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During the Battle of the Bulge, Waffen SS soldiers shot 84 American
prisoners near the Belgian town of Malmedy-the deadliest mass
execution of U.S. soldiers during World War II. The bloody deeds of
December 17, 1944, produced the most controversial war crimes trial
in American history. Drawing on newly declassified documents,
Steven Remy revisits the massacre-and the decade-long controversy
that followed-to set the record straight. After the war, the U.S.
Army tracked down 74 of the SS men involved in the massacre and
other atrocities and put them on trial at Dachau. All the
defendants were convicted and sentenced to death or life
imprisonment. Over the following decade, however, a network of
Germans and sympathetic Americans succeeded in discrediting the
trial. They claimed that interrogators-some of them Jewish
emigres-had coerced false confessions and that heat of battle
conditions, rather than superiors' orders, had led to the shooting.
They insisted that vengeance, not justice, was the prosecution's
true objective. The controversy generated by these accusations,
leveled just as the United States was anxious to placate its West
German ally, resulted in the release of all the convicted men by
1957. The Malmedy Massacre shows that the torture accusations were
untrue, and the massacre was no accident but was typical of the
Waffen SS's brutal fighting style. Remy reveals in unprecedented
depth how German and American amnesty advocates warped our
understanding of one of the war's most infamous crimes through a
systematic campaign of fabrications and distortions.
Considerable attention has been given to the topic of governance
and its relevance to private and public sector organisations.
However, little attention has been given to the impact of adopting
different governance models on societies and nations which are
unaccustomed to alternative ways of working. With both an
enterprise level and a societal level of analysis in mind, this
book explores the governance impact on both the structure of
organisation and performance of organisation, and also examines
what are the likely stakeholder reactions and social repercussions
of the emerging encroachment of the shareholder value philosophy
championed by Anglo-American enterprises on stakeholder societies
such as France, Germany, Japan and the Scandinavian countries.
Authoritative, current, and easy to use, this book is an
outstanding resource for readers looking to gain an accurate and
thorough understanding of American juvenile justice. Juvenile
delinquency has been of interest to the general public and academic
scholars for many decades—and it has been an ongoing societal
problem for the same amount of time. Delinquency covers a range of
behaviors from minor offenses, such as trespassing or vandalism, to
the more serious crimes often associated with gangs that include
murder. Juvenile Justice: A Reference Handbook puts juvenile
justice under the microscope, surveying its long history and key
issues, exploring the myriad of problems and controversies tied to
the juvenile justice system, and explains how policymakers and
legal professionals have tried to solve these vexing issues. The
book first presents historical and contemporary discussions of
juvenile justice, especially in the United States. The next
chapters address problems, controversies, and possible solutions
for juvenile justice; present insightful, diverse perspectives from
leading experts; and profile important figures in the juvenile
justice system and the field of crime and delinquency. The book
also contains data and primary documents that show who gets
processed through the juvenile justice system and for what kinds of
criminal acts.
In den letzten Jahrzehnten ist der Kunstmarkt stetig gewachsen. Die
Teilnahme an Kunstmessen ist zu einer UEberlebensfrage fur die
ausstellenden Kunsthandler geworden. Ob nun in Deutschland oder im
Ausland streiten Galerien und Veranstalter um die Zulassung. Die
vorliegende Untersuchung nimmt die rechtlichen Wirkungen von
Zulassungsbeschrankungen und Kartellrecht auf Kunstmessen in den
Fokus. Dabei wird herausgearbeitet, dass das "normale" Recht nicht
einfach auf Kunst angewendet werden kann. Vielmehr bedarf es der
Kenntnisse der Kunsthandelsbrauche und der tatsachlichen
Geschehnisse auf dem Kunstmarkt, um sachgerechte Loesungen zu
finden, die alle Beteiligten zufrieden stellen und gleichzeitig
auch den Bedurfnissen des Kunstwerks gerecht werden.
With the help of this guide, you can use obtained test results to evaluate the fertility status of soils and the nutrient element status of plants for crop production purposes. It serves as an instructional manual on the techniques used to perform chemical and physical characteristic tests on soils. Laboratory Guide for Conducting Soil Tests and Plant Analysis describes the basis and procedures for each test in detail, including analytical instrumentation procedures and laboratory quality assurance requirements.
In October 2019, unprecedented mobilizations in Chile took the
world by surprise. An outburst of protests plunged a stable
democracy into the deepest social and political crisis since its
dictatorship in the 1980s. Although the protests involved a myriad
of organizations, the organizational capabilities provided by
underprivileged urban dwellers proved essential in sustaining
collective action in an increasingly repressive environment. Based
on a comparative ethnography and over six years of fieldwork,
Mobilizing at the Urban Margins uses the case of Chile to study how
social mobilization endures in marginalized urban contexts,
allowing activists to engage in large-scale democratizing
processes. The book investigates why and how some urban communities
succumb to exclusion, while others react by resurrecting collective
action to challenge unequal regimes of citizenship. Rich and
insightful, the book develops the novel analytical framework of
'mobilizational citizenship' to explain this self-produced form of
political incorporation in the urban margins.
Have you ever gone into a doctor's office and come out feeling like
a laboratory project rather than a human being? This book offers a
refreshing perspective. In Dr. Daniel's forty years in the medical
community, he has discovered an important truth: people find more
complete healing when treated as integrated persons - with minds as
well as bodies, emotions as well as muscles, spirits as well as
skin. Through real-life stories and insightful studies, Fountain
uses his experience to explore a balanced relationship between
faith, medicine, and ultimate spiritual hope.
It is no longer controversial that the American political system
has become deeply dysfunctional. Today, only slightly more than a
quarter of Americans believe the country is heading in the right
direction, while sixty-three percent believe we are on a downward
slope. The top twenty words used to describe the past year include
"chaotic," "turbulent," and "disastrous." Donald Trump's improbable
rise to power and his 2016 Electoral College victory placed
America's political dysfunction in an especially troubling light,
but given the extreme polarization of contemporary politics, the
outlook would have been grim even if Hillary Clinton had won. The
greatest upset in American presidential history is only a symptom
of deeper problems of political culture and constitutional design.
Democracy and Dysfunction brings together two of the leading
constitutional law scholars of our time, Sanford Levinson and Jack
M. Balkin, in an urgently needed conversation that seeks to uncover
the underlying causes of our current crisis and their meaning for
American democracy. In a series of letters exchanged over a period
of two years, Levinson and Balkin travel--along with the rest of
the country--through the convulsions of the 2016 election and
Trump's first year in office. They disagree about the scope of the
crisis and the remedy required. Levinson believes that our
Constitution is fundamentally defective and argues for a new
constitutional convention, while Balkin, who believes we are
suffering from constitutional rot, argues that there are less
radical solutions. As it becomes dangerously clear that
Americans--and the world--will be living with the consequences of
this pivotal period for many years to come, it is imperative that
we understand how we got here--and how we might forestall the next
demagogue who will seek to beguile the American public.
This work offers an analysis of the penal control of women at the
end of the 20th century. The author develops many of the themes of
her previous work, while introducing concepts such as "gender
testing", and "ameliorative justice". Using the words and views of
both staff and inmates of the women's prisons, Carlen presents a
powerful case for both a quantitative and qualitative reduction in
women's imprisonment.
This volume presents a comprehensive, unbiased, and easily
accessible review of U.S. immigration reform, and explains why
reform efforts have resulted in the current state of political
deadlock over the issue in the United States Congress. Comprising
seven chapters, Immigration Reform: A Reference Handbook surveys
the complex topic for high school, undergraduate, and general
readers. Chapter 1 gives the historical background to current
immigration reform efforts, concentrating on the period from 1965
to date. Chapter 2 discusses problems and controversies, and the
proposed solutions to them. Chapter 3 consists of eight original
essays contributed by other scholars, complementing the perspective
and expertise of the author. Chapter 4 profiles major organizations
and people who, as stakeholders in the politics of immigration
reform, drive the agenda on the issue. Chapter 5 presents data and
documents on the topic, giving readers the ability to analyze the
facts. Chapter 6 provides additional resources that the reader may
wish to consult, such as books, journal articles, and films.
Chapter 7 provides a detailed chronology of important events from
1965 to 2017 that propel the politics and establish the policy of
U.S. immigration reform. The book closes with a useful glossary of
key terms used throughout the book and a comprehensive subject
index.
Star and executive producer of the hit TV show Bar Rescue
and New York Times bestselling author of Don't
Bullsh*t Yourself, Jon Taffer reveals the transformational
power of conflict, sharing his toolkit for arguing smarter—at
home, at work, and in life. Most people try their best to avoid
conflict. Bar Rescue host Jon Taffer understands that.
Conflict can have negative results. It’s easy to think that the
key to a happy workplace or marriage is to avoid conflict. In
reality, that’s not the case—the key is to argue smarter.
Enter the Toolkit for Getting Conflict Right. Taffer’s approach
is focused on deliberate conflict—otherwise known as “conflict
with a purpose.†There are selective and strategic ways to have
difficult conversations, and when doing so, to stay aware of your
objectives rather than escalating tension unnecessarily. As Taffer
explains, “The key is to act affirmatively, constructively, and
productively.†Eliminating conflict isn’t always the answer;
inevitably there will be times when it will arise. Engaging in
conflict can be a way to clear the air, and get to the bottom of
issues that, once resolved, can strengthen friendships, ease
tensions at work, and address problems before they have a chance to
bubble over. With easy-to-follow advice that shows how to best
engage in constructive discourse to get the results you
want, The Power of Conflict provides you with the rules
to argue smarter, uphold your values, and keep the conversation
real. The step-by-step guide starts with the inception of the
conflict and carries through the difficult conversation’s
conclusion, arming readers with the skills and confidence to fight
for their principles.Â
Over the past thirty years, the world’s patent systems have
experienced pressure from civil society like never before. From
farmers to patient advocates, new voices are arguing that patents
impact public health, economic inequality, morality—and
democracy. These challenges, to domains that we usually consider
technical and legal, may seem surprising. But in Patent Politics,
Shobita Parthasarathy argues that patent systems have always been
deeply political and social. Â To demonstrate this,
Parthasarathy takes readers through a particularly fierce and
prolonged set of controversies over patents on life forms linked to
important advances in biology and agriculture and potentially
life-saving medicines. Comparing battles over patents on animals,
human embryonic stem cells, human genes, and plants in the United
States and Europe, she shows how political culture, ideology, and
history shape patent system politics. Clashes over whose voices and
which values matter in the patent system, as well as what counts as
knowledge and whose expertise is important, look quite different in
these two places. And through these debates, the United States and
Europe are developing very different approaches to patent and
innovation governance. Not just the first comprehensive look at the
controversies swirling around biotechnology patents, Patent
Politics is also the first in-depth analysis of the political
underpinnings and implications of modern patent systems, and
provides a timely analysis of how we can reform these systems
around the world to maximize the public interest.
Rarely does a book emerge that is a wake-up call to the world.
"Mass Hate" is such a masterpiece. It explores why the brutality of
humankind has erupted and flowed more expansively in the twentieth
century than ever before. More importantly, this monumental work
offers specific recommendations on how to stem this bloody global
tide of slaughter, terror, and genocide--so that the twenty-first
century does not bring more of the same, or worse.Neil Kressel--a
respected authority on the psychology of international affairs,
genocide, and terrorism--meticulously investigates why in the past
eight decades mass hatred has reached genocidal proportions
throughout the world. Genocide has occurred so often and blood has
gushed so freely that one might consider the urge to kill one's
neighbor an inborn characteristic of our species. Furthermore, the
power to wreak bloody havoc on innocent civilians has become not
only the sport of "soldiers," but of terrorists as well. In light
of this, Kressel examines the motives for terrorist acts,
specifically those of ultraextremist Muslims. "Given the
possibility of nuclear devices falling into the hands of terrorists
in the next century, we must now come to grips with the epidemic
spread of hatred and violence." Our only hope lies in understanding
the human impulse to hate and the forces that transform that
impulse into brutish action. In his quest for a thorough
understanding of what ignites mass slaughter, Kressel probes beyond
the facile, stock answers that traditionally explain such horrors.
He plumbs the depths of history, psychology, and political science
to derive his own theories of what propels an average citizen to
raise the machete to groups of innocent women and children and
slash them to death, or to pull the lever to release pernicious
gases upon defenseless people, and to do it again and again.The
time has come for us all to join Dr. Kressel in investigating the
mind of the hater and to learn to identify the circumstances that
foment genocide and terrorism. By recognizing their antecedents,
Dr. Kressel proposes ways to control, if not defeat, these twin
forces of evil. The breathtaking sweep and depth of this trenchant
work promises to make it a classic.In his investigation, he focuses
on:
Colorblindness has become an integral part of the national
conversation on race in America. Given the assumptions behind this
influential metaphor--that being blind to race will lead to racial
equality--it's curious that, until now, we have not considered if
or how the blind "see" race. Most sighted people assume that the
answer is obvious: they don't, and are therefore incapable of
racial bias--an example that the sighted community should
presumably follow. In "Blinded by Sight," Osagie K. Obasogie shares
a startling observation made during discussions with people from
all walks of life who have been blind since birth: even the blind
aren't colorblind--blind people understand race visually, just like
everyone else. Ask a blind person what race is, and they will more
than likely refer to visual cues such as skin color. Obasogie finds
that, because blind people think about race visually, they orient
their lives around these understandings in terms of who they are
friends with, who they date, and much more.
In "Blinded by Sight," Obasogie argues that rather than being
visually obvious, both blind and sighted people are socialized to
see race in particular ways, even to a point where blind people
"see" race. So what does this mean for how we live and the laws
that govern our society? Obasogie delves into these questions and
uncovers how color blindness in law, public policy, and culture
will not lead us to any imagined racial utopia.
All human beings have spontaneous needs for happiness,
self-understanding, and love. In Feeling Good: The Science of Well
Being, psychiatrist Robert Cloninger describes a way to coherent
living that satisfies these strong basic needs through growth in
the uniquely human gift of self-awareness. The scientific findings
that led Dr. Cloninger to expand his own views in a stepwise manner
during 30 years of research and clinical experience are clearly
presented so that readers can consider the validity of his
viewpoint for themselves. The principles of well-being are based on
a non-reductive scientific paradigm that integrates findings from
all the biomedical and psychosocial sciences. Reliable methods are
described for measuring human thought and social relationships at
each step along the path of self-aware consciousness. Practical
mental exercises for stimulating the growth of self-awareness are
also provided. The methods are supported by data from brain
imaging, genetics of personality, and longitudinal biopsychosocial
studies.
Feeling Good: The Science of Well-Being will be of value to anyone
involved in the sciences of the mind or the treatment of mental
disorders. It will also interest theologians, philosophers, social
scientists, and lay readers because it provides contemporary
scientific concepts and language for addressing the perennial human
questions about being, knowledge, and conduct.
Die Sicherung von Forderungen und ihre Beitreibung ist bereits im
Inland von groBer Wichtigkeit fiir die Wirtschaft. Wer gute Ware
liefert, wer gute Dienstleistungen erbringt, hat auch Anspruch auf
gutes Geld. Leider zeigt aber die Erfahrung, daB nicht aIle
Schuldner ihre Zahlungsverpflichtungen rechtzeitig und
ordnungsgemaB erfiiIlen. Die sinkende Zahlungsmoral zeigt sieh in
verstarktem MaBe in Zeiten schwacher Konjunktur: Zahlungsfahigkeit
aber auch Zah- lungswilligkeit lassen nach, und mancher Glaubiger
sorgt sich - nieht zu Unrecht - urn die rechtliche und
wirtschaftliche Durchsetzung seiner AuBenstande. Erst in dieser
Zeit merkt er - oft schmerzlich -, daB er es an der
Debitoreniiberwachung hat fehlen lassen, daB ihm sogar jedes
Debitorenmanagement fehlt. Dieses Debitorenmanagement bieten die
Mitgliedsinstitute des Deutschen Factoring- Verb andes ihren Kunden
als Dienstleistung; hierzu zahlt nieht nur die Debitorenbuch- hal
tung, sondem auch die Uberwachung der eingeraumten Zahlungsziele,
das auBerge- riehtliche und geriehtliehe Mahnverfahren, die
Fiihrung von Debitorenprozessen und die Durchfiihrung von
ZwangsvoIlstreckungsmaBnahmen. Sind diese bereits im Inlandsbereieh
von erheblicher Bedeutung, so folgt aus der okonomischen
Entwicklung des Europaischen Binnenmarktes die Einbeziehung von
Debitoren im Ausland. Mogen Lander, die zur Europaischen
Gemeinschaft zahlen, auch wirtschaftlich zusammenwachsen, mag der
Handel zwischen ihnen bliihen und gedeihen, so mussen doch die
Abnehmer deutscher Lieferer in ein geordnetes Debitorenmanage- ment
einbezogen werden. Da trotz der Europaischen Einigung die
Rechtsunterschiede zwischen den einzelnen Landem bleiben werden,
muB der deutsche Exporteur auf Sieherung und Beitreibung seiner
Forderungen gegen auslandische Abnehmer immer groBeres Gewicht
legen.
The Likelihood plays a key role in both introducing general notions of statistical theory, and in developing specific methods. This book introduces likelihood-based statistical theory and related methods from a classical viewpoint, and demonstrates how the main body of currently used statistical techniques can be generated from a few key concepts, in particular the likelihood.
Focusing on those methods, which have both a solid theoretical background and practical relevance, the author gives formal justification of the methods used and provides numerical examples with real data.
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