The attacks on New York and Washington on September 11, 2001, enhanced the importance of both the Transcaucasus and Central Asia to American security. Overflight rights through the Caucasus to Central Asia and Afghanistan are vital components of the ongoing military effort there by both U.S. and NATO forces. But this region has multiple conflicts and fault-lines. As multiple recent crises show, Russo-Georgian tensions connected with South Ossetia and Abkhazia could erupt into open violence at any time. The author outlines the possibilities for conflict in this region and the qualities that make it strategically important, not only for Washington and Moscow, but also increasingly for Europe.

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"Donetsk, the black gem of Ukraine-Eden and Sodom in one, a stew steaming with coal fever, Manifest Destiny of Europe's east: the reader is sent onto a double Odyssey of two adventurers, the fiery blacksmith Alexander and the elusive linguist Lisa, whose paths are destined to cross on the cusp of the war in the Donbas. Only one of them fathoms that their encounter goes far beyond its face-value purpose. A thriller, a romance, a CV, a rose of historical winds, a song of crafts, an ontology of Eastern-Ukrainian mind in one, Carbon: Song of Crafts is told in polyphonic verse-a prayer for the beloved, anguished city"--

"Pleasures and Landscapes is what happened to Mrs. Bedford when, at the height of her literary powers, she journeyed through France, Italy, Portugal, Yugoslavia, and the rest of Europe for Vogue, Esquire, and other magazines from 1948 to 1978 - eight classic essays on the art of travel that win her a place at the table with A. J. Liebling and M. F. K. Fisher"--Publisher's description.

Syd Concealed and Revealed is a 96-page hardcover exhibition catalogue with 36 color plates accompanying the traveling museum exhibition, Syd Concealed and Revealed. The exhibition opened at the Deland Museum Florida (2016) and traveled to the Greenville County Museum, South Carolina (2017); Guild Hall, East Hampton, New York (2018); and the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida (2019-2021). Newly discovered materials from the Solomon Archive detail how Syd Solomon's World War II camouflage designs and other early graphic arts skills were foundational to his unique approach to Abstract Expressionism. This new information furthers the understanding of Syd Solomon’s life and work. This exhibition was organized by the Estate of Syd Solomon in conjunction with Berry Campbell, New York. This exhibition catalogue features essays by Michael Auping (former Chief Curator at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth and curator of recent exhibitions of Frank Stella and Mark Bradford), Dr. Gail Levin (expert on Lee Krasner and Edward Hopper), George Bolge (Director Emeriti of the Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida and the Boca Raton Museum of Art, Florida) and Mike Solomon, (artist and the artist’s son). Before the attack on Pearl Harbor, Syd Solomon voluntarily joined the War effort as a camouflage expert in the United States Army (1941-1945). His camouflage designs were used during the Normandy invasion and his camouflage instruction manuals were distributed throughout the U.S. Army. Although he arrived to the Abstract Expressionist scene late because of the War, by 1959 his work had gained the admiration of Museum of Modern Art curators, Peter Selz and Dorothy C. Miller, the Whitney Museum of American Art's director, John Baur, and many others, including artists Philip Guston and James Brooks, who became lifelong friends. At this time, Syd Solomon's paintings entered into over 100 museum collections.

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Explores family dynamics in order to illuminate the larger social and psychological dimensions of mixed marriages. Stories of 254 mixed-married intermarried and converted adults, how their religious identity evolved over the course of marriage.

"For everyone who wants to understand the varieties of Jewish identity, it boundaries and inclusions, this book shows the way into an essential aspect of Judaism and allows you to interact directly with the sacred texts of the Jewish tradition"--Inside cover.

From MYSTICAL TRAVELER One of the boons to taking the [mystical traveler] oath is that advanced souls can overcome everyday problems more rapidly than others do. Let's use illness as an example. While it might take years to heal from an illness or disease, mystical travelers have the ability to shorten the process. Of course advanced souls still have their life charts, and illness may factor in to them, but many times they can tweak their charts to better slide through the adversities of life. They know that their learning process is higher, so they're able to function above these obstacles. Mystical travelers don't automatically receive the cures for life's maladies, but they are imbued with great endurance. (Look at Montel Williams: Yes, he suffers from MS, but it never keeps him from traveling and doing good works.) Indeed, many mystical travelers have very painful illnesses, but the one thing I've seen is that they handle them better and tend to get over them faster than other people do. These entities' suffering seems to be more of a mental one from continually trying to make the world better and relieve its injustices ... or at least alleviate the pain of family and friends. But they will find themselves having better health than most.... They'll also feel that they're living in a youthful timelessness, no matter what their chronological age may be. - Sylvia

In this, Plachy's most complex and personal book to date, we are asked to reconsider ideas of self-portraiture and going home again. In 1956, in the wake of the Hungarian Revolution, Plachy and her parents escaped into Austria carrying only a small valise. She returned to Hungary eight years later, this time with a camera in hand. Through the gently subversive images gathered here, her life is revealed via clues, fragments of words and pictures as if by someone looking into a mirror and seeing her life pass before her eyes--not linearly like a film, but rather in layers.

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An anthology of secular and sacred poetry from the Bible to modern Israeli writings includes the original Hebrew as well as the English translation of each work

"Today's terrorists possess unprecedented power, but the State still plays a crucial role in the success or failure of their plans. Terrorists count on governmental inaction, toleration or support. And citizens look to the State to protect them from the dangers that these terrorists pose. But the rules of international law that regulate State responsibility for preventing terrorism were crafted for a different age. They are open to abuse and poorly suited to hold States accountable for sponsoring or tolerating contemporary terrorist activity. It is time that these rules were reconceived. Tal Becker's incisive and ground-breaking book analyses the law of State responsibility for non-State violence and examines its relevance in a world coming to terms with the threat of catastrophic terrorism. The book sets out the legal duties of States to prevent, and abstain from supporting, terrorist activity and explores how to maximise State compliance with these obligations. Drawing on a wealth of precedents and legal sources, the book offers an innovative approach to regulating State responsibility for terrorism, inspired by the principles and philosophy of causation. In so doing, it presents a new conceptual and legal framework for dealing with the complex interactions between State and non-State actors that make terrorism possible, and offers a way to harness international law to enhance human security in a post-9/11 world."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

The topic of perceptual experience lies at the center of a number of important debates in epistemology, the philosophy of mind, and the psychology of perception. In recent years, it has become one of the most vibrant areas of philosophy, provoking an enormous amount of high-level debate and discussion. The essays in this volume provide novel perspectives on a wide range of questions about the nature and content of perceptual experience. They address topics like representationalism, disjunctivism, and non-conceptual content, as well as others like perceptual illusion and the phenomenology of perceptual experience. Some of the essays employ traditional philosophical methods of conceptual analysis; others bring recent empirical research to bear on traditional philosophical questions. Among the issues the essays address are the following: What reasons do we have for thinking that perceptual experience represents the world as being a certain way, and (assuming that it does) what sorts of features do we have reason to think that it represents? Assuming that it has representational content, what is that content like? What is the relation between the representational content of perceptual experience, and its phenomenal character? What is the relation between perceptual experience and perceptual success, and can the one be analyzed in terms of the other? What does the structure of perceptual experience tell us about our own physical and cognitive make-up?

"This book offers a renewed defense of traditional just war theory and considers its application to certain highly controversial contemporary cases, particularly in the Middle East. The first part of the book addresses and responds to the central theoretical criticisms levelled at traditional just war theory. It offers a detailed defense of civilian immunity, the moral equality of soldiers and the related dichotomy between jus ad bellum and jus in bello, and argues that these principles taken together amount to a morally coherent ethics of war. In this sense this project is traditional (or 'orthodox'). In another sense, however, it is highly relevant to the modern world. While the first part of the book defends the just war tradition against its revisionist critics, the second part applies it to an array of timely issues: civil war, economic warfare, excessive harm to civilians, pre-emptive military strikes, and state-sponsored assassination, which require applying just war theory in practice. This book sets out to reaffirm the basic tenets of the traditional ethics of war and to lend them further moral support, subsequently applying them to a variety of practical issues. This book will be of great interest to students of just war theory, ethics, security studies, war and conflict studies, and IR in general."--Provided by publisher.