Jurisprudence & general issues
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Jurisprudence & general issues
Paperback. Offers an anthropological analysis and critique of American injury law. This book approaches injury law as a symptom of a larger American injury culture. It offers an understanding of the problematic role that law plays in Americans' relations with the objects they consume. It shows that American law sets out injury as an exceptional state. Num Pages: 248 pages, 14 halftones. 7 line illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JHMC; LAQ; LNTJ; LNV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 314.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691119083
- ISBN
- 9780691119083
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Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 32.93
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Paperback. Offensive street speech - racist and sexist remarks that can make its targets feel both psychologically and physically threatened - is common in our society. This title argues that racist and sexist speech creates, reproduces, and reinforces systems of hierarchy in public places. Series: The Cultural Lives of Law. Num Pages: 248 pages, 11 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPVH2; LAB; LND. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 157 x 13. Weight in Grams: 360.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691126104
- ISBN
- 9780691126104
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Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 32.93
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Paperback. Grounding the author's claims about modern law in rhetorical analyses of US law and legal texts and locating those claims within the tradition of Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Foucault, this book asks what we are to make of silences in modern law and justice. Num Pages: 224 pages, 1 line illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; LAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 342.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691133775
- ISBN
- 9780691133775
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Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 32.72
€ 45.99
€ 32.72
Paperback. A comparative study of the development of inheritance law in the United States, France, and Germany, this work investigates longstanding political and intellectual debates over inheritance laws and explains why these laws differ so greatly among these countries. Translator(s): Dunlap, Thomas. Num Pages: 392 pages, 7 line illus. 20 tables. BIC Classification: LAM; LNW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 550.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Edition
- English Ed
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691134512
- ISBN
- 9780691134512
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Condition: New
€ 67.62€ 52.50
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Paperback. Offering an analysis of the Supreme Court's most important task - shaping the law, this book analyzes the Court's interpretation or treatment of the precedents it has set in the past. It shows that while precedent can operate as a constraint on the justices' decisions, it also represents an opportunity to foster preferred societal outcomes. Num Pages: 184 pages, 14 line illus. 5 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; LAZ; LNAA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 257.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691136332
- ISBN
- 9780691136332
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Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.68
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Paperback. In 1931, nine black youths were charged with raping two white women in Scottsboro, Alabama. Despite meager and contradictory evidence, all nine were found guilty and eight were sentenced to death. This book explores how this case has embedded itself into the fabric of American memory and become a lens for perceptions of race and class. Num Pages: 296 pages, 18 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBSB; 3JJG; HBTB; JFSL3; LAZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 428.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691140476
- ISBN
- 9780691140476
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Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 32.93
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Paperback. Popular representations of third-world sex workers as sex slaves and vectors of HIV have spawned abolitionist legal reforms that are harmful and ineffective, and public health initiatives that provide only marginal protection of sex workers' rights. This book asks how we might understand sex workers' demands that they be treated as workers. Num Pages: 312 pages, 2 line illus. 1 table. 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1FKA; JFMX; JFSJ1; LAQG; LAR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691142517
- ISBN
- 9780691142517
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Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 32.93
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Paperback. Reveals how the story about the formalist age was an invention of politically motivated critics of the courts, and how it has led to significant misunderstandings about legal realism. This title traces how this false tale has distorted studies of judging by political scientists and debates among legal theorists. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: LA; LNAA1; LNDM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 233 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691142807
- ISBN
- 9780691142807
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Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.68
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Paperback. As a child, Inga Markovits dreamt of stealing and reading every letter contained in a mailbox at a busy intersection of her town in order to learn what life is all about. When, decades later, working as a legal historian, she tracked down the almost complete archive of a former East German trial court, she knew that she had found her mailbox. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFGE; HBLW; LAQ; LAZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 372.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691143484
- ISBN
- 9780691143484
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Condition: New
€ 45.99€ 32.93
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Paperback. Proposes a renovation of legal ethics, one that contributes to ethical thought generally. This title reinterprets the positive law governing lawyers to identify fidelity as its organizing ideal. It asks what it is like - not psychologically but ethically - to practice law subject to the self-effacement that fidelity demands. Num Pages: 376 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPQ; LATC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 225 x 148 x 24. Weight in Grams: 504.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691148137
- ISBN
- 9780691148137
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€ 36.99€ 27.01
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Paperback. Not long after he led the legal team in Brown v Board of Education, Thurgood Marshall aided Kenya's constitutional negotiations, as adversaries battled over rights and land - not with weapons, but with legal arguments. This work tells the story of Marshall's work with Kenyan leaders as they fought with the British for independence in the 1960s. Num Pages: 288 pages, 20 halftones. BIC Classification: 1HFGK; 1KBB; HBJH; JPVH1; LAZ; LND. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 16. Weight in Grams: 410.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691152448
- ISBN
- 9780691152448
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Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 21.71
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Hardback. Addresses the enduring puzzles in political philosophy and constitutional theory - why is religion singled out for preferential treatment in both law and public discourse? Why is a Sikh boy permitted to wear his ceremonial dagger to school while any other boy could be expelled for packing a knife? Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; HRAM2; LAQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 384.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691153612
- ISBN
- 9780691153612
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Condition: New
€ 52.47€ 41.44
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Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: HPQ; LATC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 157 x 20. Weight in Grams: 446.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691156217
- ISBN
- 9780691156217
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Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 24.42
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Paperback. Series: Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics. Num Pages: 344 pages, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1HBE; JFSR2; JPA; JPHL; LAFS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 153 x 22. Weight in Grams: 474.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Edition
- With a New introduction by the author
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691158044
- ISBN
- 9780691158044
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€ 25.99€ 19.30
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Paperback. Draws on literature, law, and psychoanalysis to examine important aspects of the emergence of identity as a peculiarly modern preoccupation. This book addresses the social, legal, and personal anxieties provoked by the rise of individualism and selfhood in modern culture. Num Pages: 232 pages, 1 color illus. BIC Classification: DSB; JMAF; JMS; LA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 232 x 162 x 14. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 232
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691159539
- ISBN
- 9780691159539
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Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 21.74
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Paperback. Sustained growth depends on innovation, whether it's cutting-edge software from Silicon Valley, an improved assembly line in Sichuan, or a new export market for Swaziland's leather. This title proposes a legal theory of economic growth that details how effective property, contract, and business laws help to unite capital and ideas. Series: The Kauffman Foundation Series on Innovation and Entrepreneurship. Num Pages: 344 pages, 21 line illus. 29 tables. BIC Classification: KCG; LAQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 166 x 21. Weight in Grams: 490.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 344
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691159713
- ISBN
- 9780691159713
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Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 21.90
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Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages, 1 halftone. 18 line illus. 37 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJ; 3JM; JPQB; LAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 237 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 436.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691171869
- ISBN
- 9780691171869
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Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 27.01
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Hardback. Why are newspapers and television programmes filled with stories about crime and criminals? Is their portrayal of crime accurate? How do the media transform our attitudes to crime? Is fear of crime, for example, really created by the media? The relationships between crime and the media have long been the subject of intense debate. Series: Polity Crime and Society. Num Pages: 300 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: LA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 163 x 24. Weight in Grams: 524.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745634654
- ISBN
- 9780745634654
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Condition: New
€ 70.74
€ 70.74
Hardback. This innovative book tells the fascinating tale of the long histories of violence, punishment, and the human body, and how they are all connected. Num Pages: 248 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFE; JKVP; LAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 157 x 18. Weight in Grams: 482.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745653488
- ISBN
- 9780745653488
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Condition: New
€ 71.30
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Paperback. Many people dream of becoming an inventor, but very few know how to make money from their inventions. This book intends to take the invention out of the patent office and into the marketplace. It provides step-by-step guidance in selling, licensing, manufacturing, and marketing the processes and products that result from invention. Num Pages: 384 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: KJ; LA; TB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 189 x 22. Weight in Grams: 598.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Inc United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780764542312
- ISBN
- 9780764542312
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Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 18.01
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Hardback. An exploration of the role of storytelling in community and nation building that disrupts the assumption in many works that indigenous and immigrant identities fall into two separate streams of analysis. Editor(s): Lessard, Hester; Johnson, Rebecca; Webber, Jeremy. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; JPA; LAQ; LND. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887. Weight in Grams: 680.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of British Columbia Press
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780774818797
- ISBN
- 9780774818797
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Condition: New
€ 119.48
€ 119.48
Hardback. In this eye-opening account of military law in the Great War, courts martials emerge not as brutal, merciless dispensers of frontline justice but as courts capable of mercy. Series: Studies in Canadian Military History. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: HBWN; LAF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of British Columbia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780774825672
- ISBN
- 9780774825672
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 112.50
€ 112.50
Hardback. Series: Law and Society. Num Pages: 492 pages. BIC Classification: JFSJ1; LAQG; LNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 37. Weight in Grams: 839.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of British Columbia Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780774826518
- ISBN
- 9780774826518
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Condition: New
€ 113.29
€ 113.29
Paperback. A provocative meditation on how "Metis" has come to signify an ever-expanding racial category rather than an indigenous people with a shared sense of history and culture. Num Pages: 284 pages. BIC Classification: JFSL9; JHB; JPH; LAQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- University of British Columbia Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780774827225
- ISBN
- 9780774827225
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 36.77
€ 41.99
€ 36.77