Constitution Law Vocabulary In Use: 1500+ Essential Legal Terms And Phrases Explained With Examples You Must Know About Constitution Law For Legal ... by Richard Hampton Price verified 2 hours ago

The best Civil vocabulary and terminology book in 2023! • Are you ready to unlock the key to legal success? Welcome to "Constitution Law Vocabulary In Use: 1500+ Essential Legal Terms And Phrases Explained With Examples You Must Know About Constitution Law For Legal Success." - This groundbreaking book is your ultimate solution for mastering the intricacies of constitution law and achieving excellence in the legal field. • Have you ever found yourself struggling to navigate the labyrinth of constitution law terminology? ...

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Living Trusts and Estate Planning for Beginners: What you need to know to confidently protect your assets using a living trust, leave an inheritance, ... by F.R. Ferguson Price verified 2 hours ago

Stop delaying; protect what matters to you most! If you need help understanding living trusts and estate planning and need a trusted and relevant resource to eliminate your worries about living trusts and the estate planning process, look no further. When estate planning is done right, you can have peace of mind and stop worrying about what can happen to your loved ones (or charities), assets, and legacy. Living Trusts and Estate Planning for Beginners is your compass to help you navigate the complexities of living trusts and the ...

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National Real Estate License Exam Prep: Your Complete Study Solution with In-Depth Knowledge, 500 Expertly Explained Questions and Proven Test ... by Alexander Walters (PROPERTY PRO ACADEMY) (1 Review)    Price verified 3 hours ago

Ace Your Real Estate Exam with Ease! Feeling overwhelmed by the vast amount of study materials? Struggling with complex topics? Limited study time? Simplify your preparation with the National Real Estate License Exam Prep, your streamlined pathway to passing the Real Estate Licensing Exam. Streamline Your Study Process Imagine mastering the content needed to pass your real estate exam effortlessly. The National Real Estate License Exam Prep condenses vast information into digestible parts, making your study sessions more efficient ...

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Democracy falling apart (Open Acces): Role and Function of Judicial Independence, Separation of Powers and the Rule of Law in a Constitutional ... by Thomas Stadelmann (1 Review)    Price verified 8 hours ago

Die Europäische Richtervereinigung EAJ beschäftigt sich seit Jahren mit der Situation der Justiz und des Rechtsstaates in Europa. Sie stellt mit grosser Sorge fest, dass die Unabhängigkeit der Justiz, die Gewaltenteilung und die Rule of Law in vielen Ländern keine Selbstverständlichkeit mehr sind. Ein Beispiel für diese negative Entwicklung - in ihrem Ausmass in diesem Jahrhundert einmalig - sind die Geschehnisse in der Türkei. Die Beiträge in diesem Buch stammen von Richterinnen und Richtern aus ganz Europa und von ...

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Sentencing in Time by Linda Ross Meyer (1 Review)    Price verified 3 hours ago

Exactly how is it we think the ends of justice are accomplished by sentencing someone to a term in prison? How do we relate a quantitative measure of time -- months and years -- to the objectives of deterring crime, punishing wrongdoers, and accomplishing justice for those touched by a criminal act? Linda Ross Meyer investigates these questions, examining the disconnect between our two basic modes of thinking about time -- chronologically (seconds, minutes, hours), or phenomenologically (observing, taking note of, or being aware of ...

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Self and Other: Object Relations in Psychoanalysis and Literature (Psychoanalytic Crossroads) by Robert Rogers (NYU Press) Price verified 6 hours ago

In Self and Other, Robert Rogers presents a powerful argument for the adoption of a theory of object relations, combining the best features of traditional psychoanalytic theory with contemporary views on attachment behavior and intersubjectivity. Rogers discusses theory in relation both to actual psychoanalytic case histories and imagined selves found in literature, and provides a critical rereading of the case histories of Freud, Winnicott, Lichtenstein, Sechehaye, and Bettelheim. At once scientific and humanistic, Self and Other ...

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Indian Law For A Common Man: A simple Law guide for every Indian. Master the fundamentals of Law in 3 hours. by Sree Krishna Seelam (11 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

Discover the Magic of Law - Made Simple! Ever felt like the Law is a puzzle you can't crack? Meet "Indian Law for a Common Man," your friendly guide to understanding law without headaches! No fancy terms, just clear explanations - Unlock the Power of Legal Knowledge in Just 3 Hours! Uncover your rights and what you need to know as a citizen. Whether you're a student, worker, or a curious person, this book makes law easy, from property to protection and more. No more confusion - be law-smart, starting now! ? Unlock legal secrets ...

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Beyond the Binary: Gender and Legal Personhood in Islamic Law by Saadia Yacoob (University of California Press) Price verified 4 hours ago

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. One of the most hotly debated issues in contemporary Muslim ethics is the status of women in Islamic law. Whereas Muslim conservatives argue that gender-differentiated legal rulings reflect complementary gender roles, Muslim feminists argue that Islamic law has subordinated women and is thus in need of reform. The shared assumption on both sides, however, is that ...

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Judicial Governance and Democracy in Europe (SpringerBriefs in Law) by Pablo Castillo-Ortiz (Springer) (1 Review)    Price verified 4 hours ago

This is an Open Access book. Amid the growing debate about models of judicial governance and their relationship to democratic quality, this book offers a systematic and empirical study of this relationship. The book thereby contributes to filling in this gap for the European continent. Taking an interdisciplinary politics and law perspective, and combining empirical and theoretical considerations, the book addresses the important link between democracy and judicial governance. In particular, it provides for three interconnected ...

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Integrationism and the Self: Reflections on the Legal Personhood of Animals (Routledge Advances in Communication and Linguistic Theory) by Christopher Hutton (Routledge) Price verified 6 hours ago

In recent years a set of challenging questions have arisen in relation to the status of animals; their treatment by human beings; their cognitive abilities; and the nature of their feelings, emotions, and capacity for suffering. This ground-breaking book draws from integrational semiology to investigate arguments around the rights of certain animals to be recognized as legal persons, thereby granting them many of the protections enjoyed by humans. In parallel with these debates, the question of the legal personality of artificial ...

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Negrophobia and Reasonable Racism: The Hidden Costs of Being Black in America (Critical America Book 32) by Jody David Armour (NYU Press) (21 Reviews)    Price verified 5 hours ago

Tackling the ugly secret of unconscious racism in American society, this book provides specific solutions to counter this entrenched phenomenon.

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Playing War: Military Video Games After 9/11 by Matthew Thomas Payne (2 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

Explores the culture that made military shooter video games popular, and key in understanding the War on Terror No video game genre has been more popular or more lucrative in recent years than the "military shooter." Franchises such as Call of Duty, Battlefield, and those bearing Tom Clancy's name turn over billions of dollars annually by promising to immerse players in historic and near-future battles, converting the reality of contemporary conflicts into playable, experiences. In the aftermath of 9/11, these games transformed a ...

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Making Race in the Courtroom: The Legal Construction of Three Races in Early New Orleans by Kenneth R. Aslakson (NYU Press) (1 Review)    Price verified 3 hours ago

No American city's history better illustrates both the possibilities for alternative racial models and the role of the law in shaping racial identity than New Orleans, Louisiana, which prior to the Civil War was home to America's most privileged community of people of African descent. In the eyes of the law, New Orleans's free people of color did not belong to the same race as enslaved Africans and African-Americans. While slaves were "negroes," free people of color were gens de couleur libre, creoles of color, or simply creoles. New ...

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Neither Fugitive nor Free: Atlantic Slavery, Freedom Suits, and the Legal Culture of Travel (America and the Long 19th Century Book 8) by Edlie L. Wong (NYU Press) Price verified 3 hours ago

Part of the American Literatures Initiative Series Neither Fugitive nor Free draws on the freedom suit as recorded in the press and court documents to offer a critically and historically engaged understanding of the freedom celebrated in the literary and cultural histories of transatlantic abolitionism. Freedom suits involved those enslaved valets, nurses, and maids who accompanied slaveholders onto free soil. Once brought into a free jurisdiction, these attendants became informally free, even if they were taken back to a slave ...

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Breaking the Devil’s Pact: The Battle to Free the Teamsters from the Mob by James B. Jacobs (NYU Press) (1 Review)    Price verified 7 hours ago

An in-depth study of the U.S. v. the International Brotherhood of Teamsters In 1988, Manhattan U.S. Attorney Rudy Giuliani brought a massive civil racketeering suit against the leadership of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT), at the time possibly the most corrupt union in the world. The lawsuit charged that the mafia had operated the IBT as a racketeering enterprise for decades, systematically violating the rights of members and furthering the interests of organized crime. On the eve of trial, the parties settled the ...

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Surveillance Cinema (Postmillennial Pop Book 2) by Catherine Zimmer (NYU Press) (1 Review)    Price verified 2 hours ago

In Paris, a static video camera keeps watch on a bourgeois home. In Portland, a webcam documents the torture and murder of kidnap victims. And in clandestine intelligence offices around the world, satellite technologies relentlessly pursue the targets of global conspiracies. Such plots represent only a fraction of the surveillance narratives that have become commonplace in recent cinema. Catherine Zimmer examines how technology and ideology have come together in cinematic form to play a functional role in the politics of ...

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Victims in the War on Crime: The Use and Abuse of Victims' Rights (Critical America Book 47) by Markus Dirk Dubber (NYU Press) (1 Review)    Price verified 3 hours ago

Two phenomena have shaped American criminal law for the past thirty years: the war on crime and the victims' rights movement. As incapacitation has replaced rehabilitation as the dominant ideology of punishment, reflecting a shift from an identification with defendants to an identification with victims, the war on crime has victimized offenders and victims alike. What we need instead, Dubber argues, is a system which adequately recognizes both victims and defendants as persons. Victims in the War on Crime is the first book to ...

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The Essential Agus: The Writings of Jacob B. Agus by Steven T. Katz (NYU Press) (1 Review)    Price verified 3 hours ago

Rabbi Jacob Agus' (1911-1986) intellectual production spanned nearly a half century and covered an enormous historical and conceptual range, from the biblical to the modern era. Best known as an important Jewish scholar, he also held important rabbinic, teaching, and public positions. Although born and raised within an orthodox setting, Agus was strongly influenced by American liberalism and his work displayed modernizing sympathies, reservations about nationalism--including some forms of Zionism--and often severe criticisms of ...

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Choosing the Future for American Juvenile Justice (Youth, Crime, and Justice Book 5) by Franklin E. Zimring (NYU Press) (8 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

This is a hopeful but complicated era for those with ambitions to reform the juvenile courts and youth-serving public institutions in the United States. As advocates plea for major reforms, many fear the public backlash in making dramatic changes. Choosing the Future for American Juvenile Justice provides a look at the recent trends in juvenile justice as well as suggestions for reforms and policy changes in the future. Should youth be treated as adults when they break the law? How can youth be deterred from crime? What ...

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Postmodern Legal Movements: Law and Jurisprudence At Century's End by Gary Minda (NYU Press) (2 Reviews)    Price verified 7 hours ago

A wide-ranging and comprehensive survey of modern legal scholarship and the evolution of law in America What do Catharine MacKinnon, the legacy of Brown v. Board of Education, and Lani Guinier have in common? All have, in recent years, become flashpoints for different approaches to legal reform. In the last quarter century, the study and practice of law have been profoundly influenced by a number of powerful new movements; academics and activists alike are rethinking the interaction between law and society, focusing more on the ...

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Loving Justice: Legal Emotions in William Blackstone's England by Kathryn D. Temple (2 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

A history of legal emotions in William Blackstone's England and their relationship to justice William Blackstone's masterpiece, Commentaries on the Laws of England (1765-1769), famously took the "ungodly jumble" of English law and transformed it into an elegant and easily transportable four-volume summary. Soon after publication, the work became an international monument not only to English law, but to universal English concepts of justice and what Blackstone called "the immutable laws of good and evil." Most legal historians ...

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The Ugly Laws: Disability in Public (The History of Disability Book 3) by Susan M. Schweik (NYU Press) (34 Reviews)    Price verified 7 hours ago

The murky history behind municipal laws criminalizing disability In the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries, municipal laws targeting "unsightly beggars" sprang up in cities across America. Seeming to criminalize disability and thus offering a visceral example of discrimination, these "ugly laws" have become a sort of shorthand for oppression in disability studies, law, and the arts. In this watershed study of the ugly laws, Susan M. Schweik uncovers the murky history behind the laws, situating the varied legislation in ...

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Black Litigants in the Antebellum American South (The John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture) by Kimberly M. Welch (The University of North Carolina Press) (6 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

In the antebellum Natchez district, in the heart of slave country, black people sued white people in all-white courtrooms. They sued to enforce the terms of their contracts, recover unpaid debts, recuperate back wages, and claim damages for assault. They sued in conflicts over property and personal status. And they often won. Based on new research conducted in courthouse basements and storage sheds in rural Mississippi and Louisiana, Kimberly Welch draws on over 1,000 examples of free and enslaved black litigants who used the courts ...

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INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY ACT- SUPREME COURT’S LEADING CASE LAWS : CASE NOTES- FACTS- FINDINGS OF APEX COURT JUDGES & CITATIONS by Jayprakash Bansilal Somani (1 Review)    Price verified 3 hours ago

This book is related to the Supreme Court of India's Leading 20 Case Laws on 'Information Technology Act. Relevant Sections, Case Note-Facts-Findings of the Hon'ble Apex Court and Citation are given for each case. It will be useful for the Advocates of the Trial Courts, Session Courts, Tribunals, High Courts, Supreme Court, Corporates & Individuals. This book is containing a synopsis of 20 leading causes of the Apex Court. Following points are given for each leading case. 1. Name of the Case i. e. Cause title 2. Relevant Sections ...

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Hybrid Justice: The Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (Law, Meaning, And Violence) by John D. Ciorciari (University of Michigan Press) (1 Review)    Price verified 3 hours ago

Since 2006, the United Nations and Cambodian Government have participated in the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, a hybrid tribunal created to try key Khmer Rouge officials for crimes of the Pol Pot era. In Hybrid Justice, John D. Ciorciari and Anne Heindel examine the contentious politics behind the tribunal's creation, its flawed legal and institutional design, and the frequent politicized impasses that have undermined its ability to deliver credible and efficient justice and leave a positive legacy. They also draw ...

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Citizens into Dishonored Felons: Felony Disenfranchisement, Honor, and Rehabilitation in Germany, 1806-1933 (Studies in German History Book 28) by Timon de Groot (Berghahn Books) Price verified 7 hours ago

Over the course of its history, the German Empire increasingly withheld basic rights -- such as joining the army, holding public office, and even voting -- as a form of legal punishment. Dishonored offenders were often stigmatized in both formal and informal ways, as their convictions shaped how they were treated in prisons, their position in the labour market, and their access to rehabilitative resources. With a focus on Imperial Germany's criminal policies and their afterlives in the Weimar era, Citizens into Dishonored Felons ...

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Covid-19 and Capitalism: Success and Failure of the Legal Methods for Dealing with a Pandemic (Economic and Financial Law & Policy – Shifting ... by Koen Byttebier (Springer) (1 Review)    Price verified 3 hours ago

This open access book provides a comprehensive analysis of the socioeconomic determinants of Covid-19. From the end of 2019 until presently, the world has been ravaged by the Covid-19 pandemic. Although the cause of this is (obviously) a virus, the extent to which this virus spread, and therefore the number of infections and deaths, was largely determined by socio-economic factors. From this, it follows that the course of the pandemic varies greatly from one country to another. This observation applies both to countries' resilience ...

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Risiko & Recht 01/2023 by Thomas Noll Price verified 6 hours ago

Risiko & Recht macht es sich zur Aufgabe, Rechtsfragen der modernen Risikogesellschaft zu analysieren. Berücksichtigung finden Entwicklungen in verschiedensten Gebieten, von denen Sicherheitsrisiken für Private, die öffentliche Ordnung, staatliche Einrichtungen und kritische Infrastrukturen ausgehen. Zu neuartigen Risiken führt zuvorderst der digitale Transformationsprozess und der damit verbundene Einsatz künstlicher Intelligenz; des Weiteren hat die Covid-Pandemie Risikopotentiale im Gesundheitssektor verdeutlicht und auch der ...

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Responsible Innovation: Business Opportunities and Strategies for Implementation (SpringerBriefs in Research and Innovation Governance) by Katharina Jarmai (Springer) (10 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

This Open Access book, Responsible innovation provides benefits for society, for instance more sustainable products, more engagement with consumers and less anxiety about emerging technologies. As a governance tool it is mostly driven by research funders, including the European Commission, under the term "responsible research and innovation" (RRI). To achieve uptake in private industry is a challenge. This book provides successful case studies for the implementation of responsible innovation in businesses. The importance of social ...

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Human Rights Standards: Hegemony, Law, and Politics (SUNY series, James N. Rosenau series in Global Politics) by Makau Mutua (SUNY Press) (1 Review)    Price verified 3 hours ago

How are human rights norms made, who makes them, and why? In Human Rights Standards, Makau Mutua traces the history of the human rights project and critically explores how the norms of the human rights movement have been created. Examining key texts and documents published since the inception of the human rights movement at the end of World War II, he crafts a bracing critique of these works from the hitherto underutilized perspective of the Global South. Attention is focused on the deficits of the international order and how that ...

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Women in Antitrust: Antitrust across the borders by Verônica de Castro Lameira (1 Review)    Price verified 3 hours ago

This is the first international book of the Women in Antitrust Network and we could not be more grateful for the opportunity to carry out this project and happier with the result. The ambition to organize a book written by women from different countries and nationalities rose from the success of the national book "Mulheres no Antitruste", which is already in its 6th edition, as well as from the WIA's dream of expanding the reach of its projects and introducing them to women from antitrust academic community outside Brazil. Aiming to ...

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Foundations of a Sociology of Canon Law by Judith Hahn (Springer) (1 Review)    Price verified 3 hours ago

This "Open Access" book investigates the legal reality of the church through a sociological lens and from the perspective of canon law studies, the discipline which researches the law and the legal structure of the Catholic Church. It introduces readers from various backgrounds to the sociology of canon law, which is both a legal and a theological field of study, and is the first step towards introducing a new subdiscipline of the sociology of canon law. As a theoretical approach to mapping out this field, it asks what theology and ...

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Collapsing Structures and Public Mismanagement by Wolfgang Seibel (Palgrave Macmillan) (1 Review)    Price verified 3 hours ago

This open access book is about mismanagement of public agencies as a threat to life and limb. Collapsing bridges and buildings kill people and often leave many more injured. Such disasters do not happen out of the blue nor are they purely technical in nature since construction and maintenance are subject to safety regulation and enforcement by governmental agencies. This book analyses four relevant cases from Australia, New Zealand, the USA and Germany. Arguing that, while preventing disaster through public oversight is essentially ...

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Equality within Our Lifetimes: How Laws and Policies Can Close—or Widen—Gender Gaps in Economies Worldwide by Jody Heymann (University of California Press) (2 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Well into the twenty-first century, achieving gender equality in the economy remains unfinished business. Worldwide, women's employment, income, and leadership opportunities lag men's. Building and using a one-of-a-kind database that covers 193 countries, this book systematically analyzes how far we've come and how far we have to go in adopting evidence-based ...

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Race and the Law in South Carolina: From Slavery to Jim Crow by John Wertheimer (Amherst College Press) (1 Review)    Price verified 3 hours ago

This first title in the "Law, Literature & Culture" series uses six legal disputes from the South Carolina courts to illuminate the complex legal history of race in the U.S. South from slavery through Jim Crow. The first two cases -- one criminal, one civil -- both illuminate the extreme oppressiveness of slavery. The third explores labor relations between newly emancipated Black agricultural workers and white landowners during Reconstruction. The remaining cases investigate three prominent features of the Jim Crow system: segregated ...

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Digital Humanism: For a Humane Transformation of Democracy, Economy and Culture in the Digital Age by Julian Nida-Rümelin (Springer) (1 Review)    Price verified 4 hours ago

This open access book deals with cultural and philosophical aspects of artificial intelligence (AI) and pleads for a "digital humanism". This term is beginning to be en vogue everywhere. Due to a growing discontentment with the way digitalization is being used in the world, particularly formulated by former heroes of Internet, social media and search engine companies, philosophical as well as industrial thought leaders begin to plead for a humane use of digital tools. Yet the term "digital humanism" is a particular terminology that ...

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Latin America in Times of Turbulence: Presidentialism under Stress (Routledge Studies in Latin American Politics) by Mariana Llanos (Routledge) (1 Review)    Price verified 3 hours ago

The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com/doi/view/10.4324/9781003324249, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. This book accounts for and analyses the latest developments in Latin American presidential democracies, with a special focus on political institutions. The stellar line-up of renowned scholars of Latin American politics and institutions from Latin America, Europe, and the United States offer new insights into how ...

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Book of the Disappeared: The Quest for Transnational Justice (Ethnic Conflict: Studies in Nationality, Race, and Culture) by Jennifer Heath (University of Michigan Press) (2 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

Book of the Disappeared confronts worldwide human rights violations of enforced disappearance and genocide and explores the global quest for justice with forceful, outstanding contributions by respected scholars, expert practitioners, and provocative contemporary artists. This profoundly humane book spotlights our historic inhumanity while offering insights for survival and transformation.

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Rangeland Systems: Processes, Management and Challenges (Springer Series on Environmental Management) by David D. Briske (Springer) (9 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

This book is open access under a CC BY-NC 2.5 license. This book provides an unprecedented synthesis of the current status of scientific and management knowledge regarding global rangelands and the major challenges that confront them. It has been organized around three major themes. The first summarizes the conceptual advances that have occurred in the rangeland profession. The second addresses the implications of these conceptual advances to management and policy. The third assesses several major challenges confronting global ...

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Online Dispute Resolution for Consumers in the European Union (Routledge Research in Information Technology and E-Commerce Law) by Pablo Cortés (Routledge) (17 Reviews)    Price verified 7 hours ago

A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via www.tandfebooks.com as well as the OAPEN Library platform, www.oapen.org. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license and is part of the OAPEN-UK research project. E-commerce offers immense challenges to traditional dispute resolution methods, as it entails parties often located in different parts of the world making contracts with each other at the click of a mouse. The use of traditional litigation for ...

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South-North Migration of EU Citizens in Times of Crisis (IMISCOE Research Series) by Jean-Michel Lafleur (Springer) (3 Reviews)    Price verified 6 hours ago

This open access book looks at the migration of Southern European EU citizens (from Portugal, Spain, Italy, Greece) who move to Northern European Member States (Belgium, France, Germany, United Kingdom) in response to the global economic crisis. Its objective is twofold. First, it identifies the scale and nature of this new Southern European emigration and examines these migrants' socio-economic integration in Northern European destination countries. This is achieved through an analysis of the most recent data on flows and profiles ...

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Monitoring State Compliance with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child: An Analysis of Attributes (Children’s Well-Being: Indicators and ... by Ziba Vaghri (Springer) (1 Review)    Price verified 8 hours ago

This open access book presents a discussion on human rights-based attributes for each article pertinent to the substantive rights of children, as defined in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). It provides the reader with a unique and clear overview of the scope and core content of the articles, together with an analysis of the latest jurisprudence of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child. For each article of the UNCRC, the authors explore the nature and scope of corresponding State obligations, and ...

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Recovering Identity: Criminalized Women's Fight for Dignity and Freedom by Cesraéa Rumpf (University of California Press) (1 Review)    Price verified 3 hours ago

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Recovering Identity examines a critical tension in criminalized women's identity work. Through in-depth qualitative and photo-elicitation interviews, Cesraéa Rumpf shows how formerly incarcerated women engaged recovery and faith-based discourses to craft rehabilitated identities, defined in opposition to past identities as "criminal-addicts." While these discourses ...

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The Climate-Smart Agriculture Papers: Investigating the Business of a Productive, Resilient and Low Emission Future by Todd S. Rosenstock (Springer) (7 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This volume shares new data relating to Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA), with emphasis on experiences in Eastern and Southern Africa. The book is a collection of research by authors from over 30 institutions, spanning the public and private sectors, with specific knowledge on agricultural development in the region discussed. The material is assembled to answer key questions on the following five topic areas: (1) Climate impacts: What are the most significant current and near future ...

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Security in Computer and Information Sciences: Second International Symposium, EuroCybersec 2021, Nice, France, October 25–26, 2021, Revised ... by Erol Gelenbe (Springer) (2 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

This open access book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences, EuroCybersec 2021, held in Nice, France, in October 2021. The 9 papers presented together with 1 invited paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 21 submissions. The papers focus on topics of security of distributed interconnected systems, software systems, Internet of Things, health informatics systems, energy systems, digital cities, digital economy, mobile networks, and the ...

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The Implementation of Free, Prior and Informed Consent and Indigenous Peoples' Rights under the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises: An ... by Fanny Pulver (buch & netz) (1 Review)    Price verified 3 hours ago

Corporations have become powerful actors exerting increasing influence on society and the living conditions of individuals worldwide, including indigenous peoples. While it is recognized that corporations have a responsibility to respect indigenous peoples' rights and the important safeguard concept of free, prior and informed consent (FPIC), it is rather unclear what such a corporate responsibility entails from a legal perspective. This doctoral thesis thoroughly analyses the regulatory framework pertaining to indigenous peoples and ...

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Familia y privación de la libertad en Colombia (Spanish Edition) by Carol Iván Abaunza Forero (SciELO - Editorial Universidad del Rosario) (1 Review)    Price verified 7 hours ago

"Esta obra es el resultado de la investigación denominada "Familia y privación de la libertad" realizada durante los años 2014 y 2015 por el equipo de investigación en asuntos penitenciarios y carcelarios del Instituto Rosarista de Acción Social -SERES-. Esta investigación tenía por objetivo establecer los impactos de la privación de la libertad en las familias y sus dinámicas, desde los puntos de vista jurídico, económico, psicológico y social, de acuerdo con la percepción y vivencia personal de las personas privadas de ...

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Cyber Security: 19th China Annual Conference, CNCERT 2022, Beijing, China, August 16–17, 2022, Revised Selected Papers (Communications in Computer ... by Wei Lu (Springer) Price verified 8 hours ago

This open access book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th China Annual Conference on Cyber Security, CNCERT 2022, held in Beijing, China, in August 2022. The 17 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 64 submissions. The papers are organized according to the following topical sections: ??data security; anomaly detection; cryptocurrency; information security; vulnerabilities; mobile internet; threat intelligence; text recognition.

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Disruptions as Opportunities: Governing Chinese Society with Interactive Authoritarianism (China Understandings Today) by Taiyi Sun (University of Michigan Press) Price verified 4 hours ago

Disruptions as Opportunities: Governing Chinese Society with Interactive Authoritarianism addresses the long-standing puzzle of why China outlived other one-party authoritarian regimes with particular attention to how the state manages an emerging civil society. Drawing upon over 1,200 survey responses conducted in 126 villages in the Sichuan province, as well as 70 interviews conducted with Civil Society Organization (CSO) leaders and government officials, participant observation, and online research, the book proposes a new theory ...

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Perspectives on Digital Humanism by Hannes Werthner (Springer) (1 Review)    Price verified 5 hours ago

This open access book aims to set an agenda for research and action in the field of Digital Humanism through short essays written by selected thinkers from a variety of disciplines, including computer science, philosophy, education, law, economics, history, anthropology, political science, and sociology. This initiative emerged from the Vienna Manifesto on Digital Humanism and the associated lecture series. Digital Humanism deals with the complex relationships between people and machines in digital times. It acknowledges the ...

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Smooth Path or Long and Winding Road?: How Institutions Shape the Transition from Higher Education to Work by Kathrin Leuze (BUDRICH) (1 Review)    Price verified 7 hours ago

The book uses a comparative study of Germany and Britain to reveal how national institutions shape the labour market careers of higher education graduates. It identifies four institutional spheres that are important: the structure of higher education systems, the content of study, the structure of graduate labour markets, and labour market flexibility. Due to country differences, the transition from higher education to work in Germany follows a smooth path, while in Britain it is more comparable to a long and winding road.

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Crisis Management Beyond the Humanitarian-Development Nexus (Routledge Humanitarian Studies) by Atsushi Hanatani (Routledge) (1 Review)    Price verified 4 hours ago

In addressing humanitarian crises, the international community has long understood the need to extend beyond providing immediate relief, and to engage with long-term recovery activities and the prevention of similar crises in the future. However, this continuum from short-term relief to rehabilitation and development has often proved difficult to achieve. This book aims to shed light on the continuum of humanitarian crisis management, particularly from the viewpoint of major bilateral donors and agencies. Focusing on cases of armed ...

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Walled Culture: How Big Content Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Keep Creators Poor by Glyn Moody (BTF Press) (6 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

Ed Sheeran and Dua Lipa get sued for alleged plagiarism and the majority of creators see pennies for their work, while the revenues of the record labels are exploding. Libraries struggle to give access to ebooks and get sued by an increasingly more powerful book industry, while publicly funded research papers get locked up. Walled Culture is the first book providing a compact, non-technical history of digital copyright and its problems over the last 30 years, and the social, economic and technological implications. This book ...

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The League of Nations and its Problems Three Lectures by L. (Lassa) Oppenheim (4 Reviews)    Price verified 4 hours ago

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

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Biocultural Rights, Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities: Protecting Culture and the Environment (Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies) by Fabien Girard (Routledge) (3 Reviews)    Price verified 4 hours ago

This volume presents a comprehensive overview of biocultural rights, examining how we can promote the role of indigenous peoples and local communities as environmental stewards and how we can ensure that their ways of life are protected. With Biocultural Community Protocols (BCPs) or Community Protocols (CPs) being increasingly seen as a powerful way of tackling this immense challenge, this book investigates these new instruments and considers the lessons that can be learnt about the situation of indigenous peoples and local ...

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Just War and Human Rights: Fighting with Right Intention (SUNY Press Open Access) by Todd Burkhardt (SUNY Press) (6 Reviews)    Price verified 5 hours ago

Warfare in the twenty-first century presents significant challenges to the modern state. Serious questions have arisen about the use of drones, target selection, civilian exposure to harm, intervening for humanitarian reasons, and war as a means of forcing regime change. In Just War and Human Rights Todd Burkhardt argues that updating the laws of war and reforming just war theory is needed. A twenty-year veteran of the US Army, Burkhardt claims that war is impermissible unless it is engaged, fought, and concluded with right ...

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Ayotzinapa y la crisis del estado neoliberal mexicano (ReVisión Universitaria) (Spanish Edition) by David Velasco Yáñez (ITESO) (17 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

¿Qué pasó en Ayotzinapa? Es la pregunta que surgió el 26 de septiembre de 2014, que no encuentra una respuesta satisfactoria pese a la intervención de actores de distintas instancias, niveles y nacionalidades, y al esbozo de múltiples hipótesis sobre los enfrentamientos registrados en Iguala, Guerrero, que derivaron en la muerte de varias personas y la desaparición de 43 estudiantes de la Normal Rural "Isidro Burgos", en una tragedia que evidenció la crisis que atraviesa el estado mexicano y que afecta a todo el país. A ...

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Pandemics: Insurance and Social Protection (Springer Actuarial) by María del Carmen Boado-Penas (Springer) (2 Reviews)    Price verified 7 hours ago

This open access book collects expert contributions on actuarial modelling and related topics, from machine learning to legal aspects, and reflects on possible insurance designs during an epidemic/pandemic. Starting by considering the impulse given by COVID-19 to the insurance industry and to actuarial research, the text covers compartment models, mortality changes during a pandemic, risk-sharing in the presence of low probability events, group testing, compositional data analysis for detecting data inconsistencies, behaviouristic ...

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Renegotiating the Welfare State: Flexible Adjustment through Corporatist Concertation (Routledge Studies in the Political Economy of the Welfare ... by Gerhard Lehmbruch (Routledge) (4 Reviews)    Price verified 5 hours ago

Why have some countries have been more successful in welfare state reform than others? This book examines the experiences of various countries in reforming their welfare states through renegotiations between the state and peak associations of employers and employees. This corporatist concertation has been blamed for bringing about all the ills of the welfare state, but lately corporate institutions have learned from their bad performances, modified their structures and style of operation, and assumed responsibility for welfare state ...

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Agroecological Transitions: From Theory to Practice in Local Participatory Design by Jacques-Eric Bergez (Springer) (2 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

This Open Access book presents feedback from the 'Territorial Agroecological Transition in Action'- TATA-BOX research project, which was devoted to these specific issues. The multidisciplinary and multi-organisation research team steered a four-year action-research process in two territories of France. It also presents: i) the key dimensions to be considered when dealing with agroecological transition: diversity of agriculture models, management of uncertainties, polycentric governance, autonomies, and role of actors' networks; ii) ...

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Balancing Privacy and Free Speech: Unwanted Attention in the Age of Social Media (Routledge Research in Information Technology and E-Commerce Law) by Mark Tunick (Routledge) (1 Review)    Price verified 8 hours ago

In an age of smartphones, Facebook and YouTube, privacy may seem to be a norm of the past. This book addresses ethical and legal questions that arise when media technologies are used to give individuals unwanted attention. Drawing from a broad range of cases within the US, UK, Australia, Europe, and elsewhere, Mark Tunick asks whether privacy interests can ever be weightier than society's interest in free speech and access to information. Taking a comparative and interdisciplinary approach, and drawing on the work of political ...

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Deprivation of Liberty in the Shadows of the Institution (Law, Society, Policy) by Lucy Series (14 Reviews)    Price verified 7 hours ago

ePDF and ePUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. During the 20th century the locus of care shifted from large institutions into the community. However, this shift was not always accompanied by liberation from restrictive practices. In 2014 a UK Supreme Court ruling on the meaning of 'deprivation of liberty' resulted in large numbers of older and disabled people in care homes, supported living and family homes being re-categorized as 'detained'. Placing this ruling in its social, historical and global context, this book ...

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Understanding the Creeping Crisis by Arjen Boin (Palgrave Macmillan) (2 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

This open access book explores a special species of trouble afflicting modern societies: creeping crises. These crises evolve over time, reveal themselves in different ways, and resist comprehensive responses despite periodic public attention. As a result, these crises continue to creep in front of our eyes. This book begins by defining the concept of a creeping crisis, showing how existing literature fails to properly define and explore this phenomenon and outlining the challenges such crises pose to practitioners. Drawing on ...

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Governing the Pandemic: The Politics of Navigating a Mega-Crisis by Arjen Boin (Palgrave Pivot) (2 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

This open access book offers unique insights into how governments and governing systems, particularly in advanced economies, have responded to the immense challenges of managing the coronavirus pandemic and the ensuing disease COVID-19. Written by three eminent scholars in the field of the politics and policy of crisis management, it offers a unique 'bird's eye' view of the immense logistical and political challenges of addressing a worst-case scenario that would prove the ultimate stress test for societies, governments, governing ...

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National Constitutions in European and Global Governance: Democracy, Rights, the Rule of Law: National Reports by Anneli Albi (T.M.C. Asser Press) (3 Reviews)    Price verified 5 hours ago

This two-volume book, published open access, brings together leading scholars of constitutional law from twenty-nine European countries to revisit the role of national constitutions at a time when decision-making has increasingly shifted to the European and transnational level. It offers important insights into three areas. First, it explores how constitutions reflect the transfer of powers from domestic to European and global institutions. Secondly, it revisits substantive constitutional values, such as the protection of ...

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Police Matters: The Everyday State and Caste Politics in South India, 1900–1975 by Radha Kumar (Cornell University Press) (7 Reviews)    Price verified 7 hours ago

Police Matters moves beyond the city to examine the intertwined nature of police and caste in the Tamil countryside. Radha Kumar argues that the colonial police deployed rigid notions of caste in their everyday tasks, refashioning rural identities in a process that has cast long postcolonial shadows. Kumar draws on previously unexplored police archives to enter the dusty streets and market squares where local constables walked, following their gaze and observing their actions towards potential subversives. Station records present a ...

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Economic Sanctions in International Law and Practice (Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics Book 146) by Masahiko Asada (Routledge) (9 Reviews)    Price verified 7 hours ago

Providing perspectives from a range of experts, including international lawyers, political scientists, and practitioners, this book assesses current theory and practice of economic sanctions, discussing current legal and political challenges faced by the international community. It examines both the implementation of sanctions by major powers - the United States, the European Union, and Japan - as well as assessing the impact of those sanctions through case studies of Russia, Iran, Syria, and North Korea. Balancing theoretical ...

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Law, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Terrorism by Roger Douglas (University of Michigan Press) (2 Reviews)    Price verified 4 hours ago

Roger Douglas compares responses to terrorism by five liberal democracies -- the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand -- over the past 15 years. He examines each nation's development and implementation of counterterrorism law, specifically in the areas of information-gathering, the definition of terrorist offenses, due process for the accused, detention, and torture and other forms of coercive questioning. Douglas finds that terrorist attacks elicit pressures for quick responses, often allowing ...

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Public Administration in Germany (Governance and Public Management) by Sabine Kuhlmann (Palgrave Macmillan) (5 Reviews)    Price verified 4 hours ago

This open access book presents a topical, comprehensive and differentiated analysis of Germany's public administration and reforms. It provides an overview on key elements of German public administration at the federal, Länder and local levels of government as well as on current reform activities of the public sector. It examines the key institutional features of German public administration; the changing relationships between public administration, society and the private sector; the administrative reforms at different levels of ...

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Policy-Oriented Technology Assessment Across Europe: Expanding Capacities by Lars Klüver (Palgrave Macmillan) (2 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

This book is open access under a CC-BY license. Policy-making to address grand challenges faces greater complexity than any previous project of modernization. Future scenarios are haunted by uncertainty and there is real ambivalence as to the values that policy should strive for. In this situation decision-makers look to research and innovation to provide answers and solutions. But neither can the great transitions ahead be planned by science, nor will conventional methods of innovation bring such transitions about. A turn to ...

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Law as Reproduction and Revolution: An Interconnected History by Bryant G. Garth (University of California Press) (6 Reviews)    Price verified 5 hours ago

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org This sweeping book details the extent to which the legal revolution emanating from the US has transformed legal hierarchies of power across the globe, while also analyzing the conjoined global histories of law and social change from the Middle Ages to today. It examines the global proliferation of large corporate law firms -- a US invention -- along with US legal education approaches geared toward those corporate law firms. This ...

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Democracy under stress: The global crisis and beyond by Ursula J. van Beek (BUDRICH) (2 Reviews)    Price verified 4 hours ago

This book focuses on the global financial crisis of 2008-2009 and its implications for democracy. Why and how did the crisis come about? Are there any instructive lessons to be drawn from comparisons with the Great Depression of the 1930s? What are the democratic response mechanisms to cope with serious crises? Do they work? Is China a new trend setter? Do values matter? Are global democratic rules a possibility? These are some of the key questions addressed in the volume.

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Exploring Cultural Identities in Jean Rhys’ Fiction by Cristina-Georgiana Voicu (De Gruyter Open Poland) (1 Review)    Price verified 2 hours ago

Using a theoretical approach and a critical summary, combining the perspectives in the postcolonial theory, psychoanalysis and narratology with the tools of hermeneutics and deconstruction, this book argues that Jean Rhys's work can be subsumed under a poetics of cultural identity and hybridity. It also demonstrates the validity of the concept of hybridization as the expression of identity formation; the cultural boundaries variability; the opposition self-otherness, authenticity-fiction, trans-textuality; and the relevance of an ...

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Outsourcing Legal Aid in the Nordic Welfare States by Olaf Halvorsen Rønning (Palgrave Macmillan) (3 Reviews)    Price verified 5 hours ago

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This edited collection provides a comprehensive analysis of the differences and similarities between civil legal aid schemes in the Nordic countries whilst outlining recent legal aid transformations in their respective welfare states. Based on in-depth studies of Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, and Iceland, the authors compare these cases with legal aid in Europe and the US to examine whether a single, unique Nordic model exists. Contextualizing Nordic legal aid in relation to ...

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Madame Bovary on Trial by Dominick LaCapra (Cornell University Press) (9 Reviews)    Price verified 3 hours ago

In 1857, following the publication of Madame Bovary, Flaubert was charged with having committed an "outrage to public morality and religion." Dominick LaCapra, an intellectual historian with wide-ranging literary interests, here examines this remarkable trial. LaCapra draws on material from Flaubert's correspondence, the work of literary critics, and Jean-Paul Sartre's analysis of Flaubert. LaCapra maintains that Madame Bovary is at the intersection of the traditional and the modern novel, simultaneously invoking conventional ...

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The Endangered Species Act: History, Implementation, Successes, and Controversies by J. Peyton Doub (CRC Press) (6 Reviews)    Price verified 5 hours ago

The complex regulations of the Endangered Species Act can be challenging for environmental professionals who must comply with them or assist clients in compliance. This volume discusses the Act using clear scientific prose that all professionals can readily comprehend. It explores the history and the basic scientific theory underlying the Act. It provides an overview of its key provisions and examines the Act in the context of other key environmental planning statutes. The book also details the regulatory processes faced by other ...

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The Endangered Species Act: History, Implementation, Successes, and Controversies by J. Peyton Doub (CRC Press) (6 Reviews)    Price verified 8 hours ago

The complex regulations of the Endangered Species Act can be challenging for environmental professionals who must comply with them or assist clients in compliance. This volume discusses the Act using clear scientific prose that all professionals can readily comprehend. It explores the history and the basic scientific theory underlying the Act. It provides an overview of its key provisions and examines the Act in the context of other key environmental planning statutes. The book also details the regulatory processes faced by other ...

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Coronavirus Politics: The Comparative Politics and Policy of COVID-19 by Scott L. Greer (University of Michigan Press) (9 Reviews)    Price verified 2 hours ago

COVID-19 is the most significant global crisis of any of our lifetimes. The numbers have been stupefying, whether of infection and mortality, the scale of public health measures, or the economic consequences of shutdown. Coronavirus Politics identifies key threads in the global comparative discussion that continue to shed light on COVID-19 and shape debates about what it means for scholarship in health and comparative politics. Editors Scott L. Greer, Elizabeth J. King, Elize Massard da Fonseca, and André Peralta-Santos bring ...

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Combatting Illicit Trade on the EU Border: A Comparative Perspective by Celina Nowak (Springer) (1 Review)    Price verified 3 hours ago

This open access book provides the first-ever comparative study on criminal policy concerning the illicit trade of tobacco, conducted among four comparatively new EU Member States (Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia and Romania) and two "old" EU countries (Germany and Italy). The book addresses the national legal frameworks, current criminological situation regarding illicit trade of tobacco, and the practical challenges faced by national law enforcement authorities in the countries examined. It also considers the international framework, ...

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Punishment and Political Order (Law, Meaning, And Violence) by Keally McBride (University of Michigan Press) (5 Reviews)    Price verified 47 minutes ago

Most of us think of punishment as an ugly display of power. But punishment also tells us something about the ideals and aspirations of a people and their government. How a state punishes reveals whether or not it is confident in its own legitimacy and sovereignty. Punishment and Political Order examines the questions raised by the state's exercise of punitive power -- from what it is about human psychology that desires sanction and order to how the state can administer pain while calling for justice. Keally McBride's book ...

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