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This book examines the engagement between the United Nations' human rights machinery and the respective governments since Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) joined the United Nations.Sri Lanka has a long and rich history of engagement with international human rights instruments. However, despite its active membership in the UN, the country's post-colonial trials and tribulations are emblematic of the limited influence the international organisation has e...

Is this "fictional" story about a troubled mathematics professor who suddenly resigns his tenure and lives on the streets as a vagrant, and the "dead" girl who comes into his life, actually true? Does time, the past and future, exist? Is life as we think of it real?

A grandfather and his blind granddaughter, both in Rome where an eye surgeon has performed an experimental surgery on the 18-year-old granddaughter in hopes of restoring her sight, are asked by a fellow American in their small hotel to hold his briefcase while he travels out of town. Unbeknownst to them, the briefcase contains documents stolen from the Vatican. Doing that favor proves disastrous. The fellow American is murdered, and the grandf...

Romanti_na pri_a u kojoj ni za koga nema sre_nog kraja, pa ni za one sasvim nedu?ne. Pri_a o ljubavi koja oslepi, ogluvi i ojadi one koje je pohodila, bila ta ljubav roditeljska, ljubav prema bogu i nauci, ljubav prema umetnosti, ljubav prema mu?karcu ili ?eni, ljubav prema ?ivotu...

A searing picture of NZ society today, the family deals with love, loss, financial struggles, drugs, domestic violence, and all the issues that Kiwis deal with daily. As he has done in his plays and his screen-writing, McGee turns a spotlight on the relationships and social issues of New Zealanders while making for an entertaining read.

Für den Bauingenieur und den beratenden Ingenieurgeologen ist es unerlässlich, die Einflüsse geologischer Gegebenheiten auf die Bauplanung und -ausführung sowie auf das fertige Bauwerk richtig bewerten zu können.Dieses Buch vermittelt sowohl dem Praktiker als auch dem Studenten das dazu nötige Grundwissen der Allgemeinen Geologie, der Gefüge- und Gesteinskunde. Übersichtlich stellt es die bautechnischen Eigenschaften des Gebirges dar, wobei di...

Jews acculturated to Scotland within one generation and quickly inflected Jewish culture in a Scottish idiom. This book analyses the religious aspects of this transition through a transnational perspective on migration in the first three decades of the twentieth century.

This book analyses data from a variety of sources, including soap operas, movies, plays, talk shows and other audiovisual material, to examine attitude datives in Levantine Arabic. It examines four types of interpersonal pragmatic marker: topic/affectee-oriented, speaker-oriented, hearer-oriented and subject-oriented.

Fictional portrayal of crime and the criminal characters associated with it in the Southern New England area during the latter half of the Twentieth Century. The story follows the life of "Donato 'Danny' Pastore, " who suffers through a traumatic event when he's a young boy, affecting his mental health, and the scores of characters and incidents that surround him during his lifetime. The pages flow with the full gauntlet of emotions and the co...

With Scottish Gaelic in decline for almost a millennium, Dunmore's book fills a crucial gap in our understanding of the long-term social and linguistic outcomes of Gaelic medium education. It will inform policy makers and activists in Scotland and worldwide, where revitalization efforts are underway to create new speakers and domains through schooling.' Professor Emerita Suzanne Romain, University of Oxford The first open assessment of the o...