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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “david j devlaeminck”
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  • Reciprocity and China’s Transboundary Waters

    The Law of International Watercourses

    by David J. Devlaeminck ...
    Series series Earthscan Studies in Water Resource Management
    Utilizing the principle of reciprocity, Reciprocity and China’s Transboundary Waters: The Law of International Watercourses analyses the past, present and future of the law of international watercourses with a particular focus on China.As a legal principle, reciprocity plays a strong role in the formation, interpretation and maintenance of international law. Implementing this framework, the book ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • The Human Face of Water Security

    Edited by Zafar Adeel, Robert Sandford, David Devlaeminck ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This volume collects essays from academics and practitioners from a diversity of areas and perspectives in order to discuss water security at various levels and to illuminate the central idea of water security: its focus on the individual. Beginning with the big picture, this book aims to illustrate the depth of the water security crisis and its interconnections with other aspects of societal ... Read more

    $128.99 CAD

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    The Surprising Science That Shows How Being Near, In, On, or Under Water Can Make You Happier, Healthier, More Connected, and Better at What You Do

    by Wallace J. Nichols ...
    A landmark book by marine biologist Wallace J. Nichols on the remarkable effects of water on our health and well-being.Why are we drawn to the ocean each summer? Why does being near water set our minds and bodies at ease? In Blue Mind, Wallace J. Nichols revolutionizes how we think about these questions, revealing the remarkable truth about the benefits of being in, on, under, or simply near water ... Read more

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  • Activists beyond Borders

    Advocacy Networks in International Politics

    by Margaret E. Keck, Kathryn A. Sikkink ...
    Valuable reading for anyone concerned with contemporary dynamics of social change. â• International AffairsMargaret E. Keck and Kathryn Sikkink examine a type of pressure group that has been largely ignored by political analysts: networks of activists that coalesce and operate across national frontiers. Their targets may be international organizations or the policies of particular states. ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Abolition Democracy

    Beyond Empire, Prisons, and Torture

    by Angela Y. Davis ...
    Series series Open Media Series
    In early 2004, photographs came to light revealing extensive prisoner abuses, instances of torture, and other war crimes at the U.S.-run Abu Ghraib detention center, committed by U.S. military and other government personnel. At the time, the Human Rights Watch confirmed that “the only exceptional aspect of the abuse at Abu Ghraib may have been that it was photographed." It is within this context ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions

    The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights

    by Omar Barghouti ...
    As international awareness of the apartheid nature of Israel grows, Omar Barghouti offers a manifesto for winning Palestinian civil rights.Thirty years ago, an international movement utilizing boycott, divestment, and sanction (BDS) tactics rose in solidarity with those suffering under the brutal apartheid regime of South Africa. The historic acts of BDS activists from around the world isolated ... Read more

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  • Viral Hate

    Containing Its Spread on the Internet

    by Abraham H. Foxman, Christopher Wolf ...
    Emboldened by anonymity, individuals and organizations from both left and right are freely spewing hateful vitriol on the Internet without worrying about repercussions.Lies, bullying, conspiracy theories, bigoted and racist rants, and calls for violence targeting the most vulnerable circulate openly on the web.And thanks to the guarantees of the First Amendment and the borderless nature of the ... Read more

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  • Judging State-Sponsored Violence, Imagining Political Change

    by Bronwyn Leebaw ...
    How should state-sponsored atrocities be judged and remembered? This controversial question animates contemporary debates on transitional justice and reconciliation. This book reconsiders the legacies of two institutions that transformed the theory and practice of transitional justice. Whereas the Nuremberg Trials exemplified the promise of legalism and international criminal justice, South Africa ... Read more

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  • The Edge of Disaster

    Rebulding a Resilient Nation

    by Stephen Flynn ...
    Why do we remain unprepared for the next terrorist attack or natural disaster? Where are we most vulnerable? How have we allowed our government to be so negligent? Who will keep you and your family safe? Is America living on borrowed time? How can we become a more resilient nation?Americans are in denial when it comes to facing up to how vulnerable our nation is to disaster, be it terrorist attack ... Read more

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  • Water on Tap

    Rights and Regulation in the Transnational Governance of Urban Water Services

    by Bronwen Morgan ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
    In the 1990s and mid-2000s, turbulent political and social protests surrounded the issue of private sector involvement in providing urban water services in both the developed and developing world. Water on Tap explores examples of such conflicts in six national settings (France, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina, South Africa and New Zealand), focusing on a central question: how were rights and regulation ... Read more

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  • The Least of All Possible Evils

    Humanitarian Violence from Arendt to Gaza

    by Eyal Weizman ...
    Groundbreaking exploration of the philosophy underpinning Western humanitarian interventionThe notion of a humanitarian “lesser evil” has become instrumental in justifying the West’s military adventures. It informs obscene calculations determining how much collateral damage is permissible in conflict. It determines the minimum requirements of survival imposed upon an occupied territory.As Eyal ... Read more

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  • The Human Right to Dominate

    by Nicola Perugini, Neve Gordon ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Culture and Politics
    At the turn of the millennium, a new phenomenon emerged: conservatives, who just decades before had rejected the expanding human rights culture, began to embrace human rights in order to advance their political goals. In this book, Nicola Perugini and Neve Gordon account for how human rights--generally conceived as a counter-hegemonic instrument for righting historical injustices--are being ... Read more

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