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The African Human Rights System

Its Laws, Practice and Institutions

By: Vincent O. Nmehielle

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The African Human Rights System

Its Laws, Practice and Institutions

By: Vincent O. Nmehielle

This volume is a comprehensive treatment of the African human rights system in terms of the laws, practice, and institutions of the system. The volume discusses, analyzes, and evaluates normative instruments of the African system: the Charter of the Organization of the African Unity (OAU), and the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights, presenting article-by-article analysis of its provisions and those of the Protocol on the Establishment of the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights. Similarly the OAU (now the African Union), the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights, and the proposed African Court on Human Rights, as institutions of the system, are discussed. The book emphasizes a comparative approach and presents a summary of the UN, the European and the Inter-American human rights mechanisms with regard to their impact on the African system. The role of NGOs in the African system is also considered, as well as the controversial issue of human rights in pre-colonial and colonial Africa.

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9004481060

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From Charity to Justice

How NGOs Can Revolutionise Our Response to Extreme Poverty

By: Vincent Fang

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From Charity to Justice

How NGOs Can Revolutionise Our Response to Extreme Poverty

By: Vincent Fang

This book focuses on the ethical demands of extreme poverty and develops a political theory of practical change. Welding together political realism and moral aspirations, it argues that a re-imagined form of development NGO can help the global North break free from the dominant and persistent charity paradigm and drift towards a justice-based understanding of extreme poverty. It offers an original explanation of why the charity paradigm persists and why the “justice not charity” messages from development NGOs have changed few minds. The author argues that anyone concerned with a paradigm shift from charity to justice need to radically rethink the problem of political communication: who should communicate what messages about extreme poverty in what ways? Based on a rational choice critique of the competitive development NGO sector, the author calls for sector-wide reform and the emergence of a new political agent – the Avant-garde NGO - which transcends the charity frame that NGOs currently find themselves locked in. Further, inspired by literary theory and social psychology, he offers a fresh account of how the Avant-garde NGO could, through reflective public engagement, induce attitude change and lead genuine social and political reform.

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Springer Nature

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9811614334

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Urban Dwellings, Haitian Citizenships

Housing, Memory, and Daily Life in Haiti

By: Vincent Joos

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Urban Dwellings, Haitian Citizenships

Housing, Memory, and Daily Life in Haiti

By: Vincent Joos

Urban Dwellings, Haitian Citizenships explores the failed international reconstruction of Port-au-Prince after the devastating 2010 earthquake. It describes the failures of international aid in Haiti while it analyzes examples of Haitian-based reconstruction and economic practices. By interrogating the relationship between indigenous uses of the cityscape and the urbanization of the countryside within a framework that centers on the violence of urban planning, the book shows that the forms of economic development promoted by international agencies institutionalize impermanence and instability. Conversely, it shows how everyday Haitians use and transform the city to create spaces of belonging and forms of citizenship anchored in a long history of resistance to extractive economies. Taking readers into the remnants of failed industrial projects in Haitian provinces and into the streets, rubble, and homes of Port-au-Prince, this book reflects on the possibilities and meanings of dwelling in post-disaster urban landscapes.

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Rutgers University Press

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1978820607

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The Critique of Management

Towards a Philosophy and Ethics of Business Management

By: Vincent Blok

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The Critique of Management

Towards a Philosophy and Ethics of Business Management

By: Vincent Blok

This book reflects on the nature of business management to contribute to the development of a philosophy and ethics of management. It engages in conceptual engineering of management to delineate the phenomenon of management and, as a result, to open a new perspective on management beyond its self-evident conceptualization. After questioning the self-evident concept of management, the author develops a philosophy of management with six dimensions of the nature of management: management as participation; management as resistance and responsive action; management as constitution of meaning; management as politico-economic governance; management as non-reductive stakeholder engagement; and management as epistemic insufficient entrepreneurship. These six dimensions of management are taken as points of departure to develop an integrated concept of business ethics, an individual competence for ethical business management, and a concept of ethical codes for corporate social responsible behavior. This new conception of philosophy of management and business ethics can guide future philosophical and empirical work on the nature of management. The Critique of Management is an excellent resource for researchers, students, and professionals interested in philosophy of management, business ethics, and corporate social responsibility.

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1000482596

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Globalization, Democratization and Asian Leadership

Power Sharing, Foreign Policy and Society in the Philippines and Japan

By: Vincent Kelly Pollard

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Globalization, Democratization and Asian Leadership

Power Sharing, Foreign Policy and Society in the Philippines and Japan

By: Vincent Kelly Pollard

The foreign policies of presidents, prime ministers and their foreign secretaries can be influenced by the preferences of domestic and international nongovernmental actors, as well as those of other governments. Representative democracy, media power, citizen activism and the globalization of politics and telecommunications, for example, have accelerated changes in the sharing of power. This book focuses on the Philippines and Japan where, willingly and unwillingly, foreign policy executives share power with individuals and groups inside and outside of government bureaucracies and their societies. The book retells the foreign policy narratives of regional cooperation, military relations and official development assistance (foreign aid), revealing how executive foreign policy makers and civil society organizations share power - and succeed or fail - in a globalizing, democratizing world. A variety of published, unpublished and declassified sources provide journalists, scholars, government practitioners and global citizens with a sophisticated understanding of the domestic politics of foreign policy making, as well as its intergovernmental and transnational side.

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1351932950

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Deep Time Reckoning

How Future Thinking Can Help Earth Now

By: Vincent Ialenti

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Deep Time Reckoning

How Future Thinking Can Help Earth Now

By: Vincent Ialenti

A guide to long-term thinking: how to envision the far future of Earth. We live on a planet careening toward environmental collapse that will be largely brought about by our own actions. And yet we struggle to grasp the scale of the crisis, barely able to imagine the effects of climate change just ten years from now, let alone the multi-millennial timescales of Earth's past and future life span. In this book, Vincent Ialenti offers a guide for envisioning the planet's far future--to become, as he terms it, more skilled deep time reckoners. The challenge, he says, is to learn to inhabit a longer now.

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MIT Press

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0262359359

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Remittances and Financial Inclusion

Contested Geographies of Marketisation in Senegal and Ghana

By: Vincent Guermond

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Remittances and Financial Inclusion

Contested Geographies of Marketisation in Senegal and Ghana

By: Vincent Guermond

This book comprehensively explores the messy and contested relationship between everyday practices of remittance sending and receiving, processes of market making, and operations of micro- and global finance. Remittances and Financial Inclusion critically investigates a global migration-development agenda that aims to harness remittances for development by incorporating remittance flows and households into global financial circuits. The book develops a multidisciplinary perspective and combines insights from economic, development, and financial geography as well as international political economy and economic anthropology. It sets out a geographies of remittance marketisation approach to investigate the intricate and grounded ways in which remittance markets are constructed, the extent to which remittance flows and households can be (re)configured and incorporated into global finance, and why such processes are always fragile, contested, and in need of constant renegotiation. Drawing on extensive fieldwork research, the book provides an in-depth critical interrogation of the policies and initiatives that underpin remittance marketisation in Senegal, Ghana, and beyond. This volume will be especially useful to those researching and working in the areas of international development, contemporary geographies of finance and market making, and migration and remittances. It should also prove of interest to policymakers, practitioners, and activists concerned with the relation between migration, remittances, and finance in the Global South.

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1000968464

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AIDS in Africa and the Caribbean

By: George Clement Bond,John Kreniske,Ida Susser,Joan Vincent

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AIDS in Africa and the Caribbean

By: George Clement Bond,John Kreniske,Ida Susser,Joan Vincent

This book offers detailed ethnographic studies from Africa and the Caribbean to explain AIDS in a global and comparative third-world context. The essays move beyond medical or epidemiological models, explaining the epidemic in its economic, social, political, and historical contexts.

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Dimensions of Development

History, Community, and Change in Allpachico, Peru

By: Susan Vincent

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Dimensions of Development

History, Community, and Change in Allpachico, Peru

By: Susan Vincent

Dimensions of Development traces the 'development' of Allpachico, a village in the Peruvian central highlands. Susan Vincent examines four aid projects in the area, each following distinct international trends, that took place between 1984 and 2008 within the context of wider state and global political and economic systems. A unique historical ethnography, Dimensions of Development illustrates how state and NGO projects have drawn Allpachiqueños deeper into capitalism and have brought about challenges to the local political structure, the comunidad campesina. While highlighting the continual reorganization of the local population into new groups, Vincent also reveals why the comunidad remains the group's preferred form of representation.

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University of Toronto Press

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1442644494

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Social Geography

A Critical Introduction

By: Vincent J. Del Casino, Jr.

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Social Geography

A Critical Introduction

By: Vincent J. Del Casino, Jr.

Introducing the debates that inform current social geographic research and theory and interrogating the historical development of social geography, Social Geography: A Critical Introduction explores how urban and rural spaces are organized in ways that construct and maintain social inequality. Puts into context the assumptions of various strains of social geographic thought as they have developed historically Assists students in addressing key social geographic questions and methodologies Provides a showcase for cutting edge work in the field Is written in an accessible and lively style, setting out a wide breadth of social geographic research

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1405154993

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Complementary, Alternative Methods And Supplementary Medicine

By: Giovanni Vincent Belcaro

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Complementary, Alternative Methods And Supplementary Medicine

By: Giovanni Vincent Belcaro

This volume contains an accessible, yet critical, discussion of the most complementary-alternative treatments based on medical evidence.Providing readers at any level an introduction to alternative and supplementary medicines, the book is a simplified, complete text including management and medical information. It is arranged in a direct manual style, with select information explaining some of the most important concepts of complementary and alternative medicine and circulation sciences.

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World Scientific Publishing

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1786345684

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Year of the Heroic Guerrilla

World Revolution and Counterrevolution in 1968

By: Robert Vincent Daniels

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Year of the Heroic Guerrilla

World Revolution and Counterrevolution in 1968

By: Robert Vincent Daniels

From Paris to Peking, from Saigon to Washington, the pillars of the postwar world tottered on the brink of collapse in 1968. This book is the first global analysis of that universal upheaval, from the Tet offensive and the abdication of Lyndon Johnson to the "cultural revolution" in China and the convention and riots in Mayor Daley's Chicago.

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Harvard University Press

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0674964519

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Urban Land Acquisition and Involuntary Resettlement

Linking Innovation and Local Benefits

By: Vincent Roquet,Luciano Bornholdt,Karen Sirker,Jelena Lukic

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Urban Land Acquisition and Involuntary Resettlement

Linking Innovation and Local Benefits

By: Vincent Roquet,Luciano Bornholdt,Karen Sirker,Jelena Lukic

Expansion and development of urban areas require acquisition of land, which, in turn, often requires physical relocation of people who own or occupy this land. Land acquisition and resettlement may also be required to improve the lives of the more than 1 billion people who currently live in slums around the world, most of them in developing countries. Therefore, any effort to embark on significant, sustainable urban development needs to ensure that there are adequate processes for land acquisition and, so that resettlement does not become a constraint to much needed urban development. Planners, policy makers and social scientists can try to implement urban development programs in a way that make people who lose their land, houses or livelihoods become equal partners in the development process. The combination of the high price of urban land, presence of creative individuals in close proximity in urban areas, and the ability of urban space to generate innovative solutions, can help convert urban resettlement into a development opportunity for all. The report illustrates how urban resettlement can become a development opportunity. The Mumbai example shows how the private sector can play a key role, to unleash the potential created by high-value land to provide sustainable housing solutions to those adversely affected, at no cost to the government or the resettlers. Examples from Morocco and Pakistan show how well designed and implemented, citizen-driven resettlement can result in enhanced skills and livelihoods, and can promote overall sustainable urban development. The Mauritania example demonstrates how collective approaches with strong community participation can help address difficult challenges related to housing. The Brazil case shows how resettlement practices with demonstrated, strongly positive outcomes and contributions to urban development can influence governments to incorporate them into their own laws and regulations, helping millions of affected people to benefit from them.

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World Bank Publications

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146480981X

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Global Policymaking

By: Vincent Pouliot,Jean-Philippe Thérien

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Global Policymaking

By: Vincent Pouliot,Jean-Philippe Thérien

This book provides a new theoretical framework for the study of global governance and applies it to three vital United Nations global policies.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009344951

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The True Cost of Low Prices

The Violence of Globalization

By: Jeffry Odell Korgen,Vincent A. Gallagher

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The True Cost of Low Prices

The Violence of Globalization

By: Jeffry Odell Korgen,Vincent A. Gallagher

Now updated and expanded! Built upon the structure and content of the successful first edition (currently in its eighth printing), this second edition of The True Cost of Low Prices: The Violence of Globalization examines the effects of globalization on the earth's poorest and most vulnerable people within the context of scripture and church teaching. The text engages the reader with stories of the women, men, and children living in poverty who have experienced both the promise of the global economy and its troubling outcomes. The nine thematic chapters begin with a story of a person affected by a particular dimension of the violence of globalization. That is followed by a description of the "signs of the times," including the topic's relationship to low prices, and then by "what the church teaches," utilizing the Catechism, the Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church, papal encyclicals, the documents of Vatican II, and the statements of the U.S. Catholic bishops. Each chapter concludes with "signs of hope," descriptions of groups and strategies that make a difference. Each chapter also includes discussion questions and suggestions for making a difference.

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1608332721

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Decarbonization of Cities in Asia

A Polycentric Approach to Policy, Business and Technology

By: Vincent S. Cheng,Guo-Jun Li

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Decarbonization of Cities in Asia

A Polycentric Approach to Policy, Business and Technology

By: Vincent S. Cheng,Guo-Jun Li

This book provides best practices for decarbonizing cities in East Asia, in which buildings are the major contributor to carbon emissions. Beyond the global commitment through the Paris Agreement to make collective efforts on climate action and accelerated policies, investment and development at the country and city level to combat climate change are occurring at an unprecedented rate. Rapid urbanization and increasing energy demand for large and dense Asian cities require smart and sustainable strategies to balance development with decarbonization. A poly-centric approach is needed, where a combination of policy-, market- and technology-driven changes can aid the transition towards development of carbon neutral cities. With practical examples in the implementation of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, green financing, climate action roadmap and policy, deployment of renewable energy, and low- to zero-carbon buildings, readers can find the motivation, considerations and implementation pathways to facilitate the transition into the new normal. It is the hope of the authors to encourage readers to see successful pathways in transitioning into a carbon-free industry and overcoming the effects of climate extremes.

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9819928389

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The Naysayer’s Book Club: 26 Singaporeans You Need to Know

By: Simon Vincent

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The Naysayer’s Book Club: 26 Singaporeans You Need to Know

By: Simon Vincent

In 26 conversations with 26 naysayers, this book is aimed at reflecting the spectrum of naysaying in Singapore's civil society. Each person is interviewed against the backdrop of his or her bookcase, putting front and centre a life of ideas and imagination. This is a book club for curious minds. "We need more naysayers... We need to create new formulas, which you can't until you attack and challenge every sacred cow." — Kishore Mahbubani, former dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy Featured: Tan Tarn How Constance Singam Tay Kheng Soon Yeoh Lam Keong Cherian George Claire Leow Remy Choo Zheng Xi Teo Soh Lung Thirunalan Sasitharan Jennifer Teo Dan Wong Chua Beng Huat Kirsten Han Filzah Sumartono Alex Au Martyn See June Chua William SW Lim M. Ravi Loo Zihan Vanessa Ho Mohamed Imran Mohamed Taib Seelan Palay Sonny Liew Margaret Thomas Thum Ping Tjin

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Epigram Books

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9814785857

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Know Your Passion

How to discover your passion and make money from it

By: Vincent P

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Know Your Passion

How to discover your passion and make money from it

By: Vincent P

If you have been thinking about getting out of the mundane life and living life based on your passion, then this book is for you. This book is based on the real-life experience that explains techniques, which will help you find your real passion. Here you can also learn various ways of making money from your passion, besides that, it teaches you how to build a strong mindset, makes you realize how to be fearless and confident and prepares you for the challenges that you will face in the real world. The book intends to inspire you to live your passion, follow your heart and be successful in whatever you do

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Notion Press

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1645465780

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The Courage to Dream

On Rights, Values and Freedom

By: Vincent Harding,Daisaku Ikeda

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The Courage to Dream

On Rights, Values and Freedom

By: Vincent Harding,Daisaku Ikeda

I have a dream' declared Martin Luther King in 1967. Those words, which echoed round the world, soon became immortal. King gave his life in the cause of eradicating racism, eliminating poverty and resolutely opposing all forms of war and violence. This dialogue brings together two figures who likewise have striven in all their activities to promote peace and fight discrimination: one a Christian theologian, historian and nonviolent activist who knew King personally and who moved in 1958 from Chicago to the American South to participate in the nascent struggle for civil rights; the other a foremost Buddhist leader who has been inspired in his own thinking by King's example. Vincent Harding and Daisaku Ikeda here bring the wisdom of their respective traditions and experiences to reflect on the personal cost of fighting for justice, and the courage that that entails. Their conversations range widely, across issues which include war and violence, the continuing blight in America of institutionalized racism, the need to overcome global disparities of wealth and the consequent dangers of materialism and consumerism

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0857727745

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Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy

By: Vincent Bugliosi

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Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy

By: Vincent Bugliosi

For fifty years the truth about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy has been obscured. This book releases us from a crippling distortion of American history. At 1:00 p.m. on November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was pronounced dead, the victim of a sniper attack during his motorcade through Dallas. That may be the only fact generally agreed upon in the vast literature spawned by the assassination. National polls reveal that an overwhelming majority of Americans (75%) believe that there was a high-level conspiracy behind Lee Harvey Oswald. Many even believe that Oswald was entirely innocent. In this continuously absorbing, powerful, ground-breaking book, Vincent Bugliosi shows how we have come to believe such lies about an event that changed the course of history. The brilliant prosecutor of Charles Manson and the man who forged an iron-clad case of circumstantial guilt around O. J. Simpson in his best-selling Outrage Bugliosi is perhaps the only man in America capable of writing the definitive book on the Kennedy assassination. This is an achievement that has for years seemed beyond reach. No one imagined that such a book would ever be written: a single volume that once and for all resolves, beyond any reasonable doubt, every lingering question as to what happened in Dallas and who was responsible. There have been hundreds of books about the assassination, but there has never been a book that covers the entire case, including addressing every piece of evidence and each and every conspiracy theory, and the facts, or alleged facts, on which they are based. In this monumental work, the author has raised scholarship on the assassination to a new and final level, one that far surpasses all other books on the subject. It adds resonance, depth, and closure to the admirable work of the Warren Commission. Reclaiming History is a narrative compendium of fact, forensic evidence, reexamination of key witnesses, and common sense. Every detail and nuance is accounted for, every conspiracy theory revealed as a fraud on the American public. Bugliosi's irresistible logic, command of the evidence, and ability to draw startling inferences shed fresh light on this American nightmare. At last it all makes sense. Some images in this ebook are not displayed due to permissions issues.

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0393072126

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The Memory of State Terrorism in the Southern Cone

Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay

By: Francesca Lessa,Vincent Druliolle

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The Memory of State Terrorism in the Southern Cone

Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay

By: Francesca Lessa,Vincent Druliolle

Through various lenses and theoretical approaches, this book explores the contested experiences, meanings, realms, goals, and challenges associated with the construction, preservation, and transmission of the memories of state repression in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay.

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0230118623

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Employment Agency Success

By: Vincent Gabriel

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Employment Agency Success

By: Vincent Gabriel

I enjoyed my stint in teaching employment laws and HR practice and policy to groups of students from the Trade Unions, the HR departments of multi-national companies and the personnel department of small and medium sized organizations. I notice that there has been a lack of understanding of the trends in the development of the only one resource that Singapore has - human talent. This book helps people who want to deploy human talent so that the potential of individuals can be fully utilized. Success depends on: • Knowing yourself and what you can do • Knowing the business environment in which you operate. The demand for the services of the employment agency is especially crucial in the next few years as the government undertakes a huge programme of public housing, infrastructure development and the completion of Terminals 4 and 5 and the development of the former Paya Lebar Airport into other uses. In 2013 an innovative step was taken to bring in Sri Lankan and Filipino workers who had been laid off with the ending of the building boom in the Gulf States. The young people of Singapore expect their employment agency to place them in jobs that are challenging and yet at the same time good sources of income • Know what the main customer (the contractor/employer) and the secondary customer (the worker) want in the way the worker is deployed, the salary paid and the physical contribution made to the completed job that the ultimate customer pays for. Employment Agency continues to enjoy success. About The Author: Vincent Gabriel has been teaching employment laws at various institutions to create union members, HR professionals and personnel managers. He has written the Guide to the Employment Act (two editions) and a section of Acumen Guide to Employment. Teaching Qualification: -Advanced Certificate in Training and Assessment (ACTA) -Certificate in Urban Education (Hong Kong) -Certificate in Non-Formal Education (Philippines) -B.Sc (Econs) Hons University of London External Degree. -TTC Certificate in Education with Distinction in Comparative Education. He has been the advocate of fair employment practice, as he believes that every person is special and it is the task of the supervisor, the manager and the organisation to achieve a rapport that allows the individual to give off his best. The book is based on an enlightened humane approach to human capital management that is at once fulfilling and at the same time able to achieve the organisation's and society's aim for the individual.

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Universal Periodic Review

Lessons, Hopes and Expectations

By: Purna Sen,Monica Vincent,Jade Cochran

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Universal Periodic Review

Lessons, Hopes and Expectations

By: Purna Sen,Monica Vincent,Jade Cochran

This book examines the UN Human Rights Universal Periodic Review (UPR) mechanism two years after its inception. It draws together the lessons of Commonwealth countries' experiences in 2008 and 2009, and hopes and expectations for the future of UPR.

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Commonwealth Secretariat

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1849290431

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Place Branding and Marketing from a Policy Perspective

Building Effective Strategies for Places

By: Vincent Mabillard,Martial Pasquier,Renaud Vuignier

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Place Branding and Marketing from a Policy Perspective

Building Effective Strategies for Places

By: Vincent Mabillard,Martial Pasquier,Renaud Vuignier

As part of an emerging literature on place branding, this book fills the important gap between practice-oriented literature—which lacks in-depth and critical analysis—and technical academic literature—which tends to miss down-to-earth practitioners' concerns and to overlook policy and political contexts. Providing frameworks and knowledge on how to practice place branding effectively, this book anchors place-branding practices in a solid analytical framework. It presents place-branding practices through the lenses of public sector marketing, strategic management, and governance processes and structures, as well as communication tools. Marketing a place is more than creating a logo and a motto; this book presents the key strategic aspects to be considered when promoting a place. Readers will gain knowledge about the most important features of place promotion: the development of brands and marketing campaigns in the public sector, the establishment of dedicated politico-administrative structures, and the increasing involvement of various stakeholders that play a central role as place promoters. This book will be a valuable resource for researchers and postgraduate students across place branding, marketing and management, and urban studies, as well as public management, administration, and policy. The practical conclusions discussed in the book will also appeal to practitioners, business consultants, and people working in public administration and politics.

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1003825893

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Rumor Mills

The Social Impact of Rumor and Legend

By: Veronique Campion-Vincent

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Rumor Mills

The Social Impact of Rumor and Legend

By: Veronique Campion-Vincent

The goal of this volume is to explore the social and political dynamics of rumor and the related concept of urban or contemporary legend. These forms of communication often appear in tandem with social problems, including riots, racial or political violence, and social and economic upheavals. The volume emphasizes the connection of rumor to a set of social concerns from government corruption and corporate scandal, to racial, religious, and other prejudices. Central to the dialogue are issues of truth, belief, history, public policy, and evidence.Rumor has been recognized as one of the most important contributing factors to violence and discrimination. Yet, despite its significance in exacerbating social discord and mistrust, little systematic scholarly attention has been paid to the political origins and consequences of rumor. Rumor is defined as a proposition for belief that is not backed by secure standards of evidence. Rumor can be traditional or not, and can be expressed as a simple claim of fact. In both instances groups of claim-makers, operating out of their own interests and with a set of resources, attempt to depict reality, and if possible, impact the future.The need for this book is underscored by changing patterns of technology. What in the past was grounded in face- to-face interaction is now often found on the Internet, which is a major source of rumor. An appreciation of how new electronic forms of communication affect communal belief is essential for explicating rumor dynamics. The volume is comprehensive. Essays cover race and ethnicity, migration and globalization, corporate malfeasance, and state and government corruption. While editors and contributors well appreciate the dynamic nature of rumors and legends, the high quality of the effort make it evident that the issues that are raised and reoccur will serve to channel and inspire research in this major field of communications research for years to come.

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An Introduction to the Literature of eSwatini

By: Kerry Vincent

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An Introduction to the Literature of eSwatini

By: Kerry Vincent

This book is the first comprehensive introduction to the literature of eSwatini. It details a literary trajectory that begins with renditions of the country by early travelers and settlers and follows with the emergence of a national literature that is marked by early oral influences and molded by unique sociopolitical interests. Along the way, the author considers how contemporary writing by visitors, expatriates, and journalists have salvaged and recycled earlier images and attitudes through a series of representational and rhetorical practices. In particular, the lingering influence of colonial discourse is explored in the context of the nation’s pivotal incwala ritual. A chapter on Hilda Kuper that situates her fiction and drama between outsider and insider accounts is followed by the final two chapters that trace the development of anglophone and siSwati writing and identify themes arising from the major literary genres produced by local authors. The concluding section features a comprehensive registry of writers, with brief summaries of their works.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1498577962

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Cancer: Principles & Practice of Oncology

Primer of the Molecular Biology of Cancer

By: Vincent T. DeVita Jr.,Theodore S. Lawrence,Steven A. Rosenberg

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Cancer: Principles & Practice of Oncology

Primer of the Molecular Biology of Cancer

By: Vincent T. DeVita Jr.,Theodore S. Lawrence,Steven A. Rosenberg

Understand and apply the scientific advances that are revolutionizing cancer research and practice with Cancer: Principles and Practice of Oncology: Primer of the Molecular Biology of Cancer. Derived from DeVita, Hellman, and Rosenberg’s Cancer: Principles and Practice of Oncology – widely hailed as the definitive clinical reference in oncology – the second editon of this popular Primer focuses on the molecular biology information that is of critical importance to research scientists and clinical oncologists alike. Get up-to-date, dependable coverage of every important frontier in aspect of the molecular biology of cancer with contributions from a noteworthy roster of leading scientists and clinicians, featuring an updated version of the classic “Hallmarks of Cancer” by Hanahan and Weinberg See how molecular biology advances are impacting clinical practice with separate chapters on each of the 19 most common cancer types. Navigate the challenges and ethical dilemmas of cancer genetics with a thorough section chapters on genetic counseling and genetic testing.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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1496318501

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Romero’S Tunnel

By: Karl Vincent

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Romero’S Tunnel

By: Karl Vincent

Moustafa Rajai is an ex-pat Iranian living in Arizona, an engineer working at the Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station (PVNGS) - the largest NGS in the United States; and he has a problem. He loves the United States, but his dear wife desperately needs something which he can only obtain from MOIS (the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence and Security). Moustafa intends to offer them a quid pro quo, some harmless titbits of information concerning the nuclear power station if the Iranian government will grant his wife's sister and her children an exit visa from Iran. But the harmless goes out of the deal when MOIS requires certain structural information concerning the retaining walls of Palo Verde....

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iUniverse

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1450250165

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Lean in the Classroom

The Powerful Strategy for Improving Student Performance and Developing Efficient Processes

By: Vincent Wiegel

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Lean in the Classroom

The Powerful Strategy for Improving Student Performance and Developing Efficient Processes

By: Vincent Wiegel

The current way of organizing education is not tenable in the coming decade. We need to address how we teach, how we organize schools, how we increase the effectiveness of learning, how we construct classrooms, and how we deploy new technologies. Lean management philosophy has been successfully applied across many industries – from manufacturing to healthcare, financial services, and construction. Recently, interest in Lean has steadily increased in the education sector, as it was originally introduced in that area’s administrative and support processes. Currently, the introduction of Lean and its potential in education is gaining wider exposure because of massive looming changes – for example, the introduction of technology in education (as EdTech within the traditional system and as MOOCs), demographic changes, budget pressure, new pedagogies, the entrance of more and more private providers, and changing demands of society and industry on the curriculum. What is missing is a joint framework that will allow schools, teachers, directors, and boards to harness the potential of these developments and then execute a strategy. Lean Education (LE) offers the potential to streamline the execution of strategy and teaching. It accelerates the development of new courses and studies that are closely aligned to the needs of students. It supports the integration of new technologies without overburdening teachers and staff. Lean in the Classroom brings all these elements together into a coherent framework so schools can make necessary changes in one concerted effort. Teaching, professional support, managing the daily work, and changing the way schools function are brought together as a schoolwide strategy to organize learning in a way that serves our students by making the most of their talents. This book is the first to define LE in all its aspects: course design, actual teaching and learning processes, school management, and the organization of supporting processes. It is firmly based on the Lean management philosophy in conjunction with pedagogy. The book draws on both scientific research in the field of Lean management in general and Lean education in particular. In addition, it is predicated on many years of hands-on experience applying Lean both inside and outside the education sector.

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CRC Press

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0429670249

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Military Politics of the Contemporary Arab World

By: Philippe Droz-Vincent

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Military Politics of the Contemporary Arab World

By: Philippe Droz-Vincent

Aside from large-scale civic mobilisations, no force was more critical to the outcomes of the 2011 Arab uprisings than the armed forces. Nearly a decade after these events, we see militaries across the region in power, once again performing critical roles in state politics. Taking as a point of reference five case studies where uprisings took place in 2011, Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Yemen and Syria, Philippe Droz-Vincent explores how these armies were able to install themselves for decades under enduring authoritarian regimes, how armies reacted to the 2011 Uprisings, and what role they played in the post-Uprising regime re-formations or collapses. Devoting a chapter to monarchical armies with a special focus on Saudi Arabia and the UAE, Droz-Vincent addresses whether monarchies radically differ from republics, to compare the foundational role of Arab armies in state building, in the Arab world and beyond.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108848702

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The Ministry of Truth

BigTech's Influence on Facts, Feelings and Fictions

By: Vincent F. Hendricks,Camilla Mehlsen

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The Ministry of Truth

BigTech's Influence on Facts, Feelings and Fictions

By: Vincent F. Hendricks,Camilla Mehlsen

The Ministry of Truth scrutinizes the information market in the era of the attention economy calling on citizens, public educators and politicians to action in averting the role of BigTech in critical infrastructure. Through phenomena such as influencers, ‘fake news’, and covid conspiracies, the authors reveal how social platforms control facts, feelings and narratives in our time to such a degree that they are the de facto arbiters of truth. BigTech seemingly controls the information infrastructure and also decides what we pay attention to. The authors suggest hope for a more democratic internet through their systematic analysis of the largest players of the information age. The aim is to amplify human agency for a robust deliberative democracy — not version 2.0 — but a lasting version with staying power. This book appeals to the general interest reader and professional invested in the mobilization of responsible technological development. Vincent F. Hendricks is Professor of Formal Philosophy at The University of Copenhagen. He is Director of the Center for Information and Bubble Studies (CIBS) funded by the Carlsberg Foundation. Camilla Mehlsen is Digital Media Expert and Spokesperson for the Danish child organization Children’s Welfare. She is author of several books on digital literacy and her work on digital media has been published in various newspapers and magazines.

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Springer Nature

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3030986292

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Africans of the Diaspora

The Evolution of African Consciousness and Leadership in the Americas (from Slavery to the 1920s)

By: Vincent Bakpetu Thompson

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Africans of the Diaspora

The Evolution of African Consciousness and Leadership in the Americas (from Slavery to the 1920s)

By: Vincent Bakpetu Thompson

A study of the evolution and role of African people in the social and political structures of the Americas. Particular emphasis is placed on the evolution of leadership within the United States.

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