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An AutopsyThe Milosevic Trial - An Autopsy provides a cross-disciplinary examination of one of the most controversial war crimes trials of the modern era and its contested legacy for the growing fields of international criminal law and post-conflict justice.   The international trial of Slobodan Milosevic, who presided over the violent collapse of...

This book examines the diachronic development of negation in Low German, from Old Saxon up to the point at which Middle Low German is replaced by High German as the written language. It investigates both the development of standard negation, or Jespersen's Cycle, and the changing interaction between the expression of negation and indefinites...

Twenty-First Century Combat as PoliticsA personal account of a soldier on the ground experiencing both war and politics. This is a philosophical treatise on war written by an Oxford grad who served in Afghanistan....

&'it appeared to me that the greatest and best feelings of the human heart were paralyzed by the relative positions of slave and owner&'In Domestic Manners of the Americans, Frances Trollope recounts her travels through America between 1827 and 1830, describing her voyage up the Mississippi from New Orleans, a two-year stay in Cincinnati, and a...

The Noir Tradition in the Age of Consumer CultureAmerica Is Elsewhere investigates the literary and cinematic category of "e;noir"e; and its role in the clash between authenticity and consumer culture that has helped to define post-World War II America. Erik Dussere considers the conflict by exploring the commercial spaces that appear in...

Scientific Rationality, the Human Condition, and 20th Century CosmologiesThis volume is a collection of Adolf Grunbaum's most discussed essays on Scientific Rationality. It covers the problem of what it takes for a theory to be called scientific and asks whether it is plausible to draw a clear distinction between science and non-science as was...