Robert Beck's study focuses principally on two related questions. First, how did the Reagan administration decide to launch the invasion of Grenada? And second, what role did international law play in that decision? The Grenada Invasion draws on extensive interviews and correspondence with key participants—and on the recently published memoirs of those who participated in or witnessed the administration's deliberations—in order to render a new and more complete picture of Operatio...

Understanding International Law through Moot Courts: Genocide, Torture, Habeas Corpus, Chemical Weapons, and the Responsibility to Protect consists of five sets of opposing legal briefs and judge’s decisions for five moot court cases held before the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court. Each moot court brief included in the book addresses contemporary controversies in international affairs; issues ranging from the application of the newly emerging Responsibil...

When the United Nations Charter was adopted in 1945, states established a legal `paradigm' for regulating the recourse to armed force. In the years since then, however, significant developments have challenged the paradigm's validity, causing a `pardigmatic shift'. International Law and the Use of Force traces this shift and explores its implications for contemporary international law and practice.

Reflecting major contemporary developments in theory and clinical practice, the second edition of this authoritative guide has been significantly rewritten with 85% new material. Cognitive therapy (CT) pioneer Aaron T. Beck and associates provide cutting-edge knowledge about the cognitive model of depression and the most effective, lasting ways to reduce clients' suffering. The volume links clearly explained theoretical principles to specific therapeutic strategies. Techni...

Zum 1.1.2021 ist das neue Sanierungsgesetz (StaRUG) in Kraft getreten und hat erhebliche Auswirkungen auf die Bank-, Sanierungs- und Insolvenzpraxis. Die Neuauflage stellt u.a. den Anwendungsbereich und Umfang des Stabilisierungs- und Restrukturierungsrahmens nach dem StaRUG vor. Das neue Kapitel zum vorinsolvenzlichen Restrukturierungsverfahren greift aktuelle Fragestellungen auf, das Thema Eigenverwaltung wird vor dem Hintergrund der Ergebnisse der ESUG-Evaluation vertieft dargestellt. N...

Die Machtergreifung der Nationalsozialisten im Januar 1933 ist ein Schlüsselereignis der Weltgeschichte. Die rasche Konsolidierung der Macht durch Hitler und die Beseitigung der Demokratie praktisch über Nacht erstaunen und erschüttern bis heute. Und bis heute sind sich Historikerinnen und Historiker über die Gründe für das Ende der Weimarer Republik und den schnellen Erfolg der Nationalsozialisten uneinig.Dieses Buch wirft 90 Jahre später eine internationale Perspektive auf das Epo...

As the application of object technology--particularly the Java programming language--has become commonplace, a new problem has emerged to confront the software development community. Significant numbers of poorly designed programs have been created by less-experienced developers, resulting in applications that are inefficient and hard to maintain and extend. Increasingly, software system professionals are discovering just how difficult it is to work with these inherited, "non-optimal" appl...

As the first collection of new work on sound and cinema in over a decade, Lowering the Boom addresses the expanding field of film sound theory and its significance in rethinking historical models of film analysis. The contributors consider the ways in which musical expression, scoring, voice-over narration, and ambient noise affect identity formation and subjectivity. Lowering the Boom also analyzes how shifting modulation of the spoken word in cinema results in variation...

14 Originalgeschichten erstklassiger Autorinnen & Autoren, und ein spannendes literarisches Städteporträt: »Hamburg Noir« ist eine tiefschwarze Liebeserklärung an eine facettenreiche Stadt und eine spannende literarische Reise von Hamburgs Norden in die City und auf den Kiez, von Hamburgs Süden über das Heiligengeistfeld und Altona bis in das wohlhabende Blankenese und den Hamburger Yachthafen. Abwechslungsreiche Literatur, die vielstimmig von den Schattenseiten der Gesellschaft erzählt, v...

This revised and updated edition of the landmark publication reveals the current state of knowledge regarding animal tool behavior.When originally published in 1980, Animal Tool Behavior was the first volume to catalog and analyze the complete literature on tool use and manufacture in non-human animals. Benjamin B. Beck showed how animals—from insects to primates—employed different types of tools to solve numerous problems. This work inspired and energized...

»Wozu die deutsche Kriminalliteratur in der Lage ist, zeigt der fantastische Band ?Berlin Noir?. Besser kann man sich nicht durch Berlin führen lassen.« Thekla Dannenberg, Perlentaucher Ein spannendes literarisches Städteporträt und eine tiefschwarze Liebeserklärung an eine Stadt, die vor allem eines ist: keine Sekunde langweilig. 13 Kurzgeschichten, 13 Blickwinkel, 13 Stadtviertel - und 13 faszinierende Teile eines größeren Puzzles. Das Verbrechen zieht seine blutige Spur vom noblen Grune...

No one is prepared for the loss of a child. No one. It feels completely unnatural for children to predecease their parents. Although it is not widely known, each year there are over 135,000 under 40-year-old deaths in the U.S. alone. And, according to one study, 19% of parents outlive their children—often carrying the weight of horrendous grief to their own graves.“Isolated and alone” is how parents often describe the grief process. Well-meaning friends and family members usually r...