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Seventy Years of the International Law Commission
eventy Years of the International Law Commission: Drawing a Balance for the Future brings together voices from academia and practice to celebrate and critically evaluate the work of the United Nations International Law Commission (ILC) over the.
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- 978-90-04-43427-1
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Servants of the Kingdom
Minister of the Word, shepherd and teacher—the titles of Dutch pastors exude authority and prestige. In the course of the nineteenth century, however, their social position was slowly undermined by the separation of church and state, the...
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- 978-90-04-19350-5
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Selling Sex in the City: A Global History of Prostitution, 1600s-2000s
elling Sex in the City offers a worldwide analysis of prostitution that takes a long historical approach which covers a time period from 1600 to the 2000s. The overviews in this volume examine sex work in more than twenty notorious “sin...
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- 978-90-04-34625-3
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Seeking Justice at the Court of the Khans of Khiva
This book aims to shed light on the juridical field of the Khanate of Khiva at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century. The ‘Khanate of Khiva’ is the term employed in Western historiography to denote the political formation that...
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- 978-90-04-42790-7
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Secession in International Law with a Special Reference to the Post-Soviet Space
The open access publication of this book has been published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation. International law is increasing in relevance to the topic of secession. This book demonstrates that if a secessionist...
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- 978-90-04-70264-6
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Scorsese and Religion
Scorsese and Religion concerns the religious vision of the great American filmmaker Martin Scorsese. Not only will this volume explore the foundation of Scorsese’s interest in religion—namely, his relation to the Catholic Church—but it will also...
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- 978-90-04-41140-1
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Science, (Anti-)Communism and Diplomacy
From 1957 onwards, the "Pugwash Conferences" brought together elite scientists from across ideological and political divides to work towards disarmament. Through a series of national case studies - Austria, China, Czechoslovakia, East and...See More
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- 978-90-04-34017-6
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Royal Courts in Dynastic States and Empires : A Global Perspective
In recent decades the history of premodern states and empires has undergone major revision. At the heart of this process stood the court, encompassing the household as well as government institutions. This volume for the first time brings
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- 978-90-04-20623-6
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What Caused the Big Bang?
This book critically explores answers to the big question, What produced our universe around fifteen billion years ago in a Big Bang? It critiques contemporary atheistic cosmologies, including Steady State, Oscillationism, Big Fizz, Big Divide, and Big Accident, that affirm the eternity and self-sufficiency of the universe without God. This study defends and revises Process Theology and argumen…
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- 9789004496033
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- Value Inquiry Book Series, Volume: 115 Philosophy and Religion, Volume: 115
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Western Subanon Grammar
Western Subanon Grammar is the first ever comprehensive description of Western Subanon, a highly endangered indigenous Austronesian minority language in the southern Philippines. Written by a native speaker and the result of intensive fieldwork, the book's 26 chapters cover the phonological, morpho-syntactic, and discourse properties of the language. Special attention is devoted to the salient …
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- 9789004703056
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- 564 hlm; ill., lamp.,
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- Endangered and Lesser-Studied Languages and Dialects
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