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Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Lee Kuan Yew and the Writing of Singapore History -- 2 Lee Kuan Yew and the Study of His Strategic Thought -- Part I The Cold War Years -- 3 From the 1950s to the Mid-1970s -- 4 1975-1979 -- 5 The 1980s Decade -- Part II The Post-Cold War Years -- 6 The 1990s Decade -- 7 The New Millennium -- An Assessment -- Select Bibliography -- Index.

"Inspired by Bourdieu's thought, this book explores the notion of cultural capital, offering insights into its various definitions, its evolution and the critical theories that engage with it. Designed for use by students and teachers, it addresses the limitations and expansion of Bourdieu's theory of capital and power, considering the relationship between cultural, social and human capital, the distinctions between capital and capitalism, and the conflicts that exist among theories that have emerged in response to - or can be brought to bear on - Bourdieu's work. Engaging with the thought of Max Weber, Fernand Braudel, Daniel Bell, Herbert Marcuse, Jean Baudrillard, Theodore Adorno, Max Horkheimer and Gilles Lipovetsky, Cultural capital and Creative Communication represents the first book to develop a field of research and study that is devoted to cultural capital. Richly illustrated with empirical examples and offering assessment exercises, it will appeal not only to scholars and students of sociology, philosophy and social theory, but also to corporate communities who seek to develop training modules on the increase of their cultural capital"--

"A Short Medieval Reader contains the essential primary sources for exploring the Middle Ages in depth. Designed to work with and supplement the sixth edition of A Short History of the Middle Ages, this book provides comprehensive readings ranging from Iceland to Egypt and from England to Iraq. Beginning with the Christianization of the Roman Empire, the readings illustrate all the major events, religious and intellectual movements, people, saints and sinners, ideals, fears, and fantasies of the period in Europe, Byzantium, and the Islamic world. Each source is clearly dated and, because all sources are translated into English, the original language is specified to remind students of the diversity of cultures that existed in the Middle Ages. Introductions to each source provide the necessary context and are followed by questions designed to guide the student's reading. Annotations, explanations, and ancillary materials--including maps, a genealogy, and illustrations--are supplied where needed. A Short Medieval Reader provides a feast for inquiring minds, priced for a student's budget."--

« Les crimes contre l'humanité transcendent l'individu puisqu'en attaquant l'homme, est visée, est niée, l'Humanité. C'est l'identité de la victime, l'Humanité, qui marque la spécificité du crime contre l'humanité », affirmaient en 1997 les juges du Tribunal international pour l'ex-Yougoslavie à l'appui de leur premier jugement. L'expression même de crime contre « l'humanité » distingue ce crime de tous les autres et souligne son extrême gravité. Mais, si grave soit-il, un crime ne constitue un crime contre l'humanité qu'à condition de comporter des éléments constitutifs précis et de s'inscrire dans une attaque généralisée ou systématique. Cet ouvrage propose d'éclairer cette dénomination pénale née à Nuremberg en analysant sa formation en droit international, puis les variations de sa réception au niveau national. Il en explore ainsi la richesse mais pointe aussi ses ambiguïtés au travers des applications passées et présentes, esquissant déjà les transformations à venir

"This book explains and evaluates the main arguments and themes in Bentham's Introduction (IPML). It's designed for upper level undergraduate students of philosophy; it would also be useful for grad students and scholars in philosophy and other disciplines. Each chapter of the book is discussed in sequence. Emphasis is placed on Bentham's original goal of introducing a utilitarian penal code. His causal theory of action, and account of motives and motivation, are analysed carefully, so as to lay the groundwork for his treatment of the deterrence of potential offenders, and the punishment of convicted offenders. Bentham's approach to making acts into legal offenses, or 'criminalization', is also treated. His understanding of the principle of utility, theory of intrinsic value, and claims about the measurement of pleasure and pain, and intrinsic value, are fully discussed. Some attention is given to the features of English criminal law in Bentham's time, and to its practice in contemporary societies"--

"Explore rain forests around the world! Travel to the Amazon, the world's largest rain forest. Discover the natural wonders found there. Did you know that over half the world's plant and animal species live in rain forests? Find out how rain forests have changed through time, and learn how how to protect and preserve these natural lands"--

"Singh analyses the influence of Xi's "Chinese Dream" on China's foreign relations and security postures. Xi Jinping's rise has led to a paradigm shift in many aspects of China's domestic and international politics. A key element of this has been the ideological vision shorthanded as the "Chinese Dream", combining elements of nationalism, Confucian ideology, and economic expansionism. Singh evaluates the various changes in China's nominally communist ideology in the post-Mao era, with an emphasis on the implications for China's economic and security relations with other countries. He particularly focuses on China's approach to South Asia and the Indian Ocean Region, key elements of China's strategy. An insightful guide to understanding the direction of China's foreign and security policy, and especially its impact on India-China relations"--

"Moral pragmatism has been largely ignored in Business Ethics, despite its natural attraction and the fact that it is prominent in philosophy and socio-economic theories. The main premise of the book is that the complexity of today's business world does not permit a grand ethical theory, notwithstanding the different attempts made by scientists. Moral pragmatism is the 'go-to' approach where the ethical decision-making of managers varies dependent on different circumstances but it always integrates moral considerations. Ethical decision-making is no longer based simply on known rules, but entails the constant dynamic interaction of circumstances, the development of new rules, managers' past experiences, their knowledge concerning ethics, and skills of moral reasoning. This book interweaves the postmodern approach to management studies and, based on its innovative research, reintroduces moral pragmatism in Business Ethics. The combination of decision-making theories, philosophy and postmodernism paves the way for future novel research in Business Ethics, making it an excellent resource for researchers, academics, and advanced students in the field of Business Ethics. Practitioners, on the other hand, will benefit by improving their skills in ethical decision-making and leadership"--

Intro -- Contents -- Cover Description for Accessibility -- Foreword by Robert McRuer -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Suicidal Manifesto -- Part I: Rethinking Suicide -- Chapter 1. Suicidism: A Theoretical Framework for Conceptualizing Suicide -- Chapter 2. Queering and Transing Suicide: Rethinking LGBTQ Suicidality -- Chapter 3. Cripping and Maddening Suicide: Rethinking Disabled/Mad Suicidality -- Part II: Rethinking Assisted Suicide -- Chapter 4. The Right-to-Die Movement and Its Ableist/Sanist/Ageist/Suicidist Ontology of Assisted Suicide -- Chapter 5. Queering, Transing, Cripping, and Maddening Assisted Suicide -- Conclusion: Can the Suicidal Subject Speak? Suicidal People's Voices as Microresistance -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

This book examines the highly ambivalent implications and effects of anti-elitism. It draws on this theme as a cross-cutting entry point to provide transdisciplinary analysis of current conjunctures and their contradictions, drawing on examples from popular culture and media, politics, fashion, labour and spatial arrangements. Using the toolboxes of media and discourse analysis, hegemony theory, ethnography, critical social psychology and cultural studies more broadly, the book surveys and theorizes the forms, the implications and the ambiguities and limits of anti-elitist formations in different parts of the world. Anti-elitist sentiments colour the contemporary political conjuncture as much as they shape pop cultural and media trends. Populists, right-wing authoritarian ones and others, direct their anger at cultural, political and, sometimes, economic elites while supporting other elites and creating new ones. At the same time, "elitist" knowledge and expertise, decision-making power and taste regimes are being questioned in societal transformations that are discussed much more positively under headlines such as participation or democratization. The book brings together a group of international, interdisciplinary case studies in order to better understand the ways in which the battle cry "against the elites" shapes current conjunctures and possible future politics, focusing on themes such as nationalist political discourse in India, Austria, the UK and Hungary, labour struggles and anti-oligarchy rhetoric in Russia, tax-avoiding elites and fiscal imaginaries, working-class agency, Melania Trump as a celebrity narrative in Slovenia, aesthetic codes of the Alt-Right, football hooliganism in Germany, "hipster hate" in German political discourse or the politics of expertise and anti-elite iconography in high fashion internationally. The book is intended for undergraduates, postgraduates and postdoctoral researchers.