Modern Legal Interpretation
Legalism or Beyond
Legalism depicts judges as merely applying pre-existing rules. But is this theory too naïve? Can such a formalist approach withstand critiques from Dworkinian interpretivism or legal realists? Prominent legal philosophers discuss these and other issues of legal interpretation.
Legalism depicts judges as merely applying pre-existing rules. But is this theory too naïve? Can such a formalist approach withstand critiques from Dworkinian interpretivism or legal realists? Prominent legal philosophers discuss these and other issues of legal interpretation.
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Victorian Cultures of Liminality
Borders and Margins
This volume focuses on cross-fertilisation in the arts, liminal spaces, and marginal figures. It contributes to scholarship on Anglo-French exchanges, evoking a sense of temporal shift as nineteenth-century values progress and showing how pictures and texts shape identity.
This volume focuses on cross-fertilisation in the arts, liminal spaces, and marginal figures. It contributes to scholarship on Anglo-French exchanges, evoking a sense of temporal shift as nineteenth-century values progress and showing how pictures and texts shape identity.
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Totalitarian (In)Experience in Literary Works and Their Translations
Between East and West
This book explores totalitarianism in 20th century literature through a cross-linguistic analysis of works by Huxley, Orwell, Miłosz, and Konwicki. Using the Natural Semantic Metalanguage framework, it examines how the totalitarian experience shaped their writing.
This book explores totalitarianism in 20th century literature through a cross-linguistic analysis of works by Huxley, Orwell, Miłosz, and Konwicki. Using the Natural Semantic Metalanguage framework, it examines how the totalitarian experience shaped their writing.
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This collection sets out the needs of social services for dealing with disadvantaged groups, and specifies the social services required for these communities and the role played by religious institutions in providing services to disadvantaged individuals.
This collection sets out the needs of social services for dealing with disadvantaged groups, and specifies the social services required for these communities and the role played by religious institutions in providing services to disadvantaged individuals.
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Looking for the Ancient Greeks
Damasio, Aristotle and Human Flourishing
A response to Antonio Damasio’s work on the feeling brain, this book offers new perspectives on life's biggest questions. It shows how Ancient Greek culture developed a system to create the integrated psyche that modern neuroscience claims is so vital for us today.
A response to Antonio Damasio’s work on the feeling brain, this book offers new perspectives on life’s biggest questions. It shows how Ancient Greek culture developed a system to create the integrated psyche that modern neuroscience claims is so vital for us today.
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A hazy cloud of facts and fiction surrounds paedophilia and its relation to Child Sexual Abuse. This book analyzes their depiction in contemporary British and American drama, illustrating the ambiguity of the topic and asking difficult questions.
A hazy cloud of facts and fiction surrounds paedophilia and its relation to Child Sexual Abuse. This book analyzes their depiction in contemporary British and American drama, illustrating the ambiguity of the topic and asking difficult questions.
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Cosmic Consciousness and Human Excellence
Implications for Global Ethics
Cosmic consciousness is a transcendence of self, a pathway to human excellence. It suggests the world cannot be improved without changing individual consciousness. This book places this idea at the centre of contemporary arguments on the nature of consciousness.
Cosmic consciousness is a transcendence of self, a pathway to human excellence. It suggests the world cannot be improved without changing individual consciousness. This book places this idea at the centre of contemporary arguments on the nature of consciousness.
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Emerging Water Insecurity in India
Lessons from an Agriculturally Advanced State
This book investigates India's water crisis, focusing on Punjab. It explores the use and abuse of groundwater, revealing its virtual exportation. It examines water governance, offering lessons for all regions grappling with water scarcity and sustainable development.
This book investigates India’s water crisis, focusing on Punjab. It explores the use and abuse of groundwater, revealing its virtual exportation. It examines water governance, offering lessons for all regions grappling with water scarcity and sustainable development.
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Integrating ancient wisdom with modern science, this book investigates myth's effect on development. Using Homer’s Hymn to Demeter and music in a therapeutic setting, it reveals personal epiphanies that can change perceptions and contribute to a healing process.
Integrating ancient wisdom with modern science, this book investigates myth’s effect on development. Using Homer’s Hymn to Demeter and music in a therapeutic setting, it reveals personal epiphanies that can change perceptions and contribute to a healing process.
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Financialisation, Capital Accumulation and Economic Development in Nigeria
A Critical Perspective
Udeogu adds to the field of Nigeria studies by filling gaps in research on the country’s development, deviating from the general approach of analysing the nation’s problems purely based on internal factors. Rather, he explores Nigeria’s issues in connection with the world system.
Udeogu adds to the field of Nigeria studies by filling gaps in research on the country’s development, deviating from the general approach of analysing the nation’s problems purely based on internal factors. Rather, he explores Nigeria’s issues in connection with the world system.
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Humoring the Other
Comedy and the Mitigation of Colonial Discourse
Sanhaji presents an inquiry into the ways in which entertainment discourse extends beyond entertainment and its initial humorous function due to its political and ideological underpinnings. In doing so, he justifies the importance of taking such discourse seriously.
Sanhaji presents an inquiry into the ways in which entertainment discourse extends beyond entertainment and its initial humorous function due to its political and ideological underpinnings. In doing so, he justifies the importance of taking such discourse seriously.
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Developing countries are the most vulnerable to climate change impacts, making it a matter of moral ethics. This book explores how concerted global action and traditional knowledge can enable them to adapt to the effects of climate change.
Developing countries are the most vulnerable to climate change impacts, making it a matter of moral ethics. This book explores how concerted global action and traditional knowledge can enable them to adapt to the effects of climate change.
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This book sheds critical light on collective representations of the end of the world. It explores humanity's reaction to disasters, the anxiety of collective destruction, and the convergence of irrational beliefs, religious conceptions, and scientific theories.
This book sheds critical light on collective representations of the end of the world. It explores humanity’s reaction to disasters, the anxiety of collective destruction, and the convergence of irrational beliefs, religious conceptions, and scientific theories.
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Communities on a Frontier in Conflict
The Jesuit Guaraní Mission Los Santos Mártires del Japón
Were the Jesuit missions in South America a socialist utopia or an independent republic? This study reveals the historical reality, analyzing the creation of mission communities on a frontier contested by Spain and Portugal and the demographic consequences of military conflict.
Were the Jesuit missions in South America a socialist utopia or an independent republic? This study reveals the historical reality, analyzing the creation of mission communities on a frontier contested by Spain and Portugal and the demographic consequences of military conflict.
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Moving Images, Mobile Bodies
The Poetics and Practice of Corporeality in Visual and Performing Arts
This collection addresses the issue of corporeality as a discursive field (which asks for a “poetics”), and the possible ways in which technology affects, and is affected by, the body in the context of recent artistic and theoretical developments.
This collection addresses the issue of corporeality as a discursive field (which asks for a “poetics”), and the possible ways in which technology affects, and is affected by, the body in the context of recent artistic and theoretical developments.
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This book offers a transcription of Elizabeth Jacob’s hitherto unedited Early Modern English remedy-book, Physicall and chyrurgicall receipts. Accompanied by linguistic and codicological analysis, it is a primary source for historical linguistics and the history of medicine.
This book offers a transcription of Elizabeth Jacob’s hitherto unedited Early Modern English remedy-book, Physicall and chyrurgicall receipts. Accompanied by linguistic and codicological analysis, it is a primary source for historical linguistics and the history of medicine.
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These studies offer a fresh look at the complexity of artistic and cultural contacts, transfers, and exchanges between Europe and the Middle East. They reach far beyond the geographical regions where these cultures have met and interacted throughout their long histories.
These studies offer a fresh look at the complexity of artistic and cultural contacts, transfers, and exchanges between Europe and the Middle East. They reach far beyond the geographical regions where these cultures have met and interacted throughout their long histories.
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Shapter traces the rise of photography’s perceived truthfulness in depicting reality. He shows why a combination of pre-knowledge of early developments in imagery and a marketing campaign espousing the accuracy of photographs acted to create a belief in the photograph’s veracity.
Shapter traces the rise of photography’s perceived truthfulness in depicting reality. He shows why a combination of pre-knowledge of early developments in imagery and a marketing campaign espousing the accuracy of photographs acted to create a belief in the photograph’s veracity.
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Minding Dolls
An Exercise in Archetype and Ideal
This book explores the symbolic relationship between self and object, where a living human being becomes a “doll.” Losing its own nature, the “doll” is imbued with personal meaning—an intimate manifestation of one’s own experience, shaped by desire and archetypes.
This book explores the symbolic relationship between self and object, where a living human being becomes a “doll.” Losing its own nature, the “doll” is imbued with personal meaning—an intimate manifestation of one’s own experience, shaped by desire and archetypes.
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My Utopia
A Collection of Creative Writing
This collection of creative writing demonstrates that utopian thinking is beyond any gender, race, age, color, nationality or border limitations. The short fiction, essays and poems here will be of great interest to anyone who believes in the power of literature in forcing change
This collection of creative writing demonstrates that utopian thinking is beyond any gender, race, age, color, nationality or border limitations. The short fiction, essays and poems here will be of great interest to anyone who believes in the power of literature in forcing change
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