| Nietzsche: Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy)
| This is a major work by the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, whose writings have been deeply influential on subsequent generations of philosophers. It is offered here in a new translation by Judith Norman, with an introduction by Rolf Peter Horstmann that places the work in its historical and philosophical context.
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| Phaedo (Clarendon Plato Series)
| Library of Liberal Arts title.
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| All the Missing Souls: A Personal History of the War Crimes Tribunals (Human Rights and Crimes against Humanity)
| Within days of Madeleine Albright's confirmation as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations in 1993, she instructed David Scheffer to spearhead the historic mission to create a war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. As senior adviser to Albright and then as President Clinton's ambassador-at-large for war crimes issues, Scheffer was at the forefront of the efforts that led to criminal tribunals for the Balkans, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, and Cambodia, and that resulted in the creation of the per...More
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| International Business Law and Its Environment (South-Western Legal Studies in Business Academic Series)
| International Business and Its Environment delivers comprehensive coverage of the legal, cultural, political, economic, and ethical issues global business managers face. Focusing on the trade, licensing and investment life-cycle that many domestic (new-to-international) and multinational organizations experience, the authors present the market-entry strategies, increasing levels of penetration into foreign markets, and set of risks that firms encounter during each life-cycle phase. From protecti...More
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| Justice and the Enemy: Nuremberg, 9/11, and the Trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
| Since the Nuremberg Trials of 1945, lawful nations have struggled to impose justice around the world, especially when confronted by tyrannical and genocidal regimes. But in Cambodia, the USSR, China, Bosnia, Rwanda, and beyond, justice has been served haltingly if at all in the face of colossal inhumanity. International Courts are not recognized worldwide. There is not a global consensus on how to punish transgressors. The war against Al Qaeda is a war like no other. Osama bin Laden, Al Qaeda’...More
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| A Matter of Interpretation: Federal Courts and the Law (University Center for Human Values)
| We are all familiar with the image of the immensely clever judge who discerns the best rule of common law for the case at hand. According to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, a judge like this can maneuver through earlier cases to achieve the desired aim--"distinguishing one prior case on his left, straight-arming another one on his right, high-stepping away from another precedent about to tackle him from the rear, until (bravo!) he reaches the goal--good law." But is this common-law mi...More
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| The Evolution of International Human Rights: Visions Seen (Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights)
| This widely acclaimed and highly regarded book, embraced by students, scholars, policymakers, and activists, now appears in a new edition. Using the theme of visions seen by those who dreamed of what might be, Lauren explores the dramatic transformation of a world patterned by centuries of traditional structures of authority, gender abuse, racial prejudice, class divisions and slavery, colonial empires, and claims of national sovereignty into a global community that now boldly proclaims that the...More
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| International Taxation in a Nutshell (In a Nutshell (West Publishing))
| This Nutshell provides the fundamentals of U.S. international taxation. Addresses the U.S. activities of foreign taxpayers, as well as the foreign activities of U.S. citizens and residents, focusing on the U.S. foreign tax credit. Special U.S. international tax provisions creating incentives or disincentives for certain conduct or forms of business transactions are featured. Also discusses U.S. transfer taxes such as estate, gift, and generation-skipping tax on both resident and nonresident alie...More
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| The Nuremberg Trial
| Published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the Nuremberg trials, a new edition of a history of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg after the Second World War, drawing on a variety of sources, including extensive interviews with surviving participants.
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| Defiance: The Bielski Partisans
| The prevailing image of European Jews during the Holocaust years is one of helpless victims under a death sentence, unable to fight consignment to the ghettos, to the camps, and to the gas chambers. In fact, many Jews struggled alone or with others against the terrors of the Third Reich, risking their lives against overwhelming odds for the slimmest chance of survival, or a mere glimpse of freedom. In Defiance, Nechama Tec offers a riveting history of one such group, a forest community in weste...More
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| En Route to Global Occupation
| The publisher says this book "exposes the political forces around the world that are cooperating to unite the people of this planet under a New World Order. Some of the most recognizable names in America are on this list!"
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| International Law, Norms, Actors, Process: A Problem-oriented Approach
| Author's Website: http://www.temple.edu/lawschool/drwiltext/ Illuminate the process of international lawmaking with this timely and practical revision. INTERNATIONAL LAW: Norms, Actors, Process: A Problem-Oriented Approach, Second Edition, uses compelling problems and an interdisciplinary approach to lead students from fundamental to advanced topics. This efficient and effective casebook offers: a distinguished team of authors, all known for their widely published writing ...More
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| A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
| A World Made New tells the dramatic story of the struggle to build, out of the trauma and wreckage of World War II, a document that would ensure it would never happen again. There was an almost religious intensity to the project, championed by Eleanor Roosevelt under the aegis of the newly formed United nations and brought into being by an extraordinary group of men and women who knew, like the framers of the Declaration of Independence, that they were making history. They worked agains...More
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| The Nuremberg Interviews
| The Nuremberg Interviews reveals the chilling innermost thoughts of the former Nazi officials under indictment at the famous postwar trial. The architects of one of history’s greatest atrocities speak out about their lives, their careers in the Nazi Party, and their views on the Holocaust. Their reflections are recorded in a set of interviews conducted by a U.S. Army psychiatrist. Dr. Leon Goldensohn was entrusted with monitoring the mental health of the two dozen German leaders charged...More
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| International Organizations: The Politics and Processes of Global Governance
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| The Savage Wars Of Peace: Small Wars And The Rise Of American Power
| America's "small wars," "imperial wars," or, as the Pentagon now terms them, "low-intensity conflicts," have played an essential but little-appreciated role in its growth as a world power. Beginning with Jefferson's expedition against the Barbary Pirates, Max Boot tells the exciting stories of our sometimes minor but often bloody landings in Samoa, the Philippines, China, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Nicaragua, Mexico, Russia, and elsewhere. Along the way he sketches colorful portraits of litt...More
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| Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice
| In this revised and updated edition, Donnelly directly engages matters of immediate political significance. He addresses recent international events and considers the theoretical issues and practical dilemmas involved in protecting human rights internationally. In a thoroughly revised edition of "Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice" (more than half of the material is new), Jack Donnelly elaborates a theory of human rights, addresses arguments of cultural relativism and explores the eff...More
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| Rudin
| The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: History / Europe / Eastern; History / Europe / Russia
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| Comprehensive Commercial Law 2011 Statutory Supplement
| This distinct commercial statutes supplement: is more functional than most other supplements, due to thicker paper and a thinner volume, allowing users to highlight important sections without obscuring text on the other side of the page includes the entire text (excluding Article 6), with comments, of the Uniform Commercial Code as promulgated by the National Council of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, but excludes items that typically appear in such supplements that are not impo...More
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| International Law
| Malcolm Shaw's engaging and authoritative International Law has become the definitive textbook for instructors and students alike, in this increasingly popular field of academic study. The hallmark writing style provides a stimulating account, motivating students to explore the subject more fully, while maintaining detail and academic rigour. The analysis integrated in the textbook challenges students to develop critical thinking skills. The sixth edition is comprehensively updated throughout an...More
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