J-S Borghetti/S Whittaker (eds), French Civil Liability in Comparative Perspective (Hart 2019). 521 pp. ISBN 978-1-5099-2727-2. £ 90.00 (hardback).

Worldwide Asset and Liability Modeling; W.T. Ziemba and J.M. Mulvey (eds.); Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1998, ISBN: 0-521-57187-1, hardback (US$ 95.00)

Mat Savelli and Sarah Marks (eds), Psychiatry in Communist Europe (Basingstoke and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), pp. xi, 222, $90.00, hardback, ISBN: 978-1-137-49091-9.

that the costs of post-eradication surveillance could dwarf initial expenditures.) If 25% of childhood mortality were attributable to malaria, reasons for caution in intervention dissipate. The concern about harm that might be done to adults whose acquired immunity could be compromised was hardly considered. Malariologists might elect utilitarianism as their chosen professional ethics, their br...

Richard Turkington and Christopher Watson (eds.): Renewing Europe's housing: Policy Press, UK, 2015, 328 pp, £70.00 (hardback), ISBN: 978-1-44731-012-9.

Renewing Europe’s Housing provides an extensive overview of contemporary housing renewal policies and practices in Europe during the last four decades. The subject is of high and still increasing importance. During the time covered by the book, housing and urban policies in most European countries shifted thoroughly. After half a century of unsurpassed mass housing construction and urban growth...

Sighard Neckel, Anna Katharina Schaffner, Greta Wagner (eds), Burnout, Fatigue, Exhaustion: An Interdisciplinary Perspective on a Modern Affliction (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), pp. ix+316, £88/£70, hardback/ebook, ISBN: 978-3-319-52886-1 / 978-3-319-52887-8.

thinking about this material culture, we can shed light on the relationship of time to imperialism and the transmission of cartographic and ethnographic knowledge during the colonial period’ (p. 119). Her study exploits long-overlooked design features of these little dials. For instance, dials frequently included gazetteers, lists of places and their latitudes where the dials might be used. The...

978 - 0 - 521 - 88138 - 8 - UN Peacekeeping in Civil Wars

Civil war is the most important and troubling problem in international life today. Aside from the tragic killing and injury of innocent civilians, violent civil conflicts inspire lingering, seemingly intractable ills such as state collapse, corruption, dire poverty, rampant injustice, dislocation, environmental degradation, and disease, all of which may in turn instigate renewed and spreading c...