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A Magna Carta for all Humanity

Homing in on Human Rights

By: Francesca Klug

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A Magna Carta for all Humanity

Homing in on Human Rights

By: Francesca Klug

The Magna Carta, sealed in 1215, has come to stand for the rule of law, curbs on executive power and the freedom to enjoy basic liberties. When the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the United Nations in 1948, it was heralded as 'a Magna Carta for all human kind'. Yet in the year in which this medieval Charter’s 800th anniversary is widely celebrated, the future of the UK’s commitment to international human rights standards is in doubt. Are ‘universal values’ commendable as a benchmark by which to judge the rest of the world, but unacceptable when applied ‘at home’? Francesca Klug takes us on a journey through time, exploring such topics as ‘British values,’ ‘natural rights,’ ‘enlightenment values’ and ‘legal rights,’ to convey what is both distinctive and challenging about the ethic and practice of universal human rights. It is only through this prism, she argues, that the current debate on human rights protection in the UK can be understood. This book will be of interest to students of British Politics, Law, Human Rights and International Relations.

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Routledge

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1317425715

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The Three Pillars of Liberty

Political Rights and Freedoms in the United Kingdom

By: Francesca Klug,Keir Starmer,Stuart Weir

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The Three Pillars of Liberty

Political Rights and Freedoms in the United Kingdom

By: Francesca Klug,Keir Starmer,Stuart Weir

In this landmark study, a thorough audit of British compliance with international human rights standards is carried out. The book identifies 42 violations and 22 near-violationsor causes for concern. It provides an up-to-date description of law and practice withrespect to freedom of information; freedom of expression; freedom of assembly and publicprotest; freedom of association and trade unionism; state surveillance; the right to lifeand liberty; and the right to vote and stand in elections. This study measures political freedom in the United Kingdom specifically against aunique Human Rights Index, specially constructed from international human rightslaws and jurisprudence by the authors. The Index is an important new tool formonitoring human rights around the world. It is already being used to monitor newlegislation in the UK. The Three Pillars of Liberty is the first-ever analysis of both the political and legalsystems for securing political freedom in the UK as a whole. It is the most rigorous andsystematic review of those systems yet published—and finds them wanting. It strikes atthe heart of the historic traditions of government and the rule of law in this country.This book will be essential reading for all those interested in their rights and the rightsof others.

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1134864183

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A Magna Carta for all Humanity

Homing in on Human Rights

By: Francesca Klug

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Homing in on Human Rights

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1317425723

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Executing Magic in the Modern Era

Criminal Bodies and the Gallows in Popular Medicine

By: Owen Davies,Francesca Matteoni

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Executing Magic in the Modern Era

Criminal Bodies and the Gallows in Popular Medicine

By: Owen Davies,Francesca Matteoni

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license This book explores the magical and medical history of executions from the eighteenth to the early twentieth century by looking at the afterlife potency of criminal corpses, the healing activities of the executioner, and the magic of the gallows site. The use of corpses in medicine and magic has been recorded back into antiquity. The lacerated bodies of Roman gladiators were used as a source of curative blood, for instance. In early modern Europe, a great trade opened up in ancient Egyptian mummies and the fat of executed criminals, plundered as medicinal cure-alls. However, this is the first book to consider the demand for the blood of the executed, the desire for human fat, the resort to the hanged man’s hand, and the trade in hanging rope in the modern era. It ends by look at the spiritual afterlife of dead criminals.

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122

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Springer

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3319595199

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Zarathustra Contra Zarathustra

The Tragic Buffoon

By: Francesca Cauchi

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Zarathustra Contra Zarathustra

The Tragic Buffoon

By: Francesca Cauchi

This study, first published in 1998, makes a lively and welcome contribution to the critical analysis of Nietzsche’s seminal classic This Spoke Zarathustra. Through a close textual reading of the neglected and ill-understood part four of the text, the author seeks to show that Nietzsche’s project of self-overcoming is a failure. Offering herself as a philosopher-priestess of the wisdom of pessimism, Francesca Cauchi invokes a complex of responses in the reader, providing a necessary challenge to any and all advocates of life.

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1351612425

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Incomplete Data and Data Dependencies in Relational Databases

By: Sergio Greco,Cristian Molinaro,Francesca Spezzano

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Incomplete Data and Data Dependencies in Relational Databases

By: Sergio Greco,Cristian Molinaro,Francesca Spezzano

The chase has long been used as a central tool to analyze dependencies and their effect on queries. It has been applied to different relevant problems in database theory such as query optimization, query containment and equivalence, dependency implication, and database schema design. Recent years have seen a renewed interest in the chase as an important tool in several database applications, such as data exchange and integration, query answering in incomplete data, and many others. It is well known that the chase algorithm might be non-terminating and thus, in order for it to find practical applicability, it is crucial to identify cases where its termination is guaranteed. Another important aspect to consider when dealing with the chase is that it can introduce null values into the database, thereby leading to incomplete data. Thus, in several scenarios where the chase is used the problem of dealing with data dependencies and incomplete data arises. This book discusses fundamental issues concerning data dependencies and incomplete data with a particular focus on the chase and its applications in different database areas. We report recent results about the crucial issue of identifying conditions that guarantee the chase termination. Different database applications where the chase is a central tool are discussed with particular attention devoted to query answering in the presence of data dependencies and database schema design. Table of Contents: Introduction / Relational Databases / Incomplete Databases / The Chase Algorithm / Chase Termination / Data Dependencies and Normal Forms / Universal Repairs / Chase and Database Applications

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111

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Springer Nature

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3031018931

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On the Frontlines

Gender, War, and the Post-Conflict Process

By: Fionnuala Ní Aoláin,Dina Francesca Haynes,Naomi Cahn

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On the Frontlines

Gender, War, and the Post-Conflict Process

By: Fionnuala Ní Aoláin,Dina Francesca Haynes,Naomi Cahn

Gender oppression has been a feature of war and conflict throughout human history, yet until fairly recently, little attention was devoted to addressing the consequences of violence and discrimination experienced by women in post-conflict states. Thankfully, that is changing. Today, in a variety of post-conflict settings--the former Yugoslavia, Afghanistan, Colombia, Northern Ireland --international advocates for women's rights have focused bringing issues of sexual violence, discrimination and exclusion into peace-making processes. In On the Frontlines, Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, Dina Francesca Haynes, and Naomi Cahn consider such policies in a range of cases and assess the extent to which they have had success in improving women's lives. They argue that there has been too little success, and that this is in part a product of a focus on schematic policies like straightforward political incorporation rather than a broader and deeper attempt to alter the cultures and societies that are at the root of much of the violence and exclusions experienced by women. They contend that this broader approach would not just benefit women, however. Gender mainstreaming and increased gender equality has a direct correlation with state stability and functions to preclude further conflict. If we are to have any success in stabilizing failing states, gender needs to move to fore of our efforts. With this in mind, they examine the efforts of transnational organizations, states and civil society in multiple jurisdictions to place gender at the forefront of all post-conflict processes. They offer concrete analysis and practical solutions to ensuring gender centrality in all aspects of peace making and peace enforcement.

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371

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Oxford University Press

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0199339678

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Quotations of Wit and Wisdom

By: John W. Gardner,Francesca Gardner Reese

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Quotations of Wit and Wisdom

By: John W. Gardner,Francesca Gardner Reese

An amusing collection of wise sayings from ancient times to the present day.

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278

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393314464

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9780393314465

Disorders of Movement

A Guide to Diagnosis and Treatment

By: Davide Martino,Alberto J. Espay,Alfonso Fasano,Francesca Morgante

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Disorders of Movement

A Guide to Diagnosis and Treatment

By: Davide Martino,Alberto J. Espay,Alfonso Fasano,Francesca Morgante

This concise but comprehensive book will help interested readers in the health care professions to navigate their way through the jungle of movement disorders, including the potentially complex differential diagnosis and management. The different disorders are discussed in individual sections that explain how to examine the patient and recognize the disorder from its basic phenomenology, how to confirm a diagnosis, how to distinguish a particular disorder from related conditions, and how to treat each disorder effectively. The book makes liberal use of diagrams, algorithms, tables, summary boxes, and illustrations to facilitate solution of clinical problems at the bedside and to solidify previously learned clinical and therapeutic concepts. It will be of interest to a broad audience of health professionals, scientists, and medical students.

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Springer

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3662484684

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Networking Operatic Italy

By: Francesca Vella

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Networking Operatic Italy

By: Francesca Vella

A study of the networks of opera production and critical discourse that shaped Italian cultural identity during and after Unification. Opera’s role in shaping Italian identity has long fascinated both critics and scholars. Whereas the romance of the Risorgimento once spurred analyses of how individual works and styles grew out of and fostered specifically “Italian” sensibilities and modes of address, more recently scholars have discovered the ways in which opera has animated Italians’ social and cultural life in myriad different local contexts. In Networking Operatic Italy, Francesca Vella reexamines this much-debated topic by exploring how, where, and why opera traveled on the mid-nineteenth-century peninsula, and what this mobility meant for opera, Italian cities, and Italy alike. Focusing on the 1850s to the 1870s, Vella attends to opera’s encounters with new technologies of transportation and communication, as well as its continued dissemination through newspapers, wind bands, and singing human bodies. Ultimately, this book sheds light on the vibrancy and complexity of nineteenth-century Italian operatic cultures, challenging many of our assumptions about an often exoticized country.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226815714

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9780226815718

The Three Pillars of Liberty

Political Rights and Freedoms in the United Kingdom

By: Francesca Klug,Keir Starmer,Stuart Weir

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Political Rights and Freedoms in the United Kingdom

By: Francesca Klug,Keir Starmer,Stuart Weir

First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Book's by Francesca Klug

A Magna Carta for all Humanity

A Magna Carta for all Humanity

The Three Pillars of Liberty

The Three Pillars of Liberty

A Magna Carta for all Humanity

A Magna Carta for all Humanity

Executing Magic in the Modern Era

Executing Magic in the Modern Era

Zarathustra Contra Zarathustra

Zarathustra Contra Zarathustra

Incomplete Data and Data Dependencies in Relational Databases

Incomplete Data and Data Dependencies in Relational Databases

On the Frontlines

On the Frontlines

Quotations of Wit and Wisdom

Quotations of Wit and Wisdom

Disorders of Movement

Disorders of Movement

Networking Operatic Italy

Networking Operatic Italy

The Three Pillars of Liberty

The Three Pillars of Liberty

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