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Spanning from the 14th century to the present day, The Legal Concept of Work explores how the role of law and legal concepts, comes to consider some forms of human labour as work, and some forms of human labour as non-work, and why perceptions of these activities change over time.

This book explores why naïve ideals about better policymaking persist even in cynical times, revealing the careful reflection at the heart of what appears to be 'magical thinking' in public policy, and offering new insights into the continuing appeal of such ideals.

The book examines how profoundly cricket in Pakistan influences culture, politics and society and how it is in turn influenced by the wider social and political context within which it is embedded. An analysis of cricket therefore allows a unique insight into wider societal trends in politics and international relations, race, religion, corruption, cultural change and globalization.

This book gives the universally established principles of constitutional law. It analyses and discusses them in context to the judgments of the superior courts of the US, the UK, Pakistan and India as well the judgments rendered by the courts in Australia, Canada, and Germany.

The book covers a variety of topics about the Frontier (Khyber Pukhtunkhwa) such as: geography; three major theories of the origin of the Pukhtuns; occupation by the Britons (1849); pros and cons of the Durand Line Agreement (1893); uprising against the British (1897); formation of the province in 1901; constitutional developments; role of the Khudayi Khidmatgar Movement; 1947 referendum; administrative apparatus in the erstwhile tribal areas; political careers and educational services of Sahibzadah Abdul Qayyum and Abdul Ghaffar Khan. These various themes and issuesplaced in their geo-political, strategic, and historical contextspresent a comprehensive overview in this well-researched book.

Canada's most trusted guide to research, writing, grammar, and documentation offers advice that is guaranteed to answer all questions on the writing process.

In the current scenario, when understanding the intricacies associated with brain death is the need of hour, this book can serve as a guiding light to clinicians in the entire process of organ donation, from the diagnosis of brain death to organ transplantation. The main objective of this book is to make the entire process of organ donation, which is essential for transplantation, accessible and feasible all over the world.

School mental health specialists understand suicide and self-injury among students is a significant and growing concern. This new reality will take a school-wide approach to suicide prevention where school mental health specialists develop and lead a school-wide culture of care. Featuring more than 120 research-backed strategies, this book provides readers with step-by-step approaches and a research-informed, practical strategy for how schools can develop and implement a systemic and realistic school-wide approach. In this approach, all staff, teachers, students, and parents have a role to play in saving lives; suicide prevention truly becomes a shared responsibility in which Suicide and Self Injury in Schools: Interventions for School Mental Health Specialists can be a vital tool.

This book provides the broadest, most detailed survey of child neuropsychology available today.

Key Indicators is an annual statistical publication of the Asian Development Bank, presenting the most current statistical data and socio-economic indicators from the Bank's developing member countries.

Designing Democracy in a Dangerous World addresses a question at the heart of contemporary global politics: how does one craft democracy in fragile and divided states? By bringing new evidence and arguments to bear on the topic of promoting democracy this book contributes to both foreign policy and academic debates.

With the advent of perestroika and glasnost in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, and their own dissatisfaction with the socialist economic model, Mongolia has chosen to open its economy to a range of reforms. This work studies the changes which began in 1986 and gained momentum in 1991 to elect a new government. The work reviews Mongolia's economic past and focuses on recent transformations. It includes detailed time series data on economic and social indicators.

With the interest in theories of popular constitutionalism currently driving a vigorous debate, the interpretation of the American Constitution has taken center stage on the intellectual, moral, and political agenda of the United States. In this revised edition of Constitutional Fate, including a new introduction by the author, Philip Bobbitt studies the basis for legitimacy of judicial review by examining six types of constitutional argument--historical, textual, structural, prudential doctrinal, and ethical--through the unusual method of contrasting sketches of prominent legalfigures responding to the constitutional crises of their day. Bobbitt posits characteristic types of constitutional argument by which judicial review is carried out.

This is the companion volume to the Eadweard Muybridge exhibition opening at Stanford, and is the first showing of the pioneering artist's work in 30 years. 195 halftones.

This book examines issues of history and political economy relevant to nationalism, democracy and development. The contributors argue that persisting material deprivation - the lack of substantive democracy and development - is a crucial problem, and that it is not addressed by cultural critiques so much in vogue.

A study exploring the production of historical memory in the region of Puglia after it was subsumed by the new Kingdom of Sicily in 1130, assessing the significance of the apparent disappearance of traditional forms of Pugliese historical writing and analyzing the existence of other historical discourses embedded in surviving local documentation.

Developing Public Service Leaders examines why and how governments and representative bodies for senior staff in public service organizations have mounted major interventions over the last two decades to develop senior staff as leaders.

René Descartes revolutionized the method of intellectual inquiry. Tarek Dika presents a systematic interpretation and defense of Descartes' method and its efficacy, and demonstrates the fruits of this interpretation applied to metaphysics, optics, and mathematics.

This edited volume engages with John Gardner's philosophical work on private law. It assembles a group of contributors with diverse theoretical commitments and acts as a reference point for central debates in private law theory, such as the role of moral duties, the justification of reparative obligations, and the role of reasons in private law.

This book offers a more complete understanding of the making of Michels' major work, Political Parties. It investigates the complex intellectual and political networks in which Michels moved across multiple countries to make sense of his unusual political career.

Lyndsey Stonebridge presents a new way to think about the relationship between literature and human rights that challenges the idea that empathy inspires action.

In the Path of Conquest offers a fresh insight into the conquests of Alexander the Great by attempting to view the events of 336-323 BCE from the vantage point of the defeated.

In this sixth edition of Law 101, Jay Feinman provides an authoritative and up-to-date overview of the American legal system. In the years since the publication of the fifth edition, there have been many important developments on the legal front. The Supreme Court has become more conservative and is in the process of handing down important decisions that will likely change the law on affirmative action, abortion, gun rights, labor law, and religious rights. Feinman will cover all of this and expand his discussion of originalism, the guiding philosophy of many conservative jurists serving on the federal bench now. He will also address the rapidly changing legal landscape in a variety of issue areas: vaccine mandates, cryptocurrency, and tort reform, among others.

This book provides medical students and junior doctors with everything they need to know to become experts at requesting tests. It will support them in requesting the most appropriate and effective tests, and inform them on how to interpret results, improving patients' outcomes.

The paradox of poverty amidst plenty - namely, that the wealthiest country in the world also has the highest rates of poverty among the industrialized nations - has plagued the United States throughout the 21st century. In The Poverty Paradox, Mark Rank, one of the nation's leading authorities on the subject, offers a unique analysis to arrive at a compelling answer and from there he suggests potential policy solutions.