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This groundbreaking survey explains why war remains predominant in today's world by showing how the spread of nationalism and capitalism has brought about modern warfare. It argues that the key explanation for modern conflict, which is characterized by violent conflicts between nation-states, civil war, and wars over resources, rests in the dialectical relationship between nation-states and capitalist modes of production, where nations have finite boundaries that capitalism seek to transcend in search of increased profits. Discussing issues such as globalization, global capitalism, North...

It's February along the shores of Northern Lake Michigan.

A heavy blanket of snow has been building up in the woods since early November and the inland lakes have had a solid covering of ice since December. Shelf ice, stacked ten or fifteen feet in places, has been building on Lake Michigan for weeks.

Sheriff Ray Elkins, responding to a late-night home invasion call, discovers the brutal murder of a local artist at her home deep in the woods. Elkins works to understand complex lives and relationships as he pursues a brilliant and brutal adversary.

IT IS LATE JUNE IN MICHIGAN'S GOLD COAST RESORT AREA.

The summer residents are settling in for the season and the tourists are beginning to flood the highways and beaches. But the idyllic vision of a summer at the shore is suddenly shattered by a gangland-style shooting. This murder is quickly followed by the deaths of three more summer residents, each taking place under suspicious circumstances.

At time hindered by local politics and the proverbial tension between the "summer people" and the "natives," Sheriff Ray Elkins searches for the possible links between the four...

Medieval Murders is a prequel to the Ray Elkins mystery series. If you are a reader of the series, you know that the first four books are set in Cedar County, an amalgam of the many lakes, forests, and towns found in northwest lower Michigan. In these books there are references to Ray's earlier professional life when he taught criminal justice at a large Midwestern state university. The plot in Medieval Murders revolves around the deaths of three members of the English department. It's a younger Ray Elkins, more hair, fewer pounds, but still very grounded....

Gewinnen Sie einen Einblick in 80 Jahre spannende Geschichte der Universitatsklinik Munster:

• von der Etablierung des Fachgebiets Dermatologie auf Universitatsebene im Jahr 1925
• von Zerstorung, Chaos und Untergang im 3. Reich und
• ihrer Rolle beim Sieg im Kampf gegen die Hauttuberkulose.

Die Geschichte der Dermatologie wird lebendig durch die umfangreiche Moulagensammlung der Universitatshautklinik Munster. Moulagen (Wachsmodelle) sind lebensecht aussehende Nachbildungen erkrankter Korperteile, die ab...