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How does law come to be stated as substantive rules, and then how does it change? In this collection of discussions from the James S. Carpentier Lectures in legal history and criticism, one of Britain's most acclaimed legal historians S. F. C. Milsom focuses on the d... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:20 | Colonial Effects analyzes the creation and definition of modern Jordanian identity. Massad studies two key institutions-- the law and the military--and uses them to create an original and precise analysis of the development of Jordanian national identity in the postc... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:20 | Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Avant-Garde traces the dynamic emergence of Woolf's art and thought against Bloomsbury's public thinking about Europe's future in a period marked by two world wars and rising threats of totalitarianism. Educated informally in her fat... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:20 | The Khmer Rouge regime took control of Cambodia by force of arms, then committed the most brazen crimes since the Third Reich: at least 1.5 million people murdered between 1975 and 1979. Yet no individuals were ever tried or punished. This book is the story of Peter ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:20 | Conventional wisdom maintains that the differences between Islam and Christianity are irreconcilable. Pre-eminent Middle East scholar Richard W. Bulliet disagrees, and in this fresh, provocative book he looks beneath the rhetoric of hatred and misunderstanding to cha... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:21 | The Mystique of Transmission is a close reading of a late-eighth-century Chan/Zen Buddhist hagiographical work, the Lidai fabao ji ( Record of the Dharma-Jewel Through the Generations), and is its first English translation. The text is the only remaining relic of the... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:21 | Television is a form of media without equal. It has revolutionized the way we learn about and communicate with the world and has reinvented the way we experience ourselves and others. More than just cheap entertainment, TV is an undeniable component of our culture an... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:21 | Jews have been a religious and cultural presence in America since the colonial era, and the community of Jews in the United States todaysome six million peoplecontinues to make a significant contribution to the American religious landscape. Emphasizing developments i... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:21 | Practitioners who work with clients at the end of their lives face difficult decisions concerning the client's self-determination, the kind of death he or she will have, and the prolongation of life. They must also remain sensitive to the beliefs and needs of family ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:21 | In October of 2002, a series of sniper attacks paralyzed the Washington Beltway, turning normally placid gas stations, parking lots, restaurants, and school grounds into chaotic killing fields. After the spree, ten people were dead and several others wounded. The per... Полное описание |
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{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:21 | The author of the acclaimed Gay Fiction Speaks brings us new interviews with twelve prominent gay writers who have emerged in the last decade. Hear Us Out demonstrates how in recent decades the canon of gay fiction has developed, diversified, and expanded its audienc... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:21 | The Earths climate is already warming due to increased concentrations of human-produced greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, and the specter of rising sea level is one of global warmings most far-reaching threats. Sea level will keep rising long after greenhouse gas e... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:22 | This book is the first to provide strategies for effective advocacy and placement within the foster care and kinship care systems. It also takes a rare look at the dynamics of the foster and kinship relationship, not just among children and the agency workers and ser... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:22 | The story of the succession to the Prophet Muhammad and the rise of the Rashidun Caliphate (632-661 AD) has been familiar to historians from the political histories of medieval Islam, which lend a factual credibility to scholarly narratives, and the competing perspec... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:22 | Known as the New Madrid seismic zone, the Midwestern rift between two geologic plates on the continental US has led many people to believe in strong likelihood of an imminent and hugely destructive earthquake in the Midwest. After the San Francisco earthquake of 1905... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:22 | Partha Chatterjee is one of the world's greatest living theorists on the political, cultural, and intellectual history of nationalism. Beginning in the 1980s, his work, particularly within the context of India, has served as the foundation for subaltern studies, an a... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:22 | Jared Diamond and other leading scholars have argued that the domestication of animals for food, labor, and tools of war has advanced the development of human society. But by comparing practices of animal exploitation for food and resources in different societies ove... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:22 | Music is a significant object of reflection for contemporary philosophers, yet little has been written on the interplay of music and thought. Franois Noudelmann critically engages the musicality of Barthes, Sartre and Nietzsche, all of whom were amateur piano players... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:23 | The second release in a major new series of guides to the books of the Old Testament written in an accessible and anecdotal style. The series is suitable for personal or group use and the format is also appropriate for daily study. This series offers a natural progre... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:23 | If Westerners know a single Islamic term, it is likely to be jihad, the Arabic word for "e;holy war."e; The image of Islam as an inherently aggressive and xenophobic religion has long prevailed in the West and can at times appear to be substantiated by curren... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:23 | While philosophy and psychoanalysis privilege language and conceptual distinctions and mistrust the image, the philosopher and psychoanalyst Julia Kristeva recognizes the power of art and the imagination to unblock important sources of meaning. She also appreciates t... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:23 | Tunisian cinema is often described as the most daring of all Arab cinemas, a model of equipoise between East and West and the defender of a fierce, sovereign style. Even during the repressive regime that ruled Tunisia from 1987 to 2011, a generation of filmmakers pro... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:23 | Taking a panoramic view of Koreas dynamic literary production in the final decade of Japanese rule, When the Future Disappears locates the imprint of a new temporal sense in Korean modernism: the impression of time interrupted, with no promise of a future. As colonia... Полное описание |
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