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The highly admired scientist Linus Pauling, a double Nobel laureate in chemistry        and peace, was once asked by a student. 'Dr Pauling, how do you have so many good        ideas?' Pauling thought for a moment and replied: 'Well, David, I have a lot of        ideas and throw away the bad ones.'Where do ideas come from? Why do some people...

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This leading scholar draws on extensive research from four plurinational states - the United Kingdom, Spain, Belgium, and Canada - to provide a radical rethink of the very nature of sovereignty and the state. This innovative account demonstrates how transnational integration and other demands on the nation-state have broken the automatic link...

Less famous than the Nuremberg International Military Tribunal but no less important, the Nuremberg Military Tribunals tried lower-level functionaries and private citizens for their parts in WW II. This book gives a full overview of these trials and it traces the critical role they have played in the development of international criminal law....

A portrait of the Greek Olympics as they really were - fierce contests between bitter rivals, in which victors won kudos and rewards, and losers faced scorn and even assault. After reading this book, no one will see the Olympics as a graceful display of Greek beauty again, but as war by other means....

In this volume Silvio Cruschina uses a comparative analysis to determine the syntax of the functional projections associated with discourse-related features, and to account for the marked word orders found in Romance - particularly in the fronting phenomena....