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"Book of Queens reaches back centuries to the Persian Empire and a woman disguised as a man, facing an invading army, protected only by light armor and the stallion she sat astride. Mahdavi draws a thread from past to present: from her fearless Iranian grandmother, who guided survivors of domestic violence to independent mountain colonies in Afghanistan where the women, led by a general named Mina, became their country's first line of defense from marauding warlords. To the female warriors who helped train and breed the horses used by US Green Berets when they touched down in October 2001, with a mission but insufficient intelligence on the ground-women whose contributions were then forgotten. Pardis Mahdavi chases the legacy of Caspian horses and the women whose lives are saved by them, drawing on decades of research, newly-discovered diaries, and exclusive military sources. Among those intersecting stories is that of American Louise Firouz, who helped bring the breed back from the brink of extinction, connecting Virginia traders to British royals to the son of the Shah. Firouz's life is forever changed when she meets Mahdavi's own family, who run an unusual smuggling operation in addition to raising horses in a wild bid for freedom. Book of Queens is an epic tale of hidden women whose communal knowledge was instrumental in saving an animal as ancient as civilization, and who were the genesis of their own liberation"--

"The Ian Willock Collection on Law and Justice in the Twenty-First Century presents a diverse collection of essays inspired by Ian Willock's diverse range of scholarly interests, from the Scottish jury through women in the legal profession, and more"--

"By October 1918, the U.S. had more than a million men fighting in the Meuse-Argonne campaign. The American Expeditionary Forces' logistics force, the Services of Supply (SOS), provided critical support to the combat forces. A bewildering array of maintenance, medical, motor transport, railroad, quartermaster and engineer units served in this role as well as British women from Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps, African American labor and pioneer regiments, a U.S. Marine brigade led by a legendary officer, volunteers from the Salvation Army, Chinese laborers and even German prisoners of war. The SOS kept American soldiers at the front supplied with "bullets, bandages and beans" while repairing weapons, producing vast quantities of lumber, buying horses from Spain, operating a massive railroad network, caring for the sick and wounded, fighting fires on troopships, driving trucks under enemy fire and administering a notorious prison. This book gives a full account of perhaps the most overlooked yet crucial military effort of World War I."--

"Drawing on archaeological, linguistic, ethnographic, and documentary evidence, this book uses a cis-oceanic framework to focus on littoral communities. It clarifies the relationship between ethnicity and other kinds of identities by framing research questions around a language family instead of an ethnic, religious, or diasporic group"--

Discrimination is still not sufficiently addressed within liberal democracies. Often only some groups are protected against discrimination and merely in certain situations. This leaves many who suffer because of discrimination without recourse. And that is only one of the dilemmas with group-based approaches to the protection against discrimination. So why are these approaches so common? And can we find a viable alternative? In this new book, legal scholar Erwin Dijkstra answers these questions. His analysis is thorough, original, and thought-provoking. This makes Discrimination and the Foundation of Justice indispensable for anyone who seeks a better understanding of discrimination law, the relevant human rights context, and the debate on improving the protection against discrimination. That debate is brought to life through a thoughtful discussion of hotly debated topics like hate speech, affirmative action, and institutions that speak out against discrimination. As discrimination concerns us all, this book was written as a resource for all. It is meant to be read by those studying discrimination law professionally and the broader public alike

"In dit boek schenken staatsrechtexperts uit heel Nederland aandacht aan de grondwetswijzigingen van 2022 (met een kleine uitloper naar 2023), die gezamenlijk ook wel aangeduid zijn als de meest omvangrijke grondwetsherziening sinds 1983. De grondwetsherziening heeft geresulteerd in een algemene bepaling aan het begin van de Grondwet en in bepalingen betreffende een door nietingezeten Nederlanders gekozen kiescollege voor de verkiezing van de Eerste Kamer, het recht op een eerlijk proces, het brief- en telecommunicatiegeheim, een herijking van de grondwetsherzieningsprocedure, het doen vervallen van inmiddels irrelevant geworden additionele artikelen en het aan vullen van de discriminatiegronden van artikel 1 Grondwet. Het is bijzonder dat er zoveel nieuwe grondwetsbepalingen in werking zijn getreden, nu de Nederlandse Grondwet bekend staat als statisch en lastig te veranderen. Toch is de vraag of en in hoeverre we deze wijzigingen kunnen duiden als werkelijke constitutionele verandering en of 2022-2023 voor Nederland kan worden gezien als een 'constitutional moment'. Hoe kunnen we deze herziening plaatsen in de Nederlandse grondwetsgeschiedenis? Welke wijzigingen heeft zij precies voortgebracht in onze Grondwet? Gaat het daarbij om het codificeren van staande praktijken of om het modificeren van de samen leving? In hoe verre verandert de herziening iets aan de positie van en de verhouding tussen de staatsambten en aan de positie van de burger ten opzichte van de overheid? Valt er kritiek te uiten op de grondwetswijzigingen die zijn aangebracht? En blijft er nog iets te wensen over?Het boek gaat tot slot in op het voornemen van de regering om het toetsingsverbod opgenomen in artikel 120 Grondwet te wijzigen dan wel op te heffen. Toekomstige rechterlijke constitutionele toetsing zou immers een impact kunnen hebben op de rol en betekenis van de Grondwet, met inbegrip van de recent ingevoerde algemene bepaling die luidt 'De Grondwet waarborgt de grondrechten en de democratische rechtsstaat'."--