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.

Think of the poems in this book as mini-experiences similar to enjoying your favourite cup of warm liquid surrounded by strangers with their faces buried in their laptops, dinner and a movie, drinks with a friend or a favourite cerebral massage or something to chew on from a bubblegum machine. Like anything else you consume on a daily basis, poetry has value and poems are worth something. Unlike behind the counter culture products, poems have different value for each reader. Follow the eas...

Think of the poems in this book as mini-experiences similar to enjoying your favourite cup of warm liquid surrounded by strangers with their faces buried in their laptops, dinner and a movie, drinks with a friend or a favourite cerebral massage or something to chew on from a bubblegum machine. Like anything else you consume on a daily basis, poetry has value and poems are worth something. Unlike behind the counter culture products, poems have different value for each reader. Follow the eas...

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 ...

Alaska Thunderfuck spills the tea on her meteoric rise from timid Pennsylvania kid to drag superstar in this intimate photographic memoir that will appeal to diehard Alaska admirers and broader drag fans alike.Before RuPaul's Drag Race became a worldwide phenomenon, Drag was mostly an underground art form, performed by the daring and the quick-witted, with maximum energy and a minimal budget. This is the story of one of the galaxy's greatest queens, Alaska...

Did you know that 95% of videos consumed in India are not in English? Yes, you read that right! India is becoming a trendsetter and changing the way Internet users are consuming content. Currently, there are about 450 million Internet users in India, and this is set to increase to a whopping 635.8 million by 2021. These numbers are pushing Indian brands to leverage digital marketing as a crucial part of their media mix.In this book, we have highlighted the importance of digital mar...

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...

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...