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Universal
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[2003], c1978
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Widescreen version (1.85:1).
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English
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In the deepest reaches of space, the fight to save all human life from extinction has begun. Hoping for lasting peace following centuries of intense warfare, the Twelve Colonies gather to sign a treaty with their dreaded enemies, the Cylons. But after an act of treachery, the Cylons launch a devasting surprise attack, destroying the Colonies home planet. A lone flagship, the Galactica, remains to aid the surviving colonists on their epic journey to...
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In 1995, an Okinawan schoolgirl was brutally raped by several U.S. servicemen. The incident triggered a chain of protests by women's groups, teachers' associations, labor unions, reformist political parties, and various grassroots organizations across Okinawa prefecture. Reaction to the crime culminated in a rally attended by some 85,000 people, including business leaders and conservative politicians who had seldom raised their voices against the...
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India and Pakistan started the Composite Dialogue Process (CDP) in 1997 when at Male, the capital of the Maldives, the then Indian Prime Minister Inder Kumar Gujral and his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif proposed the idea of a structured dialogue. Initially the dialogue process became the casualty of the 1999 Kargil war and the subsequent attack on the Indian Parliament in 2001. However, since April 2003 it has progressed steadily till the November...
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Although there are large number of books available covering various aspects of paradoxes but there is no comprehensive book dealing with the various Statistics and Statistical Decision Theory paradoxes for the persons appurtenant with Statistics and/or Mathematics. It is different from other books in the sense that not only it provided the proof of results but also supply contradiction to the situation with where it is applicable. This book is of...
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Over twenty years after the 1989 UN General Assembly vote to open the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) for signature and ratification by UN member states, the United States remains one of only two UN members not to have ratified it. The other is Somalia. Child Rights: The Movement, International Law, and Opposition explores the reasons for this resistance. It details the objections that have arisen to accepting this legally binding international...
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Colombia se enfrenta actualmente a uno de los mayores desafíos de su historia reciente: poner fin a más de cinco décadas de violencia armada. El proceso de paz entre el gobierno nacional y las FARC en La Habana permite vislumbrar una posible salida negociada al conflicto armado, pero genera también varios interrogantes en cuanto al modelo y contenido del posible acuerdo, así como a las diversas exigencias y desafíos de la construcción de paz...
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Explores the causes and implications of the Nazi-Soviet Pact, an unholy covenant whose creation and dissolution were crucial turning points in World War II. Forged by the German foreign minister, Joachim von Ribbentrop, and his Soviet counterpart, Vyacheslav Molotov, the nonaggression treaty briefly united the two powers in a brutally efficient collaboration. Together, the Germans and Soviets quickly conquered and divided central and eastern Europe;...
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A new edition of the seminal text by the father of modern economics.
First published in 1919, John Maynard Keynes's The Economic Consequences of the Peace created immediate controversy. Keynes was a firsthand witness to the negotiations of the Paris Peace Conference, as an official representative of the British Treasury, and he simultaneously sat as deputy for the chancellor of the Exchequer on the Supreme Economic Council. In these roles, he was...
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This is a careful examination of the historical formation of Britain and of key moments in its relations with the European powers. The author looks at the governing discourses of politicians, the mass media, and the British people. The rhetoric of sovereignty among political elites and the population at large is found to conceive of Britain's engagement with Europe as a zero-sum game. A second theme is the power of geographical images – island Britain...
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In Lawmaking under Pressure, Giovanni Mantilla analyzes the origins and development of the international humanitarian treaty rules that now exist to regulate internal armed conflict. Until well into the twentieth century, states allowed atrocious violence as an acceptable product of internal conflict. Why have states created international laws to control internal armed conflict? Why did states compromise their national security by accepting these...
13) Hopes and Fears
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It has been said many times that the human future is clouded by multiple and mutually interacting problems. While in the 19th century we had the luxury of believing in almost automatic progress - an "onward and upward" assumption - that belief has been shattered by two world wars, more than 150 smaller ones, the invention of weapons of mass destruction, increasing degradation of the environment, both by pollution and resource exhaustion (i.e. adding...
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Dans moins d'une génération, l'ordre géopolitique et géoéconomique mondial sera manifestement différent de celui que nous connaissons aujourd'hui, ces dynamiques à l'oeuvre étant le résultat de la puissance décomplexée de la Chine et des « nouvelles routes de la soie ». Amorcé en 2013, le mégaprojet Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), avec pour objectif le déploiement à partir de la Chine d'un ensemble multiforme d'initiatives économiques,...
15) Compendium de la jurisprudence de la Cour européenne des droits de l'homme relative à la peine de
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Assurer le respect de l'une des valeurs fondamentales de l'humanité dans notre société par le biais de la Convention européenne des droits de l'homme et de la Cour européenne des droits de l'homme.
L'objectif de ce recueil est d'aider les juges, les procureurs et les avocats des 46 États membres du Conseil de l'Europe à traiter les affaires d'extradition ou d'expulsion lorsqu'il existe un risque d'application de la peine de mort dans des pays...
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"Winner of the 2014 Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize, Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Foundation" "Winner of the 2013 International Law Best Book Award, International Law Section of the International Studies Association" "Co-Winner of the 2013 Chadwick F. Alger Prize, International Studies Association" Christina L. Davis is associate professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton University. She is the author of Food Fights over Free Trade: How...
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À l'approche des cent ans de l'armistice entre les Alliés et l'Allemagne, un historien, un philosophe et des témoins de massacres de masse abordent les questions de la violence, de la vengeance et de la réconciliation. Dans sa préface, l'historien Maurice Vaïsse dresse un panorama des différentes tentatives des nations, au cours du XXe siècle, pour établir un monde un peu plus pacifique. Et constate que la plus aboutie, malgré ses imperfections...
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Chelsea House
Pub. Date
c2007
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English
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When the United States purchased the Louisiana Territory from France in 1803, President Thomas Jefferson proposed that eastern Indian tribes could be moved west to this new expanse of land. Jefferson's recommendation was in direct response to the demand by white settlers for more land, especially in the southeastern portion of the United States. As a result, Congress passed the Indian Removal Act of 1830, which set in motion the relocation of thousands...
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Building on a careful analysis of Southeast Asia's recent history, politics, economics, and place within the Asia Pacific, this report looks forward two decades to anticipate the development of trends in the region and how they will impact the U.S.-Japan alliance. How will Southeast Asian states come to grips with the political and economic rise of China? How will they modernize their military forces and security relationships, and what role can the...
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La Argentina atraviesa momentos difíciles. En efecto, la aparición de esta nueva pandemia, un contexto internacional más complejo del que estábamos acostumbrados, la falta de acuerdos internos y una clase dirigente que no logra elaborar una visión de país nos ha puesto en una encrucijada.
En esta obra, Francisco de Santibañes nos presenta un amplio panorama sobre los desafíos que enfrenta la Argentina, y también nos propone caminos a recorrer....
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