Global horizons

an introduction to international relations

CONTENTS: List of Figures and Tables Preface Introduction The Dawn of the Global Event Horizon Pt. I International Security 1 Tools of the Trade (1): Understanding War and Peace from Three Perspectives 2 Tools of the Trade (2): Game Theory 3 World War I 4 ...

Contemporary canadian federalism

foundations, traditions, institutions

Ed. Alain G. Gagnon. First published in French in 2006, Le fA(c)dA(c)ralisme canadien contemporain was immediately recognised as the most comprehensive collection of reflections on Canadian federalism by leading QuA(c)bA(c) cois scholars. This remarkable translation of a range ...

The transformation of the Supreme Court of Canada

an empirical examination

In the last half-century, the Supreme Court of Canada has undergone major upheaval. The most drastic change occurred with the adoption of the Charter of Rights in 1982, which substantially increased the Court's role in resolving controversial political and social issues. The Transformation of ...

Intelligent control

developments in public order policing in Canada

Investigating the ways in which police practices have evolved in relation to labour strikes and protests, Intelligent Control examines the means by which police forces have developed more coercive and consent-based approaches to regulating social unrest.

Impersonations

troubling the person in Law and culture

Personhood is considered at once a sign of legal-political status and of socio-cultural agency, synonymous with the rational individual, subject, or citizen. Yet, in an era of life-extending technologies, genetic engineering, corporate social responsibility, and smart technology, the definition of the person is neither benign ...

Governing the energy challenge

Canada and Germany in a multi-level regional and global context

Eds. Burkard Eberlein, G. Bruce Doern. As energy prices continue to soar, there is an equally growing interest in how better to manage and regulate energy sources and their production. Governing the Energy Challenge is a comparative study between Canada and Germany that features essays ...

The laughter of the Saints

parodies of Holiness in Late Medieval and Renaissance Spain

Between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries in Spain, a large number of parodic works were produced that featured depictions of humourous, satirical, and comical saints. The Laughter of the Saints examines this rich carnivalesque tradition of parodied holy men and women and traces their influence ...

Vengeance in Medieval Europe

a reader

Eds. Daniel Lord Smail, Kelly Gibson. How did medieval society deal with private justice, with grudges, and with violent emotions? This ground-breaking reader collects for the first time a number of unpublished or difficult-to-find texts that address violence and emotion in the Middle Ages.The ...

Between Renaissance and Baroque

Jesuit Art in Rome, 1565-1610

Between Renaissance and Baroque is a stunning achievement - the first book to be written about the original painting commissions of the Jesuits in Rome. Offering a uniquely comprehensive and comparative analysis of the paintings and stuccoes which adorned all of the Jesuit foundations in the ...

Jazz age Barcelona

One of the world's renowned centres of culture, Barcelona is also one of the capitals of modernist art given its associations with the talents of Dali, Picasso, and Gaudi. Jazz Age Barcelona focuses the lenses of cultural studies and urban studies on the avant-garde ...

Sustainability and the civil commons

rural communities in the age of globalization

Often used but little understood, the word 'sustainability' is potent in its ability to evoke a better world based on economic, social, and environmental justice. The concept of sustainability, however, has been strikingly under-theorized. "Sustainability and the Civil Commons" provides what has been lacking since ...

The politics of public money

spenders, guardians, priority setters, and financial watchdogs inside the Caadian Government

Public money is perhaps the quintessential currency of influence for politicians and public servants inside government. It shapes how they undertake the nation's business and it impacts on the standards of living in the country. "The Politics of Public Money" examines the extent to ...

Eradicationg the Devil's minions

anabaptists and witches in reformation Europe

As a religious sect, the Anabaptists were seen to practice unusual rituals and follow an eccentric set of beliefs. One story, for instance, purports that an Anabaptist prophet, claiming to have visited heaven, persuaded his followers to run naked through the streets of Amsterdam. "Eradicating ...

Anaxagoras of Clazomenae

fragments and Testimonia

Anaxagoras of Clazomenae (circa. 500 B.C. - 428 B.C.) was reportedly the first Presocratic philosopher to settle in Athens. He was a friend of Pericles and his ideas are reflected in the works of Sophocles and Aristophanes. Anaxagoras asserted that Mind is the ordering ...

Poyln

my life within jewish life in Poland: sketches and images

Originally published between 1946 and 1953, "Poyln" (Poland) is one of the treasures of Yiddish literature. Despite its reputation, the book has not been fully translated into English until now. Written by Yehiel Yeshaia Trunk, a prominent Polish Jewish writer, "Poyln" is a colorful epic ...

David Hume's political theory

Law, commerce, and the constitution of government

David Hume (1711-1776) is perhaps best known for his treatises on problems of epistemology, skepticism, and causation. A less familiar side of his intellectual output is his work on legal and political theory. David Hume's "Political Theory" brings together Hume's diverse writings on ...

Figuring the feminine

the rhetoric of female embodiment in medical hispanic literature

"Figuring the Feminine" examines the female body as a means of articulating questions of literary authority and practice within the cultural spheres of the Iberian Peninsula (both Romance and Semitic) as well as in the larger Latinate literary culture. It demonstrates the centrality in medieval ...

The emotions of the Ancient Greeks

studies in Aristotle and classical literature

It is generally assumed that whatever else has changed about the human condition since the dawn of civilization, basic human emotions - love, fear, anger, envy, shame - have remained constant. David Konstan, however, argues that the emotions of the ancient Greeks were in some significant respects ...

Governing throug globalised crime

futures for international criminal justice

"Governing through Globalised Crime" provides an analysis of the impact of globalization of crime on the governance capacity of the international criminal justice system. It explores how the perceived increased risk in global security has resulted in a reformulation of the relationship between crime and ...

The first voyage around the World 1519-1522

an account of Magellan's expedition

On August 10, 1519, five ships departed from Seville for what was to become the first circumnavigation of the earth. Linked by fame to the name of its captain, Magellan, much of the expedition is known through the travelogue of one of the few crew ...

The persons case

the origins and legacy of the fight for legal personhood

On 18 October 1929, John Sankey, Englanda??s reform-minded Lord Chancellor, ruled in the Persons case that women were eligible for appointment to Canadaa??s Senate. Initiated by Edmonton judge Emily Murphy and four other activist women, the Persons case challenged the exclusion of women ...

The stages of property

copyrighting theatre in Spain

The manner in which a play is published often says as much about the culture that it comes from as the play itself. Using the example of nineteenth-century Spanish theatre, "The Stages of Property" argues that there is a great deal one can learn about ...