E-book Empty Spaces : Perspectives on Emptiness in Modern History

Emptiness is a challenging concept: slippery in definition and elastic in meaning. It implies a total lack of content: people, buildings, objects or markings on a map. In the abstract, emptiness equals nothingness, a perfect void. Yet when one thinks of places on the globe that one might associate with being empty – the Gobi or Sahara deserts, t…

E-book Middle Egyptian: An Introduction to the Language and Culture of Hierog…

Middle Egyptian introduces the reader to the writing system of ancient Egypt and the language of hieroglyphic texts. It contains twenty-six lessons, exercises (with answers), a list of hieroglyphic signs, and a dictionary. It also includes a series of twenty-five essays on the most important aspects of ancient Egyptian history, society, religion and literature. The combination of grammar lesson…

E-book 3-D Negotiation: Powerful Tools to Change the Game in Your Most Import…

When discussing being stuck in a "win-win vs. win-lose" debate, most negotiation books focus on face-to-face tactics. Yet, table tactics are only the "first dimension" of David A. Lax and James K. Sebenius' pathbreaking 3-D Negotiation (TM) approach, developed from their decades of doing deals and analyzing great dealmakers. Moves in their "second dimension"?deal design?systematically unlock ec…

E-book Drones and Support for the Use of Force

Political leaders face two key challenges when they decide to use mili-tary force: winning the war itself, and winning support at home. In the past two decades, the United States has pursued a technological solution to these problems by developing combat drones—weapons that can both selectively target opponents and minimize the costs and risks of combat. In this book, …

E-book Black Women’s Stories of Everyday Racism

Black Women’s Stories of Everyday Racism puts literary narrative theory to work on an urgent real-world problem. The book calls attention to African American women’s everyday experiences with systemic racism and demonstrates how four types of narrative theory can help generate strategies to explain and dismantle that racism. This volume presents fifteen stories told by eight midwestern Afri…

E-book A Dictionary of Diplomacy

In this second edition of A Dictionary of Diplomacy we have added a considerable number of entries, excluded some which no longer seemed significant, reworked others in the light of further reflection, and corrected a few errors. We would like to thank all of those who offered criticisms of the first edition and suggested new entries for inclusion in this one, notably Lorna Lloyd (who also gav…

E-book Caribbean Figure Pendants : Style and Subject Matter : Anthropomorphic…

hat we might loosely call the indigenous “religious arts” of the late prehistoric Greater Antilles – skillfully crafted, portable artifacts used in ritual practice – exist in a variety of genres in a variety of media. Some of these genres have attracted consid-erable analytical attention by specialists: dujos (ceremonial stools), cohoba stands (for receiving a hallucinogeni…

E-book Down to Earth Archaeology

Down to Earth Archaeology collects sixteen archaeological papers by Professor William Y. Adams chosen by the author, who added introductory commentary to each. These articles were written at various times during his lengthy and productive academic career for different purposes and for different audiences. Most of those selected had been previously published only in a limited way, either as conf…

E-book Topology of the Brain Function: A Summary of Our Published and Unpubli…

This manuscript encompasses our published and unpublished topological results in neuroscience. Topology, the mathematical branch that assesses objects and their properties preserved through deformations, stretching and twisting, allows the investigation of the most general brain features.

E-book Remembering The Kana: The Hiragana

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