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Power and Resistance: Silence and Secrecy in Avatar - The Last Airbender
Viswanath, Gayatri - eSocialSciences - 2014
In the American animated television series, Avatar: The Last Airbender (ATLA), a visually Asian-influenced world of …
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East and West: The Twain Shall Meet: A Cross-cultural Perspective on Higher Education
Desai, Tejas A. - eSocialSciences - 2010
and American higher education systems.[W.P. No. 2009-04-03] …
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The Importance of Being Wanted
Do, Quy-Toan; Phung, Tung Duc - eSocialSciences - 2010
We identify birth wantedness as a source of better child outcomes. In Vietnam, the year of birth is widely believed to determine success. As a result, cohorts born in auspicious years are 12 percent larger. Comparing siblings with one another, those of auspicious cohorts are found to have 2...
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Less Smoke, More Mirrors: Where India Really Stands on Solar Power and Other Renewables
Wheeler, David; Shome, Saurabh - eSocialSciences - 2010
international pressure to cut emissions, no guarantees of compensatory financing, and a continuing American failure to adopt …
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Humanism: The Essence of Civil Liberties
Verma, J. S. - eSocialSciences - 2007
India was guided by it in its exercise to humanize the stringent anti-terrorism laws e.g. TADA and Armed Forces (Special …
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SAARC and India: Policy Issues hinge on Security and Democracy
Harshe, Rajen - eSocialSciences - 2005
The entire project of SAARC is dependent on India’s capacity to bind the neighbouring states in multiple networks of ties to promote regional cooperation. India not only shares frontiers with all the SAARC countries, but also ethnic, linguistic, cultural and religious histories. If India...
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Al Qaeda in the West as a Youth Movement: The Power of a Narrative
Roy, Olivier - eSocialSciences - 2009
terrorism and its security implications, and to the issue of integrating second generation migrants in Europe. This paper … this approach fails to understand the roots of terrorism and arbitrarily isolates ‘Muslim’ violence from other levels … with other forms of dissent. An effective strategy to combat terrorism has two levels: one employs traditional intelligence …
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Post-Conflict Recovery: Does the Global Economy Work for Peace?
Addison, Tony - eSocialSciences - 2009
This paper mainly addresses the economic dimensions, concentrating on the importance of international trade to state-building and the need for global public goods in a global market economy. The focus here is on the smaller countries emerging from civil war (particularly in Africa) rather than...
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Weapons of Mass Destruction? Or, of Mass Deception? Media in Iraq War and After
Inceoglu, Yasemin; Cinarli, Inci; Aral, Sedat - eSocialSciences - 2006
the global media so that it lost all semblance of its independence, swallowing wholesale the bogey of bio-terrorism and …
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Sri Lanka Budget 2009
eSocialSciences; Ministry of Finance and Planning Sri Lanka - 2009
2009 Budget speech
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