Cicero, Politics, and the 21st Century addresses the West's current crisis of confidence. Reflecting on how the famed Roman philosopher-statesmen Marcus Tullius Cicero thought and acted in a time of great turbulence in the ancient world, this book offers lessons to 21st century students of politics and statesmen alike. Cicero's example shows that ......
Presented by Russian author and attorney Ilya Milyukov, Chronicles of the First and Second Chechen War presents the main events of the First (1994-1996) and Second (1999-2009) Wars in Chechnya, Russia's deadliest conflicts since World War II. The First War began in December 1994 and lasted for one year and nine months, ending in August 1996. ......
Modern fantasy is the generic revival of the chivalric romance. The quest motif, adventures to other worlds, imaginary characters, exotic settings, battles between light and darkness, circular plot patterns, and anachronism all highlight a substantial common point between these genres. The quest for "I," or self, prepares the ground to analyze ......
Human Rights Implications in the Paracel and Spratly Islands
Vietnam has claimed the Paracel and Spratly Island groups for hundreds of years. China's invasion and capture of the Paracels from South Vietnam in 1974, and its ongoing occupation of the Spratlys, have created increasing opposition and anger not only among Vietnamese citizens but worldwide. This book insists that China's illegal violation of ......
From Macro-Level Engagements to Grassroots Interactions
For the past three decades, Sino-African relations have attracted widespread coverage for the political, economic, and diplomatic engagements between African countries and China, as well as grassroots interactions and encounters between Africans and Chinese. Such engagements and interactions feature controversies, tensions, and biases fueled by ......
Change Partners will give an educated reader a deep understanding of a particular conceptual `village' (memory, privacy, now change) -- hence the designation `intellectual ethnography.' As a book about change, this is also a book about motion, becoming, and difference, because all of these concepts circulate around the same patches of meanings. ......
In a succinct, easy to read style, Challenge of Change makes an eye-opening global exploration of human organisation in a tumultuous world: organisation to cope with obstacles that have, over the centuries, threatened human survival and vitality. In keeping with how the Founding Fathers conceived American democracy, and how entrepreneurs have ......
While much historiography has assumed that the period from 1890 to 1930 was liberal in Argentina, Agustina Gonzalez Nunez forcefully argues in Catholicism and Nation in Argentina that the Society of Jesus - the Jesuit order of the Roman Catholic Church - proved a powerful force in shaping an alternate discourse of Argentinian nationhood. ......
Classroom Analytics for Teaching about Social Justice with Action Research in Higher Learning
CATALYSTICS: Classroom Analytics for Teaching about Social Justice in Higher Learning can serve as the genesis for moving the usual mission statements promulgated by so many universities and colleges from the maintained pontification to the movement of proof. We use the word, CATALYSTICS to create a confluence between the terms catalytical and ......
