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The Special Court for Sierra Leone was established through signature of a bilateral treaty between the United Nations and the Government of Sierra Leone in early 2002, making it the third modern ad hoc international criminal tribunal. The tribunal has tried various persons, including former Liberian President Charles Ghankay Taylor, for allegedly bearing "greatest responsibility" for serious violations of international humanitarian law committed during the latter half of the Sierra Leonean armed conflict. It completed its work in December 2013. A new Residual Special Court for Sierra Leone, based in Freetown and with offices in The Hague, has been created to carry out its essential “residu...
In Kotli Petrichor, Tariq Malik revisits Kotli, the 1,000-year-old city of his formative years in the province of Punjab, Pakistan. Marked by the traumas of dislocation and migration, the city and its inhabitants share secrets and longings, chronicled and imagined by Malik as he gives voice to a personal history that precedes his experiences as an immigrant in Canada, as portrayed in Exit Wounds. As the inhabitants of Kotli are forced to branch out in search of home, their stories expand to encompass the diaspora of Malik's fellow mohijar. Named for the earthy, familiar scent present after rainfall, Kotli Petrichor is a compelling, luminous celebration of people and place.
Tricksters inhabit the world as we know it, an elusive fraction of the population either blessed or cursed with the power to creep through walls, control animals, endure crippling blows, or carry out countless other seemingly impossible feats. Billy Winn, a charismatic evangelical preacher with the power to heal, has steamrolled into the White House on a campaign to eradicate all people with tricks. As he cures hordes of new believers and his rivals wake up without heads, rumours swirl about his pet Angel of Death. After a fast-walking postman is fatally stabbed in a trick-targeted hate-crime, a fresh wave of fear spreads through the United Kingdom, where a struggling cleaner is trying to ma...
Fiction. Asian Studies. Set in the romantic Himalayan valleys, amidst breathtaking mountain snowmelts and the monsoon rainstorms, these beautifully told and haunting stories explore the lives and the longins and memories of the Lohar people of Kotli. Now, so much has changed in the Lohar village, and there is a story and a secret to every person, every family. In one story, a man's wife turns out to be a stranger, and his house is not quite his own, when two strangers appear and dig out their past from its earth; in another, a boy contemplates the mystery behind an old picture. Tariq Malik was born and raised in Pakistan, and lives in Vancouver.
Magpie takes you on a dark and intense journey into the world of terrorists and spies. A world where nothing is as it seems - and the lines between right and wrong are blurred. Set in London, Syria, and Virginia - Magpie is a story about friendship, honor, betrayal, deception, and duty. Convicted terrorist supporters Tariq and Syed are released from prison - and face the reality of life in London under the constant surveillance of the security services. Tariq and Syed hatch a plan to travel to Syria - to join The Islamic State, and work to avoid MI5. Magpie is the story of the friendship between Tariq and Syed - and the consequence of choices. Magpie is an intense, raw, and dark story - that tackles subjects such as racism, fanaticism, religion, violence, and duty, and that asks the question - what is right and what is wrong?
This comprehensive book provides reviews of pain management complications that arise in clinical practice. Organized into sections focused on types of pain therapy and procedures, each chapter is based on actual complications; starting with a case description that delineates the context with a short past medical and surgical history, pain management technique and outcome it is followed by a comprehensive review of the topic described in the first section. Authors emphasize the elements of differential diagnosis that pointed towards establishing of the complication and describe the best way to treat the identified complication. Physicians treating pain patients will be presented the necessary tools in identifying and treating unanticipated complications following pain interventions, thus providing safer care for their patients.
Vertebral Augmentation Techniques, part of the Atlas of Interventional Pain Management series, is a concise, practical guide that provides clinicians with detailed, step-by-step guidance on how to perform the latest interventional techniques for treating patients with chronic pain as a result of vertebral fractures or osteoporosis. This comprehensive, easy-to-follow guide offers expert coverage of how to deliver safe, accurate, and cost-effective pain relief to patients using all clinically useful imaging modalities, including ultrasound-guided techniques and fluoroscopy. With high-quality images and clear, authoritative guidance throughout, it shows exactly how to evaluate the causes of pai...
Reclamation of an ancient culture:This Book is proofs miracle...
Like the 26 miles deadly dreadful road leading up to Chaco canyon in New Mexico signs and symbol are surrounding the remote Minaret of Jam, like the Master Blaster Jamming it has taken over an almost impossible 36 years up until this point and there is still faith we will reach, for we have been given the signs... Like the National Museum of African American History grand opening, this book of wonder is the greatest work of literature since Holy Quran, it's a response to the call of bible/Quran, dedicated to the spirit of Benjamin Banneker and all the ancestors who fought and died for our liberation. in The Name Of Allah: it is the call to prayer, the final call, we are grateful for this blessing, our contribution to a great black legacy set forth by the builders of the great pyramids, this work was 36 years in the writing. May the Gods be pleased...it is an answer to the message in the music of the Major Prophets, it is wisdom of the Rastafari movement, the essence there of: it is The Holy Book of Wonder.