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Free Download Constantin Stefanou, "Towards a European Criminal Record"
English | ISBN: 0521866693 | 2008 | 414 pages | PDF | 2 MB
The success of the four core freedoms of the EU has created fertile ground for transnational organised crime. Innovative, transnational legal weapons are therefore required by national authorities. The availability of data on criminal convictions is at the forefront of the debate. But which mechanism for availability can be used effectively while at the same time respecting an increasingly higher level of data protection at national level? In the fluid, post-'Reform Treaty' environment, the EU is moving towards the creation of a European Criminal Record which will ultimately secure availability of criminal data beyond the weaknesses of Mutual Legal Assistance mechanisms. Examining the concept of a European Criminal Record in its legal, political and data protection dimensions, this multidisciplinary study is an indispensable exploration of a major initiative in European Criminal Law which is set to monopolise the debate on EU judicial co-operation and enforcement.

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Free Download Michael J. Perry, "Toward a Theory of Human Rights: Religion, Law, Courts"
English | ISBN: 0521865514 | 2006 | 270 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Neither the morality of human rights nor its relation to the law of human rights is well understood. In this book, Michael Perry addresses three large issues: o There is undeniably a religious ground - indeed, more than one religious ground - for the morality of human rights. But is there a nonreligious (secular) ground for the morality of human rights? o What is the relation between the morality of human rights and the law of human rights? Perry here addresses the controversial issues of capital punishment, abortion, and same-sex unions. o What is the proper role of courts, in a liberal democracy, in protecting-and therefore in interpreting-constitutionally entrenched human rights? In considering this question, special attention is paid to the Supreme Court and how it should rule on hot button issues such as capital punishment and abortion. Toward a Theory of Human Rights makes a significant contribution both to human rights studies and to constitutional theory.

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Free Download Azizul Hassan, "Tourism and Hospitality in Asia: Crisis, Resilience and Recovery"
English | ISBN: 9811957622 | 2023 | 360 pages | EPUB | 14 MB
This book analyses the ways in which crises, including COVID-19, can be managed within the tourism and hospitality industries in Asia, in ways that support the future of these industries and help to make them more resilient. This book supports efforts to develop a new direction for the tourism and hospitality industry by considering their development holistically in the context of sustainable development. Going further, this book highlights actions to make the tourism system more resilient to external shocks and crises.

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Free Download Touring the Planck Scale: Antonio Aurilia Memorial Volume
English | 2025 | ISBN: 3031760654 | 294 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 31 MB
This book in honor of Antonio Aurilia provides an overview of one of the most mysterious research fields in theoretical physics, namely the fundamental interactions at energies between the electroweak scale and the Planck scale. The latter includes physics beyond the Standard Model, strings and p-branes, quantum gravity, quantum black holes and early Universe cosmology. A related goal of the work is to present the physical conditions upon which some piece of evidence of new physics at extreme energies can be exposed at current (or near future) experimental facilities. The work is organized in three parts. The first part schematically introduces the problem of fundamental interactions and summarizes the life and work of Prof. Aurilia. The second part forms the body of the book. It contains contributions from internationally recognized specialists who collaborated with Prof. Aurilia, such as R. Balbinot, B. Carr, G. Dvali, A. Fabbri, P. Gaete, J. A. Helayël-Neto, R. Mann, J. Mureika, D. Singleton, A. Smailagic, E. Spallucci and P. Townsend. The third part summarizes the work and draws the conclusions with particular attention to future developments.

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Free Download Tough Breaks: The Story of Baltimore Club Music by Al Shipley
English | August 19, 2025 | ISBN: 1917516061, 9781917516075 | True EPUB | 240 pages | 1.7 MB
Tough Breaks: The Story of Baltimore Club Music is the definitive history of how a city danced its pain away.

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Free Download Total Defense: The New Deal and the Invention of National Security by Andrew Preston
English | May 6th, 2025 | ISBN: 0674737385 | 336 pages | True EPUB | 0.74 MB
The story of how FDR and fellow New Dealers created the idea of national security, transforming the meaning of defense and vastly expanding the US government's responsibilities.

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Free Download Yuk-sik Chong, "Toilet as Business for the Hygiene of the Chinese Community in Colonial Hong Kong"
English | ISBN: 9811913951 | 2022 | 192 pages | EPUB | 14 MB
This book analyses how public toilets were provided by the government and local business in Hong Kong between the 1860s and 1930s through a process that was embedded in class and racial politics. Addressing public toilet provision from a political economy perspective, it focuses on the interplay of the cross-border night soil business between Hong Kong and China's silk producing area; the silk market between China and Colonial powers; the Hong Kong land market between the colonial government and Chinese business; and how these factors jointly produced a network of toilets in the colony. As the book shows, the commercial viability of toilets created multiple logics and a new moral geography; further, exploring the topic can help us gain a better understanding of how urban governance functioned in colonies and how it intertwined with economic contingencies within a global economic system. The intended readership includes academics and members of the general public with an interest in colonialism, public infrastructures, public health, government-business relations, and urban governance.

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Free Download Steve Fuller, "To Judge and To Justify: Profiles of the Academic Vocation "
English | ISBN: 3031760166 | 2024 | 207 pages | EPUB | 518 KB
This book argues that judging and justifying are the two skills that specifically require academic training. In the current times, where the value of a university degree is increasingly questioned, it's important to emphasize the significance of these skills. This volume addresses that universities are not necessarily stressing these skills, preferring instead to focus on the delivery of 'content' and the provision of 'credentials'. Its main focus is on articulating the positive case for the university's focus on judging and explaining as its core 'transferable skills.' It involves examining the historical and philosophical case for this claim, canvassing arguments made - and the example set - by Plato, Francis Bacon, Immanuel Kant, William Whewell, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Paul Feyerabend, Richard Rorty, John Rawls and Robert Nozick - as well as considering how they might be realized in today's world.

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Free Download Murray Rubenstein - To Join with the Eagles: A Complete Illustrated History of Curtiss-Wright Aircraft from 1903 to 1965
Doubleday Company | 1974 | ISBN: 038502794X | English | 248 pages | PDF | 179.09 MB

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Free Download Darien Shanske, "Thucydides and the Philosophical Origins of History"
English | ISBN: 0521864119 | 2006 | 282 pages | PDF | 1223 KB
This book addresses the question of how and why history begins with the work of Thucydides. The History of the Peloponnesian War is distinctive in that it is a prose narrative, meant to be read rather than performed. It focuses on the unfolding of contemporary great power politics to the exclusion of almost all other elements of human life, including the divine. The power of Thucydides' text has never been attributed either to the charm of its language or to the entertainment value of its narrative, or to some personal attribute of the author. In this study, Darien Shanske analyzes the difficult language and structure of Thucydides' History and argues that the text has drawn in so many readers into its distinctive world view precisely because of its kinship to the contemporary language and structure of Classical Tragedy. This kinship is not merely a matter of shared vocabulary or even aesthetic sensibility. Rather, it is grounded in a shared philosophical position, in particular on the polemical metaphysics of Heraclitus.

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