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An autobiographical graphic novel, telling the story of Jan Bauer's 2012 walk along the Larapinta Trail and onto Yuendumu in the Northern Territory. On the way he met a fellow walker, a French woman called Morgane, and the book follows their deepening relationship.
Compares and contrasts medical and psychological models, and examines the success of Alcoholics Anonymous in terms of archetypal patterns represented by the Greek gods Apollo, Dionysus, Athene and Asclepius (the wounded healer). Index.
Adolf Hitler is widely recognized as one of the worst leaders in history. His Third Reich is responsible for the genocide of countless human lives to include six million Jews. The Nazi regime manufactured the Holocaust along with other mass human atrocities on a scale not previously seen. It was their intention to rid the world of certain ethnicities to create the perfect human race. They had advanced engineering and weapons, and this propelled their success in the blitzkrieg model. Most Allies were not prepared to combat against this tactic and had to catch up with the Wehrmacht at the onset of WWII. It was Hitler's intention to create a one-thousand-year Reich, but he failed. This book div...
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The Gashaka Primate Project has grown into one of the largest research and conservation activities in West Africa. At present, it keeps going on the initiative of the editors of this volume and their academic home institutions.The appearance of this volume marks the 10th anniversary of the Gashaka Primate Project
Human rights refers to the concept of human beings as having universal rights, or status, regardless of legal jurisdiction, and likewise other localising factors, such as ethnicity and nationality. For many, the concept of "human rights" is based in religious principles. However, because a formal concept of human rights has not been universally accepted, the term has some degree of variance between its use in different local jurisdictions -- difference in both meaningful substance as well as in protocols for and styles of application. Ultimately the most general meaning of the term is one which can only apply universally, and hence the term "human rights" is often itself an appeal to such tr...
Explores how the idea of human rights is actually employed by activists and human rights professionals. Tate, an anthropologist and activist with extensive experience in Colombia, finds that radically different ideas about human rights have shaped three groups of human rights professionals working there--nongovernmental activists, state representatives, and military officers. From publisher description.