"International criminal justice as a discipline throws up numerous conceptual issues, engaging disciplines such as law, politics, history, sociology and psychology, to name but a few. This book addresses themes around international criminal justice from a mixture of traditional and more radical perspectives.

This casebook exposes students to the most significant current legal issues relating to international organizations in a stimulating format, employing debates, simulations, and role-play exercises. The chapters cover international organizations related to peace and security, human rights, the environment, and the global economy, both within and outside of the UN system. The third edition updates all of the existing chapters, and adds new chapters addressing the role of international organizations in matters of humanitarian intervention, self-determination, and nuclear nonproliferation.

Black cover with gilt lettering in red spine panel looks a little worn at ends of spine and corners. Very neat pen marks on pages 10-20, 39-60, 123, 124. Remains of library pocket on front inside cover. Library sticker on FEP. Library stamps on title page, FEP and BEP.

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From the critically-acclaimed independent filmmaker, Michael Roemer, comes Film Stories: Screenplays as Story , a highly-anticipated first collection of screenplays. Beyond film scripts, Film Stories is designed to help film students master concepts like three-act structure, conflict, surprise, rising action, and crisis, while crafting not only a story, but a story that tells. Volume One contains the screenplays for Nothing But a Man, The Plot Against Harry, Stone My Heart , and Pilgrim, Farewell . Volume One also features a comprehensive introduction entitled "Beginnings," in which Roemer discusses the creation of his screenplays and includes anecdotes on the making and distribution of his films that any screenwriter or filmmaker will find invaluable. Volume Two contains the screenplays for Losing Emily, Famous Long Ago, Mortal Longings, Act of God , and Sad but Funny .

Is it still possible and plausible to speak of a living covenant between God and the people of Israel – a covenant to which Jews traditionally were bound, in memory and hope; or are we locked into cultural compulsions that lead to exclusively academic descriptions? To answer this question, we need to clarify our views of religion and theology in modern Jewish life. We must study what Jews have said and believed about a special covenantal bond to be found in the Jewish soul and the Jewish community. These are not only existential issues but are also concerns that stand at the heart of contemporary Jewish education. These six essays address skeptics, on the one hand, and seekers on the other. They move from individuals and their pilgrimages, to the Jewish collective with its various narratives of destruction and redemption. At times they are centered on theological definitions; at other times they urge attention to sociological analysis. What unites these six essays is a serious concern for the spiritual life of the Jewish people in the century now underway.

Is Jewish education simply an ancient and archaic type of socialization into "customs and ceremonies" or a sophisticated practice, based on rich cultural conceptions of the educated individual, the decent society and the relationship of knowledge and virtue? This author, rather than offering a dry analysis, takes the reader on a leisurely yet careful excursion into the world of Jewish tradition in order to discover models of the educated human being within it. In the process, the refder discovers dialogues between Western philosophy and Talmudic Midrash and is offered a fresh view of culture, faith and identity.

Product Description Direct and honest, with a deep reverence for the mundane and a zest for the extraordinary in the ordinary moment, Michael Rothenberg takes us down some mean dog streets of the mind. Indefinite Detention: A Dog Story is explosive in intent, but provacative in expression, a testament to the freedom of being: the way out of prison is to dance. Precise observations of the absurdities of the modern world combined with an accessible and informal intelligence make this an intoxicating book. Rothenberg stretches his canvas wide to paint modernity with a Whitmanesque flourish, in graceful and outspoken poems, leaving no crimes unrecorded. Rothenberg is a poetic engineer who builds spiritual and literary bridges, big bridges constructed of language and emotions. Anger and love, passion and compassion, humour and conviction, his message is conveyed with a mixture of self-deprecating humor, sparkling insight and a west coast whimsy driven by the rhythm of the surf and the immense rhyme of a tragic time. Review From under the Northern California Redwoods, Michael Rothenberg writes with an abundantly concerned and familiar voice, commenting freely about the world at large and matters at hand, keeping a sharp look at the aftershocks of reality in a future which happens to be 'now.' A delightful book for our times. --Joanne Kyger Out of a seeming mist of in-the-moment observations Michael Rothenberg treats us to hawk-like swoops of intellect that land unerringly on startling insights. He gives us the world that hides from the world and does so with wit, compassion and an ease with technique that renders his poems both masterful and readable. --Robert Priest About the Author Michael Rothenberg is a poet, songwriter, editor and publisher of the online literary magazine Big Bridge and co-founder of the global poetry movement 100 Thousand Poets for Change. His books of poetry include Favorite Songs (Big Bridge Press), Man/Women with Joanne Kyger (Big Bridge Press), The Paris Journals (Fish Drum Press), Monk Daddy (Blue Press), Unhurried Vision (La Alameda/University of New Mexico Press), Choose (Big Bridge Press), and My Youth As A Train (Foothills Publishing), and he is the author of the eco-spy thriller Punk Rockwell (Tropical Press).

"Poetry. The poems in AMERICAN SONGBOOK are based on phrases from more than fifty 20th century songs. The singers range from Memphis Minnie to Tupac Shakur, and songs from Louis Armstrong's hit "What a Wonderful World" to Hattie Ellis's "Desert Blues," a little-known Lomax prison recording. Many musical traditions inform the poems, including blues, jazz, gospel, country, folk, bluegrass, electric blues, R&B, rock, disco and hip hop."In their careful reading of real and imaginary signs these poems bring peripheral and liminal perception into focus. At the intersection of form and voice--of how something can be said and what meaning might intend--Michael Ruby folds everyday utterance into astonishing fact. These plaintive and destabilized voicings offer the necessary means to discover what is immediately before us."--Peter Gizzi"--

A rollicking journey across the great stages of New York, London and the provinces; encounters with well known and not so well known characters; a full-bodied account of behind the stage, its own drama and surprises, comedy and tragedy, and of course the jokes.

Two Crowns of the Egg is an ode by the world-famous photographer Michael Somoroff to his wife Irina Somoroff. A collaborative work of art, the book offers a psychological and spiritual journey.

This volume is devoted especially to themes of justice, peace, wonder, compassion and love. Included are brief personal explanations about what inspired each song, a few comments about writing songs, and the presentation of the music in a format that is accessible, readable and sing-able for a variety of folk musicians, singers and song leaders. To that end, the scores prepared here are simply melodies with chords. They are not fully arranged for piano or four-part harmony (though a few of these songs have been more fully arranged and are available elsewhere.) We have left the music here open to individual interpretation, creativity and unique skill sets.

Beauty and the Beast begins with the question: Is beauty destined to end in tragedy? Drawing on extensive fieldwork in Colombia, Michael Taussig scrutinizes the anxious, audacious, and sometimes destructive attempts people make to transform their bodies through cosmetic surgery and liposuction. He balances an examination of surgeries meant to enhance an individual’s beauty with an often overlooked counterpart, surgeries performed—often on high profile criminals—to disguise one’s identity. Situating this globally shared phenomenon within the economic, cultural, and political history of Colombia, Taussig links the country’s long civil war and its bodily mutilation and torture to the beauty industry at large, sketching Colombia as a country whose high aesthetic stakes make it a stage where some of the most important and problematic ideas about the body are played out. Central to Taussig’s examination is George Bataille’s notion of depense , or “wasting.” While depense is often used as a critique, Taussig also looks at the exuberance such squandering creates and its position as a driving economic force. Depense, he argues, is precisely what these procedures are all about, and the beast on the other side of beauty should not be dismissed as simple recompense. At once theoretical and colloquial, public and intimate, Beauty and the Beast is a true-to-place ethnography—written in Taussig’s trademark voice—that tells a thickly layered but always accessible story about the lengths to which people will go to be physically remade.