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Liakopoulous Dimitris

Consequences of complicity in international relations

$220.00

In this book, distinguished international law scholar Dimitris Liakopoulous explores the legal consequences of complicity in international relations. Consequences of Complicity will examine the profiles inherent to damages due to the injured party. In this regard it will move from the observation that the conduct of an accomplice gives rise to a crime distinct from the main one. The text then evaluates how damages must be divided between the party of the main fact and that of illegal action. Section II will approach the problem of configuring countermeasures against complicit nations, whether in the case of ordinary tort or when the violation concerns imperative norms of general international law.

Consequences of complicity in international relations

Martin Hutchinson

The Great Conservatives

$74.95

With a combination of robust research and coherent overview, Dr. Hutchinson argues that the origins of the Conservative Party in Britain begin with Henry Vll's attempt to define and order a Tudor solution to the chaos and civil war of the preceding century. This order is to begin a conservative political pattern: the capturing of successive revolutions by the forces of order, property and pragmaticism. By interweaving political and economic forces and paying attention to what the historical actors were actually saying and doing, the author presents the search for coherence and form as an imperative of the island system. Among the figures discussed in detail are Elizabeth l, Charles ll, Sir Robert Walpole, William Pitt (Lord Chatham), Lord Castelreagh, Lord Liverpool, Robert Peel, Lord Palmerston ,Lord Salisbury, Churchill and Baroness Thatcher. Both actual political and social policy successes are dissected and various mirages and chimeras the Party has entertained (Ireland, Imperial Preference) are discussed in detail. Changes in the demographics and social base of Conservatism are also examined. Extensive index and bibliography included.

Martinez Jose

Diversity, Funding, and Standardized Testing in American Education

$139.95

In Diversity, Funding, and Standardized Testing in American Education, noted education expert Jose Martinez's examines current aspects of inequality in American education, examining the complex nexus of funding, diversity, and the increasingly contentious role of standardized testing. A readable narrative format assesses the extensive documentation, which demonstrates that inequality is becoming entrenched throughout the education system, in no small measure due to biases in standardized testing systems. Students from kindergarten through university face the arising challenges while their environments are becoming more diverse. Funding levels in education are also posited as causes of inequality. This complements the view that standardized testing at all levels of education mirrors and exacerbates entrenched economic inequality. Education funding and standardized testing at all levels have thus become basic mechanisms that purposefully reproduce and maintain a two-tiered society. The solutions are not difficult to discern, as other societies can attest, but Martinez's thought-provoking new book moves toward engaging them.

Giuseppe Valditara

Civis romanus sum

$139.95

The story of Rome and its people draws on ancient legends passed down from generation to generation. Circulating throughout the Mediterranean world in the centuries after Rome’s legendary founding, they were later enshrined in the words of the poets and historians of the great Augustan age and have been studied ever since. Before it was a mighty empire, Rome was born as a Latin settlement on the Palatine Hill and from the beginning showed an inclination to integrating different peoples through a federation. The early legends, born out in fact and in Rome’s later history, offered an element of mixed ethnic identity. As Rome expanded its rule across Italy and over the world, adherence to Roman identity and values stood as the main qualifications for “becoming Roman” and enjoying all the privileges of Rome’s civilization. As migrant populations traverse today’s world, assimilation remains a crucial issue of debate in managing borders and defining societies. As the eminent Italian jurist and educator Giuseppe Valditara shows in this exceptional new book, Rome was born by uniting different peoples all on equal terms and without discrimination and relying on a strong collective identity. To defend this identity and the security of its citizens, not coincidentally, the walls were the first public building. Rome was never racist: people could become citizens and achieve important positions without distinctions of race, religion, or nationality. Rome was a meritocratic society that put state interest first. Its whole politics of citizenship and immigration revolved around this concept. The assimilation of foreigners willing to assimilate. A strong pride in belonging to the community arose at the base of society, through sharing the values and destiny of citizenship.

Celia Wallhead

Washington Irving and Spain

$79.95

This research monograph breaks new ground in discussing (in English) the impact of Washington Irving’s presence in Spain and the effect of his writings on Spanish topics by Spain’s critics and general readership. Spanish critics, scholars and translators were and are active in assessing Irving’s literary style, scholarly grasp and cultural influence. This work seeks to examine Irving’s influence and his “discovery” of Islamic Al-Andalus (Irving was the first American to seriously study Mahomet (Muhammad),the Koran and write about his findings). Wallhead locates Irving’s literary and historical researches in the troubled, chaotic post-Napoleonic Spain of Ferdinand V11 and discusses the earliest Iberian reaction to Irving’s books. Professor Wallhead’s study includes four parts: 1.The legacy of Irving in today’s Spain: the bibliography, the cultural extension, the “Washington Irving” industry, tourist and travel literature. 2.Influences and sources: early-mid 19c Spain...Andalusia, Seville and the roots of the southern “romance”. 3.His Spanish writings. Fiction (Tales of the Alhambra), Documentary and biographical studies: The Conquest of Granada, Mahomet, and Christopher Columbus. 4.Conclusions.

Randee O. I-Morphé

Community and Self Definition in the Book of Acts

$74.95

This work examines early Christian self-definition and response to the world, according to the book of Acts. The author argues that early Christian self-definition and mission are intertwined. In other words, early Christian identity was at the same time the nascent faith's response to the world of paganism and Judaism. This book examines the historiography of Acts, the history of Redemption, the socio-ethnic and theological dimensions of earliest Christian self-definition, and the concepts of conversion, identity and mission. The work's specific contribution lies in its exploitation of Luke's distinctive use of the conversion of Saul of Tarsus, given its paradigmatic function in the Acts narrative, to "legitimize" a new Christian self for the early Christians, set in critical relation to the drama of their (Jewish) heritage. The author submits that this posture of the world is determined by Luke's understanding of the experience of God's new redemption in Jesus as the defining factor in the identity of Christians.

Community and Self Definition in the Book of Acts

Jo Bac

Artificial Intelligence

$249.95

Jo Bac’s groundbreaking legal study asks why and how the United States legal system should grant legal personhood to artificial intelligence (AI). This new legal status of AI is visualized as a dependent person. The AI dependent legal person would be determined by an inextricable connection between AI and a new type of corporate body, introduced here as “AI-Human Amalgamation” (AI-HA). Artificial Intelligence has been defined as one or more computer programs with an ability to create work that is unforeseen by humans. This includes AI capacity to generate unforeseen innovations, patentable inventions, and/or infringe the rights of other patent holders. At present, AI is an entity unrecognized by law. The fact that AI is neither a natural nor a legal person indicates that it cannot be considered the owner of rights or bearer of liabilities. This in turn creates tension both in society and legal systems because questions such as who should hold the rights of AI or be liable for autonomous acts of AI remain unanswered. This book dynamically argues that the AI dependent legal person and AI-HA are necessary to address these new challenges. The creativity and actions of AI and AI-HA would be distinct from those performed by human beings involved in the creation of this amalgamation, such as AI’s operators or programmers. As such, this structure would constitute an amalgamation based on human beings and AI cooperation (AI-HA). As a dependent legal person, AI would hold the patent rights to its own inventions, thus ensuring favorable conditions for the incentives of the U.S. patent system. In addition, the proposed legal framework with the use of legislative instruments could address any liability concerns arising from foreseen and unforeseen actions, omissions, and AI’s failure to act.

Dr. Curtis Fogel

Imaginative Inquiry

$74.95

Academic disciplines have remained largely committed to research methods and methodologies that hinge on simplistic binaries and problematic dichotomies. Despite this historical and contemporary trend in interdisciplinary research, there have been some notable advances in innovative approaches to method and methodology. With the recent growth in these advances, there is an increasing need for texts that document contemporary, innovative approaches to research. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, this edited compilation of essays charts some of the developing innovative trends in research methods and methodologies that transcend boundaries between: 1) quantitative and qualitative methods, 2) theory and method, 3) method and methodology, and 4) researcher and research participant. The overall aim of this book is to provide a guide for contemporary interdisciplinary researchers to explore the social world in imaginative ways, by moving beyond the singular, definite, discipline-specific research approaches of the past towards the more flexible, creative research approaches of the present. The editor and contributors reflect the fields below especially social sciences, public health and advanced criminology and represent both Canadian and American best practices and approaches

James B. Whisker

Why Japan Lost World War II

$139.95

When Japan attacked Pearl Harbor and other Western positions in the Asia-Pacific World in December 1941, it was unprepared to go to war with the United States and the Western Democracies generally and even realized it could not win. Its navy and air force were impressive, and its army could battle impressively against China, but Japanese small arms were terrible. Japan’s tanks could not compete with their opposite numbers. The Empire’s logistical base was undeveloped for modern warfare. While the Allies could produce large numbers of trained pilots, Japan produced very few. When its elite airmen were lost at the Battle of Midway in June 1942, Japan could not replace them. At sea, Japan built battleships when it needed more aircraft carriers. The Japanese military never even attempted to win World War II by a simple and direct plan. Its planners consistently assumed that the enemy would do precisely what they assumed and countenanced no alternative analyses of facts.

Lionel Joseph

Continuity in Liturgical Renewal

$49.91

This monograph defends the continuity of the liturgical reforms of Vatican 11 with the previous liturgical tradition by examining and comparing the prefaces for the Sundays of Lent in the Roman Missals of 1570 and 2002. That is examining whether or not the editio typica tertia of the Missale Romanum (MR 2002) shows any significant rupture from the Tradition as some writers claim. Dr Lionel maintains that the liturgical prayers show a continuous thread of connection not only between Vatican 11 and the reforms of the Council of Trent, but from the New Testament period to our own day. The study, which examines the question of continuity by comparing specific texts from the pre- and post-conciliar editions of the Roman Missal is the first of its kind in liturgical scholarship. The work offers a precise methodology for the future study on continuity by defining the three elements of continuity based on the teachings of the Catholic Church: substantial, biblical and traditional. Substantial continuity refers to the unity in the theological content of the prefaces from pre- and post-conciliar missals in spite of some variations. Biblical continuity indicates the correspondence between scripture readings of the day or the season and the words of the prefaces with their theological and liturgical significance. Traditional continuity points to the connection between the present texts and the mystagogical writings of the Fathers of the Church and prayers of ancient sacramentaries. Dr Lionel has for the first time attempted a serious scholarly investigation of the Trentine missal and that of 2002: an enormous work in terms of time,scholarly dedication and interpretative skills.

Juliette du Tyrac de Marcellus

The Princess, or The I Love Paris Ball

$28.95

When Texas oilman Sidney B. Schlatz finds that he cannot launch his plain daughter into the higher echelons of New York’s debutante scene, he decides to go over the heads of the doyennes of American Society and give a lavish international ball in Paris. The pitfalls there are as varied as they are unexpected, as his ambitions encounter a cross-section of European society as difficult as any he met in New York. With hilarious consequences, his plan for the “I Love Paris Ball” combines characters from cultures totally incomprehensible to each other. Among them are would-be movie star Tina, Hollywood producer Sam Kraznik, a royal prince, high-life seeker Clarky Finch III, a financially embarrassed duke fleeing the tax man, smooth art dealers, a certain British rock band, a questionable arms dealer, a charming heroine, the eccentric denizens of a village in Normandy, and the destiny-changing presence of a little white dog.

Peter Rowland

The Collected Stories of Lanoe Falconer

$49.95

Mary Elizabeth Hawker (1848-1908), who wrote from 1890 onwards under the pseudonym of Lanoe Falconer, is remembered today primarily as the author of two best-selling novellas (Mademoiselle Ixe and Cecilia de Noël), five brilliant short stories (published under the title Hôtel d’Angleterre) and a slim volume of wonderful reminiscences entitled Old Hampshire Vignettes. All of these will be found in Collected Tales—but they are reinforced by eight additional short stories, one additional novella (Shoulder to Shoulder) and one additional vignette. These supplementary items, buried in the archives for more than a century, are now brought to light by Peter Rowland, Hawker’s biographer, after much patient research and dedicated delving. They are accompanied by a short series of penetrating Character Sketches, intended for a book (or books) that would never be written, plus an article on how to tackle short stories. Bearing additional witness to Lanoe Falconer’s astonishing range and versatility, this fresh material makes Collected Tales a unique and invaluable volume—one not to be missed by the growing army of this remarkable writer’s fans.

Maureen S.G Hawkins

The Form of the Nation Made Perfect

$74.95

A new study of the political and social context of selected Irish historical dramas of the 18th ,19th and 20th centuries. Includes both thematic analyses of plays dealing with Robert Emmet and Brian Boru as well as individual analyses of plays be Dion Boucicault, Brian Friel, Denis Johnson, Lady Gregory, David Rudkin, Thomas Shadwell, W.B. Yeats. This work will be of great interest to researchers in Irish theatre and drama as well in Irish social history. “ . . (T)his work breaks new ground in the study of the historical and political in Irish drama. The historical drama in Ireland has always had an element of “claiming” the past for a very particular political or religious present i.e. “our heroes” against theirs, or, too often, “our hatred” against theirs . . . Professor Hawkins is to be congratulated for a fine research work that discusses the theatre as a means of historical and political persuasion and possession and redress.” Professor R.B. Mahony.

Robert McParland

Cultural Memory, Consciousness, and The Modernist Novel

$139.95

Cultural Memory, Consciousness, and the Modernist Novel is a study of the novel and consciousness in James Joyce, William Butler Yeats, D. H. Lawrence, and Virginia Woolf. This volume focuses on novels of the 1920s and engages in a study of Joyce’s epiphany and language play, Yeats’s esoteric philosophy, Lawrence’s vitalism, and Woolf’s stream of consciousness techniques. In this book readers enter the minds of Joyce’s characters Stephen Dedalus and Leopold Bloom in the modern city, the esoteric quests of William Butler Yeats, the vitalism and explorations of D. H. Lawrence, the interiority of Virginia Woolf, and the artistic perspectives of the Bloomsbury Group. Within the field of intellectual history, Robert McParland’s groundbreaking study places Joyce, Yeats, Lawrence, and Woolf within the cultural and historical context of the first half of the twentieth century. McParland takes a philosophical humanist approach to the innovative techniques and quests of literary modernism and draws from the phenomenology of Edmund Husserl and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, as well as the inquiries of Arthur Schopenhauer and Henri Bergson. This work also follows from the work of intellectual historian H. Stuart Hughes, the studies of James Joyce by Richard Ellmann and Helene Cixous, and David Lodge’s Consciousness in Fiction.

Shih-chieh(Jay) Su

Modern Nationalism and the Making of a Professional Historian

$36.62

This new study re-examines the relationship between the beginnings of the modern historical profession and the emergence of the nation-state in the nineteenth century. The monograph analyses the founding father of modern historiography Leopold von Ranke and his evolution as an historian, his self-perception and his increasingly dominant perceptions of the historian's craft and role in society and politics. Su particularly focuses on the tension between a commitment to an objective represent ion of the past and the allegiance to a nation. The approach suggests an original and important revision of the conventional view of Ranke as an historian and, perhaps more importantly, of the origins of the modern historical profession. This revision also suggests that some of the conventional attacks on the alleged fixation on objectivity of the Rankean school were/are misplaced, on the one hand; and that, other hand, the historical profession has been from its very beginnings locked in battle with itself over its relationship with a specific nation, culture, and race, its claim of universal meaning and implication and its assertion of truthfully telling the story of the past. Su demonstrates that many, if not in one way or the other all of the dilemmas and conundrums that confront historians today were already present in the making of the profession and more or less clearly in the minds of such major figures as von Ranke.

Modern Nationalism and the Making of a Professional Historian

Jeffrey Vanke

Europeanism and European Union

$82.95

The fact of postwar European integration is only half of an extraordinary story. The six founding countries were unique from their neighbors and from their own histories. After 1945, the Six recast their nationalisms not only to discard extremism, but also to adopt Europeanism -- an emotive drive to create unprecedented institutions of European unity. At the intersection of their Europeanized nationalisms and their interests, the Six founded the European Economic Community, the core of today's European Union (EU). The early Community answered security and economic concerns. But the place and timing of its postwar founding point to the third and crucial force, emotive solidarity. Only the Six transformed very strong national solidarity communities to include medium-strength European solidarity as an essential, broad, and deep national characteristic. Vanke explains and interprets the turning points in this process. And he undertakes a broad four-country comparison of political leaders, parliamentarians, newspaper columnists, and public opinion, to demonstrate the startlingly similar expressions of a "European family" between the Dutch, West Germans, and even the French, in sharp contrast to the British. Ironically, the transformed nationalisms themselves sustained Europeanism, not to displace nationalism but to reshape it. So concerned to integrate their countries, leaders in the Six tried several formulas until they found what worked, long after their neighbors rested satisfied with looser international organizations. From 1947 through the present, the founding Six nations have polled much more in favor of European union than have their neighbors. And Europeanism is so integral a part of their nationalisms, so sacralized and unassailable, that EU membership is overwhelmingly beyond reproach. Vanke's book tells why and how this came to be. Vanke earned his Ph.D. in History at Harvard University. Europeanism and European Union is grounded in research in five languages, in nine countries, in some fifty archives.

David Goldfrank

Russia’s Early Modern Orthodox Patriarchate

$139.95

Patriarch Nikon, the most energetic, creative, influential, and obstinate of Russia’s early religious leaders, dominates this book. As Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church, Nikon’s most important initiative was to bring Russian religious rituals into line with Greek Orthodox tradition, from which Russia’s practices had diverted. Kiev’s Monastery of the Caves served as a medium for his transmission of Greek notions. Nikon and Tsar Alexis I (r. 1645-1676) envisioned Russia’s transformed into a new Holy Land. Eventually, Nikon became a challenger for Imperial authority. While his reforms endure, failed policies and poor political judgment were decisive in his fall and in the Patriarchate’s reduction in status. Ultimately, the reforms of Peter the Great (r. 1682-1725) led to its replacement by a new, government-controlled body, the Holy Synod, which nevertheless carried out a continuity of Nikon’s policies. This exceptional volume contextualizes Nikon’s Patriarchate as part of the broader continuities in Russian History and serves as a bridge to the present, where Russia is forging new relationships between Church and power.

Russia’s Early Modern Orthodox Patriarchate

Jeremy Havardi

A Persistent Prejudice

$39.95

Antisemitism in the twenty-first century remains a major threat to Jewish communities around the world, and a potent challenge to the liberal international order. But it can so often be a more hidden form of racism, relying on codes, images, cues, and ciphers embedded in the cultural mythology of prejudice against Jews. It is about the invocation of the blood libel, attacks on so-called “cosmopolitans,” accusations of “dual loyalty,” the conspiratorial notions of a malign “Jewish lobby.” It is also a highly protean prejudice, ever adaptable to a multitude of changes in political and social circumstances, always ready to mutate and shape-shift to fit a new environment. That is why it has so easily become a feature of the modern anti-Israel movement. This short volume will explore how anti-Israelism has reproduced many of the canards, tropes, and ciphers of historic Jew-hatred and regurgitated them as attacks on Zionism and Israel. The adverse treatment of Jews within Gentile societies has also been replicated in an endless array of double standards against Israel in the international community. Today, the “Jewish question” has been replaced by the “Israel question,” with a similarly obsessive and ritualistic form of demonization and delegitimization. Anyone concerned about the future of liberal democracy should take note.

Carol Tell

Part-Time Exiles

$64.95

Four months in America, six months in Ireland, two months, perhaps, on tour around the world: such are the dislocations of contemporary Irish poets. This monograph explores how images of America---its culture, myths, dialects and history—translate into and transform the work of key contemporary Irish poets and their sense of identity. Economic considerations aside, this continuous peregrination often decades long has reshaped the very core of Irish poet expression. In examining the works of Paul Muldoon, Derek Mahon, Seamus Heaney, John Montague and Evan Boland the book shows how the shifting visions of America and Ireland correspond to what critics have called a “new globalization”. This contact has lead to a new authenticity in the major work of these poets, but also has the potential of weakening the very “Irish” voice and tonality that originally brought these artists their first fame and cutting them off from their home audiences.

Amy Marsland

Origin of Culture

$74.95

Drawing on the work of Levi-Strauss, Malinowski, Dumezil, Van Gennep, Eliade and many others, Dr. Marsland proposes a dual/triune structure to early religion--a structure which appears to be worldwide. Marslander discusses the ideas of E.B.Tylor’s PRIMITIVE CULTURE (1872); James Frazer’s GOLDEN BOUGH (1890): the work of the Cambridge Ritualists, such as Jane Harrison’s THEMIS (1912) and F.M.Cornford’s ORIGINS OF ATTIC COMMEDY (1914); and Jessie Weston’s FROM RITUAL TO ROMANCE (1920). Also explored are the epistemological dilemmas of culture-formation and cultural diffusion based on mythic and societal change. Sex and transgressive sexual modalities explored. This synthesis encompasses in a coherent whole gods, goddesses and their functions, festival rituals, the composition of sacred sites, the meaning of animal emblems and symbols in art, along with tribal social patterns. Taking a post-Lacanian view of the religious origin of culture, Dr.Marsland posits the use and structure of symbol in new and intricate ways. “The monograph will prove of great interest to archeologists, anthropologists, religious and art historians.” Dr.John Frost

Megumi Ohsumi

Tradition and Emancipation in Horace and Alexander Pope

$139.95

In Tradition and Emancipation, Japanese scholar Megumi Ohsumi explores the mimetic encounters of classical material across Alexander Pope’s poetry. Focusing particularly on Pope’s Horatian Imitations, Ohsumi attempts to identify the extent to which mimesis plays a role in Pope’s oeuvre. Horace has remained one of the central Roman figures in classical tradition, and Renaissance humanism propelled Western European writers to explore his life and career and weave them into their own creative accounts. Poets could easily identify with Horace, and they turned to him for channels through which to intimate ideological strife and vicissitudes of life, often as dislocated individuals in their native lands. While retaining interauthorial quality in his textual output, Pope metamorphoses into his own independent self as artist and poet as he evinces a renewed hope for his contemporary England. Ohsumi attempts to maintain a phenomenological outlook in delving deeper than surface appearance, so as to avoid reductionism in the endeavor to penetrate Pope’s intentions and perceptions.