Manohar (commerce and business management, Satavahana U., India) discusses the management of work-related stress in organizations, with statistics for India; total quality management techniques to dea
Political scientists and law scholars explore how actors at different levels of the European Union interact interdependently with regard to their tasks, as they find they need to coordinate their poli
A researcher in planning and natural resources management formerly with The Center for Development Research (ZEF) at the University of Bonn, Huu investigates problems in planning and implementing a sy
The European Union is faced with a conundrum over the unresolved question concerning the role of the regions and the position and possibilities of actors within those regions to actively influence pro
The Ernst Freiberger Foundation supported this book, which consists of 36 contributions beginning with various perspectives on the retreat from the male breadwinner family in industrial societies, and
Two points of view are offered on euthanasia, with Emily Jackson arguing in favor of the legislation of asisted dying and John Keown agruing against decriminalising euthanasia and for improving care.
Amano (U. of Tokyo) analyzes Japan's credential society from a comparative sociology and comparative history perspective, with a focus on the historical process through which the Japanese structure of
With the growth of the UN's Treaty Body System, the harmonization and the coordination of working methods between the treaty bodies has become a pressing issue. Commentators spoke of a crisis of the s
How should a State treat an irregular migrant worker, i.e. a foreign worker without authorization to stay and/or work in the country, who is confronted with the realization of a social risk? For insta
Van Klinken, a former volunteer with the Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation in East Timor, provides an account of the massive transfer of children out of East Timor to Indonesia to int
This book defined a contemporary disability human rights approach for the field of employment. Based on an analysis of the newly-adopted UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and pr
In The Signature of Evil, the notion of torture in international law is explored with the intention of discovering the precise meaning of this most infamous, and yet still very prevalent, practice. By
In the European Union, with the coming into force of the Treaty in 1993, police cooperation gained a solid position on the European political agenda. Since then, the EU Council has adopted a significa
This volume combines the two volumes of Early Arabic Poetry originally published by Jones (retired, classical Arabic, U. of Oxford, UK) in 1992 and 1996. The monograph provides students with an unders
With an increasing loss of biodiversity, the call for effective nature conservation becomes louder and louder. Most remaining biodiversity-rich areas are inhabited or used by indigenous peoples and lo
Four Courts Press has teamed up with the Representative Church Body Library, the archives of the Church of Ireland among other functions, to provide critical editions of significant Church of Ireland
In this study, the analysis of the Parthenon frieze is based on the assumption that the pictorial narrative scenes of the Classical period were conceived with the intention of exemplifying comprehensi
In this work, Irene Hilgers analyzes the revival of Islam in the public sphere in postsocialist Uzbekistan, with particular reference to its role in the construction of a new national identity. The da
The image of the non-Jew has had a profound influence on how Jews have interacted with actual non-Jews they have encountered at various points in their history, says Novak (religion and philosophy, U.
This introductory social psychology text addresses the core knowledge domains of the subject, with key chapters on understanding identities, attribution theory, attitudinal research, social influence,
An important part of the legal domain has to do with rule-governed conduct, and is expressed by the use of notions such as norm, obligation, duty, and right. These require us to acknowledge the normat
An accessible and up to date introduction to the key theme of policing and young people. This text gives a comprehensive overview of the issues involved in working with young people as offenders, susp
This multi-disciplinary collection of essays from the Cambridge Socio-Legal Group is concerned with the varying circumstances, manner, timing, and experiences of birth. It contains essays from a wide
The 19th-century missionary activities of Rev. Lancelot Edward Threlkeld and other members of his Lake Macquarie mission in colonial New South Wales, Australia, led to significant conflict with the Lo
Extraordinary potential lies in the study of how genes interact with their environment to produce a phenotype, and it has just begun to be tapped. This structured reference intended for a wide audienc
For researchers, students, teachers, and people involved with biotechnological applications, this volume offers consistent coverage of theoretical, methodological, and applied areas of the rapidly adv
The Russian Legal Practitioner focuses primarily on the advokat, the Russian lawyer with a right of audience in court. Additionally, the book examines the jurisconsult, the lawyer who works for commer
Community and Collective Rights presents an argument for the existence of moral rights held by groups and a resulting account of how to reconcile group rights with individual rights and with the right
The author is a Norwegian architect affiliated with the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. In this slim volume (formatted horizontally and measuring 12x8.5") he sets forth some provocativ
Morris (emeritus, criminology and criminal justice, U. of London, England) and Blom-Cooper (a retired lawyer and professor of criminology) argue that the criminal law of England and Wales with regards
Intellectual property rights (IPRs), conventionally seen as quite distinct, are increasingly overlapping with one another in Europe. There are several reasons for this: the expansion of IPRs beyond th
This is a highly accessible text that provides detailed coverage of the key concepts, ideas, principles and techniques of sport marketing. It combines clear and concise explanations with applied case
The Constitution of the Republic of Austria originated in 1920. From the beginning, it represented a compromise between deeply-opposed political parties with widely divergent moral and political princ
National administrative authorities are obliged to leave provisions of national law unapplied when these are incompatible with European Union law. Irrespective of their position and powers under natio
This book deals with sentencing in international criminal law, focusing on the approach of the UN ad hoc Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and Rwanda (ICTR). In contrast to sentencing in dome
As many parts of the world are experiencing or are expected to experience a rapid "graying" of their populations, combined with the economic turmoil that began in 2008, the role and sustainability of
This volume focuses on the concept of a necessary entity through an interlinking with two organizational principles - the principle of cooperation and the principle of hierarchy - which imply the noti
Discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity concerns everybody, but it is foremost lesbian and gay persons who have to deal with it, especially when confronting the discovery of the
This collection of nineteen articles on Hepatitis C showcases state-of-the-art research and highlights new avenues for understanding and treating this dangerous liver disease. Beginning with an overvi
This book contains interviews conducted between Cassese (an international lawyer with United Nations and international tribunal experience) and five scholars of international law and legal institution
