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Free Download Peter Jones, "Essays on Toleration"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 1785522639, 1785522922 | EPUB | pages: 262 | 0.4 mb
The diverse make-up of modern societies has long been a major preoccupation of political philosophy. It has also been a prominent focus for public policy. How should a society provide for the differences exhibited by its population? Should it view them with indifference, or seek to diminish them in the interest of social cohesion, or view them as positive goods that it should facilitate or promote? The answer cannot be simple, partly because the differences captured by the terms 'difference' or 'diversity' are themselves so diverse.

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Free Download Soner Cagaptay, "Erdogan's Empire: Turkey and the Politics of the Middle East"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 1788317394 | EPUB | pages: 392 | 0.7 mb
Gradually since 2003, Turkey's autocratic leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan has sought to make Turkey a great power - in the tradition of past Turkish leaders from the late Ottoman sultans to Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey. Here the leading authority Soner Cagaptay, author of The New Sultan - the first biography of President Erdogan - provides a masterful overview of the power politics in the Middle East and Turkey's place in it.

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Free Download Christopher Torr, "Equilibrium, Expectations and Information: A Study of the General Theory and Modern Classical Economics"
English | 2020 | ISBN: 0367156911 | EPUB | pages: 150 | 0.5 mb
This book attempts to elucidate the views of Keynes's General Theory as far as equilibrium, expectations and information are concerned, and compares them with those of modern classical economists of the Chicago and Ricardian persuasion.

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Free Download Sergi Morales-Gálvez, Nenad Stojanović, "Equal Recognition, Minority Rights and Liberal Democracy: Alan Patten and His Critics"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 1138080780, 0367592673 | EPUB | pages: 144 | 0.4 mb
Multiculturalism is not à la mode nowadays. It is attacked by both right-wing populists and mainstream politicians and leaders of liberal democracies. Indeed, conflicts surrounding cultural diversity and recognition are among the most salient issues in contemporary societies. Should liberal democracies recognise specific cultural rights of minorities? If so, should they grant rights only to indigenous national minorities or also to immigrants? Is such a recognition compatible with the basic liberal principle of state neutrality?

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Free Download Environmental Protection and Disaster Risks: Proceeding of the 2nd International Conference on Environmental Protection and Disaster Risks and 10th Annual CMDR COE Conference on Crisis Management and Disaster Response by Nina Dobrinkova, Orlin Nikolov
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2023 | 376 Pages | ISBN : 3031267532 | 159 MB
This book presents topics that are challenging fields that scientific world is trying to address as much as it can. Earthquakes, floods, fires, droughts, blizzards, dust storms, natural releases of toxic gases and liquids, diseases, and other environmental variations affect hundreds of millions of people each year. Many disaster events are triggered by human activities. Dealing with these problems will require systems thinking and integrating multidisciplinary science. Actions in these directions are taken more and more in the recent years by political bodies, NGOs, and scientific groups trying to find sustainable solutions for the future generations. Every point of view matters when it comes to our global home-The Planet Earth.

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Free Download Paul G. Harris, "Environmental Policy and Sustainable Development in China: Hong Kong in Global Context"
English | 2012 | ISBN: 1447305078 | EPUB | pages: 304 | 0.9 mb
Drawing on practices and theories of sustainability, Environmental policy and sustainable development in China explores the prospects for achieving environmentally benign economic and social development in China and beyond. Using the Chinese 'world city' of Hong Kong as a backdrop and case study, it introduces major conceptions of sustainability, describes historical and political contexts for environmental policymaking, and analyses key challenges related to sustainable development, including air pollution, water quality, waste, transport and climate change. The book will be a valuable and unique resource for students, teachers and readers interested in environmental policy, sustainable development and ecological governance, especially in China and Hong Kong. All of the author's royalties from sales of this book will be donated by Policy Press to Friends of the Earth (Hong Kong) and WWF (Hong Kong).

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Free Download Jan Hancock, "Environmental Human Rights: Power, Ethics and Law"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 1138722405 | EPUB | pages: 218 | 0.5 mb
This title was first published in 2003. Environmental Human Rights redefines the political, ethical and legal relationships between the environment and human rights to claim the human rights to an environment free from toxic pollution and to natural resources. Through a focus on the operational dynamics of social power, this compelling book details how global capitalism subjugates concerns of human security and environmental protection to the values of allocative efficiency and economic growth. The capacity of social power to construct ethical norms and to determine the efficacy of law is examined to explain how ethical and legal concepts have been selectively applied to accommodate existing patterns of production, consumption and exchange that cause environmental degradation and human rights violations. By looking at how environmental values have been systematically excluded from the human rights discourse, the book claims that human rights politics and law has been constructed on double standards to accommodate the destructive forces of capitalism.

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Free Download Gabriela Kütting, "Environment, Society and International Relations: Towards More Effective International Agreements"
English | 2000 | ISBN: 0415214653 | EPUB | pages: 186 | 0.6 mb
Written in an accessible and lively style, this ground-breaking text marries a critique of current remedies towards environmental problems to original and viable alternatives.

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Free Download Sidney Webb, Beatrice Potter Webb, "English Prisons Under Local Government"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 1017256020, 1017261067 | EPUB | pages: 348 | 0.7 mb
Originally published in 1968, English Prisons Under Local Government gives a detailed account of the evolution of the English Prison System from the common gaol and the house of correction of the sixteenth century down to the statutory changes of the twentieth century, and survey the successive efforts at reform of John Howard and Elizabeth Fry, Jeremy Bentham and James Neild, Sir T. Fowell Buxton and J. J.Gurney. The origin and development of the cellular system, the treadwheel and the crank, the penal dietary and the 'system of progressive stages' all come under review, together with the administrative changes made by Sir Edmund Du Cane and Sir Evelyn Ruggles, and the reforms during the first part of the 20th century.

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Free Download Ellen Mutari, "Engendered Economics: Incorporating Diversity into Political Economy"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 1563249960, 1563249979 | EPUB | pages: 256 | 0.7 mb
This book provides an overview of current developments within feminist political economy, including reformulations of economic theory, historical and empirical research on the economic roles and status of women and people of color, as well as proposals for broadening the public policy agenda. Rather than offering a feminist critique of neoclassical economics, this volume presents feminist economics in dialogue with progressive economic theory and public policy. It differentiates itself further by addressing issues of class, race and sexuality in interaction with gender.

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