The Legal Texts

Editie in limba engleza. The law has always been considered a conservative profession, and this is reflected in the use of its language. This pract...

The legal texts of pre-Conquest England reveal the capacities and limits of the king's regulatory power, and provide key evidence for the process b...

Reducere. In recent years, the digitization of legal texts and developments in the fields of statistics, computer science, and data analytics have opened ent...

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

Are judges neutral legal umpires, unaccountable partisan activists, or political actors whose decisions conform to-rather than challenge-the democr...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Imam Al-Haramayn Al-JuwayniTranslator: Musa FurberCommentaries by: Jalal Al-Din Al-MahalliIslamic jurisprudence concerns th...

From devotional literature to political narratives, medieval texts propose that sexual violence victims have privileged moral, ethical, and spiritu...

Accounts of international criminal courts have tended to consist of reflections on abstract legal texts, on judgements and trial transcripts. Genoc...

Drawing on literature, legal texts, epigraphic evidence, and the narratives embodied in monuments and painting, Broken Cities is an expansive and n...

Reducere. DescriptionThe third edition of this concise book is mainly intended to be used as an introduction to the rules of private international law belong...

This study investigates justice and mercy in twelfth-century England, using theological texts, sermons, legal treatises and letter collections to e...

This study investigates justice and mercy in twelfth-century England, using theological texts, sermons, legal treatises and letter collections to e...

Publisher: The Islamic Texts SocietyAuthor(s): Amjad M. MohammedNumber of pages: 252Publication date: 2013Dimensions: 234 x 157 x 20Cover type: Pap...

Offers a broad range of texts spanning six centuries of imperial Roman history--Volume II of Empire of the Romans, from Julius Caesar to Justinian ...

One of the most contentious topics in modern Islam is whether one should adhere to an Islamic legal school or follow scripture directly. For centur...

The new edition of this comprehensive course in Spanish-English translation offers advanced students of Spanish a challenging yet practical approac...

Reducere. Several centuries ago, the five nations that would become the Haudenosaunee -- Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca -- were locked in gener...

Reducere. Several centuries ago, the five nations that would become the Haudenosaunee -- Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, and Seneca -- were locked in gener...

Reducere. This 2001 book uses legal texts, literary and artistic creations, maps and policy debates, to trace the changing uses, regulations, and representat...

Examines legal documents and magic texts relevant to two cases where authorities in Tudor England confronted practicing magicians. Explores how mag...

Reducere. First published in 1918, "The Serpent Power" is an important and influential text for the modern practice of Kundalini yoga in the West. Written by...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Mary R. LefkowitzAuthor: Maureen B. FantNow in its fourth edition, this highly acclaimed sourcebook examines the public and...

Lorenz Boeninger tells the story of Niccolo di Lorenzo della Magna, a major printer of Renaissance Italy. Niccolo's hitherto mysterious life and ca...

This unique collection makes available, for the first time, translations of medieval Italian jurisprudence, including commentaries, tracts, and leg...

This book initiates the reader into the study of Akkadian literature from ancient Babylonia and Assyria. With this one relatively short volume, the...

This book brings together over 400 texts concerning the Hospitallers during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. It will appeal to scholars and ...

Reducere. The first complete English translation of the Hebrew classic Sefer Ha-Aggadah brings to the English-speaking world the greatest and best-loved anth...

DescriptionThis volume provides a valuable introduction to the key concepts of witchcraft and demonology through a detailed study of one of the bes...

Reducere. To understand fully the complexities of Thurgood Marshall's work as a practicing lawyer, civil rights advocate for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, fe...

Reducere. In America's Constitution, one of this era's most accomplished constitutional law scholars, Akhil Reed Amar, gives the first comprehensive account ...

DescriptionIn early modern Europe, international law emerged as a means of governing relations between rapidly consolidating sovereign states, purp...

The Telegraph kicked off the 2006-07 academic year with the declaration "Nota bene: Latin is back." Arguably, it never really went away. Despite lo...

Reducere. DescriptionFirst published in 2005, Understanding Jihad unravels the tangled historical, intellectual, and political meanings of jihad within the c...

Reducere. Only a small fraction of ancient literature survives--less than one percent, estimates reveal. While the reasons vary, it is an irony that Christia...

Reducere. DescriptionEighty years from now, in a time of increasing environmental degradation and after one-sixth of the Earth's population has died in a vas...

Reducere. This book lifts up women of the Hebrew Bible who, working with the Divine, play amazing roles in the stories of Israel--prophet, judge, worship lea...

Reducere. This book lifts up women of the Hebrew Bible who, working with the Divine, play amazing roles in the stories of Israel--prophet, judge, worship lea...

A fascinating look at the lifestyle and values of ancient IrelandThousands of years ago, Celtic Ireland was a land of tribes and warriors; but a wi...

These new translations of the Defence of Socrates, the Euthyphro, and the Crito present Plato's remarkable dramatizations of the momentous events s...

Reducere. To understand the most contentious issues around religious liberty, this volume provides influential philosophical ideas from the U.S.'s founding t...

Reducere. In this tour de force of historical and literary research, Fone, an acclaimed expert on gay and lesbian history and professor emeritus at the City ...

Drafting Contracts - A Practical Guide to Transactional Practice, authored by Ben L. Fernandez is a brief but comprehensive guide to everything you...

DescriptionThis accessible, alphabetical guide provides concise insights into a variety of digital research methods, incorporating introductory kno...

Reducere. Although we are constantly bombarded with arguments over constitutional issues in the media, surveys show the majority of Americans have not read a...

Reducere. Has modern scholarship debunked the traditional Christ? Has the church suppressed the truth about Jesus to advance its own agenda? What if the real...

Reducere. A framework for indigenous and settler reparations Honouring the Declaration provides academic resources to help The United Church of Canada and ot...

Reducere. David Stifter's Sengoidelc (Shan-goy-delth) provides a comprehensive introduction to Old Irish grammar and metrics. Ideally suited for use as a cou...

Reducere. The 2000-year story of Babylon sees it moving from a city-state to the centre of a great empire of the ancient world. It remained a centre of kings...

DescriptionRecently, many critics have questioned the idea of universal citizenship by pointing to the racial, class, and gendered exclusions on wh...

A fresh translation of The New Science, with detailed footnotes that will help both the scholar and the new reader navigate Vico's masterpieceThe N...

DescriptionFinance, fashionable society, and the intrigues of the underworld and the police system form the heart of this powerful novel, which int...

In Haiti, History, and the Gods, Joan Dayan charts the cultural imagination of Haiti not only by reconstructing the island's history but by highlig...

Reducere. The Public Health Sanitarian Trainee Passbook(R) prepares you for your test by allowing you to take practice exams in the subjects you need to stud...

Reducere. Passions Between Women looks at stories of lesbian desires, acts and identities from the Restoration to the beginning of the nineteenth century. Fa...

Reducere. From Madness to Mental Health neither glorifies nor denigrates the contributions of psychiatry, clinical psychology, and psychotherapy, but rather ...

Reducere. National Indie Bestseller The trailblazing Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in her own words. Her most essential writings on gender equali...

DescriptionIreland's Green Larder tells the story of food and drink in Ireland, for the first time. From the ancient system of the C ide Fields, es...

Reducere. Fable for Another Time is one of the most significant and far-reaching literary texts of postwar France. Composed in the tumultuous aftermath of Wo...

DescriptionAl-Ghazali's Book of the Lawful and the Unlawful is the fourteenth chapter of The Revival of the Religious Sciences, which is widely con...