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Flexible Regional Economic Integration in Africa: Lessons and Implications for the Multilateral Trading System (Masiko Timothy)

This book examines the relationship between flexible regional economic integration in the East African Community (EAC), through its application of variable geometry, and the establishment of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) as a continent-wide form of integration. It uses a historica...

Upshift: Turning Pressure Into Performance and Crisis Into Creativity (Ramalingam Ben)

With over two decades experience both observing and interpreting how people channel disaster into opportunity in the most extreme circumstances and environments on Earth, Ben Ramalingam has a unique vantage point from which to identify the key principles that can enable anyone to use stress as an op...

People, States and Fear: An Agenda for International Security Studies in the Post-Cold War Era (Buzan Barry)

This widely acclaimed book examines how states and societies pursue freedom from threat in an environment in which competitive relations are inescapable across the political, economic, military, societal and environmental landscapes. Throughout, attention is placed on the interplay of threats and vu...

Walker Percy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and the Search for Influence (Hooten Wilson Jessica)

Although Walker Percy named many influences on his work and critics have zeroed in on Kierkegaard in particular, no one has considered his intentional influence: the nineteenth-century Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky. In a study that revives and complicates notions of adaptation and influence, Je...

Oxford Handbook of Ethics at the End of Life (Youngner Stuart J.)

This handbook explores the topic of death and dying from the late twentieth to the early twenty-first centuries, with particular emphasis on the United States. In this period, technology has radically changed medical practices and the way we die as structures of power have been reshaped by the right...

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A Body of Fates (Evren Kenneth)

On December 31st, 1999 history changed. Precisely at midnight. David Becker was born into abuse and left home young. Rescued by Deborah Glasscock, a natural-born leader from three generations of extraordinary women, they married in 1998. With the first tick of Saturday January 1st, 2000 the course o...

The Wild Game Cookbook: Simple Recipes for Hunters and Gourmets (Einarsson Mikael)

From woods and fields into the kitchen and onto the table. Delicious recipes for cooking game, expertly explained. This is a recipe book for both the aspiring home cook and the hands-on gourmet who is prepared to reframe their view on wild game. The Wild Game Cookbook helps keen cooks rediscover thi...

Routine Crisis: An Ethnography of Disillusion (Muir Sarah)

Argentina, once heralded as the future of capitalist progress, has a long history of economic volatility. In 2001-2002, a financial crisis led to its worst economic collapse, precipitating a dramatic currency devaluation, the largest sovereign default in world history, and the flight of foreign capi...

Probabilistic Graphical Models: Principles and Techniques (Koller Daphne)

A general framework for constructing and using probabilistic models of complex systems that would enable a computer to use available information for making decisions. Most tasks require a person or an automated system to reason--to reach conclusions based on available information. The framework of p...