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German corporate governance in international and european context

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the German corporate governance model to English speaking readers. It provides an introduction to the unique features of German Business and Enterprise Law. The book deals with the most important company organs, namely the General Meeting, the Management ...

Diplomacy and international Law in globalized relations

Diplomacy is transforming and expanding its role as the method of interstate relations to a general instrument of communication among globalized societies. Adapting to globalization the practice of diplomacy is shared by non-state participants, thus becoming privatized and popularized. With the strife for common values ...

The liability of classification societies

Classification societies are discharging various functions in the interest of flag States and shipowners. They are important actors in the system of maritime safety. Because the liability of shipowners is limited, classification societies have been considered as exempt from liability for a long time, and ...

The archaeometallurgy of cooper

evidence from Faynan, Jordan

The book deals with the ancient exploitation and production of copper, exemplified by the mining district of Faynan, Jordan. It is an interdisciplinary study that comprises (mining-) archaeological and scientific aspects. The development of organisational patterns and technological improvements of mining and smelting through the ...

Climate change

environment and history of the near east

This survey of the ancient levels of lakes, rivers and the sea, as well as changes in the compositions of stalagmites and sediments reveals an astonishing correlation of climate changes with the emergence and collapse of civilizations in the Middle East. Each warm period has ...

Blasphemy in the christian world

a history

David Nash's new study focuses on the development of blasphemy in the Christian world. Tracing the subject from the Middle Ages to the present, he outlines the history of blasphemy as a concept, from a species of heresy to modern understandings of it as ...

The end of barbary terror

America's 1815 war against the pirates of North Africa

When Barbary pirates captured an obscure Yankee sailing brig off the coast of North Africa in 1812, enslaving eleven American sailors, President James Madison first tried to settle the issue through diplomacy. But when these efforts failed, he sent the largest American naval force ever ...

The beauty of the primitive

shamanism and the western imagination

For the past forty years shamanism has drawn increasing attention among the general public and academics. There is an enormous literature on shamanism, but no one has tried to understand why and how Western intellectual and popular culture became so fascinated with the topic. Behind ...

Dynamic of destruction

culture and mass killing in the First World War

On 26 August 1914 the world-famous university library in the Belgian town of Louvain was looted and destroyed by German troops. The international community reacted in horror - 'Holocaust at Louvain' proclaimed the Daily Mail - and the behaviour of the Germans at Louvain came to be ...

Nations, States, and violence

Nations, States, and Violence presents a revisionist view of the sources of nationalism, the relationship of the nation to culture, and the implications of nationalism and cultural heterogeneity for the future of the nation-state. It accepts the now-standard view that national identities are not inherited ...

Barbarism and civilization

a history of Europe in our time

The twentieth century in Europe witnessed some of the most brutish episodes in history. Yet it also saw incontestable improvements in the conditions of existence for most inhabitants of the continent - from rising living standards and dramatically increased life expectancy, to the virtual elimination of ...

Evolution and religious creation myths

how scientists respond

Evolution and Religious Creation Myths arms the public with facts about the differences between myth and science, fiction and theory. The book begins with a whirlwind tour of creation stories and then explores the ways in which certain forms of religious fundamentalism clash with the ...

De l'existence à la nécessaire existence

chez Avicenne

A la charnière des premier et deuxième millénaires Ibn Sina médecin, chimiste et vizir, connu en Occident sous le nom d'Avicenne, domina de sa stature de " Maître par excellence " (" al-Sayh al-Ra'is ") la philosophie arabe. Son #uvre qui aborda toutes les branches de la ...

Fear of slaves-fear of enslavement in the ancient Mediterranean

peur de l'esclave-peur de l'esclavage en méditerranée ancienne (discours, représentations, pratiques). Actes du XXIXe Colloque du Groupe International de Recherche sur l'Esclavage dans l'Antiquité (GIREA), Rethymnon, 4-7 novembre 2004

Centré sur la problématique de la peur et de l'esclavage le 29e colloque du GIREA qui s'est tenu à Rethymnon en novembre 2004 s'est voulu un rassemblement international d'antiquisants qui a porté son attention sur une thématique qui incitait à l ...

La Sicile de Cicéron

lectures des Verrines. Actes du colloque de Paris, 19-20 mai 2006, organisé par l'UMR 8585

La confrontation des sources littéraires, juridiques, épigraphiques et archéologiques permet des enquêtes sur l'histoire de la Sicile au Ier siècle avant J.-C. Examine la nature du collectionnisme de Verrès, le droit, l'économie et la fiscalité sicilienne, les cités et la vie des ...

Céramiques hispaniques (XIIe-XVIIIe siècle)

L'apparition de la faïence lustrée dans les ateliers valenciens, au début du XVe siècle, entraîne un bouleversement profond du paysage de la céramique occidentale Deux innovations techniques sont conjointement à l'origine de ce nouveau décor : l'utilisation, pour le premier revêtement, d'une ...

Les "garanties légales des exigences constitutionnelles" dans la jurisprudence du Conseil Constitutionnel

Apparue dans la jurisprudence du Conseil constitutionnel en 1986, l'expression de " garanties légales des exigences constitutionnelles " est désormais régulièrement utilisée. Elle doit être lue en relation avec le considérant dans lequel elle est intégrée : s'il est loisible au législateur de modifier, de compléter ...

La notion d'indemnité en Droit privé

La notion d'indemnité irrigue l'ensemble du droit privé, aussi semble-t-elle évidente. Cependant, le droit ne la définit guère. L'application fréquente qui en est faite dans chaque branche du droit privé ne postule-t-elle d'ailleurs pas l'émiettement de la notion ? Cet écueil ...

Storia del Diritto in Europa

dal medioevo all'età contemporanea

Le sei sezioni del libro scandiscono le grandi epoche di una lunga vicenda storica: l'alto medioevo (sec. V-XI), il diritto comune classico (sec. XII-XV), l'età moderna (sec. XVI-XVIII), l'età delle riforme (1750-1814), l'età delle nazioni (1815-1914), il Novecento. I filoni principali ...

The british officer

leading the army from 1660 to the present

An Army officer must lead men into frightening and dangerous situations and sometimes make them do things that they never thought they could do. This book recounts how British officers have led their men, and commanded their respect, from the days of Marlborough to the ...