Paperback: 458 pages
Author: neil j. diamant
Publisher: Packt Publishing
Language: English
File Type: PDF
File Size: 2.31 MB

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In 1950, China’s new Communist government enacted a Marriage Law to allow free choice in marriage and easier access to divorce. Prohibiting arranged marriages, concubinage, and bigamy, it was one of the most dramatic efforts ever by a state to change marital and family relationships. In this comprehensive study of the effects of that law, Neil J. Diamant draws on newly opened urban and rural archival sources to offer a detailed analysis of how the law was interpreted and implemented throughout the country. …

Paperback: 324 pages
Author: lila abu-lughod
Publisher: Packt Publishing
Language: English
File Type: PDF
File Size: 1.40 MB

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How do people come to think of themselves as part of a nation? Dramas of Nationhood identifies a fantastic cultural form that binds together the Egyptian nation–television serials. These melodramatic programs–like soap operas but more closely tied to political and social issues than their Western counterparts–have been shown on television in Egypt for more than thirty years. In this book, Lila Abu-Lughod examines the shifting politics of these serials and the way their contents both reflect and seek to direct the changing course of …

Paperback: 304 pages
Author: anshuman a mondal
Publisher: Packt Publishing
Language: English
File Type: PDF
File Size: 1.11 MB

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How have nations and nationhood become the dominant form of political organization today? What is the role of culture in nationalism? In what ways have the ideological development of nationalisms in the post-colonial world shaped understandings of contemporary political problems such as the rise of radical Islam, communalism, and the failure of secular-liberal democracy? This book offers the first comparative study of two highly significant anti-colonial nationalisms. Its close analysis of nationalist discourse in India and Egypt is situated within a new theoretical …

Paperback: 232 pages
Author: linda hutcheon
Publisher: Packt Publishing
Language: English
File Type: PDF
File Size: 3.35 MB

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Renowned literary scholar Linda Hutcheon explores the ubiquity of adaptations in all their various media incarnations and challenges their constant critical denigration. Adaptation, Hutcheon argues, has always been a central mode of the story-telling imagination and deserves to be studied in all its breadth and range as both a process (of creation and reception) and a product unto its own.
Persuasive and illuminating, A Theory of Adaptation is a bold rethinking of how adaptation works across all media and genres that may put an …

Paperback: 288 pages
Author: alastair crooke
Publisher: Packt Publishing
Language: English
File Type: PDF
File Size: 1.81 MB

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This book traces the essence of the Islamist Revolution from its origins in Egypt, through Najf, Lebanon, Iran and the Iranian Revolution to today. Alastair Crooke presents a compelling account of the ideas and energy which are mobilsing the Islamic world. The story of the emerging Islamist Revolution is largely one of an Islamic response to western thinking based around individualism and personal relationships with the divine, juxtaposed to the Islamist demand to place human values above politics and self-interest. Crooke argues that …

Paperback: 511 pages
Author: william a. lovett
Publisher: Packt Publishing
Language: English
File Type: PDF
File Size: 13.15 MB

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Authoritative coverage provides a foundation for understanding recent developments in banking and financial institutions. Text covers subjects such as increased competition, deregulation, bank and thrift failures, large-scale bailout, and restructuring efforts. Unresolved challenges include budget stimulus, deficits, and renewed supervision by regulators.

Paperback: 178 pages
Author: emmanuel melissaris
Publisher: Packt Publishing
Language: English
File Type: PDF
File Size: 2.40 MB

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“Ubiquitous Law” explores the possibility of understanding the law in dissociation from the State while, at the same time, establishing the conditions of meaningful communication between various legalities. This task is partly methodological and partly substantive. The book argues that the enquiry into the legal has been biased by the implicit or explicit presupposition of the State’s exclusivity to a claim to legality as well as the tendency to make the enquiry into the law the task of experts, who purport to be able …

Paperback: 552 pages
Author: david w. neubauer
Publisher: Packt Publishing
Language: English
File Type: PDF
File Size: 21.21 MB

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Open this book and step into America’s court system! What’s it like to be a judge? A prosecutor? A defense attorney? With Neubauer’s best-selling book, you’ll find out! This fascinating and well-researched text gives you the sense of being in the courthouse-of what it is like to work in and be a part of the system. This concept of the courthouse “players” illustrates each person’s important role in bringing a case through the court process. Throughout the text, Neubauer highlights not only the …

Paperback: 490 pages
Author: josef drexl
Publisher: Packt Publishing
Language: English
File Type: PDF
File Size: 1.48 MB

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This comprehensive Handbook brings together contributions from American, Canadian, European, and Japanese writers to better explore the interface between competition and intellectual property Law. Issues range from the fundamental to the specific, each considered from the angle of cartels, dominant positions, and mergers. Topics covered include, among others, technology licensing, the doctrine of exhaustion, network industries, innovation, patents, and copyright. Appropriate space is devoted to the latest developments in European and American antitrust law, such as the ‘more economic approach’ and the question of …

Paperback: 416 pages
Author: clemens bartollas, larry j. siegel
Publisher: Packt Publishing
Language: English
File Type: PDF
File Size: 43.92 MB

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CORRECTIONS TODAY offers the most practical, engaging, career-focused, and authoritative introduction to corrections available. It is a briefer, more visual, paperback alternative to expensive hardback Introduction to Corrections texts. Perfect for those who have grown tired of encyclopedic texts that are lacking in real-world concepts and application, it examines the field of corrections through the lens of students who are giving serious thought to a career in the field or are now working in corrections but seeking an advanced degree in …