1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910717069703321

Autore

Clarke Stephen F.

Titolo

Canada : dual citizenship & fingerprinting of citizens

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Washington, D.C.] : , : The Law Library of Congress, Global Legal Research Directorate, , 2008

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (5 pages)

Soggetti

Dual nationality - Canada

Fingerprints

Border security - Canada

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Prepared by Stephen F. Clarke"--Page 5.

"February 2008."

"LL File No. 2008-00536."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910784194903321

Titolo

Mongols, Turks, and others [[electronic resource] ] : Eurasian nomads and the sedentary world / / edited by Reuven Amitai and Michal Biran

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2005

ISBN

1-280-86714-0

9786610867141

1-4294-2739-6

90-474-0633-8

1-4337-0516-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (572 p.)

Collana

Brill's Inner Asian library ; ; v. 11

Altri autori (Persone)

AmitaiReuven

BiranMichal

Disciplina

950/.04942

Soggetti

Mongols - History

Turkic peoples - History

Eurasia History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

List of Maps; Preface; List of Abbreviations; Notes on Dates and Transliterations; List of Contributors; Introduction; Early Pastoral Societies of Northeast China: Local Change and Interregional Interaction during c. 1100-600 BCE (Gideon Shelach); Beasts or Humans: Pre-Imperial Origins of the "Sino-Barbarian" Dichotomy (Yuri Pines); Early Eurasian Nomads and the Civilizations of the Ancient Near East (Eighth-Seventh Centuries BCE) (Askold I. Ivantchik); What Nomads Want: Raids, Invasions and the Liao Conquest of 947 (Naomi Standen)

True to Their Ways: Why the Qara Khitai Did Not Convert to Islam (Michal Biran)The Turks of the Eurasian Steppes in Medieval Arabic Writing (Yehoshua Frenkel); The Mongols and the Faith of the Conquered (Peter Jackson); The "Great Yasa of Chinggis Khan" Revisited (David Morgan); A Reappraisal of Güyüg Khan (Hodong Kim); War and Peace between the Yuan Dynasty and the Chaghadaid Khanate (1312-1323) (Liu Yingsheng); The Resolution of the Mongol-Mamluk War (Reuven Amitai)



Mongols and Merchants on the Black Sea Frontier in the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries: Convergences and Conflicts (Nicola Di Cosmo)Nomad and Settled in the Timurid Military (Beatrice Forbes Manz); The Mongols and China: Cultural Contacts and the Changing Nature of Pastoral Nomadism (Twelfth to Early Twentieth Centuries) (Elizabeth Endicott); Russia and the Eurasian Steppe Nomads: An Overview (Moshe Gammer); Contemporary Pastoralism in Central Asia (Anatoly M. Khazanov and Kenneth H. Shapiro); Index

Sommario/riassunto

The interaction between Eurasian pastoral nomads and the surrounding sedentary societies is a major theme in world history. This volume explores the mulitfarious nature of nomadic society and its relations with China, Russia and the Middle East from antiquity into the contemporary world with emphasis on the Mongol and Turkish peoples.

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910777601503321

Titolo

Governance and the public good [[electronic resource] /] / edited by William G. Tierney

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, NY, : State University of New York Press, c2006

ISBN

0-7914-8126-3

1-4294-1363-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 p.)

Collana

SUNY series, frontiers in education

Altri autori (Persone)

TierneyWilliam G

Disciplina

378/.050973

Soggetti

Education, Higher - United States - Administration

Education, Higher - Political aspects - United States

Education, Higher - Social aspects - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.