Sex, Law, and the Politics of Age. Child Marriage in India, 1891-1937, New ed, Paperback - ***

Ishita Pande's innovative study tells a wide-ranging story about the importance of debates over child protection to India's coming of age, examinin...

Explores new, yet less explored space of urban poverty - rehabilitation housing that houses the displaced poor and increasingly dots the peripherie...

Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing IncAuthor(s): Gert BiestaNumber of pages: 150Collection: CounterpointsPublication date: 2008Dimensions: 152 x 225 ...

Curriculum as Spaces can be viewed as a holistic approach to education, conservation, and community development that uses place as an integrating c...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

As the future of international law has become a growing site of struggle within and between powerful states, debates over the history of internatio...

Reducere. In Kinship, Islam, and the Politics of Marriage in Jordan, Geoffrey Hughes sets out to trace the marriage crisis in Jordan and the Middle East. Rap...

Coming of Age in Nineteenth-Century India: The Girl-Child and the Art of Playfulness - Ruby Lal

Reducere. Rich, personal stories shed light on midwives at the frontier of women's reproductive rights. Midwives in the United States live and work in a comp...

This book provides a multidisciplinary and comparative look at the contemporary phenomenon of conscientious objection or contestation in the name o...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdIllustration(s): 10 Halftones, black and white; 2 Tables, black and white; 10 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber o...

Analysing the representation of women in modern novels, short stories and cinema, this study is an examination of the controversial social institut...

This study argues that the female voice occupied a key role in the early Stuart political imaginary as a means of signalling resistance to tyranny....

Leading historians and political scientists explore the changes and continuities in world politics that emerged from the end of the Cold War. Using...

Peek beneath the bedsheets of sixteenth-century England in this affectionate, informative and fascinating look at sex and sexuality during the reig...

WINNER OF THE POLITICAL BOOK AWARDS POLITICAL HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2014. Published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the Profumo sca...

Reducere. DescriptionA tenth-anniversary edition of the iconic bestseller--"one of the most influential books of the past decade, " according to the Chronicl...

This book follows on from Alison Cleland?s ground-breaking first edition. It has been thoroughly revised and re-written by its expert authors to re...

Reducere. This magisterial study, ten years in the making by one of the field's most distinguished historians, will be the first to explore the impact fugiti...

This study focuses on the spread of print in colonial India towards the middle and end of the nineteenth century. This Element will look at this ph...

This is an elegant, readable narrative of Nauru's imperial history that makes a compelling argument for the island's significance in the history of...

A contemporary interpretation of Adam Smith's work on jurisprudence, revealing Smith's belief that progress emerges from cooperation and a commitme...

Reducere. The phenomenon of caste has probably aroused more controversy than any other aspect of Indian life. This volume explores the emergence of ideas and...

This edited collection provides a balanced conceptual framework to demonstrate not only the power of autonomous communication networks, but also th...

Marriage at the Crossroads: Law, Policy, and the Brave New World of Twenty-First-Century Families - Marsha Garrison, Elizabeth S. Scott

A valuable resource by the leading experts in the field for students, academics, and lawyers interested in constitutional and criminal law and proc...

An incisive look at how evangelical Christians shaped--and were shaped by--the American criminal justice system. America incarcerates on a massive ...

Reducere. In Twisted Tech, author Scott McClallen seeks to analyze and explore the intersection of technology, free speech, and privacy. He believes technolo...

Women's Weird 2 will contain thirteen remarkably chilling stories originally published from 1891 to 1937, by women authors from the USA, Canada, th...

Reducere. Description: Man's freedom--God's omnipotence: how can they be reconciled? That question is central to this penetrating study of political action a...

"Coming of Age in Jim Crow DC explores the racial politics of everyday life in DC."

Reducere. DescriptionIn the U. S. and around the world, we are mired in political conflicts that are filled with bitterness, hatred, prejudice and personal a...

Drawing upon original datasets and candid interviews, Hackett explains how elites insulate their programs from legal challenge amid deep-seated rel...

Publisher: University of Arizona PressNumber of pages: 205Publication date: 2001Cover type: Paperback / softbackRedescopera farmecul lecturii si al...

Publisher: iUniverseAuthor(s): Father William (Consultant Child and) YoungNumber of pages: 544Publication date: 2004Dimensions: 222 x 141 x 33Cover...

This third volume in the Law and Politics of Brexit series provides a comprehensive analysis of the new framework of relationship between the Unite...

During more than a century of colonial rule over Algeria, the French state shaped and reshaped the meaning and practice of Muslim law by regulating...

The book provides an analysis of the role of the private sector in the prevention and cessation of mass atrocities, and shows how this intersects w...