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Martial Culture and Historical Martial Arts in Europe and Asia = A Multi-pers…
This open access book is the first publication to provide a comparative framework for the study of martial culture and historical martial arts in Europe and Asia, in particular in Italy and China. Due to the interdisciplinary nature of martial studies, contributors to this volume include historians, archeologists, art historians, scholars of fencing literature, metallurgists, as well as contemp…
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- 9789811920370
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- XXII, 381 ill; hlm
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- 2
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International Children’s Rights Instruments
This collection is an essential supplement to the recent academic handbooks on children’s rights studies and international children's rights law. Over the years, the international legal framework on children's rights has evolved into a complex system, which includes United Nations treaties and resolutions, regional human rights instruments, such as treaties, recommendations, resolutions, and …
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- 978-90-04-68122-4
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- xii, 700 pp
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Illegal Annexation and State Continuity : The Case of the Incorporation of th…
This volume, now in its second and revised edition, deals with the legal status of the three Baltic States - Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania - as a consequence of the illegality of the Soviet annexation in 1940-1991. It offers a detailed historical overview of the Soviet takeover of the Baltic States in 1939/1940 and analysis of international law as it was in force, also regionally and bilaterall…
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- 978-90-04-46489-6
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- xvi, 307pp
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- The Erik Castrén Institute Monographs on International Law and Human Rights, Volume: 20
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Humanitarianism: Keywords
Humanitarianism: Keywords is a comprehensive dictionary designed as a compass for navigating the conceptual universe of humanitarianism. It is an intuitive toolkit to map contemporary humanitarianism and to explore its current and future articulations. The dictionary serves a broad readership of practitioners, students, and researchers by providing informed access to the extensive humanitarian …
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- 978-90-04-43114-0
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- xxviii, 234 pp
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Human Rights and the Environment : Philosophical, Theoretical and Legal Persp…
This book explores the philosophical, theoretical and legal bases that underpin the linkage between human rights and the environment. Such linkage, grounded in reality, is an innovative way of addressing environmental issues through the lens of a well-established international human rights system. The book argues that a new set of environmental rights is gradually forging its way into internati…
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- 978-90-04-18993-5
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- 192 pp
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- Queen Mary Studies in International Law, Volume: 3
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Human Rights and Law Enforcement at Sea : Arrest, Detention and Transfer of P…
Law enforcement at sea has become an increasingly important tool for combating transnational crime. Such law enforcement operations are commonly directed by multinational missions composed of military rather than police forces, and are often carried out in maritime areas not subject to national jurisdiction. Because of these characteristics, maritime law enforcement operations touch upon many u…
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- 978-90-04-26997-2
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- The Raoul Wallenberg Institute Human Rights Library, Volume: 46
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Global Citizenship Education = Critical and International Perspectives
This open access book takes a critical and international perspective to the mainstreaming of the Global Citizenship Concept and analyses the key issues regarding global citizenship education across the world. In that respect, it addresses a pressing need to provide further conceptual input and to open global citizenship agendas to diversity and indigeneity. Social and political changes brought…
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- 9783030446178
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- XIV, 217 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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Künstliche Intelligenz = Technologien | Anwendung | Gesellschaft
Dieses Buch ist eine Open-Access-Publikation unter einer CC BY 4.0 Lizenz. Künstliche Intelligenz (KI) klingt in aktuellen Debatten oft abstrakt und alltagsfremd. Doch die meisten Internetnutzerinnern und -nutzer sind bereits täglich mit ihr konfrontiert – wenn auch unbewusst: sei es bei der Sprachsteuerung des Smartphones, bei Kaufempfehlungen im Online-Shop oder bei der Abfrage von auf …
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- 9783662580424
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- XVI, 270 ill; lamp
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Rescaling Sustainability Transitions = Unfolding the Spatialities of Power Re…
This Open Access book explores sustainability transitions with a focus on their influence on the relationships between cores and peripheries, the rural and the urban, and the large and the small-scale. The societal changes induced by sustainability transitions are expected to assemble as a variegated and heterogeneous process reproduced by different spatial contexts and scales. Hence, the pract…
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- 9783031699184
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- XVII, 299 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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The Demography of Disasters = Impacts for Population and Place
This open access book provides worldwide examples demonstrating the importance of the interplay between demography and disasters in regions and spatially. It marks an advance in practical and theoretical insights for understanding the role of demography in planning for and mitigating impacts from disasters in developed nations. Both slow onset (like the of loss polar ice from climate change) a…
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- 9783030499204
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- XVII, 268 ill; lamp
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