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This book provides an original, comprehensive treatment of the non-discrimination standards at the heart of investment treaty cases. Drawing insights from US law, EU law, and international human rights courts, the author supplies key insights into arbitration tribunals' decisions on the interpretation and application of these standards.

This book discusses topological quantum, drawing in topics ranging from quantum gravity to topology to experimental condensed matter physics.

An investigation into the origins of the digital revolution, how it evolved, which other past revolutions consciously or unconsciously inspired it, which great stories it has conveyed over time, which of its key elements have changed and which ones have persisted and have been repeated in different historical periods.

This Handbook presents authoritative interpretations of Schleiermacher's work from both German and English-speaking scholars. Topics covered include Schleiermacher's historical and intellectual context, the structure and content of Schleiermacher's theology and philosophy, and the reception of his thought.

Elegiac Love and Death in Vergil's 'Aeneid' poses new questions about Vergil's pervasive engagement with elegy, both amatory and funerary, throughout his final epic endeavor, enhancing our understanding of the complexity of the Aeneid, presenting revisionary readings of key episodes and transformative interpretations of its main characters.

Coherence between Data Protection and Competition Law in Digital Markets offers a blueprint for a more synergetic and mutually reinforcing approach towards data protection and competition law, anchored in the theory of 'sectional coherence.'

Transforming Noise examines the historical origin of the attempts to understand, control, and use noise in modern times. The book sheds light on the interactions between physics, mathematics, mechanical technology, electrical engineering, and information and data sciences in the twentieth century.

Positive Obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights provides novel insight into the elements underlying a state's responsibility to fulfil positive obligations. It is essential reading for academics, legal practitioners, and policymakers working across the diverse fields in which positive human rights obligations may apply.

This book is a pioneering study of the many economic and social changes in the natural resource-rich Malaysian state of Perak over the last two centuries. It brings together multiple sub-themes that have driven Perak's fortunes in sometimes dramatic economic cycles and concludes by looking forward at how Perak can regenerate itself once more.

This book uses three case studies of Chinese-financed and constructed rail projects to explore the growing presence of China in Africa and its relationship to African domestic politics. It shows that the success of these projects relies on African political championship, and that they are used to demonstrate rulers' legitimacy.

This volume offers a critical examination of the cartographic assumption that there is a rich array of functional projections whose hierarchical order is fixed and determined by Universal Grammar. The contributions discuss the nature of these hierarchies and their relation to the central theoretical goal of explanatory adequacy.

In this book, Andreas Trotzke presents a comprehensive theory of non-canonical questions - question types that additionally tell us something about the speaker's epistemic or emotional state. His account dramatically simplifies the syntactic analysis of non-canonical questions and explains some previously unobserved discourse behavior.

This book critically examines the transformation of Nepal from a unitary to a federal state at the time of its constitution-making (2006-2015).

Principles of International Energy Transition Law provides a succinct treatment of the legal principles that govern the transition to green energy. The book positions energy transition in a broader energy context and outlines the interactions between different legal disciplines, giving direction on how they can be reconciled.

Ernest Dowson (1867-1900) was a British writer of the fin de siècle period, widely seen as the most representative example of the 'tragic generation' of decadent poets. This book presents a full-length and coherent reading of Dowson's oeuvre for the first time in English.

"e;Doubt is our product,"e; a cigarette executive once observed, "e;since it is the best means of competing with the 'body of fact' that exists in the minds of the general public. It is also the means of establishing a controversy."e;In this eye-opening expose, David Michaels reveals how the tobacco industry's duplicitous tactics spawned a multimillion dollar industry that is dismantling public health safeguards. Product defense consultants, he argues, have increasingly skewed the scientific literature, manufactured and magnified scientific uncertainty, and influenced policy decisions to the advantage of polluters and the manufacturers of dangerous products. To keep the public confused about the hazards posed by global warming, second-hand smoke, asbestos, lead, plastics, and many other toxic materials, industry executives have hired unscrupulous scientists and lobbyists to dispute scientific evidence about health risks. In doing so, they have not only delayed action on specific hazards, but they have constructed barriers to make it harder for lawmakers, government agencies, and courts to respond to future threats. The Orwellian strategy of dismissing research conducted by the scientific community as "e;junk science"e; and elevating science conducted by product defense specialists to "e;sound science"e; status also creates confusion about the very nature of scientific inquiry and undermines the public's confidence in science's ability to address public health and environmental concerns Such reckless practices have long existed, but Michaels argues that the Bush administration deepened the dysfunction by virtually handing over regulatory agencies to the very corporate powers whose products and behavior they are charged with overseeing. In Doubt Is Their Product Michaels proves, beyond a doubt, that our regulatory system has been broken. He offers concrete, workable suggestions for how it can be restored by taking the politics out of science and ensuring that concern for public safety, rather than private profits, guides our regulatory policy. Named one of the best Sci-Tech books of 2008 by Library Journal!

These decodable Black and White More Storybooks for Green are for teachers to send home to help children practise reading stories they have been learning in school. Each book contains the same story as its corresponding colour More Storybook, but includes detailed and clear guidance for parents.

In Controlling Territory, Controlling Voters Wahman focuses on the political geography of election violence in Africa, particularly in Zambia and Malawi, building on one important observation: elections in many African countries are highly regional and the support for political parties are rarely nationalized.

This book addresses the largely neglected question of how the fusion of machines into the war machine will affect the human condition of warfare. It emphasizes the "mind" and the mechanisms of thought (intelligence, consciousness, emotion, memory, experience, etc.) to consider the effects of AI and autonomy on the human condition of war.

In Assisting International Justice, Buitelaar reveals the conditions under which UN peacekeepers address impunity in their mission areas. He presents an original single-country case study of assistance provided by the UN mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and a plausibility probe of other peace operations in ICC situation countries.

Dogwhistles and Figleaves explores ways in which political discourse in recent years has become more openly racist, and accepting of wildly implausible conspiracy theories. Jennifer Saul shows how two linguistic devices, dogwhistles and figleaves, have played a crucial role in this, and have exploited and widened existing divisions in society.

Torts in UK Foreign Relations offers a deeper understanding of the contested area of tortious liability for extraterritorial public acts arguing that English tort law should play a more prominent role in English courts' treatment of tortious claims for wrongs allegedly committed overseas.

If we are skeptical about the truth of religious or moral belief, what should we do about those ways of talking and thinking? According to the fictionalist, they provide pragmatic benefits that do not depend on their truth. This volume examines religious fictionalism, moral fictionalism, and the relation between these views.

The ESC Textbook of Heart Failure brings together renowned experts to present an up-to-date understanding of all aspects of this chronic condition. The clinically oriented work reflects guidelines and summarizes the latest evidence from clinical trials. A must read for cardiovascular healthcare specialists in Europe and across the world.

This book offers an in-depth, global history of the British Magnetic Survey - the nineteenth-century, British-government-funded efforts to measure and understand the earth's magnetic field. These scientific efforts are situated within the context of the development of 'global science' and the ways they intersected with empire and colonialism.