A Fundamental Approach to Finding Missing Persons, Insurgents, Guerrilla
Tracker. The very word evokes images of buckskin-clad braves crouching over the ground, carefully studying the signs before them—a part of history. But the modern world has not put behind it the need for the earthy business of tracking. Such skills are still routinely used by the military, rescue personnel, and law enforcement, as well as by ......
Karski was a brilliant young diplomat when war broke out in 1939 with Hitler's invasion of Poland. Taken prisoner by the Soviet Red Army, which had simultaneously invaded from the East, Karski narrowly escaped the subsequent Katyn Forest Massacre. This is a memoir of World War II and the Holocaust.
The only book on the notorious Mohamed Haneef case, by the one journalist who stayed on it from day one. Exclusive interviews with Dr Haneef, Commissioner Keelty, ex-Attorney General Ruddock, and Federal Police leaks. Something unsettling for everyone in the miscarriage that started the Howard government's slide.
What is free speech? Why aren't we told about matters of public importance? In this collection lawyers, journalists and commentators probe all sides of a sensitive controversy. They compare repressive and liberal regimes in other regions, and point to alarming surprises at home.
Its Constitutional History and the Contemporary Debate
Collects, edits, and presents some of the most important thinking on the constitutional freedom of speech. This title is organised into three major sections: historical foundations, theoretical paradigms, and selected doctrinal battlegrounds.
For well over a century the Catholic Church has articulated clear positions on many issues of public concern, particularly economics, capital punishment, foreign affairs, sexual morality, and abortion. This title offers an examination of the role Catholic clergy play in shaping the political views of their congregations.
Blending historical and geographical analysis, this is a study of the vital relationship between struggles over public space and movements for social justice in the US. It focuses on how political dissent gains meaning and momentum and is regulated in the real, physical spaces of the city.
Argues that since the 1980s a distinctive suburban politics has emerged in the United States. This title also argues that the political differences between urban and suburban voters have found expression in changes in congressional representation and new electoral strategies for the major political parties.
Sufi Responses to the Russian Advance in the North Caucasus
After the first war in Chechnya in 1994 the world discovered the warlike Muslim peoples intent on liberating themselves from domination by a distant Russian government. This work focuses on the impact of the Sufi brotherhoods to analyze the formation of resistance in Chechnya and Daghestan.
A comprehensive examination of the American pursuit of the liberation of Eastern Europe from the end of World War II to the failure of the Hungarian revolution. It explores how American visions of freedom led to intervention worldwide and the legacy of the Cold War.
