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United Nations The corporate responsibility to respect human
Book SynopsisThis Interpretive Guide on the corporate responsibility to respect human rights was developed in full collaboration with the former Special Representative. Its contents have been the subject of numerous consultations during the six years of the Special Representative's mandate and have been reflected in many public reports and speeches, but have not previously been brought together. This Guide does not change or add to the provisions of the Guiding Principles, but provides additional background explanation to the principles directed at business enterprises, to support a full understanding of their meaning and intent. In this way, it is designed to support the process of comprehensive implementation of the Guiding Principles, as well as the development of further operational guidance to put the Guiding Principles into practice. As such, this Guide is a resource not just for business, but also for Governments, civil society, investors, lawyers and others who engage with business on these issues.
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United Nations Global value chains and world trade: prospects
Book SynopsisThe analysis of how Latin American and Caribbean economies participate in different segments of GVCs is at the heart of the current work agenda of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, which focuses on how structural change and productivity gains can promote economic development with equality. This volume builds on the relevant literature and suggests that the movement of firms to higher value added activities in GVCs requires them to step up their innovation efforts and develop new products and processes. Success in improving market shares and value added will depend, however, on which firms innovate most. Hence, innovation is a necessary but insufficient for increasing value added and market shares. Evidence suggests that since the 2008 economic crisis, the participation of Latin America and the Caribbean in global production networks has increased.
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Manohar Publishers and Distributors Who Were the Shudras
Book SynopsisHe dedicated this book to the renowned Indian social reformer Jyotirao Phule (1827-1890), who established the Satyashodhak Samaj in 1873 along with his wife and social reformer Savitribai Phule (1831-1897).
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Tulika Books Similarities – A Paradigm for Culture Theory
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Ateneo de Manila University Press Preserving and Transforming Philippine Identity
Book SynopsisPhilosophers tell us that all human beings seek to make sense of their lives and their circumstances. The particular culture we are in offers us a menu of options with which to make sense of the various and disparate events in our lives. Culture therefore cannot be ignored for being ""unimportant,"" for, through it, the lives that we lead acquire a shape that gladdens us. In the heightened competition that characterises globalisation, knowing one's culture and keeping in touch with its most intimate values and aspirations can give the individual plenty of needed comfort. Without a sense of inner security that our culture, values and aspirations provides, it is easy to succumb in the heat of battle. —From the Introduction by Fernando N. Zialcita
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University of the Philippines Press Bakwit: The Power of the Displaced
Book Synopsis“A book that renders long overdue respect for the dignity and struggle of the bakwit—the people displaced by conflict and, at times, disenfranchised by aid. Canuday reminds us that the first and lasting fact in any rigorous and reverent social analysis is the resilience of the human spirit.”—Albert E. Alejo, S.J.
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Institute of Southeast Asian Studies Wards of Hanoi
Book SynopsisIn this book, the author marshals evidence to support an arena-specific approach towards viewing Vietnam's state-society relations. In practice, the Vietnamese party-state's relations with society vary from the hard and uncompromising state, with the bureaucracy getting its way, to society's ability to negotiate the state's boundaries and regimes to make them less harsh. Any analysis of Vietnam's state-society relations needs to recognize and demonstrate both elements of dominance and accommodation, as well as specify the context in which either or both are seen. Alone, neither is adequate. In particular, the idea of the ""state"" needs to be disaggregated because ""state"" is not a singular actor that is coherent or uniform through time and space. To demonstrate how state-disaggregation can make our view more nuanced, this book analyses state-society interaction at the ward level of Hanoi, an urban local authority.
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Servicio de Publicaciones y Divulgacin Cientfica de la Universidad de Mlaga Falsedad y comunicación
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Servicio de Publicaciones y Divulgacin Cientfica de la Universidad de Mlaga Feminismos en las dos orillas
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Sociology on the Web A Student Guide
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Society Action and Space
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Leading Change in Health and Social Care
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Medical Sociology
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Early Sociology of Education
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Taylor & Francis Continuing Professional Development
Continuing Professional Development (CPD) is the means by which the professions across the world ensure that their knowledge and skills remain up to date and relevant to changing needs and environments. CPD significantly contributes to the quality and reputation of the professions and therefore to the quality of national and international social life and economic well being. Starting with a discussion on what CPD is, the author analyzes how professional bodies govern CPD, what support they provide to individual professionals and how they measure or evaluate what individuals do under the provenance of CPD. Continuing Professional Development explains why, up to now, CPD has been a relatively neglected subject in spite of it being carried out by millions. It argues whether a variety of perspectives or visions of CPD has held back wider public appreciation of it and if greater co-ordination by professional bodies, or the introduction of new players to the field, will ch
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Listening to Harlem
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Taylor & Francis Ltd When Welfare Disappears
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Americas Failing Schools How Parents and Teachers Can Cope with No Child Left Behind
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Russia in Transition Politics Privatisation and Inequality
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Feminist Perspectives on the Body
Book SynopsisFeminist Perspectives on the Body provides an accessible introduction to this extremely popular new area and is aimed at students from a variety of disciplines who are interested in gaining an understanding of the key issues involved. The author explores many important topics including: the Western world''s construction of the body as a theoretical, philosophical and political concept; the body and reproduction; medicalisation; cosmetic surgery and eating disorders; the body in performance; the private and the public body; working bodies and new ways of thinking about the body.Table of Contents1. Introduction2. Reproductive Bodies3. Disciplined Bodies4. Sexy Bodies5. Bodies Politic6. Working Bodies7. Body Technologies8. Rethinking Bodies
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Cambridge University Press A Theory of the State
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Cambridge University Press Laws Limits
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Cambridge University Press The Europeanisation of National Administrations
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Cambridge University Press Nationalist Mobilization and the Collapse of the Soviet State
Book SynopsisThis 2002 study examines the process by which the seemingly impossible in 1987 - the disintegration of the Soviet state - became the seemingly inevitable by 1991, providing an original interpretation not only of the Soviet collapse, but also of the phenomenon of nationalism more generally.Trade Review'… a very serious analytical work, which, no doubt, will attract the attention of many political scientists, especially those studying political processes in Russia and in the post-Soviet area … important for the understanding of nationalism as a social and political phenomenon.' e-Extreme'… a fresh-minded intervention … fascinating reading …'. Nations and NationalismTable of Contents1. From the impossible to the inevitable; 2. The tide and the mobilizational cycle; 3. Structuring nationalism; 4. 'Thickened' history and the mobilization of identity; 5. Tides and the failure of nationalist mobilization; 6. Violence and tides of nationalism; 7. The transcendence of regimes of repression; 8. Russian mobilization and the accumulating 'inevitability' of Soviet collapse; 9. Conclusion: nationhood and event.
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Cambridge University Press Silence and Voice in the Study of Contentious Politics Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics
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Cambridge University Press Decisions and Elections
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Cambridge University Press The Law and Economics of Marriage and Divorce
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Cambridge University Press The Moral Foundations of Trust
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Cambridge University Press Dynamics of Contention
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Cambridge University Press Comparative Historical Analysis in the Social Sciences Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
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Cambridge University Press States Parties and Social Movements
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Cambridge University Press Develop Durkheims Social Realism 55 Ideas in Context Series Number 55
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Cambridge University Press Different Worlds
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Cambridge University Press The Costs of Regime Survival
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Cambridge University Press Persons in Context
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Cambridge University Press Science Reform and Politics in Victorian Britain
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Cambridge University Press The Critical Mass in Collective Action
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Cambridge University Press Professionals Power and Solidarity in Poland
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Cambridge University Press Change in Public Bureaucracies
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Cambridge University Press United States Tax Reform in the 21st Century
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Cambridge University Press West African Urbanization
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Cambridge University Press The Affluent Worker Political attitudes and behaviour 2
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Cambridge University Press The Affluent Worker in the Class Structure Cambridge Study in Sociology
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Cambridge University Press The Analysis of Social Change
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Cambridge University Press Evolution and Society
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Cambridge University Press Men in MidCareer A study of British managers and technical specialists 4 Cambridge Studies in Sociology Series Number 4
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Cambridge University Press Size of Industrial Organisation and Worker Behaviour
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Cambridge University Press Workers Attitudes and Technology 2 Cambridge Papers in Sociology Series Number 2
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