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by Peter Burdon (Editor)Wild law is a groundbreaking approach to law that stresses human dependence on nature. For the first time, this volume brings together voices from the leading proponents of wild law around the world. It introduces readers to the idea of wild law and considers its relationship to environmental law, the rights of nature, science, religion, property law and international governance.
Number of Pages: 370
Dimensions: 0.77 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN
Publication Date: June 30, 2015
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by Tony English (Author)Tony English wrote Tug of War for negotiation experts and others who might be interested in a fresh analytical method which draws on the literature of negotiation but delves into many other disciplines, including international relations, fine arts, philosophy, management, anthropology and psychology. The book focuses on international negotiation but is relevant to negotiation in general. Tony interviewed many veteran negotiators in diplomacy, hostage release and busine...
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by Andrew Goodman (Author)The requirement to produce skeleton arguments has been with us for 10 years, but written advocacy remains in its infancy. UK Court of Appeal judges admit that cases are decided before oral argument on the strength of written advocacy. Throughout the civil justice system under the CPR the skill is vital - cases are won on lost on the advocate's skill writing, not addressing the court orally. This book provides practical advice in drafting: . model form pre-action prot...
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by Daniel V. Runyon (Author)Supreme Court and lower court hearings regarding gay marriage bring focus to the reality that in just two decades homosexual behavior in America has gone from criminal offense to protected right, a paradigm shift worth considering in the form of a book review-a look back to 1989 when "After the Ball," a watershed publication, gave homosexuals in America the traction needed to bring about the gay revolution.
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by Jessica Gavora (Author)When Congress passed Title IX of the Civil Rights Act in 1972, they seemed to be doing something laudable and also long overdue-prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sex in America's schools. But thirty years later, a law designed to guarantee equal opportunity has become the most explicit, government-enforced quota regime in America, putting boys and men on the losing side of a battle for athletic and educational opportunity. A former athlete herself, Jessica G...
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by V. Vale (Interviewer), Robert Anton Wilson (Interviewee), Andrew Bishop (Introduction by)Robert Anton Wilson (1932-2007; author of Illuminatus! (trilogy), Cosmic Trigger, Prometheus Rising, and Schrodinger's Cat was a writer, eclectic philosopher, and noted conspiracy theorist. This book is based on a lengthy 1985 interview, where common and pernicious errors in language are examined in detail, along with a discussion of Wilson's favorite writers (such as William S. Burroughs and Philip K....
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by Daniel Heller-Roazen (Author)The pirate is the original enemy of humankind. Before humanitarian organizations, human rights, and the establishment of international law in the early modern period, the Roman statesmen already made this point perfectly clear. As Cicero famously remarked, there are certain enemies with whom one may negotiate and with whom, circumstances permitting, one may establish a truce. But there is also an enemy with whom treaties are in vain and war remains incessant. T...
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by William Aspray (Editor)This book provides an introductory overview to all of the major policy issues in the United States related to information technology. These issues include federal funding of research that helped to create the Internet; telecommunications issues such as regulations about wireless technologies; computer security and homeland defense; governance and use of the Internet such as spam, viruses, electronic voting, taxation of online commerce, and child pornography; privacy;...
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by William S. Holdsworth (Author), A. L. Goodhart (Editor), H. G. Hanbury (Editor)xv, 302 pp. Originally published: Oxford: At the Clarendon Press, 1946. Compiled and edited by A.L. Goodhart and H.G. Hanbury, editors of the last four volumes of Holdsworth's History of English Law, this volume presents a selection of seventeen essays by the great legal scholar. Highlights from his long and prolific career, they address such topics as martial law, the English constitution, case law, equity, tru...
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by Clarence Darrow (With)Complete transcript of the controversial "Scopes Monkey Trial" which tested the law that made it illegal for public school teachers in Tennessee to teach Charles Darwin's theory of evolution The complete transcript of the 1925 case of the State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes, a 24-year old high school teacher accused of violating the Butler Act, which had passed in Tennessee on March 21, 1925, forbidding the teaching, in any state-funded educational establishment,...
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by Abel Parker Upshur (Author)The political philosophy that would later guide the Confederacy. Originally published: Petersburg: Printed by Edmund and Julian C. Ruffin, 1840. iv,132 pp. This work is a classic statement of the political principles that would later guide the leaders of the Confederacy. It was such a fine exposition, in fact, that it was reprinted in 1863 by Northern Democrats as a guide to the political philosophy of the Confederacy. ABEL PARKER UPSHUR 1791-1844], a Virginia ...
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by Christopher Saint German (Author)Often cited authority on the foundations of law. Originally published: Cincinnati: Robert Clarke & Co., 1874. xiii, 401 pp. Originally written in Latin in 1523, this work contains two dialogues between a doctor of divinity and a student of English law. It popularized canonist learning on the nature and object of law, the religious and moral standards of law, the foundations of the common law and issues regarding the jurisdiction of Parliament. A very im...
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by E. P. Evans (Author)Can an Animal Commit a Crime? This pioneering work collects an amazing assemblage of court cases in which animals have been named as defendants--chickens, rats, field mice, bees, gnats, and (in 34 recorded instances) pigs, among others-- providing insight into such modern issues as animal rights, capital punishment, and social and criminal theory. Evans suggests an intriguing distinction between trials of specific animals or particular crimes, such as the "murder" of an...
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by Melanie Dulong De Rosnay (Editor), Juan Carlos De Martin (Editor)Digital technology has made culture more accessible than ever before. Texts, audio, pictures and video can easily be produced, disseminated, used and remixed using devices that are increasingly user-friendly and affordable. However, along with this technological democratization comes a paradoxical flipside: the norms regulating culture's use - copyright and related rights - have become increasingly restrictive. This book brin...
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by Scott Hall (Author), Michael B. Davie (Editor)Offers advice for ending sexual abuse. This book is suitable for policy-makers, mothers of young children, survivors of sexual abuse, teachers, counsellors, doctors, and all those who are nurturing and protecting children.
Number of Pages: 338
Dimensions: 0.76 x 9 x 6 IN
Publication Date: May 20, 2015
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by Rene-Philippe R. Dubout (Author)Buyers of offshore real estate property can be divided into two categories: The fortunate buyers who actually receive the property they paid for and the unfortunate ones who end up losing their money in offshore real estate fiascos or end up with a lemon of a property. Although the fortunate buyers outnumber the unfortunate, ventures in purchasing real estate offshore still end up badly for too many people. Did you know that the difference between fortunate ...
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by Frederic Bastiat (Author)'The Law' is at once a logical and wonderfully concise introduction to libertarian philosophy, and a strident call for 'small government'. Frederic Bastian's classic, written in 1850, defines the law as "collective organization of the individual right to lawful defense."and then shows how this same law has been perverted, "annihilating the justice that it was supposed to maintain, aiding] the unscrupulous who wish, without risk, to exploit the liberty and property...
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by Sarah Huline-Dickens (Author)A practical guide for clinicians working with children and young people under the age of eighteen that focuses on essential elements of children's mental health law, a complex area that is often poorly understood.Author BiographyDr Sarah Huline-Dickens is Lead Consultant in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry with Livewell Southwest, Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer at Peninsula College of Medicine and Dentistry and recently appointed Associate Dean, Health Educat...
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by George Papaconstantinou (Author)For generations, Europeans have become accustomed to rising prosperity, an increasingly supportive social safety net and the expectation that each generation will fare better than the last. Europe has built a social model that is second to none, and fashioned a continent of disparate nations into a community that shares common values with democratic institutions that are the envy of the world. Yet, Europe, as a common project is increasingly questioned by it...
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by Tim Prenzler (Author)This book is designed to meet head on the urgent need for academics, advocates and policymakers to develop universal ethical standards in criminal justice practice. By using quality research and policy analysis focusing on the core components of the criminal justice system -- police, courts and corrections-- Professor Prenzler formulates a basic checklist that can be used to assess the ethical quality and accountability of the criminal justice system in any jurisdictio...
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by Robert Fine (Author)In this groundbreaking work, Professor Robert Fine explores afresh the relationship between jurisprudence, Marx and Marxism. In the first section, he examines the tradition of the modern natural right theory that precedes Marx and informed his writings, demonstrating the jurisprudence is as important as political economy in understanding Marx's works. Here he focuses on the theories of right in Hobbes, Rousseau, Smith and Hegel. In the second section, he reconstructs th...
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by Glen T. Martin (Introduction by)The Constitution was developed by a drafting committee of 25 persons with feedback from hundreds of world citizens over a period of 33 years from 1968 to 1991. This compact edition contains the complete Constitution, together with an informative new introduction by Glen T. Martin, President of the World Constitution and Parliament Association.
Number of Pages: 258
Dimensions: 0.54 x 6 x 4 IN
Publication Date: December 15, 2015
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by Alan Bloomfield (Author)Now there's a low-cost divorce alternative -- The Michigan Divorce Book. With background information about divorce, step-by-step instructions, filled-in sample divorce forms and blank tear-out divorce forms, The Michigan Divorce Book is a complete do-it-yourself kit for doing an uncontested divorce in Michigan. Can you join the thousands of people who have used The Michigan Divorce Book to do their own divorces without laywers? See Chapter 1 to find out if your divo...
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by Edward Olshaker (Author)A cross between "Medium" and "Unsolved Mysteries," this award-winning book is now available in paperback for the first time... In WITNESSES TO THE UNSOLVED, author Edward Olshaker turns to some of the world's most accomplished psychic detectives and mediums in a quest for the missing pieces to some of our most puzzling mysteries, including the cases of: -- Martin Luther King, Jr., whose assassination is still an open case after a Memphis trial and a federal investi...
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by Anna Mancini (Author)Unlike ancient Rome, Egypt did not transmit any legal system to us, but rather an idea of justice our modern minds can hardly understand. In the ancient Egyptian world, almost all the texts and inscriptions speak of justice. All the texts of wisdom teach that one has to conform to Maat, an obscure and omnipresent concept that Egyptologists have translated into the expression "Goddess of Truth and Justice." Egyptian justice is so different from ours that Egyptologists a...
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by Donna Ballman (Author)One-stop shopping for researching the complexities of all aspects of civil law. Whether one writes mysteries, romance, mainstream, or nonfiction, if the facts are wrong, the book is ruined. Adding some element of the law is also a valuable asset for adding further dimension or a plot twist to a story.Author BiographyDonna Ballman: DONNA BALLMAN is an attorney/author whose practice focuses on labor and employment law. She has been named one of The Lawdragon 500 Leading...
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by Frederic Bastiat (Author)"Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object to a thing being done by government, the socialists conclude that we object to its being done at all. We disapprove of state education. Then the socialists say that we are opposed to any education. We object to a state religion. Then the socialists say that we want no religion at all. We object to a state-enfor...
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by Bill Eddy (Author)This book is designed for judicial officers to use in managing people with high conflict personalities in any courtroom, with an emphasis on family court litigants. This easy-to-read booklet provides judicial officers with accurate and authoritative information about the subject matters covered. It describes general principles and suggestions for judicial officers to immediately put into practice.Author BiographyBill Eddy is a lawyer, therapist, mediator and the President...
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by Bill Eddy (Author)For divorcing parents who have been court-ordered or have decided to use New Ways for Families in the divorce process. This is a structured parenting skills method to reduce the impact of conflict on children in potentially high-conflict divorce cases. Research shows it helps decrease conflict, stress and abuse while improving outcomes for children, leading to safer, healthier families.Author BiographyBill Eddy is a lawyer, therapist, mediator and the President of High Co...
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by Bill Eddy (Author)People with high conflict personalities (HCPs) clog our courts as plaintiffs with inappropriate claims against their personal targets of blame, and as defendants who have harmed others and need to be stopped. Everybody knows someone with a High Conflict Personality. How can he be so unreasonable? Why does she keep fighting? Can't she see how destructive she is? Can you believe they're going to court over ______?Some HCPs are more difficult than others, but they tend to sh...
