Termination of Employment Digest

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This highly topical book provides a valuable overview of legislation on termination of employment, illustrating the various approaches taken to the subject in national systems around the world. Accessible and wide-ranging, the Digest reviews the legislation of 72 jurisdictions from a diversity of systems reflecting different geographic, development and legal environments and offers a practical reference for the lay reader, as well as lawyers and other experts.

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"Once again, Dr. Mun has created a 'must-have, must-read' book for anyone interested in the practical application of risk analysis. Other books speak in academic generalities, or focus on one area of risk application. Applied Risk Analysis gets to the heart of the matter with applications for every area of risk analysis. You have a real option to buy almost any book-you should exercise your option and get this one!"
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"Every year the market of managerial books is flooded again and again. This book is different. It puts a valuable tool into the hands of corporate managers who are willing to stand up against uncertainties and risks and are determined to deliver value to shareholder and society, even in rough times. It is a book for the new generation of managers, for whom Corporate America is waiting."
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"Dr. Mun breaks through the hyperbole and presents a clear step-by-step approach revealing to readers how quantitative methods and tools can truly make a difference. In short, he teaches you what's relevant and a 'must know.' I highly recommend this book, especially if you want to effectively incorporate the latest technologies into your decision making process for your real world business."
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"A must read for product portfolio managers . . . it captures the risk exposure of strategic investments, and provides management with estimates of potential outcomes and options for risk mitigation."
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"Johnathan Mun has previously published a number of very popular books dealing with different aspects of risk analysis-associated techniques and tools. This last publication puts all the pieces together. The book is really unavoidable for any professional who wants to address risk evaluation following a logical, concrete and conclusive approach."
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Baer starts from the traditional feminist premise that the legal system has a male bias and must do more to help women combat violence and overcome political, economic, and social disadvantages. She argues, however, that feminist scholarship has over-corrected for this bias. By emphasizing the ways in which the system fails women, feminists have lost sight of how it can be used to promote women's interests and have made it easy for conventional scholars to ignore legitimate feminist concerns. In particular, feminists have wrongly linked the genuine flaws of conventional legal theory to its basis in liberalism, arguing that liberalism focuses too heavily on individual freedom and not enough on individual responsibility. In fact, Baer contends, liberalism rests on a presumption of personal responsibility and can be used as a powerful intellectual foundation for holding men and male institutions more accountable for their actions.

The traditional feminist approach, Baer writes, has led to endless debates about such abstract matters as character differences between men and women, and has failed to deal sufficiently with concrete problems with the legal system. She thus constructs a new feminist interpretation of three central components of conventional theory--equality, rights, and responsibility--through analysis of such pressing legal issues as constitutional interpretation, reproductive choice, and fetal protection. Baer concludes by presenting the outline of what she calls "feminist post-liberalism": an approach to jurisprudence that not only values individual freedoms but also recognizes our responsibility for addressing individuals' needs, however different those may be for men and women.

Powerfully and passionately written, Our Lives Before the Law will have a major impact on the future course of feminist legal scholarship.

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According to Judith Baer, feminist legal scholarship today does not effectively address the harsh realities of women's lives. Feminists have marginalized themselves, she argues, by withdrawing from mainstream intellectual discourse. In Our Lives Before the Law, Baer thus presents the framework for a new feminist jurisprudence one that would return feminism to relevance by connecting it in fresh and creative ways with liberalism. Baer starts from the traditional feminist premise that the legal system has a male bias and must do more to help women combat violence and overcome political, economic, and social disadvantages. She argues, however, that feminist scholarship has over-corrected for this bias. By emphasizing the ways in which the system fails women, feminists have lost sight of how it can be used to promote women's interests and have made it easy for conventional scholars to ignore legitimate feminist concerns. In particular, feminists have wrongly linked the genuine flaws of conventional legal theory to its basis in liberalism, arguing that liberalism focuses too heavily on individual freedom and not enough on individual responsibility. In fact, Baer contends, liberalism rests on a presumption of personal responsibility and can be used as a powerful intellectual foundation for holding men and male institutions more accountable for their actions.

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Caring for Justice
Robin West
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"Starkly essentialist reasoning sounds almost quaint by today's standards of gender equality. So it is with some surprise that general readers will encounter an intense and carefully reasoned defense of essentialism from the pen of one of America's best-known feminist legal theorists."
—Women's Review of Books

"By critiquing traditional ideas about 'justice,' including economic theories about value, this provocative feminist jurisprudential scholar advances what she calls an 'ethic of care' and argues that 'if adjudication is to be just, then the goal of good judging must be both justice and care.'"
—Georgia Bar Journal

Over the past decade, mainstream feminist theory has repeatedly and urgently cautioned against arguments which assert the existence of fundamental—or essential—differences between men and women. Any biological or natural differences between the sexes are often flatly denied, on the grounds that such an acknowledgment will impede women's claims to equal treatment.

In Caring for Justice, Robin West turns her sensitive, measured eye to the consequences of this widespread refusal to consider how women's lived experiences and perspectives may differ from those of men. Her work calls attention to two critical areas in which an inadequate recognition of women's distinctive experiences has failed jurisprudence. We are in desperate need, she contends, both of a theory of justice which incorporates women's distinctive moral voice on the meaning of justice into our discourse, and of a theory of harm which better acknowledges, compensates, and seeks to prevent the various harms which women, disproportionately and distinctively, suffer.

Providing a fresh feminist perspective on traditional jurisprudence, West examines such issues as the nature of justice, the concept of harm, economic theories of value, and the utility of constitutional discourse. She illuminates the adverse repercussions of the anti-essentialist position for jurisprudence, and offers strategies for correcting them. Far from espousing a return to essentialism, West argues an anti- anti-essentialism, which greatly refines our understanding of the similarities and differences between women and men.

Feminist Legal Theory: Foundations (Women in the Political Economy)

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This unique text offers a discussion of one of the most important movements in legal scholarship today: feminist legal theory. The first of two volumes, Foundations examines theoretical issues about the interaction between law and gender. The second volume will explore the application of feminist legal theory to specific substantive areas of the law, such as criminal law, family law, employment law, and the legal profession. In this first volume, thirty-eight articles by distinguished legal scholars and feminists address issues of equality, difference, separate spheres, essentialism, legal methodology, and theories of law. The essays, published in widely dispersed legal publications, are thematically arranged, with introductions by the editor, to provide a text for students, a convenient source for scholars and policy makers, and a comprehensive introduction for general readers.

Feminist Legal Theory: Foundations and Outlooks

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Feminist Legal Theory: Foundations and Outlooks

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The Network Inside Out
Annelise Riles
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"Networks" and other artifacts of institutional life--documents, funding proposals, newsletters, organizational charts--are such ubiquitous aspects of the "information age" that they go unnoticed to most observers. In this work, Annelise Riles takes a sophisticated theoretical approach to examine the aesthetics of these artifacts and practices, to learn what their very forms and formats can tell us about knowledge and legality in today's world.

The immediate subject of Riles's ethnographic work was a group of Fijian bureaucrats and activists preparing for and participating in the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women. Participants in this meeting and the activities surrounding it understood themselves to be "focal points" in national, regional, and global "networks."

Starting from the premise that anthropologists are "inside" the Network, that is, that they are producers, consumers, and aesthetes, not simply observers, of the artifacts of late modern institutional life, Riles enacts a new ethnographic method for turning the network "inside out." The resulting experiment in the theory and ethnography of transnational institutional practices makes an important contribution to the anthropology of knowledge.

With its focus on developing a method for studying transnational phenomena, The Network Inside Out will appeal not only to anthropologists, but also to legal scholars and political scientists.

Annelise Riles is Assistant Professor, Northwestern University School of Law, Research Fellow, American Bar Foundation.

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Discussions of human biology and its consequences for ethics and public policy are often misguided. Both proponents and critics of behavioral genetics, reproductive cloning, and genetic testing have mistaken beliefs about the role of genes in human life. Taking Biology Seriously calls attention to the social context in which both the science and our ethical precepts and public policies play a role.

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Scientific limits of Policy formation.......2005-12-13

Taking Biology Seriously : What Biology Can and Cannot Tell Us About Moral and Public Policy by Inmaculada de Melo-Martin (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers) (Paperback) Discussions of human biology and its consequences for ethics and public policy are often misguided. Both proponents and critics of behavioral genetics, reproductive cloning, and genetic testing have mistaken beliefs about the role of genes in human life. Taking Biology Seriously calls attention to the social context in which both the science and our ethical precepts and public policies play a role.
Excerpt: Immanuel Kant once noted that the three most important questions for human beings are, "What can I know? What ought I to do? and What may I hope?" To these questions, some might add now, "What should I fear?" Kant argued that often our answers to these questions are confused, that we think we know things that we cannot, and based on these mistaken ideas we act in ways, and hope for things, that are unjustified or harmful to self or others.
Using modern science and technology has often been perceived as a way, if not the best way, to provide answers to these questions. In a world constantly shaped and reshaped by science and technology, many take great comfort in the notion that if we just can get the science right the answers are, or might be, clear and certain. These expectations are not foreign to modern biology. What could tell us more than a science of our very nature about what we can know, what we should do, or what we can reasonably hope or fear'? And, what might be more exciting, interesting, and possibly horrifying than to know who we are, to make brilliantly clear our essence? Hence, according to an all-too-common misunderstanding of what contemporary biology can tell us and allow us to do, we might be able to control not only our very nature, but also our future, and the future of our children, in a way that will re-move sources of suffering and fear.
Much of the excitement about the genetic revolution in biology in general, and the Human Genome Project in particular, can be understood in light of the questions Kant tried to answer. The promises of knowing who and what we are, of eliminating genetic diseases, of allowing infertile people to have genetically related children, of predicting and controlling dangerous or self-destructive behavior, and of giving our children the best possible future all inspire great hopes. Additionally, the knowledge we might gain about our capacities and limits might allow us to better allocate resources of time, money, and intellectual energy. As a result, we might improve not only our-selves as individuals, but also our societies. We could have less disease and crime; live longer, healthier lives; increase the number of people reaching their potential; and create more control over the course and content of our lives.
Conversely, many fear this knowledge and the future that this new world of genetic knowledge and control appears to promise. Cloning raises specters of fascist eugenics programs and fear of loss of human dignity. Genetic testing raises concerns about unfair discrimination. Others fear that if behavior is determined by unchangeable genetics, then notions of responsibility to others will be unsupportable, and resources will be further diverted from those most in need. All this leads to trepidation about an increasingly stratified and unjust society.
Given these hopes and fears, an evaluation of what biology can and can-not tell us about such issues seems not just important but necessary. In this book, I have argued that all too often these hopes and fears are ungrounded and that the presumed implications of genetics for ethics and social policy are unsupported. This book has then been a call to take biology seriously. To do so, of course, is not to use biology as a trump card. On the contrary, by carefully evaluating the role of biological and technological knowledge in ethical and public policy discussions, we can realize that biology cannot tell us many of the things we need to know about such issues. Taking biology seriously will prevent us from making claims about moral and public policy consequences that are grounded on epistemological, scientific, or ethical misunderstandings.
When we take biology seriously, we can realize that it is questionable to criticize genetic determinism by pointing out that if it is correct then individuals are not responsible for critically evaluating and maybe transforming in-adequate institutions. Such criticisms, as we saw in chapter 2, commit an epistemological mistake. They simply misunderstand the role of biology in human life. And they do so because they ignore the fact that biological traits such as intelligence, aggression, addictive behavior, or differences in reproductive strategies between men and women can only be understood in the social context in which they appear. Such traits, as they are often defined in these discussions, cannot be said to be good or bad because of some intrinsic property they might have. If this is correct, then, as we have seen, a fear that social responsibility might be diminished is misplaced. A critical evaluation and transformation of our values and social arrangements appears to be more, not less, required were it the case that particular human traits and behaviors are genetically determined. Such evaluation can set those traits into the appropriate context, human's social environment, in order to judge the desirability or undesirability of such traits. Independently of this social context, the presence of these biological traits and behaviors cannot say much about social responsibility.
Similarly, when we take biology seriously, we can recognize that the debate over cloning human beings has often been framed in ways that misunderstand the biology behind this practice. As we saw in chapter 4, tying human dignity to the uniqueness of our genome is quite debatable because it is unclear how a biological entity such as our genome has anything to do with human dignity. Such a link is also dubious because of the difficulty of deciding what exactly it means to say that two genomes are identical or the same. In any case, even if we can agree on the fact that the genomes of a clone and its donor are relevantly similar, still it is difficult to see how this would interfere with human individuality. Identical twins have genomes that are more similar than the genomes of a clone and a nuclear donor need to be. Nevertheless, twins do have their own personalities, their own characters, and their own life choices. Paying attention to biology can remind us that human beings are very complex creatures influenced not just by our genes, but also by many other biological, environmental, and social factors. Likewise, carefully considering biological knowledge can inform us that cloning is not the tool to tackle genetic diseases. When we pay attention to biology, we can also appreciate that it cannot give us all the answers to moral and public policy issues related to human cloning. As we saw in chapter 5, even if it were the case that the scientific knowledge alleged to support the development and use of human cloning was correct, still this would not be a sufficient reason to support reproductive cloning. This would only be so if we presuppose not only that the biology is correct, but also that the social context in which cloning is developed and where claims about its moral adequacy are presented is irrelevant. We saw in that chapter that such an assumption is far from correct.
Finally, taking biology seriously can also tell us that many discussions about genetic technologies and genetic information are presented in ways that suggest that the predictive ability of genetic analysis is higher than actually is warranted. Examining this claim in chapter 7 brought to our attention that this mistake has made many proclaim that we have a moral obligation to obtain and share genetic information about ourselves. Nonetheless, although by paying careful attention to our current biological knowledge we can learn that a defense of duties related to our ability to obtain and share genetic information is grounded on a misunderstanding of human biology, biological knowledge by itself cannot tell us what our moral obligations regarding genetic information are. Thus, in chapter 8, I argued that even if it were the case that genetic testing was able to give us highly reliable information about future health status, this alone would not support claims about moral obligations to obtain and share genetic information. Attention to the social context in which these moral obligations would be binding to humans would also be necessary. Many of the debates on this issue pay, however, little attention to such context. Consequently, discussions on the subject of the alleged moral duties that follow from our ability to obtain genetic information about others and our-selves often ignore that access to these technologies is limited, that laypeople and professionals might not have adequate knowledge about genetics and genetic testing technologies, and that already disadvantaged groups might be unfairly burdened by these obligations.
This book has, then, been an attempt to call attention to the fact that good ethics requires good science, but it also calls for careful attention to the social context in which both the science and our ethical precepts and public policies play a role. It may well be that we are entering an era in which genetic science and technologies question our existing definitions of life and death, change our ideas about what a human being is, and transform the values we hold. And it is certainly the case that contemporary biology has much to con-tribute as we seek to know who we are, what we might know, how we ought to live, and what it is reasonable to hope and to fear. Taking biology seriously means paying careful attention to what it can, and what it cannot, tell us.
As noted throughout, epistemological, scientific, and ethical problems arise in much of our discussion of the implications of molecular genetics and genetic technologies because we fail to pay enough attention to the complexity of human biology and human life. There can be, of course, important heuristic reasons for this tendency. It is often easier to examine something in isolation. We do not, for instance, sequence genes while they are within cells. Still, the isolation is just that, a heuristic, and should not be taken to be the full story. Thus, whatever genetics might tell us about many human behaviors, we can only know the value and meanings of those behaviors when we place them in the actual social contexts within which human beings live. This includes recognizing that the social context might be malleable. We also can-not fully evaluate the possibilities of human cloning without examining in de-tail both the complexities of gene interactions and also our social institutions and social arrangements. Understanding the role of genes in disease and behavior further requires that we not think of genes in isolation, but within the larger biological and social processes of which they are a part. Finally, making sense of what duties we might have to obtain and share information about our genetic endowments will be an unsuccessful task if we fail to take ac-count of both the complexity of human biology and the social context in which people really live and make decisions.
As we have seen throughout these pages, to neglect any of these aspects will likely misguide our efforts to improve our communities and better ourselves. Let us, then, take biology seriously. That is, let us pay attention to both what biology can and cannot tell us in this undertaking. We might then have more plausible ideas, better understand ourselves, avoid needless fears, and entertain more credible hopes.

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There can be no doubt about the tremendous quantitative success that quantum chemistry has had in the last three decades. This has led to the launch of Conceptual Trends in Quantum Chemistry, a collection of essays intended to stimulate discussion in this field, of which the first volume was published in 1994, and the second in 1995.
This third volume contains fourteen papers by leading experts, covering topics such as recent developments in multiple scattering theory and density functional theory for molecules and solids; localised atomic hybrids; quantum electrodynamics and molecular structure; aspects of the chemical bond; Lie symmetries in quantum mechanics; the interplay between quantum chemistry and molecular dynamics simulations; the permutation group in many-electron theory; new developments in many body perturbation theory and coupled cluster theory; a philosopher's perspective of the `problem' of molecular shape; Van Der Waals interactions from density functional theories; different legacies and common aims; potential energy hypersurfaces for hydrogen bonded clusters (HF) _N; one-electron pictures of electronic structure; and shape in quantum chemistry.
Audience: This book will be of interest to researchers and graduate students whose work involves quantum chemistry, quantum mechanics, chemical physics, methodology, and mathematical statistical methods.

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In this second edition several new topics of technological interest have been added. These include: coupled mechanical and nonmechanical overall properties of heterogeneous piezoelectric materials, new upper and lower bounds for these coupled properties, a systematic comparison between the average-field theory and the results obtained using multi-scale perturbation theory, an account of the uniform-field theory, improveable bounds on overall moduli of heterogeneous materials which remain finite even when isolated cavities and rigid inclusions are present, and a brief account of a fundamental duality principle in anisotropic elasticity. In addition, better explanations of a number of topics are given, more recent references are added, the Subject Index has been expanded and printing and typographical errors have been corrected.

The material is organized into two parts preceded by a précis. Part 1 consists of four chapters which are organized into fourteen sections and four appendixes. It deals with materials with microdefects such as cavities, cracks, and inclusions, as well as with elastic composites. Part 2 consists of two chapters which are divided into seven sections. It provides an introduction to the theory of linear elasticity, added to make the book self-contained, since linear elasticity serves as the basis of the development of small-deformation micromechanics.

Part 2 mainly contains part of the lecture notes on elasticity which the first author wrote in the late 1960's. The material is mostly standard, given for background information.

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Micromechanics: Overall Properties of Heterogeneous Material.......2001-09-17

This book gives so much knowledge of the micromechanics - overall properties for micro-crack, inclusion problem (Eshelby problem), homogenization, etc. This book is one of the best book for micromechanics.

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Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker tells a mother's tale of reunion between her daughters: one trapped in Southern poverty, the other making it big in the city. Marilyn French movingly depicts two young women growing apart in a dysfunctional alcoholic family. With sharp humor, Joy Fielding plays out the consequences for half-sisters reunited on a TV talk show. Fae Myenne Ng writes of growing up in a culture that considers a family with only girl children "failed." Recalling her grandmother and great-aunt, Olivia Goldsmith unfolds a dark memoir of sisterhood gone terrifyingly awry. Cristina Garcia relates a poignant reunion of sisters separated for thirty years, one trapped in Cuba, the other escaped to Miami. And in a splendid retelling of a classic fairy tale, Rita Dove imagines Beauty's forgotten sisters, while her wild romance with the Beast takes flight.

Along with eleven other unique perspectives on a very special bond, Forever Sisters speaks to the part of every woman that only a sister can understand.

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