This is the first volume in a two-volume work contrasting two alternative world orders and assessing their comparative strengths and weaknesses and the chances for, and obstacles to, gradually moving from one to the other. Often referred to as the Westphalian system, it may briefly be described as an order of sovereign states, recognising each other as such and as a consequence thereof obliging themselves to not interfere in the internal affairs of each other. This volume is devoted to the darker sides of Westphalia commencing with wars and ending with genocide and other forms of crimes against humanity. As openly acknowledged by Hedley Bull, the fact that the Westphalian world system may thus enhance ΓÇÖorderΓÇÖ does not automatically ensure justice or other human desiderata such as human rights, prosperity or personal security. While the Westphalian order did provide a growing body of international law regulating the conduct of war and limiting the right of states to go to war, as history has shown, these regulations have neither prevented wars nor really succeeded in tempering their conduct. The protective legal walls of the sovereignty/non-intervention norm have often allowed incumbent regimes to ruthlessly exploit and terrorise their own citizens. Proposals for a ΓÇÖsovereignty of responsibilityΓÇÖ as an alternative to unlimited sovereign rights, whilst compatible with Westphalian rules, is better treated as modest steps away from Westphalia towards an alternative world order. A transference of responsibility elsewhere either to another state or world organisation, brings us to a more just and cosmopolitan order, the subject of the second volume.

Secret Lincoln explores the lesser-known history of the cathedral city of Lincoln through a fascinating selection of stories, unusual facts and attractive photographs.

Visible Light: The Artist's Complete Manual¿ is a comprehensive guide to the visual manifestations of light, essential for every artist regardless of the medium and yet so scarcely exposed in the existing textbooks. Put shortly, "in its two dedicated parts the book thoroughly answers the big questions of ¿Why things look the way they look?¿ and ¿How to make them look better?¿.

High power ultrasonic transducers are now used in a wide variety of applications, ranging from medical devices, ultrasonic cleaning, ultrasonic welding and machining to sono-chemistry reactors. Use of ultrasonic transducers for various applications of atomizers, cleaning, sonochemistry and sonoluminescence, surgery, peening of welding joints, forming processes, ultrasonic motor, ultrasonic lubrication and nondestructive evaluations show the wide range of this growing technology in science and engineering. This work presents essential information, and shows the wide range of engineering & scientific applications for them.

A stunning poster book to introduce the National Gallery and its masterpieces to children and adults alike.

Theoretical Foundations of Learning Environments, 3rd Edition provides a clear, concise introduction to major pedagogical and psychological theories that have implications for the design of learning environments for schools, universities, or corporations.

Theoretical Foundations of Learning Environments, 3rd Edition provides a clear, concise introduction to major pedagogical and psychological theories that have implications for the design of learning environments for schools, universities, or corporations.

From Emperors to Shahs to Ayatollahs, Hashim's revealing book explores how Iran has sought to defend itself and project power.

This concise work by the leading global expert on sale of goods law provides the perfect starting point for anyone requiring an introduction to international commercial contracts. The book provides analysis of all relevant harmonised law (including the CISG and PICC) and standard forms (the Incoterms (c) 2010; and UCP 600) in a practical context.

The Loop: Chicago Architecture and the Social Imaginary discusses the social function of architecture. Through close readings of skyscrapers, opera houses and urban parks in Chicago, Kai Horstmannshoff develops a theoretical framework that allows his readers to understand architectural styles as concrete expressions of historically shifting conceptions of the human, matter, space and time. As such, the book appeals to both a general public interested in exploring what architecture means, and experts working in the fields of aesthetic theory, art history and cultural studies.

The Process of Social Research concentrates on the core principles of research methods, presenting them in an accessible, concise form that students will find easy to understand and engage with. Extensive online materials allow students to expand their learning and gives instructors resources to make classroom teaching more interesting and exciting. This book will be essential reading for all undergraduate students learning how to do research.

The Process of Social Research concentrates on the core principles of research methods, presenting them in an accessible, concise form that students will find easy to understand and engage with. Extensive online materials allow students to expand their learning and gives instructors resources to make classroom teaching more interesting and exciting. This book will be essential reading for all undergraduate students learning how to do research.

This book challenges the neo-liberal view of private property as a liberal choice in respect of the use of goods and resources, which can be controlled. It argues that ultimately private property is not choice, it is ego. The book develops a theory to reject the neo-liberal concept of private property as the means of apportioning the world. It offers reflections on alternatives as to how the earth's things might be allocated, forcing us to reflect upon how a world without private property might look.

The true story of filmmaker James Cameron's ocean voyage to deepest point on the planet the Challenger Deep, in the western Pacific Ocean.

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The Body in Music is a groundbreaking music psychology text innovatively marrying perspectives from western music performance practice and pedagogy with those spanning experimental to social research. Founded on a significant heritage of artistic practice, it reinvigorates traditional ideas with fresh knowledge garnered from the burgeoning field of inquiry into the role of the body in generating, communicating, and perceiving performance. An exemplar vignette, crafted from the authorsΓÇÖ shared performance experience, sets the tone for the work, embedding it in an established socio-cultural context. Case-study driven chapters strive to reconcile empirical work and performance practice. Woven together, they form a narrative journeying the multi-dimensional roles of bodily engagement with music performance. This text is timely in that it bridges a widening gap between disciplines, researcher, and practitioner offering pathways of convergence towards developing theory and understanding of the body in music performance.

This book explores how Japanese popular culture, exported to China, Taiwan and Hong Kong, is received in these societies. Based on extensive ethnographic research observing in detail the reception of a particular Japanese cultural product, the book shows how, even when the product has been modified to anticipate a different reception in each of the three places, even then the reception is different. The book goes onto discuss more generally the nature of Japanese popular culture and its reception in the three places, showing how history and continuing national antagonism influence attitudes in China, how Hong Kong's special "in between" status affects the reception there, and how in Taiwan the memory of Japanese colonialism is being re-formed in order to reinforce Taiwan's cultural distinctiveness.

This book explores the ambiguity of racial and caste categories in Louisiana in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, which is essential for a more nuanced understanding of the role of Americans of African descent in American art history as artists and as patrons. Wendy Castenell argues that that black Creoles deliberately employed the French Neoclassical style to assert their Latin roots and equality status. The book sheds new light on the under-studied genre of portraiture and the role of academically trained itinerant portrait painters. The book complicates dominant conceptions of race in American art by looking to Louisiana and its free people of color as an entry point into the controversial history of race mixing and racial identity in the United States.

This first practical approach to introduce Monte Carlo methods to those working in polymer science makes use of case studies to present a unified and comprehensive overview of various methods.The author, one of the leading experts in the field, teaches readers how to program Monte Carlo algorithms to solve their own specific problems in polymer reaction engineering, starting with simple principles and moving on to more complex examples. Additional educational software is available online. The handbook is aimed at polymer scientists and engineers in academia and industry, but is of equal interest to PhD students.

The Strategikon of the Emperor Maurice, written towards the end of the 6th century, is a key text in the history of late Roman and Byzantine warfare. It stands midway between the classical genre of tactica, dating back to the 4th century BC, and the subsequent Byzantine military corpus, which it profoundly influenced. Of unprecedented size and scope, the Strategikon discusses every aspect of contemporary land warfare, and includes ethnographic excursuses on the late Roman Empire¿s varied enemies.Volume I is a new English translation and detailed commentary on the work, and Volume II provides studies on the text¿s structure, composition, language, sources and literary antecedents.

Rebecca Upton closely examines how women in a rural part of southern Africa give voice to contemporary issues of environment, health, economic disparity and the impact of migration on everyday lives through production of baskets for a global marketplace. These objects and cultural artifacts are both an insight into Tswana culture as well as a new means through which women produce, tell and re--¿tell narratives of cultural and global, financial success and resistance.