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This book provides a systematic and detailed introduction to the formation process and current development of China's socialist legal system. The classification of the constitution and constitution-related laws, criminal law, civil and commercial law, administrative law, economic law, litigation and non-litigation procedural law, social law, and the specifics of each sector of law are explained, which is a good guide for understanding the framework of China's legal system and the study of each sector of jurisprudence.

Front Cover -- Half-Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Dedication and Acknowledgments -- Publisher's Note -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Mismanaging a Pandemic -- I: Arbitrary Decrees: Science-Free Medicine -- II: Killing Hydroxychloroquine -- III: Ivermectin -- IV: Remdesivir -- V: Final Solution: Vaccines or Bust -- Chapter 2: Pharma Profits over Public Health -- Chapter 3: The HIV Pandemic Template for Pharma Profiteering -- Chapter 4: The Pandemic Template: AIDS and AZT -- Chapter 5: The HIV Heresies -- Chapter 6: Burning the HIV Heretics -- Chapter 7: Dr. Fauci, Mr. Hyde: NIAID's Barbaric and Illegal Experiments on Children -- Chapter 8: White Mischief: Dr. Fauci's African Atrocities -- Chapter 9: The White Man's Burden -- Chapter 10: More Harm Than Good -- Chapter 11: Hyping Phony Epidemics: "Crying Wolf" -- Chapter 12: Germ Games -- Afterword -- Index -- Author's Note.

Front Cover -- Half-Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Operation Show of Force-The Assassination of Abu Jihad in Tunis, 1988 -- Chapter 2: An Elite Force Is Born -- Chapter 3: The Bulmus Operations-Suez Canal, May 1969 -- Chapter 4: Operation Bulmus 6-The Raid on Green Island, July 1969 -- Chapter 5: Operation Isotope-The Sabena Flight Hostage Crisis, May 1972 -- Chapter 6: Operation Crate-The Abduction of Syrian Officers in Southern Lebanon, June 1972 -- Chapter 7: Operation Spring of Youth-Beirut, April 1973 -- Chapter 8: The Rescue of Israeli Paratroopers from the Peak of the Hermon-November 1973 -- Chapter 9: The Ma'alot Massacre-Ma'alot, May 1974 -- Chapter 10: The Savoy Hotel Attack-Tel Aviv, March 1975 -- Chapter 11: Operation Thunderbolt-Entebbe, July 1976 -- Chapter 12: The Misgav Am Massacre-April 1980 -- Chapter 13: The Bus 300 Hijacking-April 1984 -- Chapter 14: Operation Lovely Youth-The Abduction of Sheikh Obeid in Lebanon, July 1989 -- Chapter 15: Operation Veering Sting-The Abduction of Mustafa Dirani, 1994 -- Chapter 16: The Attempted Rescue of Nachshon Wachsman-Bir Nabala, October 1994 -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Plates.

1. Introduction: Diversity of Language, Unity of Purpose -- 2. Language and the Sustainable Development Goals: Challenges to Language Policy and Planning -- 3. Language, Digital Resources and the Sustainable Development Goals -- 4. Sustainable Multilingual Education -- 5. The Sustainability of Multilingualism from Home to Pre-School Contexts: Three Case Studies from Europe -- 6. Realising Inclusive and Equitable Quality Education in South Africa: Achievements and Obstacles on the Language in Education Front -- 7. In Pursuit of Sustainable Educational Development: The Philippines and the English Dilemma -- 8. Primary and Secondary Language Use in Peacekeeping and Stabilization Operations: A Preliminary to Sustainability -- 9. The Connections between Sociolinguistics and Economics, and their Implications for Sustainability -- Afterword: A Dedication -- Index.

Introduction and Motivation -- Power System Flexibility Modeling -- Flexibility-based Economic Dispatch -- Distributed Dispatch Approach in AC/DC Hybrid Systems With High Flexibility Requirement -- The Optimal Dispatch Method Considering the Flexibility of Power Networks -- Demand Side Flexibility -- Large-Scale Distributed Flexible Resources Aggregation -- Market Design for Enhancing the Flexibility of Power System -- Future Research on Power System Flexibility.

This books provides a critical perspective on entrepreneurialism in the creative industries. Split into three sections, the book first asks the contextual question; why, at this point in time, did we arrive at such a focus on entrepreneurship in the creative industries? Examining the historical, social, cultural, economic and political background, the book places the creative industries and entrepreneurship firmly within a systemic approach to creativity and cultural production. Given this emphasis on entrepreneurship in the creative system, the second part of the book asks, what do those who want to work in the creative industries need to do to pragmatically gain an income? The practices, skills, business models and plans necessary to master in order to successfully run a business are explored in this section. The final section contains detailed case studies that reveal the lives of those who found a way to successfully gain an income in the creative industries. It highlights the practical knowledge they gathered, how they negotiated their field of endeavour, and the decisions they made in the real world. Fundamentally the book answers three questions: How and why did we get here? Given that we are here at this point in time, how do we go about being entrepreneurial? And who has managed to do this in the creative industries and how did they do it? Covering both theoretical debates in detail, and practical case studies in key sub-sectors of creative industries, this truly integrative and far-reaching volume will be of interest to students, researchers and practitioners alike. Dr Phillip McIntyre is Professor of Communication in the School of Humanities, Creative Industries and Social Sciences at the University of Newcastle, Australia. Dr Janet Fulton is an independent researcher in Communication and Media and an Adjunct Associate Professor at RMIT University, Australia. Dr Susan Kerrigan is an Associate Professor in Film and Television at Swinburne University of Technology, Australia. Dr Michael Meany is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Humanities, Creative Industries and Social Sciences at the University of Newcastle. .

Part I of this book gives particular attention to freedom as an "aesthetic idea" that informs certain philosophical discussions of freedom in Kant, Schelling, Nietzsche, Sartre, Camus and Isaiah Berlin. The critical concept of "positive freedom" is discussed in the first chapter and continues to inform the entire book. In Part II, the more "practical" application of these ideas with respect to certain "zones" of freedom such as academia ("academic freedom"), religion ("religious freedom"), art ("artistic freedom"), "free speech," and "political freedom" are discussed Finally, in the Epilogue, the surprising relationship of "friendship" to "freedom" that begins with their close etymological relationship is discussed.

Originally published in 1987, the achievement of this book is that it combines rigorous theoretical analysis with a wealth of descriptive material drawn from first-hand observation of policing and decision making at all levels, and thus relates sociological theory to practice and political debate at the time.

"The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Political Science contains twenty-seven freshly written chapters to give the reader a panoramic introduction to philosophical issues in the practice of political science. Simultaneously, it advances the field of Philosophy of Political Science by creating a fruitful meeting place where both philosophers and practicing political scientists contribute and discuss. These philosophical discussions are close to and informed by actual developments in political science, making philosophy of science continuous with the sciences, another aspiration that motivates this volume. The chapters fall under four headings: (1) evaluating theoretical frameworks in political science; (2) methodological challenges and reconciliations; (3) the purposes and uses of political science; and, (4) the interactions between political science and society. Specific topics discussed include the biology of political attitudes, intra-agent mechanisms, rational choice explanations, theories of collective action, explaining institutional change, conceptualizing and measuring democracy, process tracing, qualitative comparative analysis, interpretivism and positivism, mixed methods, within-cause causal inference, evidential pluralism, lab and field experiments, external validity, contextualization, prediction, expertise, clientelism, feminism, values, and progress in political science"--