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  • Narcosubmarines

    Outlaw Innovation and Maritime Interdiction in the War on Drugs

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book is about the encounters of Colombian drug smugglers and the Colombian Navy, both in the open seas and along coastlines. Javier Guerrero C. specifically examines the technologies involved in the War on Drugs, such as the narcosubmarines and patrol boats, the knowledge required to transport drugs and the knowledge required to stop the illicit flows. The author presents compelling new ... Read more

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  • Iran and Global Decolonisation

    Politics and Resistance After Empire

    Series series Gingko-St Andrews Series
    A presentation of scholarly work that investigates Iran's experiences with colonialism and decolonization from a variety of perspectives.How did Iran’s unique position in the world affect and define its treatment of decolonization? During the final decades of Pahlavi rule in the late 1970s, the country sought to establish close relationships with newly independent counterparts in the Global South. ... Read more

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  • III Edition of the Spanish Markets Digital Evolution Report 2017

    This report has been drafted by Bookwire and Dosdoce.com for The International Digital Distributors Meeting. IPDA is the international umbrella organization for the associations and companies that develop its activity in the field of publishing distribution (books, magazines, newspapers… both on print and digital versions) After the success of the first three editions of The International Digital ... Read more

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  • I am Action

    Literary and Combat Articles, Thoughts, and Revolutionary Chronicles

    Translated by Javier Sethness-Castro ...
    “Praxedis was one of the purest, worthiest, most intelligent, self-denying and bravest men that ever espoused the cause of the disinherited.” —Ricardo Flores MagónBorn into a wealthy family in Guanajuato, Mexico, in 1882, there was little indication that Praxedis G. Guerrero would evolve into a celebrated revolutionary. After a short stint in the military, from 1904-1910 he lived in the US, ... Read more

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  • User-Centered Software Development for the Blind and Visually Impaired: Emerging Research and Opportunities

    Human-computer interaction studies the users and their interaction with an interactive software system (ISS). However, these studies are designed for people without any type of disability, causing there to be few existing techniques or tools that focus on the characteristics of a specific user, thus causing accessibility and utility issues for neglected segments of the population. This reference ... Read more

    $184.49 USD

  • Avenging Nature

    The Role of Nature in Modern and Contemporary Art and Literature

    Series series Ecocritical Theory and Practice
    “Nature, thou art my goddess”—Edmund’s bold assertion in King Lear could easily inspire and, at the same time, function as a lamentation of the inadequate respect of nature in culture. In this volume, international experts provide multidisciplinary exploration of the insubordinate representations of nature in modern and contemporary literature and art. The work foregrounds the need to reassess how ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • Spanish markets ebook evolution report 2016

    Although publishing and digital cultures are evolving at highly different speeds in the Spanish markets, technology and the ebook both offer a broad spectrum of business opportunities for publishers in Latin America and Spain. The soaring number of ebooks published in those countries, the growing importance of digital reading and the increasing role of the Internet as a distribution and marketing ... Read more

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    Fred Halliday writes: 'The Arab Middle East is the one with the longest history of contact with the west; yet it is probably the one least understood. Part of the misunderstanding is due to the romantic mythology that has long appeared to shroud the deserts of the peninsula. Where old myths have broken down, new ones have absorbed them or taken their place. Now the Sheikh of Arabia has stepped ... Read more

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    The Cold War and American Dominance in the Middle East

    Acclaimed historian and political commentator Rashid Khalidi presents the compelling case that U.S. and Soviet intervention in the Middle East not only exacerbated civil wars and provoked the breakdown of fragile democracies, but continues to this day to shape global conflict in the region. Examining the strategic interplay of cold war superpowers, Khalidi explains how the momentous events that ... Read more

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  • Mirrors

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    An ambitious and stylish history of human civilization told through hundreds of unheard and forgotten voices, by the acclaimed author of The Open Veins of Latin America“Nothing less than a capsule history of the human race....Brutally, precisely documented.”  —New York Times Book ReviewThe old adage says that history is written by the victors. Mirrors is an unofficial history of the world seen ... Read more

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  • Columbus and Other Cannibals

    The Wetiko Disease of Exploitation, Imperialism, and Terrorism

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