Familiar Futures: Time, Selfhood, and Sovereignty in Iraq (Pursley Sara)(Pevná vazba)

Familiar Futures: Time, Selfhood, and Sovereignty in Iraq (Pursley Sara)(Pevná vazba)

Iraq was the first postcolonial state recognized as legally sovereign by the League of Nations amid the twentieth-century wave of decolonization movements. It also emerged as an early laboratory of development projects designed by Iraqi intellectuals, British colonial officials, American

Poetry and Sovereignty in the English Revolution (Allsopp Niall)(Pevná vazba)

Poetry and Sovereignty in the English Revolution presents a new interpretation of the poetry of the English revolution. It focuses on royalist poets who left their cause behind following the abolition of the monarchy, exploring how they re-imagined the traditional language of allegiance in newly

Reckoning with Rebellion: War and Sovereignty in the Nineteenth Century (Sheehan-Dean Aaron)(Pevná vazba)

Everless (Holland Sara)(Pevná vazba)

New York Times bestseller!'Sara Holland is a fierce storyteller. Everless gives new and terrifying meaning to the phrase running out of time.' --Stephanie Garber, New York Times bestselling author of CaravalIn the kingdom of Sempera, time is currency--extracted from blood, bound to iron, and

Lord Emsworth And Others (Wodehouse P.G.)(Pevná vazba)

A collection of stories in which familiar characters and places are reintroduced in unfamiliar circumstances, reminding us - if we need reminding - of their author's limitless powers of comic

I Touch . . . (George Patrick)(Pevná vazba)

Through bright, colorful, and creative imagery, familiar textures and sensations can be discussed in this clever, cheerful bookI touch . . .. . . hot sand. . . cold snowflakes. . . slippery soap. . . a tickly featherWhat feels nice to touch? Is it a fluffy puppy or a tickly feather? Or how about a

LOGO Modernism (Mller Jens)(Pevná vazba)

Modernist aesthetics in architecture, art, and product design are familiar to many. In soaring glass structures or minimalist canvases, we recognize a time of vast technological advance which affirmed the power of human beings to reshape their environment and to break, radically, from the

Sovereignty Sharing in Fragile States (Ciorciari John D.)(Pevná vazba)

In fragile states, domestic and international actors sometimes take the momentous step of sharing sovereign authority to provide basic public services and build the rule of law. While sovereignty sharing can help address gaps in governance, it is inherently difficult, risking redundancy, confusion

Typeset in the Future: Typography and Design in Science Fiction Movies (Addey Dave)(Pevná vazba)

Applied Linguistics in the Middle East and North Africa - Current practices and future directions(Pevná vazba)

Every Day Is a Gift: A Memoir (Duckworth Tammy)(Pevná vazba)

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! Learn the incredible story of Illinois senator and Iraq War veteran Tammy Duckworth and see what inspired her to follow the path that made her who she is today. In Every Day Is a Gift, Tammy Duckworth takes readers through the amazing--and amazingly

Warriors of Wing and Flame (Larson Sara B.)(Pevná vazba)

In Warriors of Wing and Flame, acclaimed author Sara B. Larson continues her enchanting YA fantasy duology with a timeless fairytale feel in an original voice. The doorway between the magical Visempirum and the human world has been reopened. Paladin are once more living in the citadel where Zuhra

Outside Eden (Jones Merry)(Pevná vazba)

July, Israel. Iraqi war vet and archaeology graduate Harper Jennings doesn't believe in the evil eye. So when Hagit - the woman assigned to show her and Chloe, Harper's fourteen-month-old baby, around Tel Aviv - drags the pair of them into a market to buy charms to ward off evil, it isn't the bad

U.S. Military Detention Operations in Post-Abu Ghraib Iraq (Meriwether Jeffrey)(Pevná vazba)

Detention operations are vital to U.S. military doctrine and crucial to the success of combat and recovery missions. This book shows that the image of abuse from Abu-Ghraib were but one small, harmful element in an overwhelmingly successful detention mission in Iraq. It focuses on the subsequent

Imagined Futures: Fictional Expectations and Capitalist Dynamics (Beckert Jens)(Pevná vazba)

In a capitalist system, consumers, investors, and corporations orient their activities toward a future that contains opportunities and risks. How actors assess uncertainty is a problem that economists have tried to solve through general equilibrium and rational expectations theory. Powerful as

Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine (Erakat Noura)(Pevná vazba)

The struggle for Palestinian sovereignty has been a quest for inclusion in-and recognition from-a world order that left them behind. Sovereignty has become a trap for Palestinians and getting out is a matter of political vision and will. The law does not determine any particular outcome, it only

Leave No Trace (Driscoll Sara)(Pevná vazba)

In the fifth F.B.I. K-9 novel, Sara Driscoll weaves together fast-paced suspense and the fascinating world of law enforcement canines, as Meg Jennings and her search-and-rescue dog, Hawk, are heading south, where it's hunting season. But this time the prey is human. FBI handler Meg Jennings and her

John Bartlett's Familiar Quotations: From the Greatest Poets, Writers, Playwrights and Literati in the English Language (Hardcover) (Bartlett John)(Pevná vazba)

Jabberwocky (Carroll Lewis)(Pevná vazba)

Get lost in this magical world full of beasts -- both familiar and fantastical -- with your children while reading and re-reading Jabberwocky year after year.'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, and the mom raths outgrabe.Lewis Carroll's

Valiant (Destefano Merrie)(Pevná vazba)

Seventeen-year-old Sara has seen her brother die fifteen times. He's drowned, burned to death, and overdosed. Been shot, stabbed, and crushed. No matter how hard she and her friends try, no matter how many times she jumps back through the portal of time to save him, she fails. And with the death of

Exoplanets (Seager Sara)(Pevná vazba)

For the first time in human history, we know for certain the existence of planets around other stars. Now the fastest-growing field in space science, the time is right for this fundamental source book on the topic which will lay the foundation for its continued growth. Exoplanets serves as both an

Rebel Angels: Space and Sovereignty in Anglo-Saxon England (Fitzgerald Jill)(Pevná vazba)

This book examines the 'fall of the angels' tradition in early medieval sermons, saints' lives, legal documents and Old English biblical poetry. It argues that Anglo-Saxon authors adapted apocryphal and patristic accounts in ways that allowed them to express their ideas concerning ecclesiastical

The Future Leader: 9 Skills and Mindsets to Succeed in the Next Decade (Morgan Jacob)(Pevná vazba)

Futura: The Artist's Monograph (Futura)(Pevná vazba)

The most in-depth and comprehensive survey of the life and career of one of the pioneering artists of the original graffiti generation. Having forged his graphic style painting subways in New York in the late 1970s, Futura was among the first graffiti artists to be shown in contemporary galleries