Miet Maertens & Axel Marx 
Private Standards and Global Governance [PDF ebook] 
Economic, Legal and Political Perspectives

Latinos have emerged as one of the fastest-growing ethnic populations in the American South. A ”New South” is taking shape in a region where culture and class relations have traditionally been …

Contemporary social life in the Horn of Africa is generally a state-orchestrated experience that terrorizes the majority of the people. This collection of carefully selected essays, explores the …

The inexorable advent of globalization has transformed the public policymaking process into a multi-faceted challenge that transcends traditional policymaking boundaries and forces scholars, experts, …

The second decade of the twenty-first century has witnessed a surging interest in personalized medicine with the concomitant promise to enable more precise diagnosis and treatment of disease and illn …

Designing Web-Based Applications for 21st Century Writing Classrooms brings together, for the first time, a group of scholars and teachers who have been developing, on their own initiative, web-based …

This book uses extractive industry projects in Africa to explore how political authority and the nation-state are reconfigured at the intersection of national political contestations and global, tran …

Digital Ethics delves into the shifting legal and ethical landscape in digital spaces and explores productive approaches for theorizing, understanding, and navigating through difficult ethical issues …

This book provides a unique understanding of the concept and practice of seva (service) in modern India. It examines social reform, key ameliorative programmes, seva organisations, nationalist politi …

The success of laboratory experiments relies heavily on the technical ability of the bench scientist, with the aid of ‘tricks-of-the-trade’, to generate consistent and reliable data. Regrettably, how …