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1000 tulosta hakusanalla KATHLEEN NORRIS
Motionless Shadows: a Great Novel
Kathleen Thompson 1880-1966 Norris
Hassell Street Press
2021
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Motionless Shadows: a Great Novel
Kathleen Thompson 1880-1966 Norris
Hassell Street Press
2021
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Human and National Security
Derek S. Reveron; Kathleen A. Mahoney-Norris
Westview Press Inc
2018
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Deliberately challenging the traditional, state-centric analysis of security, this book focuses on subnational and transnational forces—religious and ethnic conflict, climate change, pandemic diseases, poverty, terrorism, criminal networks, and cyber attacks—that threaten human beings and their communities across state borders. Examining threats related to human security in the modern era of globalization, Reveron and Mahoney-Norris argue that human security is national security today, even for great powers.This fully updated second edition of Human and National Security: Understanding Transnational Challenges builds on the foundation of the first (published as Human Security in a Borderless World) while also incorporating new discussions of the rise of identity politics in an increasingly connected world, an expanded account of the actors, institutions, and approaches to security today, and the ways diverse global actors protect and promote human security. An essential text for security studies and international relations students, Human and National Security not only presents human security challenges and their policy implications, it also highlights how governments, societies, and international forces can, and do, take advantage of possibilities in the contemporary era to develop a more stable and secure world for all.
Deliberately challenging the traditional, state-centric analysis of security, this book focuses on subnational and transnational forces—religious and ethnic conflict, climate change, pandemic diseases, poverty, terrorism, criminal networks, and cyber attacks—that threaten human beings and their communities across state borders. Examining threats related to human security in the modern era of globalization, Reveron and Mahoney-Norris argue that human security is national security today, even for great powers.This fully updated second edition of Human and National Security: Understanding Transnational Challenges builds on the foundation of the first (published as Human Security in a Borderless World) while also incorporating new discussions of the rise of identity politics in an increasingly connected world, an expanded account of the actors, institutions, and approaches to security today, and the ways diverse global actors protect and promote human security. An essential text for security studies and international relations students, Human and National Security not only presents human security challenges and their policy implications, it also highlights how governments, societies, and international forces can, and do, take advantage of possibilities in the contemporary era to develop a more stable and secure world for all.
Kathleen Ferrier has a reputation as the greatest lyric contralto of the twentiety century. Her story, from her humble beginnings as a telephone operator in Blackburn to the height of international fame as one of the world's leading concert artists and her untimely death at the age of forty-one, is told told with compelling insight and perception, using a variety of sources, from photographs, diaries, and private letters to the memoirs and recollections of those who knew her best. Despite having no formal musical training, Kathleen worked with all the celebrated conductors of the time, and is remembered for her performances of music by Brahms, Schubert and Mahler, as well as a handful of operatic roles. Enlarging considerably on many alternative biographies, this excellent account captures the warmth, humour and charm of a figure whose astonishing life and career proved to be, sadly, all too brief.
After the deaths of both her husband and her son, Kathleen Larson's only family is her wicked daughter-in-law, Tillie, and her son's much kinder ex-wife, Carol. A widow from Homewood, Alabama and a crossing guard for the past 20 years, she is nearing sixty-eight and has only just begun to dream of her retirement. But after an accident leaves Kathleen temporarily disabled, Tillie has other plans. Several forged documents and one tall-tale later, Kathleen finds herself locked up at Lakeside Nursing Home, a run-down memory care facility run by a fake doctor with a criminal past. It's now up to Carol to find Kathleen before Tillie steals her home and her money.
Dieses klassische Buch wurde urspr nglich vor Jahrzehnten ver ffentlicht als " An Ocean Tramp ". Es wurde jetzt von Writat f r seine deutschsprachigen Leser ins Deutsche bersetzt. Bei Writat liegt uns die Bewahrung des literarischen Erbes der Vergangenheit sehr am Herzen. Wir haben dieses Buch ins Deutsche bersetzt, damit es heutige und zuk nftige Generationen lesen und bewahren k nnen.