Comparative category: 2220 books
Local Government in Europe
The ‘Fourth Level’ in the EU Multi-Layered System of Governance
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
This work considers the role of local government in 13 EU Member States (Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom. The book aims to provide an account of the system of local government in each of the countries...
Wrongful Enrichment
A Study in Comparative Law and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
This book analyses enrichment law and its development and underpinning in social culture within three geographical regions: the United States, western members of the European Union and the late Ottoman Empire. These regions correspond, though imperfectly, with three different legal traditions: the...
Quasi-Constitutionality and Constitutional Statutes
Forms, Functions, Applications
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
This book examines the interstices among statutory enactment, constitutional convention and formal constitution in which quasi-constitutionality exists. It provides a focal resource that can serve as a point of reference for scholars interested in quasi-constitutionality as a whole, from national...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
Constitutions are often seen as the product of the free will of a people exercising their constituent power. This, however, is not always the case, particularly when it comes to ‘imposed constitutions’. In recent years there has been renewed interest in the idea of imposition in constitutional...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2018
This collection of essays investigates the way in which modern private law apportions responsibility between multiple parties who are (or may be) responsible for the same legal event. It examines both doctrines and principles that share responsibility between plaintiffs and defendants, on the one...
In Response to the Religious Other
Ricoeur and the Fragility of Interreligious Encounters
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
In the vast collection of his writings, the French philosopher Paul Ricoeur only sporadically raised the issue of interreligious dialogue. In this book, comparative theologian Marianne Moyaert argues that Ricoeur’s hermeneutical philosophy offers valuable signposts for a better understanding of...
Homicide in Criminal Law
A Research Companion
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2018
This volume presents a leading contribution to the substantive arena relating to homicide in the criminal law. In broad terms, the ambit of homicide standardisations in extant law is contestable and opaque. This book provides a logical template to focus the debate. The overall concept addresses three...
The Spiral Staircase
My Climb Out of Darkness
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Gripping, revelatory, and inspirational, The Spiral Staircase is an extraordinary account of an astonishing spiritual journey. In 1962, at age seventeen, Karen Armstrong entered a convent, eager to meet God. After seven brutally unhappy years as a nun, she left her order to pursue English literature...
by Joseph Campbell
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2011
Joseph Campbell taught Mythology to students at Sarah Lawrence College, just north of New York City, for thirty-eight years. Late in his tenure, he made a proposal to use his introductory course as the basis for the then-new field of cross-cultural studies. The proposal gives a wonderful glimpse into...
Russia's Steppe Frontier
The Making of a Colonial Empire, 1500-1800
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2002
... a tremendously important contribution to the field of Russian history and the comparative study of empires and frontiers. There is no comparable work in any language.... The book presents an intricate and gripping narrative of a vast sweep of histories, weaving them together into a comprehensive...
Making Legal History
Approaches and Methodologies
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2012
Drawing together leading legal historians from a range of jurisdictions and cultures, this collection of essays addresses the fundamental methodological underpinning of legal history research. Via a broad chronological span and a wide range of topics, the contributors explore the approaches, methods...
The Children of Abraham
Judaism, Christianity, Islam
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2018
F.E. Peters, a scholar without peer in the comparative study of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, revisits his pioneering work. Peters has rethought and thoroughly rewritten his classic The Children of Abraham for a new generation of readers-at a time when the understanding of these three religious...
Baha'u'llah and the New Era: An Introduction to the Bahai Faith
An Introduction to the Bahai Faith
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2006
Baha'u'llah and the New Era shines as the very best general introductory book about the Bahai Faith of its time, and remains today the most widely known and most used textbook of the Bahai Faith, having been translated into some 60 languages. In this compact work, Esslemont comprehensively yet succinctly...
Religious Worlds
The Comparative Study of Religion
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
From Gods, to ritual observance to the language of myth and the distinction between the sacred and the profane, Religious Worlds explores the structures common to all spiritual traditions.