Résultats de la recherche - "humans"

Colonial justice in British India / par Kolsky, Elizabeth

Table des matières: “…White peril : law and lawlessness in early colonial India -- Citizens, subjects, and subjection to law : codification and the legal construction of racial differences -- Indian human nature : evidence, experts, and the elusive pursuit of truth -- One scale of justice for the planter and another for the coolie : law and violence on the Assam tea plantations -- A judicial scandal : the imperial conscience and the race against empire.…”
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Microfinance India : state of the sector report 2009 / par Srinivasan, N.

Table des matières: “…Overview : signs and pains of maturity -- SHG-bank linkage programme : continuing with consolidation -- Microfinance institutions : coming of age -- The tough classrooms of Karnataka : lessons on customer protection and competition -- Policy environment of microfinance : need for change -- Human resources and capacity building -- Micro-insurance in a macro market -- Technology in microfinance and inclusion -- Financial inclusion -- Future agenda : dealing with challenges of growth.…”

Un/common cultures : racism and the rearticulation of cultural difference / par Visweswaran, Kamala

Table des matières: “…-- India in South Africa : counter-genealogies for a subaltern sociology -- Legacies of culture, languages of the state -- Gendered states : culture as a site of South Asian human-rights work.…”

History man : the life of R. G. Collingwood / par Inglis, Fred

Table des matières: “…By coniston water -- Brought up by hand : the moral point of English public schools -- Oxford and the admiralty : the science of human affairs; God and the devil -- Against the realists : liberalism and the Italians -- On Hadrian's wall : 'question-and-answer logic' -- The idea of the ideas : the new science -- 'Fighting in the daylight' : metaphysics against fascism -- The valley of the shadows : Java, Oxford, Greece -- The passionate man's pilgrimage : on barbarism and civilisation -- The time of the preacher : Collingwood's resurrection.…”

Islam in Indonesia : the contest for society, ideas and values / par Kersten, Carool

Table des matières: “…Legal formalists versus substantivists -- Contentious triangulation: religious pluralism, human rights and freedom of thought -- Conclusion: secularity and toleration, liberty and freethinking.…”

A Post-Colonial Enquiry into Europe's Debt and Migration Crisis / par Samaddar, Ranabir

Table des matières: “…Europeanism: The Repressed Anxiety of a Trans-National Intellectual Class -- Chapter 4. Human Migration Appearing as a Crisis of Europe -- Chapter 5. …”

Issues in political theory /

Table des matières: “…(Tony) Coady -- Democracy / Thomas Christiano -- Liberty / Jonathan Riley -- Toleration / Anna Elisabetta Galeotti -- Equality / Paula Casal and Andrew Williams -- Social justice / Jonathan Wolff -- Human rights / Tom Campbell -- Multiculturalism / Monica Mookherjee -- Citizenship / Harry Brighouse -- Gender / Clare Chambers -- Global justice / Gillian Brock -- Environment / Dale Jamieson.…”
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The many faces of socioeconomic change / par Toye, J. F. J.

Table des matières: “…Introduction to ideas of development -- Evolutionary social progress, 1762-1848 -- Development within the limits of order, 1820-1870 -- Development by imitation, 1839-1947 -- Liberal development, 1925-1946 -- Colonial development by intersector labour transfer, 1950-1969 -- Development as take-off, 1950-1975 -- Development as economic growth, 1956- -- Development as doctrines doubted, 1951-1977 -- Development with a human face, 1980- -- Double-edged development, 1767- -- The last grand narrative of development, 1938- .…”

In the beginning was the deed : realism and moralism in political argument / par Williams, Bernard, 1929-2003

Table des matières: “…The liberalism of fear -- 6. Human rights and relativism -- 7. From freedom to liberty : the construction of a political value -- 8. …”

Disability, education and employment in developing countries : from charity to investment / par Lamichhane, Kamal

Table des matières: “…Fundamentals of disability studies -- Disability and the global employment situation -- Disability and the role of education in jobs : case studies from Nepal and the Philippines -- Disability and jobs in a post-conflict country : Cambodia -- Gender and job comparisons between people with and without disabilities in Bangladesh -- Disability and human capital investment -- Disability and breaking the vicious cycle of poverty : a case study in Nepal -- Disability and job satisfaction differentials -- Disability and determinants of education : a case from India -- Disability and barriers to education -- The way forward : investment in disability.…”

The great convergence : information technology and the new globalization / par Baldwin, Richard E.

Table des matières: “…The long history of globalization in short. -- Humanizing the globe and the first bundling -- Steam and globalization's first unbundling -- ICT and globalization's second unbundling -- Part II. …”

Predictably rational? : in search of defenses for rational behavior in economics / par McKenzie, Richard B.

Table des matières: “…Economists' "irrational passion for dispassionate rationality" -- The methodological constraints on the rationality premise -- Human motivation and Adam Smith's "invisible hands" -- Rationality in economic thought: from Thomas Robert Malthus to Alfred Marshall and Philip Wicksteed -- Rationality in economic thought: Frank Knight, Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich Hayek, and James Buchanan -- Behavioral economists, and Psychologists' challenges to rational behavior -- The evolutionary biology of rational behavior -- The neuroeconomics of rational decision making -- Economic defenses for rational behavior in economics -- Problems with behavioral economics -- Rationality and economic education.…”

Development theory : deconstructions/reconstructions / par Nederveen Pieterse, Jan

Table des matières: “…Equity and growth revisited: From human development to social development -- 9. Critical holism and the Tao of development -- 10. …”

Law and revolution in South Africa : uBuntu, dignity, and the struggle for constitutional transformation / par Cornell, Drucilla

Table des matières: “…: on Laclau and Mouffe -- Dignity violated : rethinking AZAPO through uBuntu -- Which law, whose humanity? : the significance of policulturalism in the Global South -- Living customary law and the law : does custom allow for a woman to be Hosi? …”

Managing Indian banks : the challenges ahead / par Joshi, Vasant C., 1932-

Table des matières: “…The state we are in : impact of the reform process -- The problems ahead : macro economic and micro management -- Banks' balance sheets : an approach to evaluation techniques -- Corporate planning, the driver's seat : a new road map -- Technology developments in banking : impact assessment -- Cyber laws : the IT Act 2000 and the difficulties in enforcement -- Risk management : risk perceptions and techniques for assessment and management -- Bank investments : an overview -- Investment risk management -- Analysing treasuries : a brief review of techniques -- Asset and liability management : it is an elementary requirement -- Marketing the complexities of brick and click marketing -- Managing human resources : it is a different ball game -- Regulating banking and E-finance activities.…”

Thinking politically : essays in political theory / par Walzer, Michael

Table des matières: “…-- Drawing the line : religion and politics -- The politics of difference : statehood and toleration in a multicultural world -- Nation and universe -- The moral standing of states : a response to four critics -- The argument about humanitarian intervention -- Beyond humanitarian intervention : human rights in global society -- Terrorism and just war -- Political action : the problem of dirty hands -- The United States in the world--just wars and just societies : an interview with Michael Walzer.…”

The global governance reader /

Table des matières: “…Weiss -- Global governance : poorly done and poorly understood / Craig N. Murphy -- Humane governance for the world : reviving the quest / Richard Falk -- Global governance and democratic accountability / Robert O. …”
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Specters of the Atlantic : finance capital, slavery, and the philosophy of history / par Baucom, Ian, 1967-

Table des matières: “…: credit, insurance, and the Atlantic cycle of capital accumulation -- "Signum rememorativum, demonstrativum, prognostikon" : modernity and the truth event -- "Please decide" : the singular and the speculative -- Specters of the Atlantic : slavery and the witness -- Frontispiece : testimony, rights, and the state of exception -- The view from the window : sympathy, melancholy, and the problem of "humanity" -- The fact of history : on cosmopolitan interestedness -- The imaginary resentment of the dead : a theory of melancholy sentiment -- "To tumble into it, and gasp for breath as we go down" : the idea of suffering -- And the case of liberal cosmopolitanism -- This/such, for instance : the witness against "history" -- "The sea is history" -- "The sea is history" : on temporal accumulation.…”
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Algerian chronicles / par Camus, Albert, 1913-1960

Table des matières: “…Indigenous culture : the new Mediterranean culture -- Men stricken from the rolls of humanity -- Letter from Camus to Le Monde -- Draft of a letter to Encounter -- Two letters to Rene Coty -- The Nobel Prize press conference incident.…”

The Equal society : essays on equality in theory and practice /

Table des matières: “…Mills -- Epistemic contribution as a central human capability / Miranda Fricker -- Equality of intelligibility / Daniel Putnam -- Capability luck egalitarianism / Bekka Williams -- From well-faring to well-being: prospects for a metric of liberal egalitarian justice / George Hull -- Hierarchy and social respect: friends or enemies? …”