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Hardback. Presents original research that explores the extent to which the constraints of law explain economic behavior and the role of economics in forming the law. This title proposes three different definitions for market power from an antitrust perspective. It offers an analysis of efforts exerted and utilities obtained in a double lawsuit. Editor(s): Kirkwood, John B.; Zerbe, Richard O., Jr. Series Editor(s): Gold, Dana; Zerbe, Richard O., Jr. Series: Research in Law & Economics. Num Pages: 244 pages, black & white tables, figures. BIC Classification: KCA; LAQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 189 x 232 x 24. Weight in Grams: 496.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Emerald Publishing Limited United Kingdom
Number of pages
244
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780528984
ISBN
9781780528984
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 129.04

Paperback. The essays in this volume take on the challenge of explaining the current formation of the relation between sovereignty, law and violence in what is termed 'Democracy's Empire'. Editor(s): Motha, Stewart. Series: Journal of Law and Society Special Issues. Num Pages: 160 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFE; JPHV; LAQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 154 x 6. Weight in Grams: 224.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405163132
ISBN
9781405163132
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.60

Paperback. Reflecting a developing trend towards interdisciplinary research in economics and law, this agenda-setting volume makes the case for the economic sociology of law. It locates this novel subject in a wider socio-legal tradition. Editor(s): Ashiagbor, Diamond; Kotiswaran, Prabha; Perry-Kessaris, Amanda. Series: Journal of Law and Society Special Issues. Num Pages: 176 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: JHB; LAQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 6. Weight in Grams: 212.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9781118508251
ISBN
9781118508251
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.60

Hardcover. Addresses a variety of issues related to economic crisis in the broadest sense of the term, involving diverse national and international contexts, historical epochs, and a range of problems related to economic life. This title tackles criminologically relevant questions in connection with crime/deviance and/or the control thereof. Editor(s): Deflem, Mathieu. Series Editor(s): Deflem, Mathieu. Series: Sociology of Crime, Law & Deviance. Num Pages: 224 pages, ill. BIC Classification: JHB; JKV; KCX; LAQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 151 x 23. Weight in Grams: 478.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Emerald Group Publishing Limited United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857248015
ISBN
9780857248015
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 143.94

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

Hardback. Law and society scholars challenge the common belief that law is simply a neutral tool by which society sets standards and resolves disputes. This book provides readers an accessible overview to the breadth of developments in this research tradition, bringing to life the developments in this dynamic field. Editor(s): Larson, Erik W.; Schmidt, Patrick D. Num Pages: 440 pages, black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: LAQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5182 x 4522 x 25. Weight in Grams: 984.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
New York University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780814770818
ISBN
9780814770818
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 97.45

Hardback. A history of human rights law in Canada, with a focus on sex discrimination in British Columbia. Series: Law and Society. Num Pages: 288 pages, , black & white illustrations, figures. BIC Classification: 1KBCB; JFSJ1; JPVH; LAQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 58. Weight in Grams: 1179.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780774827492
ISBN
9780774827492
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 107.64

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

€ 37.99
€ 34.36

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
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 107.64

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. 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

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.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691153612
ISBN
9780691153612
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.47
€ 42.58

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.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691143484
ISBN
9780691143484
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.81

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
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.81

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
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 33.81

Paperback. In the 1960s and 1970s, analogies between sex discrimination and racial injustice became potent weapons in the battle for women s rights, as feminists borrowed rhetoric and legal arguments from the civil rights movement. Serena Mayeri s "Reasoning from Race" is the first history of this key strategy and its consequences for American law. Num Pages: 382 pages. BIC Classification: JFFK; LAQG; LAZ; LNDC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 234 x 159 x 26. Weight in Grams: 436.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674284302
ISBN
9780674284302
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 31.06

Hardback. Offers an examination of the laws governing the punishment, detention and protection of people with mental disabilities. Using famous cases such as those of John Hinckley, Andrea Yates and Theodore Kaczynski, this book analyses the insanity defence and related doctrines, the role of mental disability in sentencing, and more. Num Pages: 396 pages. BIC Classification: LAQ; LND. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 29. Weight in Grams: 718.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
396
Condition
New
SKU
V9780674022041
ISBN
9780674022041
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 84.30
€ 76.62

Paperback. Using a fresh approach to understanding consent, the author presents two case studies of activities in which participants engage in violent acts: competitive mixed martial arts (MMA) and sexual sadism and masochism (BDSM). Num Pages: 160 pages, 2 b/w illustrations. BIC Classification: JKV; LAQ; LNFJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 229 x 18. Weight in Grams: 234.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of California Press
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520290662
ISBN
9780520290662
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 25.06

Paperback. Series: Reformations: Medieval and Early Modern. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: HBLC1; HBTB; LAQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268041458
ISBN
9780268041458
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 36.59

Paperback. In follow-up studies, dozens of reviews, and even a book of essays evaluating his conclusions, Gerald N Rosenberg's critics have spent years debating the arguments he first put forward in "The Hollow Hope". Addressing its critics in a fresh conclusion, this work reignites for a new generation the national debate it sparked years ago. Series: American Politics & Political Economy S. Num Pages: 534 pages, 8 line drawings, 35 tables. BIC Classification: JP; LAF; LAQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 30. Weight in Grams: 764.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
Second Edition
Number of pages
534
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226726717
ISBN
9780226726717
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 25.14

Paperback. Explores language and interaction within a contemporary Native American legal system. This work explains how Hopi notions of tradition and culture shape and are shaped by processes of Hopi jurisprudence. It shows that Hopi jurists and litigants have called for their courts to develop a jurisprudence that better reflect Hopi culture and traditions. Series: Chicago Series in Law and Society. Num Pages: 176 pages, 2 halftones, 2 maps, 6 line drawings. BIC Classification: JFSL9; LAQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 165 x 13. Weight in Grams: 278.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226712956
ISBN
9780226712956
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 25.14

Hardcover. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; LAQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 163 x 236 x 23. Weight in Grams: 422.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226365459
ISBN
9780226365459
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 27.05

Hardcover. This book uncovers how colonial administrators, postcolonial governments and international aid agencies have promoted stability and their own visions of the rule of law in Sudan. Series: Cambridge Studies in Law and Society. Num Pages: 304 pages, 10 b/w illus. 2 maps 5 tables. BIC Classification: 1HBS; LAQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 158 x 21. Weight in Grams: 532.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
297
Condition
New
SKU
V9781107026070
ISBN
9781107026070
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 150.68

Paperback. Thoroughly updated new edition of this introduction to the sociology of law, full of up to date and relevant examples. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: JHB; JPV; LAQ. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 238 x 171 x 18. Weight in Grams: 532.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
SAGE Publications Inc United Kingdom
Edition
Second Edition
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9781412945608
ISBN
9781412945608
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 68.59

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