Edinburgh University Press, 2020. — 208 p. Covers statutory nuisance, noise, air pollution, climate change, waste, contaminated land, water pollution and nature conservation. Introduces the main areas of current Scottish environmental law The first essential guide to Scottish environmental law Helpful features include Essential Facts and Essential Cases. This concise study...
University of Toronto Press, 2021. — 208 p. Expanding the historical understanding of the myriad ways in which the transfer of technology and business methods unfolded within East Asia, Strands of Modernization examines the translation of technologies among competing developing economies.
University of Toronto Press, 2018. — 144 p. Engaging China is a concise account of the evolution and state of the Canadian approach to China, its achievements, disappointments, and current dilemmas. Preface. The China Policy Problem. Trudeau To Tiananmen. Strategic Partnership. Harper’s Turn. Engagement Recalibrated. Notes. Index.
Edinburgh University Press, 2022. — 352 p. A practical guide to the conduct of criminal cases in Scotland: Centred around The Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 1995, as amended Covers procedure in the general order in which steps occur in prosecutions Deals with solemn and summary procedure together as far as possible Addresses matters of evidence as they become relevant to the...
Edinburgh University Press, 2015. — 159 p. Your guide to the rules and principles of the law of contract from a Scots Law perspective. New for the Third Edition. Updated statutes and cases to reflect changes the changes in legislation and case law since the second edition. The law of contract forms the basis of our civil society. Without the law of contract we could not buy...
De Gruyter Mouton, 2023. — 555 p. — (Trends in Linguistics. Documentation [TiLDOC] 40). Azuma Old Japanese is an areal term for the two major dialects of Eastern (‘Azuma’) Japan during the eighth century: Eastern Old Japanese and Töpo-Suruga Old Japanese. This volume is an exhaustive, comparative reference grammar based on the linguistic data contained in the Man’yōshū poetic...
Fourth Edition. — Edinburgh University Press, 2021. — 208 p. Your one-stop introduction to Scotland's mixed legal system. Fully updated to cover: Case law developments The 2017 Westminster General Elections, the 2016 elections to the Scottish Parliament, the Scottish Independence Referendum 2014 and the Scotland Act 2016 Article 50 and the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill...
Edinburgh University Press, 2022. — 512 p. Contains the main statutory provisions relating to both heritable and moveable property, as well as to trusts and succession law, in Scotland. Key contents include: Requirements of Writing (Scotland) Act 1995. Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003, Part 1. Title Conditions (Scotland) Act 2003. Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act...
Edinburgh University Press, 2014. — 159 p. Your guide to the laws surrounding trusts in Scotland – for study, revision and quick reference. In Scots law, the legal concept of the trust has a long history of development and, over that time, has come to take on a number of characteristics. Because of this, there is no single definition of a trust that covers every example of the...
Edinburgh University Press, 2014. — 200 p. Reveals the stories behind the most important and memorable cases in Scottish legal history. From the huge miscarriage of justice against Oscar Slater to the Lockerbie trial; from the decomposing snail in bottle of ginger beer to allegations of high jinks by a prominent politician; from unplanned pregnancy to switching off life...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2023. — 254 с. — (Новейшие исследования по истории России). Хотя битва на Калке, ставшая первым столкновением Руси с монголо-татарами, входит в обязательную программу всех школьных и вузовских учебников, она остается во многом загадочной для историков. Споры идут о месте сражения, поскольку на современных картах реки с таким названием нет. Дискуссии...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2023. — 440 с. — (Новейшие исследования по истории России). Книга посвящена анализу изменений советского внешнеполитического курса по отношению к Гоминьдану (Национальной партии Китая), в период 1923—1942 гг. На основе опубликованных и архивных материалов развитие советско-китайского сотрудничества рассматривается с точки зрения целостного и преемственного...
Ставрополь: Книжное Издательство, 1963. — 156 с. Читателю предлагается небольшая и интересная книга, написанная энтузиастом русского искусства художником В. В. Секлюцким, посвятившим много лет своей жизни созданию музея Николая Александровича Ярошенко в Кисловодске и собиранию материалов . об этом художнике-демократе, который воплотил в своем искусстве лучшие заветы идейного...
М.: Наука, 2000. — 153 с. Автор рассматривает особенности финансово-хозяйственной деятельности промысловых объединений во второй половине XVIII в., причины появления единой компании, роль государства в процессе ее создания, деятельность Г.И. Шелихова и его жены Н.А. Шелиховой, стоявших у истоков монопольной компании, а также другие проблемы. Книга построена на междисциплинарном...
University of Toronto Press, 2018. — 288 p. Drawing from medieval chivalric culture, the prose romance was a popular early modern genre featuring stories of courtship, combat, and travel. Flourishing at the same moment as the growing English trade with the Eastern Mediterranean, prose romances adopted both Eastern settings and new conceptions of masculinity - commercial rather...
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2010. — 208 p. An insightful study of how America handles independence movements overseas. By examining several cases of U.S. management of secessionist crises in the Balkans and Africa, Jonathan Paquin shows that American foreign policy occasionally recognizes break-away states if it believes that supporting them will help re-establish regional...
Edinburgh University Press, 2014. — 144 p. How Scots law governs what we own and what rights we have to our possessions. Our possessions have enormous value to us – both in terms of economic value and in their significance to us. Property law in Scotland is a large, complex and important area of law, governing all manners of rights and obligations concerning money, goods, land,...
Edinburgh University Press, 2022. — 392 p. A new interdisciplinary approach to Gulf Studies. The Gulf sits at an ancient crossroads of cultures and faiths, and at the heart of modern trade stretching back to the origins of civilization. As a site of both conflict and peaceful encounter, it can be studied in the context of world history, as a place of cultural and historical...
Stanford University Press, 2023. — 290 p. In Supreme Bias, Christina L. Boyd, Paul M. Collins, Jr., and Lori A. Ringhand present for the first time a comprehensive analysis of the dynamics of race and gender at the Supreme Court confirmation hearings held before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Drawing on their deep knowledge of the confirmation hearings, as well as rich new...
Edinburgh University Press, 2014. — 208 p. A concise guide to the key aspects of UK taxation law. From personal income tax to corporation tax, and from VAT to oil and gas taxation, this is your one-stop guide to revenue law in the UK. Split into 16 chapters, it will tell students all they need to know for their courses and exams, and it will help professionals to keep their...
Edinburgh University Press, 2013. — 425 p. Your essential companion to your Scots law degree. This is a tailor-made text for students undertaking the Cert/Dip HE Law, HNC in Law or the BA in Law. It is also a suitable course text for law elements of the Cert/Dip HE Accounting and the BA in Accounting. Each chapter includes a useful summary section to help students identify,...
Fourth Edition. — Edinburgh University Press, 2020. — 520 p. An accessible, hands-on introduction to historical linguistics. The fourth edition features: A larger page format and refreshed layout for a more user-friendly experience 16 restructured and revised chapters, including new examples and exercises and new coverage on areas such as lexical and semantic change, historical...
University of Toronto Press, 2022. — 359 p. Controversies in the Common Law identifies some of the thorniest problems in private and public law, and explains how Canadian Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin addressed them by applying a common law approach to judging.
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2023. — 1023 p. Debating the feasibility and desirability of Canada’s first provincial constitution. No province in Canada has codified a written constitution. A Written Constitution for Québec? enters into the debate of whether Quebec should be the first. Taking a doctrinal, historical, theoretical and comparative approach, and addressing the...
Edinburgh University Press, 2016. — 368 p. Provides a systematic approach to the selection and subsequent evaluation of textbooks. Since the first edition of this book was published in 2002 there have been many changes in language teaching, not least those associated with technological developments. Despite such changes, the same basic needs remain as far as teacher education...
Harvard University Press, 1945. — 212 p. Foreword. Préface. Historical Survey: Armenia and the Byzantine Empire. Religious Controversies. Armenian Architecture. Armenian Sculpture. Armenian Painting. Selected Bibliography.
University of Hawaii Press, 2023. — 90 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...
Penn State University Press, 2023. — 216 p. Is Byzantine Studies a colonialist discipline? Rather than provide a definitive answer to this question, this book defines the parameters of the debate and proposes ways of thinking about what it would mean to engage seriously with the field’s political and intellectual genealogies, hierarchies, and forms of exclusion. In this volume,...
ISEAS Publishing, 2022. — 370 p. Updated by popular demand, this is the fourth edition of this important bibliography. It lists a wide selection of works on or about Myanmar published in English and in hard copy since the 1988 pro-democracy uprising, which marked the beginning of a new era in Myanmar’s modern history. There are now 2,727 titles listed. They have been written,...
Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2021. — 168 p. Explores the human rights implications of Fourth Industrial Revolution – related technologies in South Africa, as well as current and emerging regulatory legal frameworks and policies.
Cornell University Press, 2023. — 270 p. Beyond the Lines explores the social underpinnings of rebel adaptation and resilience. How do rebel groups cope with crises such as repression, displacement, and fragmentation? What explains changes in militant organizations' structures and behaviors over time? Drawing on nearly two years of ethnographic research, Sarah E. Parkinson...
University of Toronto Press, 2018. — 208 p. Positioning the 1932 anniversary celebrations as the crux of the fascist transition from conservatism to totalitarianism, Mussolini’s Decennale broadens our understanding of fascist ideology, cultural politics, and Realpolitik. Critical Italian Dissent: An Alternative Decennale and Beyond.
Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2018. — 317 p. Aleksandr Golts traces the evolution of the Russian military, from the collapse of the Soviet Union to the incursions in eastern Ukraine in 2014–2017. Golts also sheds light on the reemergence of militarism in the Putin era, exploring its origins and making sense of the acceptance of the phenomenon by so much of Russian society
Edinburgh University Press, 2021. — 224 p. A textbook survey of how English morphology has evolved from Old English to the present. Explores four sources of linguistic innovation: learner errors in categorical inflectional systems, lexical analogy, productivity in derivational systems and language and dialect contact: Includes inflectional and derivational morphology Organized...
Edinburgh University Press, 2021. — 416 p. Brings together the legislation that students on Scottish LLB law of obligations courses need to know about. Key contents include: Prescription and Limitation (Scotland) Act 1973 Sale of Goods Act 1979 Requirements of Writing (Scotland) Act 1995 Consumer Rights Act 2015 Unidroit Principles for International Commercial Contracts 2016...
М.: Наука, 1969. — 184 с.: ил. В книге рассматриваются причины возникновения и развития мафии в Сицилии, ее специфические черты, внутренние и международные связи. Автор показывает, как эта преступная организация вошла в повседневную жизнь Италии; сегодня она присутствует повсюду: "городская мафия", "деревенская мафия", "строительная мафия", "мафия плотин" - это далеко не полный...
University of Hawaii Press, 2001. — 272 p. This Chinese-English dictionary of proverbs (yanyu) consists of approximately 4,000 Chinese proverbs alphabetically arranged by the first word(s) (ci) of the proverb according to the Hanyu Pinyin transcription and Chinese characters (standard simplified), followed by a literal (and when necessary also a figurative) English translation....
University of Toronto Press, 2019. — 416 p. The Canadian Constitution in Transition reflects on the legal ideas that will shape the development of Canadian constitutional law in the decades to come. Moving beyond the frameworks that previous generations used to organize constitutional thinking, the scholars in this volume highlight innovative approaches to perennial problems...
University of Toronto Press, 2020. — 328 p. Canada at War explores the impact of the two world wars on Canada and Canadians by examining conscription, foreign policy, and politics, with William Lyon Mackenzie King, Canada’s longest-serving prime minister, acting as the book’s central figure. In this collection of essays, J.L. Granatstein brings together research from archives...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2015. — 290 p. — (Dialogue Studies 26). Persuasive Games in Political and Professional Dialogue is about the rediscovery of humans as proficient users of language in the sense that – while involved in a dialogue – they listen, observe, discuss, reason, evaluate and conclude; in other words, speakers are no longer interested in defeating the...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2015. — 320 p. — (Dialogue Studies 27). The Community of Practice (CofP; Wenger 1998) model of social learning has recently been a preferred lense for investigating professional practice in education. This chapter focuses on the experiences and resultant beliefs and practices of a group of teachers from a range of backgrounds (local, national,...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2015. — 318 p. — (Culture and Language Use 16). This volume presents 22 tales from the Trobriand Islands told by children (boys between the age of 5 and 9 years) and adults. The monograph is motivated not only by the anthropological linguistic aim to present a broad and quite unique collection of tales with the thematic approach to illustrate...
University Press of Kansas, 2014. — 680 p. In Book Two of the third volume of his magisterial Stalingrad Trilogy, David Glantz continues and concludes his definitive history of one of the most infamous battles of World War Two, the Stalingrad campaign that signaled Germany's failure on the Eastern Front and marked a turning point in the war. Book Two finds Germany's most famous...
Edinburgh University Press, 2020. — 239 p. Introduces you to the laws surrounding UK companies. Companies are created by the operation of law and function like artificial persons. As such, they are also restricted by law in what they can and cannot do. Company Law Essentials guides you through how companies are created, governed and protected by UK law. End-of-chapter summary...
Princeton University Press, 2014. — 344 p. When the Soviet Union collapsed, many hoped that Russia’s centuries-long history of autocratic rule might finally end. Yet today’s Russia appears to be retreating from democracy, not progressing toward it. Ruling Russia is the only book of its kind to trace the history of modern Russian politics from the Bolshevik Revolution to the...
University of Toronto Press, 2018. — 359 p. Value Change in the Supreme Court of Canada is a groundbreaking legal analysis of the degree to which Supreme Court decisions reflect the changing values of society over the past four decades.
Edinburgh University Press, 2014. — 424 p. Scots law on housing has altered in many ways during the 20th and early 21st centuries, and the rights of individuals to buy and rent housing have changed radically. While the picture is still scarred by homelessness, poor-quality housing and various forms of exploitation, the majority of Scottish residents in the 21st century have far...
John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2015. — 365 p. This is the first edited volume that tackles the acquisition of the present (tense, aspect, temporality), an under-researched area, particularly compared to the acquisition of past temporality. The first two chapters focus on the L1 acquisition of English from the perspective of the Aspect hypothesis and the Verb-Island...
Kohlhammer, 2017. — 289 p. Nach dem Zerfall des Reiches Alexanders des Großen übernahmen in den Diadochenkämpfen die Ptolemäer ganz Ägypten, das sie als Pharaonen bis zur Eingliederung in das römische Weltreich regierten. Unter ihrer 300-jährigen Herrschaft etablierte sich Ägypten zum wichtigsten, einflussreichsten und wirtschaftlich prosperierendsten Diadochenreich - die...
Kohlhammer, 2007. — 190 p. Der Vandalenname ist im davon abgeleiteten Begriff "Vandalismus" in den europäischen Sprachen präsent und von ungebrochener Aktualität. Man hat vermutet, der Fluch der Nachwelt habe eine solche Erinnerung gesichert. Wenn dem so ist, dann ist zu klären, worauf das relativ spät, nämlich Ende des 18. Jahrhunderts, ausgesprochene und schnell verbreitete...