Rowman Littlefield International: 550 books
Food, Environment, and Climate Change
Justice at the Intersections
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2018
This volume takes up the pressing issues of justice and responsibility that arise at the intersection of food and agricultural systems, environmental degradation, and global climate change. The diverse contributions examine both the various ways that food and agricultural practices contribute to environmental...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2018
The Martial Arts Studies Reader answers this need, by bringing together pioneers of the field and scholars at its cutting edges to offer authoritative and accessible insights into its key concerns and areas. Each chapter introduces and sets out an approach to and a route through a key issue in a specific...
by Rafe McGregor
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2018
This book introduces narrative justice, a new theory of aesthetic education – the thesis that the cultivation of aesthetic or artistic sensibility can both improve moral character and achieve political justice. The author argues that there is a subcategory of narrative representations that provide...
by Marie-Luise Angerer
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
Desire is a term often used in conjunction with the subject. This desire is directed towards the real, which is defined as the generic core of the linguistic order. As a result of the focus on affect, the three terms—desire, the subject, the real—have been fundamentally shaken up and called into...
Experimental Philosophy
A Critical Study
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2019
Over the past one and a half decades, the scope of experimental philosophy (x-phi) has expanded significantly. Experimental research programmes now cover almost all areas of philosophy, including epistemology, the philosophy of language, action theory, and the free will debate, to name just a few....
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Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
Critical Perspectives on Human Rights provides cutting-edge interventions into contemporary perspectives on rights, ethics and global justice. The chapters, written by leading scholars in the field, make a significant and timely contribution to critical human rights scholarship by interrogating the...
Regional Actors in Multilateral Negotiations
Active and Successful?
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
Since the end of WWII, not only the number of international regimes and organizations, but also the number of regional organisations and groups increased considerably. Today, states are often members of regional and international organisations at the same time and cover similar policies in both. This...
Higher Education and Regional Growth
Local Contexts and Global Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
The specialisation, knowledge and innovation brought about by universities often play a key role for the economic success of cities and regions. Yet higher education is also increasingly regarded, in some European countries and regions, as an economic sector in itself, whereby the measure of success...
Rule-Makers or Rule-Takers?
Exploring the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2015
The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) is an effort by the United States and the European Union to reposition themselves for a world of diffuse economic power and intensified global competition. It is a next-generation economic negotiation that breaks the mould of traditional trade...
Deepening EU-Moldovan Relations
What, Why and How?
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2016
The purpose of this Handbook is to make the legal content of the Association Agreement clearly comprehensible. It covers all the significant political and economic chapters of the Agreement, and in each case explains the meaning of the commitments made by Moldova and the challenges posed by their...
People, States and Fear
An Agenda for International Security Studies in the Post-Cold War Era
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
The second edition of this widely acclaimed book takes as its main theme the question of how states and societies pursue freedom from threat in an environment in which competitive relations are inescapable across the political, economic, military, societal and environmental landscapes. Throughout,...
Deepening EU-Georgian Relations
What, Why and How?
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2016
The purpose of this Handbook is to make the legal content of the Association Agreement clearly comprehensible. It covers all the significant political and economic chapters of the Agreement, and in each case explains the meaning of the commitments made by Georgia and the challenges posed by their...
Deepening EU-Ukrainian Relations
What, Why and How?
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2018
For Ukraine, the signing of the Association Agreement and the DCFTA with the European Union in 2014 was an act of strategic geopolitical significance. Emblematic of the struggle to replace the Yanukovych regime at home and to resist attempts by Russia to deny its ‘European choice’, the Association...
Global Tax Governance
What is Wrong with It and How to Fix It
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Commercial banks UBS and HSBC embroiled in scandals that in some cases exposed lawmakers themselves as tax evaders… multinationals Google and Apple using the Double Irish and other tax avoidance strategies… governments granting fiscal sweetheart deals behind closed doors (as in Luxembourg)......