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Paul Kagame, un De Gaulle africain
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ISBN: 9782356875525 2356875522 Year: 2017 Publisher: Lormont: Le bord de l'eau,

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The Exile : The Stunning Inside Story of Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda in Flight
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ISBN: 9781620409848 Year: 2017 Publisher: New York : Bloomsbury,

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From September 11, 2001 to May 2, 2011, Osama Bin Laden evaded intelligence services and special forces units, drones and hunter killer squads. This book tells the extraordinary inside story of that decade through the eyes of those who witnessed it : bin Laden's four wives and many children, his deputies and military strategists, his spiritual advisor, the CIA, Pakistan's ISI, and many others who have never before told their stories. Investigative journalists Cathy Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy gained unique access to Osama bin Laden's inner circle, and they recount the flight of Al Qaeda's forces and bin Laden's innocent family members, the gradual formation of ISIS by bin Laden's lieutenants, and bin Laden's rising paranoia and eroding control over his organization. They also reveal that the Bush White House knew the whereabouts of bin Laden's family and Al Qaeda's military and religious leaders, but rejected opportunities to capture them, pursuing war in the Persian Gulf instead, and offer insights into how Al Qaeda will attempt to regenerate itself in the coming years. While we think we know what happened in Abbottabad on May 2, 2011, we know little about the wilderness years that led to that shocking event.


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The economy of Ghana sixty years after independence
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ISBN: 0191815063 Year: 2017 Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press,

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This volume assesses the challenges facing Ghana's economy as it enters its seventh decade and the nation heads towards three quarters of a century of independence.


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The Operator : Firing the Shots that Killed Osama bin Laden and My Years as a SEAL Team Warrior
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ISBN: 9781501145032 Year: 2017 Publisher: New York : Scribner,

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SEAL Team Operator Robert O'Neill's 400 career missions included attempts to rescue 'Lone Survivor' Marcus Luttrell and abducted-by-Somali-pirates Captain Richard Phillips. It culminated in those famous three shots that dispatched the world's most wanted terrorist, Osama bin Laden. Now O'Neill describes his idyllic childhood in Butte, Montana; his impulsive decision to join the SEALs; the arduous evaluation and training process; and the even tougher gauntlet he had to run to join the SEALS' most elite unit. After officially becoming a SEAL, O'Neill would spend more than a decade in the most intense counterterror effort in U.S. history. For extended periods, not a night passed without him and his small team recording multiple enemy kills. This book describes the nonstop action of O'Neill's deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan, evokes the black humor of years-long combat, brings to vivid life the lethal efficiency of the military's most selective units, and reveals firsthand details of the most celebrated terrorist takedown in history.


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Wespi de Meuron Romeo
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ISBN: 9783946154280 394615428X Year: 2017 Volume: 01 Publisher: Münster: Deutscher Architektur,

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The search for contemporary buildings with a highly personal language, such as found in the ones designed by Swiss architects Markus Wespi, Jérôme de Meuron, and Luca Romeo, is not a simple task. Inspired by the local architecture prevalent in their home base of Caviano, they create timeless living and work spaces which appear neither antiquated nor forcefully bound to a modernistic style. Their architecture focuses on the immediate context, and particularly on the heritage of the canton of Ticino. This monographic volume, which features projects and competition entries designed following the addition of Romeo in 2012, details the firm’s material and formal concepts.


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Cases, materials, and text on European law and private law
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ISBN: 9781509911875 1509911871 Year: 2017 Publisher: Oxford: Hart,

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This Casebook deals with the horizontal effects of EU law, which is to say its effects on relationships between individuals. To a large extent, these effects have been created by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) on the basis of the European Treaties. The main focus of the Casebook is on the developments relating to primary EU law and their influence on national private law. It studies instances where EU primary law has already directly or indirectly influenced the case law in the Member States, or where it is expected to do so soon. Compared to the well-known impact of EU directives on private law, these developments concerning primary EU law are hardly noted by private lawyers and perhaps not sufficiently explained by scholars of EU law. Therefore the book makes an important contribution to scholarship and education. This book highlights developments in the areas of competition law, fundamental freedoms, non-discrimination, general principles of EU law, ex officio application of provisions of EU law and implementation of directives, including harmonious interpretation and Francovich liability. In its analysis of the ways in which EU law interacts with private law, the book will be an invaluable resource to students, practitioners and academics of EU private law


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How to use graphic design to sell things, explain things, make things look better, make people laugh, make people cry, and (every once in a while) change the world
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ISBN: 9780500518267 9780062413901 0062413902 0500518262 Year: 2017 Publisher: London Thames & Hudson

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This is a monograph, manual and manifesto by one of the world's leading graphic designers. Protégé of design legend Massimo Vignelli and partner in the New York office of the international design firm Pentagram, Michael Bierut has had one of the most varied careers of any living graphic designer. The 35 projects Bierut presents in this book illustrate the breadth of activity that graphic design encompasses today, his goal being to demonstrate not a single ideology, but the enthusiastically eclectic approach that has been a hallmark of his career. Each project is told in Bierut's own entertaining voice and shown through historic images, preliminary drawings (including full-size reproductions of the notebooks he has maintained for over 30 years), working models and rejected alternatives, as well as the finished work. Along the way, he provides insights into the creative process, his working life, his relationship with clients, and the struggles that any design professional faces in bringing innovative ideas to the world. Inspiring, informative and authoritative, How to ... is set to be the bible of graphic design ideas.


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Montage as perceptual experience : Berlin Alexanderplatz from Döblin to Fassbinder
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ISBN: 9781787441040 9781640140059 1640140050 1787441040 Year: 2017 Publisher: Rochester: Camden House,

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Alfred Döblin's novel Berlin Alexanderplatz and its film adaptations by Jutzi and Fassbinder are canonical works of literature and cinema, and yet there is no monograph that treats all three. This omission is even more striking since Döblin's novel is seen as the most famous example of literary appropriation of film montage aesthetics. Mario Slugan addresses this glaring oversight by considering montage in experiential, historic, stylistic, and narratological terms. Starting from the novel argument that montage is best understood as a perceptual experience rather than as a juxtaposition of meaning, Slugan proposes that it was the perceived experiential similarity with Dada photomontage and Soviet montage films rather than any juxtaposition of meaning that made contemporary critics identify Berlin Alexanderplatz as the first novel to appropriate film montage. It was the perceived relative absence of montage in the filmings of the novel, moreover, that significantly contributed to their contemporary dismissals as failed adaptations. Slugan argues that both Jutzi's and Fassbinder's films nevertheless present innovative types of both visual and sound montage. These, in turn, allow for the articulation of medium-specific traits of film montage as opposed to those of literary montage, including the organization of time and space, the use of ready-made material, and the relation of montage to the figure of the narrator. Mario Slugan is a Postdoctoral Associate Fellow at the Department of Film and Television Studies and the Department of German Studies, University of Warwick.


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Le film et son double : Boniment, ventriloquie, performativité
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ISBN: 9782940159932 2940159939 Year: 2017 Publisher: Genève: Mamco,

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"Déplacé de la salle à l'écran de l'ordinateur, dissocié de son dispositif technologique traditionnel, le film rencontre aujourd'hui de subtiles métamorphoses. Il semble persister sous son avatar numérique à la maniere d'une promesse, d'un fantôme ou d'un double. On observe en effet dans le champ du cinéma expérimental et de l'art contemporain de nombreuses stratégies artistiques qui tentent de remplacer le film par un simple énoncé sous la forme de conférences illustrées, de lectures ou de performances. Peut-on faire un film avec des mots ? Le Film et son double se propose d'étudier le devenir performatif du cinéma à travers cinq catégories spéculatives : le film papier, le film script, le film conférence, le film boniment, le film mouvement. Un film peut-il exister sous la forme d'un collage ou d'une suite visuelle ? Le script peut-il se substituer a l'oeuvre? Une conférence est-elle un film performatif ? Peut-on pénétrer dans l'écran pour raconter une fable ? Les mouvements sociaux d'occupation des places relèvent-ils du cinema vivant ? Au fil de cet ouvrage sont étudiées des oeuvres du cinema classique (Sacha Guitry) ou moderne (Marguerite Duras, Jean Eustache, Marcel Hanoun), du champ expérimental (Hollis Frampton, Isidoro Valcarcel Medina) ou du mouvement lettriste (Isidore Isou, Roland Sabatier) ainsi que des performances d'artistes contemporains (Tony Conrad, Rabih Mroue, Peter Miller). Deux études consacrées respectivement aux apports du lettrisme et à la disparition du projectionniste complètent cette enquête. Le cinéma à venir sera-t-il performatif ?"--Page 4 de la couverture.


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Shadow states : India, China and the Himalayas, 1910-1962
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ISBN: 1316829448 1316830101 1316796892 1316830438 1316831426 1107176794 1316627241 1316827461 1316829774 Year: 2017 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Since the mid-twentieth century China and India have entertained a difficult relationship, erupting into open war in 1962. Shadow States is the first book to unpack Sino-Indian tensions from the angle of competitive state-building - through a study of their simultaneous attempts to win the approval and support of the Himalayan people. When China and India tried to expand into the Himalayas in the twentieth century, their lack of strong ties to the region and the absence of an easily enforceable border made their proximity threatening - observing China and India's state-making efforts, local inhabitants were in a position to compare and potentially choose between them. Using rich and original archival research, Bérénice Guyot-Réchard shows how India and China became each other's 'shadow states'. Understanding these recent, competing processes of state formation in the Himalayas is fundamental to understanding the roots of tensions in Sino-Indian relations.

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Geopolitics --- Sino-Indian Border Dispute, 1957 --- -Chinese-Indian Border Dispute, 1957 --- -Indian-Chinese Border Dispute, 1957 --- -World politics --- China --- India --- Tibet Autonomous Region (China) --- Cina --- Kinë --- Cathay --- Chinese National Government --- Chung-kuo kuo min cheng fu --- Republic of China (1912-1949) --- Kuo min cheng fu (China : 1912-1949) --- Chung-hua min kuo (1912-1949) --- Kina (China) --- National Government (1912-1949) --- China (Republic : 1912-1949) --- People's Republic of China --- Chinese People's Republic --- Chung-hua jen min kung ho kuo --- Central People's Government of Communist China --- Chung yang jen min cheng fu --- Chung-hua chung yang jen min kung ho kuo --- Central Government of the People's Republic of China --- Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo --- Zhong hua ren min gong he guo --- Kitaĭskai︠a︡ Narodnai︠a︡ Respublika --- Činská lidová republika --- RRT --- Republik Rakjat Tiongkok --- KNR --- Kytaĭsʹka Narodna Respublika --- Jumhūriyat al-Ṣīn al-Shaʻbīyah --- RRC --- Kitaĭ --- Kínai Népköztársaság --- Chūka Jinmin Kyōwakoku --- Erets Sin --- Sin --- Sāthāranarat Prachāchon Čhīn --- P.R. China --- PR China --- PRC --- P.R.C. --- Chung-kuo --- Zhongguo --- Zhonghuaminguo (1912-1949) --- Zhong guo --- Chine --- République Populaire de Chine --- República Popular China --- Catay --- VR China --- VRChina --- 中國 --- 中国 --- 中华人民共和国 --- Jhongguó --- Bu̇gu̇de Nayiramdaxu Dundadu Arad Ulus --- Bu̇gu̇de Nayiramdaqu Dumdadu Arad Ulus --- Bu̇gd Naĭramdakh Dundad Ard Uls --- BNKhAU --- БНХАУ --- Khi︠a︡tad --- Kitad --- Dumdadu Ulus --- Dumdad Uls --- Думдад Улс --- Kitajska --- China (Republic : 1949- ) --- Bharat --- Bhārata --- Government of India --- Ḣindiston Respublikasi --- Inde --- Indië --- Indien --- Indii︠a︡ --- Indland --- Indo --- Republic of India --- Sāthāranarat ʻIndīa --- Yin-tu --- インド --- هند --- Индия --- Foreign relations --- Territorial expansion --- History --- History. --- -China --- Chinese-Indian Border Dispute, 1957

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