Samhälle & Politik

This is a completely revised and updated second edition of Rights Before Courts (2005, paper edition 2008). This book carefully examines the most recent wave of the emergence and …

The book sheds light on the transformation of childhood in Singapore, over our many milestones. It is a collection of lectures by distinguished authorities on various aspects of …

When watching the collapse of the Twin Towers on CNN 11 September 2001, the international community was awakened to the urgent needs of open discussion to identify the emerging …

Do the ongoing dynamics of economic globalization also entail, and indeed require, the globalization of a particular model of peace? This book, as it considers this question, …

Through her childhood spent in 1940s New York being raised by two mothers, her work with the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee during the Civil Rights Movement, and raising …

The UN human rights agenda has reached the mature age of 70 years and many UN mechanisms created to implement this agenda are themselves in their middle-age, yet human rights …

Wie keine andere Beruflichkeit repräsentieren die Ingenieure die (industrielle) Moderne. In Kaiserreich und Weimarer Republik standen der enormen zahlenmäßigen Expansion der …

This volume illuminates the vexed treatment of violence in the German cultural tradition between two crucial, and radically different, violent outbreaks: the French Revolution, and …

'I know you wouldn't know it to look at me, but I once sneezed a bit of carrot onto a woman's hand ...'A good joke takes you somewhere completely unexpected and makes you laugh, an …