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The Oxford handbook of genocide studies

Eds. Donald Bloxham, A. Dirk Moses. Genocide has scarred human societies since Antiquity. In the modern era, genocide has been a global phenomenon: from massacres in colonial America, Africa, and Australia to the Holocaust of European Jewry and mass death in Maoist China. In recent ...

The philosophy of international Law

Eds. Samantha Besson, John Tasioulas. International law has recently emerged as the subject-matter of an exciting new field of philosophical investigation. The Philosophy of International Law contains 29 cutting-edge essays by leading philosophers and international lawyers, all published here in English for the first time ...

The legal system

The Legal System provides an overview of the institutions, personnel, and procedures that make up the legal system in England and Wales. Current changes are explained and critically evaluated, and the text explores a number of key competing themes and underlying tensions which run through ...

The Early Byzantine Historians

The Early Byzantine Historians is the first original study of every significant Byzantine historian from Eusebius of Caesarea (c.255-339) to Theophylact Simocatta (c.585-after 641?). Written for general readers as well as professional scholars, and filled with new discoveries and interpretations, the book presents ...

Nursing Ethics

a Virtue-Based Approach

In this book the author critiques traditional obligation-based moral theories and develops instead an account of a virtue-based approach within contemporary nursing practice. Biography: ALAN E. ARMSTRONG is Senior Lecturer in Nursing at the University of Central Lancashire.

Sentenze imperfette

gli errori cognitivi nei giudizi civili

Legislatori e giuristi elaborano continuamente istituti per far fronte agli errori giudiziari. Gran parte degli interventi riguardano il piano sanzionatorio e compensativo: ci si chiede cosa fare quando l'errore sia stato commesso, come ripristinare l'ordine giuridico violato, come compensare gli eventuali danni, come ...

Introduzione al Diritto dell'Unione Europea

Il Trattato di Lisbona, entrato in vigore il 1° dicembre 2009, ha determinato un#ampia riforma dell#Unione europea. Rispondendo all#esigenza di disporre di strumenti di informazione aggiornati, il volume espone in maniera chiara e precisa la parte generale del diritto dell#Unione europea ...

International security

politics, policy, prospects

An exceptionally wide-ranging introduction to International Security in the 21st Century. This takes a distinctively systematic approach centred on how and why particular issues get onto the international security agenda and particular choices and outcomes ensue, assessing the explanatory power of contending approaches in this ...

Religious freedom and the Constitution

Religion has become a charged token in a politics of division. In disputes about faith-based social services, public money for religious schools, the Pledge of Allegiance, Ten Commandments monuments, the theory of evolution, and many other topics, angry contestation threatens to displace America's historic ...

Contemporary Archaeology in Theory

The New Pragmatism

Eds. Robert W. Preucel and Stephen A. Mrozowski. The second edition of Contemporary Archaeology in Theory: The New Pragmatism, has been thoroughly updated and revised, and features top scholars who redefine the theoretical and political agendas of the field, and challenge the usual distinctions between ...

Research Methods in Geography

a Critical Introduction

Eds. Basil Gomez and John Paul Jones III. This comprehensive textbook offers a conceptual and practical introduction to research methodology, data collection, and techniques used in both human and physical geography. - Explores a full range of contemporary geographic techniques, including statistics, mathematical analysis, GIS, and ...

Global Ethics

an Introduction

The field of global ethics draws on traditions of moral theory, mostly derived from western philosophy, in order to address moral problems specific to an increasingly globalised world. This book provides an accessible introduction to the field of global ethics for students of politics, international ...

Archaeological Semiotics

This interdisciplinary book examines archaeology#s engagement with semiotics, from its early structuralist beginnings to its more recent Peircian encounters. It represents the first sustained engagement with Peircian semiotics in archaeology, as well as the first discussion of how pragmatic anthropology articulates with anthropological archaeology ...

In the Name of God

the Evolution Origins of Religious Ethics and Violence

Religion is one of the most powerful forces running through human history, and although often presented as a force for good, its impact is frequently violent and divisive. This provocative work brings together cutting-edge research from both evolutionary and cognitive psychology to help readers understand ...

The Etymologies of Isidore of Seville

Eds. Stephen A. Barney...[et al.] This work is a complete English translation of the Latin Etymologies of Isidore, Bishop of Seville (c.560#636). Isidore compiled the work between c.615 and the early 630s and it takes the form of an encyclopedia, arranged ...

Nuclear Weapons

What You Need to Know

This book is a history of nuclear weapons. From their initial theoretical development at the start of the twentieth century to the recent tests in North Korea, Jeremy Bernstein seeks to describe the basic science of nuclear weaponry at each point in the narrative. At ...

A Social History of Ottoman Istanbul

Using a wealth of contemporary Ottoman sources, this book recreates the social history of Istanbul, a huge, cosmopolitan metropolis and imperial capital of the Ottoman Empire. Seat of the sultan and an opulent international emporium, Istanbul was also a city of violence, shaken regularly by ...

War in an Age of Revolution, 1775-1815

Eds. Roger Chickering and Stig Förster. This volume investigates a critical moment in the history of warfare. It assembles historians of the early modern and modern eras to speak to one another across the great historiographical divide that has traditionally separated them. The central questions ...

Legitimacy in EU cartel control

This book examines the law developed by the EU to control cartels. The law, including case-law, is carefully documented and analysed against a standard of legitimacy which questions the EU's enforcement measures, its institutional structures, policy choices, substantive law, evidentiary standards and procedures and ...