Authors:Edwin Bryant, Laurie Patton,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: indian, history, inference, evidence, aryan, controversy, indo
Number of Pages: 536
Published: 2005-09-22
List price: $64.95
ISBN-10: 0700714634
ISBN-13: 9780700714636

The major questions considered in this book are these: Are the Indo-Aryans outsiders or insiders? Did they migrate into India from Central Asia, and if not, where did they originate? Even more crucially, what is at stake in these accounts of ancient history? What issues of South Asian identity are involved? Can those of Indo-Aryan descent claim indigenous status? To what extent are the accounts of colonial historians valid? What is the role and authority of Indian scholarship in the post-colonial period? The scope and purpose of this volume is not to resolve this debate, but to survey the fiel

Authors:Edwin Bryant, Laurie Patton,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: indian, history, inference, evidence, aryan, controversy, indo
Number of Pages: 536
Published: 2005-09-22
List price: $200.00
ISBN-10: 0700714626
ISBN-13: 9780700714629

For the first time in a single volume, this book presents the various arguments in the Indo-Aryan controversy. It also provides a template for the basic issues addressing four major areas: archaeological research, linguistic issues, the interpretation of Vedic texts in their historical contexts, and ideological roots. The volume ends with a plea for a return to civility in the debates which have become increasingly, and unproductively, politicized, and suggests a program of research and inquiry upon which scholars from all sides of the debate might embark.

Author: Ernest K. Banka
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: sovereign, states, domestic, courts, suits, private, immunity, controversy, international, law, state
Number of Pages: 541
Published: 2005-08-22
List price: $239.00
ISBN-10: 3540256954
ISBN-13: 9783540256953

The author shows through a careful analysis of the law that restrictive immunity does not have vox populi in developing countries, and that it lacks usus. He also argues that forum law, i.e. the lex fori is a creature of sovereignty and between equals before the law, only what is understood and acknowledged as law among states must be applied in as much as the international legal system is horizontal. Furthermore, the state never acts as a juridical or natural person and, therefore, in logical terms, its functions cannot be divided into potere politico and persona civile, as a prelude to deter

Authors:Michael Ruse, Christopher A. Pynes,
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Keywords: contemporary, issue, series, issues, debating, cell, controversy, stem
Number of Pages: 367
Published: 2006-04-04
List price: $22.98
ISBN-10: 1591024048
ISBN-13: 9781591024040

Stem cell research is headline news. Researchers are eager to move forward, state governments and private foundations are rushing to support it, and the sick and afflicted are desperate for its benefits. Yet powerful forces in our society—led by President George W. Bush—find it morally troubling and they are doing all in their powers to restrict its development beyond a very limited scale. Stem cells have the potential to develop into different parts of the body—skin, bone, nerves, blood, and more. Scientists usually harvest them from aborted fetal tissue or newly fertilized cells. This

Authors:Willie Soon, Sallie L. Baliunas, Arthur B. Robinson,
Publisher: Fraser Institute
Keywords: controversy, series, risk, science, warming, guide, global
Number of Pages: 62
Published: 2002-11-30
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0889751870
ISBN-13: 9780889751873

This book reviews the scientific literature concerning the environmental consequences of increased levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide, the most prominent greenhouse gas contributed by human activities. The authors conclude that increases during the twentieth century have produced no deleterious effects upon global climate or temperature. Increase carbon dioxide has, however, markedly increased the growth rates of plants as inferred from numerous laboratory and field experiments.

Author: Joel H. Silbey
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: pivotal, war, moments, american, history, civil, road, over, texas, annexation, controversy, storm
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2007-01-01
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0195315928
ISBN-13: 9780195315929

In the spring of 1844, a fiery political conflict erupted over the admission of Texas into the Union. This hard-fought and bitter controversy profoundly changed the course of American history. Indeed, as Joel Silbey argues in Storm Over Texas, it marked the crucial moment when partisan differences were transformed into a North-vs-South antagonism, and the momentum towards Civil War leaped into high gear. Silbey, one of America’s most renowned political historians, offers a swiftly paced and compelling narrative of the Texas imbroglio, which included an exceptional cast of characters,

Author: E. G. White
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Keywords: publishing, rare, reprints, kessinger, dispensation, conflict, ages, christian, controversy
Number of Pages: 800
Published: 2005-01-11
List price: $54.95
ISBN-10: 1417929588
ISBN-13: 9781417929580

1888. White’s intent is to illuminate the controversy between darkness and light, sin and righteousness, wrong and right, death and life. Contents: The Destruction of Jerusalem; Persecution in the First Centuries; The Apostasy; The Waldenses; John Wycliffe; Huss and Jerome; Luther’s Separation from Rome; Luther Before the Diet; The Swiss Reformer; Progress of Reform in Germany; Protest of the Princes; The French Reformation; The Netherlands and Scandinavia; Later English Reformers; The Bible and the French Revolution; The Pilgrim Fathers; Heralds of the Morning; An American Reforme