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This important and exciting title represents the first authoritative volume focussed on pelagic (open ocean) sharks as a group. Virtually every pelagic shark expert in the world has contributed to this landmark publication which includes the latest data and knowledge on pelagic shark biology, fisheries, management, and conservation. Pelagic sharks face unprecedented levels of exploitation in all t

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"On July 7th, the murderous mayhem that Blair's war has sown in Iraq came home to London in a devastating series of suicide bombings. Two weeks later, with apparent impunity, security forces shot dead a young Brazilian electrician on his way to work." "Rough Music is Tariq Ali's response to these events." "He lays bare the vengeful platitudes of Blair's war on civil liberties, mounts a scorching a

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"Tradition in the Ethics of Alasdair MacIntyre presents an intellectual history history and defense of this towering figure in contemporary American philosophy. Drawing on interviews and published works, Christopher Stephen Lutz traces MacIntyre's philosophical development and refutes the criticisms of the major thinkers - including Martha Nussbaum and Thomas Nagel - who have most vocally attacked

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A pictorial history through postcards of the lake from the 1860s to the beginning of the 20th century.

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Account of developments in revolutionary Cuba by the New York correspondent of the London Daily Telegraph, based on several visits to the island during 1959-1965.

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Poet, polemicist, pagan, and pretender to the throne of Poland, Count Geoffrey Potocki de Montalk was one of the glittering generation of New Zealand poets of the 1930s. His career took a strange turn after he was imprisoned for obscene libel. Following a celebrated trial in London, he became increasingly eccentric, dressing in mock-medieval garb, claiming the throne of Poland, and issuing a strea

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"Succession in Asian Family Firms examines the history and survival of family businesses in the South Asian Diaspora from a truly international perspective. The book presents a unique research across three continents, focusing on significant communities in the UK, USA and Kenya and analysing the influences on both the start-up and the survival of family firms. The book explores how family members

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Buffalo Bird Woman, a Hidatsa Indian born about 1839, was an expert gardener. Following centuries-old methods, she and the women of her family raised huge crops of corn, squash, beans, and sunflowers in the rich bottomlands of the Missouri River in what is now North Dakota. Here she shares her horticultural secrets, describing a year of activities in the garden, from preparing and planting the fie

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In what sense can we trust the four Gospels as the written origin of Christianity and our faith? How did the four Gospels get written? The author gives the answer so far as we know it. His book provides a history of the Gospels in the first three centuries. The oral tradition, the structure of each Gospel, and the apocryphal gospels are all discussed in detail.

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"Strategic Facilities Planning shows that the allocation of fiscal resources to acquire or construct and maintain strategic facilities serves as a primary instrument for the effectuation of long-range public policy objectives. This book is important for students, urban planners, and administrators so they can gain a fuller understanding and appreciation of capital budgeting and debt administration

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Politics and government; Sudan.

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When a former birther, turned witch's henchwoman, decides to go clean, she is fatally cursed. Amidst war, and the quest to lift the curse, she will meet an outcast faerie, a wild man and his dwarf baby, a doctor, an over the hill general, and an impetuous hero with sharp teeth. All of them are surviving in an ever changing land where curses are the least of their problems. For fans of high fant

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Het Jodendom kent 613 mitswot. Dat zijn geboden en verboden die Joden dienen te volgen en te bestuderen. Ze worden alle in de Tora genoemd en zijn door Maïmonides (1138-1204) ingedeeld in veertien boeken. De auteur bespreekt alle mitswot uitgebreid. Hij maakt ook duidelijk waarom ze tot het dagelijkse handelen moeten behoren. De mitswot bestaan enerzijds uit misjpatiem of mitswot die we menselijke

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On entend dire ici et là que, dans la conjugalité violente, la nature du lien qui unit les partenaires est différente de l'amour. Cet imaginaire collectif dénie le caractère amoureux de la relation, parce que dérangeant probablement. Et si on s'autorisait à penser le lien par le prisme de ce sentiment, que pourrait-on découvrir ? Lise, Manon, Amel, Sarah, Edith et Carole ont accepté de témoigner e

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The transnational representation of the "Oriental" subject, namely Arabs and Jews, Chinese and other ethnic groups that have migrated to Spain and Latin America, is now being seen anew in both literature and cinema. This book examines the new ways of seeing and interpreting both the Middle East and the East in contemporary films, in which many of the immigrants traditionally omitted from the domin

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Hayatı keşkesiz yaşamak zor, ama azaltabiliriz. İstersek... Sibel, gerçekten bir şeyleri değiştirebilir miydi? Her seferinde yelkenleri suya indirirken bir anda kendinden şüphe etmeye başlıyordu. Neydi onu bu kadar savunmasız bırakan? Yaşadığı tüm zorluklara rağmen iyimser olmaya ve umut etmeye devam edebilir miydi? Peki, zayıf olduğunda ezildiği, güçlü olduğunda vicdan azabı duyduğu çe

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**Le banquet de Dracula** Dracula s’apprête à organiser un grand banquet de la victoire pour ses chevaliers vampires… et c’est l’occasion pour Requiem de le détruire. D’autant que, durant le même banquet, Deucalion et un Séraphin, ange de l’antimatière, vont aussi tenter de vaincre le maître des vampires. Pour mener à bien son projet, Requiem, après avoir défait Otto et délivré Rebecca, se voit

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"Neste livro composto de artigos e ensaios, Antonio Risério avalia a presença e o papel da mulher na arquitetura, urbanismo e design - no Brasil e no mundo - desde a Antiguedade até os dias de hoje, passando pela Idade Média eurpeia, pelas comunidades indigenas da América pré-colombiana e por cidades modernas dos quatros cantos, manejando uma bibliografia vasta e atualíssima, que ele articula com