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2003

"Public Power in California" examines the structural and economic issues affecting the expansion of municipal electric power utilities in the state of California. Although the discussion centers on specific examples in California, the implications of the analysis presented in this book are relevant for the viability of future municipalization of utilities in the United States.
Cover of The Politics of Rural Reform in China

The Politics of Rural Reform in China

State Policy and Village Predicament in the Early 2000s

by Christian Göbel
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010

Based on a treasure trove of information collected through fieldwork interviews and painstaking documentary research through the Chinese and Western language presses, this book analyzes one of the most important reforms implemented in China over the past decade – the rural tax and fee reform, also...
Cover of SYMBOLICS OF ANTIQUE COINS

SYMBOLICS OF ANTIQUE COINS

SWASTIKA AND DAVID'S STAR

by Aleks Torn
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016

On coins of a classical antiquity various symbolics is used various symbolics was used. The most widespread symbol in is the "vardzha" applied not only in India, but also Europe, Persia, China. Symbols – a swastika and "David's Star" are widely widespread. In this work distribution...
Cover of Why am I Attending Vigils?
by Rama Ramanathan
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013

My purpose in this essay is to clarify my thoughts, to say at least tentatively, why I am attending the candlelight vigils – an illegal act in Malaysia. Why do I deliberately disobey the law? Why do I do it repeatedly? Why do I encourage others to do the same?
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Fred en de wet

De schaduwzijde van een crimefighter

by Wim van de Pol
Language: Dutch
Release Date: June 23, 2015

Staatssecretaris van Justitie Fred Teeven was jarenlang persoonlijk het episch centrum in de aanpak van de georganiseerde misdaad in Nederland. Willem Holleeder, Mink Kok, De Hakkelaar, Henk Rommy en Cor van Hout. Slechts een paar voorbeelden van zware criminelen die door Teeven meedogenloos werden...
Cover of Dividing the State

Dividing the State

Legitimacy, Secession and the Doctrine of Oppression

by Paul Groarke
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018

The events of recent history affirm the urgent need for a satisfactory definition of the conditions under which a minority within a state has the legal right to secede. Although the concept of sovereignty has been progressively weakened, it still presents the major theoretical difficulty in this area....
Cover of What We All Need
by Richard Crasta
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2012

What do you really need? Mostly, what we all need:  Love, sex, comfort, food, laughter, a child who loves you as much as you do him, mental stimulation, massage, travel, understanding, freedom, truth, happiness, peace, and a history of the world that provides a greater understanding of the role...
Cover of Taming the river
by Maamar REKAIBA
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015

This slender book is thick with information, reflexion, and humanity. It is about a man. It is about a country. It is about a very wide panorama of contemporary history. It is about good and evil, and how difficult it is to make a choice. How violence permeates our lives, and how more violence may...
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Claytie and the Lady

Ann Richards, Gender, and Politics in Texas

by Sue Tolleson-Rinehart, Jeanie R. Stanley
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010

It was like a remake of The Cowboy and the Lady, except that this time they weren't friends. The 1990 Texas governor's race pitted Republican Clayton Williams, a politically conservative rancher and oil millionaire, against Democrat Ann Richards, an experienced progressive politician noted for her toughness...
Cover of Listening to the Welfare State
by Michael Seltzer, Christian Kullberg, Ilmari Rostila
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017

Listening to the Welfare State presents, for the first time in English, central research findings from recent studies of the welfare systems of Denmark, Norway, Finland and Sweden. The book’s contributors are leading investigators of face-to-face encounters between welfare professionals and clients...
Cover of The Decline of Regionalism in Putin's Russia
by J. Paul Goode
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2011

This book reassesses Putin's attempt to reverse the decentralization of power that characterised centre-regional relations in the 1990s, focusing on regional responses to Putin's federal reforms. It explains the decline of regionalism after 2000 in terms of the dynamics of regional boundaries, understood...
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