By Frances Vavrus, Lesley Bartlett

This publication unites a dynamic staff of students who research linkages between neighborhood, nationwide, and foreign degrees of academic coverage and perform. using multi-sited, ethnographic techniques, the essays discover vertical interactions throughout assorted degrees of coverage and perform whereas prompting horizontal comparisons throughout twelve websites in Africa, Europe, the center East, and the Americas. The vertical case stories concentrate on quite a number issues, together with participatory improvement, the politics of tradition and language, neoliberal academic reforms, and schooling in post-conflict settings. Editors Vavrus and Bartlett give a contribution to comparative thought and perform by way of demonstrating some great benefits of ‘thinking vertically.’

By Susan H. Williams

Constituting Equality addresses the query, how may you write a structure should you fairly cared approximately gender equality? The publication takes a design-oriented method of the huge diversity of concerns that come up in constitutional drafting relating gender equality. every one part of the booklet examines a specific set of constitutional matters or doctrines throughout more than a few various international locations to discover what works, the place, and why. themes contain (1) governmental constitution (particularly electoral gender quotas); (2) rights provisions; (3) constitutional reputation for cultural or non secular practices that discriminate opposed to girls; (4) household incorporation of overseas legislations; and (5) the function of girls within the means of constitution-making. Interdisciplinary in orientation and worldwide in scope, the e-book presents a menu for constitutional designers and others drawn to how the basic criminal order may well extra successfully advertise gender equality.

By Issam K. H. Halayqa

By Ernst Mayr (auth.), Kurt Benirschke (eds.)

Ten years in the past a symposium on Cytotaxonomy 'was held in London (Proc. Linn. Soc. Lond. 169:110, 1958) during which a primary test used to be made to collect quite a few disciplines to debate advances of mammalian cytogenetics and to place them into right context with the sciences of evolution and taxonomy. The introductory comments through \V. B. Turrill to that symposium, primarily an admonishment to be tolerant of the quick­ comings of our respective disciplines, will be a correct start­ ning to this convention as ,,'ell. despite the fact that, the assembly held at Hanover was once conceived extra alongside the strains of comments made by way of R. B. Seymour Se,,'ell in his presidential deal with to a similar society: "It has been stated that scientists during this look for fact are these days an excessive amount of curious about the buildup of evidence, and make too little use in their imagina­ tion of their makes an attempt to give an explanation for such proof as they've got amassed. " (In "The continental glide idea and the distribution of the Copepoda," ibid. 166:149, 1956. ) \\Tith this as a history, years in the past we held the 1st of a chain of loosely-structured meetings on reproductive failure within the stress-free surroundings of this small New England collage neighborhood. The manu­ scripts of that assembly were released (Comparative points of Re­ efficient Failure, Springer-Verlag big apple Inc. , 1967).

By Transparency International

An exam of ways, why and the place corruption mars judicial approaches.

By Zengyi Xie

​The basic objective of this e-book is to aid readers comprehend the improvement of the idea and perform of work legislation in China, and to familiarize them with significant advances and closing demanding situations during this box. the writer additionally places ahead feedback on how one can increase hard work legislation in China at the foundation of an research of key difficulties and comparative learn. The booklet may also function an invaluable consultant, permitting HR specialists at businesses with chinese language staff or doing company in China to raised comprehend chinese language hard work legislation and laws. It covers a wide diversity of work legislations matters, together with the which means of work family members, definition of the worker and organisation, the tasks of employers and staff, anti-discrimination, exertions dispatch, minimal salary, termination of work contracts, paintings harm assurance, hard work inspections and exertions dispute resolution.

By Philip Marsden

This complete study guide brings jointly state-of-the-art felony and fiscal research into antitrust matters by means of best specialists from Europe, america, Canada, Mexico and South the United States. The instruction manual of study in Trans-Atlantic Antitrust covers a wide-range of parts together with: * the which means of buyer welfare * mergers in monopsony markets * unilateral results * inner most and felony enforcement * imposing pageant coverage in regulated sectors * abuse of highbrow estate rights * festival treatments * foreign enforcement cooperation * complainants' rights * dominant company pricing * tying and bundling. The guide additionally contains discursive attention of the similarities and variations one of the a number of regimes on each side of the Atlantic, in addition to a glance to destiny traits and purposes in local and worldwide contexts. providing a comparative view of urgent antitrust concerns, this instruction manual could be of serious curiosity to teachers, legal professionals, practitioners and officers.

By Norbert Kersting

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By G.F. Ball, J. Balthazart, M. Hidaka, I. Novak, M. Wheatly

Advances in Comparative and Environmental Physiology is helping biologists, physiologists, and biochemists preserve tune of the broad literature within the box. supplying accomplished, built-in stories and sound, severe, and provocative summaries, this sequence is a needs to for all lively researchers in environmental and comparative physiology.

By H. H. Swanson (auth.), Professor Dr. Raymond Gilles, Dr. Jacques Balthazart (eds.)

This quantity is a kind of released from the court cases of the invited lectures to the 1st foreign Congress of Comparative body structure and Biochemistry I geared up at Liege (Belgium) in August 1984 less than the auspices of the element of Comparative body structure and Biochemistry of the foreign Union of organic Sciences. In a normal foreword to those assorted volumes, it kind of feels to me applicable to think about in brief what could be the comparative method. dwelling organisms, past the variety in their morphological types, have developed a common diversity of easy ideas to deal with the several difficulties, either organismal and environmental with which they're confronted. quickly after the flip of the century, a few biologists learned that those options should be most sensible comprehended within the body­ paintings of a comparative method integrating result of physiological and biochemical reports performed on the organismic, mobile and molecular degrees. the improvement of this procedure among either physiologists and biochemists remained, although, tremendous gradual until eventually recently.