University of Toronto Press, 2017. — 559 p. Regulating Creation is a collection of essays featuring contributions by Canadian and international scholars. It offers a variety of perspectives on the role of law in dealing with the legal, ethical, and policy issues surrounding changing reproductive technologies.
Princeton University Press, 2016. — 336 p. Many continue to believe that the United States is a nation of political moderates. In fact, it is a nation divided. It has been so for some time and has grown more so. This book provides a new and historically grounded perspective on the polarization of America, systematically documenting how and why it happened. Polarized presents...
Princeton University Press, 2014. — 248 p. With Hezbollah's entry into the Lebanese government in 2009 and recent forceful intervention in the Syrian civil war, the potent Shi‘i political and military organization continues to play an enormous role in the Middle East. Policymakers in the United States and Israel usually denounce it as a dangerous terrorist group and refuse to...
University of Toronto Press, 2018. — 368 p. — (German and European Studies). Retallack reveals the complex and contradictory nature of the Second Reich, presenting Imperial Germany as it was seen by outsiders and insiders as well as by historians, political scientists, and sociologists ever since.
Second Edition. — Edinburgh University Press, 2022. — 288 p. Your one-stop practical guide to translating text from English into Arabic: For learners who already have a grasp of basic Arabic and are looking to improve their translation skills. Examples cover media, legal, scientific & technical, literary and administrative texts. Clear explanations and worked examples develop...
University of Toronto Press, 2018. — 168 p. Building on a field-tested framework the authors have applied in Fortune 500 companies, small businesses, and social sector organizations, Stragility provides the tools for creating a thriving, high-energy organization that will excel at strategic change – again and again.
Edinburgh University Press, 2021. — 448 p. A practitioner’s guide to arbitration in Scotland. Includes the full text of the 2010 Act including the Scottish Arbitration Rules, the Rules of the Court of Session and the New York Convention. Outlines what is missing from the 2010 Act, interim measures, emergency measures and what to do if there is a gap. Structured thematically,...
Edinburgh University Press, 2017. — 336 p. Introduces students to legalistic, theoretical, empirical, comparative and cross-disciplinary research methods, grounded in working examples. New for this edition: New chapter on inter- and cross-disciplinary research – essential reading for international students and students with a non-law first degree undertaking research in the...
Edinburgh University Press, 2022. — 504 p. Makes available, in a concise form, the main statutory provisions relating to adult domestic relations and to child law. Key contents include: Matrimonial Homes (Family Protection) (Scotland) Act 1981. Law (Scotland) Act 1985. Civil Partnership Acts 2004 and 2020. Family Law (Scotland) Act 2006. Adoption and Children (Scotland) Act...
Yale University Press, 2023. — 304 p. A groundbreaking examination of a central question in international relations: Do states act rationally? To understand world politics, you need to understand how states think. Are states rational? Much of international relations theory assumes that they are. But many scholars believe that political leaders rarely act rationally. The issue...
Edinburgh University Press, 2009. — 128 p. Explores the legal development of the EU, providing an essential framework for studying European law. The European Union enjoys the competence to make laws in a wealth of areas, from environmental protection to agricultural policy. This competence is the result of many years of building and promoting European-level co-operation and...
Arc Humanities Press, 2018. — 171 p. The Church was at the heart of the political and social, as well as the religious changes that look place in the Roman West from the fourth to seventh centuries. In this concise and effective synthesis, Ian Wood considers some ways in which religion and the Church can be reintegrated into what has become a largely secular discourse, and he...
University of Toronto Press, 1973. — 255 p. This study in economic history focuses on the commercial relations and monetary policies of England, Burgundy, and Flanders in medieval times. Professor John Munro shows how princes in continental Europe employed coinage debasements far more often as ad hoc fiscal measures to meet their ever-growing need for revenue.
Edinburgh University Press, 2023. — 744 p. Explores the evolution of modern Turkey – its past, current situation and potential future trajectories – from an interdisciplinary perspective. 52 original chapters from an interdisciplinary group of world-leading scholars. 7 parts examine the founding of the republic; political ideologies in Turkey; governance challenges and...
Edinburgh University Press, 2014. — 192 p. Your guide to medicine and the law in Scotland, for lawyers, patients and medical professionals. From negligence to confidentiality, and from reproduction to euthanasia, discover how the law protects and regulates patients and professionals in Scotland. Tables of Essential Facts and Essential cases will help you to quickly learn and...
University of Toronto Press, 2020. — 448 p. Industry financial specialists and thought leaders explain how modern financial services will evolve in the coming decade in response to heightened regulation, technological disruption, and changing demographics.
Amsterdam University Press, 2022. — 290 p. Explores how one early medieval poet survived and thrived amidst the political turbulence of sixth-century Merovingian Gaul, and how the language of friendship shaped beliefs and behaviours, leading to social cohesion even within kingdoms repeatedly wracked by civil wars.
University of California Press, 2010. — 372 p. The Egyptians mesmerized the ancient Greeks for scores of years. The Greek literature and art of the classical period are especially thick with representations of Egypt and Egyptians. Yet despite numerous firsthand contacts with Egypt, Greek writers constructed their own Egypt, one that differed in significant ways from actual...
W.W. Norton and Company, 2003. — 141 p. The classic study of how the Roman Empire gradually succumbed to barbarian encroachment.In print for more than thirty years, this book has long served as a standard text on the Germanic penetration of the Roman Empire. Bury's history is indispensable to anyone who seeks to understand the connection between the barbarian migrations of the...
Pearson Education, 1995. — 405 p. Of all Rome's western successors, the Frankish kingdom that emerged in France, Belgium, the Rhineland and Switzerland was the longest lasting and most powerful; yet the Merovingians, who ruled it for nearly 300 years (481-751), have been harshly treated by posterity. This is partly through the hostility of the Carolingians who usurped and...
Reti Medievali Rivista. — 2021. — № 22 (2). — p. 111-140. What is usually called “the Burgundian kingdom” differed in various respects from the other “successor states” of the fifth and sixth centuries. It was not a territorial entity associated with a people (as was the case for the kingdoms of the Visigoths in Aquitaine and that of the Vandals in North Africa), but was rather...
Edinburgh University Press, 2023. — 895 p. The authoritative general introduction to cognitive linguistics. Vyvyan Evans covers all aspects of the relationship between language and mind, as well as applications and extensions of cognitive linguistics to the study of text, literature, discourse, and society. Bursting with new content and presented in a new 5-part structure, the...
Edinburgh University Press, 2018. — 608 p. Analyses and critiques the key regulatory and commercial dimensions of the oil and gas industry. In recent years, a great deal has changed in the oil and gas industry, from legal and regulatory change to falling oil prices. The contemporary oil and gas industry is now intensely focussed on cost-saving and the UK has radical redrawn its...
University of Toronto Press, 2017. — 597 p. Courts are key players in the dynamics of federal countries since their rulings have a direct impact on the ability of governments to centralize and decentralize power. Courts in Federal Countries examines the role high courts play in thirteen countries, including Australia, Brazil, Canada, Germany, India, Nigeria, Spain, and the...
Edinburgh University Press, 2017. — 239 p. A comprehensive and critical overview of the field of intercultural communication. Combining perspectives from discourse analysis and sociolinguistics, the second edition of this popular textbook provides students with an up-to-date overview of the field of intercultural communication. Ingrid Piller explains communication in context...
Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2012. — 298 p. Why did the Truman administration reject a pragmatic approach to the Taiwan Strait conflict--recognizing Beijing and severing ties with Taipei--and instead choose the path of strategic ambiguity? Dean Chen sheds light on current US policy by exploring the thoughts and deliberations of President Truman and his top advisers, among them...
Princeton University Press, 2015. — 495 p. Liberalism dominates today's politics just as it decisively shaped the American and European past. This engrossing history of liberalism—the first in English for many decades—traces liberalism’s ideals, successes, and failures through the lives and ideas of a rich cast of European and American thinkers and politicians, from the early...
Amsterdam University Press, 2015. — 650 p. The Syntax of Dutch aims at presenting a synthesis of the currently available syntactic knowledge of Dutch. It is primarily concerned with language description and not with linguistic theory, and provides support to all researchers interested in matters relating to the syntax of Dutch, including advanced students of language and...
Amsterdam University Press, 2016. — 734 p. This volume concludes the series and features a description of adverbial modification and the overall structure of clauses in relation to word order and other aspects of syntax. The Syntax of Dutch aims at presenting a synthesis of the currently available syntactic knowledge of Dutch. It is primarily concerned with language description...
Edinburgh University Press, 2014. — 118 p. A concise overview of the different facets of this branch of public law. From judicial review to ombudsmen, and from ultra vires to natural justice, discover how law governs the activities of the government’s administrative agencies. Helping to orientate you within the subject with an introduction and explanations of the doctrines of...
University of Toronto Press, 2018. — 272 p. Based on archival work and Quaintance’s exceptional knowledge of Venetian dialect poetry, Textual Masculinity and the Exchange of Women in Renaissance Venice is an unprecedented window into the understudied world of Venetian literature.
Princeton University Press, 2013. — 416 p. Why do democracies keep lurching from success to failure? The current financial crisis is just the latest example of how things continue to go wrong, just when it looked like they were going right. In this wide-ranging, original, and compelling book, David Runciman tells the story of modern democracy through the history of moments of...
Second Edition. — Edinburgh University Press, 2020. — 212 p. A student’s introduction to the sounds of English: Ten discrete chapters map on to an introductory course on English phonology. Expanded coverage of different accents and varieties of modern World Englishes. New coverage of intonation. Theory-neutral and clear explanation of concepts central to the practice of...
Fifth Edition. — Edinburgh University Press, 2021. — 159 p. Your guide to the Scots Law of Evidence, fully updated with the latest statues and case law. A handy overview of everything you need to know for your Scots law evidence course. Includes helpful student features like Essential Facts and Essential Cases for each chapter. New for this edition: Updated to take account of...
University of Hawaii Press, 2023. — 59 p. Japanese Now is a popular four-year learning program used in numerous American secondary schools and universities. The first two years emphasize oral-aural skills; the third and fourth years offer reading selections while expanding vocabulary and grammatical patterns through conversation and discussion of Japanese culture and...
Edinburgh University Press, 2014. — 208 p. A textbook introduction to planning law in Scotland. Much of the new Scottish planning system, legislated by the Planning etc (Scotland) act 2006 and various secondary legislations, has now been implemented, with a commitment to further reforms. Planning Law Essentials explains the current state of planning law in Scotland as a whole,...
Harvard University Press, 2023. — 288 p. Why is Israel’s relatively small and low-budget military also the world’s most innovative, technologically and logistically? Edward Luttwak and Eitan Shamir look to the IDF’s unique structure: integrating army, air force, and navy in one service, under an officer class constantly refreshed by short tenures, the IDF is built for agility...
Edinburgh University Press, 2014. — 278 p. — (Edinburgh Law Essentials). Your introductory guide to the laws that govern and protect companies and workers in Scotland. From contracts to parental rights, and from unfair dismissal to discrimination, this guide explains employment law as it applies to employers, employees and lawyers in Scotland.
Edinburgh University Press, 2023. — 368 p. Explores a full spectrum of Gothic works broadly understood as queer, from the eighteenth century to today: Explores Gothic themes through nuanced queer lenses. Re-visits past ideas of queer theory and expands on them within Gothic context. Focuses on time periods, genres, and queer Gothic modes. Queer Gothic: An Edinburgh Companion...
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2020. — 502 p. The life of prostitutes in medieval European society. Prostitution is often called the oldest profession in the world. Even in the Middle Ages, people believed that there would always be women willing to use their bodies for profit. But who were these women who offered themselves up to men? In A Life of Ill Repute Maria Serena...
Edinburgh University Press, 2022. — 614 p. Contains the main statutory provisions relating to commercial and consumer law in Scotland. Key contents include: Partnership Act 1890 Consumer Credit Act 1974 Sale of Goods Act 1979 Debtors (Scotland) Act 1987, Parts 1, 1A and 3A, and Sch 2 Insurance Act 2015 Consumer Rights Act 2015 Bankruptcy (Scotland) Act 2016. Avizandum Statutes...
Amsterdam University Press, 2015. — 650 p. The Syntax of Dutch aims at presenting a synthesis of the currently available syntactic knowledge of Dutch. It is primarily concerned with language description and not with linguistic theory, and provides support to all researchers interested in matters relating to the syntax of Dutch, including advanced students of language and...
Edinburgh University Press, 2019. — 144 p. Your essential guide to the key cases in Scots contract law. Contract Law Essential Cases is a companion volume to Contract Law Essentials. By summarising the most important cases, it shows how Scots contract law has been enforced and how it has evolved over time.
Edinburgh University Press, 2016. — 159 p. Your guide to the most important aspects of constitutional law in the United Kingdom. Looking at the UK and Scotland, Public Law Essentials is an invaluable guide for law students throughout the United Kingdom. From the monarchy to the UK and Scottish parliaments, and from judicial review to the parliamentary ombudsman, you will find...
Edinburgh University Press, 2010. — 168 p. Your guide to human rights in Scotland, looking at legislation and case law. How have human rights influenced Scots law? And how does the law protect Scottish citizens’ rights? This guide introduces you to the interplay between human rights and Scots law. It covers fundamental rights, procedural rights, qualified rights and other...
Berghahn Books, 2022. — 364 p. Presenting a new historical narrative on European integration and identity this title examines how the concept of Europe has been entangled in a dynamic and dramatic tension between calls for unity and arguments for borders and division. Through an in-depth intellectual history of the idea of Europe, Mats Andren interrogates the concept of...
University of Hawaii Press, 2023. — 368 p. Target: Pearl Harbor takes a fresh look at the air raid that plunged America into World War II by scrutinizing the decisions and attitudes that prompted the attack and left the United States unprepared to mount a successful defense. The core of the book concerns the events of December 7, 1941, as seen through the eyes of participants,...
Edinburgh University Press, 2013. — 232 p. Your invaluable guide to studying and working in commercial law in Scotland. Whether you’re a student coming to commercial law for the first time, you are studying for your exams or you are a professional who needs to brush up on your knowledge, this is the study guide that you need. You will quickly learn about the key topics in...
University of Hawaii Press, 2023. — 424 p. This extensive and thorough explanation of crucial Japanese grammar in English is the culmination of years of teaching and research. Informed by the work of eminent linguist Susumu Kuno, Fundamentals of Japanese Grammar is designed for students who have studied basic Japanese grammar and wish to better organize their knowledge and...
Edinburgh University Press, 2015. — 192 p. Discover and test some of the many ways linguists describe patterns among and within words. In spite of the central position that the concept word has among the basic units of language structure, there is no consensus as to the definition of this concept (or network of related concepts). Many perspectives are needed in order to gain...