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From Byron to Bin Laden: A History of Foreign War Volunteers by Nir Arielli
epub, pdf |eng | 2018-01-08 | Author:Nir Arielli

In conclusion, while de jure there was, and still is, an international norm of preventing the departure of foreign volunteers, de facto the situation has been, and remains, much more ...
( Category: Engineering January 19,2020 )
Feminism: A Brief Introduction to the Ideas, Debates, and Politics of the Movement by Deborah Cameron
epub |eng | 2019-05-21 | Author:Deborah Cameron

5 Sex The publishing sensation of 2012 was E. L. James’s Fifty Shades of Grey, an erotic novel by a previously unknown author that chronicled the relationship between Christian Grey, ...
( Category: Women in History January 19,2020 )
A Global History of Medicine by Mark Jackson
epub, pdf |eng | 2017-12-02 | Author:Mark Jackson

Conclusion By the 1990s, political conditions throughout the region had stabilized, but economic woes persisted. Many countries that once had near-universal health systems now had partially or largely privatized health ...
( Category: World January 19,2020 )
True Sex: The Lives of Trans Men at the Turn of the Twentieth Century by Emily Skidmore
epub |eng | 2017-09-19 | Author:Emily Skidmore

Conclusion As this chapter has shown, newspapers throughout the early twentieth century found that foreignness was a convenient means to pathologize nonnormative gender and sexual formations. Foreignness provided a framework ...
( Category: LGBT January 19,2020 )
A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet by Raj Patel & Jason W. Moore
epub |eng | 2017-09-19 | Author:Raj Patel & Jason W. Moore [Patel, Raj & Moore, Jason W.]

THE DUTCH DISEASE Let’s begin with the words of Peter Voser, who in 2012 was the CEO of Royal Dutch Shell: In the United States, for example, the American Petroleum ...
( Category: Human Geography January 19,2020 )
The Witch: A History of Fear, From Ancient Times to the Present by Ronald Hutton
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Ronald Hutton [Hutton, Ronald]

Bloodsuckers, Wolf-riders and Ladies In the Alps and Pyrenees, and the lands immediately south of them, a rich crop of folkloric motifs features in prosecutions for witchcraft, one of them ...
( Category: Folklore & Mythology January 19,2020 )
Death in the City: Suicide and the Social Imaginary in Modern Mexico by Kathryn A. Sloan
epub |eng | 2017-01-15 | Author:Kathryn A. Sloan [Sloan, Kathryn A.]

DEGENERATION AND THE MORAL DECLINE OF SOCIETY Dr. Beard’s discourse on neurasthenia did not address degeneration per se, but Mexican medical specialists agreed with French and German experts, who believed ...
( Category: Women in History January 19,2020 )
Unjust Conditions: Women's Work and the Hidden Cost of Cash Transfer Programs by Tara Patricia Cookson
epub |eng | 2018-01-15 | Author:Tara Patricia Cookson

CONCLUSION Most research on CCTs questions if the programs achieve high levels of compliance, rather than how. CCTs are not efficient when viewed from the perspective of the mothers who ...
( Category: Caribbean & Latin American January 19,2020 )
In Search of the Lost Orient: An Interview by Olivier Roy & Jean-Louis Schlegel & Olivier Mongin & C. Jon Delogu
epub |eng | 2017-09-26 | Author:Olivier Roy & Jean-Louis Schlegel & Olivier Mongin & C. Jon Delogu

Chapter 14 JIHAD Did you meet foreign jihadists who went to fight in Afghanistan? Yes. They were both Salafists (partisans of a normative and literalist Islam) and jihadists (people for ...
( Category: Asian January 19,2020 )
Left to the Mercy of a Rude Stream: The Bargain That Broke Adolf Hitler and Saved My Mother by Stanley A. Goldman
epub, pdf |eng | 2018-12-01 | Author:Stanley A. Goldman

Masur’s Role in the Sending of Wallenberg On April 18, 1944, a year and a day before his own treacherous journey to meet Himmler, Masur sent a letter to Stockholm’s ...
( Category: Women in History January 19,2020 )
Sea of the Caliphs: The Mediterranean in the Medieval Islamic World by Christophe Picard & Nicholas Elliott
epub |eng | 2018-01-21 | Author:Christophe Picard & Nicholas Elliott

Razzias and the Conquest of the Islands of the Western Mediterranean The term “razzia” (ghazwa) refers to the operational mode of Muslims who crossed the march to attack in the ...
( Category: African January 19,2020 )
Reassembling Motherhood: Procreation and Care in a Globalized World by Yasmine Ergas & Jane Jenson & Sonya Michel
epub |eng | 2019-04-07 | Author:Yasmine Ergas & Jane Jenson & Sonya Michel

CONCLUSION My focus has been on the circumstances under which postadoption visitation agreements are entered into and the circumstances under which they are enforced. Whether an analogy to plea bargains ...
( Category: Social Policy January 19,2020 )
Freud's Mahabharata by Hiltebeitel Alf;
epub |eng | 2018-01-15 | Author:Hiltebeitel, Alf;

Aravāṉ as Irāvat in the Sanskrit Mahābhārata Aravān is known without Kālī in the Sanskrit Mahābhārata, where he is called Irāvat, a name that cannot be derived from any word ...
( Category: Psychology & Counseling January 19,2020 )
Transcending the Cold War: Summits, Statecraft, and the Dissolution of Bipolarity in Europe, 1970–1990 by Kristina Spohr & David Reynolds
epub |eng | 2016-08-25 | Author:Kristina Spohr & David Reynolds [Spohr, Kristina & Reynolds, David]

( Category: Diplomacy January 19,2020 )
The Bedroom: An Intimate History by Michelle Perrot & Lauren Elkin
epub |eng | 2018-08-21 | Author:Michelle Perrot & Lauren Elkin [Perrot, Michelle & Elkin, Lauren]

Chambrées At first workers converged in “communal rooms,” as Villermé termed them in his description. In Sedan, “as in all industrial towns, single men live in pensions. For 25 or ...
( Category: Historical Study & Educational Resources January 19,2020 )

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