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Bala perdida
A violência policial no Brasil e os desafios para sua superação
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: December 1, 2015
A Boitempo Editorial, que completa 20 anos de atividade em 2015, publica em parceria com o portal Carta Maior a coletânea Bala perdida: a violência policial no Brasil e os desafios para sua superação, quarto volume da coleção Tinta Vermelha. Ao longo de 16 artigos, a obra incita o debate público...
by Barbara S. Petitt, Jerald E. Pinto, Wendy L. Pirie
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
Fixed Income Analysis Workbook helps busy professionals better understand and apply the concepts and methodologies essential to fixed income portfolio management. A companion to the Fixed Income Analysis text, this helpful workbook offers learning objectives, chapter summaries, and practice problems...
by Barbara S. Petitt, Jerald E. Pinto, Wendy L. Pirie
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2015
The essential guide to fixed income portfolio management, from the experts at CFA
Fixed Income Analysis is a new edition of Frank Fabozzi's Fixed Income Analysis, Second Edition that provides authoritative and up-to-date coverage of how investment professionals analyze and manage fixed income...
The Minor Parties of the Federal Republic of Germany
Toward a Comparative Theory of Minor Parties
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Minor parties in the United States have been studied both individually and collectively. On the basis of these studies, social scientists have set forth certain generalizations concerning the types of American minor parties, their characteristics, their functions, and the obstacles they face in the...
Lasagna
The Man Behind the Mask
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2014
The events at Oka in 1990 saw the Canadian Armed Forces confront some 40 armed Mohawk Warriors” who were defending their community’s resistance against a further colonial encroachment on their native lands. Lasagna,” one of the Mohawk leaders, was unmasked” as Ronald Cross. This is his story and the story of the ongoing struggles of Native nations in land disputes.
The Competitiveness of West African Economies in the Chinese Market
West African Economies in China
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2012
Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2012 in the subject Economics - Case Scenarios, Xiamen University, language: English, abstract: West Africa is one of the regions on the African continent with abundant natural resources ranging from vast forest and arable land to mineral deposits. According...
The State of the Parties
The Changing Role of Contemporary American Parties
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
The State of the Parties brings readers up to date on party action in election years and in between. This essential party primer includes: new chapters on polarization between and within the parties in the aftermath of the 2012 election, demographic changes to America’s political parties and the...
Supernatural Youth
The Rise of the Teen Hero in Literature and Popular Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2011
Supernatural Youth: The Rise of the Teen Hero in Literature and Popular Culture, edited by Jes Battis, addresses the role of adolescence in fantastic media, adventure stories, cinema, and television aimed at youth. The goal of this volume is to analyze the ways in which young heroic protagonists are...
by S. Noël McKay
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Stony Point tells the story of a woman who succeeds in doing things at a time when custom restricts her from doing anything. In 1903, shortly after the Frank slide, a newspaper reporter vanishes from a mining town in the Crowsnest Pass. Lucille travels to Stony Point in search of her sister's husband....
by María Belén Ahumada, Ted Galen Carpenter, Khatchik DerGhougassian
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
This volume examines the foreign policy transition from George W. Bush to Barack H. Obama in relation to the countries of the Americas. In this work, contributors consider the major defining features of their respective policies in dealing with security-related issues. Specifically, they examine whether...
Military Chaplains in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Beyond
Advisement and Leader Engagement in Highly Religious Environments
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2014
The role of military chaplains has changed over the past decade as Western militaries have deployed to highly religious environments such as East Africa, Afghanistan, and Iraq. U.S. military chaplains, who are by definition non-combatants, have been called upon by their war-fighting commanders to...
Smallpox
A History
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
Scientifically known as Variola major, the deadliest form of smallpox has plagued mankind since “time immemorial.” This text chronicles the worldwide effects of the killer disease, with particular emphasis on the 19th and 20th centuries, including the devastations of the “speckled disease”...
Studies in Culture Contact
Interaction, Culture Change, and Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
People have long been fascinated about times in human history when different cultures and societies first came into contact with each other, how they reacted to that contact, and why it sometimes occurred peacefully and at other times was violent or catastrophic.
Studies in Culture Contact:...
Mexico: the Genesis of Its Political Decomposition
(Miguel Alemán Valdés: 1936 to 1952)
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
At the beginning of the 21st century, only a few can deny that the Mexican State is in full decline, as there exist axioms of political theory that show it, and economic indicators that confirm it. In addition, recent sociological studies agree in explaining the substantial loss of values in the present...