Alien Vs. Predator

This is the funniest book that you will read about English people! Why are the English different from Europeans? George Mikes’ book describes the strange things the English do and say. And the English don’t get angry when they read the book. They love it! You will too!

A Civil War portrays American college football in what the author believes is its purest form: two teams who play for love of the game & the honour of their schools, rather than for money or fame. He

Drawing upon 150 case studies from Scandinavia, the UK, the Netherlands, and Germany, Pruijt examines the roles of organizational innovators, labor legislation, research, and unions in contending with

This book provides the most comprehensive analysis of one of the most important issues in China today: the tensions between the Chinese Communist Party and the Chinese state legislative, judicial, administrative, and military institutions. Taking the 'neo-institutionalist' approach, the author suggests that the Communist Party in post-1949 China faces an institutional dilemma: the Party cannot live with the state, and it cannot live without the state. Zheng demonstrates that it is not only conceptually constructive, but analytically imperative to distinguish the state from the Communist Party. Secondly, he integrates detailed study with broader generalizations about Chinese politics, thus making efforts to overcome the tendency toward specialized scholarship at the expense of comparative and systemic understanding of China. He also opens a new dimension of Chinese politics - the uncertain and conflictual relationship between the Communist Party and the Chinese state.

Explores the role of merchant seamen in sparking the struggle for US independence in such incidents as impressment riots, the Stamp Act Riot, and the Battle of Golden Hill, and describes the social wo

Essays discuss popular UFO stories, including sightings, contacts, abductions, crashes, and coverups

Rife with sexuality, chaos, confusion, and terror, the Gothic has seemed to many of its recent readers to be a subversive genre, resisting enforced gender constructions or straitened notions of ration

Includes the writers' detailed scene-by-scene notes of cuts, changes, and choices made during the production, an exclusive interview with the director, the writers' original 4-page treatment sent to p

Eight essays, previously or concurrently published elsewhere, illustrate the development of Hintikka's thinking on the fundamental contrast between language as a universal medium and language as calcu

Includes the writers' detailed scene-by-scene notes of cuts, changes, and choices made during the production, an exclusive interview with the director, the writers' original 4-page treatment sent to p

The subject of competition between religion and television has, if only indirectly, received considerable attention, particularly from religionists disturbed by the threat posed by television program

...traces the history of modern liberalism in philosophy, focusing on the conflict between elitism and democracy.

This is the first biography of one of the wealthiest and most influential bishops of medieval Europe, who for a period of over thirty years exercised a degree of power over the Plantagenet court second only to that of the king. The career of Peter des Roches and the activities of his fellow aliens are fundamental to an understanding of the process by which England and France developed as two separate kingdoms. As a politician, des Roches cast a shadow across the reigns of both John and Henry III. His biography encompasses the first detailed narrative yet attempted of English political history in the early 1230s and of the civil war of 1233–4. It sheds new light on such issues as the role of aliens in English politics, the reception of Magna Carta, the loss of Normandy, and the constitutional and administrative developments of the reign of Henry III.

Franck challenges three propositions central to current debates about the supreme Court's role in American life: that the Court has the final word in interpreting the Constitution above competing view

Early traditions speak of the arrival of "radiant beings from heaven," self-sacrificing guardians of the human race who have reincarnated as pivotal figures in the panorama of human history

The author believes two approaches are currently used in defining the economic policy of a nation: a Rhine model which emphasizes collective achievement and public consensus, and a supply-side model b

Even before the 1889 baseball season began, battle lines had been drawn. In the National League, The Players' Brotherhood, led by New York Giants' shortstop John Montgomery Ward, furiously discussed h

Examining values, this book analyzeshow they affect decisions regarding abortion or adoption, marriage, gun control, and other controversial issues.

This book offers a first step toward spanning the gap between the writing of male critics of speculative fiction, who do not devote enough attention to the contributions of new female voices to this g

By conservative estimate 55 per cent of the adult population watched or listened to all the Kennedy-Nixon television debates of 1960, 80 per cent saw or heard at least one. In this volume thirty exper