Bridging Divides

Bridging DividesThe Smi are a Northern indigenous people whose land, Spmi, covers territory in Finland, Norway, Russia, and Sweden. For the Nordic Smi, the last decades of the twentieth century saw their indigenous rights partially recognized, a cultural and linguistic revival, and the establishment of Smi parliaments. The Russian Smi, however, did not have the same opportunities and were isolated behind the closed border until the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

He then turns to an examination of cruelty in general

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This ambitious volume seeks to resolve a legal quandary that has existed for decades without resolution and is essential reading in criminal and constitutional law

This book reviews electromagnetic wave theory with a special emphasis on lasers and how to use them in optical systems

Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander

Stauffer argues that the dialectical confrontations with ordinary opinion presented in these sections provide the basis for Plato's view of justice

pleasures and uses are derived from popular film

Global wheat consumption is increasing rapidly

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David Scott considers China's first substantive modern period of encounter with the West from 1840 through 1949

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Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork