Land Law texbook

"Land Law Textbook" is a comprehensive and clear explanation of the principles of land law. It is written in a practical and accessible style designed to excite the reader's interest. It has been fully revised and updated since the first edition to include all ...

Partnership Law

The new edition of this popular text is an updated, modern account of the law of partnerships in a readily accessible and readable form. A concise study of the law of partnership, this text is suitable for those studying the subject and provides practitioners with ...

A dictionary of ecology

This is the third edition of the most comprehensive and authoritative dictionary of ecology available. Written in a clear, accessible style, it contains over 5,200 entries on all aspects of ecology and related environmental scientific disciplines, such as biogeography, genetics, soil science, geomorphology, atmospheric ...

Advice and consent

the politics of judicial appointments

From Louis Brandeis to Robert Bork to Clarence Thomas, the nomination of federal judges has generated intense political conflict. With the coming retirement of one or more Supreme Court Justices - and threats to filibuster lower court judges - the selection process is likely to be, once ...

Didymos on Demosthenes

This edition of the papyrus containing Didymos' comments on some of Demosthenes' speeches aims to provide the student with a new reading of the text, a facing translation that is carefully edited for those who cannot use the Greek to show what is extant and ...

Arbitration of international business disputes

studies in Law and practice

"Arbitration of International Business Disputes: Studies in Law and Practice" is a collection of articles by William W. Park, one of the leading scholars in international commercial arbitration. The book is a coherent and focused collection of his most significant and timeless articles on business ...

International acquisition finance

law and practice

"International Acquisition Finance" is a new joint project with the International Bar Association providing a comprehensive analysis on the law and practice relating to acquisition finance at an international level. Filling a gap for a book on acquisition finance with a comparative nature, this work ...

Delayed prosecution for childhood sexual abuse

Recent years have seen a growing number of criminal prosecutions for sexual offences against children which are alleged to have occurred many years before the time of prosecution. This is a relatively new phenomenon within the criminal justice system. This book examines the response of ...

Political speeches

'Two things alone I long for: first, that when I die I may leave the Roman people free...and second, that each person's fate may reflect the way he has behaved towards his country.' Cicero (106-43 BC) was the greatest orator of the ancient ...

Cicero the advocate

This work is a collection of contributions by prominent Ciceronian scholars on Cicero's forensic speeches as examples of advocacy designed to secure a verdict, setting the speeches in the context of the Roman court system and of ancient rhetoric, discussing the nature of advocacy ...

Holy fools in byzantium and beyond

There are saints in Orthodox Christian culture, who overturn the conventional concept of sainthood. Their conduct may be unruly and salacious, they may blaspheme and even kill - yet, mysteriously, those around them treat them with even more reverence. Such saints are called 'holy fools'. In ...

Historiography at the end of the Republic

provincial perspectives on Roman rule

This study of six historians from the edges of the Roman world at the end of the Republic - the author of "I Maccabees", "Posidonius", "Diodorus Siculus", "Pompeius Trogus", "Nicolaus of Damascus", and "Memnon of Heraclea" - combines discussion of their biographical details, the intellectual and elite ...

Western imperialism in the middle east

1914-1958

The term 'Fertile Crescent' is commonly used as shorthand for the group of territories extending around the Rivers Tigris and Euphrates. Here it is assumed to consist of Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq and Palestine. Much has been written on the history of these countries which ...

Minds on trial

great cases in Law and psychology

Everyday, in courtrooms everywhere, people's lives are touched and shaped by judgments and verdicts, influenced by the testimony of psychologists and other mental health experts. This casebook details 20 high-profile court cases that turned, at least in part, on the expertise of forensic psychologists ...

Welfare, incentives, and taxation

Nobel Prize-winning economist, James Mirrlees is one of the world's leading figures in welfare, development, and public sector economics. This volume brings together for the first time twenty-three of his seminal papers on welfare economics, tax theory, public expenditure, contract theory, growth theory, and ...

Stochastic optimal control, international finance, and debt crises

This book focuses on the interaction between equilibrium real exchange rates, optimal external debt, endogenous optimal growth and current account balances, in a world of uncertainty. The theoretical parts result from interdisciplinary research between economics and applied mathematics. From the economic theory and the mathematics ...

Reason and value

themes from the moral philosophy of Joseph Raz

"Reason and Value" collects 15 new papers by leading contemporary philosophers on themes from the work of Joseph Raz. Raz has made major contributions in a wide range of areas, including jurisprudence, political philosophy, and the theory of practical reason; but all of his work ...

Plato and Aristotle in agreement?

platonists on Aristotle from antiochus to porphyry

An exciting new perspective on later ancient philosophy Argues against prevailing wisdom about the Platonists' opinion of Aristotle Karamanolis is one of the world's brightest young stars in this field George Karamanolis breaks new ground in the study of later ancient philosophy by examining ...

Space, time, matter, and form

essays on Aristotle's physics

The first five papers look at issues raised in the first two books of the Physics, centred on notions of matter and form, and the idea of substance as what persists through change. They also range over other of Aristotle's scientific works, such as ...

The structured self in hellenistic and roman thought

Christopher Gill offers a new analysis of what is innovative in Hellenistic - especially Stoic and Epicurean - philosophical thinking about selfhood and personality. His wide-ranging discussion of Stoic and Epicurean ideas is illustrated by a more detailed examination of the Stoic theory of the passions and ...

Stakeholders

theory and practice

The research on social discourse in societies, firms, and organizations written by researchers working in fields such as Management, Corporate Governance, Accounting and Finance, Strategy, Sociology, and Politics often make reference to the term 'stakeholder'. Yet the concept of the 'stakeholder' is unclear, and research ...

The literature of ancient sumer

This anthology of Sumerian literature constitutes the most comprehensive collection ever published, and includes examples of most of the different types of composition written in the language, from narrative myths and lyrical hymns to proverbs and love poetry. The translations have benefited both from the ...