New Releases by Ian Ward

This book revisits one of the defining judicial engagements in English legal history. It provides a fresh account of the years 1606 to 1616 which witnessed a series of increasingly volatile confrontations between, on the one side, King James I and his Attorney-General, Sir Francis Bacon, and on the other, Sir Edward Coke, successively Chief Justice of Common Pleas and Lord Chief Justice. At the heart of the dispute were differing opinions regarding the nature of kingship and the reach of prerogative in reformation England. Appreciating the longer context, in the summer of 1616 King James appealed for a reformation of law and constitution to complement the reformation of his Church. Later historians would discern in these debates the seeding of a century of revolution, followed by another four centuries of reform. This book ventures the further thought that the arguments which echoed around Westminster Hall in the first years of the seventeenth century have lost little of their resonance half a millennium on. Breaks with Rome are little easier to ''get done'', the margins of executive governance little easier to draw.

This book assesses the credibility of this arresting claim in the immediate context of contemporary British theatre by investigating the place and purpose of law in a range of modern dramatic settings and writings.

One of the iconic moments in English history, the trial and execution of King Charles I has yet to be studied in-depth from a contemporary legal perspective. Professor Ian Ward brings his considerable legal and historical acumen to bear on the particular constitutional issues raised by the regicide of Charles, and not only analyses the unfolding of events and their immediate historical context, but also draws out their wider importance and legacy for the generations of historians, politicians, and writers over the ensuing three and a half centuries. This is a book about constitutional history and thought, but also about the writing of constitutional history and thought and the forms they have taken -whether as scholarship, polemics, or literary experiments - in collective British memory. Chapters range from the events leading up to and through the trial and execution of Charles; to their theatricality, legality, and constitutionality; to the political writings such as Milton''s Tenure of Kings and Hobbes'' Leviathan that followed; and finally trace the various subsequent histories and trials of Charles I that presented him either as martyr, Tory or -- in the 18th and 19th centuries -- the Whig.

The Safety Leadership Handbook for Supervisors is an easy to read practical guide for those at the frontline who have the responsibility for workplace safety. The supervisor''s role can be a difficult one to fulfil and often involves juggling different balls in the air. The pressure of operational and production requirements is ever present in many workplaces and can impact the way in which the supervisor views and approaches safety. A key to overcoming this is for supervisors to be given the skills and knowledge around safety leadership and for them to understand the enormous influence they can have in creating and sustaining a workplace free of injury and harm. The 10 Point Safety Leadership Manifesto for Supervisors has been developed to assist supervisors in this cause.

English Legal Histories is an exciting and innovative approach to the study of English law. Written in an accessible style intended for students as well as a broader audience, it takes the reader beyond the narrower confines of legal doctrines and cases, and invites them to consider the myriad contexts within which English law has been shaped: the politics, the economics, the art, the poetry. Reaching from the Reformation through to the age of Reform, it tells stories, the ''histories'', of English law. Histories of the constitution and government, of crime and contracts, tort and trespass, property and equity. Of the people who made that law, those who wrote it, and those who suffered it. For it is in the end a human story, of justice and injustice, of success and failure, good luck and bad. The law is full of statutes and instruments, cases and precedent, but its history is full of people and peculiarity. Which is what, of course, makes it so endlessly fascinating.

The inspirational success story of the first 100 years of Hutchinson Builders. What started out as a one-man band in 1912, when an English immigrant builder arrived with his family to start a new life in Australia, has grown into the country''s largest privately owned construction company. The Hutchies'' story straddles a century that witnessed two world wars, the great depression and tumultuous cycles of financial crises against the back drop of the rough and tumble world of construction. As well as tracking the survival and eventual growth of Hutchies into the dynamic and well respected company of today, the book outlines its evolution through successive generations of Jack Hutchinsons at the helm with a fifth generation poised to take on that role. That story is told by way of a historical account as well as captured through the republication and inclusion of every back issue of "Hutchies'' Truth", the company''s colourful, tabloid-style newsletter covering those years.

Australian Politics in the Twenty-First Century presents the many moving parts of Australia''s political system from an institutional perspective. It equips students with the requisite foundational knowledge, and encourages them to critically examine the complex interplay between a centuries'' old system and a diverse, modern Australian society.

This book charts the writing of the English constitution through the work of four of the most influential jurists in the history of English constitutional thought—Edmund Burke, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Walter Bagehot and Albert Venn Dicey. Stretching from the French Revolution to the death of Queen Victoria, their writing is both representative of and formative to the Victorian constitution. Ian Ward traces how constitutional writing changed over the course of the long nineteenth century, from the poetics of Burke and the romance of Macaulay, to the pragmatism of Bagehot and the jurisprudence of Dicey. A century on, our perception of the English constitution is still shaped by this contested history.

This title was first published in 2003.Justice, Humanity and the New World Order offers a refreshing analysis of current jurisprudential concerns regarding the new world order , by examining them in the intellectual context of the late eighteenth-century Enlightenment. After setting the historical context, the author investigates aspects of Enlightenment political culture as well as aspects of the new world order , including international relations, the European Union and human rights. In conclusion, the author introduces the concept of a new humanism , which he suggests, drawing on certain aspects of Enlightenment political philosophy, can complement the new world order .

The Victorians worried about many things, prominent among their worries being the ''condition'' of England and the ''question'' of its women. Sex, Crime and Literature in Victorian England revisits these particular anxieties, concentrating more closely upon four ''crimes'' which generated especial concern amongst contemporaries: adultery, bigamy, infanticide and prostitution. Each engaged questions of sexuality and its regulation, legal, moral and cultural, for which reason each attracted the considerable interest not just of lawyers and parliamentarians, but also novelists and poets and perhaps most importantly those who, in ever-larger numbers, liked to pass their leisure hours reading about sex and crime. Alongside statutes such as the 1857 Matrimonial Causes Act and the 1864 Contagious Diseases Act, Sex, Crime and Literature in Victorian England contemplates those texts which shaped Victorian attitudes towards England''s ''condition'' and the ''question'' of its women: the novels of Dickens, Thackeray and Eliot, the works of sensationalists such as Ellen Wood and Mary Braddon, and the poetry of Gabriel and Christina Rossetti. Sex, Crime and Literature in Victorian England is a richly contextual commentary on a critical period in the evolution of modern legal and cultural attitudes to the relation of crime, sexuality and the family.

It has become increasingly evident that there is much to begained from a detailed understanding of the structure and properties of polymers in the oriented state. This book reftects the growth of interest in this area of polymer scienceand attempts to give the reader an up to date viewofthe present position. The individual chapters are for the most part self contained, and cover a very wide range of topics. It is intended that each of them should serve the dual purpose of an expository introduction to the subject and a topical review of recent research. It is inevitable that there will be differences of style and approach in the contributions from the different authors. No atternpt has been made to moderate these differences, as they serve to illustrate the diversity of approaches required to give the reader a balanced view of the subject. I should like to thank the contributors for their endeavours, and especially for their patience in accepting modifications and corrections which make for consistency in the book as a whole. 1 am particularly indebted to Professor Leslie Holliday who originally approached me with the proposition that such a book would be a worthwhile venture and to the publishers who have given me every assistance in making its progress as painless as possible.

One hundred years, five continents, two families, and two fabulous diamonds. Jinja, Uganda, 1939. Akhilesh Pendharkar has requested an elderly friend to deliver a sealed package. The old man is unexpectedly taken ill by the roadside and a young British teacher, Walter Adams, runs to his aid. Adams could not have known that his act of compassion would lead to him having to flee the town and escape across Lake Victoria, accused of robbery and murder. The incident is to haunt Adams for the rest of his life, following him from Africa to war-time Britain, to Singapore and Sri Lanka with the Royal Navy, to a new home in a small town in Massachusetts in the United States, and to the Caribbean.Seventy years later in London, England, a chance encounter between two younger members of Adams'' family exposes very different views of Walter Adams. But a dusty box of diaries hides the real story of Walter Adams and his extraordinary legacy. JAGANNATH draws on previously unpublished diaries and letters to create an authentic historical background against which the story of Adams and Pendharkar is set. This carefully researched book looks back to a time of flying boats, mighty battleships and the luxury of transatlantic liners, a world before cheap air travel made the world a much smaller place. In post-war England, a hero returns home to his family struggling to survive in a bombed-out city. In small-town Massachusetts, the bank manager is still a pillar of the community. And in Uganda, the Asian family of Akhilesh Pendharkar is expelled from the country, leaving behind their homes and their possessions.But JAGANNATH also looks to present injustices and future choices. Why do we exploit the poor to supply the diamonds which demonstrate our wealth? And is Britain justified in still holding on to the spoils of Empire?Family trees can be anything but dull."Strong and confident" ... "Incredibly well-written" ...THIS EDITION INCLUDES SOME SUGGESTED DISCUSSION POINTS FOR BOOK CLUBS

We investigate the properties of integrated dielectric filters for the purposes of on-chip routing of photons. We started with the use of high quality factor tunable photonic crystal nanobeam cavities and moving on to examine a new class of reflection based reverse designed filters that maintain the footprint of a waveguide while allowing for arbitrary amplitude and phase response.

Introduction to Critical Legal Theory provides an accessible introduction to the study of law and legal theory. It covers all the seminal movements in classical, modern and postmodern legal thought, engaging the reader with the ideas of jurists as diverse as Aristotle, Hobbes and Kant, Marx, Foucault and Dworkin. At the same time, it impresses the interdisciplinary nature of critical legal thought, introducing the reader to the philosophy, the economics and the politics of law. This new edition focuses even more intently upon the narrative aspect of critical legal thinking and the re-emergence of a distinctive legal humanism, as well as the various related challenges posed by our ''new'' world order. Introduction to Critical Theory is a comprehensive text for both students and teachers of legal theory, jurisprudence and related subjects.

In its exploration of legal issues presented in novels of the Brontë sisters, this book represents a significant and original contribution to the study, not just of the Brontës and the mid-nineteenth century ''woman''s novel'', but also the situation of women in nineteenth century English law and the debates which moved around its prospective reform.

Media Masters'' illustrated Chronology of The Pacific War now reveals vital history within a truly new, enticing and unique format. It pointedly reviews major battle by major battle, month-by-month, day-by-day. Aside from the meticulously researched conflict developments come detailed Battle Notes for expanded understanding. The entire presentation is illustrated by a quite staggering collection of arresting photographs, absorbing official maps and document replications from both Allied and Japanese archival sources. Media Masters'' illustrated chronology of The Pacific War indeed provides an exciting new means of examining history.

Bobby Blah Blah talks too much. But when Bobby and his gang go fishing one day in Sniggery Woods strange things begin to happen in the woods when it goes dark - The aliens have landed!! What do they want? Why are they here ? Bobby Blah Blah and his gang try to solve the mystery. But will they able to ? More importantly will they be able to get the aliens safely home!

Ian Ward places contemporary political and jurisprudential responses to terrorism within a broader literary, cultural and historical context.

This book is one of several highly revealing historical subjects researched and written by husband and- wife collaborative authors, Ian Ward and Norma Miraflor. Since its initial publication, Slaughter and Deception at Batang Kali has spearheaded a quite relentless legal pursuit for justice. This will be reaching its climax within the next few months. The book has so far been central to evidence presented at two previous British High Court hearings. At the conclusion of this second session in High Court in May 2012, the presiding judges finally proclaimed there was indeed a case to answer. The Batang Kali massacre now moves to the Supreme Court in London where once again Slaughter and Deception at Batang Kali will figure as a key factor of evidence.

My dissertation presents an alternative approach to religious influences in democratic discourse by putting contemporary political theory into dialogue with important developments in critical social thought, the academic study of religion and the philosophy of language. Through critical readings of Jurgen Habermas and John Rawls, I argue that political theorists must break from prevailing conceptions of the public sphere and public reason if they are to understand these influences. My approach instead emphasizes the many different roles religious languages play in sites of democratic action called ''publics.'' This alternative allows us to develop subtler analyses of the normative questions raised by religious difference in democratic discourse, and shifts the locus of normative attention from a secularist concern with religion to a democratic concern with domination.

Children love magic numbers. They love to solve them and to mystify family and each other with them. This book contains various magic matrices that can be solved by children in the primary school. Most focus upon addition, with variations for decimals, fractions and some multiplication matrices. They are aimed at Grade 3 to Grade 6 children. The intention is to make mathematics and addition a positive experience by showing children how to work with the matrices and how to construct their own. A teacher or parent can also create further matrices for the children at the appropriate level.

This long awaited title features a comprehensive description of all 10 subspecies.