Michael John Westlake's Books

Demand for Products of Irrigated Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa

By: P. J. Riddell,Michael John Westlake,J. Burke,Jacob J. Burke

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Demand for Products of Irrigated Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa

By: P. J. Riddell,Michael John Westlake,J. Burke,Jacob J. Burke

If irrigated production is to make a significant contribution to food security and economic growth in Sub Saharan Africa, it will have to be re-structured across the region as a whole. This is the main conclusion of a study undertaken by FAO to analyse the drivers of demand for irrigated production in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Steeply rising commercial food import bills for staple crops across SSA are indicative of the level demand that is not being met from domestic production. The increase of area under equipped/spate irrigation for the whole of Africa over the last ten years amounts to 1.27 million ha, which is equal to about 127 000 ha a year. This rate of growth has proved too low to have an impact on food import bills and buffer regional food security. However, within subregional trading groups there is scope for consolidation of market supply. Irrigated production opportunities in SSA could be realised where natural resources and markets coincide, but only through a great deal more attention to costs of production, price formation, effective water allocation mechanisms, economically efficient water use and strong, responsive institutions.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

144

Publisher

Food & Agriculture Org.

Published Date

ISBN 10

9251055815

ISBN 13

9789251055816

Just and Unjust Wars

A Moral Argument with Historical Illustrations

By: Michael Walzer

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Just and Unjust Wars

A Moral Argument with Historical Illustrations

By: Michael Walzer

“A classic in the field” (New York Times), this is a penetrating investigation into moral and ethical questions raised by war, drawing on examples from antiquity to the present. Just and Unjust Wars has forever changed how we think about the ethics of conflict. In this modern classic, political philosopher Michael Walzer examines the moral issues that arise before, during, and after the wars we fight. Reaching from the Athenian attack on Melos, to the Mai Lai massacre, to the war in Afghanistan and beyond, Walzer mines historical and contemporary accounts and the testimony of participants, decision makers, and victims to explain when war is justified and what ethical limitations apply to those who wage it.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

361

Publisher

Basic Books

Published Date

ISBN 10

0465052703

ISBN 13

9780465052707

Identification of Customary International Law

By: Michael Wood,Omri Sender

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Identification of Customary International Law

By: Michael Wood,Omri Sender

Customary international law remains a central source of international law and the core of the international legal system. It continues to draw the attention of lawyers, especially at a time marked by the great expansion of international law and its increasing application in domestic and international courts. Determining whether an applicable rule of customary international law exists is therefore of great practical concern - but this important legal task is not always simple or straightforward. This book serves as guidance to those seeking to determine the existence of rules of customary international law and their content. It elaborates on the methodology for the identification of rules of customary international law and examines a host of questions concerning the process and evidence at issue. It does so by complementing the authoritative work of the UN International Law Commission on this topic, and by drawing upon a wealth of additional practice and writings. Identification of Customary International Law provides an overview of the Commission's work and expands on it by addressing the nature and history of custom as a source of international law, inquiring into each of the two constituent elements of customary international law (namely, a general practice and opinio juris), explaining the value and limits of certain forms of evidence, and throwing further light on such issues as the persistent objector rule and particular customary international law. Practitioners and scholars alike will find this detailed treatment useful in seeking to determine the existence and content of any customary rule and in ensuring that arguments about customary international law are persuasive.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

433

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0192587609

ISBN 13

9780192587602

Addressing Marketing and Processing Constraints that Inhibit Agrifood Exports

A Guide for Policy Analysts and Planners

By: Michael John Westlake

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Addressing Marketing and Processing Constraints that Inhibit Agrifood Exports

A Guide for Policy Analysts and Planners

By: Michael John Westlake

One of the main objectives of the Agreement on Agriculture (AoA) negotiated under the Uruguay Round is to improve the access of developing countries to foreign markets. Constraints in the domestic supply chains of many countries, along with weak marketing support and trade facilitation services, have prevented them, however, from exploiting the opportunities provided by the AoA and by other agreements to improve market access. The aim of this guide is to inform policy analysts on issues that should be considered while developing policies and measures to break the main processing and marketing constraints that prevent their countries from fully exploiting their agrifood export potential.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

136

Publisher

Food & Agriculture Org.

Published Date

ISBN 10

9251054150

ISBN 13

9789251054154

The Year that Shaped the Victorian Age

By: Michael Wheeler

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Year that Shaped the Victorian Age

By: Michael Wheeler

Michael Wheeler is a leading authority on the Victorian age. His exploration of 1845 transforms our understanding of the period.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

485

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1009268856

ISBN 13

9781009268851

A World History of War Crimes

From Antiquity to the Present

By: Michael S. Bryant

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

A World History of War Crimes

From Antiquity to the Present

By: Michael S. Bryant

The greatly expanded and enhanced 2nd edition of A World History of War Crimes provides an authoritative and accessible introduction to the global history of war crimes and the laws of war. Tracing human efforts to limit warfare, from codes of war in antiquity designed to maintain a religiously conceived cosmic order to the gradual use in the modern age of the criminal trial as a means of enforcing universal humanitarian norms, Michael S. Bryant's book is a masterful one-volume account of the subject. This new edition includes, for the first time: * Two chapters providing extensive coverage of the Americas, Africa and the Middle East * Strengthened chronological boundaries – a new chapter on the Incas, Aztecs, Mayan, and North American Indian tribes, as well as more material across all regions in ancient times; discussion of contemporary war crimes committed in Afghanistan, Iraq, Myanmar and Syria * A historiographical essay to broaden your understanding of the field * An added final chapter focusing on the social, cultural and psychological aspects of the subject A World History of War Crimes is vital reading for anyone needing to understand the history of war in one of its most significant contexts.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

424

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

1350106615

ISBN 13

9781350106611

Imperial Incarceration

Detention without Trial in the Making of British Colonial Africa

By: Michael Lobban

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Imperial Incarceration

Detention without Trial in the Making of British Colonial Africa

By: Michael Lobban

For nineteenth-century Britons, the rule of law stood at the heart of their constitutional culture, and guaranteed the right not to be imprisoned without trial. At the same time, in an expanding empire, the authorities made frequent resort to detention without trial to remove political leaders who stood in the way of imperial expansion. Such conduct raised difficult questions about Britain's commitment to the rule of law. Was it satisfied if the sovereign validated acts of naked power by legislative forms, or could imperial subjects claim the protection of Magna Carta and the common law tradition? In this pathbreaking book, Michael Lobban explores how these matters were debated from the liberal Cape, to the jurisdictional borderlands of West Africa, to the occupied territory of Egypt, and shows how and when the demands of power undermined the rule of law. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

770

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1009020293

ISBN 13

9781009020299

The Historical Foundations of World Order

The Tower and the Arena

By: Douglas Johnston,W. Michael Reisman

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Historical Foundations of World Order

The Tower and the Arena

By: Douglas Johnston,W. Michael Reisman

In The Historical Foundations of World Order: the Tower and the Arena, Douglas M. Johnston has drawn on a 45 year career as one of the world’s most prolific academics in the development of international law and public policy and 5 years of exhaustive research to produce a comprehensive and highly nuanced examination of the historical precursors, intellectual developments, and philosophical frameworks that have guided the progress of world order through recorded history and across the globe, from pre-classical antiquity to the present day. By illuminating the personalities and identifying the controversies behind the great advancements in international legal thought and weaving this into the context of more conventionally known history, Johnston presents a unique understanding of how peoples and nations have sought regularity, justice and order across the ages. This book will appeal to a wide spectrum of readers, from lawyers interested in the historical background of familiar concepts, to curriculum developers for law schools and history faculties, to general interest readers wanting a wider perspective on the history of civilization. Winner 2009 ASIL Certificate of Merit for a Preeminent Contribution to Creative Scholarship

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

899

Publisher

BRILL

Published Date

ISBN 10

9047423933

ISBN 13

9789047423935

Custom, Power and the Power of Rules

International Relations and Customary International Law

By: Michael Byers

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Custom, Power and the Power of Rules

International Relations and Customary International Law

By: Michael Byers

This book explains the most foundational aspect of international law in international relations terms.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

276

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0521634083

ISBN 13

9780521634083

International Air Law and ICAO

By: Michael Milde

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

International Air Law and ICAO

By: Michael Milde

This book offers a compact - yet exhaustive - and easily comprehensible reference book that deals with the most general aspects of international air law, as well as with the constitutional issues and law-making functions of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). Specialized legal literature dealing with different aspects of international air law is rare, the developments often overtake the existing writings and there is a continuous need not only for updating but also for future-oriented thinking. This book cannot fail to be of importance to anyone interested in international air law."--Jacket.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

367

Publisher

Eleven International Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

9077596542

ISBN 13

9789077596548

Instruments of Peacemaking 1870-1914

By: Michael Reynolds

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Instruments of Peacemaking 1870-1914

By: Michael Reynolds

This book focuses on Anglo-American disputes arising out of the civil war in the United States and British interests in the American continent: the Geneva Arbitration, the Venezuela-Guiana Arbitration and the Bhering Sea Arbitration. It draws on those cases as model proceedings which laid the foundations and inspiration for a promotion of international law through the Hague Conferences and by the work of English and American jurists. It considers the encouragement these cases gave to the promotion of public international law and how that contributed to the resolution of inter-state disputes.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

352

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

1509938311

ISBN 13

9781509938315

Th Thorium

General Properties. Spectra. Recoil Reactions

By: Robert G. Behrens,Michael Bickel,Rolf Engleman,Jean Fuger,Lawrence E. Grimes,Basil Kanellakopulos,Daniel J. Lam,Kurt Roessler,Boyd W. Veal

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Th Thorium

General Properties. Spectra. Recoil Reactions

By: Robert G. Behrens,Michael Bickel,Rolf Engleman,Jean Fuger,Lawrence E. Grimes,Basil Kanellakopulos,Daniel J. Lam,Kurt Roessler,Boyd W. Veal

The present volume describes the general properties of the thorium atom and ions, the thermodynamics of its compounds and solutions, the behavior of solutions and solid com pounds under the influence of its own radiation as well as an external radiation field, and spectroscopic data in great detail. The different chapters are of special interest to scientists who work in these fields, and also in the corresponding fields of other elements. In some special fields there exists a detailed knowledge of this radioelement whereas in other fields, such as M6Bbauer spectra, lower oxidation states, or radiation stability, there are large gaps. Due to the fact that the significance 23 of thorium as a breeder fuel ( 2"fh to be converted to fissile 233U after thermal neutron capture) has decreased within the last decade, the behavior of thorium is not as yet so thoroughly investigated as the heavier radioactive element uranium. Many of these data, however, are not only of academic interest, e.g., the knowledge of atomic spectra is needed for some analytical methods, especially in the trace concentration region. Due to the noble gaS-like electronic configuration of the tetravalent ion, there are no absorption bands in the visible region so that in general spectra and data are very scarce. This volume is a very detailed and critically reviewed compilation, written by experts from the Federal Republic of Germany, Belgium, and the United States.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

263

Publisher

Springer Science & Business Media

Published Date

ISBN 10

3662074109

ISBN 13

9783662074107

Sovereign Defaults before International Courts and Tribunals

By: Michael Waibel

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Sovereign Defaults before International Courts and Tribunals

By: Michael Waibel

International law on sovereign defaults is underdeveloped because States have largely refrained from adjudicating disputes arising out of public debt. The looming new wave of sovereign defaults is likely to shift dispute resolution away from national courts to international tribunals and transform the current regime for restructuring sovereign debt. Michael Waibel assesses how international tribunals balance creditor claims and sovereign capacity to pay across time. The history of adjudicating sovereign defaults internationally over the last 150 years offers a rich repository of experience for future cases: US state defaults, quasi-receiverships in the Dominican Republic and Ottoman Empire, the Venezuela Preferential Case, the Soviet repudiation in 1917, the League of Nations, the World War Foreign Debt Commission, Germany's 30-year restructuring after 1918 and ICSID arbitration on Argentina's default in 2001. The remarkable continuity in international practice and jurisprudence suggests avenues for building durable institutions capable of resolving future sovereign defaults.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

429

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1139496131

ISBN 13

9781139496131

The Silicon Empire

Law, Culture and Commerce

By: Michael B. Likosky

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Silicon Empire

Law, Culture and Commerce

By: Michael B. Likosky

Michael Likosky examines the continuities and discontinuities between colonial and present-day high tech transnational legal orders. His concern is specifically with the colonial characteristics of the legal order which underpins the global high tech economy. He distinguishes the democratic and human rights rhetoric of this economy from a reality wherein the legal order is often used to reproduce colonial-type relationships. Just as in the colonial period, the expansion of trans-border commerce overlaps with democratic demands and human rights in complex, multifaceted and paradoxical ways. Through a case study looking at Malaysia's Multimedia Super Corridor, a high tech national development plan and foreign direct investment scheme, he examines how the transnational leaders of the high tech economy along with the Malaysian political elite react when human rights problems threaten to derail commercial plans.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

275

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1351145266

ISBN 13

9781351145268

Family Law in the Twentieth Century

A History

By: Stephen Michael Cretney

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Family Law in the Twentieth Century

A History

By: Stephen Michael Cretney

The law governing family relationships has changed dramatically in the course of the 20th century and this book - drawing extensively on both published and archival material and on legal as well as other sources - gives an account of the processes and problems of reform.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

984

Publisher

Oxford University Press, USA

Published Date

ISBN 10

0198268998

ISBN 13

9780198268994

Maingot's Abdominal Operations. 13th edition

By: Michael J. Zinner,Stanley W. Ashley

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Maingot's Abdominal Operations. 13th edition

By: Michael J. Zinner,Stanley W. Ashley

The best edition yet of the cornerstone text on abdominal operations—enhanced by thousands of full-color photographs and illustrations and thoroughly updated content A Doody’s Core Title for 2021! Edition after edition, Maingot’s Abdominal Operations has been hailed as the most complete, current, and trusted resource among general, colorectal, and gastrointestinal surgeons. Presented in full color, this classic textbook carefully details common and important abdominal procedures, offering a concise, yet complete, survey of the diagnosis and management of benign and malignant digestive disorders. Bolstered by more than 650 photographs and 1,250 full color illustrations, Maingot’s 78 chapters deliver everything you need to understand congenital, acquired, and neoplastic disorders – and optimize surgical outcomes for any type of abdominal disorder. FEATURES: Contemporary focus on operative procedures, and new concepts in the diagnosis and management of abdominal disease Convenient organ/procedure presentation provides a seamless review of surgical protocols, as well as pre- and postoperative strategies and techniques Added chapters on quality metrics, ERAS, and robotic surgery; and an increased number of “Perspective” commentaries by experts in the field Disease-focused and organ/procedure presentation provides a seamless review of surgical protocols, as well as pre- and postoperative strategies and techniques More than 650 photographs and 1,250 full color illustrations, many new to this edition

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

1504

Publisher

McGraw Hill Professional

Published Date

ISBN 10

0071844295

ISBN 13

9780071844291

Book's by Michael John Westlake

Demand for Products of Irrigated Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa

Demand for Products of Irrigated Agriculture in Sub-Saharan Africa

Just and Unjust Wars

Just and Unjust Wars

Identification of Customary International Law

Identification of Customary International Law

Addressing Marketing and Processing Constraints that Inhibit Agrifood Exports

Addressing Marketing and Processing Constraints that Inhibit Agrifood Exports

The Year that Shaped the Victorian Age

The Year that Shaped the Victorian Age

A World History of War Crimes

A World History of War Crimes

Imperial Incarceration

Imperial Incarceration

The Historical Foundations of World Order

The Historical Foundations of World Order

Custom, Power and the Power of Rules

Custom, Power and the Power of Rules

International Air Law and ICAO

International Air Law and ICAO

Instruments of Peacemaking 1870-1914

Instruments of Peacemaking 1870-1914

Th Thorium

Th Thorium

Sovereign Defaults before International Courts and Tribunals

Sovereign Defaults before International Courts and Tribunals

The Silicon Empire

The Silicon Empire

Family Law in the Twentieth Century

Family Law in the Twentieth Century

Maingot's Abdominal Operations. 13th edition

Maingot's Abdominal Operations. 13th edition

Username

Password

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email