Rettsvitenskap

In this book, "Bazm e Hum NafsaaN," renowned Hyderabadi Urdu laureate Qadeer Zaman provides literary and social details on the lives and work of well-known literary giants. The book also includes his vivid portraits of those literary figures.

Piet Blanckaert, one of Belgium's most important landscape architects, brings more than forty years of experience and a love of gardens to his work. Inspired by the great English landscape architects, his repertoire ranges from the walled gardens of his hometown of Bruges to magically structured landscape ensembles. With an introductory essay on his working methods, this book presents Blanckaert's gardens from the Baltic to the Mediterranean, from the earliest to the most recent, captured in fantastic photographs by Jean-Pierre Gabriel in every season. PIET BLANCKAERT (*1955) is a landscape architect and has run his own independent studio, Piet Blanckaert Landscape Design, in Bruges since 1979. His commissions include private gardens, the design of open spaces around hotels and industrial facilities, as well as sculpture gardens in Belgium, France, Spain, Austria, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, and Greece.

In 1931, the English designer Gerald Summers and his partner Marjorie Butcher opened their business, Makers of Simple Furniture, in London. Until 1940, the company produced hundreds of ingenious plywood designs that helped define the idea of the modern interior in Great Britain. Based on Marjorie Butcher's vivid recollections and a wealth of unpublished material-including photographs, personal correspondence, designs and workshop documents-the book traces the groundbreaking achievements of the furniture company best known for the iconic Bent Plywood Armchair .  The publication was supported in part by the Graham Foundationfor Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. GERALD SUMMERS (1899-1967) is one of the foremost furniture designers of the twentieth century. Born in Alexandria, Egypt, he worked as an engineer before starting his design career. In 1931, he and his partner, MARJORIE BUTCHER (1909-1996), opened Makers of Simple Furniture in London. They managed the firm for almost ten years, producing hundreds of pieces for the modern home. In 1940, wartime exigencies brought an end to the enterprise. They redirected their energy to Gerald Summers Ltd., a supplier of engineering parts. MARTHA DEESE is an authority on Gerald Summers. She earned a master's degree in decorative art history from Cooper-Hewitt Museum/Parsons School of Design, New York, and worked for three decades as an administrator at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Her groundbreaking article on Summers and his firm, Makers of Simple Furniture, published in the Journal of Design History in 1992, remains the principal source on the designer.

Das vorliegende Buch veranschaulicht die Problematiken, welche dann auftreten können, wenn uneinbringliche Geldstrafen im Wege der Ersatzfreiheitsstrafe vollstreckt werden. Das Aufzeigen von Sanktionsalternativen zur Ersatzfreiheitsstrafe, wie die Geldverwaltung und die gemeinnützige Arbeit verdeutlichen, dass es bereits in einigen Bundesländern erprobte Handlungsalternativen bei uneinbringlichen Geldstrafen gibt. Den Schwerpunkt des Buches bildet eine umfangreiche Rückfalluntersuchung, welche sich zum Ziel gesetzt hat, die Legalbewährung von Personen, die Ersatzfreiheitsstrafen verbüßt haben, mit derjenigen nach den o. g. Haftvermeidungsmaßnahmen zu vergleichen und daraus Folgerungen für die Wirksamkeit dieser Maßnahmen zu ziehen. Zuvor wird die Gruppe der Geldstrafenschuldner, die ihre Geldstrafe trotz Mahnung nicht gezahlt haben und die die Androhung einer Ersatzfreiheitsstrafe erhalten haben, die sie später entweder antreten mussten oder aber durch eine der oben genannten Maßnahmen abwenden konnten, u. a. differenziert nach den demographischen Variablen wie Geschlecht, Alter, Nationalität etc. dargestellt. Abschließend wird unter Berücksichtigung der Reform des Sanktionenrechts aus dem Jahr 2023 der für die Verfasserin weiterhin bestehende Reformbedarf verdeutlicht und ein kriminologischer und kriminalpolitischer Ausblick geboten. Die Verfasserin betont dabei eine notwendige flächendeckende Etablierung von Haftvermeidungsmaßnahmen, um Menschen, die in prekären finanziellen Verhältnissen leben, eine gerechtere und auch unter spezialpräventiven Aspekten überzeugendere Möglichkeit zur Tilgung bzw. Erledigung der Geldstrafe anzubieten.

The sixth edition of the North American Cambridge Latin Course presents a diverse and nuanced picture of Roman civilization and history, while providing clear and extensive language support. Moving on from the destruction of Pompeii, Unit 2 captures the drama of the daily lives of inhabitants of two provinces at opposite ends of the Roman empire -Britain and Egypt. Underpinned by decades of research, the book integrates grammar, vocabulary and history with illustrations and historically grounded stories, so that students start reading Latin from the very first page. The digital component includes tools and activities for front-of-class or independent study.

The sixth edition of the North American Cambridge Latin Course presents a diverse and nuanced picture of Roman civilization and history, while providing clear and extensive language support. Moving on from the destruction of Pompeii, Unit 2 captures the drama of the daily lives of inhabitants of two provinces at opposite ends of the Roman empire -Britain and Egypt. Underpinned by decades of research, the book integrates grammar, vocabulary and history with illustrations and historically grounded stories, so that students start reading Latin from the very first page. The digital component includes tools and activities for front-of-class or independent study.

The sixth edition of the North American Cambridge Latin Course presents a diverse and nuanced picture of Roman civilization and history, while providing clear and extensive language support. Unit 1 takes place in Pompeii, shortly before the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79, and the story follows the fortunes of Lucius Caecilius Iucundus, his wife Metella and their household. Underpinned by decades of research, the book integrates grammar, vocabulary and history with illustrations and historically grounded stories, so that students start reading Latin from the very first page. The digital component includes tools and activities for front-of-class or independent study.

The sixth edition of the North American Cambridge Latin Course presents a diverse and nuanced picture of Roman civilization and history, while providing clear and extensive language support. Unit 1 takes place in Pompeii, shortly before the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79, and the story follows the fortunes of Lucius Caecilius Iucundus, his wife Metella and their household. Underpinned by decades of research, the book integrates grammar, vocabulary and history with illustrations and historically grounded stories, so that students start reading Latin from the very first page. The digital component includes tools and activities for front-of-class or independent study.

"A deep dive into the similarities between science fiction studies and critical posthumanism, this book establishes a common theoretical ground between the two fields upon which currents of future-oriented thought can meet and begin to share a common language. An investigation into the everyday condition of humanity in relation to technology and our perilous situation in the Anthropocene, the book features case studies of sci-fi authors Isaac Asimov, Ursula K. Le Guin and Kim Stanley Robinson, Doctor Who, and the videogame Outer Wilds. Formulating a new critical paradigm which recognises the value of such works to posthumanist thought, it demonstrates that urgent discourses around our shared future are more imperative than ever"--

"This book addresses the international legal issues surrounding the adoption of secondary sanctions. These controversial measures aim to regulate economic or financial transactions between third states and a target state. The volume takes on board recent evolutions in case-law and practice, such as the drafting of the EU Anti-Coercion Instrument"--

This Element offers a comprehensive examination of forensic linguistics in China. It traces the origins of the field in the 1980s and 1990s, and highlights the progress made in the 2000s, with a focus on the work of influential scholars such as Pan Qingyun, Wang Jie, Du Jinbang, Liao Meizhen, Yuan Chuanyou, and Wang Zhenhua. It discusses the development of Discourse Information Theory, the Principle of Goal, Functional Forensic Discourse Analysis, and Legal Discourse as a Social Process. It also analyses studies on language evidence and explores legal translation. It discusses emerging research areas, including cyberbullying language research, internet court discourse analysis, authorship analysis, expert assistance systems, and speaker identification and evidence of forensic phonetics. This Element provides valuable insights into the growth and potential of forensic linguistics in China, serving as a comprehensive resource for scholars, researchers, and practitioners interested in the intersection of language and law.

The player is a womanizer, a trickster, a gambler-but can Asian American men fully participate in this kind of masculinity? In Asian American Players, Audrey Wu Clark showcases how the literary figure of the Asian American player unsettles the hegemony of white American masculinity through mimicry, even as that masculinity socially and politically alienates him. She examines gendered and racialized US militarism through works written during major postmodern American wars, investigating how books by John Okada, David Henry Hwang, Chang-rae Lee, Frances Khirallah Noble, and Viet Thanh Nguyen (re)fashion Asian American masculinity in ways that ultimately mimic masculinist American foreign policy and military strategies during corresponding wars. She unearths a dual picture of Asian American players: as traces of the anxiety of America's quest for empowerment and continued military and industrial dominance in the international arena and as those tarred as inferior and disloyal outsiders within this mirrored global dominance. She thus finds new inroads into understanding US imperialism and militarism and identifies ways that key literary figures have written against insidious tropes.

Examines how medieval and early modern British texts use descriptions of archaeological objects to produce aesthetic and literary responses to questions of historicity and epistemology.

In nineteenth-century Britain, the word queer was associated not only with same-sex desire but also with irregular forms of financial association and trust. Queer Economic Dissonance and Victorian Literature centers this forgotten facet of queer by recovering an alternative economic narrative of the Victorian period: one of economic excess, waste, debt, and downward mobility. Drawing on insights from intersectional queer theory and economic literary criticism, as well as astute readings of works by Charles Dickens, Charlotte Brontë, Mary Seacole, George Eliot, and Oscar Wilde, Meg Dobbins argues that eccentric economic figures like Black entrepreneurs, childless widows, and working-class benefactors represent sites of queerness--forms of economic desire, identity, strategy, or relation that become sites of friction within the developing social and institutional norms of nineteenth-century capitalism. Dobbins argues that Victorian authors document the everyday economic struggles of those cast aside, left behind, and fundamentally transfigured by modern capitalism. Rather than rejecting capitalist ideology, these authors queer socioeconomic norms, shedding light on the provocative ways Victorians made capitalism livable, and even pleasurable. In this way, Queer Economic Dissonance rearticulates the link between erotic and economic forms of dissonance in capitalist society.

Refines, critiques, and expands unnatural, cognitive, and transmedial narratology by looking at digital-born fictions.

Until recently, the embodied hand has paradoxically escaped the notice of nineteenth-century cultural and literary historians precisely because of its centrality. The essays in Peter J. Capuano and Sue Zemka's new collection, Victorian Hands: The Manual Turn in Nineteenth-Century Body Studies, join an emerging body of work that seeks to remedy this. Casting new light on an array of well-known authors-Charlotte Brontë, Christina Rossetti, George Eliot, Wilkie Collins, William Morris, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, and Oscar Wilde-the volume explores the role of the hand as a nexus between culture and physical embodiment. The contributors to this volume address a wide range of manual topics and concerns, including those related to religion, medicine, science, industry, paranormal states, language, digital humanities, law, photography, disability, and art history. Examining hands, language, materiality, and agency, these contributors employ their expertise as Victorianists in order to understand what hands have to tell us about the cultural preoccupations of the nineteenth century and how the unique conditions of Britain at the time shaped the modern emergence of our cultural relationship with our hands. Contributors James Eli Adams, Karen Bourrier, Aviva Briefel, Peter J. Capuano, Jonathan Cheng, Kate Flint, Pamela K. Gilbert, Tamara Ketabgian, J. Hillis Miller, Deborah Denenholz Morse, Daniel A. Novak, Julianne Smith, Herbert F. Tucker, and Sue Zemka

"A history of the Schengen Agreement, which allowed for free movement across borders for European nationals, and the agreement's impact on economic and social cohesion in Europe"--

"Significant Food is a collaborative work of textual analysis and criticism that chews on the role and prominence of food in American literature. The volume offers close readings of many well-known, and some less well-known, examples of American writing, as studied through the food culture sensibilities of a well-stocked cupboard of contributors who offer their analyses for public consumption. Editors Jeff Birkenstein and Robert C. Hauhart find that literary criticism has focused on the role food plays in literary production to a greater extent than recognized at first glance and that its role has become increasingly common only in the last two decades. Still, while there is critical commentary regarding authors' use of food across the expanse of American literature, there has been a lack of a unifying critical theories to guide these analyses. Birkenstein and Hauhart offer the theory of "significant food"-a method that asks literary critics to evaluate and assess the extent, nature, and role that food plays in literary production. When food and "food moments" are used intensively and "significantly" within the drama, memoir, poem, novel, short story, or other writing, then one can say that it has achieved a status that makes it indispensable to the work at hand"--

Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2023The author of the bestselling Just Medicine reveals how racial inequality undermines public health and how we can change itWith the rise of the Movement for Black Lives and the feverish calls for Medicare for All, the public spotlight on racial inequality and access to healthcare has never been brighter. The rise of COVID-19 and its disproportionate effects on people of color has especially made clear how the color of one¿s skin is directly related to the quality of care (or lack thereof) a person receives, and the disastrous health outcomes Americans suffer as a result of racism and an unjust healthcare system.Timely and accessible, Just Health examines how deep structural racism embedded in the fabric of American society leads to worse health outcomes and lower life expectancy for people of color. By presenting evidence of discrimination in housing, education, employment, and the criminal justice system, Dayna Bowen Matthew shows how racial inequality pervades American society and the multitude of ways that this undermines the health of minority populations. The author provides a clear path forward for overcoming these massive barriers to health and ensuring that everyone has an equal opportunity to be healthy. She encourages health providers to take a leading role in the fight to dismantle the structural inequities their patients face. A compelling and essential read, Just Health helps us to understand how racial inequality damages the health of our minority communities and explains what we can do to fight back.