Sail up the beautiful Monongahela River as the various assortments are traveling with the Olde Salte of a Sailor on the steamship, the Pedelkee Steamer. This book does answer the question, "What's a Pedelkee?" The yardapes return along with the dachshunds, Heidi and Squirrel. Discover the home habitat of the Rocky Mountain Oysters and dine at Cafe Bowl-a-Far. If possible, avoid the dish of revenge, best served cold. You will meet the Chief Prettiest Officer and quake at the Master and Commander, lord of all she purveys. So get to Zigtootinburg, PA, buy your ticket, set up a deck chair and...

Three teenagers are caught in the hot Cold War between the Imperial Island of Atlantis and the Iron Nation of Athens. Two boys come across a kidnap victim before the youth is sold into slavery. Will they be able to rescue and return the youth to Egypt. All three must contend with sorcery, science, myths, legends, and twelve corrupt angels known as the Nephilim. This is Book 1 of the Mindforce Saga.

Moving beyond the current fixation on "state construction," the interdisciplinary work gathered here explores regulatory authority in South Sudan's borderlands from both contemporary and historical perspectives. Taken together, these studies show how emerging governance practices challenge the bounded categorizations of "state" and "non-state."

Papers from a workshop held at Durham University in April 2011.

This work engages with a fundamental question in the study of African history and politics: to what extent did the colonial state re-define the character of local politics in the societies it governed? Existing scholarship on Darfur under the Anglo-Egyptian Condominium (1916-1956) has suggested that colonial governance here represented either straightforward continuity or utterly transformative change from the region's deep history of independent statehood under the Darfur Sultanate. This book argues that neither view is adequate: it shows that British rule bequeathed a culture of governance...