Product Description: In Search of the Federal Spirit examines federal theory in the context of the new federal models that have sprung into existence since the end of the Cold War. It utilises the federal spirit as a conceptual lens through which to explore the revival of federalism in the post-Cold War era - especially in the 1990s - and it seeks to place the emergence of these new models in the theoretical context of federal state formation...read more

Product Description: This is the first comparative volume available on multinational federations, bringing together an international range of experts on federalism. Multinational federations are federal states intended to provide a framework that can accommodate, manage and resolve some of the most intractable political conflicts of our time that emerge from identity politics: those that stem from competing national visions, whether within or between established states...read more

Product Description: This guide to the Eastern Orthodox churches of the world is presented in alphabetical order by their chief sees or national boundaries. Each entry includes a brief summary of the church's history; the location, number, and language of its members; the official title of the primate; the language used in the church; primary sources for the entry; and a chronology of the reigns of the church's primates from its founding to the present day...read more

Product Description: I love to write poetry in my spare time and have had over 90 hours of English courses at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE. I am in a battle with cancer and pray to God that I win this battle!

Product Description: The European nation state is now placed between the interconnected processes of globalization and European integration. This new book examines these evolving relationships, showing how the conventional territorial basis of the state is being reappraised...read more

Product Description: A facsimile reprint of the Second Edition (1994) of this genealogical guide to 25,000 descendants of William Burgess of Richmond (later King George) County, Virginia, and his only known son, Edward Burgess of Stafford (later King George) County, Virginia...read more

Product Description: Patented Private Land Grants Listed by County in California

A new examination of contemporary federalism and federation, which delivers a detailed theoretical study underpinned by fresh case studies. It is grounded in a clear distinction between 'federations', particular kinds of states, and 'federalism', the thinking that drives and promotes them. It also details the origins, formation, evolution and operations of federal political interests, through an authoritative series of chapters that: analyze the conceptual bases of federalism and federation through the evolution of the intellectual debate on federalism; the American Federal experience; the origins of federal states; and the relationship between state-building and national integration explore comparative federalism and federation by looking at five main pathways into comparative analysis with empirical studies on the US, Canada, Australia, India, Malaysia, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the EU explore the pathology of federations, looking at failures and successes, the impact of globalization. The final chapter also presents a definitive assessment of federal theory. This book will be of great interest to students and researchers of federalism, devolution, comparative politics and government.

Product Description: With more than 200 photographs, plus information ranging from basic to more advanced, this introduction to the popular 35mm SLR camera is a must for amateur photographers. It begins with guidance on choosing and buying a camera and selecting the appropriate accessories, ensuring that readers are well acquainted with the equipment before moving on to the fundamentals of photography...read more

An annotated list of reference works in the fields of science fiction, fantasy, and horror fiction. (view table of contents)

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Product Description: The North Oregon Coast's sobering challenge to Ann Landers, Dear Abby and Miss Manners answers questions about life, love, and quantum reality from people who often wish they hadn't asked. Is cohabitation among women and men workable? Should children be made to wear leashes? Do friends let friends have breast implants? Is homoseuality a fad? Should one call before dropping by? Why are men such jerks? Uncle Mike aswers them all with the sensitivity and compassion he reserves for anyone who'd ask a complete stranger for advice...read more

Product Description: The coming of statehood to California in 1850 forced the authorities to face one immediately pressing issue: what to do with the many convicts who were pouring forth from the local county courtrooms in the wake of the great Gold Rush of 1848-49...read more

Product Description: Jesus was a Jew. That simple statement carries with it a millennia of cultural bias, persecution, and ignorance. David Ray Bourquin attempts to shed some light on what it meant to be a Jew during the Roman Period with this detailed, annotated bibliography of works in English...read more

Product Description: Here are seven previously uncollected documents relating to the history of California, from its early days as a Mexican territory to the first fifty years of statehood as part of the United States. José del Carmen Lugo, a native-born Californio, tells of his life as a ranchero in San Bernardino and elsewhere, and the coming of the Norteamericanos in the 1840s...read more

Product Description: A hilarious send-up of all the things wrong with a beach town on the North Oregon Coast - starting with the weather! Tongue-in-cheek appraisal meant to keep people away, or to warn them about what they'll encounter...or...is it just a ploy to keep the beach pristine and deserted for the people who live there...read more

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Product Description: This volume is a review of both ideas and practice concerning federalism in Britain and Ireland, the Empire, and Europe, furnishing an unusual perspective on Britain's changing political and constitutional relations from 1870 to the present day.

Product Description: This volume is a review of both ideas and practice concerning federalism in Britain and Ireland, the Empire, and Europe, furnishing an unusual perspective on BritainOs changing political and constitutional relations from 1870 to the present day.