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  • Child Labour in the Global Human Rights Regime

    A Political Economy Perspective

    de Paul Close ...
    Child Labour in the Global Human Rights Regime is about children’s rights, child labour and child slavery in modern and modernizing societies in the context of what has been summarized as a well-established and increasingly sophisticated framework of treaties, institutions, networks and ambitious standards with respect to human rights.The main focus is on the implications of children’s forced ... Leer más

    $94.29 USD

  • Asia Pacific and Human Rights

    A Global Political Economy Perspective

    de Paul Close, David Askew ...
    Series series New Regionalisms Series
    Human rights are acquiring an increasingly prominent role on the world stage. Interest in, concern about and action on human rights are widespread and rising, albeit in a far from globally even, uniform and untroubled fashion. Human rights have generated a booming global industry while having become, not unconnectedly, highly controversial and deeply contested. Human rights matters have emerged as ... Leer más

    $64.99 USD

  • The Beijing Olympiad

    The Political Economy of a Sporting Mega-Event

    de Paul Close, David Askew, Xu Xin ...
    The stage is set for the Beijing Olympiad to be the greatest mega-event, sporting or otherwise, in history. Still, the issues taxing many minds include whether the Beijing Games will be successful; whether they will be wrought with and wrecked by troubles; and who they will benefit. What value will the 2008 Games be to the people of China? Will they mainly serve the purposes of the dominant ... Leer más

    $73.99 USD

  • Supranationalism in the New World Order

    Global Processes Reviewed

    de Paul Close, Emiko Ohki-Close ...
    Supranationalism in the New World Order argues that in the post-Cold War distribution of global power and configuration of global players, the European Union is just one among a growing number of regional regimes that are acquiring prominent roles in the process of global governance, to some extent through the operation of differentiated zones of geo-political management. The EU is currently the ... Leer más

    $121.49 USD

  • Child Labour in Global Society

    de Paul Close ...
    Series Libro 17 - Sociological Studies of Children and Youth
    Child Labour in Global Society is a critical response to the modern educational regime, compulsory schooling and the 'slavery industry' in a globalizing world; to evolving and exploitative notions of 'slavery'; to definitions of 'slavery' in international law; to approaches to 'educational labour', including in international human rights law; and to cultural, common-sense and professional ... Leer más

    $51.99 USD

  • AiREAS: Sustainocracy for a Healthy City

    Phase 3: Civilian Participation – Including the Global Health Deal Proposition

    Edición de Jean-Paul Close ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This volume describes phase 3 of the AiREAS multidisciplinary cocreation effort to produce a Healthy City. Phase 1 referred to making visible the invisible from an air quality and human exposure perspective. Phase 2 studies air quality related to health and Phase 3 looks at air quality, health and lifestyle from the perspective of persuasion to innovative change.The three books together describe ... Leer más

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  • AiREAS: Sustainocracy for a Healthy City

    The Invisible made Visible Phase 1

    Edición de Jean-Paul Close ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book describes the coming about and first results of the AiREAS "healthy city" cooperative in the city of Eindhoven and Province of North Brabant in the Netherlands. AiREAS is an initiative focused on the multidisciplinary co-creation of healthy cities using the core human value of human health and air quality as guiding principle for profound regional innovation. The unique group process ... Leer más

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  • Risk Communication for the Future

    Towards Smart Risk Governance and Safety Management

    Edición de Mathilde Bourrier, Corinne Bieder ...
    Series series SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology
    The conventional approach to risk communication, based on a centralized and controlled model, has led to blatant failures in the management of recent safety related events. In parallel, several cases have proved that actors not thought of as risk governance or safety management contributors may play a positive role regarding safety. Building on these two observations and bridging the gap between ... Leer más

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  • Elements of Robotics

    de Mordechai Ben-Ari, Francesco Mondada ...
    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    This open access book bridges the gap between playing with robots in school and studying robotics at the upper undergraduate and graduate levels to prepare for careers in industry and research. Robotic algorithms are presented formally, but using only mathematics known by high-school and first-year college students, such as calculus, matrices and probability. Concepts and algorithms are explained ... Leer más

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  • The Politics of Citizenship in Europe

    de Marc Morjé Howard ...
    In this book, Howard addresses immigrant integration, one of the most critical challenges facing European countries, the resolution of which will in large part depend on how foreigners can become citizens. Howard's research shows that despite remarkable convergence in their economic, judicial, and social policies, the countries of the European Union still maintain very different definitions of ... Leer más

    $30.99 USD

  • China in the 21st Century:What Everyone Needs to Know

    de Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs to Know
    The need to understand this global giant has never been more pressing: China is constantly in the news, yet conflicting impressions abound. Within one generation, China has transformed from an impoverished, repressive state into an economic and political powerhouse. In China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know, Jeffrey Wasserstrom provides cogent answers to the most urgent questions ... Leer más

    $10.49 USD

  • Counter-Revolution

    Liberal Europe in Retreat

    de Jan Zielonka ...
    Can open society survive? Is Europe disintegrating? How to overcome the economic crisis? Will Europeans feel secure again? Counter Revolution is a bold attempt to make sense of the extraordinary events taking place in Europe today. It examines the counter-revolution developing in Europe, exploring its roots and implications. The book takes the form of a series of heartfelt letters to the late ... Leer más

    $14.29 USD