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Kevin Cahill
UFOs, cattle mutilations and murder intertwine in Kevin Cahill’s terrifying thriller, Knights of Harvest.
A quiet rural farming town is shaken by a macabre triple-slaying at the height of a…
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The 1960s Children of the Greatest Generation precariously teeter on the edge of a world about to go mad. Nuclear winter threatens from the shadows of a genocidal war in…
UFOs, cattle mutilations and murder intertwine in this bizarre mystery that unites two unlikely allies against a wicked government conspiracy. A macabre triple murder at a remote farm shakes a…
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Letters to a Rose is a quickly paced, contemporary narrative that offers a glimpse of the latter 20th Century through the eyes of a child of the Sixties. At the…
A group of eccentric travelers is stranded by a killer blizzard at a small cafe in the middle of nowhere for two memorable days in this funny and touching novel…
Reassembles the labyrinth of power, politics and controversy that ignited the notorious event in the history of the American West. The author’s narrative examines the massacre at Sand Creek, from…
At dawn on November 29, 1864, a volunteer Denver militia swept down on a sleeping Cheyenne and Arapaho village camped on the Big Sandy River in southeastern Colorado, exacting brutal…
From the author of Who Owns Britain and producer of the Sunday Times Rich List
Kevin M. Cahill
Kevin M. Cahill reclaims one of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s most passionately pursued endeavors: to reawaken a sense of wonder around human life and language and its mysterious place in the world…
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Kevin Cahill (University of New Mexico)
Physical Mathematics explains simply and succinctly the mathematics graduate students and professional physicists need to succeed in their courses and research. The book is unique in its clarity and scope…
This book focuses on the teaching of English in post-primary classrooms. Each chapter approaches an element of the teaching of English from theoretical and practical perspectives where the reader gets…
This book explores the question of what it means to be a human being through sustained and original analyses of three important philosophical topics: relativism, skepticism, and naturalism in the…
Includes essays that explore mandates for humanitarian action in religious traditions, and codes of conduct for the media, military, medicine, and the academy in relief efforts. This book explores threats…
This is a practical guide to current technologies that can help relief and humanitarian aid workers. Designed to facilitate technology transfer to the humanitarian sector, the essays focus on areas…
The tragic death in Baghdad in 2003 of Sergio Vieira de Mello, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, brought into bitter relief the challenges faced by peacekeepers and…
Part of a series that aims to understand the complex nature of international humanitarian action. This book is a report on problems, threats, and opportunities facing relief efforts in the…
Having had the privilege of working throughout Africa, Asia, and Latin America, as well as in the great medical centers of Europe and the United States, the author presents the…
Provides a better understanding - both within and outside academia - of the multifaceted demands posed by humanitarian assistance programmes
This work covers issues such as early warning and preparedness, rapid health and physical needs assessments, recognizing and managing severe malnutrition, the unique needs of refugees and IDPs, security, exit…
Open Door: Art and Foreign Policy at the Rcsi.
An assessment of the moral, legal and political dilemmas and consequences of humanitarian assistance.
Preventive Diplomacy explores the process of conflict prevention from humanitarian, economic, and political perspectives.
An international team of experts offer an assessment of the moral, legal and political dilemmas and consequences of humanitarian assistance.
This work covers topics such as the history of humanitarian action, the scope of international humanitarian crises, developing a professional corps, team building, developing a common language, and funding international…
This book is a celebratory history, marking 25 years since the founding of the Center for International Humanitarian Cooperation (CIHC).
Labyrinths explores the origins of thirteen books I have written in the past few decades, texts that have helped to define the emerging parameters of relief operations that inevitably follow…
Perspectives in a Pandemic is a series of enlightening essays written by Kevin M. Cahill, M.D., providing a unique insight into the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Cahill…
Kevin M. Cahill, M.D.
For more than fifty years, Dr. Cahill has been helping to heal the world: as a leading specialist in tropical medicine and as a driving force in humanitarian assistance and…
President Kevin Cahill (University of New Mexico)
You don’t have to be a student of geography or cartography to have an interest in the world around you, especially with globalization making our planet seem smaller than ever…
This collection opens a panorama of essays celebrating diverse ways to participate in the British-and international-Enlightenment. Investigating major authors, unusual persons, commentators on other nations, scholars, and even early environmentalists…
Analyses the tension between multilingual practices and the monolingual paradigm in 20th century literature through the German writings of Kafka, Adorno, Tawada, Ozdamar, and Zaimoglu.
Exploratory, investigative, and energetically analytical, 1650-1850 covers the full expanse of long eighteenth-century thought, writing, and art while delivering abundant revelatory detail. Essays on well-known cultural figures combine with studies…
This volume casts a fresh light on many classical philosophical issues and brings Wittgensteinian ideas to bear on a number of current debates in which naturalism is playing a central…
Kevin E Cahill,Michael D Giandrea
Aggregate data reveal a sizable increase in labor force participation rates since 2000 among workers on the cusp of retirement, reverting back to levels for older men not seen since…
Michael D Giandrea,Kevin E Cahill
What role does self-employment play in the retirement process? Older Americans are staying in the labor force longer than prior trends would have predicted and many change jobs later in…
