Mr.Beat Connects the Supreme Court History Right to You!#1 Best Seller in Courts & LawMr. Beat’s The Power of Our Supreme Court is the Supreme Court book of decisions that affect the everyday lives of Americans everywhere.The real democracy of America unveiled. What does the Supreme Court do? Sure, people care when the court makes a big ruling, but most don’t pay attention to the court’s ...

Let you be surprised. Even more important, surprise yourself. THE ORIGIN OF HUMANITY answers the questions of how it all began, and how to move forward in an uncertain world: Words and humanity appeared 13750 years ago. 13750 years ago, the appearance of words changed the world more than any other event before or since, the age was stone, the Sahara green, Northern Europe under 1-mile-thick ice, and writing had not been invented yet. THE ORIGIN OF HUMANITY does not fight the old but instea...

What does a consul do when a couple arrives at the consulate dressed in their bathing suits asking for help? What to do with a rapidly decomposing corpse in the outback of tropical Papua New Guinea? How do the financial donations bound for Africa end up on the private accounts of the ruling elites and arms dealers? This book is a frankly-written collection of anecdotes from his thirty years in the Swiss foreign service.

While there have been dramatic increases in the use of digital technologies for information storage, processing and delivery over the last twenty years, the affordances of paper have ensured its retention as a key information medium. In this book we review a wide variety of projects and technological developments for bridging the paper-digital divide. We present our information-centric approach for a tight integration of paper and digital information that is based on a general cross-media ...

It's the end of April, 1975.Saigon is about to fall, as the situation goes from severely bad to completely fucked-up.The Snake is faced with a difficult decision: he can fade into the noise of history, slowly obscured by the haze and comfort of innocent love. Or he can follow his instincts into the violent depths of human nature, along a transnational path of conflict paved by drugs and weapons smugglers, from the ricefields of Vietnam to the jungles of El Salvador and Nicaragua. Hardly a ...

OSCEs Made Easy is tailored for undergraduate medical students and postgraduate medical trainees. It is a practical guide on how to prepare rigorously and systematically for OSCEs, and to secure yourself a high-scoring result. A compilation of personal revision notes combined with stories about what works well, the objective of this book is to provide every final-year medical student with the information we wish we had known going into OSCE revision. For what it is worth, all of us contrib...

As a teenager, Beat had a great thirst for knowledge and planned to travel the world, experience adventures, get to know different peoples and cultures, start a family, and lead a happy life in prosperity. Over time, all of these wishes came true until, at the age of 59, despite being in good physical shape, he suffered a cardiac arrest while jogging and collapsed. He was in the afterlife for minutes and only survived thanks to professional help. This near-death experience changed his cons...

This four-volume reset edition presents a wide-ranging collection of primary sources which uncover the language and behaviour of local and state authorities, of peasants and town-dwellers, and of drinking companions and irate wives.

This four-volume reset edition presents a wide-ranging collection of primary sources which uncover the language and behaviour of local and state authorities, of peasants and town-dwellers, and of drinking companions and irate wives.

This four-volume reset edition presents a wide-ranging collection of primary sources which uncover the language and behaviour of local and state authorities, of peasants and town-dwellers, and of drinking companions and irate wives.

This four-volume reset edition presents a wide-ranging collection of primary sources which uncover the language and behaviour of local and state authorities, of peasants and town-dwellers, and of drinking companions and irate wives.

Provenance research is so much more than a search for origin: It offers new perspectives on objects, collections, their histories, and the multifaceted relationships embedded within them. The Museum der Kulturen Basel is systematically examining its collection for coloniality and highlighting the central importance of collaborating with communities in the Global South. This work also reveals how complex and demanding ethnological provenance research is. This volume "raises groundbreaking q...