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  Civil Wars - A Very Short...

  Monica Duffy Toft

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  Civil wars are the most common form of large-scale political violence. In the past thirty years, the study of civil wars has been one of the largest growing segments of the international relations field. Their causes are complex, ranging from fights over access to housing, jobs, and land or other resources, to political contests over offices, rights, and representation. Groups form, collapse, coalesce, align and realign, and then fight amongst themselves. Governments themselves change through elections, coups, military defeats, or revolutions. Understanding the origins of civil wars and their trajectories therefore demands some appreciation of the economic, political, social, cultural, and geographic order of societies. If there is one factor that best predicts why a civil war erupts, it is a prior civil war. That is why knowledge of a country's history of political violence, and associated narratives about who is to blame and why, are critical to understanding where a civil war might next occur. We now have a better understanding of the conditions under which civil wars generally emerge, how the fighting evolves, and how civil wars end. However, historical understanding—the human dimensions—remain every bit as critical. This book explores current debates on civil wars and how the reasons for fighting (and the nature of belligerents themselves) are changing.

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  Brains Behind Dia Mirzas Wedding

  Sindhy Kashyap

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  Meet wedding designer Aashna Saran, who created Dia Mirza's sustainable garden wedding

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  Edinburgh Old Town - Journeys...

  John Fee

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  John Fee was a true storytelling artist, painting verbal pictures, setting off on digressions that turned out not to be digressions, moving effortlessly into a song or poem. He has uncovered little-known aspects of the Royal Mile along with long-forgotten characters who spring back to life through the storyteller's art.
  
  
  Following on from the acclaimed Arthur's Seat and Calton Hill volumes, this third instalment in the Journeys and Evocations series focuses on the extensive history and folklore surrounding Edinburgh's atmospheric Old Town. Take a vivid trip with John Fee through Edinburgh's Old Town as you've never seen it before, with this wonderful blend of prose, poetry, photography and incredible stories from another era of one of Edinburgh's most renowned districts.
  
  
  Two of the city's leading storytellers have sifted through the centuries to compile the remarkable guide to Edinburgh's famous landmark.EDINBURGH EVENING NEWS on Arthur's Seat: Journeys and Evocations
  
  A fascinating spotlight on the Hill's unique position in centuries of Edinburgh life. EDINBURGH EVENING NEWS on Calton Hill: Journeys and Evocations

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  Stone by Stone - The Magnificent...

  Robert M. Thorson

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  There once may have been 250,000 miles of stone walls in America's Northeast, stretching farther than the distance to the moon. And even though most are crumbling today, they contain a magnificent scientific and cultural story. 
   
   
   
  Stone walls tell nothing less than the story of how New England was formed, and in Robert Thorson's hands they live and breathe. Millions of years ago, New England's stones belonged to ancient mountains thrust up by prehistoric collisions between continents. Buried again over centuries by forest and soil buildup, the stones gradually worked their way back to the surface, only to become impediments to the farmers cultivating the land in the eighteenth century, who piled them into "linear landfills," a place to hold the stones. Usually the biggest investment on a farm, often exceeding that of the land and buildings combined, stone walls became a defining element of the Northeast's landscape, and a symbol of the shift to an agricultural economy. 
   
   
   
  Stone walls layer time like Russian dolls, their smallest elements reflecting the longest spans, and Thorson urges us to study them, for each stone has its own story. Linking geological history to the early American experience, Stone by Stone presents a fascinating picture of the land the Pilgrims settled, allowing us to see and understand it with new eyes.

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  Audio Nuggets: Criminology 101

  Rick Sheridan, Alfred C. Martino

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  This program, Audio Nuggets: Criminology 101, offers basic information on the classifications of crimes, definitions of various types of crimes, the categories of evidence collected and used, and the key professionals in a criminal investigation.
  
  Rick Sheridan, a professor of Mass Media Communications at Wilberforce University in Ohio, has also taught at California State University-Sacramento and Butte College. He has a master's degree in Media Arts, and has received awards for both his teaching and his web design.
  
  Alfred C. Martino is the author of three highly-acclaimed novels, Perfected by Girls, Pinned, and Over the End Line. Mr. Martino was born and raised in Short Hills, NJ, and graduated from Millburn High School. He is a graduate of Duke University and The Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California. He currently lives in Jersey City, NJ.
  A Listen & Live audio production.

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  Mental Routines for Learning and...

  Jason Stark

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  Are you interested in enhancing your health, developing stronger connections, and experiencing enhanced focus? Would you like to reduce the amount of stress you experience, cultivate a more optimistic outlook, and have  
  more time to yourself that is of high quality? If this is the case, there is a simple method to make it happen: you can have a makeover in the morning. A best-selling author on Amazon, Damon Zahariades, teaches you how to transform  
  your morning routines so that you may experience a higher degree of success in both your personal and professional lives on a daily basis. Your mental exhaustion will decrease, your physical health will improve, your outlook on life  
  will become more hopeful, and your productivity will grow if you establish morning rituals that have a purpose. During the course of Morning Makeover, you will learn a straightforward, step-by-step method for building routines that  
  align with your objectives. Imagine being eager to begin your day when you first wake up. Just for a moment, try to picture yourself in a state of calm and self-assurance, despite the difficulties that are sure to arise throughout the  
  day. Imagine being able to do more than you ever thought was possible while also producing the best work you've ever done!How would you feel if you were able to reap these and other advantages just by implementing a straightforward  
  morning routine? What difference would that make in your life?

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