The Torchbearers

"A definitive reference book on Global Governance. Experts and students alike will gain a great deal from reading this excellent piece of work and will learn how G20. G7/8, BRICS execute their governance role in various spheres." - Prof. Maxim Bratersky, National Research University – Higher School of Economics, Russia.
"As the global economy has become progressively integrated, global economic problems – from climate change to financial crises – have become more interconnected as well. These global problems call for globally coherent policy responses. Such responses, in turn, call for global governance. Understanding the institutions of global governance, the determinants of compliance and policy effectiveness and an empirical framework for policy accountability are issues of first-rate importance for policy makers, academics, business leaders and all other responsible citizens. This book is a masterful collection of issues and institutions responsible for global and regional governance. The editors and authors are to be congratulated for creating an extremely insightful and important volume. It is essential reading for all those seeking to grasp how countries and regions coordinate their policies in search of mutually beneficial outcomes." - Dennis Snower, President, Kiel Institute for the World Economy
"Are the G7, G20, BRICS, and UN summits merely photo opportunities or do they translate pledges into tangible accomplishments? The contributors to this deeply researched volume highlight not just the extent of governmental compliance with international soft law initiatives but also the factors supporting these outcomes. Essential reading for anyone interested in the realities of 21st-century government." - Professor Simon J. Evenett, University of St. Gallen

Accountability for Effectiveness in Global Governance

"An unusual, absorbing, at times sombre book about the interconnectedness of human lives."

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'In this book, which offers new insights on areas explored in his previous writings, Bazzano brings to bear his playful wit, widely cultured knowledge, and direct experience of both Zen and psychotherapy in a poetic investigation of important themes which will be relevant to both professionals and to the general reader.'

Caroline Brazier, author of Buddhist Psychology, course leader at Tariki Trust
'This book is a pleasure to read: an eloquent exploration of the "borderland" between Zen and psychotherapy. Writing with a wealth of experience from both sides of this borderland, as a Buddhist monk and a practicing psychotherapist, Bazzano brings a depth of insight which is original and stimulating.'
Dr Monica Lanyado, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, British Psychotherapy Foundation
'This brilliant book by Manu Bazzano is for those of us who are open and courageous enough to seek a more meaningful path. Bazzano is that rare, innovative thinker who can weave together scholarship and personal reflection and come up with stimulating and profound insights. He sees and feels deeply, and creatively synthesizes traditional approaches into an original worldview and shares it with us. A master of both psychotherapy and Zen Buddhism, Bazzano guides us between the two with wisdom, grace, and courage, and along with him we discover new ways that are surprising and exhilarating. Those of us who are not content with simplistic, status quo thinking or a quick fix but desire a fresh, transcendent approach to spirituality and secularity will be richly rewarded.'
David Forbes, PhD, LMHC, Associate Professor, School Counseling Program, Brooklyn College/CUNYAffiliate Faculty, Urban Education Doctoral Program, CUNY Graduate Center
"Manu Bazzano, Italian-born Zen monk and psychotherapist has been steadily producing his share of insightful monographs and edited volumes on existential–phenomenological, person-centered, and Buddhist therapies for well over a decade now. One of his latest contributions to the fields of comparative religious philosophy and psychotherapy is the current volume which, by infusing relevant Zen Buddhist insights into classical Western psychotherapeutic approaches, endeavors to reevaluate the role of the therapist, thus reinvigorating the therapeutic process itself."Lehel Balogh, Religious Studies Review

Heretical Perspectives

Zen and Therapy

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A Sociological Study of Old People

Old and Alone

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'Inspiring a Medico-Legal Revolution epitomizes more than just its contents. It reflects the career and research of Sheila McLean herself. All parts of the book are provocative and insightful, addressing a wide range of controversial topics. It is rare that so many recognized legal scholars together contribute to a book that spans legal issues at the beginning of life, in medical care, professional liability, as well as regulatory and end of life issues. But then, how else to honour such an esteemed colleague? Readers will be all the more enriched.’ Bartha Maria Knoppers, McGill University, Canada  'This collection of essays is a fitting endorsement of the contributions to the field that Professor Sheila McLean has made. This is an inspiring collection which will provide a lasting tribute to her work.' Jane Kaye, University of Oxford, UK  ’This is a true celebration of Sheila McLean’s free and indomitable spirit. The impressive range and richness of the essays show her enduring influence as an academic pioneer, a warm mentor and friend, a dedicated internationalist, and a tireless gadfly in the bodies of institutionalised medicine and law.’ Alastair V. Campbell, National University of Singapore

Essays in Honour of Sheila McLean

Inspiring a Medico-Legal Revolution

Things I See

"Lenta's book is the most thoroughly argued, well documented and best-written study of the pros and cons of corporal punishment to have been written by a philosopher for many years. Whether one accepts its main conclusions or not, it has 'must read' status for anyone, from professor to undergraduate student, who is interested in this topic." --Geoffrey Scarre in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
"In his thorough, empirically informed, and accessible discussion of corporal punishment, Patrick Lenta provides the strongest argument I have seen for a categorical opposition to all such punishment. Dare I say that he gives the practice of corporal punishment a sound thrashing? Anybody who thinks that corporal punishment is at least sometimes morally permissible—or that it ought ever to be legal—will have to reckon with his arguments." --David Benatar, University of Cape Town
"This book offers the most compelling, well-researched, and philosophically rigorous case yet published that the corporal punishment of children is egregiously immoral and should be criminalized. It is essential reading for anyone interested in how we should treat children." --Dave Archard, Queen’s University Belfast
"In the last 20 years there has been a resurgence of interest on the topic of children’s rights. Curiously, very little has been done on the issue of corporal punishment. In this book Patrick Lenta weaves together moral, legal, and psychological considerations resulting in a compelling argument against corporal punishment that will frame future debate on the issue." --Mark Vopat, Youngstown State University, USA

A Philosophical Assessment

Corporal Punishment

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The Real Doc Martin

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A General Principle

Sustainable Development in the European Union

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Visions of a Sacred Buddhist Mountain

Mount Wutai

"This unique volume is a timely interdisciplinary exploration of an essential human characteristic and its corresponding moral excellence—self-transcendence and virtue. A brilliant group of philosophers, religious scholars, and psychologists set out to display in fascinating ways the complex nature of human self-transcendence and its profound moral implications." -- Reinhard Huetter, The Catholic University of America, USA

Perspectives from Philosophy, Psychology, and Theology

Self-Transcendence and Virtue

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"Nancy Bermeo's wide-ranging and scholarly study of seventeen modern democracies which have failed tracks the behavior of ordinary democratic citizens during the critical periods and makes the case that most of them remained loyal to the democratic process, even at the worst of times."---Ian Johnston, Humanist Perspectives

The Citizenry and the Breakdown of Democracy

Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times

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In Intersexualization, Lena Eckert persuasively focuses our attention on the epistemic logic and discursive practices that have worked to define the "heterorelational sex-gender-sexuality system" and to deal with those whose bodies and identities fall outside of its norms. Deftly combining analysis of practices in the psycho-medical sciences (which she names The Clinic) with those of cross-cultural anthropology (or The Colony, as she calls it), and drawing on an impressive range of case studies, Eckert opens up space for a multiplicity of narratives, identities, and embodiments. As she writes, "sex is always complex," and this book illuminates what is at stake in how that complexity comes to matter for bodies rendered troubling and troublesome.Ruth Holliday, Professor of Gender and Culture, Director of Research, School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Leeds, UK

Lena Eckert’s book focuses on the cross-cultural construction of processes of intersexualization, exploring and combining knowledge production in medicine, psychology, sexology, anthropology and gender studies. Moreover, Intersexualization delves into the colonial archive to make sense of current practices which have far-reaching implications for the lives of people. A book that deserves a broad audience.Gloria Wekker, Professor Doctor, Emeritus, Department of Gender Studies, Faculty of the Humanities, Utrecht University, The Netherlands 

I cannot recommend this book highly enough for its scholarship and its importance to contemporary intersex rights activism around the globe. More than merely taking cues from Foucault, Eckert develops a genealogy of both clinical practice and colonialist domination of bodies cast—as she shows the intersexualized to be—as degenerate, and in need of containing, disciplining, and controlling in the service of creating the powerful careers of the famous psychologists, psychoanalysts, physiologists, and sexologists who had everything to gain from the biomedicalization of intersex in the twentieth century. The book furthers critical intersex studies to more effectively challenge the racist, classist, and heterosexist legacies of twentieth-century practices and the long shadow they cast over contemporary concerns with the sites wherever embodiment, human rights, and sexualities meet.Morgan Holmes, Professor, Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada

The Clinic and the Colony

Intersexualization

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"Galipo’s book is theoretically ambitious and ethnographically well-founded. The author questions the concept of return and critically engages transnationalism, looking into power differences, the role of locales and the issue of nation-building. This book is inspiring way beyond the specific context of Somaliland and advances our thinking about current dynamics of migration." — Markus Virgil Hoehne, University of Leipzig, Germany
"This book carefully explores how refugees who return to Somaliland are reshaping the national social, economic and political arena. The elegance of the study lies in the stories of people and the descriptions of fluid interactions at cultural festivals or in a hotel in Hargeysa. The reader is brought away from ready-made categories and invited to enter into all the nuances of everyday life." — Alessandro Monsutti, Professor, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva and Author of War and Migration (Routledge) and Homo itinerans (PUF)
"By deftly constructing an ethnography of return, Adele Galipo transcends the bland migration-development nexus and reinvigorates the transnationalism and diaspora discourse by showing how return plays into challenges of globalisation, identity and transnational power." — Nicholas Van Hear, Deputy Director, Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS), University of Oxford, UK
"Responding to war and state collapse, Somali societies have since the early 1990s revealed future global scenarios creatively shaping remittance economies supported by technological innovation, internationalized trading networks, large-scale mobility and diasporas. Finely combining theoretical analyses and ethnographic details, Adele Galipo adds a new segment to this picture, refreshing discussions on returnees and local development." — Luca Ciabarri, Assistant Professor, University of Milan, Italy

Reframing the Somali Diaspora

Return Migration and Nation Building in Africa

The Amazing Book of Space

" I can recommend it both to those who want a careful account of the foundations of the subject, and to those who want to dip into it to find examples of what can go wrong and right in classical harmonic analysis."

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