The notion of "human rights" is widely used in political and moral debates. The core idea, that all human beings have some inalienable basic rights, is appealing and has an important practical function: It allows moral criticism of various wrongs and calls for action in order to prevent them. The articles in this collection take up a tension between the wide political use of human rights claims…
Jeremy Bentham’s writings on Australia, new authoritative editions of which are now published in a volume entitled Panopticon versus New South Wales and other writings on Australia1 in The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham, have had a profound and enduring influence across a number of fields. For instance, according to the historian John Gascoigne, s…
The contributions collected in this volume deal with the complex history of the Indian deity Vi??u-N?r?yana. This conception of God evolved in various traditions in India, especially in South India, during the first millennium CE. The history of this development is reconstructed here by various means, including philological exegesis, the history of ideas, and iconographic evidence.
Toxicology and Safety of Essential Oils: A Constituent-Based Approach” (Chapter 7). On account of the complexity of these natural products, the toxicological or biochemical testing of an EO will always be the sum of its constituents which either act in a synergistic or in an antagonistic way with one another. Therefore, the chemical characterization of the EO is very important for the underst…
This Synthesis Report (SYR) of the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) summarises the state of knowledge of climate change, its widespread impacts and risks, and climate change mitigation and adaptation. It integrates the main findings of the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) based on contributions from the three Working Groups, and the three Special Reports. The summary for Policymakers (SPM) is st…
Furthermore, within the context of action regulation theory, a suitable concept canbe identified to conceptualize sovereignty with respect to individuals in work settings.A core meaning of sovereignty – across all domains as described above (Couture and Toupin 2019) – deals withcontrol, in the sense of individuals – or groups, movements,corporations, states – having control over their e…
Clay science has emerged after a few millennia of clay use and a century-long accumulation of written information about clays and clay minerals. No other minerals currently attract so great an interest, or are being subjected to such an intensive examination as clays. The focus of clay research has long been on the geological, geotechnical, and mineralogical aspects of clays. It is only relativ…
Evolusi ialah salah satu gagasan ilmiah yg paling sering disalahgunakan & disalah mengerti. Baik profesional maupun awam, sering keliru memahai teori ini kendati sudah silam hampir dua abad. Kesulitan itu dipahami & ditangkap oleh Ernst Mayr sehingga ia menulis buku ini. Ernst Mayr ialah salah seorang begawan biologi yg ikut mengawinkan teori evolusi Darwin & genetika Mendel. Ia dianggap sebaga…