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How Cunning Helped the British Win Two World WarsNicholas Rankin offers a lively and comprehensive history of how Britain bluffed,        tricked, and spied its way to victory in two world wars. As Rankin shows, a coherent        program of strategic deception emerged in World War I, resting on the pillars of        camouflage, propaganda, secret...

Hensel examines how Yup'ik Eskimos and non-Natives use talk about hunting, fishing, and processing to construct and maintain gender and ethnic identities. The focus is on the enactment of ethnicity through discourse, rather than on ethnicity as an ascriptive category. Although ethnicity is constructed in either/or categories, the discourse of these...

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Are human rights universal or the product of specific cultures? The contributors to this volume address this and many other questions as they examine, through a bottom-up approach, the interaction of human rights and religion in practice and the challenges they pose for national and international policymakers....

Inspired to prophesy by a visionary experience in 1625 (the year of Charles I's accession), Eleanor Davies devoted the remainder of her life to the prolific production of eschatological tracts. Her extraordinary intellect and extensive education are reflected in the intricate construction of the pieces, which offer commentary on a number of the...

Providing practical guidance on these complex doctrines this book analyses their        constituent elements and considers the juridical foundation and relationship with        other areas of law and other application in various aspects of commercial        law....