The law that regulates armed conflicts is one of the oldest branches of international law, and yet continues to be one of the most dynamic areas of law today. This book provides an accessible, scholarly, and up-to-date examination of international humanitarian law, offering a comprehensive and logical discussion and analysis of the law. The book contains detailed examples, extracts from relevant cases, useful discussion questions, and a recommended reading list for every chapter.

Emerging tre...

A stimulating new inquiry into the fundamental truth of strategy - its purpose, place, utility, and value. This new study is animated by a startling realization: the concept of strategic victory must be summarily discarded. This is not to say that victory has no place in strategy or strategic planning.

The outcome of battles and campaigns are variables within the strategist's plan, but victory is a concept that has no meaning there. To the tactical and operational planner, wars are indeed won...

Finally, a book that offers a practical yet well-researched guide for practitioners seeking to hone the way they show up in citizen space.

At a time when public trust in institutions is at its lowest, expectations of those institutions to make people well, knowledgeable, and secure are rapidly increasing. These expectations are unrealistic, causing disenchantment and disengagement among citizens and increasing levels of burnout among many professionals. Rekindling Democracy is not just a prac...

Augusto Boal saw theatre as a mirror to the world, one that we can reach into to change our reality. This book, The Theatre of the Oppressed, is the foundation to 'Forum Theatre', a popular radical form practised across the world. Boal's techniques allowed the people to reclaim theatre, providing forums through which they could imagine and enact social and political change.

Rejecting the Aristotelian ethic, which he believed allowed the State to remain unchallenged, he broke down the wall bet...

Sinds de industriële revolutie werd veel vooruitgang geboekt – denk aan welvaart en geneeskunde. Er zijn redenen om te geloven dat die trend zich door AI zal voortzetten. Toch veroorzaakt AI ook problemen als discriminatie en desinformatie. Minder bekend is dat AI talloze giftige moleculen kan produceren, dat het erg dodelijke virussen kan verspreiden, of dat het een kerncentrale kan platleggen. En wat als er AI komt waarover we geen controle hebben? Volgens Sam Altman van OpenAI en Stephe...

Dit boek is hét kompas voor sociaal werkers, studenten, docenten en onderzoekers die niet alleen willen handelen, maar écht willen begrijpen wat hun werk betekent – en kan betekenen.

Van de pioniers van het sociaal werk tot de strijd voor rechtvaardigheid en mensenrechten van vandaag, ontvouwt zich een boeiend verhaal over de dynamiek tussen theorie en praktijk. Hoe navigeer je als sociaal werker tussen de persoonlijke noden van cliënten en de diepgewortelde structurele ongelijkheden? Di...

In een wereld vol veranderingen verlangen mensen naar een rijk en inspirerend leven. Maar wat is écht van betekenis?

Het boek Wat telt echt? reikt tien tijdloze inzichten aan voor wie zoekt naar zin, richting en verbondenheid.

De zoektocht start bij eeuwenoude religieuze tradities, filosofische stromingen en hedendaagse denkers. Gebed, stilte en rituelen, maar ook thema’s als empathie, verantwoordelijkheid en dankbaarheid bieden houvast in een tijd van versnelling en onrust.

De auteurs pu...

Providing for National Security: A Comparative Analysis argues that the provision of national security has changed in the 21st century as a result of a variety of different pressures and threats. In this timely volume experts from both the academic and policy worlds present 13 different country case studies drawn from across the globe-including established and newer states, large and smaller states, those on the rise and those in apparent decline-to identify what these key players consider to...

'One of the best books yet written on data and algorithms. . .deserves a place on the bestseller charts.' (The Times) You are accused of a crime.

Who would you rather determined your fate - a human or an algorithm?An algorithm is more consistent and less prone to error of judgement. Yet a human can look you in the eye before passing sentence. Welcome to the age of the algorithm, the story of a not-too-distant future where machines rule supreme, making important decisions - in healthcare, tran...

In the Second Edition of this bestselling textbook, the authors use real-world examples to introduce basic principles in statistics with no prior knowledge or experience assumed. With an emphasis on describing concepts, showing through example and illustrating points with graphs and displays, this book will provide readers with a step-by-step introduction to using statistics. Chapters address the following questions:Why bother learning statistics in the first place and are they relevant to re...