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  • Dreamers, Runaways, and Mysteries

    A Traveler's Tales and Essays

    by James Sloan Allen ...
    Dreamers, Runaways, and Mysteries takes readers to many places around the world, some enfolded in mystery.The tales tell of characters drawn to these places, sometimes for escape from the lives they had led, and of incidents that memorably mark their travels. In India, an intrepid lady adventurer charms an unhappy American; in Buenos Aires, a lonely tourist gets enraptured by a torrid story of ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Three Years Left

    Adventures In Music, Travel, Faith, And Terminal Cancer

    by Shalisa Sloan James ...
    In Three Years Left, Shalisa James shares her extraordinary true story of facing a terminal cancer diagnosis with courage, humor, and unwavering faith. From performing on Broadway and traveling the world to navigating chemotherapy, heartbreak, and hope, Shalisa refuses to let her diagnosis define her.With raw honesty and powerful storytelling, she invites readers into her journey one filled with ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Mind Games of Art and Entertainment

    And How They Gave Us the Culture of Entertainment - with the Perils of Unseriousness

    by James Sloan Allen ...
    The Mind Games of Art and Entertainment goes where no book on art or entertainment has gone before. Beginning in some territory familiar to readers curious about its subject, it goes on to show how entertainment has come to dominate American life-and how the historic events of January 6, 2021 could not have occurred as they did without the Culture of Entertainment as their enfolding context.Along ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Cabbages and Kings: To Talk of Many Things

    of Style and Humanism, Politics and Culture, Literature, Laughter, and the Meaning of Life

    by James Sloan Allen ...
    Cabbages and Kings is a rather whimsical title (borrowed from Lewis Carroll) for a collection of what are, for the most part, learned essays on serious subjects. But the collection has a somewhat whimsical spirit as it brings together writings on many things, such as style in life and art, in restaurant design, and in the philosophies of Friedrich Nietzsche and Oscar Wilde; relations between ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Development of International Law by the International Court of Justice

    Edited by Christian J. Tams, James Sloan ...
    This book traces the impact that the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the principal judicial organ of the United Nations, has had on various areas of international law. A number of prominent international experts examine whether, and to what extent, international law has been shaped by the Court's jurisprudence. The informal development of international law through the Court's judgments ... Read more

    $131.39 USD

  • The Militarisation of Peacekeeping in the Twenty-First Century

    by Dr James Sloan ...
    Series series Studies in International Law
    Since the end of the last century, UN peacekeeping has undergone a fundamental and largely unexamined change. Peacekeeping operations, long expected to use force only in self-defence and to act impartially, are now increasingly relied upon by the Security Council as a means to maintain and restore security within a country. The operations are established under Chapter VII of the UN Charter and ... Read more

    $121.99 USD

  • Life Line

    A Novel of Romance and Rebirth

    by James Sloan Allen ...
    Accomplished New York book editor Rebecca Winters, on the threshold of forty and recently yet amiably divorced, looks into herself one day as never before and finds—nothing. Her contented life has gone empty.Bewildered and fraught, she vacantly buries herself in work, trying to hide her distress from others. A few weeks later, as a favor to a colleague, she grudgingly meets an author with a book ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Oppenheim's International Law: United Nations

    by Rosalyn Higgins, Philippa Webb, Dapo Akande, Sandesh Sivakumaran, James Sloan ...
    The United Nations, whose specialized agencies were the subject of an Appendix to the 1958 edition of Oppenheim's International Law: Peace, has expanded beyond all recognition since its founding in 1945.This volume represents a study that is entirely new, but prepared in the way that has become so familiar over succeeding editions of Oppenheim. An authoritative and comprehensive study of the ... Read more

    $306.99 USD

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    Four Seasons in Kyoto

    by Pico Iyer ...
    Series series Vintage Departures
    When Pico Iyer decided to go to Kyoto and live in a monastery, he did so to learn about Zen Buddhism from the inside, to get to know Kyoto, one of the loveliest old cities in the world, and to find out something about Japanese culture today -- not the world of businessmen and production lines, but the traditional world of changing seasons and the silence of temples, of the images woven through ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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  • An Introduction to Public International Law

    by Cecily Rose, Niels Blokker, Daniëlla Dam-de Jong, Simone van den Driest, Robert Heinsch, Erik Koppe, Nico Schrijver ...
    Written for students working in a range of disciplines, this textbook provides an accessible, balanced, and nuanced introduction to the field of public international law. It explains the basic concepts and legal frameworks of public international law while acknowledging the field's inherent complexities and controversies. Featuring numerous carefully chosen and clearly explained examples, it ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • The law of international organisations

    Third edition

    by Iain Scobbie, Jean D'Aspremont, Dominic McGoldrick, Nigel White ...
    Series series Melland Schill Studies in International Law
    This book provides a concise account of the principles and norms of international law applicable to the main-type of international organisation - the inter-governmental organisation (IGO). That law consists of principles and rules found in the founding documents of IGOs along with applicable principles and rules of international law. The book also identifies and analyses the law produced by IGOs, ... Read more

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  • The Woman Upstairs

    by Claire Messud ...
    Series series Vintage Contemporaries
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Told with urgency, intimacy, and piercing emotion, this New York Times bestselling novel is the riveting confession of a woman awakened, transformed, and abandoned by a desire for a world beyond her own.**A New York Times Book Review Notable Book • A Washington Post Top Ten Book of the Year • A Chicago Tribune Noteworthy Book • A Huffington Post Best Book • A Boston Globe ... Read more

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