The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Author: William A. Schabas
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 4171
Release: 2013-04-18
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1139619624

A collection of United Nations documents associated with the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, these volumes facilitate research into the scope of, meaning of and intent behind the instrument's provisions. It permits an examination of the various drafts of what became the thirty articles of the Declaration, including one of the earliest documents – a compilation of human rights provisions from national constitutions, organised thematically. The documents are organised chronologically and thorough thematic indexing facilitates research into the origins of specific rights and norms. It is also annotated in order to provide information relating to names, places, events and concepts that might have been familiar in the late 1940s but are today more obscure.

Microsoft First Generation

Microsoft First Generation
Author: Cheryl D. Tsang
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2000
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

Meet 12 of the early builders of Microsoft--all now retired millionaires--and step inside the infamous culture of loyalty, "maniacal" work ethics, and visionary risk-taking that has been crucial to the computer giant's sustained success.

Design Literacy (continued)

Design Literacy (continued)
Author: Steven Heller
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
Total Pages: 300
Release: 1999
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781581150353

This volume also investigates larger movements and phenomena, such as Norman Rockwell's lasting impression on Americana, issues of plagiarism and censorship, and the "Big Idea" in advertising, and includes profiles of designers whose bodies of work helped determine the look and content of design today."--BOOK JACKET.

Dutch Atlantic Connections, 1680-1800

Dutch Atlantic Connections, 1680-1800
Author: Gert Oostindie
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 452
Release: 2014-06-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004271317

This title is available online in its entirety in Open Access. Dutch Atlantic Connections reevaluates the role of the Dutch in the Atlantic between 1680-1800. It shows how pivotal the Dutch were for the functioning of the Atlantic sytem by highlighting both economic and cultural contributions to the Atlantic world.

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Author: Johannes Morsink
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 394
Release: 2010-08-03
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0812200411

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Book for 1999 Born of a shared revulsion against the horrors of the Holocaust, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights has become the single most important statement of international ethics. It was inspired by and reflects the full scope of President Franklin Roosevelt's famous four freedoms: "the freedom of speech and expression, the freedom of worship, the freedom from want, and the freedom from fear." Written by a UN commission led by Eleanor Roosevelt and adopted in 1948, the Declaration has become the moral backbone of more than two hundred human rights instruments that are now a part of our world. The result of a truly international negotiating process, the document has been a source of hope and inspiration to thousands of groups and millions of oppressed individuals.

Holomorphic Spaces

Holomorphic Spaces
Author: Sheldon Jay Axler
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 490
Release: 1998-05-28
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9780521631938

Expository articles describing the role Hardy spaces, Bergman spaces, Dirichlet spaces, and Hankel and Toeplitz operators play in modern analysis.

Coomassie and Magdala

Coomassie and Magdala
Author: Henry Morton Stanley
Publisher:
Total Pages: 430
Release: 1874
Genre: Abyssinian Expedition
ISBN:

Comprises accounts of Wolseley's occupation of Ashanti capital, Kumasi, Ghana, and terms with King Kofi Karikari, 1873-1874; and of Napier's occupation of Magdala, Ethiopia, to secure release of British captives from Negus Theodore II, 1867-1868.

Goin' Crazy with Sam Peckinpah and All Our Friends

Goin' Crazy with Sam Peckinpah and All Our Friends
Author: Max Evans
Publisher: UNM Press
Total Pages: 355
Release: 2014-10-15
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0826335888

Almost as famous for the legendary excesses of his personal life as for his films, Sam Peckinpah (1925–1984) cemented his reputation as one of the great American directors with movies such as The Wild Bunch and Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid. Max Evans, one of Peckinpah’s best friends, experienced the director’s mercurial character and personal demons firsthand. In this enthralling memoir we follow Evans and Peckinpah through conversations in bars, family gatherings, binges on drugs and alcohol, struggles with film producers and executives, and Peckinpah’s abusive behavior—sometimes directed at Evans himself. Evans’s stories—most previously unpublished—provide a uniquely intimate look at Peckinpah, their famous friends (including Lee Marvin, Brian Keith, Joel McCrea, and James Coburn), and the business of Hollywood in the 1960s and 1970s.