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Jean-Paul Hebert Was There/Jean-Paul Hebert Etait La
A young Acadian learns the reasons behind his family's ouster from his birthplace and their struggles before finding a new home in Louisiana.
Jean-Paul Hebert Was There/Jean-Paul Hebert Etait La
A young Acadian learns the reasons behind his family's ouster from his birthplace and their struggles before finding a new home in Louisiana.
Confronting The Challenges Of The 21st Century - Proceedings Of The Forty-ninth Pugwash Conference On Science And World Affairs
In September 1999, scientists and scholars from around the world, concerned with reducing the danger of armed conflict and seeking cooperative solutions to global problems, met under the auspices of the Pugwash conferences, the Nobel-Prize-winning organization. The proceedings deal with a broad range of issues, including: a nuclear-weapon-free world; emerging security threats; development; environment; and international governance.
War, Peace, and Security
In the name of international and domestic security, billions of dollars are wasted on unproductive military spending in both developed and developing countries, when millions are starving and living without basic human needs. This book contains articles relating to military spending, military industrial establishments, and peace keeping.
White Man's Gonna Getcha
Despite becoming increasingly politically and economically dominated by Canadian society, the Crees succeeded in staving off cultural subjugation. They were able to face the massive hydroelectric development of the 1970s with their language, practices, and values intact and succeeded in negotiating a modern treaty."--BOOK JACKET.
Proceedings of the Forty-ninth Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs, Rustenburg, South Africa, 7-13 September 1999
In September 1999, scientists and scholars from around the world, concerned with reducing the danger of armed conflict and seeking cooperative solutions to global problems, met under the auspices of the Pugwash conferences, the Nobel-Prize-winning organization. The proceedings deal with a broad range of issues, including: a nuclear-weapon-free world; emerging security threats; development; environment; and international governance. Contents: Security in Africa; Science and Technology in South Africa; Light Weapons and Conflict in Africa; Sovereignty and Intervention: International Perspectives; A Nuclear-Weapon-Free World; Emerging Security Threats: Africa and Globally; Development; The Environment; International Governance. Readership: Scientists and students interested in the wider social implications of scientific advancement, especially in relation to weapons of mass destruction.
White Man's Gonna Getcha
Morantz shows that with the imposition of administration from the south the Crees had to confront a new set of foreigners whose ideas and plans were very different from those of the fur traders. In the 1930s and 1940s government intervention helped overcome the disastrous disappearance of the beaver through the creation of government-decreed preserves and a ban on beaver hunting, but beginning in the 1950s a revolving array of socio-economic programs instituted by the government brought the adverse effects of what Morantz calls bureaucratic colonialism. Drawing heavily on oral testimonies recorded by anthropologists in addition to eye-witness and archival sources, Morantz incorporates the Cr...
SIPRI Yearbook 2005
The 36th edition of the SIPRI Yearbook analyses developments in 2004 ino Security and conflictso Military spending and armamentso Non-proliferation, arms control and disarmament The SIPRI Yearbook contains extensive annexes on the implementation of arms control and disarmament agreements and a chronology of events during the year in the area of security and arms control. Studies in this volume:Euro-Atlantic securityMajor armed conflictsMultilateral peace missionsGoverning the use of force under international auspicesThe greater Middle EastLatin America and the CaribbeanEnvironmental securityFinancing security in a global contextMilitary expenditure Arms productionInternational arms transfers...
Conversion
CONVERSION - in the meantime the term for the process of converting arms industry into industrial production of non-military goods - is becoming a key subject in the building of the eastern economies. These Proceedings contain all important presentations of an international Conference in Dortmund in 1992. Speakers were well known experts from economy, politics, science and military, thus this book gives an up-to-date, excellent overview.
