Intimate letters of James Gibbons Huneker / collected and edited by Josephine Huneker ; with a foreword by Benjamin Decasseres

• Record Nr.: UNIBAS000028909
• Autore: Huneker, James Gibbons <1857-1921>
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York : Liveright, 1936
• Descrizione fisica: 322 p., [7] carte di tav. ; 22 cm.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia

Suez : Britain's end of empire in the Middle East / / by Keith Kyle

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910973588703321
• Autore: Kyle Keith
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York : , : I.B. Tauris, , 2011
• ISBN: 9786613169129; 9780755611102; 0755611101; 9781283169127; 1283169126; 9780857719676; 085771967X
• Edizione: [First edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (715 p.)
• Disciplina: 962.053; 956.044
• Soggetti: African history; Egypt History Intervention, 1956
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "'Masterpiece', Peter Hennessy"--Cover.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction -- 1. Swing-Door of the British Empire -- 2. A Jewish State -- 3. Eden and Nasser -- 4. Arms and the Dam -- 5. Turning Against Nasser -- 6. Code-Word 'De Lesseps' -- 7. Plotting Nasser's Downfall -- 8. A Matter of Timetables -- 9. Musketeer -- 10. The First London Conference -- 11. Keightley in Command -- 12. The Birth of the SCUA -- 13. Musketeer Revise -- 14. The Israeli Factor -- 15. Taking it to the UN -- 16. Two Frenchmen at Chequers -- 17. Sèvres, Conference of Collusion -- 18. A Parachute Drop at the Mitla -- 19. Ultimatum -- 20. The Die is Cast -- 21. World Opinion Speaks -- 22. France's War -- 23. Slow March to Suez -- 24. The Empire Strikes Back. Phase I: 5 November 1956 -- 25. The Empire Strikes Back. Phase II: 6 November 1956 -- 26. Picking up the Pieces -- 27. Forced to Quit -- 28. Last Stands and New Doctrines -- 29. The End of the Suez Conflict -- 30. Suez 1991-2001 -- 31. Epilogue -- Appendices -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: "This title includes a new Foreword by WM. Roger Louis. On 26 July 1956, the British Empire received a blow from which it would never recover. On this day, Egypt's President Gamal Abdul Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal Company, one of the gems of Britain's imperial portfolio. It was to be a fateful day for Britain as a world power. Britain, France and Israel subsequently colluded in attacking Egypt, ostensibly - in the case of Britain and France - to protect the Suez Canal but in reality in an attempt to depose Nasser. The US opposition to this scheme forced an ignominious withdrawal, leaving Nasser triumphant and marking a decisive end to Britain's imperial era. In this, the seminal work on the Suez Crisis, Keith Kyle draws on a wealth of documentary evidence to tell this fascinating political, military and diplomatic story. Including new introductory material, this revised edition of a classic work will be essential reading for anyone interested in the history of the twentieth century, military history and the end of empire."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Human Dignity and Human Cloning / / by Silja Vöneky, Rüdiger Wolfrum

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910957012803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Dordrecht : , : Springer Netherlands : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2004
• ISBN: 94-017-6174-4; 1-280-86752-3; 9786610867523; 1-4294-5264-1; 90-474-0687-7; 1-4337-0576-1
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2004.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xxi, 319 pages)
• Altri autori (Persone): VonekySilja; WolfrumRudiger
• Disciplina: 176
• Soggetti: Ethics; Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Preface (Silja Vöneky/Rüdiger Wolfrum); List of Contributors; List of Abbreviations; 1. The Creation and the Dignity of Man in Islam (Reza Sheikholeslami); 2. The Pali Buddhist Approach to Human Cloning (Andrew Huxley); 3. Some Aspects of the Buddhist Assessment of Human Cloning (Jens Schlieter); 4. The Jewish Perspective on Cloning (Manfred Oeming); 5. Christianity and Western Philosophy (Robert Spaemann); 6. Human Cloning from a Scientific Perspective (Ernst-Ludwig Winnacker); 7. The Human Embryo is a Person and not an Object (Christian Starck); 8. Does the German Basic Law Protect against Human Cloning? (Jörn Ipsen)9. Does Cloning Violate the Basic Law's Guarantee of Human Dignity? (Horst Dreier); 10. Back to Kant! An Interjection in the Debate on Cloning and Human Dignity (Wolfgang Graf Vitzthum); 11. From Procreation to Generation? Constitutional and Legal-Political Issues in Bioethics (Brigitte Zypries); 12. International Legal Limits to Human Cloning (Hans Lilie); 13. Who Is Protected by Human Rights ; Conventions? Protection of the Embryo vs. Scientific Freedom and Public Health (Rüdiger Wolfrum/Silja Vöneky); 14. The Negotiations on a Treaty on Cloning: Some Reflections (Mahnoush H. Arsanjani)15. A Convention on Cloning - Annotations to an almost Unsolvable Dilemma (Spiros Simitis); Annex Relevant International and National Documents; I. International Convention against the (Reproductive) Cloning of Human Beings; II. Other International Resolutions and Declarations; III. Council of Europe; IV. European Union; V. German Law
• Sommario/riassunto: "Human Dignity and Human Cloning" contains contributions by philosophers, theologians and lawyers on legal and ethical questions concerning the reproductive and therapeutic cloning of human beings. The main focus lies on the admissibility of cloning in German Constitutional law as well as in public international law. As these legal questions cannot be answered without taking account of the ethical discussion, the topic is analyzed from different cultural and religious viewpoints.