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Circular Migration and the Rights of Migrant Workers in Central and Eastern E…
By adopting a rights-based approach, this open access book sheds light on the different legal and policy instruments that have been adopted to implement circular migration policies in the EU and their consequences for the rights of migrant workers. It contributes to the understanding of the meaning of this concept in general, in the EU, as well as more specifically with regard to its Eastern ne…
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- 10
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030526894
- Collation
- xi; 261p;
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 325.24 CIR Z
Engines of truth : producing veracity in the Victorian courtroom
During the Victorian era, new laws allowed more witnesses to testify in court cases. At the same time, an emerging cultural emphasis on truth-telling drove the development of new ways of inhibiting perjury. Strikingly original and drawing on a broad array of archival research, Wendie Schneider's examination of the Victorian courtroom charts this period of experimentation and how its innovations…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780300125665
- Collation
- ix, 265p.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 347.009034 SCH e
Social enterprise in Central and Eastern Europe : theory, models and practice
In the last two decades, the quest for a widely accepted definition of social enterprise has been a central issue in a great number of publications. The main objective of the ICSEM Project (on which this book is based) was to show that the social enterprise field would benefit much more from linking conceptualisation efforts to the huge diversity of social enterprises than from an additional an…
- Edition
- 10
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780429324529
- Collation
- ix, 326p.
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- -
- Call Number
- 338 SOC n
Resurgent Asia : diversity in development
Resurgent Asia analyses the phenomenal transformation of Asia, which would have been difficult to imagine, let alone predict, fifty years ago, when Gunnar Myrdal published Asian Drama. In doing so, it provides an analytical narrative of this remarkable story of economic development, situated in its wider context of historical, political, and social factors, and an economic analysis of the under…
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- 9
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780198849513
- Collation
- xix, 320p.; ill.
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- -
- Call Number
- 338.95 RES n
Democratic multiplicity : perceiving, enacting and integrating democratic div…
This edited volume argues that democracy is broader and more diverse than the dominant state-centered, modern representative democracies, to which other modes of democracy are either presumed subordinate or ignored. The contributors seek to overcome the standard opposition of democracy from below (participatory) and democracy from above (representative). Rather, they argue that through differen…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781009178372
- Collation
- xxi, 426p.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 321.8 DEM e
Cyber peace : charting a path toward a sustainable, stable, and secure cybers…
The international community is too often focused on responding to the latest cyber-attack instead of addressing the reality of pervasive and persistent cyber conflict. From ransomware against the city government of Baltimore to state-sponsored campaigns targeting electrical grids in Ukraine and the U.S., we seem to have relatively little bandwidth left over to ask what we can hope for in terms …
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781108954341
- Collation
- xix, 243p. ; ill.
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- -
- Call Number
- 363.325 SHA c
The Arab Spring abroad : diaspora activism against authoritarian regimes
The Arab Spring revolutions of 2011 sent shockwaves across the globe, mobilizing diaspora communities to organize forcefully against authoritarian regimes. Despite the important role that diasporas can play in influencing affairs in their countries of origin, little is known about when diaspora actors mobilize, how they intervene, or what makes them effective. This book addresses these question…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781009272148
- Collation
- xvii, 270p.
- Series Title
- Cambridge studies in contentious politics
- Call Number
- 909.097492708312 MOS t
On the literature and thought of the German Classical Era : collected essays
Das vorliegende Buch ist das wissenschaftliche Vermächtnis von Hugh Barr Nisbet (1940–2021), Emeritus des Sidney Sussex College und Nestor der britischen Aufklärungsfor-schung. Nisbet schloss die Arbeit an diesem Band im Dezember 2020 ab, wenige Wochen vor seinem Tod am 6. Februar 2021. Seine Absicht war es, so der Verfasser und zugleich Herausgeber in seinem konzisen Vorwort, einige der ze…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781783747719
- Collation
- viii, 336 p. : ill.
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- -
- Call Number
- 830.9006 NIS o
Religious radicalism : demarcations and challenges
"Religious Radicalism scrutinizes the religious motives and mechanisms of radicalism. The contributors observe a growing lack of understanding of religion in secular policy-bodies, as well as in the academic world in Europea and beyond. They put forward an approach 'from within' and aim to provide policy-makers with workable tools and a user-friendly method for constructively tackling religio…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9789461171313
- Collation
- ii, 210p.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 323 REL t
World war II: an encyclopedia of quotations
An all-encompassing book with more than a thousand quotations, this work breathes life into an era unprecedented in world history. It looks at World War II in a new way with quotations from speeches, news accounts, memoirs, and interviews. Represented, too, are captured documents and material from Ultra and Magic, which broke the German and Japanese secret codes. All major political and militar…
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781315062655
- Collation
- xviii, 438 p. : ill.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 940.5303 LAN w
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