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This book offers a long overdue rethinking of international criminal law by challenging dominant compliance-based approaches and illuminating the power structures that shape global justice. Bringing together critical, interdisciplinary perspectives, it centres Global South voices; particularly African experiences, to reveal how international criminal law operates within, and often reinforces, global inequalities. Through in-depth analysis of key cases, institutions, and legal frameworks, the book introduces and extends innovative concepts such as Afrotopia, offering holistic ways to understand and reimagine accountability beyond conventional models. It speaks directly to pressing debates on sovereignty, justice, and legitimacy in a pluralised world. Ideal for students, researchers, and practitioners across law, global governance, politics, and related fields, this book provides both critical insight and forward-looking solutions; making it an essential resource for those seeking a more inclusive and equitable vision of international criminal justice. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.
Across historical periods-from ancient temple theodicies to early Christian-Muslim cooperation in the Umayyad world-the concept of loyalty can be considered both a stabilizing force and a site of contestation. This richly textured volume brings together Christian and Muslim scholars to explore loyalty as a complex, morally charged notion within interrelated religious and philosophical traditions. Drawing on textual, historical, philosophical, and ethnographic approaches, separate chapters variously trace the nuances of loyalty's evolution from scriptural foundations to contemporary ethical crises. Scholars of Islam examine Qur'anic and Sufi articulations of covenant, fidelity, and walā', highlighting tensions between loyalty to God, community, and the moral self. Contributions from the Christian tradition, meanwhile, explore fraternity, kenosis, ecclesial allegiance, and political loyalty, negotiating communal belonging against conscience and self-emptying love. Collectively, these pieces argue that loyalty becomes virtuous only when critically examined and subordinated to higher moral ends: God, justice, and human flourishing.
We know a great deal about the history of slavery and its abolition in Europe and the Americas. But what does this history look like in Africa? What forms of slavery existed on the continent in the nineteenth century? How did African anti-slavery strategies contribute to the abolition of slavery in different African regions and localities, and to international abolitionism? Through illuminating case studies from across the continent, Benedetta Rossi traces the history of slavery in Africa from the age of global abolition through to the colonial period and up to the present day. In doing so, Rossi demonstrates that abolition in Africa was never simply a foreign agenda. This book makes a compelling argument for the re-centring of the history of slavery and abolition around African ideas, institutions and actors, and for acknowledging the integral role of Africans in global abolitionist movements. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.
Vladimir Lenin remains one of the most significant figures of the twentieth century: a major socialist thinker, the leading figure in the October Revolution of 1917 in Russia and an enduring influence on the global revolutionary movement. This Companion offers a major reassessment of Lenin, his thought, experiences and legacy, through a series of concise and accessible chapters, grounded in the latest research. It provides an authoritative survey of important themes and events from the time of Lenin's emergence as a Marxist thinker, writer and revolutionary to his actions during Russia's revolutionary period. Central aspects of Lenin's thought are explored in depth, including revolution, the state, violence, gender, race and culture. The volume also explores the theoretical significance and enduring memorialisation of Lenin over a century after his death.
The little things can cause the greatest harm. Death by a Thousand Clicks explains the connection between click-to-agree terms of service (TOS) and harmful social and economic changes that have accompanied the growth of the internet. The book explains how these digital adhesive terms are more than annoying fine print – they are powerful tools of technocapitalism. Small, seemingly inconsequential clicks aggregate into massive transfers of wealth and power and reshape our norms, our relationships, our beliefs, and even our bodies. Click-by-click, terms of service consolidate corporate power, erode individual autonomy and well-being, and reshape political institutions, society, and humanit y in profound and irreversible ways. Death by a Thousand Clicks meets the current moment by providing readers with a new analytical framework for understanding Big Tech power beyond privacy and monopoly concepts.
Why does inheritance law persist in modern legal systems, and what justifies the transmission of property beyond death? This book develops a holistic theory of inheritance grounded in the concept of continuity. It moves beyond traditional accounts centered on testamentary freedom or family protection and argues that inheritance law responds to a fundamental problem created by mortality: the disruption of ownership at death. The book offers a theory that explains both testamentary freedom regimes and family-protection systems as alternative forms of continuity. It therefore enables a comparative analysis of different systems. It also advances a normative conception of continuity as a collaboration between the deceased giver and surviving recipients and, based on this conception, offers concrete criteria for evaluating legal doctrines across jurisdictions. Bringing mortality to the center of property theory, this work provides a coherent, comparative, and normatively rich account of inheritance law for scholars, students, and legal theorists.
Getting Credit examines why secured transactions law reforms yield uneven results in closing the five-trillion-dollar credit gap for micro, small, and medium enterprises. Combining multidisciplinary research, doctrinal analysis, and fieldwork observations, Castellano and Dubovec examine over thirty jurisdictions to show that success depends not on rules transplanted but on processes through which legal change unfolds. Bridging private law, financial regulation, and credit-market technology, the book examines how UNCITRAL and UNIDROIT standards, Basel and digital-finance regulations interact with domestic laws, how law reformers operate, and how secured-lending products - involving receivables, intellectual property, and warehouse receipts, as well as digital assets - function. It advances the Product-Focused Reform Strategy, a new method connecting secured lending to sustainable economic recovery, food security, and innovation. With a Foreword by Sir Roy Goode, Getting Credit is a major contribution to commercial law, comparative law, and development studies for scholars, practitioners, and policymakers worldwide.
How is our experience of the world shaped by shadows and their collaboration with light? This vivid, extensively illustrated book uncovers the hidden lives of shadows, beginning by showing how these dark areas have become the basis of different meanings, myths, metaphors, cultural beliefs, and stories, and then describing the physical principles responsible for the many shapes, sizes and types of shadows. The practical significance of shadows is then revealed by showing how they influence our everyday perception of objects and scenes and have been used to study the moon and planets, while creating natural environments that are essential for the survival of plants, animals and humans. The book climaxes with richly illustrated descriptions of the creation and experience of shadows in painting, photography, film and architectural environments. Engaging and endlessly surprising, this book will deepen your appreciation of shadows and change the way you perceive the world around you.
The seventh edition of this classic text has been extensively updated offering an indispensable, up-to-date, and practical resource which incorporates the latest guidelines concerning a wide array of conditions. Readers are given explicit management instructions to be used across the sites where sick and injured children now receive treatment. Fully updated with the most current knowledge and guidance, new topics include abdominal masses, abnormal movements, acute neuropsychiatric symptoms, brief resolved unexpected events, covid, disaster response in the emergency department, do not resuscitate/do not intubate orders, eating disorders, informed consent and assent, multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children, myocarditis, ophthalmoplegia, and transport. Successful and trusted for forty years, this manual is a key resource for pediatricians, emergency medicine physicians, family practitioners, allied health professionals, and trainees. A handy, 'how-to' guide for delivering care to the increasing number of children being treated outside of tertiary care settings.
Charting the history of the Ottoman Empire through a wide range of primary sources dated from 1300 to 1920, this sourcebook renders Ottoman history newly accessible to beginners. The 73 texts represent the most comprehensive offering of Ottoman sources published for the classroom, translated from Turkish, Arabic, Persian, Greek and Armenian. The selected texts range from chronicles to treaties, poetry and folk tales to essays, and biography to legal court registers, imperial orders, and financial records. Each source is accompanied by a short contextual introduction and study questions; maps and illustrations immerse students in the diverse Ottoman world. Suitable for either a one-semester or two-semester course, Reading Ottoman History will serve as an ideal accompaniment to popular textbooks such as Douglas A. Howard's A History of the Ottoman Empire, offering students vivid inside views of the political, military, economic, social, cultural and religious history of the Ottoman Empire.
Scientists and engineers worldwide are working toward the development of practical fusion power, technology that could provide a sustainable source of clean energy. Fusion reactors are designed to sustain plasmas in strong magnetic fields at temperatures hotter than the Sun's core, and the study of these plasmas is integral to fusion research. This introductory textbook comprehensively explains how the behavior of plasmas can be described using four useful models- guiding-center theory, two-fluid theory, magnetohydrodynamics and kinetic theory. Key topics include nuclear reactions, collisions, plasma waves and stability. All concepts are explained step-by-step in an accessible, pedagogical style, and the 140 solved problems make the text an ideal companion for self-study. The book is a must-read for upper undergraduate and graduate physics and engineering students taking courses in plasma physics with an emphasis on fusion.
Drawing on a number of key case studies, this innovative book develops a novel model that highlights how experiments are one of the most important empirical data sources in cognitive linguistics. It covers three problem areas: the uncertainty of experimental data, contradictory experimental results and the relationship between experimental data and theories. It provides metascientific tools which make it possible to (re-)evaluate the reliability and the usability of experiments as data sources, to reveal the relationships between closely related experiments and to summarise their outcomes. By increasing meta-scientific awareness, this book allows researchers to conduct systematic and comprehensive re-evaluations of experiments, which will contribute to more conscious and transparent experimental practices of experimenting in cognitive linguistics, as well as in other fields of research. It is essential reading for researchers and advanced students in cognitive linguistics, psycholinguistics and other areas that involve the study of experimental linguistic data.
Chemical products are ubiquitous in the modern world. They offer many economic and societal benefits but can also present threats to human health and can cause pollution related to their manufacture and use. This revised third edition has been significantly updated to include the latest scientific tools and regulations. It begins by describing the principles and practices of epidemiology and toxicology, then proceeds to explain how this research is applied in practice to establish regulations needed to protect health and to develop risk assessment framework. It features an entirely new chapter on emerging risk assessment science, an expanded discussion of exposure science, and the most recent developments in law and regulation., Written in accessible language, Calculated Risks will be of interest to advanced undergraduate and graduate students taking courses in risk assessment, toxicology or environmental chemistry, and to researchers, professionals and decision makers involved in chemical safety and regulation.
The Cambridge Companion to Colson Whitehead offers an accessible, engaging guide to one of today's most influential American writers. Designed for readers, students, professors, teachers, and reading circles, it illuminates Whitehead's extraordinary range – from historical epics and speculative fiction to satire and coming-of-age narratives. The book provides clear explanations of his major themes, including race, memory, trauma, and American mythmaking, while tracing how his innovative storytelling and genre-blending have reshaped contemporary literature. Each chapter offers concise analysis, cultural context, and practical insights that deepen appreciation for Whitehead's novels. Ideal for classrooms, libraries, and book discussions, this companion helps readers understand why Whitehead's work resonates so widely and equips students and teachers to engage with his writing with confidence. Whether new to his fiction or revisiting it with fresh eyes, readers will find a thoughtful, comprehensive resource that enriches their engagement with his remarkable body of work.
In Hiding in the Crowd, Christina Luise Toenshoff explores how companies adjust their climate lobbying when investors and consumers try to hold them accountable. She argues that companies evade such pressure by shifting their lobbying against climate policies to trade associations, making it impossible to trace which company took which position, thus evading accountability. Examining the case of the European Union, she demonstrates how associations offer their members plausible deniability for unpopular lobbying, muting the ultimate effect stakeholder activism can have on policy outcomes. Combining survey experiments with statistical analyses of corporate lobbying, Toenshoff provides new insights for climate politics and discusses how stakeholders can still have an impact, providing practical advice for those who want to green corporate climate lobbying.