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Preventing the Recognition of Contested StatesAt a time when the question of separatism is becoming increasingly significant in international politics, The Foreign Policy of Counter Secession is the first and only comprehensive account of the ways in which states fight acts of secession on the world stage....

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Japanese manufacturing firms established in Britain have often been portrayed as carriers of Japanese corporate best practice for work and employment. In this book, the authors challenge these views through case study research undertaken at several Japanese manufacturing plants in Britain during the 1990s....

Sticks, Stones, and Broken Bones: Neolithic Violence in a European Perspective        presents an up-to-date overview of the evidence for violent injuries on human        skeletons of the Neolithic period in Europe, ranging from 6700 to 2000 BC. Unlike        other lines of evidence - weapons, fortifications, and imagery - the human...

Mark Twain is one of the first volumes in the Lives and Legacies series on notable figures. Ziff considers Twain's career and his works in the context of the literary and social culture of his time and his own ambiguous attitude towards his fame as a humorist....

Understanding the functioning of ecosystems requires the understanding of the        interactions between consumer species and their resources. How do these interactions        affect the variations of population abundances? How do population abundances        determine the impact of predators on their prey? The view defended in this book...