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Beyond the Mountains of the Damned: The War inside Kosovo
by Matthew McAllesterWinner, Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2002, Non-FictionThe story of Pec—Kosovo's most destroyed city during the wars in SerbiaFor every survivor of a crime, there is a criminal who forces his way into the victim's thoughts long after the act has been committed. Reporters weren’t allowed into Kosovo during the war without the permission of the Yugoslavian government but Matthew McAllester went anyway. In Beyond the Mountains of the Damned he tells the story of Pec, Kosovo’s most destroyed city and the site of the earliest and worst atrocities of the war, through the lives of two men—one Serb and one Kosovar. They had known each other, and been neighbors for years before one visited tragedy on the other. With a journalist’s eye for detail McAllester asks the great question of war: What kind of men could devastate an entire city, killing whole families, and feel no sense of guilt? The answer lies in the culture of gangsterism and ethnic hatred that began with the collapse of Yugoslavia.
Beyond the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation: From Lethal to Compassionate Conservation (The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series)
by Anja HeisterThe North American Wildlife Conservation Model (NAM) is the driver of a strong anthropocentric stance, which has legalized an ongoing, annual exploitation of hundreds of millions of wild animals, who are killed in the United States through trapping, hunting and other lethal practices. Increasingly, the American public opposes the killing of wild animals for recreation, trophies and profit but has little—if any—knowledge of the Model. The purpose of this book is to empower the public with knowledge about the NAM’s insufficiencies and to help expedite the shift from lethal to compassionate conservation, an endeavour urgently needed particularly under the threats of climate change, human population growth and accelerating plant and animal species extinctions.With a focus on trapping, this book exposes the NAM's belief in human supremacy and its consequences for wild animals and their ecosystems, the same value that is driving the ongoing global destruction of nature and accelerating species extinction. Motivated by a deep concern for wild animals who suffer and whose lives are extinguished each year by 'sportsmen and women', this book exposes the violent treatment of wild animals inherent in governmental-promoted hunting and trapping programs, while emphasizing the importance of empathy and compassion for other animals in conservation and in our lives.
Beyond the Pale: Reading Ethics from the Margins
by Miguel A. De La Torre Stacey M. Floyd-ThomasThis book offers a reader-friendly introduction to Christian liberationist ethics by having scholars "from the margins" explore how questions of race and gender should be brought to bear on twenty-four classic ethicists and philosophers. Each short chapter gives historical background for the thinker, describes that thinker's most important contributions, then raises issues of concern for women and persons of color.
Beyond the Prison Gates
by Warren RosenblumGermany today has one of the lowest incarceration rates in the industrialized world, and social welfare principles play an essential role at all levels of the German criminal justice system. Warren Rosenblum examines the roots of this social approach to criminal policy in the reform movements of the Wilhelmine and Weimar periods, when reformers strove to replace state institutions of control and incarceration with private institutions of protective supervision.Reformers believed that private charities and volunteers could diagnose and treat social pathologies in a way that coercive state institutions could not. The expansion of welfare for criminals set the stage for a more economical system of punishment, Rosenblum argues, but it also opened the door to new, more expansive controls over individuals marked as "asocial." With the reformers' success, the issue of who had power over welfare became increasingly controversial and dangerous. Other historians have suggested that the triumph of eugenics in the 1890s was predicated upon the abandonment of liberal and Christian assumptions about human malleability. Rosenblum demonstrates, however, that the turn to "criminal biology" was not a reaction against social reform, but rather an effort to rescue its legitimacy.
Beyond the Promise
by Barbara BickmoreWhen Boston attorney Cat Browning vacations in Eastern Oregon, she meets the man of her dreams. Marriage to Scott McCullough is only the beginning of Cat's journey. Soon, she is drawn into the sprawling family ranch and the complex heart of the McCullough clan. But when long-held family secrets threaten to destroy her happiness, Cat is faced with the most difficult choices of her life--choices that will test her true loyalties and shape the future of her unique destiny.
Beyond the Responsibility to Protect in International Law: An Ethics of Irresponsibility
by Angeliki SamaraThis book offers a critical appraisal of the international legal idea of the ‘Responsibility to Protect’. The idea that the international community has a responsibility to protect populations at risk has become the prominent mode and structure of address in response to mass human atrocities, gross human rights violations, and large-scale loss of life. Although the "international community" of liberal international law and of legal cosmopolitanism for the most part projects a self-assured collective project, this book maintains that it transforms global ethical responsibility into a project of governance, management, and control. Pursuing this argument, and drawing on critical legal literature, critical international relations and on ideas of responsibility and ethical relationality in the work of Jacques Derrida and Judith Butler, the book develops a concept of "irresponsibility". This concept is then juxtaposed to the dominant Responsibility to Protect discourse. By exposing and acknowledging "the sites of irresponsibility" of the Responsibility to Protect, the book argues that irresponsibility itself can become the condition of ethical responsibility and the possibility of justice. This original approach to an increasingly important topic will prove invaluable to those working in international law, international relations, politics and legal theory.
Beyond the Virus: Multidisciplinary and International Perspectives on Inequalities Raised by COVID-19
by Sabrina Germain, Adrienne Yong and Patricia TuittAs the COVID-19 pandemic has unfolded, stark social inequalities have increasingly been revealed and, in many cases, exacerbated by the global health crisis. This book explores these inequalities, identifying three thematic strands: power and governance, gender and marginalized communities. By examining these three themes in relation to the effects of the pandemic, the book uncovers how unequal the pandemic truly is. It brings together invaluable insights from a range of international scholars across multiple disciplines to critically analyse how these inequalities have played out in the context of COVID-19 as a first step towards achieving social justice.
„Beyond the Wall”: Game of Thrones aus interdisziplinärer Perspektive
by Anna Gamper Thomas MüllerDieses Open-Access-Buch beleuchtet das Serienphänomen „Game of Thrones“ aus unterschiedlichen wissenschaftlichen Perspektiven: Die rechtswissenschaftliche trifft auf die sprach-, musik-, literatur- und sozialwissenschaftliche, ferner die (kunst-)historische, psychologische und theologische Perspektive. Die Beiträge zeigen auf, dass die Serie reiche Anknüpfungspunkte für die wissenschaftliche Forschung unterschiedlichster Fachrichtungen bietet, die auch dazu anregen, sprichwörtlich „beyond the wall“ zu denken. Das Buch spricht dabei sowohl ein interdisziplinäres wissenschaftliches Publikum als auch sonstige Fans der Serie an.
Beyond This Place
by A. J. CroninThis is the story of a son and his father, a crime of passion and a crime of injustice.
Beyond Transcendence in Law and Philosophy (Birkbeck Law Press Ser.)
by Louis E. WolcherWhat is the law of the law? What produces our craven subservience to linguistic norms, and our shocking indifference to the phenomenon of universal suffering? In a path-breaking new work of philosophy, Louis Wolcher seeks to answer these questions from the standpoint of Zen Buddhism.Bringing an Eastern sensibility into contact with three of the most important themes in Western philosophy, Beyond Transcendence in Law and Philosophy meticulously investigates three of the twentieth century's most important philosophers: Martin Heidegger - on being, Emmanuel Levinas - on ethics, and Ludwig Wittgenstein - on language. In the context of the larger Western obsession with transcending the ordinary, Louis Wolcher argues that the yearning for transcendence is born of the illusion that there is a fundamental difference between the ordinary and the profound. Employing Zen koans and stories to advance a 'deflationary' view of language and knowledge, he goes on to argue that the norms of transcendence to which we cling are not eternal truths but artefacts of desperate minds adrift on a sea of impermanence. What used to seem so majestically True, Right and Just thus shows itself to be utterly mundane: as merely true, right and just. What is left, however, is not nihilism - for clinging to a view of 'nothingness' is just as deluded as clinging to a view of 'somethingness' - but rather a new beginning of compassionate concern for the suffering of others. Beyond Transcendence in Law and Philosophy is a strikingly original synthesis of Eastern and Western thought. It will enlighten philosophers and legal theorists, as well as those who are interested in or open to the insights of Zen Buddhism.
Beyond Transitional Justice: Transformative Justice and the State of the Field (or non-field)
by Matthew EvansBeyond Transitional Justice reflects upon the state of the field (or non-field) of transitional justice in the current conjuncture, as well as identifying new possibilities and challenges in the fields with which transitional justice overlaps (such as human rights, peacebuilding, and development). Chapters intervene at the cutting edge of contemporary transitional justice research, addressing key theoretical and empirical questions and covering critical, international, interdisciplinary, theoretical, and practice-oriented content. In particular, the notion of transformative justice is discussed in light of the emerging scholarship defining and applying this concept as either an approach within or an alternative to transitional justice. The book considers the extent to which transformative justice as a concept adds value to scholarship on transitional justice and related areas and asks what the future might hold for this area as a field – or non-field. A timely intervention, Beyond Transitional Justice is ideal reading for scholars and students in the fields of human rights, peace and conflict studies, international law, critical legal theory, development studies, criminology, and victimology.
Beyond Treaties: Rethinking Legal Mechanisms for International Climate Governance
by Türkan Gülce BudakThis open access book examines the implications of the shift towards minilateralism for international climate law, analysing how climate-related trade measures and Paris Agreement compatible platforms may enhance global climate governance. The landscape of international climate change law is evolving from a traditional consensus-based treaty model, characterized by comprehensive yet often slow-moving agreements, toward a more pragmatic approach known as minilateralism. In this emerging paradigm, smaller groups of countries negotiate and implement trade measures aimed at mitigating climate impacts. An exemplary case is the European Green Deal, which introduces climate-related trade measures as a key instrument for achieving sustainability goals within and beyond Europe. Additionally, countries are exploring minilateral cooperation platforms within the Paris Agreement framework to further their climate objectives. The central questions to be addressed in this book are twofold. First, how can the design of the minilateral schemes comply with the Paris Agreement&’s international cooperation, common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capacities, and market-based mechanisms principles? Second, to what extent does the climate-related trade measures conform with the WTO regime, particularly with the non-discrimination principles of the trade law, namely most favoured nation and national treatment?
Beyond Virtue and Vice: Rethinking Human Rights and Criminal Law (Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights)
by Alice Miller Mindy RosemanOver the past two decades, human rights as legal doctrine and practice has shifted its engagement with criminal law from a near exclusive condemnation of it as a source of harm toward increasingly invoking it as a necessary remedy for abuses. These shifts are most visible in the context of sexuality, reproduction, and gender. <P><P>Criminal law appears in modern states as a tool for societies to define forbidden acts (crimes) and prescribe punishments. It authorizes the state to use force as an aspect of expressing and establishing norms—societal expectations for acceptable behavior which when breached permit individuals to be excluded and stigmatized as unfit for inclusion. <P><P> But the core principles of human rights oppose exclusion and stigma and embrace the equality and dignity of all. Therefore there is an insuperable tension when human rights actors invoke criminal law to protect and vindicate human rights violations.Beyond Virtue and Vice examines the ways in which recourse to the criminal law features in work by human rights advocates regarding sexuality, gender, and reproduction and presents a framework for considering if, when, and under what conditions, recourse to criminal law is compatible with human rights. <P><P>Contributors from a wide range of disciplinary fields and geographic locations offer historical and contemporary perspectives, doctrinal cautionary tales, and close readings of advocacy campaigns on the use of criminal law in cases involving abortion and reproductive rights, HIV/AIDS, sex work and prostitution law, human trafficking, sexual violence across genders, child rights and adolescent sexuality, and LGBT issues. <P><P>The volume offers specific values and approaches of possible use to advocates, activists, policy makers, legislators, scholars, and students in their efforts to craft dialogue and engagement to move beyond state practices that compromise human rights in the name of restraining vice and extolling virtue. <P><P>Contributors: Aziza Ahmed, Widney Brown, Sealing Cheng, Sonia Corrêa, Joanna N. Erdman, Janet Halley, Alli Jernow, Maria Lucia Karam, Ae-Ryung Kim, Scott Long, Vrinda Marwah, Alice M. Miller, Geetanijali Misra, Rasha Moumneh, Wanja Muguongo, Oliver Phillips, Zain Rizvi, Mindy Jane Roseman, Esteban Restrepo Saldarriaga, Tara Zivkovic.
BGB Allgemeiner Teil (Springer-Lehrbuch)
by Burkhard Boemke Bernhard UlriciDas Lehrbuch behandelt den Allgemeinen Teil des Bürgerlichen Rechts, der die Grundlage für praktisch alle anderen Bereiche des Zivilrechts bildet. Insbesondere die allgemeine Rechtsgeschäftslehre muss auch im Schuld-, Sachen-, Familien- und Erbrecht beherrscht werden. Sie ist dementsprechend unverzichtbarer Bestandteil jeder juristischen Ausbildung. Wer hier auf Lücke setzt, wird auch in anderen Gebieten des Bürgerlichen Rechts verloren sein. Erfahrungsgemäß ist der Allgemeine Teil des BGB Gegenstand der Anfangssemester des juristischen Studiums. Der für Studenten noch ungewohnte Umgang mit Gesetzen und ihren Formulierungen sowie die Unsicherheiten im Gutachtenaufbau treffen auf einen hohen Abstraktionsgrad der einschlägigen Normen. Dem Studenten hier eine verständliche Anleitung zu bieten, ist Anliegen des Lehrbuchs. Dieses ist an den Bedürfnissen des Anfängers ebenso wie an denen des Examenskandidaten ausgerichtet und hilft durch Klausurfälle mit Lösungsskizzen zu Schwerpunkten der Rechtsgeschäftslehre sowie begleitend angebotenen Lernmittel (elektronische Mind-maps), den richtigen Grundstein zu legen.
BGB Allgemeiner Teil für Dummies (Für Dummies)
by André NiedostadekNicht von ungefähr finden Sie den Allgemeinen Teil im ersten Buch des BGB. Er bildet die Basis für das gesamte Bürgerliche Gesetzbuch und damit zugleich ein Fundament Ihres Studiums. Konkret, kompakt und kurzweilig macht André Niedostadek Sie mit den studien- und prüfungsrelevanten Inhalten dieses Teils des BGB vertraut - egal ob für den Einstieg oder zur Wiederholung. Übersichtliche Schaubilder und Schemata, Prüfungshinweise und Fälle mit Lösungen bereiten Sie perfekt auf Ihre Klausur vor.
BGB für Dummies (Für Dummies)
by André NiedostadekGanz gleich ob Sie Betriebswirtschaftslehre, Jura oder Verwaltungswissenschaften studieren - um das BGB werden Sie kaum herumkommen. Mit diesem Buch hilft Ihnen André Niedostadek, sich das Bürgerliche Gesetzbuch systematisch zu erarbeiten. Er erklärt Ihnen so leicht verständlich wie möglich, wie das BGB aufgebaut ist, wie Sie bei einer Fallbearbeitung vorgehen sollten und natürlich auch, was es zu den einzelnen Gesetzen zu wissen gibt. Mit Übungsfällen können Sie Ihr Wissen festigen und überprüfen. So gerüstet, müssen Sie die nächste Klausur nicht fürchten.
BGB für Dummies (Für Dummies)
by André NiedostadekGanz gleich ob Sie zum Beispiel Jura oder BWL, Sozial- oder Verwaltungswissenschaften studieren - um das BGB werden Sie kaum herumkommen. Mit diesem Buch hilft Ihnen André Niedostadek, sich das Bürgerliche Gesetzbuch von Grund auf systematisch zu erarbeiten. Er erklärt Ihnen leicht verständlich, wie das BGB aufgebaut ist, wie Sie bei einer Fallbearbeitung vorgehen sollten und natürlich auch, was es zu den einzelnen Gesetzen zu wissen gibt. Mit Übungsfällen können Sie Ihr Wissen festigen und überprüfen. So gerüstet, müssen Sie die nächste Klausur nicht fürchten.
Bhagavad Gītā and Leadership: A Catalyst for Organizational Transformation (Palgrave Studies in Workplace Spirituality and Fulfillment)
by Satinder DhimanThis book shows how the Bhagavad Gītā (part of the great Indian epic — the Mahābhārata) can be approached as a powerful tool for change management and as a catalyst for organizational transformation. It presents time-tested leadership strategies drawn from the Bhagavad Gītā that are relevant for today’s leaders. This book focuses on how to harmonize the needs of the individual with the needs of society, and by extension, how to harmonize the needs of employees and the organization. It employs an inside-out leadership development approach based on Self-knowledge and Self-mastery, the two highly important areas for practicing effective Self-leadership. The Gītā is a non-sectarian spiritual text with a universal message for living a life of meaning, purpose, and contribution and for leading from our authentic self. It shows how to manage oneself, as a necessary prelude to leading others. Students and organizational leaders will learn to integrate leadership function more effectively into all aspects at the individual, team, and institutional level.
Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita 2023: Criminal Law-2
by P. Jaganathan Usha JaganathanThe book provides a comprehensive analysis of India's newly introduced Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita, 2023, which replaces the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973. It covers critical aspects of criminal procedure, investigation, trials, and sentencing, integrating technological advancements and time-bound remedies for a more efficient justice system. Additionally, the book explores the Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act, 2015, amended in 2021, focusing on rehabilitation and child protection. The Probation of Offenders Act, 1958 is also examined, highlighting reformative justice for first-time offenders. Designed for law students, educators, and legal practitioners, this updated edition provides case laws, exam-oriented notes, and simplified explanations to enhance legal understanding.
Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita 2023 Criminal Law 1
by P. Jaganathan Usha Jaganathan J. P. ArjunThe book Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita 2023 – Criminal Law 1 by P. Jaganathan and team is a comprehensive and student-friendly guide to the newly enacted Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), which replaces the Indian Penal Code of 1860. Tailored for LLB students and legal practitioners, the book simplifies complex legal principles using lucid language and includes model questions, solved problems, and recent case law for practical understanding. It covers the full syllabus of various universities and integrates updates on modern legal challenges such as cybercrime, terrorism, and gender neutrality. Divided into thematic units, it explores general principles of crime, offences against the human body and property, and offences against the state, ensuring readers grasp both theoretical concepts and practical applications under the reformed criminal justice framework of India.
The Bhopal Syndrome: Pesticides, Environment and Health (Routledge Revivals)
by David WeirFirst published in 1988, The Bhopal Syndrome documents one of world’s worst industrial disaster: The Bhopal gas tragedy of 1984. The tragedy exposed a variety of issues plaguing rapid development such as the negligence of corporations and government, prioritizing of commercial benefits over human lives, inadequate post-disaster rehabilitation and compensation, and frightening levels of environmental pollution. The author argues that the Bhopal gas tragedy is being replicated across the globe at various intensities facilitating a dangerous normalisation. He asserts that workers and consumers should fight for their ‘right to know’ about working conditions, chemicals used in pesticides, the harm caused by producing such chemicals, how these chemicals end up on our food as well as the manner in which the chemicals interact in our body. Climate crisis and undeterred industrial development still haunt our reality making this book an essential read for any concerned citizen and for students of disaster management, industrial disasters, climate change, environment, toxicology and workers’ rights.
Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News
by Bernard Goldberg Ed MorrisseyIn his nearly thirty years at CBS News, Emmy Award-winner Bernard Goldberg earned a reputation as one of the preeminent reporters in the television news business. When he looked at his own industry, however, he saw that the media far too often ignored their primary mission: objective, disinterested reporting. Again and again he saw that they slanted the news to the left.For years Goldberg appealed to reporters, producers, and network executives for more balanced reporting, but no one listened. The liberal bias continued.In this classic number one New York Times bestseller, Goldberg blew the whistle on the news business, showing exactly how the media slant their coverage while insisting they're just reporting the facts.
The Bible and the Ballot: Using Scripture in Political Decisions
by Tremper Longman IIIHow to read the Bible on matters of public policyChristians affirm the Bible as our standard of faith and practice. We turn to it to hear God&’s voice. But what relevance does the Bible have for the contentious public policy issues we face today? Although the Bible does not always speak explicitly to modern issues, it does give us guiding principles as we think about how we might vote or act as political figures ourselves. The Bible and the Ballot demonstrates the proper use of Scripture in contemporary political discussions. Christians regularly invoke the Bible to support their positions on many controversial political topics—gay marriage, poverty, war, religious liberty, immigration, the environment, taxes, etc.—and this book will help facilitate those conversations. Tremper Longman provides a hermeneutical approach to using the Bible in this manner, then proceeds topic by topic, citing important Scriptures to be taken into consideration in each case and offering an evangelical interpretation. Longman is careful to suggest levels of confidence in interpretation and acknowledges that often there are a range of possible applications. Each chapter includes questions to provoke further thought in individuals&’ minds or for group discussion. The Bible and the Ballot is a ready guide to understanding the Bible on issues that American Christians face today as we live within a pluralistic society.
The Bible and the Ballot: Using Scripture in Political Decisions
by Tremper Longman IIIHow to read the Bible on matters of public policyChristians affirm the Bible as our standard of faith and practice. We turn to it to hear God&’s voice. But what relevance does the Bible have for the contentious public policy issues we face today? Although the Bible does not always speak explicitly to modern issues, it does give us guiding principles as we think about how we might vote or act as political figures ourselves. The Bible and the Ballot demonstrates the proper use of Scripture in contemporary political discussions. Christians regularly invoke the Bible to support their positions on many controversial political topics—gay marriage, poverty, war, religious liberty, immigration, the environment, taxes, etc.—and this book will help facilitate those conversations. Tremper Longman provides a hermeneutical approach to using the Bible in this manner, then proceeds topic by topic, citing important Scriptures to be taken into consideration in each case and offering an evangelical interpretation. Longman is careful to suggest levels of confidence in interpretation and acknowledges that often there are a range of possible applications. Each chapter includes questions to provoke further thought in individuals&’ minds or for group discussion. The Bible and the Ballot is a ready guide to understanding the Bible on issues that American Christians face today as we live within a pluralistic society.
A Bible for the Liberal
by Dagobert D. RunesThis Bible is not a new book. It is, rather, a selection of the principles of ethics, taken from all biblical literature, including the HebrewBooks of Wisdom and TheApocrypha, without the usual mythological and ritualistic framework. Liberals of our time will find in this selection the essence of true Judaism and Christianity. The purpose of this anthology is to help those with critical, with even prejudicial eyes, to get a view of the majestic panorama that unfolds in the writings of the great Hebrew and Christian Men of God. The believer, as well as the non-believer, will be able to find in this book the essential ethics of the great law-givers and prophets of biblical times.