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How and why war and peace occur cannot be understood without realizing that those who make war and peace must negotiate a complex world political map of sovereign spaces, borders, networks, and scales. This book takes advantage of a diversity of perspectives as it analyzes the political processes of war and their spatial expression. Topics include...

Myerson's collection draws together in their entirety, the essential writings of the Transcendentalist group during its most active period, 1836-1844. It includes the major publications of the Dial, the writings on democratic and social reform (Brownson and Parker), the early poetry, nature writings and all of Emerson's major essays. The volume...

Covering all the major grounds of discrimination, this work examines in critical detail the essential characteristics and doctrines of EU law, the key concepts contained in EU anti-discrimination law, and the substantive provisions in the area....

There is widespread agreement that climate change is a serious problem. If we fail        to regulate greenhouse gases that contribute to global warming, or use alternative        strategies for addressing the problem, the damages could be significant, and perhaps        catastrophic.After several international meetings in which nation-states have...

Performing Pain considers how musical works by late 20th-century avant-garde composers engage with Cold War memory and suffering in 1970s and 80s Eastern Europe. Drawing upon an interdisciplinary range of sources, Maria Cizmic explores how people employ music in order to make sense of historical trauma and loss....

The postwar period is no longer current affairs but is becoming the recent past.          As such, it is increasingly attracting the attentions of historians. Whilst the Cold        War has long been a mainstay of political science and contemporary history, recent        research approaches postwar Europe in many different ways, all of which...