LAW ON FOOD SAFETY : Essential Legal Terms Explained You Need To Know About Law On Food Safety! by DR. PETER JOHNSON (6 Reviews)    Price verified 10 hours ago

Hurry up and get YOUR copy NOW? Mastering Essential Legal Terms Explained About LAW ON FOOD SAFETY? With a clear, concise, and engaging writing style, Dr. Peter Johnson will help you with a practical understanding of food safety law topics about principles of food safety management, state policies on food safety, prohibited acts, handling of violations of the law on food safety, rights and obligations of food traders, rights and obligations of food consumers, food advertisement, food safety inspection; provide you a road map to ...

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The Wolf of Wicklow by Iam Legend (3 Reviews)    Price verified 12 hours ago

One moment in life, incidental though it may seem, can change everything. A letter of complaint from a Guard costs one GAA volunteer coach it all... Because you can't escape the past. Cracks are only papered over. Old wounds never healed.

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Build Your Empire: A Law Firm Owner's Survival Guide to the Private Legal Industry by Katie Lipp (10 Reviews)    Price verified 12 hours ago

"I have so much energy to give for the lawyers that want to forge their own path. [... ] I'm about to let you in on a little secret. It's up to you to pave your way. I'm passing the torch. It's time to build your empire." -- Katie Lipp Many young lawyers are stressed out, depressed and unable to achieve the work-life balance that allows them to enjoy time with their families or spend their hard-earned money on the recreational activities that make them happy. That does not have to be you! In Build Your Empire, prominent lawyer, ...

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How to Buy a Home that Makes You Happy: Don't just buy a house; buy a home! by Jeni Temen (R Money Club) (17 Reviews)    Price verified 12 hours ago

STOP WASTING TIME AND MONEY WHEN BUYING A HOME! What if you reverse the process and instead of doing what a realtor or loan officer tells you to, you tell them how to work for you? What if you could eliminate all the running around and proceed with confidence? What if there is a secret in finding a home specifically for you to support your lifestyle, health money and harmony? You'd probably feel empowered, organized and save hundreds of hrs of wasted time and thousands of dollars too. THERE ARE NO SELL GIMMICKS HERE! Just ...

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Do Cops Really Eat Donuts?: Honest Answers About American Policing (Do Cops Really Eat Donuts? Honest Answers About American Policing Book 1) by Brian Boetig Price verified 6 hours ago

In this captivating trilogy to be released in 2024 and 2025, the author delves into the fascinating world of American policing through a series of questions and answers he's received from curious kindergartners to aspiring officers. Everyone has wondered about the enigmatic lives of cops, now, you'll get the inside scoop! Whether you're a true crime enthusiast, an aspiring officer, or simply curious about the men and women in blue, Do Cops Really Eat Donuts? serves up a delightful blend of facts, humor, and storytelling. Buckle up ...

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Unmasking the Hidden: A Guide to Conspiracy Theories, Media Manipulation, Cults, and Secret Societies by Joseph Sapp (1 Review)    Price verified 9 hours ago

Are you ready to delve into the mysterious world of media manipulation, conspiracy theories, cults, and secret societies? Unmasking the Hidden is a guide that will take you on a thrilling journey to uncover the truth behind the enigmatic forces that shape our understanding of the world. In this captivating and enlightening book, you'll discover: • How media manipulation influences public opinion and shapes our perception of reality • The fascinating world of conspiracy theories and their impact on society • An exploration ...

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Armed Reprisals from Medieval Times to 1945 (Studien zur Geschichte des Völkerrechts Book 40) by Christophe Wampach (1 Review)    Price verified 8 hours ago

Wie ist es zu erklären, dass sich die bewaffneten Repressalien den Normierungsbemühungen seit dem 19. Jh. entzogen, während diese nicht-kriegerische Maßnahme ein sensibles Thema im Völkerrecht darstellte? Ausgehend vom mittelalterlichen Repressalienrecht und seiner schwindenden Geltung in der Neuzeit beweist die Untersuchung, dass die Großmächte diese Gewaltanwendung in Friedenszeiten zum Privileg machten und sie in einer völkerrechtlichen Grauzone beließen. Dies ermöglichte es, militärische Repressalienhandlungen gegen ...

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The Only Estate Planning Book You’ll Ever Need: How to Organize Your Assets, Protect Your Loved Ones, Save Thousands On Legal Fees & Find The Right ... by Garrett Monroe (12 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

Brand New 2024 Version With The Latest Estate Planning Secrets Two Free Bonuses Included To Help Your Family/Loved Ones Benefit 5x More Discover How To Plan Your Estate With Ease, Protect Your Loved Ones For Generations, Avoid Hefty Legal Fees, And Unlock Tax Minimization Strategies Usually Reserved for the Wealthiest Individuals. "The Only Estate Planning Book You'll Ever Need" is your guide through the maze of estate planning. Avoid a legal mess for your loved ones with clear, actionable advice to help you establish a robust ...

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Self and Other: Object Relations in Psychoanalysis and Literature (Psychoanalytic Crossroads) by Robert Rogers (NYU Press) Price verified 13 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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EB-5 United States Immigration Through Investment by Larry Behar (17 Reviews)    Price verified 12 hours ago

EB-5 UNITED STATES IMMIGRATION THROUGH INVESTMENT By Larry J. Behar Welcomes you to the incredible benefits, responsibilities and opportunities of the US congressionally mandated EB-5 program which creates a platform for foreign nationals to become lawful residents (green card holders).

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The Case of Literature: Forensic Narratives from Goethe to Kafka (Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought) by Arne Höcker (Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library) (1 Review)    Price verified 9 hours ago

In The Case of Literature, Arne Höcker offers a radical reassessment of the modern European literary canon. His reinterpretations of Goethe, Schiller, Büchner, Döblin, Musil, and Kafka show how literary and scientific narratives have determined each other over the past three centuries, and he argues that modern literature not only contributed to the development of the human sciences but also established itself as the privileged medium for a modern style of case-based reasoning. The Case of Literature deftly traces the role of ...

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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 (6 Reviews)    Price verified 9 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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Rural and Remote Communities as Non-State Actors: A Legal and Moral Argument (Routledge Research in International Law) by Ciprian Nicolae Radavoi Price verified 4 hours ago

While entities as different as armed groups, multinational corporations, political parties, megacities, labour unions, terrorist organisations, or indigenous peoples are mentioned as non-state actors in the relevant literature, rural communities are never referred to. This book addresses the role of rural communities as non-state actors, lifting this invisibility veil with arguments coming from three theories of/scholarly approaches to international law: positivism, sociolegal realism (the New Haven School), and constitutionalism. It ...

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Beyond the Binary: Gender and Legal Personhood in Islamic Law by Saadia Yacoob (University of California Press) Price verified one hour 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 10 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 11 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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Forensic Interviewing of Children Who Have Been Sexually Abused by Jane F. Gilgun Ph.D. LICSW (68 Reviews)    Price verified 5 hours ago

Interviewing children who have been sexually abused requires sensitive, responsive interviewers and an interview structure that fits children's level of development. Sensitivity is important because most children who have experienced child sexual abuse are traumatized and the interview itself can be stressful. The interviewers gather information about the nature of the abuse and the identification of the abusers. Any hint that the interviewer suggests answers to the children threatens the quality of the interview and therefore any ...

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Low-Paid EU Migrant Workers: The House, The Street, The Town by Catherine Barnard (Bristol University Press) Price verified 10 hours ago

EPDF and EPUB available open access under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This book offers an in-depth exploration of the lives of EU migrant workers in the UK following Brexit and COVID-19. Drawing on a longitudinal study, the book delves into the legal problems migrant workers face and sheds much-needed light on the hidden interactions between the law and communities around issues such as employment, housing, welfare and health. Through personal narratives and insights gathered from interviews, it reveals how (clustered) legal problems arise, ...

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America's Drug War is Devastating Mexico by Brian Saady (15 Reviews)    Price verified 4 hours ago

It's no secret that drug cartels have wreaked havoc upon Mexico, but the examples provided in this book will be unimaginable for the average American citizen. The profits from the drug war have enabled the cartels to incorporate into paramilitarized forces and their exploits adversely affect the lives of every Mexican in a variety of ways, such as the destruction of the rule of law and freedom of the press, along with rampant embezzlement of public funds. Mexico's drug traffickers have become an omnipresent force of organized crime ...

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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 13 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 4 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 9 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 5 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 37 minutes 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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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 7 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 37 minutes 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 9 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 9 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 9 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 12 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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Flex Cop: A Police Officer's Creative Approach to Conflict by Mark Andreas (Real People Press) (44 Reviews)    Price verified 13 hours ago

In this unusual booklet, a former Cincinnati police officer with a 30-year police career, details his experience of using totally outside-the-box approaches to managing conflict. While working on the Cincinnati police force, Michael Gardner was given responsibility for the most volatile cases because he developed such effective -- though unconventional -- ways of dealing with these dangerous situations. Whatever your life position or profession, these stories offer a wealth of creativity and flexibility we can all draw from. And if ...

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Editing and Advocacy by Patrick Barry (2 Reviews)    Price verified 13 hours ago

Good editors don't just see the sentence that was written. They see the sentence that might have been written. They know how to spot words that shouldn't be included and summon up ones that haven't yet appeared. Their value comes not just from preventing mistakes but from discovering new ways to improve a piece of writing's style, structure, and overall impact. This book -- which is based on a popular course taught at the University of Chicago Law School, the University of Michigan Law School, and the UCLA School of Law -- is ...

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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 9 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 9 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 13 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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End of the Road (The Rozzers Book 1) by Diem Burden (Shriven Books) (297 Reviews)    Price verified 12 hours ago

What is it about cops that we find so intriguing? Most people have strong views of the police, but how many of these views are based on evidence, and which are biased or stereotypes? What makes a person leave a perfectly normal life and join the police, putting themselves instantly into harms way, and suffering health issues that come with working a lifetime of shift-work, not to mention a messed-up social life? This is the true, short story of just such a person who ended up spending 12 years at the sharp end of policing in the ...

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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 12 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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Banishment in the Late Medieval Eastern Netherlands: Exile and Redemption in Kampen by Edda Frankot (1 Review)    Price verified 9 hours ago

This open access book analyses the practice of banishment and what it can tell us about the values of late medieval society concerning morally acceptable behaviour. It focuses on the Dutch town of Kampen and considers the exclusion of offenders through banishment and the redemption of individuals after their exile. Banishment was a common punishment in late medieval Europe, especially for sexual offences. In Kampen it was also meted out as a consequence of the non-payment of fines, after which people could arrange repayment schemes ...

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Risiko & Recht 01/2023 by Thomas Noll Price verified 7 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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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 9 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 10 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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Convening of General Meetings through Video Conferencing by Taxmann (3 Reviews)    Price verified 13 hours ago

'Convening of General Meeting through Video Conferencing' is a comprehensive book on the subject matter of General meetings. This book lucidly explains the provisions relating convening of general meetings via Video conferencing during Covid -19. Coverage: • Overview of provisions of the Companies Act, 2013 w.r.t. general meetings. • Analysis of MCA's Circular allowing shareholders meetings through video conferencing. • Role of CS & Chairman in conducting general meetings through video conferencing . • Practical issues ...

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Hindu Law and Judicature from the Dharma-Sástra of Yájnavalkya by Yájnavalkya (1 Review)    Price verified 7 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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Families and New Media: Comparative Perspectives on Digital Transformations in Law and Society (Juridicum – Schriften zum Medien-, Informations- ... by Nina Dethloff (1 Review)    Price verified 7 hours ago

The open access edited volume addresses children's rights and their ability to act in the digital world. The focus is on the position of children as subjects with their own rights and developing capacities. Their consideration by parents, courts and legislators is critically examined. Aspects of digital parenting, especially educational practices and strategies in the context of social media, are analyzed with regard to the tension between protection and participation of children. The edited volume brings debates on privacy and data ...

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Foundations of a Sociology of Canon Law by Judith Hahn (Springer) (1 Review)    Price verified 12 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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GST Transitional Credits - Disputes & Way Forward by CA S.S Gupta (Taxmann Publications Pvt. Ltd.) (2 Reviews)    Price verified 12 hours ago

This e-book discusses transitional credit issues under the GST regime. Issues discussed include: • Background of transitional provisions • Practical issues faced by Industry during transition to GST regime • Summarised judgements of various High Courts including Delhi High Court in case of Brand Equity and Madras High Court in case of P. K. Mani Electronics etc.

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Collapsing Structures and Public Mismanagement by Wolfgang Seibel (Palgrave Macmillan) (1 Review)    Price verified 4 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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State and Human Development in the Context of the Ideological Conflict between Capitalism and Communism by Zibrov O. S. (1 Review)    Price verified 5 hours ago

How did the change of the political system that followed the collapse of the USSR influence the development of our society? Was it for good of people or did it run counter to their interests? What advantages of the communist system could form the basis of the current capitalist regime in the country? Russia is a travesty of a social welfare state. State Duma members do not express the will of the electorate. Judges are dependent. Public authorities tend to satisfy their own interests.

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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 5 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 9 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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Cybersecurity of Digital Service Chains: Challenges, Methodologies, and Tools (Lecture Notes in Computer Science Book 13300) by Joanna Kołodziej (Springer) (5 Reviews)    Price verified 9 hours ago

This open access book presents the main scientific results from the H2020 GUARD project. The GUARD project aims at filling the current technological gap between software management paradigms and cybersecurity models, the latter still lacking orchestration and agility to effectively address the dynamicity of the former. This book provides a comprehensive review of the main concepts, architectures, algorithms, and non-technical aspects developed during three years of investigation; the description of the Smart Mobility use case ...

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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 5 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 7 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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Defending Checks and Balances in EU Member States: Taking Stock of Europe’s Actions (Beiträge zum ausländischen öffentlichen Recht und ... by Armin von Bogdandy Price verified 12 hours ago

This open access book deals with Article 7 TEU measures, court proceedings, financial sanctions and the EU Rule of Law Framework to protect EU values with a particular focus on checks and balances in EU Member States. It analyses substantive standards, powers, procedures as well as the consequences and implications of the various instruments. It combines the analysis of the European level, be it the EU or the Council of Europe, with that of the national level, in particular in Hungary and Poland. The LM judgment of the European Court ...

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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 4 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 7 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 9 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 5 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 37 minutes 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 9 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 9 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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Brexit and the Control of Tobacco Illicit Trade (SpringerBriefs in Law) by Marina Foltea (Springer) (2 Reviews)    Price verified 5 hours ago

This book assesses the consequences of Brexit for the control of illicit trade in tobacco products in the UK and EU. Based on the currently applicable legal framework, it examines the significance of a possible non-application of the acquis communautaire in the UK in matters relating to anti-illicit trade in tobacco legislation. It also analyses the modes of future cooperation between the UK and the EU in this area, as well as possible regulatory scenarios and their consequences. The book comprises six main sections. After the ...

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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 4 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 9 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 6 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 3 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 5 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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Phantom Billing, Fake Prescriptions, and the High Cost of Medicine: Health Care Fraud and What to Do about It (The Culture and Politics of Health ... by Terry L. Leap (5 Reviews)    Price verified 4 hours ago

U.S. health care is a $2.5 trillion system that accounts for more than 17 percent of the nation's GDP. It is also highly susceptible to fraud. Estimates vary, but some observers believe that as much as 10 percent of all medical billing involves some type of fraud. In 2009, New York's Medicaid fraud office recovered $283 million and obtained 148 criminal convictions. In July 2010, the U.S. Justice Department charged nearly 100 patients, doctors, and health care executives in five states of bilking the Medicare system out of more than ...

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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 minutes 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 6 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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Complications and Quandaries in the ICT Sector: Standard Essential Patents and Competition Issues by Ashish Bharadwaj (1 Review)    Price verified 6 hours ago

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. With technology standards becoming increasingly common, particularly in the information and communications technology (ICT) sector, the complexities and contradictions at the interface of intellectual property law and competition law have emerged strongly. This book talks about how the regulatory agencies and courts in the United States, European Union and India are dealing with the rising allegations of anti-competitive behaviour by standard essential patent (SEP) holders. It also ...

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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 9 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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Reproduction of Copyrighted Works By Educators and Librarians by Library of Congress. Copyright Office (2 Reviews)    Price verified 5 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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The League of Nations and its Problems Three Lectures by L. (Lassa) Oppenheim (4 Reviews)    Price verified 7 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 9 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 7 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 13 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 10 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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