The Cabin Coffee Clutch By: JR Lang A moving collection of poetry and photographs, The Cabin Coffee Clutch will soothe and inspire you. JR Lang’s poems will encourage you to dream big and push yourself. Embrace change and you will find its beauty. While grief and struggles must be faced, you can choose a path of peace and come to life and hope. Each of Lang’s poems is paired with photographs that capture the beauty of nature – the warm colors of fall, the fleeting glimpse of a deer in a wood, the richness of flowers in a field. Calm reflection on the beauty of the world will help you emerge refreshed and encouraged. The Cabin Coffee Clutch is designed to help you find your inner self. Use Lang’s words to dig deep into your heart to see and love yourself with fresh eyes. Welcome to a new beginning.
Why does political conflict seem to consistently interfere with attempts to provide aid, end ethnic discord, or restore democracy? To answer this question, Agency and Ethics examines how the norms that originally motivate an intervention often create conflict between the intervening powers, outside powers, and the political agents who are the victims of the intervention. Three case studies are drawn upon to illustrate this phenomena: the British and American intervention in Bolshevik Russia in 1918; the British and French intervention in Egypt in 1956; and the American and United Nations intervention in Somalia in 1993. Although rarely categorized together, these three interventions shared at least one strong commonality: all failed to achieve their professed goals, with the troops being ignominiously recalled in each example. Lang concludes by addressing the dilemma of how to resolve complex humanitarian emergencies in the twenty-first century without the necessity of resorting to military intervention.
Sixteen years after the Soviet Union's demise, the Russian economy can still be appropriately characterized as transitional. The authors shed light on ambiguities surrounding this status through an exploration of four questions related to issues of interest to government decisionmakers.
This volume argues that a wide range of policies in the international system today – economic sanctions, military intervention, and counter terrorism policy – are part of a ‘punitive ethos’ that has arisen since the end of the Cold War.
The chapters in this collection respond to the range of interests that have shaped Miéville's fiction from his influential role in contemporary genre debates, to his ability to pose serious philosophical questions about state control, revolutionary struggle, regimes of apartheid, and the function of international law in a globalized world. This collection demonstrates how Miéville's fictions offer a striking example of contemporary literature's ability to imagine alternatives to neoliberal capitalism at a time of crisis for leftist ideas within the political realm.
Andrew Lang (1844-1912) was a prolific Scots man of letters, a poet, novelist, literary critic and contributor to anthropology. He now is best known as the collector of folk and fairy tales. As a journalist, poet, critic and historian, he soon made a reputation as one of the ablest and most versatile writers of the day. This Memoir is of Robert Fuller Murray (1863-1894) who was the author of The Scarlet Gown: Being Verses by a St Andrews Man (1891). Murray was among those who do not attain success, in spite of qualities which seem destined to ensure it, and who fall out of the ranks.
What happens when your joyride on your uncle's scrap-heap starship turns into a life-or-death mission to save the galaxy? For Chase Conrad and his nine-year-old brother, Lock, living on their lazy uncle’s salvage ship in space mostly means working. It’s all they’ve got, though, and when Uncle Harel’s latest bad idea earns him a detention cell with bail so high the number might as well be made up, they might even lose that. Scheming to save him, the boys borrow his ship and head out into space to find the New Terran Governor’s daughter, Bree, whose disappearance has generated a whopping reward. But when the revolutionary leader responsible for the girl’s kidnapping captures the boys as well, the three kids must work together to escape. Even if they can get free, they’ll be on their own in deep space. The trio won’t know who to trust, and that’s just the tip of the asteroid. Unless they can find a way to somehow put a stop to the rebel plot to trigger interplanetary war, Uncle Harel sitting in detention will be the least of their problems. Buy Longshots today, and join Chase and Lock on a warp-speed, high-stakes adventure more than 200 light years away from Earth!
This innovative text explores international relations with the tools of political theory. In so doing, it contributes to and advances the idea of international political theory. The book focuses on four key concepts – authority, rules, rights, and responsibilities – and four important topics – wealth, violence, nature and belief. In each of these areas, the book draws on key figures in political theory to explore, explain and evaluate the current global order. Chapters address such contested issues as humanitarian intervention, LGBT rights, climate change, and our collective responsibilities for alleviating global poverty. The book invites students into a conversation about international political theory, one that will help orient them in an increasingly complicated and pluralist international order.
The leaders in England of two schools of mythology, based mainly in the one case on Aryan linguistics and in the other on anthropology, have recently published their revised, and probably final, conclusions. The time, therefore, seems oportune for a statement of the principles of a third School, which, for present purposes, I may style the Aryo-Semitic. Its members, whilst paying every respect to the system of Aryan philology, and fully recognizing the vast results that have sprung from the scientific application of Aryan linguistics, are nevertheless of opinion that the Aryanists have been unable to explain Hellenic mythology and Hellenic archaic history as a whole, because they have almost wholly ignored or denied the existence of that great mass of Semitic influence, which the Aryo-Semitic School hold is to be found throughout the length and breadth of Hellas. This latter School, moreover, is in entire sympathy with the researches of anthropology in general, and of folklore in particular.
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