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Theoretical, Legal, and Practical ChallengesCartel activity is prohibited under EU law by virtue of Article 101(1) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union. Firms that violate this provision face severe punishment from those entities responsible for enforcing EU competition law: the European Commission, the national competition...

International Law is both an introduction to the subject and a critical consideration of its central themes and debates. The opening chapters of the book explain how international law underpins the international political and economic system by establishing the basic principle of the independence of States, and their right to choose their own...

Why There is No Political Demand for New American Social Welfare RightsCaring for Our Own inverts an enduring question of social welfare politics. Rather than ask why the American state hasn't responded to unmet social welfare needs by expanding social entitlements, this book asks: Why don't American families view unmet social welfare...

Conservative Women and American PoliticsWhen we think of women&'s activism in America, figures such as Gloria Steinem and Betty Friedan invariably come to mind--those liberal doyennes who have fought for years to chip away at patriarchy and achieve gender equality. But women&'s interests are not synonymous with organizations like NOW anymore. As...

Critical appraisal is now accepted as central to the development of rational health care and evidence-based medicine, by applying it to questions of aetiology, clinical therapy, and health care management. The reader will learn how to assess the strengths and weaknesses of new studies, and how to conduct their own studies....

Race and Freedom on Virginia&'s Eastern Shore, 1640-1676Ever since its publication twenty-five years ago, "e;Myne Owne Ground"e; has challenged readers to rethink much of what is taken for granted about American race relations.  During the earliest decades of Virginia history, some men and women who arrived in the New World as slaves...