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Eco-socialism as Politics
Rebuilding the Basis of Our Modern Civilisation
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2010
This volume consists of analyses by experts from both the West and the East on the up-to-date development of Eco-socialism as a red-green politics within the context of capitalist globalisation. It investigates whether and/or in what sense Eco-socialism can offer a better explanation to the causes...
Semiotics of International Law
Trade and Translation
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2010
Language carries more than meanings; language conveys a means of conceiving the world. In this sense, national legal systems expressed through national languages organize the Law based on their own understanding of reality. International Law becomes, in this context, the meeting point where different...
State, Globalization and Multilateralism
The challenges of institutionalizing regionalism
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
This volume presents a reconsideration of the concepts of State and political power within the evolving multilateral network of cooperation and conflict. By means of an innovating research strategy, it explains state resilience within global governance while deepening the obsolescence of the traditional...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2015
This is the first comprehensive volume to explore and engage with current trends in Geographies of Media research. It reviews how conceptualizations of mediated geographies have evolved. Followed by an examination of diverse media contexts and locales, the book illustrates key issues through the integration...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2010
Internet research spans many disciplines. From the computer or information s- ences, through engineering, and to social sciences, humanities and the arts, almost all of our disciplines have made contributions to internet research, whether in the effort to understand the effect of the internet on their...
Law and Economics in Europe
Foundations and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2013
This anthology illustrates how law and economics is developing in Europe and what opportunities and problems – both in general and specific legal fields – are associated with this approach within the legal traditions of European countries. The first part illuminates the differences in the development...
Antipositivist Theories of the Sciences
Critical Rationalism, Critical Theory and Scientific Realism
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
The sciences are too important to be left exclusively to scientists, and indeed they have not been. The structure of scientific knowledge, the role of the sciences in society, the appropriate social contexts for the pursuit of scientific inquiry, have long been matters for reflection and debate about...
by John Douard, Pamela D. Schultz
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2012
The metaphor of the monster or predator—usually a sexual predator, drug dealer in areas frequented by children, or psychopathic murderer—is a powerful framing device in public discourse about how the criminal justice system should respond to serious violent crimes. The cultural history of the...
The Rise of Post-Hegemonic Regionalism
The Case of Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2012
This book offers a timely analysis, and a novel and nuanced argument about post-neoliberal models of regional governance in non-European contexts. It provides the first in-depth, empirically-driven analysis of current models of regional governance in Latin America that emerged out of the crisis of...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2012
Climate changes will affect food production in a number of ways. Crop yields, aquatic populations and forest productivity will decline, invasive insect and plant species will proliferate and desertification, soil salinization and water stress will increase. Each of these impacts will decrease food...
Indigenous Education
Language, Culture and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2015
Indigenous Education is a compilation of conceptual chapters and national case studies that includes empirical research based on a series of data collection methods. The book provides up-to-date scholarly research on global trends on three issues of paramount importance with indigenous education—language,...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
This book presents ground-breaking theoretical, and empirical knowledge to produce a fine-grained and encompassing understanding of the costs and benefits that different groups of Asian migrants, moving between different countries in Asia and in the West, experience. The contributors—all specialist...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2012
In only four decades, bioethics has transformed from a fledgling field into a complex, rapidly expanding, multidisciplinary field of inquiry and practice. Its influence can be found not only in our intellectual and biomedical institutions, but also in almost every facet of our social, cultural, and...
Forensic GIS
The Role of Geospatial Technologies for Investigating Crime and Providing Evidence
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
A variety of disciplines and professions have embraced geospatial technologies for collecting, storing, manipulating, analyzing and displaying spatial data to investigate crime, prosecute and convict offenders, exonerate suspects and submit evidence in civil lawsuits. The applications, acceptability...