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The sexually-charged and colourful nature of many contemporary Spanish films has made them popular world-wide. Rob Stone uses original interview material with Spanish Cinema luminaries to chart its history throughout the turbulent Francoist years and beyond.

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Anyone who reads the papers or watches the evening news is all too familiar with how variations of the word "monster are used to describe unthinkable acts of violence. Jeffrey Dahmer, Timothy McVeigh, and O. J. Simpson were all monsters if we are to believe the mass media. Even Bill Clinton was depicted with the term during the Monica Lewinsky scandal. But why is so much energy devoted in our culture to the making of monsters? Why are American...

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When Frank, a lonely widower, takes up genealogy, he discovers how ancestors fled oppression in Europe and ultimately reached the United States. Then, in a turn of fate, he meets Katie, a victim of modern oppression who shares his ancestral heritage.

Legal Rights of Prisoners is a timely book that addresses the constitutional rights of people in places of confinement. More specifically, it examines the amendments that inmates use and the case law that has developed to address their concerns.

This groundbreaking bilingual anthology, carefully designed for middle readers, demonstrates the energy, creativity, and diversity of the fastest-growing minority group in America. "Wachale!" (Spanglish for "watch out!") includes folk tales, stories, and poems in both English and Spanish and brief autobiographical essays by both well-established and emerging Latino writers.

Helps students to use their speaking and communication skills as a springboard for developing writing skills.

A framework for intelligence analysts to use to think systematically about the potential for the rise of a peer competitor to the United States.

English Drama (Excluding Shakespeare)

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A study of how migrants adapt to their new country while still maintaining ties to the old with an emphasis on Haitian migrants to the US.

When the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) was founded just over a century ago the practice of referring disputes to international tribunals was un­ usual. Instead, arbitration, with its procedural emphasis on party-autonomy, was seen as the only acceptable way for sovereign states to settle their differences peacefully. War and neutrality, as Professor Shabtai Rosenne explains in his in­ troduction to this most welcome publication of extra...

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Unternehmen werden in der Öffentlichkeit immer öfter mit ethischen Fragestellungen konfrontiert, die zu Konflikten zwischen ethischen und wirtschaftlichen Werten führen können. Vor allem in international tätigen Unternehmen treten häufig intra- und interorganisatorische Konfliktsituationen auf. In einem umfassenden Forschungsprojekt untersuchen die Autoren konfliktäre Entscheidungssituationen und deren Einschätzung durch international tätige U...

¿"Die , Geschichte des Aristotelismus' (3 Bände, 1971-2001), die Paul Moraux auf der Basis seiner jahrzehntelangen Beschäftigung mit Aristoteles und des von ihm gegründeten Aristotelesarchivs geschaffen hat, ist ein Maßstäbe setzendes Meisterwerk der Philosophiegeschichte." Prof. Dr. Bernd Seidensticker, Freie Universität Berlin

To what extent is it possible to know the past or to know other cultures? Can one describe the past without imposing one's own cultural, political, social, or personal preconceptions? Testing the current skepticism that insists that it is impossible...