Select Essays in Anglo-American Legal History

Select Essays in Anglo-American Legal History
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Total Pages : 890
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ISBN-10 : UCAL:$B234632
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Synopsis Select Essays in Anglo-American Legal History by : Association of American Law Schools

A History of Police in England

A History of Police in England
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Total Pages : 448
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ISBN-10 : UCAL:$B271432
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Synopsis A History of Police in England by : William Lauriston Melville Lee

The Making of Modern Intellectual Property Law

The Making of Modern Intellectual Property Law
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 264
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ISBN-10 : 9780521563635
ISBN-13 : 0521563631
Rating : 4/5 (35 Downloads)

Synopsis The Making of Modern Intellectual Property Law by : Brad Sherman

One of the common themes in recent public debate has been the law's inability to accommodate the new ways of creating, distributing and replicating intellectual products. In this book the authors argue that in order to understand many of the problems currently confronting the law, it is necessary to understand its past. This is its first detailed historical account. In this book the authors explore two related themes. First, they explain why intellectual property law came to take its now familiar shape with sub-categories of patents, copyright, designs and trade marks. Secondly, the authors set out to explain how it is that the law grants property status to intangibles. In doing so they explore the rise and fall of creativity as an organising concept in intellectual property law, the mimetic nature of intellectual property law and the important role that the registration process plays in shaping intangible property.

The Persianate World

The Persianate World
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Publisher : University of California Press
Total Pages : 364
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ISBN-10 : 9780520300927
ISBN-13 : 0520300920
Rating : 4/5 (27 Downloads)

Synopsis The Persianate World by : Nile Green

At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Persian is one of the great lingua francas of world history. Yet despite its recognition as a shared language across the Islamic world and beyond, its scope, impact, and mechanisms remain underexplored. A world historical inquiry into pre-modern cosmopolitanism, The Persianate World traces the reach and limits of Persian as a Eurasian language in a comprehensive survey of its geographical, literary, and social frontiers. From Siberia to Southeast Asia, and between London and Beijing, this book shows how Persian gained, maintained, and finally surrendered its status to imperial and vernacular competitors. Fourteen essays trace Persian’s interactions with Bengali, Chinese, Turkic, Punjabi, and other languages to identify the forces that extended “Persographia,” the domain of written Persian. Spanning the ages expansion and contraction, The Persianate World offers a critical survey of both the supports and constraints of one of history’s key languages of global exchange.

The Routledge Handbook of Language Revitalization

The Routledge Handbook of Language Revitalization
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 681
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ISBN-10 : 9781317200857
ISBN-13 : 1317200853
Rating : 4/5 (57 Downloads)

Synopsis The Routledge Handbook of Language Revitalization by : Leanne Hinton

The Routledge Handbook of Language Revitalization is the first comprehensive overview of the language revitalization movement, from the Arctic to the Amazon and across continents. Featuring 47 contributions from a global range of top scholars in the field, the handbook is divided into two parts, the first of which expands on language revitalization issues of theory and practice while the second covers regional perspectives in an effort to globalize and decolonize the field. The collection examines critical issues in language revitalization, including: language rights, language and well-being, and language policy; language in educational institutions and in the home; new methodologies and venues for language learning; and the roles of documentation, literacies, and the internet. The volume also contains chapters on the kinds of language that are less often researched such as the revitalization of music, of whistled languages and sign languages, and how languages change when they are being revitalized. The Routledge Handbook of Language Revitalization is the ideal resource for graduate students and researchers working in linguistic anthropology and language revitalization and endangerment.

The Spectral Arctic

The Spectral Arctic
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Publisher : UCL Press
Total Pages : 278
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ISBN-10 : 9781787352452
ISBN-13 : 1787352455
Rating : 4/5 (52 Downloads)

Synopsis The Spectral Arctic by : Shane McCorristine

Visitors to the Arctic enter places that have been traditionally imagined as otherworldly. This strangeness fascinated audiences in nineteenth-century Britain when the idea of the heroic explorer voyaging through unmapped zones reached its zenith. The Spectral Arctic re-thinks our understanding of Arctic exploration by paying attention to the importance of dreams and ghosts in the quest for the Northwest Passage. The narratives of Arctic exploration that we are all familiar with today are just the tip of the iceberg: they disguise a great mass of mysterious and dimly lit stories beneath the surface. In contrast to oft-told tales of heroism and disaster, this book reveals the hidden stories of dreaming and haunted explorers, of frozen mummies, of rescue balloons, visits to Inuit shamans, and of the entranced female clairvoyants who travelled to the Arctic in search of John Franklin’s lost expedition. Through new readings of archival documents, exploration narratives, and fictional texts, these spectral stories reflect the complex ways that men and women actually thought about the far North in the past. This revisionist historical account allows us to make sense of current cultural and political concerns in the Canadian Arctic about the location of Franklin’s ships.

Handbook of Indians of Canada

Handbook of Indians of Canada
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Total Pages : 656
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ISBN-10 : UCAL:B4960681
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Synopsis Handbook of Indians of Canada by : Frederick Webb Hodge

A dictionary, an encyclopedia, an enthnographic overview of Native tribes and their social life and customs, arts, people, villages, languages, and topics of all kinds. Includes a summary of treaties signed ; descriptions and location of Indian [Native, Aboriginal, First Nations] tribes and locations, explanation of terminology, etc. "Synonymy" section includes various spellings of Indian names, tribes and people, etc.

Towards a Theory of Schooling (Routledge Revivals)

Towards a Theory of Schooling (Routledge Revivals)
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 195
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ISBN-10 : 9781135090869
ISBN-13 : 1135090866
Rating : 4/5 (69 Downloads)

Synopsis Towards a Theory of Schooling (Routledge Revivals) by : David Hamilton

First published in 1989, Towards a Theory of Schooling explores and debates the relationship between school and society. It examines the form and function of one of humankind’s most important social institutions, following the cutting edge of pedagogic innovation from mainland Europe through the British Isles to the USA. In the process, the book throws important light upon the origins and evolution of the school based notions of class, curriculum, classroom, recitation and class teaching.