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Private actors are increasingly taking on roles traditionally arrogated to the        state. Both in the industrialized North and the developing South, functions        essential to external and internal security and to the satisfaction of basic human        needs are routinely contracted out to non-state agents. In the area of...

It is often difficult, especially in a dead language, to establish why certain things are expressed in a certain formal way. Why are certain formations favoured over others, what exactly do they convey? This book examines a group of nouns and adjectives, all formed with the same suffix and, for the first time, explains their morphology and...

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The dramatic story of the military occupation of that culminated in the Boston massacre and helped to spark the Revolutionary War....