Sarah Blake, "The Guest Book: A Novel"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 1250110254, 1250110270 | EPUB | pages: 496 | 3.7 mb
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The Governance Gap: Extractive Industries, Human Rights, and the Home State Advantage By Penelope Simons, Audrey Macklin
2014 | 460 Pages | ISBN: 0415334705 | PDF | 7 MB
This book explores the persistence of the governance gap with respect to the human rights-impacting conduct of transnational extractive corporations operating in zones of weak governance. The authors launch their account with a fascinating case study of Talisman Energy's experience in Sudan, informed by their own experience as members of the 1999 Canadian Assessment Mission to Sudan (Harker Mission). Drawing on new governance, reflexive law and responsive law theories, the authors assess legal and other non-binding governance mechanisms that have emerged since that time, including the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. They conclude that such mechanisms are incapable of systematically preventing human rights violating behaviour by transnational corporations, or of assuring accountability of these actors or recompense for victims of such violations. The authors contend that home state regulation, while not a silver bullet, has a crucial role to play in regulating such conduct. They pick up where UN Special Representative John Ruggie's Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights left off, and propose an innovative, robust and adaptable template for strengthening the regulatory framework of home states. Their model draws insights from the theoretical literature, leverages existing public, private, transnational, national, 'soft' and hard regulatory tools, and harnesses the specific strengths of state-based governance. This book will be of interest to academics, policy makers, students, civil society and business leaders.

Dore Gold, "The Fight for Jerusalem: Radical Islam, the West, and the Future of the Holy City"
English | 2009 | ISBN: 1596981024, 159698029X | PDF | pages: 408 | 53.4 mb
Jerusalem under Siege

The Exit Strategy Handbook: A Complete Guide to Preparing Your Business for Sale by Jacob Orosz
English | 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0BMS52ZPD | 332 pages | EPUB | 0.95 Mb
Written by Jacob Orosz, a leading authority and innovator in the M&A industry and host of the #1 podcast on mergers and acquisitions - M&A Talk.

Megan Koreman, "The Escape Line: How the Ordinary Heroes of Dutch-Paris Resisted the Nazi Occupation of Western Europe"
English | ISBN: 0190662271 | 2018 | 424 pages | EPUB | 7 MB
Of all the resistance organizations that operated during the war, about which much has been written, one stands out for its transnational character, the diversity of the tasks its members took on, and the fact that, unlike many of the known evasion lines, it was not directed by Allied officers, but rather by group of ordinary citizens. Between 1942 and 1945, they formed a network to smuggle Dutch Jews and others targeted by the Nazis south into France, via Paris, and then to Switzerland. This network became known as the Dutch-Paris Escape Line, eventually growing to include 300 people and expanding its reach into Spain. Led by Jean Weidner, a Dutchman living in France, many lacked any experience in clandestine operations or military tactics, and yet they became one of the most effective resistance groups of the Second World War. Dutch-Paris largely improvised its operations-scrounging for food on the black market, forging documents, and raising cash. Hunted relentlessly by the

The Empire of the Tetrarchs: Imperial Pronouncements and Government, AD 284-324 By Simon Corcoran
1996 | 406 Pages | ISBN: 0198149840 | PDF | 22 MB
The era of Diocletian and Constantine is a significant period for the Roman empire, with far-reaching administrative changes that established the structure of government for three hundred years, and the time when the Christian Church passed from persecution to imperial favour. It is also a complex period of co-operation and rivalry between a number of co-emperors, the result of Diocletian's experiment of government by four rulers (the tetrarchs). This book examines imperial government at this crucial but often neglected period of transition, through a wide study of the pronouncements that the emperors and their officials produced, drawing together material from a wide variety of sources: the law codes, Christian authors, inscriptions, and papyri. The study covers the format, composition, and promulgation of documents, and includes chronological catalogues of imperial letters and edicts, as well as extended discussions of the Gregorian and Hermogenian Codes, and the ambitious Prices Edict. Much of this has had little detailed coverage in English before. There is also a chapter that elucidates the relative powers of the members of the imperial college. Finally, Dr Corcoran assesses how effectively the machinery of government really matched the ambitions of the emperors.

The Elemenets of Financial Econometrics By Jianqing Fan, Qiwei Yao
2015 | 367 Pages | ISBN: 703043398X | PDF | 24 MB
This book grew out of the lecture notes for the "Financial Econometrics" course taught by Jianqing Fan for Master in Finance students at Princeton University since 2003 and for Master in Financial Engineering students at Fudan University since 2011.

Jason Schnittker, "The Diagnostic System: Why the Classification of Psychiatric Disorders Is Necessary, Difficult, and Never Settled"
English | ISBN: 0231178069 | 2017 | 368 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Mental illness is many things at once: It is a natural phenomenon that is also shaped by society and culture. It is biological but also behavioral and social. Mental illness is a problem of both the brain and the mind, and this ambiguity presents a challenge for those who seek to accurately classify psychiatric disorders. The leading resource we have for doing so is the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, but no edition of the manual has provided a decisive solution, and all have created controversy. In

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The Development of International Human Rights Law: Volume I By Fionnuala D. Ní Aoláin, David Weissbrodt, Mary Rumsey
2014 | 556 Pages | ISBN: 1409441296 | PDF | 41 MB
The essays selected for this volume, written by some of the world's most respected experts on human rights, encompass the development of human rights law from its philosophical underpinnings and address many of its current controversies. The collected essays explore the drafting of major human rights instruments, including the political challenges that shaped those instruments; examine the interrelationship of various claimed rights; and identify factors producing compliance with - and violation of - human rights law. Other contributions analyze the role of non-governmental organizations in achieving better human rights protections as well as the danger of claiming too many rights, and the tension between rights and security. Contrasting viewpoints in several essays highlight some of the key conflicts in the field. An introductory essay provides a roadmap marking the collection's major themes, and tracing the relationship between those themes. Taken together, the essays emphasize the legal underpinnings of the human rights regime and as such, the collection provides an essential, wide-ranging account of this important part of international law, procedure and practice.