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This book discusses the history and institutional framework of the EU without becoming mired in the minutiae of ''black letter'' law. It provides an accessible introduction for students to current critical academic commentary on European law.

Chin Peng joined the Communist Party of Malaya (CPM) in January, 1940, as a 15 year-old schoolboy. His commitment to the communist cause, the pre-war anti-colonial struggle against Britain and, eventually, guerrilla warfare against the Japanese invaders saw him propelled rapidly to senior positions within the CPM party structure. By the age of 18 he had become the key link between the communists'' Malayan Peoples Anti-Japanese Army (MPAJA) and Britain''s clandestine Force 136, then endeavouring to set up intelligence-gathering operations behind enemy lines. While still a teenager he was promoted to head the communist movement''s activities in his home state of Perak. Immediately following the Japanese surrender, Chin Peng was appointed to the Central Committee and, ultimately, his party''s policy-making Politburo. He was barely 21, At 23, he was formally named the CPM''s Secretary General, its highest-ranking figure. By June, 1948, the Malayan Emergency erupted and Chin Peng, four months shy of his 24th year, became the British Empire''s most wanted man.

Discusses various modes of transportation on wheels, on water, on the tracks, in the air and in space.

The foundation of a plan to reorient the teaching of economics and make it more relevant to the 21st century, this book is intended to enhance the understanding of macro- and micro-economics by students of accounting, business law and taxation, finance, econometrics, marketing and management. Sprintprint title.

Games to encourage and reinforce addition, multiplication, subtraction and division

A structured approach to teaching the skills of solving word problems and understanding the language of mathematics

Where do power and authority come from and how do those who have it keep it? What would be the impact of dissolution on the United Kingdom? These are the key questions in this study of English constitutional history, starting with the Tudor period and following the issues up to modern times. Tracing a path from the Tudor constitutional ideal of the king in Parliament to the emergence of civil rights ideas, the re-invention of an imperial Britain (Victoria as Gloriana) and current debates around self-determination, Ward considers how the constitution has been imagined in literature, as well as in historical narrative. In doing so, he makes it clear that Parliament and monarchy are themselves imagined and re-imagined over time, not as glosses on history, but as the center of a narrative of the constitution. He argues that ultimately, all constitutions depend for their acceptance on their ability to reach the imagination, rather than on the power of a legal code.

This work offers an analysis of constitutional law, examining Shakespeare''s plays as legal texts. Professor Ward uses the plays as a starting point to investigate the development of constitutional ideas such as sovereignty, commonwealth, conscience and moral law, and the art of government. In the developing area of law and literature, this book examines how Shakespeare''s work offers a rich source of textual material on legal subjects.

Kantianism, Postmodernism and Critical Legal Thought presents a challenging alternative theory of legal philosophy. The central thesis of the book suggests an accommodation between three of the most influential contemporary theories of law, Kantianism, postmodernism and critical legal thought. In doing so, it further suggests that the often perceived distance between these theories of law disguises a common intellectual foundation. This foundation lies in the work of Immanuel Kant. Kantianism, Postmodernism and Critical Legal Thought presents an intellectual history of critical legal thinking, beginning with Kant, and then proceeding through philosphers and legal theorists as diverse as Heidegger and Arendt, Foucault and Derrida, Rorty and Rawls, and Unger and Dworkin. Ultimately, it will be suggested that each of these philosophers is writing within a common intellectual tradition, and that by concentrating on the commonality of this tradition, contemporary legal theory can better appreciate the reconstructive potential of the critical legal project.

The Margins of European Law attempts to provide a critical and sceptical approach to European law. The related themes of the book attempt to introduce a historical and theoretical context for European law. Ultimately, it is suggested that the new European order requires a very different legal and jurisprudential approach; one which is distinctively post-modern. European Community law, at its margins, is a mass of inconsistencies and injustices, and a post-modern model can better effect the erasing of the margins of European law.

The emergence of an interdisciplinary study of law and literature is one of the most exciting theoretical developments taking place in North America and Britain. In Law and Literature: Possibilities and Perspectives Ian Ward explores the educative ambitions of the law and literature movement, and its already established critical, ethical and political potential. He reveals the law in literature, and the literature of law, in key areas of literature, from Shakespeare to Beatrix Potter to Umberto Eco, and from feminist literature to children''s literature to the modern novel, drawing out the interaction between rape law and The Handmaid''s Tale, and the psychology of English property law and The Tale of Peter Rabbit. This original book defines the developing state of law and literature studies, and demonstrates how the theory of law and literature can illuminate the literary text.

This book introduces social science students to the world of media, and media students to the world of politics, power and control. Students of the social sciences are introduced to a wide range of contemporary theories about media production, representation and audiences. Difficult concepts drawn from semiotics and cultural studies in general are explained clearly and their relevance to the world of public affairs is carefully described. Politics of the Media is also ideal for media students as it explains the political importance of mass media in contemporary Western societies, and takes the reader through the web of processes and networks in the political world where control and exercise of media power can have a dramatic effect. Most chapters are illustrated with images from either broadcast or print media. Each chapter concludes with a summary and discussion questions.

Reprint of an introductory politics text first published in 1992. Written by lecturers in government at the University of Queensland, this study examines core elements of Australian government including the constitution, federalism, parliament, cabinet, the public service, political parties and pressure groups. Includes case studies, discussion questions and notes on learning objectives. The text is well supported by illustrations, an extensive bibliography and an index.

Providing information on the most exotic cars on the road today, this book covers such cars as the Aston Martin, the Ferrari and the Lambourghini. The text describes over 30 cars, recording technical detail and the driving impressions.

Provides economics students with a historical perspective of the Soviet economic system from 1917 to the present day. It includes chapters on Stalinism, the Liberman-Kosygin Reform, and the Gorbachev Model. The author is a senior lecturer in economics at Monash University.