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  • Caring Responsibilities in European Law and Policy

    Who Cares?

    This book explores the emerging engagement of EU law with care and carers.The book argues that the regulation of care by the EU is crucial becauseit enables the development of a broad range of policies. It contributes to thesustainability of society and ultimately it enables individuals to flourish. Yet, todate, the EU approach to regulating the caring relationship remains piecemealand lacks the ... Read more

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  • Importing EU Norms

    Conceptual Framework and Empirical Findings

    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This interdisciplinary work presents a conceptual framework and brings together constructivist and rationalist accounts of how EU norms are adopted, adapted, resisted or rejected. These chapters provide empirical cases and critical analysis of a rich variety of norm-takers from EU member states, European and non-European states, including the rejection of EU norms in Russia and Africa as well as ... Read more

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  • The Autobiography of a Tibetan Monk

    by Palden Gyatso ...
    "With this memoir by a 'simple monk' who spent 33 years in prisons and labor camps for resisting the Chinese, a rare Tibetan voice is heard." — The New York Times Book ReviewPalden Gyatso was born in a Tibetan village in 1933 and became an ordained Buddhist monk at eighteen—just as Tibet was in the midst of political upheaval. When Communist China invaded Tibet in 1950, it embarked on a program of ... Read more

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  • The Ballad of Abu Ghraib

    The first full reckoning of what actually happened at Abu Ghraib prison-"one of the most devastating of the many books on Iraq" (The New York Times Book Review)A relentlesly surprising and perceptive account of the front lines of the war on terror, Standard Operating Procedure is a war story that takes its place among the classics. Acclaimed author Philip Gourevitch presents the story behind a ... Read more

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  • Policing Sexuality

    Sex, Society, and the State

    Policing Sexuality explores the regulation of sexual behaviour and identity by nation states, and questions how and why states have sought to influence and control the sexuality of its citizens.Julian C. H. Lee presents both theoretical and ethnographic literature, distilling common themes and causes and presenting factors that contribute towards a state's desire to control both the sexual ... Read more

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  • Clan Cleansing in Somalia

    The Ruinous Legacy of 1991

    Series series Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
    In 1991, certain political and military leaders in Somalia, wishing to gain exclusive control over the state, mobilized their followers to use terror—wounding, raping, and killing—to expel a vast number of Somalis from the capital city of Mogadishu and south-central and southern Somalia. Manipulating clan sentiment, they succeeded in turning ordinary civilians against neighbors, friends, and ... Read more

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  • What Do You Buy the Children of the Terrorist Who Tried to Kill Your Wife?

    A Memoir

    David Harris-Gershon and his wife, Jamie, moved to Jerusalem full of hope. Then, mere days after Israel thwarted historic cease-fire negotiations among the Palestinians, a bomb ripped open Hebrew University’s cafeteria. Jamie’s body was sliced with shrapnel; the friends sitting next to her were killed.When a doctor handed David some of the shrapnel removed from Jamie’s body, he could not accept ... Read more

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  • The Science of Right (Illustrated)

    The book has an active table of contents for easy access to each chapter.Immanuel Kant was a great philosopher and one of the founders of the modern system of philosophy. He is in the row with the greatest thinkers as Aristotle, Isaac Newton, John Locke, David Hume, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, and John Stuart Mill. Their thoughts had strong influence on building the foundation of the United States ... Read more

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  • An Introduction to the International Criminal Court

    This is the authoritative introduction to the International Criminal Court, fully updated in this sixth edition. The book covers the legal framework of the Court, the cases that it has heard and that are still to come, and the political debates surrounding its operation. It is written by one of the major authorities on the subject, in language accessible to non-specialists. The sixth edition ... Read more

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  • The Secrets of Abu Ghraib Revealed: American Soldiers on Trial

    On April 28, 2004, 60 Minutes II broadcast the now-infamous photos of prisoner abuse by American soldiers at Abu Ghraib. The news quickly spread worldwide, undermining the U.S. presence in Iraq.Despite several Department of Defense investigations and eleven courts-martial convictions, important questions remain about the events at Abu Ghraib. Who are these soldiers? How involved were top ... Read more

    $16.95 USD

  • Islamist Terrorism and Democracy in the Middle East

    What were the reasons behind the terrorist attacks of September 11th? Does the cause of Islamist terrorism relate to the lack of democracy in the Middle East? Through detailed research into the activities of both radical and moderate organizations across the Middle East, such as the Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas and Hizbullah, and via interviews with key personnel, Katerina Dalacoura investigates ... Read more

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