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This title brings together the best of Steve Bell's daily Guardian cartoons, from the 2001 General Election to 2003. Bell's cartoons steer a third way through the second phase of King Tony's reign, war on Afghanistan and the thought of John Major and Edwina Curry having sex.

Boasting a rich, complex history in Celtic and Christian ritual, Halloween has evolved from ethnic celebration to a blend of street festival, fright night, and vast commercial enterprise. In this colorful history, Nicholas Rogers takes a lively, entertaining look at the cultural origins and development of one of the most popular holidays of the year.

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Collection of poems spanning more than 500 years in an elegant hardback cover, with gold stamping and a highly distinctive design. Poets include: Chaucer, Byron and T.S. Eliot.

»Sprache und mehr« ... dieses Buch soll dazu beitragen, den disziplinär verengten Blick auf den Gegenstand der Sprachwissenschaft zu weiten. Die Performanz, die »ewig sich wiederholende Arbeit des Geistes« (Humboldt), wird in den Fokus der sprachwissenschaftlichen Theoriebildung gerückt. Die einzelnen Beiträge nehmen eine Neukonturierung des Gegenstands der Sprachwissenschaft unter folgenden vier Perspektiven vor: wissenschaftstheoretische Dis...

This is a true story of the encounters a young man faces while finding himself by living on the streets as a transient for seven months.

The contributions in this volume examine literary and other texts as well as cultural and political discourses in relation to issues of identity formation and dis-formation, of self and society and of the socially local within the global. All these issues come into play through the exploration of the fantasmatic space of mutual mis-recognition and mythmaking between coloniser and colonised, between ¿Africä and ¿Europe¿.

Canada's machinery of government is out of joint. In Breaking the Bargain, Donald J. Savoie reveals how the traditional deal struck between politicians and career officials that underpins the workings of our national political and administrative process is today being challenged. He argues that the role of bureaucracy within the Canadian political machine has never been properly defined, that the relationship between elected and permanent gove...

In 1798 William Black set aside 38 acres of land in an area known as Draper's Meadow to establish the village that would take his name: Blacksburg, Virginia. In the more than 200 years since its founding, this once small frontier outpost has grown into what the Washington Post recently called "the most wired city in America." A diverse and well-educated community, Blacksburg holds a special place in the hearts of its residents as well as Virgi...

Diese Arbeit wurde mit dem Karl Heinz Ditze-Preis der Universität Hamburg ausgezeichnet. Die Arbeit analysiert, wie das Problem des Bösen in der Hegelschen Schule erörtert wurde. Die Texte der untersuchten Schüler Hegels - Ph. K. Marheineke, J. E. Erdmann, W. Vatke und E. Zeller - zeigen, daß in der Hegelschen Schule, Kant folgend, das Böse im Begriff des Willens gefaßt ist und daß vor allem der Begriff des Bösen, seine Notwendigkeit und sein...

Sudan has been at war with itself for the last forty years, except for a ten-year period of peace from 1972 to 1983. This book traces the root causes of the Sudanese conflict: the remnants of slave culture and the rift between North and South, exacerbated by a conflict of culture and religion. Despite past divisions, the author identifies new points of departure in the conflict, particularly after the agreement reached by John Garang de Marbos...

Your all-in-one resource for science fair success Don' t wait till the last minute to start preparing for this year' s science fair. This book makes it easy and fun to complete a project that you can take pride in, and maybe even take to national and international competitions. You get expert guidance in creating a great project from start to finish, with information on basic science fair procedures, tools, and techniques. You' ll also find ba...

The Potomac River Basin, stretching from Pennsylvania through West Virginia, Maryland, the District of Columbia, and Virginia, is home to a variety of wildlife and culture. The Potomac flows through the landscape, offering its shores to bathers and fishermen, its rapids to adventurous kayakers, and its natural beauty to all who live nearby. But, over the centuries and specifically since the coming of European settlers to the area 400 years ago...

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Noam Chomsky is Institute Professor Emeritus in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at MIT, Boston. A member of the Academy of Science, he has published widely in both linguistics and current affairs. Peter R. Mitchell and John Schoeffel are public defenders in New York City.

A disparate group of travellers is thrown together in the Caucasus Mountains. Each has a quest and peering into ones own heart may be the most challenging prospect.

Complete step-by-step guide for new knitters. Over 300 colour photos and 60 artworks.

Few children nowadays are placed for adoption with no form of contact planned with birth relatives and it has become common professional practice to advocate direct rather than indirect contact. Practice has outstripped evidence in this respect and not enough is known about how contact arrangements actually work out, particularly for older children adopted from state care. Such children have often experienced neglect, and sometimes abuse, and ...

This accessible book theorizes education as a vehicle for self change and explores how such theorizing impacts on the practices of educators. The book takes a case-study approach in order to bring theories to practice and to demonstrate the unconscious learning processes of self-monitoring, self-evaluation, self-appraisal and critical reflection.