31 Ergebnisse für: scrutinizes
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Kosovo: How Myths and Truths Started a War - Julie Mertus - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=2f3Azk0sCDYC&pg=PA34&dq=kosovo+demonstrations+1981+movement+for+a+national+liberation+of#v=onep
Julie Mertus provides one of the first comprehensive looks at the explosive situation in Kosovo, where years of simmering tensions between Serbs and Albanians erupted in armed conflict in 1998. In a profound and detailed study of national identity and…
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Bessie Potter Vonnoh: Sculptor of Women - Julie Aronson, Janis C. Conner - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=WQxH-SiOJooC&pg=PP18&lpg=PP18&dq=White+Rabbits++World's+Columbian+Exposition&source=bl&ots=tw53
In the Gilded Age, when most sculptors aspired to produce monuments, Bessie Potter Vonnoh (1872-1955) made significant contributions to small bronze sculpture and garden statuary designed for the embellishment of the home. Her work commanded admiration for…
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Disaster Risk Management in the Republic of Korea - Yong-kyun Kim, Hong-Gyoo Sohn - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=YSEsDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA86&dq=%22Hube+Global+Co.,+Ltd.%22&hl=de&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiHjNPlm9fZAhXB2aQKHWT
This book scrutinizes the entire disaster trajectory history in the Republic of Korea: evolution, cross-over, and interconnection among natural, technological, and social disasters. Also examined is the government’s dynamic reaction for effective disaster…
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The Kitchen: Life World, Usage, Perspectives - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=OwY41xFedw4C&pg=PA28&dq=%22one+kitchen%22+house&hl=de&ei=OWmLTYa8Gcnusga80NWNCg&sa=X&oi=book_res
Dwelling is more popular than ever. Whether in exhibits, scholarly studies, trend-conscious lifestyle magazines, or easily consumable coffee-table books, the complex factors informing humanity’s c- dition in its lived environment have become the object of…
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Global Prescriptions: The Production, Exportation, and Importation of a New ... - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=UNtFXffWnZcC&pg=PA43
Global Prescriptions scrutinizes the movement to export a U.S.-oriented version of the " rule of law," found in the activities of philanthropic foundations, the World Bank, the U.S. Agency for International Development, and several other developmental…
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Generals in the Palacio: The Military in Modern Mexico - Roderic A. Camp, Roderic A Camp - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=sbP5sPTIqNYC&pg=PA249&dq=1976+%22Antonio+S%C3%A1nchez+Acevedo+%22&hl=de&ei=8bVuTK_EMM_54ga82KzeC
Mexico is one of the few Third World nations that has successfully withdrawn the military from political control, with a longer reign of civilian government than any other country in Latin America. However little research has been done on the Mexican…
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Cultivating Humanity - Martha C. Nussbaum - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=v3yZA1hMlZsC&dq=Martha+Nussbaum+%22Cultivating+Humanity%22&printsec=frontcover&source=bn&hl=de&e
How can higher education today create a community of critical thinkers and searchers for truth that transcends the boundaries of class, gender, and nation? Martha C. Nussbaum, philosopher and classicist, argues that contemporary curricular reform is…
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From Catastrophe to Power: The Holocaust Survivors and the Emergence of Israel - Idith Zertal - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=p7qlTfDzAkkC&pg=PA33&lpg=PA33&dq=la+spezia+fede+1946&source=bl&ots=3kFMGW-vvC&sig=EwriIU5bGCulBL
In a book certain to generate controversy and debate, Idith Zertal boldly interprets a much revered chapter in contemporary Jewish and Zionist history: the clandestine immigration to Palestine of Jewish refugees, most of them Holocaust survivors, that was…
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The Philosophy of the Kalam - Harry Austryn Wolfson - Google Books
http://books.google.de/books?id=fuv8J-g7EdAC&pg=PA304&lpg=PA304&dq=&source=bl&ots=P-3mPVX208&sig=YwqdE1AThA6QBo4YTBs17cfsG0c
In this long-awaited volume, on which he worked for twenty years, Mr. Wolfson describes the body of doctrine known as the Kalam. Kalam, an Arabic term meaning "speech" and hence "discussion," was applied to early attempts in Islam to adduce philosophic…
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A Century of Sovereign Ratings - Norbert Gaillard - Google Books
https://books.google.de/books?id=zJgdcaMNgwgC&pg=PA9&lpg=PA9&dq=first+sovereign+rating+s%26p&source=bl&ots=oxo1cwnYEk&sig=s3sD7b
The financial difficulties experienced by Greece since 2009 serve as a reminder that countries (i.e., sovereigns) may default on their debt. Many observers considered the financial turmoil was behind us because major advanced countries had adopted stimulus…