Over the last one hundred years, the term "sovereignty" has often been associated with the capacity of leaders to declare emergencies and to unleash harmful, extralegal force against those deemed enemies. Friendly Sovereignty explores the blind spots of this influential perspective. Ted H. Miller challenges the view of sovereignty propounded by Carl Schmitt, the Weimar and Nazi-period jurist and political theorist whose theory undergirds this understanding of sovereignty. Claiming a return to concepts of sovereignty forgotten by his liberal contemporaries ...

Aims to rethink ethics and transcendence in light of the phenomenology of empathy and social ontology. One (Un)Like the Other responds to the question, "What are the conditions of possibility that make genuine knowledge of other persons-and, therefore, love-possible?" By providing an original interpretive framework for exploring ethics in relation to empathy and transcendence from multiple perspectives in continental philosophy, empathy is described as a trace of what remains essentially and irreducibly "other" in every act of givenness. The use of ...

This book is a study of e-learning for online language learners, with particular reference to students of Modern Standard Chinese. Using desktop videoconferencing as the medium of instruction, the author documents how remote language learners may overcome distance and acquire communicative competence through synchronous one-on-one oral and visual interaction with their instructors. Through an empirical evaluation of such interaction, this study sheds light on significant issues and challenges in an emerging field, including the needs and experiences of distance ...

La création des Conseils intergénérationnels de l'égalité a entraîné une diversification des fonctions et des compétences des Commissions cantonales de protection des droits, organismes dont la nature juridique était uniquement de s'occuper des droits individuels et collectifs des enfants et des adolescents. Cette création a entraîné la perte de la notion de spécialisation du système qui, à un moment donné, a permis une fonctionnalité qui ne ...

Das Buch ""Der Julich-Clevische Erbfolgestreit Und Die Belagerung Von Julich, Vom 28 Juli Bis 2 September 1610"" wurde von Ernst Von Schaumburg im Jahr 1879 verfasst. Es besch�����ftigt sich mit dem Erbfolgestreit zwischen den Herzogt�����mern J�����lich und Kleve im Jahr 1610 und der damit einhergehenden Belagerung von Julich. Der Autor beschreibt detailliert die politischen und milit�����rischen Ereignisse dieser Zeit ...

""Danmark i Valdemarernes tid, 1157-1375 og Danmark under de nordiske rigers forening, 1375-1523"" er en historisk bog skrevet af Frederik Hammerich i 1860. Bogen beskriver Danmarks historie i to perioder: Valdemarernes tid, som strakte sig fra 1157 til 1375, og perioden under de nordiske rigers forening fra 1375 til 1523. I Valdemarernes tid beskriver Hammerich Danmarks udvikling under regeringen af ��������������kongerne Valdemar den Store, Valdemar Sejr og ...

It's the end of the decade and the international response to climate change has defaulted to a piecemeal carbon market, which a new UN body is trying to make work. But the carbon market has become a battleground between anti-capitalist activists, now aggressively militant, and market proponents. And there are others, intent on protecting the status quo, and their financial interests in it. Emil Pfeffer, the new body's Director of Market Integrity, thinks he's making a difference, but he hasn't really left the comfort zone of his cocooned bureaucrat's existence. ...

"Mangez alcalin, gourmand et éthique"est le livre de recettes alcalines du cuistautodidacte Hervé Bobard, aussi blogueur et créateur de Bouchées Doubles. Pour ce premier livre de cuisine acido-basique, Hervé partage avec nous une sélection de 124 recettes alcalines, originales et savoureuses du petit déjeuner au diner jusqu'à'infusion du soir. Il nous dévoile leurs atouts pour notre santé, notre équilibre acido-basique, notre longévité. Depuis qu'il a débuté ...

Although Lara Fairmont directs passion and focus into her London business, it goes bust with spectacular finality. Despondent, almost bankrupt, she nabs an astonishingly well-paid job as a carer for an elderly grande dame of Lobster Cove. What could be easier? Almost anything, for a start. A heady mix of misunderstanding, folklore, suspicion, and the hand of fate unbalances Lara from the moment she steps into Lucas Dalton's desolate mansion on the shore. How many unanswered questions can there be? For a start, is her boss, Lucas - deep-sea diver, oil-rig ...

Joh. Gabr. Seidl's Gesammelte Schriften (1877) ist eine Sammlung von Schriften des ������sterreichischen Schriftstellers Johann Gabriel Seidl. Die Sammlung enth�����lt eine Vielzahl von Gedichten, Essays und anderen literarischen Werken, die Seidls Schreibstil und seine Sichtweise auf die Welt widerspiegeln. Die Schriften behandeln verschiedene Themen wie Liebe, Natur, Religion und Politik und bieten einen Einblick in das Leben und die Gedanken des Autors. Die Ausgabe von 1877 ist ...