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A Human Rights CritiqueThe WTO is often accused of not paying enough attention to human rights. This book        weighs these criticisms and examines their validity, both from a legal and from        political and economic points of views. It asks whether the WTO is under an        obligation to construct a fairer trade system and discusses...

Examining the development of a secular, purely material conception of human beings in the early Enlightenment,     Bodies of Thought provides a fresh perspective on the intellectual culture of this period, and challenges influential interpretations of irreligious thought and the 'Radical Enlightenment'....

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This volume introduces the study of language attrition - the forgetting of language. In this first collection devoted to second language attrition, the contributors focus on contexts of loss where Japanese is either the attriting language, or the replacing language. Bringing together research to substantiate previous hypotheses in the field, this...

One of the most intriguing questions in contemporary American Christianity is whether the recent warming of relations between Catholics and conservative evangelicals promises a thaw in the ice age that has lasted since the sixteenth century. American evangelical Protestants and Roman Catholics have hated and suspected one another since colonial...

We are told that 'work is good for us' and that ill health is caused by        'individual lifestyles'. Drawing on research from public health, social policy,        epidemiology, geography and political science, this evidence-based        inter-disciplinary book firmly challenges these contemporary orthodoxies. It        systematically...