Why do some countries choose to end wars short of total victory while others fight on, sometimes in the face of appalling odds? How Wars End argues that two central factors shape war-termination decision making: information about the balance of power and the resolve of one's enemy, and fears that the other side's commitment to abide by a war-ending peace settlement may not be credible. Dan Reiter explains how information about combat outcomes and other factors may persuade a warring nation to demand more or less in peace negotiations, and why a country ...

THE MOST ACTION-PACKED GRIZZLY KILLER YET! Zach Connors, known as Grizzly Killer, and his family and friends have searched for the buffalo that will sustain them through the coming winter, which leads them dangerously close to the land of their enemies, the Cheyenne and Arapaho. The Chief of the Cheyenne village, Blue Dog, wants revenge against Zach who he blames for his brother’s death. Blue Dog sends for White Snake, the powerful Medicine Man of the Southern Cheyenne, and then leads a band of his best warriors to the land of Grizzly Killer to ...

“In this collection of intricately linked chapters, Gavin Smith continues his incisive efforts to open the boundaries between oppositions that have bedeviled anthropology almost since it began. Throughout, he refines conventional polarities the better to reveal their common origins in social being: among them are micro- and macroscales of analysis, the material production of experience and discourse, and structuralist detachment and political engagement.”   · American Ethnologist “In  Intellectuals and (Counter-) ...

The Bahá'í community is composed of people from all backgrounds and life circumstances - educated and uneducated, professional and non-professional, healthy and unwell, mentally sound and mentally ill; moral, obedient and edified. Some have lost every material thing they have ever owned; some have every material thing they need. All are called to a higher purpose than their own individual development: to achieve oneness and unity within this diverse community. Phyllis K. Peterson uses true stories to explain how the Bahá'í community ...

* Winner 2019 Ferro-Grumley Best LGBT Fiction Award * A compelling, thrilling tale of love in slavery times. When house-servant Abednego is sold away south, his broken-hearted field-hand lover Cyrus snaps and flees the estate on which he has lived his entire life. Leaving everything he knows behind him, and evading patrollers and dogs to head north and find freedom, in the midst of a dismal swamp Cyrus receives the revelation that Abednego is his true North Star, and, impossible though it seems, he determines to find and rescue his lost lover from slavery. ...

El presente libro pretende responder y aportar información a las personas cuyo interés se centra en la práctica del fitnes y fisioculturismo y con relación al siguiente cuestionamiento: ¿En qué medida Instagram y Youtube, impactam en el ejercicio, el desempeño y el logro de las metas personales, como la motivación? Esta pregunta busca la relación existente entre dos variables: 1. La práctica extendida del fitness entre la población de México y Estados Unidos como países ...

How the Great War came to the cinema screen Everyone familiar with motion picture footage of the First World War on the Western Front will certainly have witnessed the talent, daring, uniquely invaluable and enduring work of the author of this book, Geoffrey Malins. Malins was one of two 'Official War Office Kinematographers' authorised to film the allied armies in action in France. There have been comments detrimental to Malins' character, he might have been guilty of embellishment as regards his own actions (no strange phenomenon in a military memoir) ...

Contribución al cultivo del langostino Macrobrachium americanum; se distribuye desde el Noroeste de México hasta el Perú, de gran valor biológico y económico, con alto potencial para su cultivo de México y otros países. Se hace un estudio sobre el crecimiento y la sobrevivencia en lab de juveniles de esta especie, se comparan las variables temperatura y densidad, a través del tiempo del experimento. El lote experimental de juveniles se obtuvo del Centro Productor de Postlarvas de El Carrizal en Coyuca ...

CBCT in der Implantologie: Unveiling Precision and Potential" untersucht die transformative Rolle der Cone Beam Computed Tomography (CBCT) in der modernen Implantologie. Es beginnt mit einer informativen Einführung und einer Literaturübersicht, um die Grundlagen zu schaffen. Die historische Perspektive liefert den Kontext, indem sie die Entwicklung der CBCT nachzeichnet. Das Buch befasst sich mit den technischen Aspekten der CBCT-Bildgebung und betont die Strahlensicherheit (ALARA-Prinzip). Ein Kapitel über CBCT-Datenvolumen unterstreicht die ...