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A leading theme in this impressive collection of essays in honour of Professor Gudmundur Alfredsson is the advancement of international rules and mechanisms to empower individuals, groups and peoples everywhere to pursue their rights nationally, regionally and internationally. The book deals with the many areas of international law and national policies and practices in which important progress has been made since the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights for better protection of human rights in the modern world. It equally provides a critical discussion of the difficulties...

Eines der Hauptwerke des japanischen Nobelpreisträgers für Literatur Yasunari Kawabata (1899-1972) ist von Tobias Cheung neu, erstmals textgetreu übersetzt worden. §Kawabatas Schneeland liegt jenseits hoher Berge, fern von Tokyo. Shimamura, ein Müßiggänger und Ästhet aus Tokyo, fährt mit dem Zug zu einem der dortigen Kurorte, wo er Komako, eine Geisha, trifft, deren Eigenwilligkeit und Schönheit ihn fesseln. Mehrfach kehrt er zu ihr zurück. Jedoch je eindringlicher Shimamura versucht, ein klares Bild von Komako zu gewinnen, desto unschärfer und verschwommener kommt ihm das...

The search for a new foundation of the order of things, that characterizes the period between Descartes and Kant, is closely related to three questions: What is an animal? What is a human? What is a machine? The various answers that have been given to the questions occur in a field of dynamic interactions between theories of knowledge and of matter, experiments, observations, moral, theological and scientific claims, analogies, metaphors, imitations, and specific objects or artifacts. The main objective of this book is to retrace these interactions within different disciplinary,...