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Intro -- Editorial Board -- Editorial -- Contents -- Part I70th Anniversary of the Geneva Conventions -- 1 Evolution of the International Humanitarian Law Provisions on Sieges -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Legality of Sieges -- 1.2.1 International Armed Conflicts -- 1.2.2 Non-International Armed Conflicts -- 1.3 United Nations Security Council Resolutions' Impact on the Legal Regulation of Sieges -- 1.4 Concluding Remarks -- References -- 2 Towards a Better Understanding of the Concept of 'Indiscriminate Attack'-How International Criminal Law Can Be of Assistance -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Attacking Civilians as a War Crime in International Humanitarian Law and International Criminal Law -- 2.3 Prosecutions of Attacks Against Civilians Before the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and the International Criminal Court -- 2.3.1 International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia -- 2.3.2 International Criminal Court -- 2.4 Transition from International Humanitarian Law to International Criminal Law -- 2.5 Final Reflections -- References -- 3 Double Trouble: The 'Cumulative Approach' and the 'Support-Based Approach' in the Relationship Between Non-State Armed Groups -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Traditional Criteria for the Determination of Whether There Is a Non-international Armed Conflict and Which Actors Are Parties to that Conflict -- 3.3 Cumulative Approach -- 3.4 The Support-Based Approach in Non-international Armed Conflicts -- 3.5 Conclusion -- References -- 4 The Rebel with the Magnifying Glass: Armed Non-State Actors, the Right to Life and the Requirement to Investigate in Armed Conflict -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 The Right to Life in Non-International Armed Conflict: Legal Frameworks and Paradigms.

They are upon us: May 17 -- On the war-path for Vicksburg: May 18 -- A long dreadful day: Fifteenth Corps, May 19 -- I hope every man will follow me: Seventeenth and Thirteenth Corps, May 19 -- This will be a hard place to take: May 20-21 -- Dismay and bewilderment: Blair, May 22 -- Now, boys, you must do your duty: McPherson, May 22 -- The horror of the thing bore me down like an avalanche: McClernand and Osterhaus, May 22 -- Boys, you have just fifteen minutes to live: 2nd Texas Lunette, May 22 -- A thousand bayonets glistened in the sunlight: railroad redoubt, May 22 -- I don't believe a word of it: Grant, Sherman, and McClernand, May 22 -- Am holding position but suffering awfully: Blair, Ransom, and Tuttle, May 22 -- It made the tears come to my eyes: Steele, May 22 -- Boys, don't charge those works: Logan and Quinby, May 22 -- It is absolutely necessary that they be dislodged: reclaiming railroad redoubt, May 22 -- An ardent desire to participate in the capture of Vicksburg: Grant, Pemberton, Porter, and McArthur, May 22 -- I feel sad but not discouraged: making sense of May 22 -- I am surfeited, sick, and tired of witnessing bloodshed: casualties, wounded, prisoners -- No one would have supposed that we were mortal enemies: burial, mourning -- They ought to be remembered: honors, infamy, life stories -- Eventful on the page of history: commemoration.

"Based on an article by Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters, the fascinating results of an important nationwide conversation about guns: Can complete strangers representing every point along the political divide engage in civil and productive discourse on the topic of gun control?"--

1 Current research on human rights education globally.- 2 A review of human rights education in higher education.- 3 Insights from students on human rights education in India, South Africa, Sweden and the United States.- 4 The state of HRE in higher education worldwide.- 5 Human rights education as a link to the counterbalance strategy of the Sanctuary Cities against federal immigration programs in the USA.- 6 The promises and challenges of human rights cities.- 7 HRE in the era of global aging: The human rights of older persons in contemporary Europe.- 8 Human rights as an instrument of social cohesion in South Asia.- 9 Evaluating research on human rights education globally.

Cover -- narrative economics -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface to the 2020 Paperback Edition -- Preface: What Is Narrative Economics? -- Acknowledgments -- Part I The Beginnings of Narrative Economics -- 1 The Bitcoin Narratives -- 2 An Adventure in Consilience -- 3 Contagion, Constellations, and Confluence -- 4 Why Do Some Narratives Go Viral? -- 5 The Laffer Curve and Rubik's Cube Go Viral -- 6 Diverse Evidence on the Virality of Economic Narratives -- Part II The Foundations of Narrative Economics -- 7 Causality and Constellations -- 8 Seven Propositions of Narrative Economics -- Part III Perennial Economic Narratives -- 9 Recurrence and Mutation -- 10 Panic versus Confidence -- 11 Frugality versus Conspicuous Consumption -- 12 The Gold Standard versus Bimetallism -- 13 Labor-Saving Machines Replace Many Jobs -- 14 Automation and Artificial Intelligence Replace Almost All Jobs -- 15 Real Estate Booms and Busts -- 16 Stock Market Bubbles -- 17 Boycotts, Profiteers, and Evil Business -- 18 The Wage-Price Spiral and Evil Labor Unions -- Part IV Advancing Narrative Economics -- 19 Future Narratives, Future Research -- Appendix: Applying Epidemic Models to Economic Narratives -- Notes -- References -- Index.

This multiauthor collection of essays analyzes Russia's Great War and Revolution from the perspective of the Central Powers and their encounters with Russia and the Revolution. The peoples of the Central Powers, from elites to civilians, understood the violent clash of armies in a variety of ways. Essays highlight the variety of military and civilian experiences and deal with topics of how soldiers, civilians, and intellectuals perceived Russia and how these understandings translated into security goals, utopian plans for conquered territories, and interethnic violence

The ozone serpent -- Atmosdragon -- The acid sea dragon -- The logre -- The road snake -- The urban sprawlosaurus -- The glare worm -- The noisybird -- Smogosaurus -- Acid rain spirits -- The grease behemoth -- The grublin -- Trash kong -- The e-waste golem -- The plaken -- Blooming doom -- The oil spillathan -- The aqualik -- The degradotaur -- The oblivionpede -- Nuclear jinns -- Afterword: carbon bigfoot.

Cover -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Jan Jaap de Ruiter -- Introduction -- I. The Qur'anic Ethics of "Nature": Gender, Sexuality, and Diversity -- 1a. Human Nature: Mirroring the Will of God -- 1b. Condemnation of "Immoral" Practices -- II. Distressing Qur'anic Verses? -- 2a. The Original Sodomy: Forbidding Ritual Rape -- 2b. The Absence of Female Homosexuality in the Qur'an -- 2c. Positive Representations of Gender Minorities in the Qur'an -- III. The Prophet: A Living Incarnation of Qur'anic Ethics -- 3a. Was the Prophet Homophobic and Transphobic? -- 3b. The Status of Mukhannathun: "Effeminate," Trans, or Gay? -- 3c. The First "Sodomite": Neither Gay nor Trans, but a Rapist -- IV. Islamic Apocrypha Advocating the Stoning of "Sodomites" -- 4a. The Sectarian Ideology of Fatwas Associating "Sodomy" with Apostasy -- 4b. A Former Mukhannath's Internalized Homophobia and Misogyny -- 4c. What the Different Islamic Schools of Thought Advocate -- V. Postcolonial Orientalisms -- VI. "Abnormals": From Cultural Diversity to Dogmatic Uniformity -- VII. Towards a Structural Reevaluation of Cultural Values -- VIII. Pan-Arabist Literary and Identity Censorship -- IX. Orientalist Shi'ism and Literary Homoeroticism -- X. Homonationalism and Performative Sexual Categorization -- XI. A "Crisis" of Categories, Geopolitics or Civilization -- Conclusion -- Afterword -- Adi S. Bharat -- Bibliography -- Index -- List of Figures -- Figure 1 Hadith classification -- Figure 2 Chains of narration of apocryphal hadiths concerning mukhannathun -- Figure 3 Chains of narration of apocryphal hadiths condemning 'sodomites' -- Figure 4 Apocryphal hadiths concerning the execution or stoning of 'sodomites'.