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Policing and Human Rights analyses the implementation of human rights standards, tracing them from the nodal points of their production in Geneva, through the board rooms of national police management and training facilities, to the streets of downtown Johannesburg. This book deals with how the unprecedented influence of human rights, combined with...

This book was first published in 2004. Wind erosion and deposition are important factors in cold climates because of the open space and scarce vegetation. Aeolian processes connected with sand drift in polar environments are similar to those in deserts but in cold environments, frost and snow also play an important role. The Arctic is characterised...

Islam and International Law explores the multi-faceted relationship of Islam and international law. Current debates on Sharia, Islam and the West often suffer from prejudice and platitudes. The book seeks to engage such self-centrism by providing a plurality of perspectives, both in terms of interdisciplinary research and geographic backgrounds."...

In March 2009, the Faculty of Law at Charles University in Prague, together with the University of Zurich, organized a seminar on Chinese legal culture. As a follow-up to this event, the participants and other scholars from Europe, Asia, and North America contributed essays looking at Chinese law through a variety of lenses, from its historical...

Jubileuszowy, dwudziesty tom "Estudios Hispánicos" pt. Expresión. Ilusión. Mundos posibles (Ekspresja. Iluzja. Światy możliwe) oddaje głos młodym hispanistom, których zainteresowania naukowe ukształtują panoramę polskiej hispanistyki w najbliższej przyszłości. Tom obejmuje jedenaście artykułów w językach hiszpańskim i portugalskim, ukazujących z...

This ground-breaking book follows the rise of a distinctive school of Australian art that first emerged in the 1940s. Beginning with the artists of the Angry Penguins movement, Arthur Boyd, Albert Tucker, Joy Hester and Sidney Nolan, whose work exhibited a new strain of surrealism and expressionism, the book continues with the rich variety of 1970s...