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This set of letters, written daily last year to his grandchildren by Reinhold Knoll, emeritus professor of sociology in Vienna, began as an attempt to maintain his relationships with them during the enforced separation of the pandemic of 2021. But as the themes accumulated they evolved into something of an obituary of European culture, politics, and society, as well as an admonition and a gesture of thanks to the United States, itself unbloodied by the religious wars, having taken a revolutionary path different from that of Paris, and above all having saved Europe from the World Wars of the twentieth century.There are one hundred eleven letters, in homage to the "pragmatic idealism" of Beethoven: like the corpus of his piano sonatas, some are light and humorous while others plumb the depths, but each reaches its own unique unity by bringing the past into the present or deriving the present from the past, often enhanced by the irony, humor, and independence of the Viennese perspective, with recondite and penetrating observations on enlightenment and revolution, painting and architecture and music, the history of social thought, the devolution of the museum, the status of the church, the migration crisis, fashions in pedagogy, and the insidious reversal by which technology is reducing its human users into tools for its own aimless profit. It is the work of a balanced consciousness in troubled times.

In 2013, the journalist Julie Burchill wrote a mischievous newspaper column defending a friend against political extremists. She was pursued by an outraged mob, denounced in Parliament and never published in that paper - or any other - for many years. Welcome To The Woke Trials is part-memoir and part-indictment of what happened to her between then and now, as the regiments of Woke took over; an irreverent and entertaining analysis of the key elements of a continuing and disturbing phenomenon. Raised in a Communist household and a lifelong Labour voter, Burchill also makes the case for a progressive future politics, a time when we see ourselves as a common humanity with similar hopes and visions - rather than a childish world of villains and victims.

This book uses both succinct, informative essays and beautiful, detailed photography to reveal how recent archeological discoveries in the ancient country of Armenia have transformed our understanding of the origins of human civilization and humanity itself. It also tells the story of a heroic team of Armenian archeologists who have singlehandedly created a new golden age of archeology in their country. Their work demonstrates that Armenia has hosted a continuous human presence for at least 2 million years. They have succeeded in documenting the evolution of humanity and human culture across this vast span of time in minute detail. Their discoveries include the oldest known winemaking complex, the recreation of the first wines, the oldest known work of art, the oldest shoe yet discovered, and one of the oldest known religious documents. This book chronicles their achievements in a manner that lets the reader become part of the process of exploration and feel the excitement of discovery.

Jack Foley has been prominent in the San Francisco Bay Area poetry scene since the mid-1980s. The Light of Evening traces the arc of his life. This candid autobiography offers a portrait of an artist who has continued to produce experimental as well as traditional work and who created theoretical underpinnings for that work.

A collection of more than 125 letters written by Private 1st Class Raymond W. Maker, to his sister, Eva, a county nurse living in Framingham, Massachusetts, describing his everyday service in combat during World War 1. The lettersare accompanied by 365 pocket-diary entries that Raymond kept throughout 1918.

Addresses the mobility of diplomats, an important facet of migration flows in the modern world. Despite being one of the earliest forms of expatriation, very little is known about the experiences of wives of diplomats who decided to embark on this journey alongside their husbands. This book gives them a voice by exploring their experiences.

Examines a spectrum of narrative films that can be seen in new ways with methods derived and evolved from the techniques of Caligari. The intention is not only to offer new interpretations of classic and neglected films, but to open further discussion and exploration.

The commentaries James Driscoll offers in Jung's Cartography of the Psyche are helpful for applying Jung to literature, philosophy, religion, the political domain, and other aspects of the human experience. They comprise an introduction and guide that demonstrates Jung's scope and depth as well as the rewards of studying him further.

Edited by rising Tunisian literary scholar Hassen Zriba, this volume presents a collection of interdisciplinary essays arguing that the concept of ""erasure"" is an essential analytical tool/mode of thought in shaping conceptualizations of change and continuity in subjects of human knowledge.

In the first part of this book, noted legal scholar Dimtris Liakopoulos deals with reconstructing the legal regulatory framework governing human rights violations in the activities of organizations. Liakopoulos then moves on to how this works in practice, examining the reparations obtainable by an individual in disputes.

Explores how texts and literary theories interrelate and interconnect different principles of critical evaluation. The Mirror and the Reflections collects various approaches to literary theory from a postcolonial perspective, offering an invaluable resource for those who wish to familiarize themselves with multifaceted approaches to literature.

Explores the legal consequences of complicity in international relations. Consequences of Complicity examines the profiles inherent to damages due to the injured party. In this regard it will move from the observation that the conduct of an accomplice gives rise to a crime distinct from the main one.

Analyses questions arising from a state's complicity in conflict with another state or an international organisation. On the basis of international legal provisions, a state that assists the illicit fact of another state or an international organisation in turn commits an offense if it is aware of the main fact and is bound by the same obligation.

Adopts semiotics as a framework to compare football to literature. The football field is akin to the plot or stage in narrative or dramatic modes, and the players are viewed as characters whose metamorphoses, in the text of football, are occasioned from the label of their positions to the completeness of the plot by the kinetic power of the ball.

Examines the economics and legal doctrine of private equity. After a consideration of private equity's origins, the book explores the evolution of private equity in the United States and Europe. The reference economic model is then reconstructed, with particular attention to financial flows to and from private equity firms and funds.

This collection of essays reflect the prolific philosopher David Kuhrt's prescient thesis that subjectivity can be bypassed, thereby exploding the myth of positivist philosophy. Kuhrt argues that Western intellect and abstract truths still prevail at the expense of practicality, negotiation, and face-to-face meetings.

Examines the relationship between governments and international organizations under international law. After surveying the policing powers of international organizations under international law, the book illustrates some normative aspects of law that distinguish regulation from enforcement via study of recent legal cases.

Nwankwo Nwaezeigwe's revelatory study of the Igbo people and their Nri neighbors presents a paradigm shift in the interpretation of Igbo history and culture. Politics, Culture, and Origins in Nigeria posits that the Nri were not originally Igbo but recent immigrants from Igala kingdom of Idah who arrived in the early sixteenth century.

Offers the first serious study of the crowdfunding phenomenon, which has developed deep meaning for various stakeholders benefiting from this funding collection mechanism and its innovative new role, especially in the processes of business creation and spread of entrepreneurship.

Concentrates on issues of friction between member states of the UN. Dimitris Liakopoulos hypothesizes that "practical guides" based on custom often catalyze the positions taken by states, courts, scholars, and other actors, constituting an "orthodox" position against which formulaic legal opposition will become predictably more difficult.

This translation of Plato's Phaedrus, with detailed summary and full philological and exegetical notes taking into consideration all commentaries since Hermias, followed by a painstaking dialogical analysis of the text that shows what we must think at every moment in order to understand the thinking that brings the Greek text to life.

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.

Offers an analyses of the causes, nature, and changing patterns of armed conflict in Africa as well as the reasons for these patterns. The book also situates conflicts that have been haunting the African continent since decolonization within various theoretical schools, such as ""new war"", ""economic war"", ""neo-patrimonial"", and ""globalization"".

An emerging generation of African scholars examines specific states in Africa where instability is the order of the day. Considerations of African instability are highly relevant in today's world, where one examines the types of regimes that were put in place after the Cold War and their effects on Africa.

In 1806 an anonymous Greek book called for a republican government, patterned on that of the young United States, to be established in Greece. The book's author, Count John Capo d'Istria, was also in touch with another inspirational power, Russia. In this revelatory new book, Dimitris Michalopoulos follows Capo d'Istria's career.

Identifies and explores relevant considerations in the work of the United Nations International Commission and offers an overview of the status of international law as defined by the United Nations authority responsible for its codification and development.

Argues that feminist international relations (IR) theory has inadvertently resulted in a biased worldview, the very opposite of what feminist IR set out to try to rectify. This book contests theoretical presumptions of Western feminist IR and attempts to reformulate it in contexts of non-Western cultures.

In this highly original new book, Cameroonian legal scholar Moye Godwin Bongyu explores the intersection of public administration and the state, colonization and administrative systems, public and private laws, rule of law, and comparative administrative law.

Explores the content of powers attributed by the Statute of Rome to the UN Security Council. The book begins by investigating the power to activate the investigations of the prosecutor before examining the power to suspend judicial activity. It then defines the characteristics of Security Council intervention.