Morality, Moral Luck and Responsibility is a critical examination of our understanding of morality and responsibility through the questions raised by the problem of moral luck.
In Genocide and Human Rights: A Philosophical Guide, an international group of twenty-five contemporary philosophers work to correct those deficiencies by showing how philosophy can and should respond to genocide, particularly in ways that defend human rights.
EU-US Relations offers answers to the major questions of the future of transatlantic relations and includes almost 30 contributions from prominent... Læs mere
This book takes a macroeconomic approach to the issue of transformation from communist economies into market economies. At the... Læs mere
There is a major contradiction in contemporary politics: there has been a wave of democratization that has swept across much of the world, while at the same time globalization appears to have reduced the social forces that have built democracy historically.
As energy trading, power exchanges and hedging techniques establish themselves in the oil, power and gas sectors, so then do newer derivatives markets emerge in LNG hedging, weather derivatives and freight hedging.
This book presents a picture focused on the T'ang period, one of China's acknowledged golden ages. Within a looser web of globalization, the T'ang... Læs mere
The introduction of anaesthesia to Victorian Britain marked a defining moment between modern medicine and earlier... Læs mere
During the eighteenth century English defendants, victims, witnesses, judges, and jurors spoke a language of the mind. Inside the courtroom the language of excuse reshaped crimes and punishments, signalling a shift in the age-old negotiation of mitigation.
This book analyzes the multiple levels of meaning which people attach to work today, and the role of work in people's lives. By looking at call centres and... Læs mere
The premise of the book is to provide insight into new ways through which corporations create and execute strategies. They were asked to consider the proposition... Læs mere
Far from being rhetorical ornaments, metaphors play a central role in public discourse, as they shape the structure of... Læs mere