Courts and Consociations: Human Rights Versus Power-Sharing By Christopher McCrudden; Brendan O'Leary
2013 | 216 Pages | ISBN: 0199676844 | PDF | 34 MB
Consociations are power-sharing arrangements, increasingly used to manage ethno-nationalist, ethno-linguistic, and ethno-religious conflicts. Current examples include Belgium, Bosnia, Northern Ireland, Burundi, and Iraq. Despite their growing popularity, they have begun to be challenged before human rights courts as being incompatible with human rights norms, particularly equality and non-discrimination.Courts and Consociationsexamines the use of power-sharing agreements, their legitimacy, and their compatibility with human rights law. Key questions include to what extent, if any, consociations conflict with the liberal individualist preferences of international human rights institutions, and to what extent consociational power-sharing may be justified to preserve peace and the integrity of political settlements.In three critical cases, the European Court of Human Rights has considered equality challenges to important consociational practices, twice in Belgium and then inSejdic and Finci v Bosniaregarding the constitution established for Bosnia Herzegovina under the Dayton Agreement. The Court's decision inSejdic and Fincihas significantly altered the approach it previously took to judicial review of consociational arrangements in Belgium. This book accounts for this change and assess its implications. The problematic aspects of the current state of human rights law are discussed. Future negotiators in places riven by potential or actual bloody ethnic conflicts may now have less flexibility in reaching a workable settlement, which may unintentionally contribute to sustaining such conflicts and make it more likely that negotiators will consider excluding regional and international courts from reviewing these political settlements.Providing a clear, accessible introduction to both the political use of power-sharing settlements and the human rights law on the issue, this book is an invaluable guide to all academics, students, and professionals engaged with transitional justice, peace agreements, and contemporary human rights law.

Contract and Property in Early Modern China By Madeleine Zelin, Jonathan K. Ocko, Robert Gardella
2004 | 401 Pages | ISBN: 0804746397 | PDF | 5 MB
The role of contract in early modern Chinese economic life, when acknowledged at all, is usually presented as a minor one. This volume demonstrates that contract actually played a critical role in the everyday structure of many kinds of relationships and transactions; contracts are, moreover, of enormous value to present-day scholars as transcriptions of the fine details of day-to-day economic activity.Offering a new perspective on economic and legal institutions, particularly the closely related institutions of contract and property, in Qing and Republican China, the papers in this volume spell out how these institutions worked in specific social contexts. Drawing on recent research in far-flung archives, the contributors take as givens both the embeddedness of contract in Chinese social and economic discourse and its role in the spread of commodification. Two papers deal with broad issues: Zelin's argues for a distinctively Chinese heritage of strong property rights, and Ocko's examines the usefulness of American legal scholarship as a comparative analytic framework.

Computer Logic: Design Principles and Applications by John Y. Hsu
English | PDF | 2002 | 208 Pages | ISBN : 0387953043 | 15.9 MB
An understanding of modern computer logic - incorporating core knowledge of number systems, number conversions, Boolean algebra, memories, and logic circuits - is fundamental to further study of computer architectures, system software, and computer networks. Computer Logic: Design Principles and Applications introduces and describes the relevant concepts, principles and applications of modern computer logic design.

Bojan Radej, "Complex Society: In the Middle of a Middle World "
English | ISBN: 1648892434 | 2021 | 242 pages | PDF | 2 MB
The decreasing capacity to govern complex social processes results in negative trends that breach system thresholds in all main social domains with extreme economic stratification of society. Independent studies steadily report that a strong majority of the world's population, between 60% and 80%, already feels excluded and no longer represented by their governments.

Comparative Planning Cultures By Sanyal Bishwapriya
2005 | 415 Pages | ISBN: 0415951348 | PDF | 13 MB
Bringing together leading planning and urban scholars, and including fascinating international case studies, this unique book investigates urban planning across the world and in different cultures.International Standard Book Number-10: 0-415-95134-8 (Hardcover) 0-415-95135-6 (Softcover)International Standard Book Number-13: 978-0-415-95134-0 (Hardcover) 978-0-415-95135-7 (Softcover)

Collective Goods: Collective Futures in East and Southeast Asia By S. Sargenson
2002 | 272 Pages | ISBN: 0415284430 | PDF | 2 MB
This edited collection explores issues surrounding the provision of collective goods within the context of post-crisis East and Southeast Asia. It includes case studies on Korea, Indonesia, China, Laos, Malaysia and Singapore among others.ISBN 0415284430 (hbk)ISBN 0415284449 (pbk)

Christianity: Opium or Truth? By David W. Gooding; John C. Lennox
2014 | 184 Pages | ISBN: 1874584532 | EPUB | 3 MB
Is Christianity just a belief that dulls the pain of our existence with dreams that are beautiful but false? Or is it an accurate account of reality, our own condition and God's attitude toward us? Gooding and Lennox address crucial issues that can make it difficult for thoughtful people to accept the Christian message. They answer those questions and show that clear thinking is not in conflict with personal faith in Jesus Christ.Myrtlefield Encounters are complementary studies of biblical literature, Christian teaching and apologetics. Key Bible Concepts explores and clarifies the central terms of the Christian gospel and provides succinct explanations of the basic vocabulary of Christian thought. The Definition of Christianity throws fresh light on the Book of Acts and observes how the first generation of Christians identified and defended the unique features of the gospel. The Bible and Ethics presents a concise survey of leading events and people, ideas, poetry, moral values and ethics across both the Old and New Testaments. The books in this series engage the minds of believers and sceptics. They show how God has spoken in the Bible to address the realities of life and its questions, problems, beauty and potential.

Chemistry of Ozone in Water and Wastewater Treatment By Clemens von Sonntag; Urs von Gunten
2012 | 305 Pages | ISBN: 1843393131 | PDF | 21 MB
Even though ozone has been applied for a long time for disinfection and oxidation in water treatment, there is lack of critical information related to transformation of organic compounds. This has become more important in recent years, because there is considerable concern about the formation of potentially harmful degradation products as well as oxidation products from the reaction with the matrix components. In recent years, a wealth of information on the products that are formed has accumulated, and substantial progress in understanding mechanistic details of ozone reactions in aqueous solution has been made. Based on the latter, this may allow us to predict the products of as yet not studied systems and assist in evaluating toxic potentials in case certain classes are known to show such effects. Keeping this in mind, Chemistry of Ozone in Water and Wastewater Treatment: From Basic Principles to Applications discusses mechanistic details of ozone reactions as much as they are known to date and applies them to the large body of studies on micropollutant degradation (such as pharmaceuticals and endocrine disruptors) that is already available. Extensively quoting the literature and updating the available compilation of ozone rate constants gives the reader a text at hand on which his research can be based. Moreover, those that are responsible for planning or operation of ozonation steps in drinking water and wastewater treatment plants will find salient information in a compact form that otherwise is quite disperse.

Ruth C Carter, Mary L Kao, "Cataloging and Classification for Library Technicians, 2nd Edition"
English | 2001 | ISBN: 0789010623, 0789010631 | 160 pages | PDF | 8.6 MB
Structure your workload with this comprehensive guide to the role and responsibilities of library technicians!

Build Bridges, Not Walls : A Journey to a World Without Borders
by Todd Miller
English | 2021 | ISBN: 0872868346 | 180 Pages | ePUB | 3.1 MB