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Definitions for the Law of the Sea
Author: George K. Walker
language: en
Publisher: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Release Date: 2011-10-28
Definitions for the Law of the Sea elucidates undefined terms and phrases used in The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) itself, as well as terms used in its analysis. Based on nearly a decade of work by the American Branch of the International Law Association’s Law of the Sea Committee, the volume provides clear definitions based on usage in the Convention, rather than geographical or geological concepts.
Safire's Political Dictionary
Author: William Safire
language: en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date: 2008-03-31
When it comes to the vagaries of language in American politics, its uses and abuses, its absurdities and ever-shifting nuances, its power to confound, obscure, and occasionally to inspire, William Safire is the language maven we most readily turn to for clarity, guidance, and penetrating, sometimes lacerating, wit. Safire's Political Dictionary is a stem-to-stern updating and expansion of the Language of Politics, which was first published in 1968 and last revised in 1993, long before such terms as Hanging Chads, 9/11 and the War on Terror became part of our everyday vocabulary. Nearly every entry in that renowned work has been revised and updated and scores of completely new entries have been added to produce an indispensable guide to the political language being used and abused in America today. Safire's definitions--discursive, historically aware, and often anecdotal--bring a savvy perspective to our colorful political lingo. Indeed, a Safire definition often reads like a mini-essay in political history, and readers will come away not only with a fuller understanding of particular words but also a richer knowledge of how politics works, and fails to work, in America. From Axis of Evil, Blame Game, Bridge to Nowhere, Triangulation, and Compassionate Conservatism to Islamofascism, Netroots, Earmark, Wingnuts and Moonbats, Slam Dunk, Doughnut Hole, and many others, this language maven explains the origin of each term, how and by whom and for what purposes it has been used or twisted, as well as its perceived and real significance. For anyone who wants to cut through the verbal haze that surrounds so much of American political discourse, Safire's Political Dictionary offers a work of scholarship, wit, insiderhood and resolute bipartisanship.
Feelings
Author: David Scruton
language: en
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing
Release Date: 2011-03
There is no life without emotion. Our emotions are as real as anything about us. This is a truth to which each of us can testify from our own lives. Is anything more real than Fear? Hope? Joy? Anger? Despair? Love? But what are they? They affect us, but how do they do this? What are they for? Emotions are not objects. We can't put Anger on a slide and examine it under a microscope. We are unable to grow a culture of Joy in a petri dish of chicken broth. We cannot determine the chemical formula of Despair. We can't measure the protein content of Jealousy or isolate the DNA of Love. But we can learn about the nature, function, and performance of emotions-what they are and what they are not-and how we, as individual human beings, can exert some measure of influence over our own emotion experiences. Life is all about emotions: positive versus negative, human versus non-human, false versus real. Here you will learn about yourself and what makes you tick-an emotional journey you'll soon discover is worth the taking. About the Author: David Scruton is a Professor Emeritus of Anthropology who taught for thirty-five years.He has been engaged in academic writing for the past fifty years, and is the author of Sociophobics: the Anthropology of Fear. Scruton, who makes his home in Golden, Colorado, is currently engaged in a work of fiction, which he describes as a romantic thriller. Publisher's website: http: //www.strategicpublishinggroup.com/title/Feelings-AnAnthropologistLooksAtHumanEmotions.htm