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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Your essential revision guide to the Scots Law of Evidence, fully updated with the latest statues and case law Discover how the law of evidence operates within Scotland, and in the larger context of UK and European laws of evidence. Helpful student features include Essential Facts and Essential Cases for each chapter. This updated edition: - Covers everything you need to know for your Scots law evidence course - ideal for revision - Updated to take account of case law developments since 2021 - Covers the Double Jeopardy (Scotland) Act 2014, the Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 2016 and changes made to the law on vulnerable witnesses by the Vulnerable Witnesses (Scotland) Act 2019 James Chalmers is Regius Professor of Law at the University of Glasgow. He is the co-author of Walker and Walker: The Law of Evidence in Scotland (4th edition, 2015).

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In the third edition of this bestselling introductory textbook, Richard Ogden presents the concepts, terminology and representations needed for understanding how English is pronounced globally.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In this book, McElvenny offers a concise history of modern linguistics from its emergence in the early nineteenth century up to the end of World War II. Written as a collective biography of the field, it concentrates on the interaction between the leading figures of linguistics, their controversies, and the role of the social and political context in shaping their ideas and methods.While A History of Modern Linguistics focuses on disciplinary linguistics, the boundaries of the account are porous: developments in neighbouring fields - in particular, philosophy, psychology and anthropology - are brought into the discussion where they have contributed to linguistic research.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Your guide to the Scots law of delict, fully updated with the latest statutes and case law From defamation to dangerous animals, and from negligence to nuisance, this concise guide gives you the key facts that you need, whether you're a busy law student, revising for those all-important exams or looking to brush up on your knowledge. It will also be useful for those studying comparative criminal law or tort across different jurisdictions. This new edition: - Covers everything you need to know for your Scots law of Delict course - Includes updates to the law in negligence (including that of public authorities), nuisance, occupiers' liability, breach of confidence/privacy, defamation, economic torts, vicarious liability and defences - Discusses new cases including Ovu v London Underground Ltd; Airport Authority v Western Air Ltd; Fearn v Tate Modern Galleries; Jones v MoD; Jalla v Shell; MacBean v Scottish Water; Duchess of Sussex v Associated Newspapers Ltd; Public Joint Stock Co v Harper Collins; Blackpool Football Club v DSN; DFX v Coventry City Council and Henderson v Dorset Healthcare - Discusses the impact of the Defamation and Malicious Publication (Scotland) Act 2021 Francis McManus is Honorary Professor of Law at the University of Stirling and Emeritus Professor of Law at Edinburgh Napier University.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Helps intermediate and advanced learners of Arabic develop their vocabulary, writing, translation and comprehension.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - One of Europe's leading realist philosophers restores the role of the external world to modern philosophy Since the 1780s, Western philosophy has been largely under the spell of Immanuel Kant's transcendental philosophy. In this book, Maurizio Ferraris offers a number of important criticisms of Kant, anticipating the related critiques made by the Speculative Realists. The first part, originally published in 2001, lays the foundations of Ferraris' New Realism, anticipating the realist turn characteristic of 21st century philosophy. The second, written in 2021, outlines a complete metaphysical theory of realism based on the notion of hysteresis, the ability of effects to survive even when their causes have ceased to exist. Maurizio Ferraris is Full Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Turin and is the President of Labont, Center for Ontology. Sarah De Sanctis is an academic translator specialising in philosophy.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Explores the distinctive character of the Umayyad empire in its early Islamic context: its economy, society and political history.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Explores Derick Thomson's far-reaching influence on the 20th-century revival of Scottish Gaelic Derick Thomson and the Gaelic Revival focuses in expert detail on the 'other' great 20th-century Scottish Gaelic poet and intellectual. Derick Thomson's poetry ranks with Sorley MacLean's as among the best in the Gaelic language, and he contributed to the preservation and development of the language as an editor, journalist, scholar and activist. As well as founding and steering the most important modern Gaelic magazine, Gairm, he instigated a number of ventures aimed at promoting Gaelic and had major impact on Gaelic studies as an academic subject. His vision of the Gaelic revival is characterised by high aesthetic standards, organisational and economic shrewdness, openness to second-language users, support for Scottish political independence and a broad European outlook. The very first book-length study devoted to Thomson, this monograph explores his career within the context of the Gaelic revival in Scotland and other minoritised-language movements in Europe and examines his thoughts on the current and future state of the language as articulated in essays, articles, poems and short fiction. Key features and benefits ? Based on previously untranslated sources ? Introduces the scholar and activist who was the driving force behind influential initiatives aimed at promoting Gaelic ? Offers a fresh European perspective on the subject, from an author with a command of Gaelic who is herself not Scottish ? Incorporates a multifaceted approach that brings together Derick Thomson's cultural and political activism, poetry and scholarship ? Examines Thomson's engagement with other countries, especially Ireland and Wales, and with other figures, including Alexander MacDonald (Alasdair Mac Mhaighstir Alasdair), James Macpherson and Ruaraidh Erskine of Mar ? Written with regard to international audiences and relevant for both Gaelic speakers and readers without a command of Gaelic ? Enables the incorporation of modern Gaelic writing into comparative literature in Europe Petra Johana Poncarová is based at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. She translates from Gaelic into Czech and her award-winning Czech edition of Tormod Caimbeul's Deireadh an Fhoghair is the first complete translation of the iconic novel into any language.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Contemporary Thai Horror Film focuses on the most significant and dominant characteristic of Thai cinema throughout its history: the Thai incarnation of the horror genre and its central role in Thailand's film industry. Tracing the development of Thai cinema throughout wider contextual changes, Ainslie explores the influence of audiences and viewing scenarios from previous decades upon this industry today. Most evident in the popular horror genre, close analysis of films demonstrates a specific style of Thai cinema as well as the wider social forces that have shaped Thai cinema as a national industry. By examining these films with a framework built from horror theory, this book questions our understanding of 'horror' as a generic category when we move outside of its traditional Euro-American origins and the voyeuristic viewing scenario often associated with the genre. Mary Jane Ainslie is Associate Professor in Film and Media at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China Campus.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - [headline]Develops a new theory of literary imagination for the Anthropocene by analysing descriptions of the environment from above Readers encounter the environment through literature in ways not available to everyday perception. This is especially clear when a text integrates the grand vistas of what is known as the bird's-eye view. In this welcome contribution to the contemporary theoretical discussion about storied environments and non-human perceptions, David Rodriguez presents an original interpretation of the aesthetics of the view from above. Focusing on fiction by twentieth-century American writers including Willa Cather, Paul Bowles and Don DeLillo, Rodriguez skilfully combines ecocriticism, narrative theory and phenomenological approaches to literature to develop the term 'form of environment'. This theory of literary fiction foregrounds the environment not as setting or historical context, but as an equal agent with the human figures and scales that are normally the focus of literary analysis. [bio]David Rodriguez is Adjunct Assistant Professor of English at Hofstra University in New York. His previous publications include Narrating Nonhuman Spaces: Form, Story, and Experience Beyond Anthropocentrism (co-edited with Marco Caracciolo and Marlene Marcussen, 2021).

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Provides a new ground-breaking framework for the study of foreign language learning.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Moves away from offering a single methodology or approach to social justice teaching, providing practical models for academics to follow.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - [headline]Offers a literary and cultural critique of the concept of true feeling, using affect theory to analyze post-war realist literatures Is emotional truth a damaging literary and cultural ideal The Artifice of Affect proposes that valuing affective authenticity risks creating a homogenised self, encouraged to comply only with accepted moral beliefs. Similarly, when emotional truth is the primary value of literature, literary texts too often become agents of conformity. Nowhere is this risk explored more fully than in a range of American realist texts from the Cold War to the end of the twentieth century. The works of writers such as James Baldwin, Saul Bellow, John Cheever, Kathleen Collins, Paula Fox, Ralph Ellison and Richard Yates formulate trenchant critiques of true feeling's aesthetic and social imperatives. The arguments at the heart of this book aim to re-frame emotional processes as visceral constructions, which should not be held to the standards of static ideals of accuracy, legitimacy or veracity. [bio]Nicholas Manning is Professor of American Literature at Université Grenoble Alpes and a fellow of the Institut universitaire de France.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book brings a dynamic approach to Turkish politics by showing how political struggles operate via narratives and how ideas, institutions and narratives interact.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Contributing to scholarship studying Islam alongside other late antique religions, Traces of the Prophets highlights how early Muslims deployed sacred objects and spaces to inscribe and dispute Islam's continuities with, and differences from, Judaism and Christianity. The book argues that prophets' relics ritually and rhetorically shaped Muslim identities in the first centuries of Islam.Traces of the Prophets rewrites the history of holy bodies and sacred spaces in the emergence of Islam. Rather than focusing on theological controversies among early Muslims, this book is grounded in the material objects and places that Muslims touched and 'thought with' in defining Islamic practice and belief. While often marginalized in modern scholarship, sacred relics and spaces stood at the disputed boundaries of emergent Islamic identities. Objects and spaces like Abraham's footprints in Mecca and Muhammad's tomb in Medina provided sites of shared Islamic ritual, as well as tools for differentiating Muslims from non-Muslims.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Helps intermediate and advanced learners of Arabic develop their vocabulary, writing, translation and comprehension.