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A Very Short IntroductionThis Very Short Introduction examines the Spanish conquistadors who invaded the Americas in the sixteenth century, as well as the Native American Kingdoms they invaded....

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The concept of causation is fundamental to ascribing moral and legal responsibility for events. Yet the precise relationship between causation and responsibility remains unclear. This book clarifies that relationship through an analysis of the best accounts of causation in metaphysics, and a critique of the confusion in legal doctrine....

This book tells the story of Ethiopia, the place, the people, and the westerners        that tried to help. The first journalist to reach the centre of the famine in 1984,        Peter Gill draws on interviews with villagers, politicians, aid workers, and        economists and asks whether any of the rich world's big promises on aid and...

A Worldwide PerspectiveThis completely revised and updated fourth edition of the classic study on the        death penalty surveys and analyses the status of the death penalty as a punishment        worldwide....

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