The Law of reinsurance

Written by a team of specialists in the field, this new book is a must have for all those dealing with reinsurance law matters. It fills the gap for a much needed specialist text on reinsurance that is both practical and authoritative, and avoids discussion ...

Juvenile delinquency

prevention, assessment, and intervention

Juvenile offending and anti-social behaviour are enormous societal concerns. This broad-reaching volume summarizes the current evidence on prevention, diversion, causes, and rates of delinquency, as well as assessment of risk and intervention needs. A distinguished cast of contributors from law, psychology, and psychiatry describe what ...

International Human Rights lexicon

Table of Contents Arms Children Culture Death Penalty Democracy Detention Development Disability Disappearances Education Fair Trial Food Globalization Health Housing Indigenous Peoples International Crimes Media Privacy Protest Racism Refugees Religion Sexuality Terrorism Torture Universality Victims Women Work

Writings on Common Law and Hereditary right

This volume in the Clarendon Edition of the Works of Thomas Hobbes contains A dialogue between a philosopher and a student, of the common laws of England, edited by Alan Cromartie, supplemented by the important fragment on the issue of regal succession, 'Questions relative to ...

Constitutional environmental rights

This book shows why a fundamental right to an adequate environment ought to be provided in the constitution of any modern democratic state. This book is the first to examine the question from the perspective of political theory. It explains why the right to an ...

Making the EMU

the politics of Budgetary surveillance and the enforcement Maastricht

Losers' consent

elections and democratic legitimacy

Building Europe's Parliament

democratic representation beyond the nation-state

Democracy in Latin America

political change in comparative perspective

The politics of earth

environmental discourses

Manu's Code of Law

a critical edition and translation of the Manava-Dharmasastra

The Constitution of independence

the development of constitutional theory in Australia, Canada, and New Zealand

The Constitution of Independence is a contribution to the newly rejuvenated subject of comparative Commonwealth constitutional law, politics, and history. In Australia, Canada, and New Zealand, a series of fascinating developments have been under way for more than a decade, characterized by independent thinking, experimentation ...

Leadership and management in the 21st century

business challenges of the future

This volume brings together the thoughts of leading figures from industry, academia, the public sector, professional bodies, and the media, to reflect on what the twenty-first century may mean for businesses and their leaders. The contributors examine what trends the mark the global economy in ...

Africana

the encyclopedia of the African and African American experience

Ninety years after W.E.B. Du Bois first articulated the need for "the equivalent of a black Encyclopedia Britannica," Kwame Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates Jr., realized his vision by publishing Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience in 1999 ...

The Greek wars

the failure of Persia

The Greek Wars treats of the whole course of Persian relations with the Greeks from the coming of Cyrus in the 540s down to Alexander the Great's defeat of Darius III in 331 BC. Cawkwell discusses from a Persian perspective major questions such as ...

Happiness

the science behind your smile

Carry me back

the domestic slave trade in American life

Carry Me Back is a study of the slave trade in national perspective. It explores the origins of the slave trade; the rise and fall of the cotton kingdom; the growth of a market economy in the South and the role slave labor played in ...

Defending God

biblical responses to the problem of Evil

In the ancient Near East, when the gods detected gross impropriety in their ranks, they subjected their own to trial. When mortals suspect their gods of wrongdoing, do they have the right to put them on trial? What lies behind the human endeavor to impose ...

Europe and the making of modernity

1815-1914

A history of Mathematics

from Mesopotamia to modernity

A History of Mathematics: From Mesopotamia to Modernity covers the evolution of mathematics through time and across the major Eastern and Western civilizations. It begins in Babylon, then describes the trials and tribulations of the Greek mathematicians. The important, and often neglected, influence of both ...

Kant and the empiricists

understanding understanding

Waxman here presents an ambitious and comprehensive attempt to link the philosophers known as the British Empiricists--Locke, Berkeley, and Hume--to the philosophy of Immanuel Kant. Much has been written about all these thinkers but Waxman argues that, contrary to conventional wisdom, Kant is actually the ...

Kant's system of nature and freedom

selected essays