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  • Language Policy and the Paradox of Multilingual Harmony in Switzerland

    by Anna Becker ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book examines language policy in Switzerland to explore how multilingualism is organized, governed, and experienced in everyday life. Focusing on education and public institutions, it shows how a system widely praised for managing linguistic diversity also produces tensions, hierarchies, and unequal forms of participation.Drawing on policy documents and interviews with educators and ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • The Foundations of European Transnational Private Law

    Edited by Dr Anna Beckers, Rodrigo Vallejo, Pia Letto-Vanamo, Professor Hans-W. Micklitz ...
    Series series The Future of Private Law
    Since Anu Bradford's groundbreaking book on the Brussels Effect there is a vastly evolving literature on the EU as a global regulatory actor as well as the global reach of EU law. This edited collection connects to this debate.Yet, it shifts the focus from the currently predominant public law focus to investigating European and EU private law and to connecting to literature and research on ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Three Liability Regimes for Artificial Intelligence

    Algorithmic Actants, Hybrids, Crowds

    by Dr Anna Beckers, Professor Dr Gunther Teubner ...
    This book proposes three liability regimes to combat the wide responsibility gaps caused by AI systems – vicarious liability for autonomous software agents (actants); enterprise liability for inseparable human-AI interactions (hybrids); and collective fund liability for interconnected AI systems (crowds).Based on information technology studies, the book first develops a threefold typology that ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Decolonial Epistemologies in Comparative and International Education

    Anticipating the Cultural Turn?

    Edited by tavis d. jules, Florin D. Salajan, Anna Becker, Benjamin Scherrer ...
    Series Book 52 - International Perspectives on Education and Society
    Decolonial Epistemologies in Comparative and International Education: Anticipating the Cultural Turn? examines the current state of the field of comparative and international education (CIE) by addressing colonial and Eurocentric structures and advancing a decolonial approach. The chapters integrate frameworks from indigenous epistemologies, racial capitalism, and pluriverse thinking to question ... Read more

    $114.99 USD

  • Enforcing Corporate Social Responsibility Codes

    On Global Self-Regulation and National Private Law

    by Dr Anna Beckers ...
    Series series International Studies in the Theory of Private Law
    Corporate social responsibility codes are guidelines that companies voluntarily develop and publish with the objective of showing the public their commitment to respect human rights, to improve fundamental workplace standards worldwide and to protect the natural environment. These corporate codes have become a crucial element in the regulatory architecture for globally operating companies. By ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Gendering the Renaissance Commonwealth

    by Anna Becker ...
    Series Book 123 - Ideas in Context
    This pioneering and innovative study challenges modern assumptions of what constitutes the political and the public in Renaissance thought. Offering gendered readings of a wide array of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century political thinkers, with a particular focus on the two prime thinkers of the early modern state, Niccolò Machiavelli and Jean Bodin, Anna Becker reconstructs a neglected but ... Read more

    $109.99 USD

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    by Colin Crouch ...
    The financial crisis seemed to present a fundamental challenge to neo liberalism, the body of ideas that have constituted the political orthodoxy of most advanced economies in recent decades. Colin Crouch argues in this book that it will shrug off this challenge. The reason is that while neo liberalism seems to be about free markets, in practice it is concerned with the dominance over public life ... Read more

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  • A Citizen's Guide to Artificial Intelligence

    by John Zerilli, John Danaher, James Maclaurin, Colin Gavaghan, Alistair Knott ...
    ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOR BEGINNERS: Get a concise, informative overview of AI ethics and policy—and how it could impact our society.Artificial intelligence, or AI for short, has generated a staggering amount of hype in the past several years. Is it the game-changer it's been cracked up to be? If so, how is it changing the game? How is it likely to affect us as customers, tenants, aspiring home ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • The Organizational Contract

    From Exchange to Long-Term Network Cooperation in European Contract Law

    by Stefan Grundmann, Fabrizio Cafaggi ...
    This book introduces and develops the paradigm of the organisational contract in European contract law. Suggesting that a more radical distinction should be made between contracts which regulate single or spot exchanges and contracts that organize complex economic activities without creating a new legal entity, the book argues that this distinction goes beyond that between spot and relational ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Introduction to Sociological Theory

    Theorists, Concepts, and their Applicability to the Twenty-First Century

    by Michele Dillon ...
    The extensively revised and updated second edition combines carefully chosen primary quotes with wide-ranging discussion and everyday illustrative examples to provide an in-depth introduction to classical and contemporary sociological theory.Combines classical and contemporary theory in a single, integrated textShort biographies and historical timelines of significant events provide context to ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Democracy and Prosperity

    Reinventing Capitalism through a Turbulent Century

    by Torben Iversen, David Soskice ...
    A groundbreaking new historical analysis of how global capitalism and advanced democracies mutually support each otherIt is a widespread view that democracy and the advanced nation-state are in crisis, weakened by globalization and undermined by global capitalism, in turn explaining rising inequality and mounting populism. This book, written by two of the world’s leading political economists, ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

    A Practical Guide

    by Paul Voigt, Axel von dem Bussche ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book provides expert advice on the practical implementation of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and systematically analyses its various provisions. Examples, tables, a checklist etc. showcase the practical consequences of the new legislation. The handbook examines the GDPR’s scope of application, the organizational and material requirements for data protection, ... Read more

    $89.99 USD