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The capacity to abuse, or in general affect the enjoyment of human,
labour and environmental rights has risen with the increased social
and economic power that multinational companies wield in the global
economy. At the same time, it appears that it is difficult to
regulate the activities of multinational companies in such a way
that they conform to international human, labour and environmental
rights standards. This has partially to do with the organization of
companies into groups of separate legal persons, incorporated in
different states, as well as with the complexity of the corporate
supply chain. Absent a business and human rights treaty, a more
coherent legal and policy approach is required. Faced with the
challenge of how to effectively access the right to remedy in the
European Union for human rights abuses committed by EU companies in
non-EU states, a diverse research consortium of academic and legal
institutions was formed. The consortium, coordinated by the
Globernance Institute for Democratic Governance, became the
recipient of a 2013 Civil Justice Action Grant from the European
Commission Directorate General for Justice. A mandate was thus
issued for research, training and dissemination so as to bring
visibility to the challenge posed and moreover, to provide some
solutions for the removal of barriers to judicial and non-judicial
remedy for victims of business-related human rights abuses in
non-EU states. The project commenced in September 2014 and over the
course of two years the consortium conducted research along four
specific lines in parallel with various training sessions across EU
Member States. The research conducted focused primarily on judicial
remedies, both jurisdictional barriers and applicable law barriers;
non-judicial remedies, both to company-based grievance. The results
of this research endeavour make up the content of this report whose
aim is to provide a scholarly foundation for policy proposals by
identifying specific challenges relevant to access to justice in
the European Union and to provide recommendations on how to remove
legal and practical barriers so as to provide access to remedy for
victims of business-related human rights abuses in non-EU states.
Girls are beautifully and wonderfully made in God's image. This
comprehensive collection of stories focused on 50 women of the
Bible shows how God worked in their lives and continues to have a
plan and a purpose for his beloved daughters today. In a world that
too often tells girls that they are not enough, Her Story, Her
Strength uses biblical retellings and reflections that include the
historical context behind each story?to remind young women that
they have a God who loves them deeply and empowers them to live and
love like he does. For any girl ages 8 and up who is asking
questions about her worth, identity, and place in the world and
church, this colorful and engaging book provides a positive,
loving, and scriptural lens that helps them interpret the messages
they receive from their peers, media, and society. Girls who read
Her Story, Her Strength will: come to a profound, unshakable
understanding of God's love for them and their value in his eyes.
see how they reflect God's image both innately and through the
actions, words, and attitudes they choose each day. learn about
biblical characters and events in a way designed specifically for
them. In addition, Her Story, Her Strength: features readers'
favorite women of the Bible as well as many less-well-known
characters, showing God's consistent presence in the lives of women
throughout Scripture. is divided into short sections that are both
comprehensive and accessible, making it a wonderful tool for school
or church lessons as well as family devotions or personal
reflection. emphasizes how each woman reflects the image of her
Creator, demonstrating the immense value God places on women and
girls and pointing them back to him-all from a position rooted in
biblical values. includes beautiful, full-color illustrations that
help bring each woman to life.
Although, according to the Christian Gospels, three men were
crucified ca. 30 CE outside Jerusalem under the prefect Pontius
Pilate, both popular wisdom and mainstream scholarship focus solely
on the fate of a single man. The story is indeed told, once and
again, as if only Jesus of Nazareth had been the target of Roman
repression, as if only his suffering were worthy of attention, and
as if the other men crucified at Golgotha had nothing to do with
him. The present book forcefully argues that, from an
epistemological and even an ethical perspective, this is an odd and
worrying state of affairs: the prevailing approach entails
one-sided oversight of significant information, betrays a strong
bias, and prevents us from grasping the meaning of the episode,
thus making no sense from the standpoint of ancient historians. The
event which requires being elucidated is not Jesus’ crucifixion,
but the whole episode of the execution by the Roman authorities of
at least three men. Who were the other men crucified at Golgotha?
Were they actually unconnected to the self-styled “king of the
Jewsâ€, as the evangelists want us to believe? Why did the Roman
prefect crucify all of them together, in the same place at the same
time? And why are we told that Jesus’ cross was placed in the
middle of the others? Taking seriously into account the extent of
the implausible elements in the Passion accounts, the collective
nature of the crucifixion, and the politics of Roman Palestine,
They Suffered under Pontius Pilate: Jewish Anti-Roman Resistance
and the Crosses at Golgotha provides fresh and consistent answers
to these and many other pressing questions, offering a genuinely
historical reconstruction. The conclusions obtained challenge many
well-rooted assumptions, unveil Jesus’ story as a collective
enterprise, have far-reaching implications for the history of
Judaism under the Principate, and compel us to critically rethink
the beginnings of Christianity.
This is as complete beginner's course in French which covers the
requirements of the various GCSE examination syllabuses, and
provides a good background to the language for students on RSA and
other similar courses. The approach is designed to be of particular
value for further education and self-study purposes.
Polyoxometalates are anionic metal-oxo nanoclusters, which
constitute a unique class of compounds owing to their rich solution
equilibria and their unique compositional, electronic, reactive,
and structural diversity. This book reviews metal-oxide cluster
chemistry by covering topics ranging from fundamental aspects
(i.e., structure, properties, self-assembly processes,
derivatization) to functional materials that incorporate these
molecular units, as well as their applications in the fields of
current socioeconomic interest, such as energy storage systems,
catalysis, molecular electronics, and biomedicine. Edited by
prominent researchers in the field of polymer and polyoxometalate
chemistries, the book compiles contributions from some of the most
distinguished and promising scientists worldwide in such a way that
it will appeal to a general readership involved in research areas
related to chemistry and materials science.
Shakespeare's Hamlet like you've never seen it - or read it -
before! Classics in Graphics: Hamlet has been adapted into a
graphic novel by expert authors, Steve Skidmore and Steve Barlow,
with illustrations by Alessandro Valdrighi and Edu Rubio. The
tragic mayhem swirls on the page - as Hamlet's life crumbles around
him. Classics in Graphics is a series of graphic novels for
children aged 10 plus that has inclusion at its heart, flinging
wide the doors of literature for everyone to enter and understand.
Including dyslexia-friendly design on every page, and encouraging
readers to relate to these iconic roles - casting spells, falling
in love and winning duels. Each graphic novel includes
pitch-perfect illustrations for presenting the tragic, the
romantic, the comedic, the magical, as well as: - snappy simplified
text presenting Shakespeare's themes clearly - introductory
materials to help set the scene and context of each story - heaps
of extra material at the back to keep the learning and fun going,
including an exploration of themes in the play, the language,
Shakespeare's inspirations, the publication and performance of the
play in history, a timeline of Shakespeare's life and works, and
much more! Plays available in the series include: Macbeth The
Tempest Hamlet Romeo and Juliet A Midsummer Night's Dream Much Ado
About Nothing Praise for the Classics in Graphics series:
"Excellent production and binding, quality paper, and with
fantastic writing and illustrations - an encouraging entry point to
Shakespeare for my kids, and ease of dive-in for my own flighting
or cursory storytelling engagement/whimsy [...] an excellent job
converting challenging language and literary themes to make it very
inclusive, smoothing ease of understanding dialogue, plot, and
narration without dumbing it down. Each book has a wonderful
appendix including notes on Shakespeare, relevant maps and themes
(i.e. for example in Hamlet it goes deeper into its themes of
Revenge, Madness & Mortality), and a glossary. For a graphic
novel adaptation, I think these books are delightful. [...] They
are wonderful and have quickly broken down the wall of "fear of
Shakespeare" in my house as they are so easy to read and engage.
And they have a really nice tactile production value, heft, and
readability that makes broaching these often deemed difficult
works, FUN. And of course, they are nice to look at." -
EricWilliamson, www.leagueofcomicgeeks.com
This book analyzes the crisis Mexico experienced in 1982 on the
basis of the historical evolution of Mexico's political and
economic structures. The author's purpose in writing this book is
to provide an interpretation of Mexico's current problems in order
to analyze what must be done to solve some profound dilemmas and to
restructure Mexican society. The main dilemma Mexico faces is its
vanishing consensus.
This book provides an overview and evaluation of the quality of
bilingual education found in internationalised higher education
institutions. Its authors focus on the multifaceted roles that
language(s) play in these growing multilingual spaces and analyse
and identify the many factors that account for quality multilingual
degree programmes. The chapters cover themes such as language
policy, quality assurance tools and indicators of quality and the
authors approach issues of quality from very different and
complementary perspectives, adopting for example, temporal,
evaluative and developmental positioning, and taking micro, meso
and macro level perspectives, while still keeping sight of the
local realities, practices and possibilities. The contributions are
written by authors working in Brazil, Finland, Mexico, Portugal,
Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK and have implications for
researchers, education coordinators, practitioners and other
stakeholders who are looking to design, launch and evaluate new
programmes in any higher education context worldwide.
This book provides an overview and evaluation of the quality of
bilingual education found in internationalised higher education
institutions. Its authors focus on the multifaceted roles that
language(s) play in these growing multilingual spaces and analyse
and identify the many factors that account for quality multilingual
degree programmes. The chapters cover themes such as language
policy, quality assurance tools and indicators of quality and the
authors approach issues of quality from very different and
complementary perspectives, adopting for example, temporal,
evaluative and developmental positioning, and taking micro, meso
and macro level perspectives, while still keeping sight of the
local realities, practices and possibilities. The contributions are
written by authors working in Brazil, Finland, Mexico, Portugal,
Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK and have implications for
researchers, education coordinators, practitioners and other
stakeholders who are looking to design, launch and evaluate new
programmes in any higher education context worldwide.
The integrated nested Laplace approximation (INLA) is a recent
computational method that can fit Bayesian models in a fraction of
the time required by typical Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC)
methods. INLA focuses on marginal inference on the model parameters
of latent Gaussian Markov random fields models and exploits
conditional independence properties in the model for computational
speed. Bayesian Inference with INLA provides a description of INLA
and its associated R package for model fitting. This book describes
the underlying methodology as well as how to fit a wide range of
models with R. Topics covered include generalized linear
mixed-effects models, multilevel models, spatial and
spatio-temporal models, smoothing methods, survival analysis,
imputation of missing values, and mixture models. Advanced features
of the INLA package and how to extend the number of priors and
latent models available in the package are discussed. All examples
in the book are fully reproducible and datasets and R code are
available from the book website. This book will be helpful to
researchers from different areas with some background in Bayesian
inference that want to apply the INLA method in their work. The
examples cover topics on biostatistics, econometrics, education,
environmental science, epidemiology, public health, and the social
sciences.
How can ordinary Christians find moral guidance for the mundane
dilemmas they confront in their daily lives? To answer this
question, Julie Hanlon Rubio brings together a rich Catholic
theology of marriage and a strong commitment to social justice to
focus on the place where the ethics of ordinary life are played
out: the family.
Sex, money, eating, spirituality, and service. According to
Rubio, all are areas for practical application of an ethics of the
family. In each area, intentional practices can function as acts of
resistance to a cultural and middle-class conformity that promotes
materialism over relationships. These practices forge deep
connections within the family and help families live out their
calling to be in solidarity with others and participate in social
change from below. It is through these everyday moral choices that
most Christians can live out their faith -- and contribute to
progress in the world.
Modeling spatial and spatio-temporal continuous processes is an
important and challenging problem in spatial statistics. Advanced
Spatial Modeling with Stochastic Partial Differential Equations
Using R and INLA describes in detail the stochastic partial
differential equations (SPDE) approach for modeling continuous
spatial processes with a Matern covariance, which has been
implemented using the integrated nested Laplace approximation
(INLA) in the R-INLA package. Key concepts about modeling spatial
processes and the SPDE approach are explained with examples using
simulated data and real applications. This book has been authored
by leading experts in spatial statistics, including the main
developers of the INLA and SPDE methodologies and the R-INLA
package. It also includes a wide range of applications: * Spatial
and spatio-temporal models for continuous outcomes * Analysis of
spatial and spatio-temporal point patterns * Coregionalization
spatial and spatio-temporal models * Measurement error spatial
models * Modeling preferential sampling * Spatial and
spatio-temporal models with physical barriers * Survival analysis
with spatial effects * Dynamic space-time regression * Spatial and
spatio-temporal models for extremes * Hurdle models with spatial
effects * Penalized Complexity priors for spatial models All the
examples in the book are fully reproducible. Further information
about this book, as well as the R code and datasets used, is
available from the book website at http://www.r-inla.org/spde-book.
The tools described in this book will be useful to researchers in
many fields such as biostatistics, spatial statistics,
environmental sciences, epidemiology, ecology and others. Graduate
and Ph.D. students will also find this book and associated files a
valuable resource to learn INLA and the SPDE approach for spatial
modeling.
Este volumen, dirigido a docentes, investigadores y estudiantes en
el ámbito de la Traducción e Interpretación, es el resultado de
las experiencias didácticas, profesionales y de investigación de
los autores de los dieciséis capÃtulos que lo componen. Su
objetivo es acercar la teorÃa a la práctica con una temática muy
amplia, que incluye el análisis lingüÃstico, la autotraducción,
la traducción de lenguas de especialidad y la traducción
audiovisual. Cuenta también con tres capÃtulos dedicados a la
interpretación que ofrecen una visión panorámica de la misma y
que centran su atención en la interpretación como proceso,
producto y profesión.
Provides Social Sciences PhD students with a set of roadmaps to
follow to find a career path outside of academia Introduces
sectors, businesses and types of positions available to those with
a PhD in social sciences and describes the pros and cons of each to
clarify what your options are and enable you to make clear-eyed
decisions about your preferences Provides a guide to the
methodologies you will put into place in the roles described, to
help you understand what the role might involve and how to carry
out projects successfully Designed to help Social Sciences PhDs to
choose the right career for their personalities, skill sets and
preferences.
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Ferrer-Dalmau (Hardcover)
Jose Manuel Guerrero Acosta, Agustin Pacheco Fernandez, Luis Miguel Esteban Laguardia; As told to Miguel Angel Perez Rubio; Translated by Jonee Tiedemann
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A selection of works by Augusto Ferrer-Dalmau, including some never
previously released, together with his latest creations, come to
life through the work of a large group of military miniaturists who
have found inspiration in his paintings for their models. One of
the most famous artists of historical realism at both a national
and international level, the artist's work can be seen along with
the figures and dioramas based on them. These works have been
crafted by some of the most outstanding Spanish miniaturists, which
today are among the best in the world in this field and can rightly
join the world of the arts.
The scope of interest and reflection on virtue and the virtues is
as wide and deep as the questions we can ask about what makes a
moral agent's life decent, or noble, or holy rather than cruel, or
base, or sinful; or about the conditions of human character and
circumstance that make for good relations between family members,
friends, workers, fellow citizens, and strangers, and the sorts of
conditions that do not. Clearly these questions will inevitably be
directed to more finely grained features of everyday life in
particular contexts. Virtue and the Moral Life: Theological and
Philosophical Perspectives takes up these questions. In its ten
timely and original chapters, it considers the specific importance
of virtue ethics, its public significance for shaping a society's
common good, the value of civic integrity, warfare and returning
soldiers' sense of enlarged moral responsibility, the care for and
agency of children in contemporary secular consumer society, and
other questions involving moral failure, humility, and forgiveness.
The scope of interest and reflection on virtue and the virtues is
as wide and deep as the questions we can ask about what makes a
moral agent's life decent, or noble, or holy rather than cruel, or
base, or sinful; or about the conditions of human character and
circumstance that make for good relations between family members,
friends, workers, fellow citizens, and strangers, and the sorts of
conditions that do not. Clearly these questions will inevitably be
directed to more finely grained features of everyday life in
particular contexts. Virtue and the Moral Life: Theological and
Philosophical Perspectives takes up these questions. In its ten
timely and original chapters, it considers the specific importance
of virtue ethics, its public significance for shaping a society's
common good, the value of civic integrity, warfare and returning
soldiers' sense of enlarged moral responsibility, the care for and
agency of children in contemporary secular consumer society, and
other questions involving moral failure, humility, and forgiveness.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
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