Pesthy-Simon explores martyrdom as a voluntary human sacrifice in the Jewish and Greco-Roman milieu that generated early Christian martyrdom. Human sacrifices were originally addressed to the divi
This book is about the Tocco family, the most prominent kindreds in Latin Greece during the 14th and 15th centuries. Originally from the Italian South, their five generations ruled the Greek regions o
The theoretical analyses and interpretations contained in the studies of this volume focus on key-concepts such as: politics, politician, democracy, Europe, liberalism, constitution, property, progres
Despite gloomy predictions, democracy and the market economy seem to be taking root throughout Eastern Europe, against a background of deep recession. Looks into reasons for the failed predictions of
This report focuses on the human rights abuses associated with the CIAs post-September 11, 2001 secret detention and extraordinary rendition operations. It documents the secret detention of detainees
Oscar Jaszi (1895-1957) spent the first half of his life in Hungary, where he was responsible for the establishment of Huszadik Szazad (Twentieth Century), a scholarly review of sociology and politica
From Good King Wenceslas to the Good Soldier Svejk, this cultural dictionary is an intimate look at a people affectionately known for their storytelling humor (tlachani), suspicion of authority, and p
In The End of Czechoslovakia, scholars and practitioners from both sides of the divide, Czech and Slovak, as well as Western experts, take an in-depth look at the causes of Czechoslovakia's break-up,
Ethnic profiling by police in Europe is a widespread form of discrimination that violates basic human rights norms. Ethnic profiling is also inefficient: it leads police to focus on racial and ethnic
