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Nomads, Tribes and the State in the Ancient Near East
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Nomads, Tribes and the State in the Ancient Near EastNomads, Tribes and the State in the Ancient Near East

For decades, scholars have struggled to understand the complex relationship between pastoral nomadic tribes and sedentary peoples of the Near East. The Oriental Institute's fourth annual post-doc seminar (March 7-8, 2008), Nomads, Tribes, and the State in the Ancient Near East, brought together archaeologists, historians, and anthropologists to discuss new approaches to enduring questions in the study of nomadic peoples, tribes, and states of the past: What social or political bonds link tribes and states?
 
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Tags: tribes, peoples, nomadic, State, states, Nomads, Ancient, Tribes
Halting State
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Halting StateHalting State

Charles Stross - Halting State

In the year 2018, Sergeant Sue Smith of the Edinburgh constabulary is called in on a special case. A daring bank robbery has taken place at Hayek Associates, a dot-com startup company that's just been floated on the London stock exchange. The suspects are a band of marauding orcs, with a dragon in tow for fire support, and the bank is located within the virtual reality land of Avalon Four. For Smith, the investigation seems pointless. But she soon realizes that the virtual world may have a devastating effect in the real one-and that someone is about to launch an attack upon both...

 
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Tags: Smith, virtual, State, Halting, reality
The Silent Sea
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The Silent SeaThe Silent Sea

Clive Cussler - The Silent Sea

On December 7, 1941, five brothers exploring a shaft on a small island off the coast of Washington State make an extraordinary discovery, only to be interrupted by news of Pearl Harbor.

 
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Tags: Silent, extraordinary, State, discovery, Washington
Identity of England
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Identity of EnglandIdentity of England

The English are now in need of a new sense of home and belonging, and a re-assessment of who they are. This is a history of who they were, with present needs in mind. It begins by considering how the English state created an English nation which from very early days refused to see itself simply as the state's creature. It considers also how that nation survived shattering revolutions in industry, urban living and global conflict while at the same time retaining a softer, more humane vision of themselves and their land.

 

no web sites in the name of the file pls

 
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Tags: English, nation, state, living, global, Identity, England
In A Free State
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In A Free StateIn A Free State

No writer has rendered our boundariless, post-colonial world more acutely or prophetically than V. S. Naipaul, or given its upheavals such a hauntingly human face. A perfect case in point is this riveting novel, a masterful and stylishly rendered narrative of emigration, dislocation, and dread, accompanied by four supporting narratives.
 
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Tags: rendered, narrative, emigration, stylishly, masterful, State, novel