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Critical Indigenous Rights Studies (Routledge Research in Human Rights Law)

Routledge, 2018

The field of ‘critical indigenous rights studies’ is a complex one that benefits from an interdisciplinary perspective and a realist (as opposed to an idealised) approach to indigenous peoples. This book draws on sociology of law, anthropology, political sciences and legal sciences in order to address emerging issues in...

The Proximity Principle: The Proven Strategy That Will Lead to a Career You Love

Ramsey Press, 2019

Right now, 70% of Americans aren’t passionate about their work and are desperately longing for meaning and purpose. They’re sick of “average” and know there’s something better out there, but they just don’t know how to reach it.

One basic principle?The Proximity Principle?can change...

I Am Cyrus: Harry S. Truman and the Rebirth of Israel

Straight Street Books, 2019

2020 Selah Award Winner

Improbable, if not impossible. How could a people who’d been scattered for two millennia reestablish a homeland on their ancient soil?

Against all odds, an irresistible desire to return grew in courageous Jewish men and women who set out to rebuild their...

Cognitive Superiority: Information to Power

Springer, 2020

In a world of accelerating unending change, perpetual surveillance, and increasing connectivity, conflict has become ever more complex. Wars are no longer limited to the traditional military conflict domains?land, sea, air; even space and cyber space. The new battlefield will be the cognitive domain and the new conflict a larger...

Mutiny and Leadership

Oxford University Press, 2021

Whenever leadership emerges within a group, there will be resistance to that leadership. Discontent may manifest in a number of ways, and action will always be determined by factors such as resource, numbers, time, space, and the legitimacy of the resistance. What, then, turns discontent into
mutiny?

Mutiny is often...

Drug Use for Grown-Ups: Chasing Liberty in the Land of Fear

Penguin Press, 2021

“Hart’s argument that we need to drastically revise our current view of illegal drugs is both powerful and timely . . . when it comes to the legacy of this country’s war on drugs, we should all share his outrage.” —The New York Times Book Review

From one of the world's...

Spatial Modeling in Forest Resources Management: Rural Livelihood and Sustainable Development (Environmental Science and Engineering)

Springer, 2020

This book demonstrates the measurement, monitoring, mapping, and modeling of forest resources. It explores state-of-the-art techniques based on open-source software & R statistical programming and modeling specifically, with a focus on the recent trends in data mining/machine learning techniques and robust modeling in forest resources....

GPS and GNSS Technology in Geosciences

Elsevier Limited, 2021

GPS and GNSS Technology in Geosciences offers an interdisciplinary approach to applying advances in GPS/GNSS technology for geoscience research and practice. As GPS/GNSS signals can be used to provide useful information about the Earth’s surface characteristics and land surface composition, GPS equipment and services for...

Show Me You Care - The Power of Silence in Selling

Target Point Ltd, 2021

The Power of Silence is immense.

Nothing establishes a closer connection or works better than silence and active listening. There is raw power to listening, hearing, and getting out of the way. When we let a buyer tell us what they want, vs. what we think they may need, long-lasting relationships are built. Silence and...

Theory of the Earth

Stanford University Press, 2021

We need a new philosophy of the earth. Geological time used to refer to slow and gradual processes, but today we are watching land sink into the sea and forests transform into deserts. We can even see the creation of new geological strata made of plastic, chicken bones, and other waste that could remain in the fossil record for millennia or...

Literary Representations of “Mainlanders” in Taiwan (Routledge Research on Taiwan Series)

Routledge, 2020

This book examines literary representations of mainlander identity articulated by Taiwan’s second-generation mainlander writers, who share the common feature of emotional ambivalence between Taiwan and China.

Closely analyzing literary narratives of Chinese civil war migrants and their descendants in Taiwan, a...

Kashmir in Conflict: India, Pakistan and the Unending War

I. B. Tauris, 2021

In 1846, under the terms of the Treaty of Amritsar, the British sold the beautiful valley of Kashmir to the Hindu Dogra ruler, Gulab Singh. It was not a sale in the traditional sense of the word since Britain was not physically occupying the land it sold, but rather a confirmation of an existing state of affairs where by Gulab Singh...

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