Between nuclear armament and economic pragmatism: Is North Korea facing change? Asia Policy Brief 2013/04, September 2013

The balance a year and a half after the meanwhile second hereditary power transfer to Kim Jong-Un (Kim Chŏng-ŭn), grandson of the founder of the state, is undecided. The breakdown of the system, predicted by many analysts, has not happened yet. Neither have the reforms that were expected from the young man who has supposedly been educated in Switzerland. The country is not in stagnation however – quite the opposite. What has happened in North Korea in the last two years? What development trends are there and how can other countries approach them? These questions are discussed in the light of the tense security-political and humanitarian environment and the corresponding risks in this Asia Policy Brief.

Pensar las ciencias sociales desde América Latina ante el cambio de época

Herederas de propuestas disciplinarias originales, como la teoría de la dependencia -y sus posteriores críticas desde el marxismo-, o del pensamiento socioeconómico de la CEPAL, las ciencias sociales latinoamericanas toman distancia de enfoques anglo-euro-céntricos, para avanzar en una línea crítica del pensamiento y de las prácticas neocolonialistas. El desafío para el pensamiento es ser cosmopolita y simultáneamente latinoamericano. En este proceso, el pensamiento social latinoamericano está logrando recuperar su originalidad y vigor, gracias a un rico diálogo Sur-Sur que no pierde de vista el carácter global de sus reflexiones y de sus referentes universales. Aunque ni el marxismo clásico ni el occidental son hegemónicos dentro de la teoría crítica, el (neo)marxismo enriquecido con la crítica a la colonialidad del poder, la teoría del Sistema-mundo, la geopolítica crítica y la ecología política recuperan el campo de la teoría crítica en clave fundadora de un pensamiento de época. Sus debates epistemológicos con el post-estructuralismo y diversos enfoques posmodernos configuran los desarrollos recientes de la teoría crítica.

Seed dispersal characteristics to polar regions by means of visitors

Invasive alien species are among the primary causes of biodiversity change globally, with the risks thereof broadly understood for most regions of the world. They are similarly thought to be among the most significant conservation threats to Antarctica, especially as climate change proceeds in the region. However, no comprehensive, continent-wide evaluation of the risks to Antarctica posed by such species has been undertaken. Here we do so by sampling, identifying, and mapping the vascular plant propagules carried by all categories of visitors to Antarctica during the International Polar Year's first season (2007-2008) and assessing propagule establishment likelihood based on their identity and origins and on spatial variation in Antarctica's climate. For an evaluation of the situation in 2100, we use modeled climates based on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's Special Report on Emissions Scenarios Scenario A1B [Nakicenovic N, Swart R, eds (2000) Special Report on Emissions Scenarios: A Special Report of Working Group III of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK)]. Visitors carrying seeds average 9.5 seeds per person, although as vectors, scientists carry greater propagule loads than tourists. Annual tourist numbers (~33,054) are higher than those of scientists (~7,085), thus tempering these differences in propagule load. Alien species establishment is currently most likely for the Western Antarctic Peninsula. Recent founder populations of several alien species in this area corroborate these findings. With climate change, risks will grow in the Antarctic Peninsula, Ross Sea, and East Antarctic coastal regions. Our evidence-based assessment demonstrates which parts of Antarctica are at growing risk from alien species that may become invasive and provides the means to mitigate this threat now and into the future as the continent's climate changes.

For the bride : helpful hints, practical suggestions, and valuable records /

Includes index.

Horæ sinicæ: translations from the popular literature of the Chinese.

San-tsi-king: the three-character classic; on the utility and honour of learning.--Ta-hio; the great science.--Account of Foe, the deified founder of a Chinese sect.--Extract from the Ho-kiang.--Account of the sect. Tao-szu.--Dissuasive from feeding on beef.--Specimens of Chinese epistolary correspondence.

The Pennsylvania gazette ... Weekly magazine of the University of Pennsylvania.

"Pub. 1729 to 1748 by Ben. J. Franklin, founder of the university. Revived ... as the official weekly magazine of the University of Pennsylvania."

Chartulary of the abbey of Lindores, 1195-1479 /

The introduction contains a history of the abbey, and a biography of the founder, David, earl of Huntingdon.

Hegemonius: Acta Archelai,

Latin translation--known as Acta Archelai--of a Greek work by Hegemonius which purports to be a relation by one Archelaus, bishop of Caschara in Mesopotamia, of a disputation between himself and Mani, the founder of Manichaeism. The fragments of the original are included.

Amici.

Sketches of some of the contributors to La Voce of which Prezzolini was the founder and editor.

Sanctity and social service,

Activity the goal of prayer.--Catherine of Sienna, saint and suffragist.--Francis of Assisi, saint and social reformer.--Joan of Arc, saint and patriot.--Ignatius Loyola, saint and empire-builder.--Vincent de Paul, saint and founder of modern philosophy.--The apology of works.

Sur l'homme et le développement de ses facultés : ou, Essai de physique sociale /

"Florence Nightingale based her statistical methods upon this book by Quetelet, which appeared 20 years before her statistical surveys. The author presented to her the second augmented edition in 1869. She called him 'the founder of the most important science in the world.' She meant to dedicate to Quetelet an essay on the application of his discoveries, 'to explain the Plan of God in teaching us by these results the laws by which our Moral Progress is to be attained.'"--Elmer Belt Florence Nightingale collection (1958), p. 17.

Catilinaria et Jugurthina bella.

Formerly the property of Nathan Dane, founder of the Dane professorship of law at the Harvard Law School, and contains his autograph.

Specimens of the novelists and romancers, with critical and biographical notices of the authors.

Cervantes. Rodolpho and Leocadia.--Ferrier., Miss. Meeting of 'Blues'.--Moore, E. A domestic story.--Wilson, J. Margaret Lindsay's wooers: The lost child.--Galt, J. The town drummer; The physiognomist.--Marmontel. The shepherdess of the Alps.--Hawkesworth, J. Amurath.--Voltaire. Jeannot and Colin.--Lockhart, J.G. John M'Ewan.--Mackenzie. La Roche.--Scott, Sir W. The Rev. Josiah Cargil.--Goldsmith. Mr. Tibbs.--Hoffmann. The Irishman.--Godwin. Escape of a royalist general.--Smollett. Lismahago.--v. 2. Hope, T. Euphrosyne.--Sterne. Le Fevre.--Nares, E. A friendly visit.--Richardson. Trial scene in Pamela.--Surr, T.S. The founder of a family.--Maturia. Story of a parricide.--Fielding. Jail scene in Amelia.--More, J. The slave.--Morier, J. Yusuf the Armenian.--Boccaccio. Andreuccio of Perugia.--'St. Johnstoun,' James VI. at Holyrood.--Hook, T. Danvers.--Edgeworth, Miss. The dun.--Le Sage. The archbishop.--Goethe. The minstrel and Mignon.--Irving, W. Von Proffenburgh.

Bibliography of the published writings of President G. Stanley Hall.

Cover title.

The culture of ancient Israel,

Rise of the people of Israel (tr. by A. H. Gunlogsen)--Moses, the founder of monotheistic religion (tr. by Lydia G. Robinson)--The education of children in ancient Israel (tr. by W. H. Carruth)--Music in the Old Testament (tr. by Lydia G. Robinson)--The Psalms in universal literature (tr. by W. H. Carruth)