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Historical Dictionary of Singapore

By: Justin Corfield

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Historical Dictionary of Singapore

By: Justin Corfield

In spite of Singapore's small size, it has long had a major impact on the world because of its geographical location and its wealth. The British initially made the island a major port for the shipping of goods and later as an airline hub for the region. These factors, along with a steady government, have helped to contribute to the country's affluence. This multicultural, multiracial, and multi-religious island-nation is the envy of many countries in the world, which have tried to emulate the economic success of Singapore. The new edition of the Historical Dictionary of Singapore has been completely rewritten since the first edition was released 20 years ago. It relates the history of this country through a chronology, an introductory essay, an expansive bibliography, and over 500 cross-referenced dictionary entries on significant persons, events, places, organizations, and other aspects of Singapore history from the earliest times to the present.

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Scarecrow Press

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0810873877

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9780810873872

Historical Dictionary of Ho Chi Minh City

By: Justin Corfield

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Historical Dictionary of Ho Chi Minh City

By: Justin Corfield

Offering a concise overview of Ho Chi Minh City’s history and development, the ‘Historical Dictionary of Ho Chi Minh City’ presents a comprehensive historical survey of the city in the form of an alphabetical list of keywords and names, with accompanying definitions. Both well-researched and authoritative, the volume draws upon a wide range of modern sources, and contains an introductory essay about the city, a chronology, a list of acronyms and abbreviations, photographs and appendixes of supplemental information.

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Anthem Press

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1783083336

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Historical Dictionary of Pyongyang

By: Justin Corfield

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Historical Dictionary of Pyongyang

By: Justin Corfield

Offering a concise overview of Pyongyang’s history and development, the ‘Historical Dictionary of Pyongyang’ presents a comprehensive historical survey of the city in the form of an alphabetical list of keywords and names, with accompanying definitions. Both well-researched and authoritative, the volume draws upon a wide range of modern sources, and contains an introductory essay about the city, a chronology, a list of acronyms and abbreviations, and an array of photographs.

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Anthem Press

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1783083417

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The History of Cambodia

By: Justin Corfield

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The History of Cambodia

By: Justin Corfield

This book includes a narrative history that provides a chronological examination of the political, cultural, philosophical, social, and religious continuities in Cambodia's long rich history. It overviews the history of Cambodia, from the fall of Angkor and the French Protectorate period (1432-1863) to the present. More than half of the book is dedicated to the period from 1970 through the present, with chapters on the Khmer Republic, Democratic Kampuchea, the second civil war, the road to democracy, and Cambodia under Hun Sen. An introductory chapter overviews the country's geography, political institutions, economy, and culture. The book includes black & white historical and contemporary photographs, a chronology, and profiles of key figures.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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9798216097204

The History of Vietnam

By: Justin Corfield

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The History of Vietnam

By: Justin Corfield

Everyone knows Vietnam for its turbulent environment during the second half of the 20th century, but few know that archaeologists believe that civilization there existed as far back as the Bronze Age. Vietnam's history runs rampant with clashing dynasties, civil wars and power struggles between the North and South, and conflicts with neighboring and other countries. First ruled under China's close watch for centuries, Vietnam fell under conflicting commands of France and Japan during the 19th and 20th centuries-finally leading to the split of North and South Vietnam, and ultimately, the Vietnam War. Today, Vietnam still struggles with its scars from the past, but is slowly emerging as its own country, independent of China and France. An essential addition for high school and public library shelves, The History of Vietnam is the only reference book to examine Vietnam's complete history, from the 2nd century BCE to the present.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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031334194X

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9780313341946

Psychoanalysis is an Antiphilosophy

By: Justin Clemens

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Psychoanalysis is an Antiphilosophy

By: Justin Clemens

Love, hate, slavery, torture, addiction and death - as this book shows, only psychoanalysis can speak well of such matters. Psychoanalysis was the most important intellectual development of the 20th century, which left no practice from psychiatry to philosophy to politics untouched. Yet it was also in many ways an untouchable project, caught between science and poetry, medicine and hermeneutics. This unsettled, unsettling status has recently induced the philosopher Alain Badiou to characterise psychoanalysis as an 'antiphilosophy', that is, as a practice that issues the strongest possible challenges to thought. Justin Clemens takes up the challenge of this denomination here, by re-examining a series of crucial psychoanalytic themes: addiction, fanaticism, love, slavery and torture. Drawing from the work of Freud, Lacan, Badiou, Agamben and others, Psychoanalysis is an Antiphilosophy offers a radical reconstruction of the operations and import of key psychoanalytic concepts and a renewed sense of the indispensable powers of psychoanalysis for today.

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Edinburgh University Press

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0748678956

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9780748678952

Visual Ecology

By: Thomas W. Cronin,Sönke Johnsen,Justin Marshall,Eric J. Warrant

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Visual Ecology

By: Thomas W. Cronin,Sönke Johnsen,Justin Marshall,Eric J. Warrant

A comprehensive treatment of visual ecology Visual ecology is the study of how animals use visual systems to meet their ecological needs, how these systems have evolved, and how they are specialized for particular visual tasks. Visual Ecology provides the first up-to-date synthesis of the field to appear in more than three decades. Featuring some 225 illustrations, including more than 140 in color, spread throughout the text, this comprehensive and accessible book begins by discussing the basic properties of light and the optical environment. It then looks at how photoreceptors intercept light and convert it to usable biological signals, how the pigments and cells of vision vary among animals, and how the properties of these components affect a given receptor's sensitivity to light. The book goes on to examine how eyes and photoreceptors become specialized for an array of visual tasks, such as navigation, evading prey, mate choice, and communication. A timely and much-needed resource for students and researchers alike, Visual Ecology also includes a glossary and a wealth of examples drawn from the full diversity of visual systems. The most up-to-date overview of visual ecology available Features some 225 illustrations, including more than 140 in color, spread throughout the text Guides readers from the basic physics of light to the role of visual systems in animal behavior Includes a glossary and a wealth of real-world examples

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Princeton University Press

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0691151849

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9780691151847

Ward, Milledge and West’s High Altitude Medicine and Physiology

By: Andrew M Luks,Philip N Ainslie,Justin S Lawley,Robert C Roach,Tatum S Simonson

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Ward, Milledge and West’s High Altitude Medicine and Physiology

By: Andrew M Luks,Philip N Ainslie,Justin S Lawley,Robert C Roach,Tatum S Simonson

This pre-eminent work has developed over six editions in response to man's attempts to climb higher and higher unaided, and to spend more time at altitude for both work and recreation. Building on this established reputation, the new and highly experienced authors provide a fully revised and updated text that will help doctors continue to improve the health and safety of all people who visit, live or work in the cold, thin air of high mountains. The sixth edition remains invaluable for any doctor accompanying an expedition or advising patients on a visit to altitude, those specialising in illness and accidents in high places, and for physicians and physiologists who study our dependence on oxygen and the adaptation of the body to altitude.

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CRC Press

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0429814771

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9780429814778

The Temporality of Political Obligation

By: Justin Chandler Mueller

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The Temporality of Political Obligation

By: Justin Chandler Mueller

The Temporality of Political Obligation offers a critique and reconceptualization of the ways in which our political obligations – what we owe to political authorities and communities, and the reasons why we ought to obey their rules – have been traditionally conceptualized, justified, and contested. Drawing from theories of time and temporality, Justin Mueller demonstrates some of the unacknowledged assumptions and theoretical blind spots shared among these ostensibly opposed positions, and the problems and contradictions that this neglect of time poses. Enriching the literature on the philosophers Henri Bergson and Gilles Deleuze, Mueller demonstrates how their theoretical frameworks on time can be used to analyze a political problem that is usually confined to the concerns of normative liberal democratic theory. Politically, this book provides readers with the means to better identify and analyze the diverse temporalities they encounter in everyday life, and better understand their experiences of them. A welcomed and timely read which will be of interest to scholars involved in recent efforts to engage with the social and political dimensions and consequences of time and temporality.

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Routledge

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131742641X

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Slavery, Abortion, and the Politics of Constitutional Meaning

By: Justin Buckley Dyer

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Slavery, Abortion, and the Politics of Constitutional Meaning

By: Justin Buckley Dyer

Justin Buckley Dyer provides the first book-length scholarly treatment of the parallels between slavery and abortion in American constitutional development.

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Cambridge University Press

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110703194X

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9781107031944

Race, Racism, and American Law

Leading Cases and Materials, 2023

By: Derrick A. Bell,Cheryl I. Harris,Justin Hansford,Amna A. Akbar,Atiba Ellis,Audrey G. McFarlane

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Race, Racism, and American Law

Leading Cases and Materials, 2023

By: Derrick A. Bell,Cheryl I. Harris,Justin Hansford,Amna A. Akbar,Atiba Ellis,Audrey G. McFarlane

Intended for use with the authors’ forthcoming casebook, Race, Racism, and American Law, Seventh Edition (forthcoming 2024), Race, Racism, and American Law: Leading Cases and Materials includes significant historical and contemporary cases and materials edited with an aim to foreground the most relevant sections and passages to illustrate the crucial role of race in the formation of US law. This new edition of Derrick Bell’s groundbreaking textbook Race, Racism, and American Law, like prior versions, eschews a traditional casebook format. The locus of analysis in this text is the struggle for racial justice, and its underlying history and political context as reflected in the ongoing contestation over law, legal reform, and transformation. As such the supplement includes but is not limited to Supreme Court cases. We follow Bell’s model of locating all edited cases and materials in the supplement, reserving the book’s text to provide historical and political context for significant cases or legislative actions, along with hypothetical questions, comments, and other tools of analysis. Professors and students will benefit from: Both legal and non-legal primary source material.Leading Cases and Materials includes selected historical and contemporary cases, legislation, and other legal materials that foreground the crucial role of race and racism, and the struggle for racial justice, within and through US law. A carefully selected compilation of United States Supreme Court Cases. Each case is chosen to guide readers through elements of US jurisprudence which reflect both reform and retrenchment of societal inequity as it relates to the question of race. Cases range from significant 18th century cases such as Johnson v. McIntosh (1823) (indigenous people cannot transfer full title to land) to contemporary civil rights decisions such as Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee (2021) (further limiting the reach of the Voting Rights Act) and Comcast v. National Association of African American Owned Media (2020) (limiting protections against racial discrimination in contracting). Doctrinally and theoretically significant cases from lower federal courts and state courts. Cases from lower courts are selected to provide critical race insights into how judicial institutions outside the US Supreme Court shape doctrine and debates over race and racial inequality. Cases range from Acre v. Douglass (9th Cir. 2015) (ban on teaching of Mexican American studies found unconstitutional) to Lobato v. Taylor (Colo. 2003) (speculator attempts to divest Mexican American landowners with defective title derived from Mexico). Significant legislative and executive legal documents. This supplement includes materials going beyond traditional edited cases, reflecting the insight that a critical race analysis necessitates a grasp of law beyond the courts. Additional materials range from the United States Department of Justice Investigation of the Ferguson Police Department (2015) to the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act of 2020. Benefits for instructors and students: Provokes discussion on contemporary and historical legal controversies cases and materials edited to address issues the lens of critical race theory’s conceptual framework

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Aspen Publishing

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1543850308

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9781543850307

The Ned Kelly Encyclopaedia

By: Justin Corfield

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The Ned Kelly Encyclopaedia

By: Justin Corfield

When the Kelly Gang rode to Jerilderie in January 1879 they heard people singing songs praising their exploits. Since then historians, novelists, film directors, journalists and commentators have regularly debated the events in Northeast Victoria in the late 1870s. THE NED KELLY ENCYCLOPAEDIA brings together over 800 articles covering people, places and themes connected with Ned Kelly and the Kelly Outbreak 1878-80. The biographical entries provide detailed information on the early life of all the major people involved with the Kelly Gang, along with descriptions of their family life and what direction their careers took after the execution of Ned Kelly. Most of this information has never appeared in one volume before. This synthesis of previously published and new information and interpretations for all the major events in Ned Kelly's life illuminates many hitherto unresearched elements of the Kelly story.

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Lothian Children's Books

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0734405960

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9780734405968

Ionian Islands

A Guide to Genealogical Sources in Corfu and the Other Ionian Islands, Including a Transcript of Graves from British Cemeteries in the Ionian Islands

By: Justin Corfield

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Ionian Islands

A Guide to Genealogical Sources in Corfu and the Other Ionian Islands, Including a Transcript of Graves from British Cemeteries in the Ionian Islands

By: Justin Corfield

This book provides a detailed guide to genealogical sources in Corfu, Paxos, Levkas, Ithaca, Cephalonia, Zante and Cerigo for the time that they were occupied by the British from 1815 to 1864 as the Ionian Islands. Most of the book contains transcripts of cemeteries on those islands. There is a detailed index.

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1876586192

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The History of Vietnam

By: Justin Corfield

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The History of Vietnam

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Historical Dictionary of Singapore

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Historical Dictionary of Singapore

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The History of Kalmykia

From Ancient Times to Kirsan Ilyumzhinov and Aleksey Orlov

By: Justin J. Corfield

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The History of Kalmykia

From Ancient Times to Kirsan Ilyumzhinov and Aleksey Orlov

By: Justin J. Corfield

The Russian Revolution saw the clash between two men of Kalmyk ancestry: Lenin who seized power, and Kornilov who tried to prevent him from doing so. In the Russian Civil War that followed, Kalmyks fought on both sides. Collectivisation under Stalin saw an upheaval in their society, and a destruction of all their temples. After the German occupation of Kalmykia (1941-42), although most Kalmyks supported the Red Army, Stalin ordered the entire Kalmyk population to be deported to Siberia, and half of them died in exile. In 1956 Nikita Khrushchev allowed them to return home. In 1993 with the end of Communism, a local businessman Kirsan Ilyumzhinov was elected President of Kalmykia. A keen chess player, he was elected President of the World Chess Federation (FIDE) two years later, and during his 17 years as Kalmykia's president, he transformed the republic with the hosting of the 33rd Chess Olympiad in Elista in 1998. He also oversaw the introduction of compulsory chess classes into the primary school curriculum. Alexsey Orlov became president in 2010, and was elected with a massive majority four years later. He has overseen major improvements in the infrastructure of Kalmykia, and its increasing involvement with foreign countries through investment and educational ties. This is the first detailed history in English of the only majority Buddhist part of Europe. With over 400 illustrations, many never published before, this book draws from the author's three visits to Kalmykia, and interviews with many people including Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, Nicolai Ilyumzhinov and Aleksey Orlov. It is the first book to document chess playing by Kalmyks back to the 1770s, and provides much information about Kirsan Ilyumzhinov which has never previously been published, including a detailed family tree.

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187658629X

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The Art of Declarer Play

By: Tim Bourke,Justin Corfield

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The Art of Declarer Play

By: Tim Bourke,Justin Corfield

2014 IBPA Master Point Press Book of the Year! From Master Point Press: "This year we had a plethora of terrific books to choose among for our Book of the Year. In another year, three of our other candidates might have won the award. However, this year, one book stood out from the rest. The Art of Declarer Play belongs in the ranks of Watson, Reese and Kelsey as one of the best books on declarer play ever written. If you buy only one bridge book this year, this should be the one." ADVANCED / EXPERT Anybody can make straightforward contracts. THE ART OF DECLARER PLAY is about how to handle the rest. If you already have a good grasp of declarer-play technique, the blocking and unblocking plays, the eliminations and the squeezes, then this is the book for you. Bourke and Corfield begin where most of the other books finish, and reveal what goes on inside the mind of an expert, explaining how to anticipate the likely distribution, how to use logic and visualization, how to listen to the cards, and many other ways to make 'impossible' contracts. By understanding the thought processes that lead to a successful strategy in the most challenging of contracts, you will be able to replicate them for yourself, and bid with the confidence that comes from expert-level declarer play. If you want your cardplay to improve out of all recognition, If you want to learn the secrets of expert-level technique, If you are not afraid to challenge yourself, Then read on...

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