Our system of contract law depends for its legitimacy on the idea that contract law only concerns private agreements between private parties and nothing else. As such, conventional wisdom holds that contract law is a private law subject, not a public law subject. This book challenges that view. It makes the case that contract law is, in fact, a matter of public law. It makes two central arguments. First, contract law is public law because the role of the State in the field of public law is neither neutral nor minimal. Second, contract law is public law because, as a direct result of the way contract law operates in practice, it helps to create and perpetuate inequality in society. The book therefore argues that because contract law is actually public law, it must be analysed in terms of equality, not individualism and autonomy. Only in so doing can contract law be reimagined in ways that not only reflect reality but also help us to live up to our own aspirations individually and collectively. This work helps us to rethink the nature of contract law and to redraw the map of law more generally.

Examines the content and practices in contemporary American Indian feature filmmaking.

Because an infant is not merely a small adult, an infant autopsy in not simply a small adult autopsy. Specific procedures, factors, and considerations must be accounted for as part of the process. Data obtained from an infant autopsy, in a medicolegal context, should all but eliminate cases of apparent SIDS or ¿unexplained infant deaths¿. True cases of unexplained infant deaths should be rare in any system of death investigation. The book provides structure and clarity to the infant forensic autopsy process through an experiential and evidential basis. It is a current, comprehensive "user¿s manual¿ for both the training and practicing forensic pathologist charged with infant autopsies.

Organizations associated with projects present a whole series of challenges for HR systems and the managers that design and implement them. Projects are temporary, often involve employees working across disciplines and reporting lines, include their own communication networks, require different approaches to reward and motivation and tend to run counter to many of the systems designed for business-as-usual operation. Martina Huemann's Project-Oriented Human Resource Management offers HR specialists a practical guide to projects, project management and the specific features of the project organization.

A research-rich yet accessible introduction to the field that investigates late bi/multilingualism, or the human capacity for learning new (second, foreign, heritage) languages later in life, in addition to the languages learned in early childhood.

Feasibility Studies in Construction Projects covers all aspects of feasibility study analysis including assumptions, the preparation of a feasibility study for submission, and the necessary elements to consider regarding the project cycle. The book also provides templates for use in preparing a feasibility study report.

This agenda-setting book argues that Trial by Media is redefining the meaning and nature of justice in a multi-media world. Through a multi-disciplinary analysis of the anatomy, production, consumption, impact, and normative and legal boundaries of this new form of media justice, Trial by Media develops an original framework for examining the moral politics of crime, control and criminal justice in the post-trust society.

Highlighting the gendered nature of labour and domestic regimes as well as the links between households, labour markets, factories and the state, this book explores the relationship between gender and economic/industrial restructuring in India.

Since 1961 the Adelphi Papers have provided some of the most informed accounts of international and strategic relations. Produced by the world renowned International Institute of Strategic Studies, each paper provides a short account of a subject of topical interest by a leading military figure, policymaker or academic.

Human Rights Voices is an anthology made up of original contributions from those most affected by human rights issues, including victims, activists, attorneys, government officials, perpetrators, and volunteers. For the first time, students will hear directly from these key stakeholders who live daily with human rights challenges and violations. The anecdotal approach makes this book different from the more macro, abstract, policy-oriented texts, and will ground human rights in lived experiences.

Human Rights Voices is an anthology made up of original contributions from those most affected by human rights issues, including victims, activists, attorneys, government officials, perpetrators, and volunteers. For the first time, students will hear directly from these key stakeholders who live daily with human rights challenges and violations. The anecdotal approach makes this book different from the more macro, abstract, policy-oriented texts, and will ground human rights in lived experiences.

Managerial economics has become an established part of leading MBA programmes, and the discipline is changing and developing rapidly. This new handbook offers a state-of-the art overview of the ways in which modern economics can be usefully applied across contemporary work in business schools, and is truly international in its authorship and scope.Chapters chart modern trends in the subject, such as the rise of personnel economics, the role of ethics in managerial economics training, and heuristic decision making in business settings, and incorporate game-theoretic results and case study work. Bringing together leading scholars from across several disciplines, the handbook will offer a uniquely international overview of this rapidly changing area.

Radical printer and pamphleteer, Daniel Isaac Eaton, was prosecuted eight times between 1793 and 1812, finally being convicted over his printing of Paine's Age of Reason. This book is the first published account of his life and career and includes significant detail on the radical book trade as well as the incendiary political climate of the time.

Accession to the EU is a major priority for Turkey.

Examines organisations of the last 15 years dealing with global health governance issues.

This book addresses the social, commercial, legal and cultural relationship between fashion and its protection through an interdisciplinary approach to the application of the law.

This book is the career and life story of the A&P heir and American businessman Huntington Hartford (1911-2008), as told by his daughter Juliet Hartford. Huntington Hartford's grandfather founded the Great Atlantic & Pacifi c Tea Company (A&P supermarket) in 1859 and his two uncles built it into the world's largest retail empire. A&P became a beloved staple of American life and Huntington Hartford was a symbol of it.Using a wealth of photographs and visual documents including press clippings and advertisements, the book traces Hartford's life from a boy in Newport, Rhode Island, to his years at Harvard where he was known as the world's richest college boy, his time in the US Coastguard during World War II, his Hollywood career producing movies and opening the Huntington Hartford Theatre, to his founding of the oil shale company Tosco and developing Paradise Island in the Bahamas in the 1960s. In Juliet Hartford's words Huntington Hartford was a cultural and popular hero, "always at the forefront and on the cutting edge. He created a hurricane and walked straight through it, and he changed the world."

The Central Adriatic region of Picenum is a relatively unknown area of Roman and pre-Roman Italy, but it has a rich material culture comparable with that of the Etruscans and spanning the first millennium BCE (ca. 900-268 BCE). This book explores the sacred landscape of the region and interprets the evidence for Picene religion for the first time. The book explores the relationship between the material evidence (votive deposits of figurines and pottery, monumentalised inscriptions), the topographical landscape and the people who used them. It considers how the Picenes may have experienced their environment and given it meaning, with a particular emphasis on sacred sites which have a mountain peak, water feature or cave as their cult focus. The volume will be innovative in bringing together (predominantly Italian) scholarship on varied aspects of Iron Age and early Roman religion, interpreted via a phenomenological approach. This approach reconstructs the physiological responses people would have had to their sacred sites, in particular, how they were experienced through sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch. Through a series of case studies the volume examines the places people imbued with significance, how they represented their gods, and their reasons for investing in religious rituals.

This book analyses legal education from a pedagogical perspective. Using Canada as a casestudy, it sets out the dominant teaching and evaluation methods used in law schools and explains the factors that influence individual law teachersâEUR(TM) pedagogical choices, including their conceptions of teaching, institutional factors such as class size and course type, institutional cultures that insufficiently value teaching and learning, and student expectations and evaluations. The work suggests that learning should be at the centre of legal education, and demonstrates how the lack of explicit attention to learning has many significant consequences. It proceeds to recommend ways in which we can improve legal education by putting learning at the centre of it, both at the levels of the individual teacher and the institution. Whether law programmes aim to educate citizens and jurists or train lawyers, improving student learning will ensure that all of those aims are met. It is hoped that putting learning at the centre of legal education might also alleviate the legal professionâEUR(TM)s concerns about legal education, numerous law professorsâEUR(TM) dissatisfaction with the teaching aspect of their job, and studentsâEUR(TM) lack of motivation and satisfaction.

This book presents mathematical, programming and statistical tools used in the real world analysis and modeling of financial data. The tools are used to model asset returns, measure risk, and construct optimized portfolios using the open source R programming language and Microsoft Excel. The author explains how to build probability models for asset returns, to apply statistical techniques to evaluate if asset returns are normally distributed, to use Monte Carlo simulation and bootstrapping techniques to evaluate statistical models, and to use optimization methods to construct efficient portfolios.

This book presents mathematical, programming and statistical tools used in the real world analysis and modeling of financial data. The tools are used to model asset returns, measure risk, and construct optimized portfolios using the open source R programming language and Microsoft Excel. The author explains how to build probability models for asset returns, to apply statistical techniques to evaluate if asset returns are normally distributed, to use Monte Carlo simulation and bootstrapping techniques to evaluate statistical models, and to use optimization methods to construct efficient portfolios.

This book examines the interplay of professional norms and political accountability in the process of making decisions about whether, how, and how much debt governments should incur. Particular focus is given to the divide between official stipulated norms and implicit negotiated norms shaped by stakeholder expectations.

Modern science has revealed how we can train our brains to make us better at sport and break the 10,000-hour rule