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ItemNo Preview AvailableOne world: The ethics of globalizationSinger, P (Yale University Press, 2004-12-01)The book encompasses four main global issues: climate change, the role of the World Trade Organization, human rights and humanitarian intervention, and foreign aid. Singer addresses each vital issue from an ethical perspective and offers alternatives to the state-centric approach that characterizes international theory and relations today. On climate change, for example, he sees the ethical issue as one that concerns a common global resource - the capacity of the atmosphere to absorb waste gases. How much of this resource should developed notions appropriate, and how much should be left for developing nations? Regarding the WTO, Singer asks whether the organization allows free trade to override all other values, and he assesses the evidence for and against the view that globalization helps the poor. In his consideration of human rights, the author asks to what extent we can develop global laws protecting human rights and what the criteria for intervention should be when these rights are violated. Finally, Singer addresses the obligations of the world's rich nations to assist the poor nations. © 2002 by Peter Singer. All rights reserved.
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ItemA Translation of Abbot Lenotios' Life of Saint Gregory, Bishop of Agrigento. Texts and Studies in Religion, Volume 105.MARTYN, J. (Edwin Mellen Press, 2004)
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ItemSpeaking of Yangzhou: A Chinese City, 1550-1850FINNANE, AM (Harvard University Press, 2004)
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ItemWomen in France since 1789Foley, SK (Macmillan Education UK, 2004)
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ItemThe Years of Hunger: Soviet Agriculture, 1931-1933DAVIES, RW ; Wheatcroft, SG (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004)This book examines the Soviet agricultural crisis of 1931-1933 which culminated in the major famine of 1933. It is the first volume in English to make extensive use of Russian and Ukrainian central and local archives to assess the extent and causes of the famine. It reaches new conclusions on how far the famine was 'organized' or 'artificial', and compares it with other Russian and Soviet famines and with major twentieth century famines elsewhere. Against this background, it discusses the emergence of collective farming as an economic and social
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ItemArchaeology at the North-East Anatolian Frontier, I: an historical geography and a field survey of the Bayburt plain.SAGONA, CLAUDIA ; SAGONA, ANTONIO (Peeters, 2004)
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ItemScorsese's men: melancholia and the mobNICHOLLS, MD (Pluto Press, 2004)
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ItemNeo-Baroque Aesthetics and Contemporary EntertainmentNDALIANIS, A (MIT Press, 2004)Tracing the logic of media history, from the baroque to the neo-baroque, from magic lanterns and automata to film and computer games. The artists of the seventeenth-century baroque period used spectacle to delight and astonish; contemporary entertainment media, according to Angela Ndalianis, are imbued with a neo-baroque aesthetic that is similarly spectacular. In Neo-Baroque Aesthetics and Contemporary Entertainment, she situates today's film, computer games, comic books, and theme-park attractions within an aesthetic-historical context and uses the baroque as a framework to enrich our understanding of contemporary entertainment media. The neo-baroque aesthetics that Ndalianis analyzes are not, she argues, a case of art history repeating or imitating itself; these forms have emerged as a result of recent technological and economic transformations. The neo-baroque forms combine sight and sound and text in ways that parallel such seventeenth-century baroque forms as magic lanterns, automata, painting, sculpture, and theater but use new technology to express the concerns of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century. Moving smoothly from century to century, comparing ceiling paintings to the computer game Doom, a Spiderman theme park adventure to the baroque version of multimedia known as the Bel Composto, and a Medici wedding to Terminator 2:3D, the book demonstrates the logic of media histories. Ndalianis focuses on the complex interrelationships among entertainment media and presents a rigorous cross-genre, cross-historical analysis of media aesthetics.