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  • Child Labour in the Global Human Rights Regime

    A Political Economy Perspective

    by Paul Close ...
    Child Labour in the Global Human Rights Regime is about children’s rights, child labour and child slavery in modern and modernizing societies in the context of what has been summarized as a well-established and increasingly sophisticated framework of treaties, institutions, networks and ambitious standards with respect to human rights.The main focus is on the implications of children’s forced ... Read more

    $94.99 USD

  • The Beijing Olympiad

    The Political Economy of a Sporting Mega-Event

    by Paul Close, David Askew, Xu Xin ...
    The stage is set for the Beijing Olympiad to be the greatest mega-event, sporting or otherwise, in history. Still, the issues taxing many minds include whether the Beijing Games will be successful; whether they will be wrought with and wrecked by troubles; and who they will benefit. What value will the 2008 Games be to the people of China? Will they mainly serve the purposes of the dominant ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Asia Pacific and Human Rights

    A Global Political Economy Perspective

    by Paul Close, David Askew ...
    Series series New Regionalisms Series
    Human rights are acquiring an increasingly prominent role on the world stage. Interest in, concern about and action on human rights are widespread and rising, albeit in a far from globally even, uniform and untroubled fashion. Human rights have generated a booming global industry while having become, not unconnectedly, highly controversial and deeply contested. Human rights matters have emerged as ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Supranationalism in the New World Order

    Global Processes Reviewed

    by Paul Close, Emiko Ohki-Close ...
    Supranationalism in the New World Order argues that in the post-Cold War distribution of global power and configuration of global players, the European Union is just one among a growing number of regional regimes that are acquiring prominent roles in the process of global governance, to some extent through the operation of differentiated zones of geo-political management. The EU is currently the ... Read more

    $121.99 USD

  • Child Labour in Global Society

    by Paul Close ...
    Series Book 17 - Sociological Studies of Children and Youth
    Child Labour in Global Society is a critical response to the modern educational regime, compulsory schooling and the 'slavery industry' in a globalizing world; to evolving and exploitative notions of 'slavery'; to definitions of 'slavery' in international law; to approaches to 'educational labour', including in international human rights law; and to cultural, common-sense and professional ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • AiREAS: Sustainocracy for a Healthy City

    Phase 3: Civilian Participation – Including the Global Health Deal Proposition

    Edited by Jean-Paul Close ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This volume describes phase 3 of the AiREAS multidisciplinary cocreation effort to produce a Healthy City. Phase 1 referred to making visible the invisible from an air quality and human exposure perspective. Phase 2 studies air quality related to health and Phase 3 looks at air quality, health and lifestyle from the perspective of persuasion to innovative change.The three books together describe ... Read more

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  • AiREAS: Sustainocracy for a Healthy City

    The Invisible made Visible Phase 1

    Edited by Jean-Paul Close ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book describes the coming about and first results of the AiREAS "healthy city" cooperative in the city of Eindhoven and Province of North Brabant in the Netherlands. AiREAS is an initiative focused on the multidisciplinary co-creation of healthy cities using the core human value of human health and air quality as guiding principle for profound regional innovation. The unique group process ... Read more

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  • New and Old Routes of Portuguese Emigration

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    This open access book provides a comprehensive overview of the core subjects comprising mathematical curricula for engineering studies in five European countries and identifies differences between two strong traditions of teaching mathematics to engineers. The collective work of experts from a dozen universities critically examines various aspects of higher mathematical education.The two EU Tempus ... Read more

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  • The Coupling of Safety and Security

    Exploring Interrelations in Theory and Practice

    Edited by Corinne Bieder, Kenneth Pettersen Gould ...
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    Taking Stock and Moving Forward

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