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This book offers a roadmap for the future development of age discrimination law in common law countries to better address workplace ageism. It critically considers how the suggested four-fold model of reform might address the limits of existing laws and the practical measures necessary to ensure their success.

This Very Short Introduction describes anarchism as a lived set of practices, with a rich historical legacy, and shows how anarchists have inspired and criticised some of our most cherished values, from the ideals of freedom, participatory education, federalism, and climate change, to science fiction.

In Elucidating Law, Julie Dickson addresses questions concerning the methodology of legal philosophy and advocates that legal philosophers should espouse an 'Indirectly Evaluative Legal Philosophy'. This approach can facilitate legal philosophers' understanding of aspects of the nature of law, without regarding law as inherently morally valuable.

This work summarizes our current understanding of crackling noise, reviewing research undertaken in the past 30 years, from the early and influential ideas on self-organized criticality in sandpile models, to more modern studies on disordered systems.

Awakening to China's Rise delivers the first post-Cold War history of how Europe's major powers (Britain, France, and Germany) have responded to the perceived security challenge posed by China's rising assertiveness both in the Asia-Pacific and in Europe.

The essays in this book reveals key themes of mobilization in human rights law through case studies, and discuss topics such as which groups claim rights, what they are mobilizing to protect, the goals they pursue, the forums they use, the obstacles they encounter, and the extent of their success.

This book examines the notably low-level of international governance relating to shadow banking - that is, lenders, brokers, and other credit intermediaries who fall outside the realm of traditional regulated banking.

This book provides a comprehensive survey of Japan's economic history and current situation. It offers a concise description of Japanese economic institutions and events, integrated with cogent explanations rooted in economic logic. Extensive annotation to the scholarly literature.

With essays from leading scholars in the field of international human rights law, this festschrift provides compelling analysis of the nature of compliance in the African human rights context, the challenges that affect its place in these legal systems, and the ways in which increased compliance can be achieved.

This book brings together the papers presented at a special conference of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development commemorating the 75th anniversary of the Bretton Woods Conference.

This book offers a comprehensive introduction to the field of political settlements study.

An edition of the letters of the poet Basil Bunting (1900-1985) to recipients including Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, Harriet Monroe, William Carlos Williams, Louis Zukofsky, Ted Hughes, George Oppen, Allen Ginsberg, Donald Davie and Tom Pickard.

A study of the relationship between literature and sculpture in the work of W. B. Yeats that draws on an extensive range of unpublished archival materials from the poet's early career in the late Victorian period, and across his entire oeuvre of poetry, plays, and critical writing.

Jens Timmerman illuminates Immanuel Kant's answer to an age-old philosophical question: what happens when human beings fail to do as reason bids? He shows that Kant's hybrid theory comprises Socratic intellectualism in the realm of prudence along with an anti-intellectualist or volitional account of immoral action.

Ideology and Mass Killing offers the first dedicated study of the role of radical ideologies in different kinds of 'mass killing', such as genocides, large-scale war crimes, and campaigns of state terror.

A Question of Standing deals with recognizable events that have shaped the history of the first 75 years of the CIA. Unsparing in its accounts of dirty tricks and their consequences, it values the agency's intelligence and analysis work to offer balanced judgements that avoid both celebration and condemnation of the CIA.

This book provides the first interdisciplinary overview of the Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland, attached to the Withdrawal Agreement, which regulates the terms of Brexit. It examines its content, challenges, and context, including constitutional trends in the UK and Ireland, governance mechanisms, and clauses on trade and human rights.

This book provides the first interdisciplinary overview of the Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland, attached to the Withdrawal Agreement, which regulates the terms of Brexit. It examines its content, challenges, and context, including constitutional trends in the UK and Ireland, governance mechanisms, and clauses on trade and human rights.

Muhammad Iqbal and Muhammad Ali Jinnah developed their crucial political ideas in the 1930s. They used India to test out how law could be used to settle political conflicts, how theological concepts could be politicized, and how to speak to an increasingly hostile All India National Congress. This book maps this development.

Science, philosophy of science, and metaphysics have long been concerned with the question of how order, stability, and novelty are possible and how they happen. How can order come out of disorder? This book introduces a new account, contextual emergence, seeking to answer these questions.

Renders greater precision and depth to the concept of the fiscal-military state and applies it to the Habsburg Monarchy, one of early modern Europe's foremost war machines. It systematically integrates the problems of armed conflict and foreign competition into perceptions of society and government in the Monarchy ruled from Vienna.

A study of how Thatcher's government tried to control the narrative of the Northern Ireland conflict in an effort to shape how 'the Troubles' were understood by regional, national, and international audiences, and exploring how Britain's status as a leading global democracy was tarnished by the imposition of censorship in the 1988 Broadcasting Ban.

Written in a friendly and accessible format, with summaries for quick reference and more detailed information where appropriate, this book is aimed at health care professionals in primary, community, and secondary care, helping experienced staff update their knowledge, and acting as a quick guide for those new to diabetes.

This book traces the key arguments that have led poststructuralists to challenge traditional theories of language and culture. It draws on examples from across our culture to explain how poststructuralism explores the relationship between human beings, the world, and the practice of making and reproducing meanings.

Negotiation is essential for peace and international relations, but also for economically efficient trades and bargains in business, and for problem solving skills in workplaces, families and interpersonal interactions. Menkel-Meadow illustrates different models, approaches, and styles of negotiation, which are both conceptual and behavioral.

Features activities that help engage students and take their understanding of the various aspects under scrutiny to a deeper level. This illustrated book can be used during the early stages of a 'Scheme of Work' based on the novel, and can also be built in to lessons as the reading progresses and to support further reading activities.

This Very Short Introduction discusses the central events, machines, and people that feature in established accounts of the history of computing. It then recontextualises them, critically examining received perceptions and providing a fresh look at the nature and development of the modern electronic computer.

The Global Lab examines how new technologies affect people across the world, opening up new opportunities but also exacerbating inequalities in society.

David Gibson explores the role played by plants (and fungi) in investigating crime. Highlighting a range of real cases in which botanical evidence was involved, he describes how leaves, seeds, and moss fragments can link a suspect to a crime scene. He also considers cases in which plants themselves can be the subject of crime.