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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912702336Author Stephen MullenFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint University of London PressPublisher University of London

Against the Carceral Archive is a meditation upon what author Damien M. Sojoyner calls the "carceral archival project," offering a distillation of critical, theoretical, and activist work of prison abolitionists over the past three decades. Working from...

Housing and neighbourhoods have an important contribution to make to our wellbeing and our sense of our place in the world. This book, written for a lay audience (with policy makers firmly in mind) offers a useful and intelligible overview of our housing...

Now a major film streaming on NETFLIX'I couldn't turn the pages fast enough. A tour de force.' - Patrick Radden Keefe, award-winning author of Empire of Pain'Everyone should read this book' - Sheelagh Kolhatkar, author of Black EdgeJohn Kapoor had...

Discover how the children of prominent families pursue their own path while contributing to their family's legacy In The Quest for Legitimacy: How Children of Prominent Families Discover Their Unique Place in the World, accomplished family and private...

As the world's superpowers and corporations jostle for control in space, A. C. Grayling asks: who really owns our planet? 'Grayling brings satisfying order to daunting subjects.' STEVEN PINKER Silicon for microchips; manganese for batteries;...

Borkowski's Textbook on Roman Law is the leading contemporary textbook in the field of Roman law, and has been written with undergraduate students firmly in mind. The book provides a clear and highly engaging account of Roman private law and civil...

Beginning with the premise that the principal function of a criminal trial is to find out the truth about a crime, Larry Laudan examines the rules of evidence and procedure that would be appropriate if the discovery of the truth were, as higher courts...

Harold Berman's masterwork narrates the interaction of evolution and revolution in the development of Western law. This new volume explores two successive transformations of the Western legal tradition under the impact of the sixteenth-century German...

This text provides far-reaching coverage of the essential topics taught on most environmental law courses, with the authors tackling the key debates and explaining the subject in its social and political context. Environmental Law is structured...

Does the race for vaccine development make sense? What are the chances of success? Will the vaccine be safe? Will people accept it?? In June 2020, Corona, False Alarm? exploded into the German market, selling 200,000 copies and 75,000 e-books in the...

For decades Sydney Kentridge QC has been admired as a brilliant advocate, an outstanding lawyer and, during the apartheid years in South Africa, a courageous defender of the individual against an oppressive state. His advocacy at the inquest of Steve...

Fire Safety Law provides building-owners, managers, individual leaseholders, mortgage-lenders, landlords, and anyone involved in the purchase or sale of a flat situated within a multi-occupied block, with practical, yet comprehensive and well-researched...

Written in a fresh and lively style and supported by a strong analytical framework, the eighth edition of Pearce & Stevens' Trusts and Equitable Obligations continues to provide students with a relevant and exciting examination of a subject that can seem...

Now in its sixth edition, Sentencing and Criminal Justice has been extensively rewritten to reflect recent legislation, guidelines and judicial decisions. New material includes comparative sentencing research, which looks at models from other countries...

This highly accessible and engaging introduction to IP law encourages readers to critically evaluate the ownership of intangible goods. The rigorous pedagogy, featuring many real-world cases, both historical and up-to-date, full colour images, discussion...

It is shocking that although just one per cent of children are taken into care by local authori-ties, almost 30 per cent of prisoners have been in care. Ben Ashcroft's heart-rending account of abandonment, loneliness and rejection in family life, the...

Large-scale data loss and data privacy compliance breaches continue to make headline news, highlighting the need for stringent data protection policies, especially when personal or commercially sensitive information is at stake. While regulations and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914608827Author Mark SheltonFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint Law Brief PublishingPublisher Law Brief PublishingWeight(grams) 245gDimensions(mm)...

Blackstone's Handbook for Policing Students 2021 reflects the multitude of avenues into policing now open to future police officers, from pre-join degree courses and degree apprenticeships to progression from serving as a Special or working as a PCSO. ...

Offering a lively, international, and interdisciplinary introduction to research on arts programmes in prisons, Arts in Criminal Justice and Corrections is the first volume to bring together leading figures from the US, UK, Australia, New Zealand, and...

This book provides a concise account of the principles and norms of international law applicable to the main-type of international organisation - the inter-governmental organisation (IGO). That law consists of principles and rules found in the founding...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780414032545Author Professor George L. GrettonFormat HardbackImprint W.GreenPublisher Sweet & Maxwell Ltd

The Principles of Equity & Trusts offers a refreshing, student-focused approach to a dynamic area of law. In the fifth edition of his best-selling textbook, Professor Graham Virgo brings his expertise as a teacher to deliver an engaging, contextual...

This book is an empirical study of contributions by courts in the Global South to comparative constitutionalism. It offers an analytical framework for understanding these constitutional innovations and illustrates them with a qualitative study of the...

NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES.'Terrific, fascinating, very funny' Daily Mail'Hilarious' Sun'Gripping' Literary ReviewHow do we ensure that the guilty are convicted and the innocent walk free?Shortlisted for the Crime Writers Award Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction,...

The Journey from Prison to Community: Developing Identity, Meaning and Belonging with Men in the UK provides a practical guide for practitioners working with men to successfully make the transition between prison and the community. This transition...

This book develops the rudiments of a sociological perspective on state law and legal theory. It outlines a distinctive approach to theoretical enquiry that offers an improved understanding of law as a social and institutional phenomenon. The book draws...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250210852Author James J SextonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Holt McDougalPublisher Holt McDougalWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 137mm *...

First published in 2003, Terrorist Recognition Handbook: A Practitioner's Manual for Predicting and Identifying Terrorist Activities remains one of the only books available to provide detailed information on terrorist methodology-revealing terrorist...

*** PRE-ORDER THE BONE HACKER, COMING IN PAPERBACK IN SPRING 2024! *** 'This page-turning series never lets the reader down' HARLAN COBENIN A PROFESSION LIKE THIS, YOU'RE BOUND TO MAKE ENEMIES . . . It all starts when Dr Temperance Brennan finds a box...

The relationship between international order and justice has long been central to the study and practice of international relations. For most of the twentieth century, states and international society gave priority to a view of order that focused on the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781802363906Author Karen LeeFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint Straightforward PublishingPublisher Straightforward Publishing

Embryo research, cloning, assisted conception, neonatal care, pandemic vaccine development, saviour siblings, organ transplants, drug trials - modern developments have transformed the field of medicine almost beyond recognition in recent decades and the...

Can waste become a profitable business rather than a costly problem, creating green business opportunities and green jobs while protecting the environment? Might this reduce illegal trade and improper recycling of hazardous wastes by making the...

Banking and Capital Markets Companion, 6th edition provides a clear and concise examination of the law, practice and procedure of fund raising in the banking and capital markets. It covers loans, debt securities, derivatives and security for debt using...

Blackstone's Police Investigators' Manual and Workbook 2024 are comprehensive study and reference guides for the National Investigators' Exam (NIE), which is taken as part of Phase 1 of the Initial Crime Investigators' Development Programme. It is the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781584775768Author Raphael LemkinFormat HardbackPage Count 736Imprint Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.Publisher Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.Weight(grams)...

Volume 2 of this two-volume companion study into the administration, experience, impact and representation of summary justice in Scotland explores the role of police courts in moulding cultural ideas, social behaviours and urban environments in the...

1999 saw the greatest revolution in civil practice and procedure for over 100 years with the introduction of the civil Procedure Rules and Practice Directions. Introduced as a result of Lord Woolf's report on the reform of the civil courts' Access to...