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  • Paper Machines

    About Cards & Catalogs, 1548-1929

    Translated by Peter Krapp ...
    Series series History and Foundations of Information Science
    Why the card catalog—a “paper machine” with rearrangeable elements—can be regarded as a precursor of the computer.Today on almost every desk in every office sits a computer. Eighty years ago, desktops were equipped with a nonelectronic data processing machine: a card file. In Paper Machines, Markus Krajewski traces the evolution of this proto-computer of rearrangeable parts (file cards) that ... Read more

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  • The Server

    A Media History from the Present to the Baroque

    Translated by Ilinca Iurascu ...
    A cutting†‘edge media history on a perennially fascinating topic, which attempts to answer the crucial question: Who is in charge, the servant or the master?†‹Though classic servants like the butler or the governess have largely vanished, the Internet is filled with servers: web, ftp, mail, and others perform their daily drudgery, going about their business noiselessly and unnoticed. Why then are ... Read more

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  • World Projects

    Global Information before World War I

    Translated by Charles Marcrum II ...
    Series series Electronic Mediations
    Markus Krajewski is emerging as a leading scholar in the field of media archaeology, which seeks to trace cultural history through the media networks that enable and structure it. In World Projects he opens a new portal into the history of globalization by examining several large-scale projects that, at the beginning of the twentieth century, shared a grand yet unachievable goal: bringing order to ... Read more

    $19.79 USD

  • The Regional Trade Agreements in the Eastern Europe, Central Asia and the Caucasus: Is multilateralization of regionalism possible?

    Series Book 9002 - Erlanger Schriften zum Oeffentlichen Recht
    The book provides a unique description of the former Soviet Union countries, their geopolitical situation, historical background and legal realities. It is one of the limited monographs that give insight into the work of Eurasian Economic Union, as well as other RTAs of this particular region. It is a valuable resource for every trade practitioner who would like to gain more insight about this ... Read more

    $71.09 USD

  • Human Rights and Environmental Sustainability in State-Owned Enterprises

    Series series Human Rights and International Law
    This book presents case studies on the human rights performance of state-owned enterprises from four Latin American and three European countries, as well as foreign investments by Chinese state-owned enterprises on these continents. State-owned enterprises are considered among some of the worst perpetrators of contamination and corporate human rights violations around the globe, both domestically ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Shifting Paradigms in International Investment Law

    More Balanced, Less Isolated, Increasingly Diversified

    International investment law is in transition. Whereas the prevailing mindset has always been the protection of the economic interests of individual investors, new developments in international investment law have brought about a paradigm shift. There is now more than ever before an interest in a more inclusive, transparent, and public regime. Shifting Paradigms in International Investment Law ... Read more

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  • European Yearbook of International Economic Law 2015

    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This sixth volume (2015) of the European Yearbook of International Economic Law puts a particular emphasis on non-tariff barriers (NTBs) to trade and the world trade order. With the steady reduction of tariff rates since the GATT 47 came into force, focus in recent years has been on the vast and complex landscape of non-tariff barriers to trade. States as well as scholars seemingly struggle with ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • European Yearbook of International Economic Law 2024

    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    As global economic governance faces mounting challenges—from climate change to geopolitical shifts—the 2024 edition of EYIEL revisits the enduring debate of fragmentation vs. integration in international economic law. Exploring trade, investment, sustainability, and human rights, this volume examines the evolving interplay between economic regulation and pressing global concerns. With insights ... Read more

    $224.09 USD

  • Human Rights in the Extractive Industries

    Transparency, Participation, Resistance

    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book addresses key challenges and conflicts arising in extractive industries (mining, oil drilling) concerning the human rights of workers, their families, local communities and other stakeholders. Further, it analyses various instruments that have sought to mitigate human rights violations by defining transparency-related obligations and participation rights. These include the Extractive ... Read more

    $152.09 USD

  • Coherence and Divergence in Services Trade Law

    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book addresses topical questions concerning the legal framework of trade in services, and assesses how these issues are dealt with in GATS and in selected preferential trade agreements. In addition, the chapters discuss whether the differences and similarities (if any) are evidence of greater coherence or greater divergence. The book combines the individual analyses to provide a more ... Read more

    $170.09 USD

  • European Yearbook of International Economic Law 2020

    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    Volume 11 of the EYIEL focuses on rights and obligations of business entities under international economic law. It deals with the responsibilities of business entities as well as their special status in various subfields of international law, including human rights, corruption, competition law, international investment law, civil liability and international security law. The contributions to this ... Read more

    $188.09 USD

  • The Routledge Handbook on Extraterritorial Human Rights Obligations

    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    The Routledge Handbook on Extraterritorial Human Rights Obligations brings international scholarship on transnational human rights obligations into a comprehensive and wide-ranging volume.Each chapter combines a thorough analysis of a particular issue area and provides a forward-looking perspective of how extraterritorial human rights obligations (ETOs) might come to be more fully recognized, ... Read more

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