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Hardcover. Contains articles that consider the ways in which history has shaped law and how we make sense of past events. This volume also includes articles that explore pressing legal issues such as the prison boom, First Amendment controversies, and the work of cause lawyers. It illustrates the vibrancy of interdisciplinary legal scholarship throughout. Editor(s): Sarat, Austin. Series Editor(s): Sarat, Austin. Series: Studies in Law, Politics, and Society. Num Pages: 172 pages, ill. BIC Classification: LAQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 158 x 18. Weight in Grams: 392.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Emerald Publishing Limited United Kingdom
Number of pages
172
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857246158
ISBN
9780857246158
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 119.57

Hardback. The articles in this 63rd volume of Studies in Law, Politics and Society cover cutting edge issues of major interest to policy makers, activists and interdisciplinary law scholars: family law, the way law deals with children, international human rights, and the way law deals with injury and damages claims. Editor(s): Sarat, Austin. Series: Studies in Law, Politics, and Society. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: LAQ; LNMK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 231 x 159 x 21. Weight in Grams: 488.
Publisher
Emerald Publishing Limited United Kingdom
Number of pages
250
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781783507856
ISBN
9781783507856
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 135.81

Paperback. An interdisciplinary study of the law's influence on homecare work and the experiences of care workers in the UK. Drawing together interviews with analysis of legal documents and media reports, this highly topical text unpicks assumptions about care workers and identifies aspects of the law that are problematic in this work context. Series: Palgrave Socio-Legal Studies. Num Pages: 192 pages, biography. BIC Classification: LAQG; LNH. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 157 x 234 x 18. Weight in Grams: 374.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
1st ed. 2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137492593
ISBN
9781137492593
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 115.92

Hardback. An interdisciplinary study of the law's influence on homecare work and the experiences of care workers in the UK. Drawing together interviews with analysis of legal documents and media reports, this highly topical text unpicks assumptions about care workers and identifies aspects of the law that are problematic in this work context.

Num Pages: 192 pages, biography. BIC Classification: LAQG; LNH. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137611154
ISBN
9781137611154
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 138.99

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
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 114.01

Paperback. Reassesses the place of feminism in the law and politics of sexuality. This book argues that sexuality involves deeply contested and clashing realities and interests, and that feminism helps us understand only some of them. Num Pages: 424 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFK; JHBK5; LAQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 231 x 155 x 26. Weight in Grams: 646.
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
424
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691136325
ISBN
9780691136325
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 31.19

Hardback. This special issue is dedicated to the life and work of beloved legal scholar Stuart Scheingold. The articles brought together in this volume articulate the inspiring contribution Scheingold has made to the field of political science. The final chapter on Rights, Community, and Democracy is a work authored by Stuart Scheingold which has been comple Editor(s): Sarat, Austin. Series: Studies in Law, Politics, and Society. Num Pages: 263 pages. BIC Classification: JP; LAQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 18. .
Publisher
Emerald Publishing Limited United Kingdom
Number of pages
263
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781781903438
ISBN
9781781903438
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 137.16

Hardback. This special issue of Studies in Law, Politics, and Society focuses on the discourse of judging and the "language of judging" within many diverse legal scenarios. The volume features chapters specifically on: the "language of rights" within the context of abortion and same-sex marriage cases; discourses within the European Court of Justice; the mod Editor(s): Sarat, Austin. Series: Studies in Law, Politics, and Society. Num Pages: 157 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JP; LAQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 238 x 150 x 19. Weight in Grams: 392.
Publisher
Emerald Publishing Limited United Kingdom
Number of pages
157
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780528700
ISBN
9781780528700
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 137.16

Hardback. In The Beautiful Prison incarcerated Americans and prison critics seek to imagine the prison as something better than a machinery of suffering. From personal testimony to theoretical meditation these writers explore and confront the practical and cultural limits the prison places on its transformation into a socially constructive institution. Series: Studies in Law, Politics, and Society. Num Pages: 112 pages, black & white halftones. BIC Classification: JKVP1; LAQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 230 x 148 x 14. Weight in Grams: 306.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Emerald Publishing Limited
Edition
n
Condition
New
SKU
V9781783509676
ISBN
9781783509676
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 135.81

Hardcover. Social movements provide the engine of legal change and law itself spurs social movement activity. This issue includes articles on social movements in several different nations, including France, South Africa and Canada, asking us to consider the way context is reflected in movement activities. Editor(s): Sarat, Austin. Series Editor(s): Sarat, Austin. Series: Studies in Law, Politics, and Society. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white tables. BIC Classification: LAQ; LNA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 153 x 26. Weight in Grams: 542.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Emerald Publishing Limited United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780857248251
ISBN
9780857248251
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 134.46

Hardback. The scholars who contribute to this issue utilize diverse research methods to examine the lived experiences of people engaged in prostitution and the people and institutions that process them. Series: Studies in Law, Politics, and Society. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: JFMX; JPV; LAQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 162 x 242 x 15. Weight in Grams: 372.
Publisher
Emerald Publishing Limited
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781786350404
ISBN
9781786350404
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 115.63

Hardcover. This special issue of Studies in Law, Politics and Society focuses on law and the liberal state; presenting an interdisciplinary and multifaceted approach to analysis of law and liberty. The first chapters focus on law's relationship with the American liberal state, while the remaining papers consider specific applications of the law within society Editor(s): Sarat, Austin. Series: Studies in Law, Politics, and Society. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: JPVH; LAQ; LNA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 169 x 17. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784412395
ISBN
9781784412395
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 135.81

Hardback. Presents advanced scholarship on human rights. This work examines both the theoretical dimensions and dilemmas of human rights in the modern world and particular cases in which the problems and possibilities of human rights are examined. Editor(s): Sarat, Austin. Series Editor(s): Sarat, Austin. Series: Studies in Law, Politics, and Society. Num Pages: 243 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JPVH; LAQ; LBBR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 161 x 25. Weight in Grams: 508.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Emerald Publishing Limited United Kingdom
Number of pages
243
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780522524
ISBN
9781780522524
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 126.34

Hardback. This volume carefully examines the relationship between gender, equality, and power across an array of realms: sex, reproduction, pleasure, work, money. It identifies social, political, economic, developmental, and psychological and somatic forces, operating both internally and externally, that complicate the expression and constraint of power. Series: Studies in Law, Politics, and Society. Num Pages: 250 pages. BIC Classification: JFFK; LAQG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
Publisher
Emerald Publishing Limited United Kingdom
Number of pages
250
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Special
Condition
New
SKU
V9781785607837
ISBN
9781785607837
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 122.28

Hardback. This special issue of SLPS examines the relationship between law and disasters. The papers come from members of the Collaborative Research Network on the Jurisprudence of Disasters within the Law and Society Association. The volume addresses the 'myths' of contemporary disaster law and policy, such as that of society's "invincibility". Editor(s): Sarat, Austin. Series: Studies in Law, Politics, and Society. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: JFFC; LAQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 160 x 236 x 24. Weight in Grams: 486.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Emerald Publishing Limited
Edition
Special
Condition
New
SKU
V9781785602993
ISBN
9781785602993
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 129.04

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.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691159713
ISBN
9780691159713
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 22.43

Hardcover. Explains and conceptualizes social control in its diversity. This title includes treatments of informal control (socialization, group formation and the controls exerted in everyday life) as well as medical control (norms regarding health and illness, particularly with regard to notions of 'normal' behaviour). Editor(s): Chriss, James J. Series Editor(s): Deflem, Mathieu. Series: Sociology of Crime, Law & Deviance. Num Pages: 200 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JH; JKV; LAQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 149 x 221 x 22. Weight in Grams: 438.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Emerald Group Publishing Limited United Kingdom
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857243454
ISBN
9780857243454
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 119.57

Paperback. Editor(s): Wiener, Richard L.; Bornstein, Brian H.; Schopp, Robert; Willborn, Steven L. Num Pages: 298 pages, 17 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JKV; JMK; LAQ; MMJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 419.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Edition
1st ed. Softcover of orig. ed. 2007
Number of pages
298
Condition
New
SKU
V9781441942760
ISBN
9781441942760
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 137.78

Hardback. Our basic assumption about the law is that it is designed to operate fairly and openly. This book examines four controversial areas involving people's perceptions of others - racial profiling, affirmative action, workplace harassment, and hate speech/hate crime - from the perspectives of psychology, decision theory, and the law. Editor(s): Wiener, Richard L.; Bornstein, Brian H.; Schopp, Robert; Wilborn, Steve. Num Pages: 298 pages, 17 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: JFF; LAQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 592.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Number of pages
298
Condition
New
SKU
V9780387462172
ISBN
9780387462172
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.77

Hardback. In this book, Perlin and Lynch approach issues of sexual autonomy and disability from multiple perspectives, including constitutional law, international human rights, therapeutic jurisprudence, history, cognitive psychology, dignity studies, and theories and findings on gender constructs and societal norms. Num Pages: 209 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JFFG; LAQ; LNTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 405.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
209
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137481078
ISBN
9781137481078
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.40

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