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Beginning in January 1692, Salem Village in colonial Massachusetts witnessed the largest and most lethal outbreak of witchcraft in early America. Villagers--mainly young women--suffered from unseen torments that caused them to writhe, shriek, and contort...

This second edition of Sarah Worthington's Equity maintains the clear ambitions of the first. It sets out the basic principles of equity, and illustrates them by reference to commercial and domestic examples of their operation. The book comprehensively...

An insightful and practical guide to family trusts Family Trusts is a step-by-step guide for anyone involved in family trusts: trust creators, trustees, beneficiaries, and advisors. It will help families create and administer a culture that recognizes...

Stress is an inevitable part of being lawyer and it can even be a positive force - it can help you push through long hours or meet tough targets. However, when stress becomes excessive, it can be damaging to individuals and to firms, leading to mental...

The fourth and final instalment in the poetic conversation, begun in 2014, between poets and friends Kwame Dawes and John Kinsella.About the AuthorKwame Dawes is the author of over thirty five books, and is widely recognized as one of the Caribbean's...

After the crime of aggression was adopted under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, Carrie McDougall used her intimate involvement in the crime's negotiations, combined with extensive scholarly reflection to produce the first and most...

A clear and urgent call for the national, social, and individual changes required to prevent catastrophic climate change."An iconoclast of the best kind, Stan Cox has an all-too-rare commitment to following arguments wherever they lead, however...

How to sustain an international system of cooperation in the midst of geopolitical struggleCan the international economic and legal system survive today's fractured geopolitics? Democracies are facing a drawn-out contest with authoritarian states that is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985238629Author Laura Kavanau-LevineFormat PaperbackPage Count 492Imprint Laura Kavanau-LevinePublisher Laura Kavanau-LevineWeight(grams)...

How are poverty and social inequality entrenched through a failing justice system? In this important book, Jon Robins and Daniel Newman examine how the lives of people already struggling with problems with their welfare benefits, jobs, housing and...

Data Protection Compliance: A Guide to GDPR and Irish Data Protection Law is a practical compliance guidebook which aims to aid any entity toward GDPR compliance. Specifically aimed at controllers and processors of data in Ireland this book will also...

After explaining 'What is transgender?' this first book on transgender in a prison setting looks at the entire HM Prison Service regime for such people. Ranging from hard information about rules and regulations, the transition process and how to access...

Drawing on the authors' extensive experience at the Bar, Evidence provides an excellent introduction to the essential principles of the law of evidence in both civil and criminal litigation. The manual clearly explains the key rules of evidence, while...

Ashworth's Principles of Criminal Law, now in its ninth edition, takes a distinctive approach to the subject of criminal law, whilst still covering all of the vital topics found on criminal law courses. Uniquely theoretical, it seeks to enlighten the...

Today, 189 out of 193 officially recognised nation-states have a written constitution, and 75% of these have been ratified since 1975. How did this worldwide diffusion of constitutions come about? In this book, Wim Voermans traces the varied and...

This short book on comparative law theory and method is designed primarily for postgraduate research students whose work involves comparison between legal systems. It is, accordingly, a book on research methods, although it will also be of relevance to...

An essential study of the rule of law by one of the world's leading liberal political and legal philosophers.The meaning and value of the rule of law have been debated since antiquity. For many, the rule of law has become the essence of good government...

Provides a variety of queer, interdisciplinary interventions upon the social and legal regulation of sex, gender, reproduction, and family. In Enticements, an exceptional group of interdisciplinary scholars comes together to contribute to the field of...

Questions relating to anti-suit injunctions arise frequently in commercial practice, as commercial litigation is often disputed in several jurisdictions simultaneously. In these, circumstances, a party preferring to conduct its litigation in England...

Before Enron, before Arthur Anderson, and before Worldcom, there was the Bank of New York money laundering scandal, which hit headlines in 1999. Promising to be one of the most important books on international organized crime, money laundering, and the...

When comparing the laws of different jurisdictions, one often sees only the forest or the trees. This is particularly problematic in comparative company law, where students hope both to understand the overall framework of the law and grasp its practical...

Between the early seventeenth century and the early twentieth,nearly all the land in the United States was transferred from AmericanIndians to whites. This dramatic transformation has been understood in two very different ways--as a series of consensual...

Can there be universal moral principles in a culturally and religiously diverse world? Are such principles provided by a theory of natural law? Jacques response to both questions is 'yes.' These essays, selected from the writings of one of the most...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593597279Author January 6 Select Committee, TheFormat PaperbackPage Count 752Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

"This book is a classic... its style and content remain invaluable." Entertainment Law Review This is the new edition of a unique book about intellectual property. It is for those new to the subject, both law students and others such as business...

Democracies are in danger. Around the world, a rising wave of populist leaders threatens to erode the core structures of democratic self-rule. In the United States, the tenure of Donald Trump has seemed decisive turning point for many. What kind of...

The Islamic tradition has always been flexible, changing over time and constantly adapting to the different societies Muslims find themselves in. Few Muslims today would abide by the fatwa against the printing press under the Ottomans. Moreover, although...

The Palestine-Israel conflict is the most notorious and ingrained conflict in living memory. Yet the way it is reported in the media is often confusing, leading many to falsely assume the hostilities stretch continuously back to an ancient period. ...

Presented and written in a friendly and engaging style, Dr Brian Sloan continues to update Borkowski's classic textbook which is perfectly pitched for today's undergraduate students. Considerable attention is given to the area's rich and evolving...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945875137Author Dennis W ArcherFormat HardbackPage Count 440Imprint Atkins & Greenspan WritingPublisher Atkins & Greenspan WritingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781835630167Author Zoe PhillipsFormat PaperbackPage Count 74Imprint New Generation PublishingPublisher New Generation PublishingWeight(grams)...

Revised and fully updated, the fifth edition of A Practitioner's Guide to Wills provides a practical and comprehensive reference for all those concerned in drafting and interpreting wills, and in giving effect to their provisions. Among matters...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802151049Author David MametFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly...

Copyright is everywhere. Your smartphone incorporates thousands of items of intellectual property. Someone owns the reproduction rights to photographs of your dining table. At this very moment, battles are raging over copyright in the output of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060798727Author Ted SorensenFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781944194147Author Garrett SuttonFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Brisance Books LLCPublisher Brisance Books LLCWeight(grams) 326g

This book provides a comprehensive dissemination of theoretically grounded and empirically sound research on sex offenders and sex offending. It uses diverse methodological approaches with implications for the research of criminal justice policy and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913715700Author Rachel GartonFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Law Brief PublishingPublisher Law Brief Publishing

In a short space of time, the right to water has emerged from relative obscurity to claim a prominent place in human rights theory and practice. This book explores this rise descriptively and prescriptively. It analyses the recognition, use and partly...

Uncovers a major deficiency of U.S. criminal justice-a trial system that prioritizes winning over truth Reginald Denny. O. J. Simpson. Colin Ferguson. Louise Woodward: all names that have cast a spotlight on the deficiencies of the American system of...