Author: United States. Congress. HousePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1282
Book Description
Report
Author: United States. Congress. HousePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1282
Book Description
Congressional Record
Author: United States. CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1442
Book Description
The Last Utopia
Author: Samuel MoynPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674256522
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Human rights offer a vision of international justice that today’s idealistic millions hold dear. Yet the very concept on which the movement is based became familiar only a few decades ago when it profoundly reshaped our hopes for an improved humanity. In this pioneering book, Samuel Moyn elevates that extraordinary transformation to center stage and asks what it reveals about the ideal’s troubled present and uncertain future. For some, human rights stretch back to the dawn of Western civilization, the age of the American and French Revolutions, or the post–World War II moment when the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was framed. Revisiting these episodes in a dramatic tour of humanity’s moral history, The Last Utopia shows that it was in the decade after 1968 that human rights began to make sense to broad communities of people as the proper cause of justice. Across eastern and western Europe, as well as throughout the United States and Latin America, human rights crystallized in a few short years as social activism and political rhetoric moved it from the hallways of the United Nations to the global forefront. It was on the ruins of earlier political utopias, Moyn argues, that human rights achieved contemporary prominence. The morality of individual rights substituted for the soiled political dreams of revolutionary communism and nationalism as international law became an alternative to popular struggle and bloody violence. But as the ideal of human rights enters into rival political agendas, it requires more vigilance and scrutiny than when it became the watchword of our hopes.
Bethlehem Revisited
Author: Floyd I. BrewerPublisher:
ISBN: 9780963540201
Category : Bethlehem (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 501
Book Description
Witnesses to History
Author: Lyndel V. ProttPublisher: UNESCO
ISBN: 9231041282
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 465
Book Description
This Compendium gives an outline of the historical, philosophical and ethical aspects of the return of cultural objects (e.g. cultural objects displaced during war or in colonial contexts), cites past and present cases (Maya Temple Facade, Nigerian Bronzes, United States of America v. Schultz, Parthenon Marbles and many more) and analyses legal issues (bona fide, relevant UNESCO and UNIDROIT Conventions, Supreme Court Decisions, procedure for requests etc.). It is a landmark publication that bears testament to the ways in which peoples have lost their entire cultural heritage and analyses the issue of its return and restitution by providing a wide range of perspectives on this subject. Essential reading for students, specialists, scholars and decision-makers as well as those interested in these topics.
The Nominal Roll of Vietnam Veterans
Author: We Hold this Treasure
Author: Steven E. KoopPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Based Upon interviews and correspondence with more than four hundred former patients, We Hold This Treasure is the inspiring story of the first state-funded hospital in the United States to provide care for indigent, handicapped children.
Register and Manual - State of Connecticut
Author: Connecticut. Secretary of the StatePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Connecticut
Languages : en
Pages : 764
Book Description
Naval Accidents, 1945-1988
Author: William M. ArkinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Marine accidents
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
The Public Domain
Author: James BoylePublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781979963077
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
In this insightful book you will discover the range wars of the new information age, which is today's battles dealing with intellectual property. Intellectual property rights marks the ground rules for information in today's society, including today's policies that are unbalanced and unspupported by any evidence. The public domain is vital to innovation as well as culture in the realm of material that is protected by property rights.