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Even before the wreckage of a disaster is cleared, one question is foremost in the minds of the public: "What can be done to prevent this from happening again?" Today, news media and policymakers of……続きを見る

What does human dignity mean and what role should it play in guiding the mission of international institutions? In recent decades, global institutions have proliferatedーfrom intergovernmental organ……続きを見る

Just after 9:00 a.m. on February 1, 2003, the space shuttle Columbia broke apart and was lost over Texas. This tragic event led, as the Challenger accident had 17 years earlier, to an intensive gove……続きを見る

JULIA SAMUEL'S LATEST BOOK, EVERY FAMILY HAS A STORY, IS AVAILABLE TO PRE-ORDER NOW A Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller Death affects us all. Yet it is still the last taboo in our society, and grief is……続きを見る

The movement away from secularist practices and toward political Islam is a prominent trend across Muslim polities. Yet this shift remains under-theorized. Why do modern Muslim polities adopt polici……続きを見る

Devant les conflits qui ravagent le monde, on se demande souvent à quoi sert l'ONU. Elle est à la fois dénigrée pour ses insuffisances, souvent critiquée pour son impuissance mais aussi louée pour s……続きを見る

Forging Southeastern Identities: Social Archaeology and Ethnohistory of the Mississippian to Early Historic South, a groundbreaking collection of ten essays, covers a broad expanse of timeーfrom the……続きを見る

Thought the science of the future was all hoverboards and space travel? Think again. Every day, scientists come up with the ingenious solutions and surprising discoveries that will define our future……続きを見る

Lambda Literary Award finalist In 1996, poet Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha ran away from America with two backpacks and ended up in Canada, where she discovered queer anarchopunk love and revolut……続きを見る

We are on the precipice of momentous legal changes for animals that may soon give some of them rights of personhood and citizenship. Companion animals in particular are gaining rights to public repr……続きを見る

I roghi dei rifiuti ammassati sulle strade di Napoli si sono appena spenti, quando in un locale per banchetti sulla tangenziale si festeggia il compleanno di una diciottenne. Arriva un ospite "a sor……続きを見る

Vous pensez avoir déjà touché le fond ? Vous pouvez tomber plus bas. Beaucoup plus bas. Richard avait tout pour réussir, une vie dorée, un avenir prometteur, mais tout a explosé en plein vol. La rui……続きを見る

"Whether your interest in Sioux folklore is great or small, you will find this a fascinating book to devour. Pick up a copy today and be thrilled." ー The Reading Room This accessible and affordable……続きを見る

Against Labor highlights the tenacious efforts by employers to organize themselves as a class to contest labor. Ranging across a spectrum of understudied issues, essayists explore employer anti-labo……続きを見る

Designed to enable practitioners and students to evaluate a variety of real-life emergencies from every angle, this new edition of Case Studies in Disaster Response and Emergency Management provides……続きを見る

CUNDILL PRIZE 2018 WINNER SHORTLISTED FOR THE JAMES TAIT BLACK BIOGRAPHY PRIZE 2018 ‘Enlightening, compassionate, superb’ John le Carré A visionary life and times of Joseph Conrad, and of our global……続きを見る

This book is a collection of Sayyid Nadwi’s writings and lectures which brings into sharper relief the eternal divine guidance for man embodied in the Qur’an. The volume instructs readers in article……続きを見る

India has one of the highest numbers of HIV carriers in the world. HIV has remained associated with sex work, and large sums of money provided to fund public health interventions have come from glob……続きを見る

We live in a time when the most appalling social injustices and unjust human sufferings no longer seem to generate the moral indignation and the political will needed both to combat them effectively……続きを見る

Our understanding of the British Palaeolithic and Mesolithic has changed dramatically over the last three decades, and yet not since H. J. Fleure’s A Natural History of Man in Britain (1951) has the……続きを見る

Winner of the 2009 Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Book Prize, sponsored by the Association for Asian Studies The medieval Rajput queen Padmini - believed to have been pursued by Alauddin Khalji, the Su……続きを見る

This practical text offers professional guidance on stopping domestic violence in couples and families and promoting healing and safety in its aftermath. Rich in theoretical diversity (attachment, t……続きを見る

Dal 2009, ogni martedì, Fiamma Satta firma su La Gazzetta dello Sport una rubrica intitolata Diversamente affabile. Brevi racconti di vita reale in cui protagoniste sono l’inciviltà e la mancanza di……続きを見る

Sarasvati assumes different roles, a physical river and a river goddess, then as a goddess of speech and finally that of a goddess of learning, knowledge, arts and music. References to Sarasvati in ……続きを見る

This study uses the Czech national movement in the Austrian Empire between the late 1820s and the late 1850s to examine the complex set of social, physical, physiological, and moral requirements thr……続きを見る

If there’s one thing most people can agree on, it’s that there should be rules for life. And they’re right. We should have a set of rules that we can all agree on, that show us how to experience hap……続きを見る

In this book Mushirul Hasan articulates a vision of Islam or rather the many different kinds of Islam, instead of the frightening monolith of popular perception, living in harmony with other faiths,……続きを見る

"Con un estilo ameno y riguroso, la autora se remonta al pasado para mostrarnos el progreso de la investigación científica a lo largo de la historia, hasta llegar a la actualidad."(Blog Me gustan lo……続きを見る

Conozca la historia de la arqueología desde la antigüedad, el despertar renacentista, los anticuarios ilustrados y los pioneros decimonónicos, hasta los avances científicos modernos y el radiocarbon……続きを見る

En nuestro imaginario colectivo han quedado indelebles infinidad de figuras y leyendas que manifiestan la España que sistemáticamente la historia ha querido ocultar: la España mágica. Existen numero……続きを見る