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 Multilevel Regulation of Military and Security Contractors: The Interplay between International, European and Domestic Norms (Studies in International Law) By Christine Bakker (editor), Mirko Sossai (editor) 2012 | 664 Pages | ISBN: 1849462488 | PDF | 3 MB The outsourcing of military and security services is the object of intense legal debate. States employ private military and security companies (PMSCs) to perform functions previously exercised by regular armed forces, and increasingly international organisations, NGOs and business corporations do the same to provide security, particularly in crisis situations. Much of the public attention on PMSCs has been in response to incidents in which PMSC employees have been accused of violating international humanitarian law. Therefore initiatives have been launched to introduce uniform international standards amidst what is currently very uneven national regulation. This book analyses and discusses the interplay between international, European, and domestic regulatory measures in the field of PMSCs. It presents a comprehensive assessment of the existing domestic legislation in EU Member States and relevant Third States, and identifies implications for future international regulation. The book also addresses the crucial questions whether and how the EU can potentially play a more active future role in the regulation of PMSCs to ensure compliance with human rights and international humanitarian law.  Moult and Ageing of European Passerines, 2nd Edition by Lukas Jenni, Raffael Winkler English | March 17, 2020 | ISBN: 1472941519 | True EPUB/PDF | 336 pages | 354/196 MB A brand-new, completely revised second edition of Jenni and Winkler's classic guide, updated and improved for the next generation of ringers and professional ornithologists.  Linda L. Layne, "Motherhood Lost: A Feminist Account of Pregnancy Loss in America" English | 2002 | pages: 369 | ISBN: 0415911486, 0415911494 | PDF | 14,5 mb "Motherhood Lost is a beautiful and passionate book. In this insightful ethnographic investigation, Linda Layne weaves together the intersecting religious, biomedical, consumerist and familial practices that surround and construct pregnancy loss in contemporary America. This moving book enables us to understand the cultural construction of silence and forgetting that has too long accompanied the grief of miscarriage and stillbirth, beckoning us to recognize and remake a world in which women's losses can be remembered." - Rayna Rapp, author of Testing Women, Testing the Fetus: The Social Impact of Amniocentesis in America and Professor of Anthropology, New York University  Mosquito Gene Drives and the Malaria Eradication Agenda by Rebeca Carballar-Lejarazú English | 2023 | ISBN: 9814968331 | 373 pages | True PDF | 19.08 MB  Monumental Fragments: Places of Philosophy in the Age of Dispersion (Transmission) By George Vassilacopoulos 2013 | 156 Pages | ISBN: 0980305292 | PDF | 1 MB At one and the same time the poet in me sinks and the rebel in me flies. The rebel encounters himself in the poet in whom the vision is drowned. The poet encounters himself in the rebel and becomes philosopher, the bearer of the vision of vision. Being this tension the ego falls in love with both. Fragments are the forgotten whispers of such falling.  Money and Thoughtlessness: A Genealogy and Defense of the Traditional Suspicions of Money and Merchants English | 2023 | ISBN: 3031222601 | 342 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 5 MB In this book, Justin Pack proposes a genealogy of the traditional suspicion of money and merchants. This genealogy is framed both by how money itself has changed and how different traditions responded to money. Money and merchants became heavily debated concerns in the Axial Age, which coincided with the spread of coinage. A deep suspicion of money and merchants was particularly notable in the Greek, Confucian and Christian traditions, and continued into the Middle Ages. These traditions wrestled with a new dialectic of purity that also appears with the widespread use of money. How were these concerns dealt with politically, socially and philosophically? How did they change over time? How did medieval Europe deal with money and how did this inform modern governmentality? To answer these questions, Pack turns to Hanna Arendt's work. Arendt argues that one of the outstanding characteristics of our time is thoughtlessness. This thoughtlessness is related to how modern life, especially under neoliberalism, is increasingly structured by abstract systems, abstract calculative rationality, abstract relations, and the profit motive. Money both drives and embodies this machinery.The hyper-complex abstract systems of modernity discourage, to use Arendtian terms, "thinking" (wonder, questioning everything) in favor of "cognition" (problem solving). Too often the result is thoughtless cognition-the ability to make things more productive and efficient paired with the incapacity to question and challenge the implications and morality of these systems.  Isabelle Jonveaux, Stefania Palmisano, "Monasticism in Modern Times" English | 2016 | pages: 243 | ISBN: 1472463544, 036788125X | PDF | 1,4 mb This book presents a broad sociological perspective on the contemporary issues facing Christian monasticism. Since the founding work of Max Weber, the sociology of monasticism has received little attention. However, the field is now being revitalized by some new research. Focusing on Christian monks and nuns, the contributors explore continuity and discontinuity with the past in what superficially might appear a monolithic tradition. Contributors speak not only about monasticism in Europe and the United States but also in Africa and Latin America, a different landscape where the question of recruitment does not figure among issues considered as problematic.  Modern Sous Vide by Victor Ragnarson English | 2017 | ISBN: 1974154890 | 122 Pages | EPUB | 485.8 KB This cookbook is focused on the French culinary trend, sous vide, or cooking "under vacuum."  . 50MINUTES, "Milton Friedman: Nobel Prize-winning economist and free market advocate " English | ISBN: 2806270685 | 2015 | 38 pages | EPUB | 1421 KB Nobel Prize-winning economist and free market advocate  Memory, Transitional Justice, and Theatre in Postdictatorship Argentina By Noe Montez 2017 | 262 Pages | ISBN: 0809336294 | PDF | 8 MB Author Noe Montez considers how theatre, as a site of activism, produces memory narratives that change public reception to a government's transitional justice policies. Drawing on contemporary research in memory studies and transitional justice, Montez examines the Argentine theatre's responses to the country's transitional justice policies-truth and reconciliation hearings, trials, amnesties and pardons, and memorial events and spaces-that have taken place in the last decade of the twentieth century and the first two decades of the twenty-first century. Montez explores how the sociohistorical phenomenon of the Teatroxlaidentidad-an annual showcase staged with the support of Argentina's Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo-acted as a vehicle for drawing attention to the hundreds of children kidnapped from their families during the dictatorship and looks at why the memory narratives regarding the Malvinas Islands (also known as the Falklands) range from ideological appropriations of the islands, to absurdist commentaries about the failed war that signaled the dictatorship's end, to the islands' heavily contested status today. Memory, Transitional Justice, and Theatre in Postdictatorship Argentina explores the vibrant role of theatrical engagement in postdictatorship Argentina, analyzes plays by artists long neglected in English-language articles and books, and explores the practicalities of staging performances in Latin America. |
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