The english legal process

The English Legal Process offers a clear and topical explanation of how the English legal system operates. The book explains the organization and procedures of courts and tribunals, the trial process and jury system, major forms of redress in private and public law, and discusses ...

Defining terrorism in international Law

Examines the many failed attempts by the international community and the United Nations since the 1920s to define and criminalize terrorism. This book explains why the international community should define and criminalize terrorism, how it should define it, and what it should exclude from the ...

European Union Law

Horspool and Humphrey's European Union Law provides an overview of both the European institutions and main areas of substantive law in a concise volume. The authors convey clearly to the reader the key facts and principles of European Union law, making it an ideal ...

The doctrine of deification in the greek patristic tradition

Deification was not only a pagan concept, but a metaphor for a deeply Christian view of the purpose of human life. This title brings together research on the Church Fathers from the second to the seventh centuries, offering an analysis of their spiritual teaching and ...

How to write

"How to Write" is an introductory guide to writing, aimed at people who think they can't write, or for whom writing is an ordeal. Broken down into short topic-based chapters on everything from beginning to revising, it demystifies the writing process by taking the ...

Entrepreneurship and economic growth

By serving as a conduit for knowledge spillovers, entrepreneurship is the missing link between investments in new knowledge and economic growth. The knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship provides not just an explanation of why entrepreneurship has become more prevalent as the factor of knowledge has ...

Understanding poverty

This volume presents 28 essays on poverty by some of the leading experts in the field of economics. The book is divided into three sections, beginning with an essay about how poverty is measured. The first section is about the causes of poverty and its ...

The white man's burden

why the west's efforts to aid the rest have done so much ill and so little Good

We are all aware of the extreme hunger and poverty that afflict the world's poor. We hear the facts, see the images on television, buy the T-shirt and are moved as individuals and governments to dig deep into our pockets. Yet what happens to ...

Perspectives on punishment

the contours of control

Takes a multidisciplinary approach to the subject of penal policy and criminology. Includes a mixture of both empirical research and theoretical perspectives. Comparative analysis. International coverage.

The World Trade Organization

Law, practice, and policy

The WTO is one of the most important intergovernmental organizations in the world, yet the way in which it functions as an organization and the scope of its authority and power are still poorly understood. This comprehensively revised new edition of the acclaimed work by ...

The Oxford encyclopedia of maritime history

From the dawn of seafaring history to the present day, from the first crude canoes and rafts to today's nuclear submarines and supertankers, the encyclopedia of maritime history will systematically survey the separate maritime specialists. With more tha 1.5 million words in four ...

The Oxford Companion to world exploration

This illustrated reference work covers all aspects of world exploration from Antarctica to the North Pole; from the discovery of the New World to the age of space exploration. The companion features 750 articles, carefully selected by a distinguished group of editors and advisers to ...

The Oxford handbook of philosophy of language

The Oxford Handbooks series is a major new initiative in academic publishing. Each volume offers an authoritative and up-to-date survey of original research in a particular subject area. Specially commissioned essays from leading figures in the discipline give critical examinations of the progress and direction ...

Epic interactions

perspectives on Homer, Virgil, and the epic tradition

Contents 1. Homer and the Early Epic Tradition , Bruno Currie 2. Homer's Religion: Philological Perspectives from Indo-European and Semitic , Simon Pulleyn 3. Homer and Herodotus , Christopher Pelling 4. Hellenistic Epic and Homeric Form , Gregory Hutchinson 5. The Aeneid: Inheritance and Empire , Rebecca Armstrong 6 ...

The WTO agreement on safeguards

a commentary

This book provides a thorough treatment of the legal, economic, and policy issues associated with safeguard measures in the WTO system. It includes a careful treatment of the history of safeguard measures under GATT, and the impetus for the Agreement on Safeguards during the Uruguay ...

Land Law

Providing an introduction to land law, this book looks at the way in which the law regulates our relationship with the land on which we walk, work, and live. Land law is about the connections between people and land, and also the relationships between people ...

Labour Law

The second and updated edition of Labour Law Core Text covers the core elements in labour and employment law courses and presents these clearly and concisely. The content has been developed to be in keeping with undergraduate courses. Its clear layout makes this an accessible ...

Microeconomics

optimization, experiments, and behavior

The most innovative feature of the book is its extensive coverage of recent research in behavioral and experimental economics. This research not only documents behavior inconsistent with some elements of traditional theory, but also advances positive theories with superior predictive power. The research covered includes ...

Exploring Law's empire

the jurisprudence of Ronald Dworkin

"Exploring Law's Empire" is a collection of essays by leading legal theorists and philosophers who have been invited to develop, defend, or critique Ronald Dworkin's controversial and exciting jurisprudence. The volume explores Dworkin's critique of legal positivism, his theory of law as ...

Chesire, Fifoot and Furmston's Law of contract

"Cheshire, Fifoot & Furmston's Law of Contract" stands as one of the classic textbooks on contract law more than 50 years after publication of the first edition. Michael Furmston combines an authoritative account of the principles of the law of contract with thought-provoking analysis and ...

Criminal justice

This book offers a clear explanation and critical analysis of the criminal justice system and of all the major stages of an investigation including both pre-trial and trial processes. The authors discuss the principles and theories behind how the criminal justice system operates, and tackle ...

From Epicurus to Epictetus

studies in hellenistic and roman philosophy

A. A. Long, one of the world's leading writers on ancient philosophy, presents eighteen essays on the philosophers and schools of the Hellenistic and Roman periods - Epicureans, Stoics, and Sceptics. The discussion ranges over four centuries of innovative and challenging thought in ethics and ...