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Explores why EU communication fails and how to make it succeed. This volume illustrates how Europe can be rebranded by providing key recommendations on how to convey the added value of the EU in the daily lives of its citizens. It gives original and logical answers to communication questions.

Amor Technologiae fuses the fairly new traditions of philosophy of technology and media ecology for the first time in a systematic manner. It specifically does so by interpreting and rephrasing the work of media theorist Marshall McLuhan in the context of a comprehensive philosophy of media. Seen from this perspective, media are not merely channels, forces, or things, as more traditional accounts would have it. They are partially elusive and i...

Focusing on children's interests, this edited volume takes an unflinching look at the practice of third-party human reproduction from the perspective of the child created. By investigating the problem of secrecy about a child's donor, conception, and anonymity regarding the donor, this account proposes reasonable solutions for legislators.

Celebrating the Belgian EU pavilion at the Shanghai Expo 2010, this handsome book of photographs records the construction of the building and the innovative ideas that have earned it much interest at the fair. Stepping behind the scenes, the book also tells the story of a strong team of promoters, architects, project coordinators, and managers who took on the challenge of completing the project in less than a year.

Introducing a new methodology for measuring competitiveness in shipping ports, this analysis provides policy makers, industry practitioners, and academics with a pragmatic approach to the peculiarities of large ports around the world. Using quantitative measures as well as holistic and cultural considerations, the manual describes the general workings of the container port and shipping industry and provides in-depth case studies of ports in So...

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Offering a wealth of detailed information concerning topics in Ancient Greek linguistics - including clisis, apositivity, lexicalization phenomena, sentencehood, and genre - this study argues that a number of Ancient Greek word order rules apply to the 'colon' or 'intonation unit' rather than to syntactic units such as the clause. Based on an extensive corpus-database, comprising the whole Corpus Lysiacum and four Platonic dialogues, this refe...

Between the seventh and the fifth century BC, the political regime in some city-states in Greece evolved from monarchy to a kind of government by the free citizens called democracy. This explains democracy's four main Aristotelian features - the rule by turn, the rule of law, education, and the role of the middle class - and describes and cites the historical milestones in its evolution.

Visual studies emerged in the context of a growing awareness of the impact of visual media on society and culture, from the 1990s onwards, art historians no longer had an exclusive patent on the study of the visual medium. This volume follows the developments in the iconological methods in visual arts and offers a platform for collaboration between individuals and institutions interested in the evolution of iconological interpretation.

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Evaluating the data collected in a number of European countries--including France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland--this volume accounts for the comparisons performed between official criminal statistics and victimization surveys. Using the alternative measurement methods developed in the second half of the 20th century, the contributions within appraise crime data by way of comparison, rather than mere jux...

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Focusing on the bold push forward in the European integration process and delving into the highly sensitive societal subjects relating to the expansion of the European Union, this collection provides an extensive overview of three major issues facing the EU today: immigration and asylum, civil law, and criminal law. Discussing how the development of justice and home affairs raises challenging issues, especially concerning the balance between j...