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War and Justice in the 21st Century

A Case Study on the International Criminal Court and its Interaction with the War on Terror

by Luis Moreno Ocampo ...

This is the inside story of the International Criminal Court, one of the most innovative international institutions, from the unique perspective of its first Chief Prosecutor, Luis Moreno Ocampo. Moreno Ocampo received the unprecedented mandate to trigger the International Criminal Court's investigation into sovereign states in June 2003, just three months after the Iraq invasion. At the time, ... Read more

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This is the inside story of the International Criminal Court, one of the most innovative international institutions, from the unique perspective of its first Chief Prosecutor, Luis Moreno Ocampo. Moreno Ocampo received the unprecedented mandate to trigger the International Criminal Court's investigation into sovereign states in June 2003, just three months after the Iraq invasion. At the time,
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Long-Term Care and Older People in Western Europe

Lessons From the COVID-19 Pandemic

by Roberta Perna, Luis Moreno Fernández, Monika Riedel, Christoph Stegner, Caroline Glendinning, Tyyne Ylinen, Vera Ylinen, Laura Kalliomaa-Puha, Satu Ylinen, Claude Martin, Sara Burke, Blanche Le Bihan, Thomas Gerlinger, Eduard Klukas, Caspar Lückenbach, Phillip Florian Schmidt, Costis Prouskas, Michael Goudoumas, Katharine Schulmann, Virpi Timonen, Eimir Hurley, Costanzo Ranci, Marco Arlotti, Stefania Cerea, Cristina Font, Robert Urbé, María Bruquetas-Callejo, Arnaud Campéon, Anita Böcker, Luís Capucha, Alexandre Daniel Calado, Nuno Nunes, Jorge José Hernández-Moreno, Manuel Pereira-Puga, Gibrán Cruz-Martínez, Pär Schön, Lennarth Johansson ...

Series series Transforming Care
Based on a comparative study covering 15 Western European countries, this edited volume examines the responses of long-term care homes for older people to the COVID-19 pandemic.It analyses the preparedness of governments and residences and the structural weaknesses revealed and exacerbated by the crisis, such as staff shortages, the precariousness of employment in the sector, and the deficient ... Read more

$44.99 USD

Based on a comparative study covering 15 Western European countries, this edited volume examines the responses of long-term care homes for older people to the COVID-19 pandemic.It analyses the preparedness of governments and residences and the structural weaknesses revealed and exacerbated by the crisis, such as staff shortages, the precariousness of employment in the sector, and the deficient
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Childhood Obesity

From Basic Knowledge to Effective Prevention

Edited by Luis Moreno ...

Childhood Obesity: From Basic Knowledge to Effective Prevention brings together field experts, taking a multifactorial approach to understand the scope and various causes of the issue and offer the latest in treatment and prevention strategies and resources. Beginning with basic concepts and definitions, chapters progress to cover worldwide prevalence and trends, genetic and epigenetic origins, ... Read more

$148.49 USD

Childhood Obesity: From Basic Knowledge to Effective Prevention brings together field experts, taking a multifactorial approach to understand the scope and various causes of the issue and offer the latest in treatment and prevention strategies and resources. Beginning with basic concepts and definitions, chapters progress to cover worldwide prevalence and trends, genetic and epigenetic origins,
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Prosecuting Corporations for Genocide

by Michael J. Kelly ...

Modern corporations are key participants in the new globalized economy. As such, they have been accorded tremendous latitude and granted extensive rights. However, accompanying obligations have not been similarly forthcoming. Chief among them is the obligation not to commit atrocities or human rights abuses in the pursuit of profit. Multinational corporations are increasingly complicit in ... Read more

$116.99 USD

Modern corporations are key participants in the new globalized economy. As such, they have been accorded tremendous latitude and granted extensive rights. However, accompanying obligations have not been similarly forthcoming. Chief among them is the obligation not to commit atrocities or human rights abuses in the pursuit of profit. Multinational corporations are increasingly complicit in
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How to Hide an Empire

A History of the Greater United States

by Daniel Immerwahr ...

Narrated by Luis Moreno ...

Unabridged

17 hours 25 min

A pathbreaking history of the United States' overseas possessions and the true meaning of its empire We are familiar with maps that outline all fifty states. And we are also familiar with the idea that the United States is an "empire," exercising power around the world. But what about the actual territories-the islands, atolls, and archipelagos-this country has governed and inhabited? In How to ... Read more

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A pathbreaking history of the United States' overseas possessions and the true meaning of its empire We are familiar with maps that outline all fifty states. And we are also familiar with the idea that the United States is an "empire," exercising power around the world. But what about the actual territories-the islands, atolls, and archipelagos-this country has governed and inhabited? In How to
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Greatest Hits

by Harlan Ellison ...

Narrated by Harlan Ellison, various narrators, Tim Lounibos, Hillary Huber, Neil Hellegers, Edoardo Ballerini, Dion Graham0, Grover Gardner1, Robert Fass2, Stefan Rudnicki3, Scott Brick4, Steven Jay Cohen5, Angelo Di Loreto6, Luis Moreno7 ...

Unabridged

17 hours 35 min

A collection of award-winning short stories by Harlan Ellison, an eight-time Hugo Award winner, five-time Bram Stoker Award winner, and four-time Nebula Award winnerHarlan Ellison’s work shaped the science-fiction, fantasy, and horror genres in the twentieth century, and this collection of his best-known and most-acclaimed stories is a perfect treasury for old Ellison fans as well as listeners ... Read more

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A collection of award-winning short stories by Harlan Ellison, an eight-time Hugo Award winner, five-time Bram Stoker Award winner, and four-time Nebula Award winnerHarlan Ellison’s work shaped the science-fiction, fantasy, and horror genres in the twentieth century, and this collection of his best-known and most-acclaimed stories is a perfect treasury for old Ellison fans as well as listeners
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Nationalism and Democracy

Dichotomies, Complementarities, Oppositions

Edited by André Lecours, Luis Moreno ...

Series series Routledge Studies in Nationalism and Ethnicity
This book sheds light on the complicated, multi-faceted relationship between nationalism and democracy by examining how nationalism in various periods and contexts shapes, or is shaped by, democratic practices or the lack thereof. This book examines nationalism’s relationship with democracy using three approaches:The challenge of democracy for sub-state nationalism: analyzing the circumstances ... Read more

$77.99 USD

This book sheds light on the complicated, multi-faceted relationship between nationalism and democracy by examining how nationalism in various periods and contexts shapes, or is shaped by, democratic practices or the lack thereof. This book examines nationalism’s relationship with democracy using three approaches:The challenge of democracy for sub-state nationalism: analyzing the circumstances
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The Federalization of Spain

by Luis Moreno ...

Series series Routledge Studies in Federalism and Decentralization
Traces the origins of the complex system of devolution and regional home rule that currently shapes and directs the Spanish political process. ... Read more

$70.99 USD

Traces the origins of the complex system of devolution and regional home rule that currently shapes and directs the Spanish political process.
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Mathematics of Planet Earth

Proceedings of the 15th Annual Conference of the International Association for Mathematical Geosciences

Edited by Eulogio Pardo-Igúzquiza, Carolina Guardiola-Albert, Javier Heredia, Luis Moreno-Merino, Juan José Durán, Jose Antonio Vargas-Guzmán ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
It is widely recognized that the degree of development of a science is given by the transition from a mainly descriptive stage to a more quantitative stage. In this transition, qualitative interpretations (conceptual models) are complemented with quantification (numerical models, both, deterministic and stochastic). This has been the main task of mathematical geoscientists during the last forty ... Read more

$188.09 USD

It is widely recognized that the degree of development of a science is given by the transition from a mainly descriptive stage to a more quantitative stage. In this transition, qualitative interpretations (conceptual models) are complemented with quantification (numerical models, both, deterministic and stochastic). This has been the main task of mathematical geoscientists during the last forty
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Audiobook

Run, Rose, Run

A Novel

by James Patterson, Dolly Parton ...

Narrated by Dolly Parton, James Fouhey, Kevin T. Collins, Emily Woo Zeller, Soneela Nankani, Luis Moreno, Ronald Peet, Robert Petkoff, Ella Turenne0, Kelsea Ballerini1, Peter Ganim2 ...

Unabridged

10 hours 19 min

From America’s most beloved superstar and #1 New York Times bestselling author James Patterson comes a thriller about a young singer-songwriter on the rise—and on the run—and determined to do whatever it takes to survive.Every song tells a story.She’s a star on the rise, singing about the hard life behind her.She’s also on the run. Find a future, lose a past.Nashville is where she’s come to claim ... Read more

$27.99 USD

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From America’s most beloved superstar and #1 New York Times bestselling author James Patterson comes a thriller about a young singer-songwriter on the rise—and on the run—and determined to do whatever it takes to survive.Every song tells a story.She’s a star on the rise, singing about the hard life behind her.She’s also on the run. Find a future, lose a past.Nashville is where she’s come to claim
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Fairytale

by Danielle Steel ...

Narrated by Luis Moreno ...

Unabridged

9 hours 13 min

The perfect book for the holidays: Cinderella set amid the wine-making estates of modern-day Napa Valley, complete with an evil Parisian stepmother. Deeply in love, Christophe and Joy Lammenais built Chateau Lammenais into a small but renowned Napa Valley winery and an idyllic home where they raised their beloved daughter, Camille, who takes on increasing responsibilities for the estate they all ... Read more

$19.99 USD

The perfect book for the holidays: Cinderella set amid the wine-making estates of modern-day Napa Valley, complete with an evil Parisian stepmother. Deeply in love, Christophe and Joy Lammenais built Chateau Lammenais into a small but renowned Napa Valley winery and an idyllic home where they raised their beloved daughter, Camille, who takes on increasing responsibilities for the estate they all
... Read more
Audiobook

Love At the End of the World Season One

My Covid Romance

by Gabra Zackman ...

Narrated by Gabra Zackman, Emily Woo Zeller, Allyson Johnson, Luis Moreno, Vikas Adam ...

Series Audiobook 1 - Love At the End of the World
Unabridged

2 hours 50 min

A witty search for sex and romance in the age of Covid-19. Pears is a divorced 40-something living with her mother in Queens when the unsexiest pandemic ever hits the country and smatters her potential love life. If her mother wasn’t enough to cock block her, this virus does a double cock block of trapping her in masks while dosing her in hand sanitizer. With her customary dry wit, and the support ... Read more

$5.20 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

A witty search for sex and romance in the age of Covid-19. Pears is a divorced 40-something living with her mother in Queens when the unsexiest pandemic ever hits the country and smatters her potential love life. If her mother wasn’t enough to cock block her, this virus does a double cock block of trapping her in masks while dosing her in hand sanitizer. With her customary dry wit, and the support
... Read more