Author: S. A. Prio
Publisher: Booklocker.com
Keywords: novel, darwin
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2005-09-30
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1591137993
ISBN-13: 9781591137993

Charles Darwin, a young man in search of direction, sails for South America from England in 1831 aboard the HMS Beagle. As ship’s naturalist his job is to collect plant and animal specimens. On returning home he expects to marry a third cousin and become a country parson. Instead he has an affair with Lucy Douglas, a woman of color who is a secret agent for Lord Palmerston and would be anathema to his family, and develops a theory of evolution that contradicts the Bible he intended to preach.This fictionalization of Darwin’s journey reveals a human story of adventure through which

Author: Thierry Balzacq
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: security, prio, new, dissolve, studies, emerge, theory, problems, securitization
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2010-09-21
List price: $145.00
ISBN-10: 0415556279
ISBN-13: 9780415556279

This volume aims to provide a new framework for the analysis of securitization processes, increasing our understanding of how security issues emerge, evolve and dissolve.　 Securitisation theory has become one of the key components of security studies and IR courses in recent years, and this book represents the first attempt to provide an integrated and rigorous overview of securitization practices within a coherent framework. To do so, it organizes securitization around three core assumptions which make the theory applicable to empirical studies: the centrality of audience, the co-depende

Author: Professor Johan Galtung
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Keywords: peace, research, institute, oslo, prio, international, civilization, peaceful, means, conflict, development
Number of Pages: 292
Published: 1996-07-31
List price: $58.95
ISBN-10: 0803975112
ISBN-13: 9780803975118

Johan Galtung, one of the founders of modern peace studies, describes his reason for writing this book as a `systematic effort to give a theoretical foundation for peace research, peace education and peace action’. As such, it provides a wide-ranging panorama of the ideas, theories and assumptions on which the study of peace is based.Two definitions of peace underlie the book. The first definition of peace is dynamic: `the state of affairs that makes the nonviolent and creative handling of conflict possible’. The second definition is static: `an absence of direct, structural and cu