Authors:Igor Primoratz, Aleksandar Pavkovic,
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
Keywords: secession, determination, identity
Number of Pages: 190
Published: 2006-06-30
List price: $110.00
ISBN-10: 0754652653
ISBN-13: 9780754652656

Engaging with a range of interconnected and highly topical issues of identity, self-determination and secession, this book examines the import and implications of "identity claims", and looks into "identity politics" motivated by such claims, which is becoming ever more salient in democratic and culturally and ethnically heterogeneous states. It discusses nationalism as an important component of identity of individuals and groups, and a position that generates claims of self-determination and secession on the part of ethnic and cultural groups. It also examines patriotism, which until recently

Author: Igor Primoratz and Aleksandar PavkovicIgor Primor
Publisher: Ashgate
Keywords: patriotism
Number of Pages: 250
Published: 2008-05-08
List price: $99.95
ISBN-10: 0754671224
ISBN-13: 9780754671220

This collection of new essays by philosophers and political theorists engages with a wide range of conceptual, moral and political questions raised by the current revival of patriotism. It displays both similarities and differences between patriotism and nationalism, and considers the proposal of Habermas and others to disconnect the two.

Author: Igor Primoratz
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: war, immunity, civilian
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2010-03-05
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0199575754
ISBN-13: 9780199575756

The protection of noncombatants from deadly violence is the centrepiece of any account of ethical and legal constraints on war. It was a major achievement of moral progress from early modern times to World War I. Yet it has been under constant attrition since - perhaps never more so than in our time, with its ’new wars’, the spectre of weapons of mass destruction, and the global terrorism alert. Civilian Immunity in War, written in collaboration by eleven authors, provides the first comprehensive analysis of all main aspects of this highly topical subject. It considers the argument

Author: Igor Primoratz
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: sex, ethics
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 1999-07-08
List price: $45.95
ISBN-10: 0415093341
ISBN-13: 9780415093347

Ethics and Sex presents a systematic study of the nature and moral significance of human sexuality and the major issues in sexual morality. The book offers both a critical analysis of the key conceptions of human sexuality, such as discussions of the romantic approach to sex and the understanding of sex as body language, and addressess issues in sexual morality, including monogamy, adultery, prositution and pedophilia. Igor Primoratz shows that many of the prohibitions that make up conventional sexual morality cannot withstand critical scrutiny and should be rejected. He claims that there a

Authors:Boris Gnedenko, Igor V. Pavlov, Igor A. Ushakov, Suma
Publisher: Wiley-Interscience
Keywords: engineering, reliability, statistical
Number of Pages: 528
Published: 1999-04-19
List price: $160.00
ISBN-10: 0471123560
ISBN-13: 9780471123569

Proven statistical reliability analysis methods-available for the first time to engineers in the West While probabilistic methods of system reliability analysis have reached an unparalleled degree of refinement, Russian engineers have concentrated on developing more advanced statistical methods. Over the past several decades, their efforts have yielded highly evolved statistical models that have proven to be especially valuable in the estimation of reliability based upon tests of individual units of systems. Now Statistical Reliability Engineering affords engineers a unique opportunity to lear

Authors:Igor A. Sukhoivanov, Igor V. Guryev,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: series, optical, sciences, springer, modeling, crystals, physics, practical, photonic
Number of Pages: 242
Published: 2009-10-29
List price: $129.00
ISBN-10: 3642026451
ISBN-13: 9783642026454

The great interest in photonic crystals and their applications in the past decade requires a thorough training of students and professionals who can practically apply the knowledge of physics of photonic crystals together with skills of independent calculation of basic characteristics of photonic crystals and modelling of various photonic crystal elements for application in all-optical communication systems. This book combines basic backgrounds in fiber and integrated optics with detailed analysis of mathematical models for 1D, 2D and 3D photonic crystals and microstructured fibers, as well as

Authors:Stephen Morillo, Michael F. Pavkovic,
Publisher: Polity
Keywords: history, series, military
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2006-10-03
List price: $59.95
ISBN-10: 0745633900
ISBN-13: 9780745633909

What is Military History? presents a clear, readable introduction to a popular field of history. It shows that military history encompasses not just accounts of campaigns and battles but includes a wide range of perspectives on all aspects of past military organization and activity. In concise chapters it explains the fundamental features of the field, including:The history of military history, showing how it has developed from ancient times to the present;The key ideas and concepts that shape analysis of military activity; it argues that military history is as methodologically and philosophic