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Of the Spirit
From her childhood under a military dictatorship to the Middle East how did Laura end up in the Persian Gulf War? The story begins in a Latin American dictatorship of the 1970's and concludes after a dramatic rescue attempt in the Middle East during the Persian Gulf War. The three principal characters are strong and liberated women whose lives and stories begin to unfold when we meet them living under the strict rule of a military regime. They are Adela, the mother, and her daughters, Marta and Laura. Their lives as women in the fight for human rights and democracy, as depicted in this work, is not uncommon in this setting of violence and abuse which has been present since the time of the conquest. In a testimonial voice, the characters tell their stories throughout the novel about the brutality of the dictatorship, the love that keeps them alive, and the spirituality inherited from their Incan ancestors. This spirituality is a gift that allows them to see things on a different plane, separate from the physical events they actually witness.
Statehood under Water
In Statehood under Water, Alejandra Torres Camprubí revisits the concept of statehood through an analysis on how sea-level rise and the Anthropocene challenge the territorial, demographical, and political dimensions of the State. Closely examining the fight for survival undertaken by low-lying Pacific Island States, the author engages with the legal and policy innovations necessary to address these new scenarios. This monograph reacts against overly formal approaches to the law on statehood, and is devoted to the reconstruction of the context in which both the challenges, and the measures adopted to tackle them, are taking place. Progressively forged within the international community, it is the kind of political and ethical framework that will soon inform the potential transformation of the law on statehood.
From Biocultural Homogenization to Biocultural Conservation
To assess the social processes of globalization that are changing the way in which we co-inhabit the world today, this book invites the reader to essay the diversity of worldviews, with the diversity of ways to sustainably co-inhabit the planet. With a biocultural perspective that highlights planetary ecological and cultural heterogeneity, this book examines three interrelated themes: (1) biocultural homogenization, a global, but little perceived, driver of biological and cultural diversity loss that frequently entail social and environmental injustices; (2) biocultural ethics that considers –ontologically and axiologically– the complex interrelationships between habits, habitats, and co-inhabitants that shape their identity and well-being; (3) biocultural conservation that seeks social and ecological well-being through the conservation of biological and cultural diversity and their interrelationships.
Climate Change and the Sustainable Use of Water Resources
The book explores the geo-chemical, physical, social and economic impacts of climate change on water supplies. It contains examples and case studies from a wide range of countries, and addresses the need to promote sustainable water use across the world.
Climate Change and Adaptation Planning for Ports
As key links in transportation and supply chains, the effect of climate change on seaports has broad implications for the development prospects of the global economy. However, the picture is very uncertain because the impacts of climate change will be felt very differently around the world, both positively and negatively. This book addresses the need for quality theoretical analysis, highly innovative assessment methodologies, and insightful empirical global experiences so as to identify the best international practices, planning and appropriate policies to effectively adapt to, develop resilience, and indeed benefit from, the impacts posed by climate change on transportation and supply chai...
The Select Library
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Coward Plays: 2
The plays in this volume demonstrate the extraordinary skill and versatility Coward's writing achieved in the late 1920s. The volume contains his best-loved classic, Private Lives, which was an immeditate hit when it was first staged in 1930. Coward's sparkling dialogue and repartee have ensured the play's popularity ever since. Of Bitter-Sweet in 1929 Noël Coward wrote that it was "a musical that gave me more complete satisfaction than anything else I had yet written. Not especially on acount of its dialogue or its lyrics or its music or its production but as a whole." The Marquise is an "eighteenth century comedy" filled with maids and duels, whilst Post-Mortem is a vilification of war that contains some of Coward's most powerful writing.
Coming of the Spanish Civil War
This classic text is made newly available in a substantially revised and updated second edition.
