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Rituals of Royalty
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 368

Rituals of Royalty

Heads of state today mark their rites of passage with splendid ceremonial, from Reagan's inaugural to Andropov's funeral. Such spectacles continue to be a prominent part of modern political systems, of varied ideological hue, but their precise meaning and importance often remain unclear. The essays in this book - all specially written for it - address the central problem in the understanding of royal rituals, namely the relation between power and anthropologists, and the traditional societies examined range from ancient Babylon to nineteenth-century Madagascar, from medieval Europe to contemporary Ghana.

Human Rights
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 561

Human Rights

Written largely by Canadian scholars for Canadian readers, this overview of contemporary human rights concerns introduces the human rights instruments—provincial, national, and international—which protect Canadians. The volume begins with an outline of the history of human rights before moving on to discuss such important topics as the relationship between political institutions and rights protection, rights issues pertaining to specific communities, and cross-cutting rights issues that affect most or all citizens. Contemporary and comprehensive, Human Rights: Current Issues and Controversies is a valuable resource for anyone interested in learning more about human rights.

The Business and Human Rights Landscape
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 623

The Business and Human Rights Landscape

This is the first book offering a comprehensive historical and contemporary analysis of the emerging business and human rights field.

Strategic Litigation and Corporate Complicity in Crimes Under International Law
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 206

Strategic Litigation and Corporate Complicity in Crimes Under International Law

  • Categories: Law

This book provides a comprehensive account of how non-state actors rely on international criminal law as a tool in the service of progressive political causes. The argument that international criminal law and its institutions serve as an instrument in the hands of a few powerful states, and that its practice is characterized by double standards and selectivity, has received considerable attention. This book, however, focuses on a practice that is informed by this argument. Its focus is on an alternative practice within international criminal law, where non-state actors navigate what critical scholars call a structurally biased legal system, in order to achieve long-term political objectives....

Principles of International Criminal Law
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 711

Principles of International Criminal Law

  • Categories: Law

Principles of International Criminal Law is one of the leading textbooks in the field. This third edition builds on the highly-successful work of the previous editions, setting out the general principles governing international crimes as well as the fundamentals of both substantive and procedural international criminal law.

Byzantine Constantinople
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 392

Byzantine Constantinople

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2001
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  • Publisher: BRILL

This collection of papers on the city of Constantinople by a distinguished group of Byzantine historians, art historians, and archaeologists provides new perspectives as well as new evidence on the monuments, topography, social and economic life of the Byzantine imperial capital.

Synthetic Biology for Therapeutics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 184

Synthetic Biology for Therapeutics

Synthetic biology is enabling scientists to use engineered genetic circuits in the cells as the basis for the development of new living therapeutics and as a powerful new weapon in the fight against diseases, especially cancer. Bacteria-mediated therapy is a promising alternative cancer treatment. The book covers the recent developments of cellular therapies from a synthetic biology perspective including engineered microbial therapies, CAR-T therapies etc. and is an indispensable guide to scientists in both biotechnology and medicine.

Treasure in the Medieval West
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 192

Treasure in the Medieval West

Studies highlight the importance of treasure, real and metaphorical, in medieval culture.

Mitogen Activated Protein Kinases
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 276

Mitogen Activated Protein Kinases

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2020-06-18
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  • Publisher: MDPI

Mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPK) are a large family of enzymes that function as signal transducers to regulate a diverse range of physiological responses. However, signaling via extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK), c-Jun amino terminal kinase (JNK), and p38 MAPK also underpin many disease processes. This Special Issue provides new insights into how MAPK signaling contributes to specific pathological processes across a range of conditions, including disorders of lung development, type 2 diabetes, proliferative skin diseases, cardiovascular diseases, and neurological diseases.

Research Handbook on Human Rights and Investment
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 579

Research Handbook on Human Rights and Investment

  • Categories: Law

The interplay between human rights and investments is a key and complex issue in today’s world. To take stock of this importance and to tackle this complexity, this Research Handbook offers a unique multi-faceted approach. It gathers in-depth contributions which focus on the interplay between human rights and investments in various international legal regimes, economic sectors and regions. It also provides thorough analyses of the various types of accountability that may result from the activities of multinational corporations in relation to human rights. This Research Handbook is intended for practitioners, policy-makers, academics and students eager to understand the interaction between human rights and investments in all its dimensions.​