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Holocaust vs. Popular Culture debates and deconstructs the binary responses to the representation of the Holocaust in European and non-European forms of Popular Culture.

This edited volume examines the current challenges to media freedom and democratisation in the Middle East. The book revisits the relationship between media consumption and activism in the region, providing thorough analyses on the appropriation of social media for political engagement.

Climate Change and Sustainable Development covers the climatic and atmospheric changes, greenhouse gases and their impact on eco-system, biodiversity, water resources, agriculture and food security, human health, extreme weather and environment. The mitigation and adaptation strategies involving sustainable development are also explained.

Taking up the study of legal education in distinctly biopolitical terms, this book provides a critical and political analysis of structure in the law school.

The Nordic states were among the first in the world to enact general gender equality and anti-discrimination laws with low threshold enforcement mechanisms. Today, the Nordic countries top the World Economic Forum's Gender Gap Index - but have still not succeeded in closing the gender gap.

Corruption, commonly defined as the misuse of public office for private gains, is multifaceted, multidimensional, and ubiquitous. This edited collection goes beyond the standard enforcement framework, and explores the political-cultural contexts, legal and regulatory process to understand and explain corruption.

This accessible handbook offers concise chapters from expert international contributors covering a diverse range of new and established Foreign Policy Analysis methods.

Looking at two of the key paradigms of the post-Cold War era - national sovereignty, and human rights - this book examines the possibilities for their reconciliation from a global perspective. Scholars and students of human rights, migration, nationalism and multiculturalism will find this a very valuable resource.

This systematically sets out useful engineering equations and computational models for analysing large outdoor fire dynamics, and presents practical approaches to risk assessment. It details the items needed for analysing risks and for designing plans to improve resilience in the built environment - for professionals and graduate students.

An analysis of 13 work for literary fiction in the context of their relevance to conservative ideas When Abraham Lincoln met Harriet Beecher Stowe, the author of the abolitionist novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin, he is reported to have said, “so you are the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war.” The story may be apocryphal, but like all great fictions, it points toward an important truth—in this case, that a work of art can shape minds and direction the course of a culture. Today, many of us still hold those high expectations for fiction. If you’ve participated in many conversations about politics over the past several years, there’s a good chance you’ve heard someone compare our national situation to something from J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series, Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, or George Orwell’s 1984. And if you’ve had a conversation with conservatives about their favorite novels, it’s likely that you’ve heard some variation of Ayn Rand, J.R.R. Tolkien, or Tom Wolfe. These writers, of very different literary qualities, all have something to contribute to conversations about conservative ideas. It's healthy for people to share a core group of books in common. The problem is that our group of shared books has become too limited. The consequence for conservatives in particular is that we’ve so narrowed our literary vision, we’ve blinded ourselves to a great tradition of literature that conveys conservative ideas. Particularly at a time when conservativism in the United States is experiencing a series of internal conflicts and conversations, we should expand the conservative canon to better understand conservatism’s meanings and merits, and to introduce readers to more books that illustrate the beauty and truth of conservative principles and ideals. Truthful Fictions does just that, providing thoughtful and accessible analysis of works by a variety of important authors spanning the eighteenth century to the twenty-first. Each chapter, covering works from Samuel Johnson and Willa Cather to V.S. Naipaul and Leif Enger, recounts the author’s life and works, as well as the relevant political social context, but with a focus on the enduring conservative values conveyed by the novel. In the process, it not only provides suggestions for the many people wondering, “what should I read next?”—it also develops a core set of readings around which American conservatives can better debate and win the battle of ideas.

Out of Sight is both an investigative deep dive into the meat industry’s treatment of farm animals, and a story of resilience and, ultimately, professional and personal triumph.  This insightful and moving memoir chronicles the author’s forty-year career conducting undercover investigations and documenting animal abuse in the U.S. meat industry while simultaneously coping with a mysterious and incapacitating medical condition. Due to the isolation she experienced in childhood suffering from an undiagnosed neurological disorder, Gail Eisnitz found solace with animals, especially those who were neglected or injured. Her childhood desire to rescue animals was eventually realized when, she was hired as staff writer at the Humane Society of the United States, the largest animal protection organization in the world. She later transitioned to become the only female cruelty investigator at HSUS. In that capacity, Eisnitz initiated investigations into many issues, including documenting violations in puppy mills and the dog racing industry, ritual animal sacrifice, factory farms, and slaughterhouses.   Exposing the slaughterhouse violations she had uncovered proved extremely difficult. Network television producers invariably concluded that the evidence Eisnitz had secretly obtained was too disturbing to air on TV. Forced to quit her job at HSUS, the author hired on with the Humane Farming Association, where she continued investigating and wrote her first book, Slaughterhouse. She then implored a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist at the Washington Post to write a story exposing the slaughter evidence she had documented. That front-page article prompted immense outrage in U.S. Congress and resulted in an annual multimillion-dollar appropriation for enforcement of the Humane Methods of Slaughter Act, the first funding for what had been a zero-budgeted law.   As she continued her investigative efforts around slaughterhouses and also documented unthinkable abuses at industrial pig, calf, and dairy farms – exposed in vivid detail in Out of Sight – the symptoms of the undiagnosed visual processing disorder she had grappled with since childhood dramatically worsened. The many plot twists that occurred during the author’s campaign to expose the meat industry included her breast cancer diagnosis at age 35, a robbery in which one of three gunmen shot somebody in her presence, elaborate cover-ups by the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture and a state governor, and ongoing clashes with state attorneys general as the author struggled to obtain prosecutions of animal abusers. Out of Sight is both an investigative deep dive into the meat industry’s treatment of farm animals, and a story of resilience and, ultimately, professional and personal triumph.  It is a poignant account of a lifelong struggle towards self-acceptance that takes the reader on an inspiring journey from helpless victim – much like the animals the author investigated – to empowered victor.

Using novel, bioethical framing alongside critical and comprehensive analysis of harm reduction approaches, this cutting-edge book addresses the multifaceted and transdisciplinary issue of drug addiction in society, exploring how addiction can be conceptualized from various disciplinary perspectives for positive policy outcomes.

This book discusses the ongoing challenges of queer visibilities, activism and knowledge production and demonstrate that there are lessons to be learned from the experiences of queer people in the Caucasus and Central Asia.

This volume offers a broad overview of the conditions, motives, and practice of violence during the most prominent intra-state conflicts in Europe during the first half of the 20th century.

This volume offers a broad overview of the conditions, motives, and practice of violence during the most prominent intra-state conflicts in Europe during the first half of the 20th century.

This book provides an up-to-date interdisciplinary assessment of the accountability of the executive power in different European States and at the European Union level. A valuable resource for researchers, academics and policy-makers in Constitutional Law, Public Law, Comparative Law, Comparative Politics, Legal History and Government.

This book brings together leading interdisciplinary scholars to broaden and deepen the conversation about moral injury. In original essays, the contributors present new research to show how the humanities are crucial for understanding the expressions, meaning, and significance of moral injury.

This book explores the processes and practices of the securitization and de-securitization of European infrastructures and how political institutions interact with security and insecurity.