Who's who in the World, 2006
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Total Pages: 3021
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Publitec Publications
Publisher: Gale Cengage
Published: 2004-11
Total Pages: 586
ISBN-13: 9782903188221
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis completely updated and revised biographical directory gives complete and unbiased information on 2,000 prominent and distinguished persons in Lebanon, including foreign residents, who by virtue of their achievements in their respective fields or by the influential positions they hold have gained recognition in public life or in private sectors. Other additional information is also conveniently provided, including details on Lebanon's constitution, its government, official awards and other facts of political and economic life. This work complements Who's Who in the Arab World, which covers the 19 additional Arab countries.
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Publisher: iSmithers Rapra Publishing
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9781847350039
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jack Goldsmith
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2006-03-17
Total Pages: 239
ISBN-13: 0198034806
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIs the Internet erasing national borders? Will the future of the Net be set by Internet engineers, rogue programmers, the United Nations, or powerful countries? Who's really in control of what's happening on the Net? In this provocative new book, Jack Goldsmith and Tim Wu tell the fascinating story of the Internet's challenge to governmental rule in the 1990s, and the ensuing battles with governments around the world. It's a book about the fate of one idea--that the Internet might liberate us forever from government, borders, and even our physical selves. We learn of Google's struggles with the French government and Yahoo's capitulation to the Chinese regime; of how the European Union sets privacy standards on the Net for the entire world; and of eBay's struggles with fraud and how it slowly learned to trust the FBI. In a decade of events the original vision is uprooted, as governments time and time again assert their power to direct the future of the Internet. The destiny of the Internet over the next decades, argue Goldsmith and Wu, will reflect the interests of powerful nations and the conflicts within and between them. While acknowledging the many attractions of the earliest visions of the Internet, the authors describe the new order, and speaking to both its surprising virtues and unavoidable vices. Far from destroying the Internet, the experience of the last decade has lead to a quiet rediscovery of some of the oldest functions and justifications for territorial government. While territorial governments have unavoidable problems, it has proven hard to replace what legitimacy governments have, and harder yet to replace the system of rule of law that controls the unchecked evils of anarchy. While the Net will change some of the ways that territorial states govern, it will not diminish the oldest and most fundamental roles of government and challenges of governance. Well written and filled with fascinating examples, including colorful portraits of many key players in Internet history, this is a work that is bound to stir heated debate in the cyberspace community.
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Freedom House
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 924
ISBN-13: 9780742558038
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFreedom in the World, the Freedom House flagship survey whose findings have been published annually since 1972, is the standard-setting comparative assessment of global political rights and civil liberties. The survey ratings and narrative reports on 192 countries and a group of select territories are used by policy makers, the media, international corporations, and civic activists and human rights defenders to monitor trends in democracy and track improvements and setbacks in freedom worldwide. Press accounts of the survey findings appear in hundreds of influential newspapers in the United States and abroad and form the basis of numerous radio and television reports. The Freedom in the World political rights and civil liberties ratings are determined through a multi-layered process of research and evaluation by a team of regional analysts and eminent scholars. The analysts used a broad range of sources of information, including foreign and domestic news reports, academic studies, nongovernmental organizations, think tanks, individual professional contacts, and visits to the region, in conducting their research. The methodology of the survey is derived in large measure from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and these standards are applied to all countries and territories, irrespective of geographical location, ethnic or religious composition, or level of economic development.