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In this era of globalization, International Law plays a significant
role in facing rapid development of various legal issues. Cultural
preservation has emerged as an important legal issue that should be
considered by States. This book consists of academic papers
presented and discussed during the 9th International Conference of
the Centre of International Law Studies (9th CILS Conference) held
in Malang, Indonesia, 2-3 October 2018. The title of the book
represents the major theme of the conference: "Culture and
International Law." It is argued that along with globalization,
cultural preservation is slowly ignored by States. Various papers
presented in the book cover five topics: cultural heritage;
cultural rights; culture and economic activity; culture and armed
conflict; and a general topic. The authors of the papers are
outstanding academics from various countries, Lithuania, United
States of America, Australia, Thailand and Indonesia. The
conference was organized by Universitas Indonesia in collaboration
with Brawijaya University. This book aims to give a useful
contribution to the existing literature on International Law,
specifically focussing on cultural issues from the perspective of
cultural heritage and rights, economic as well as armed conflict.
In this era of globalization, International Law plays a significant
role in facing rapid development of various legal issues. Cultural
preservation has emerged as an important legal issue that should be
considered by States. This book consists of academic papers
presented and discussed during the 9th International Conference of
the Centre of International Law Studies (9th CILS Conference) held
in Malang, Indonesia, 2-3 October 2018. The title of the book
represents the major theme of the conference: "Culture and
International Law." It is argued that along with globalization,
cultural preservation is slowly ignored by States. Various papers
presented in the book cover five topics: cultural heritage;
cultural rights; culture and economic activity; culture and armed
conflict; and a general topic. The authors of the papers are
outstanding academics from various countries, Lithuania, United
States of America, Australia, Thailand and Indonesia. The
conference was organized by Universitas Indonesia in collaboration
with Brawijaya University. This book aims to give a useful
contribution to the existing literature on International Law,
specifically focussing on cultural issues from the perspective of
cultural heritage and rights, economic as well as armed conflict.
A revealing look at the changing role of churches in the decades
after the American Revolution. Most Americans today would not think
of their local church as a site for arbitration and would probably
be hesitant to bring their property disputes, moral failings, or
personal squabbles to their kin and neighbors for judgment. But
from the Revolutionary Era through the mid-nineteenth century, many
Protestants imbued local churches with immense authority. Through
their ritual practice of discipline, churches insisted that
brethren refrain from suing each other before "infidels" at local
courts and claimed jurisdiction over a range of disputes: not only
moral issues such as swearing, drunkenness, and adultery but also
matters more typically considered to be under the purview of common
law and courts of equity, including disputes over trespass, land,
probate, slave warranty, and theft. In Law in American
Meetinghouses, Jeffrey Thomas Perry explores the ways that ordinary
Americans-Black and white, enslaved and free-understood and created
law in their local communities, uncovering a vibrant marketplace of
authority in which church meetinghouses played a central role in
maintaining their neighborhoods' social peace. Churches were once
prominent sites for the creation of local law and in this period
were a primary arena in which civil and religious authority
collided and shaped one another. When church discipline failed, the
wronged parties often pushed back, and their responses highlight
the various forces that ultimately hindered that venue's ability to
effectively arbitrate disputes between members. Relying primarily
on a deep reading of church records and civil case files, Perry
examines how legal transformations, an expanding market economy,
and religious controversy led churchgoers to reimagine their
congregations' authority. By the 1830s, unable to resolve doctrinal
quibbles within the fellowship, church factions turned to state
courts to secure control over their meetinghouses, often demanding
that judges wade into messy ecclesiastical disputes. Tracking
changes in disciplinary rigor in Kentucky Baptist churches from
that state's frontier period through 1845, and looking beyond
statutes and court decrees, Law in American Meetinghouses is a
fresh take on church-state relations. Ultimately, it highlights an
oft-forgotten way that Americans subtly repositioned religious
institutions alongside state authority.
Welcome to the Subject 11 project. We are currently seeking 10
individuals to participate in a research study. Participants shall
receive a sum to be discussed during initial telephone interview.
Interested parties should email us via our contact page,
subject11.webs.com, providing their telephone number and a brief
biography of approximately 100 words, describing themselves in
terms of gender, age, race, and occupation if any. The study will
take place in a series of abandoned buildings rented for this
purpose. Note: subjects involved in this test may find themselves
experiencing certain psychological distortions. They may experience
lapses in memory regarding others and themselves. Subjects may even
forget how long this test is supposed to go on for. And please
disregard any additional people you may feel you've sighted in the
complex, beyond those in the test group. We thank you for your
interest in our research. "Cutting right to the chase, SUBJECT 11
is one of the best novellas I've read all year. Jeffrey Thomas is
at his best in this eerie story following a group of ten people
(five women and five men) taking part in a mysterious
experiment...The mysteries are enticing, and Thomas brings them
together for an ending that is sure to linger long in the minds of
readers." - Justin Steele, THE ARKHAM DIGEST
In 1893, the Guests attempt their first contact with the human
race. Families go mad. Parents commit suicide. A president is
assassinated. By 1918, in the bleak boneland of the 20th Century,
human assassins commit atrocities and global wars are waged to sate
the appetites of the Guests. John Board is a crime scene
photographer, whose nightmarish images of human destruction are
used as titillating entertainment. Board's future is tied in with
these unseen, unfathomable forces -- and so is his past. America is
drowning in a sea of blood as flashbulbs click and movie cameras
roll. The Guests are here to stay. BONELAND is a tale of a
not-so-alternate history...a story of horror, science fiction, and
the surreal by Jeffrey Thomas, acclaimed author of PUNKTOWN and
LETTERS FROM HADES.
Disney princesses Ariel and Jasmine create their own paths this Deluxe Step 2 Step into Reading leveled reader featuring two stories in one!
Princess Ariel from Disney The Little Mermaid needs to get medicine for her sister, but it can only be found in a deep, dark part of the sea. Princess Jasmine from Disney Aladdin wants to help the people of her kingdom, but her father and Jafar want her to stay within the palace walls and be a proper princess instead. This Step 2 Deluxe Step into Reading leveled reader features two books in one, plus a special poster! It’s perfect for children ages 4 to 6.
Disney's Dream Big, Princess campaign focuses on the amazing stories and leadership qualities of each Disney Princess and shows how they relate to today's girl.
Punktown's health agents are charged with keeping the public safe
from infectious disease. Between inter-planetary travel,
super-mutant strains of bacteria and criminal genetic manipulation
they certainly keep busy. But for health agent Montgomery Black
work is about to consume his life. The problem is a highly
contagious and extremely deadly STD, mutstav six-seventy and cases
are showing up everywhere. While trying to prevent the spread of
the disease Black could lose everything that's important to him but
there's no ignoring the suspicion that something far more sinister
than the impartial hand of nature is behind the spread of this
epidemic.
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Punktown (Paperback)
Jeffrey Thomas; Introduction by Michael Marshall Smith
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R591
Discovery Miles 5 910
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Jeffrey Thomas' collection Punktown explored the streets and back
alleys of a futuristic and nightmarish urbanscape in a series of
unconnected short stories. In Punktown: Third Eye, Thomas has
teleported authors Simon Logan, Jonathan Lyons, Charlee Jacob, Paul
G. Tremblay, Michael McCarty, Mark McLaughlin, Garrett Peck, Thomas
Andrew Hughes, and Scott Thomas into the city to pen their own
tales of its citizens, aliens, mutations, and sentient machines.
These talented authors bring a new perspective, a personal vision,
a third eye view to the phantasmetropolis that is Punktown.
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Punktown (Hardcover)
Jeffrey Thomas; Introduction by Michael Marshall Smith
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R982
Discovery Miles 9 820
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In the city they call Punktown, on a planet where a hundred
sentient species collide, you can become a creator of clones. You
can become a piece of performance art. You might even become a
library of sorrows...
It's the final day of the season for the annual Punktown Fair and
excitement is high. For the couple in charge, Del and Sophi Kahn,
it's a bittersweet day of transition. Little do they realize the
trials they will face and how severely this one day will test their
relationship. In fact, closing day seems to be a catalyst for many
Punktown residents; drawing them in, stirring them up and letting
them loose on each other. This roller coaster tale builds to a peak
of expectation then plummets, twisting and turning, a breathtaking
juggernaut to the final pages with plenty of screams and giggles
along the way.
There are haunted places. Haunted houses. The metropolis of
Punktown, on the planet Oasis, is a haunted city. An unassuming and
aimless young man has begun to perceive the city's dark tentacles
in the lay of the streets. Its roots in the labyrinth of the
subways. Its polluted taint in the eyes of the people he knows, and
even loves. And this evil is stirring, building toward an
apocalyptic culmination. The city is not only haunted - it's
perhaps a living thing. MONSTROCITY combines elements of science
fiction with horror in the vein of H. P. Lovecraft, taking place in
the milieu of Jeffrey Thomas' acclaimed collection, PUNKTOWN -
which China Mieville described as "searing and alien and anxious
and rich."
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Osiris (Paperback)
Jeffrey Thomas
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R399
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