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Designed for the general reader and students of law, this is a
concise history and analysis of the civil law tradition, which is
dominant in most of Europe, all of Latin America, and many parts of
Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. The fourth edition is fully
updated to include the latest developments in the field and to
correct and update historical details gleaned from newly-published
research on Roman and Medieval law. In the past ten years, the
legal profession has changed radically, with the growing
international ubiquity of large law firms operating across borders
(which was previously a uniquely American phenomenon). This new
edition updates the book from the post-Soviet era to ongoing
current issues, including Brexit and the status of the European
Union. It discusses how civil law codes have shifted in some
countries to adapt to modern and changing ideologies and also
includes brand-new material on legal education, which is of central
importance to the legal profession today.
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Memoirs of a Happy Failure
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In these articles John Henry argues on the one hand for the
intimate relationship between religion and early modern attempts to
develop new understandings of nature, and on the other hand for the
role of occult concepts in early modern natural philosophy.
Focussing on the scene in England, the articles provide detailed
examinations of the religious motivations behind Roman Catholic
efforts to develop a new mechanical philosophy, theories of the
soul and immaterial spirits, and theories of active matter. There
are also important studies of animism in the beginnings of
experimentalism, the role of occult qualities in the mechanical
philosophy, and a new account of the decline of magic. As well as
general surveys, the collection includes in depth studies of
William Gilbert, Sir Kenelm Digby, Henry More, Francis Glisson,
Robert Boyle, Robert Hooke, and Isaac Newton.
Designed for the general reader and students of law, this is a
concise history and analysis of the civil law tradition, which is
dominant in most of Europe, all of Latin America, and many parts of
Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. The fourth edition is fully
updated to include the latest developments in the field and to
correct and update historical details gleaned from newly-published
research on Roman and Medieval law. In the past ten years, the
legal profession has changed radically, with the growing
international ubiquity of large law firms operating across borders
(which was previously a uniquely American phenomenon). This new
edition updates the book from the post-Soviet era to ongoing
current issues, including Brexit and the status of the European
Union. It discusses how civil law codes have shifted in some
countries to adapt to modern and changing ideologies and also
includes brand-new material on legal education, which is of central
importance to the legal profession today.
This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have
numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a
free scanned copy of the original rare book from
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A helpful compendium of tips and tricks to land the perfect job! In
The Big Book of Job-Hunting Hacks, experienced job-hunting
professionals offer detailed advice on every step of the
job-hunting process. From how to navigate the interview process, to
how to create the perfect resume, this book will help you stand out
from your competitors. With a new introduction by John Henry Weiss,
president of a recruitment firm, that contextualizes the current
economic state as a result of COVID-19, this book offers hundreds
of practical tips for those laid-off, fired, or new to enter the
workplace. Some of the information that this book will explain:
Which questions you should be asking yourself while researching the
market How to craft an effective cover letter The importance of a
simple resume format How to negotiate a job offer How to build your
own business And so much more! Whether you're entry-level or
nearing the peak of your career, The Big Book of Job-Hunting Hacks
is the book for you!
Chemist and illusionist John Henry Pepper (1821-1900) lectured at
the Royal Polytechnic Institution in London, and incorporated
experiments, illusions and magic lanterns into his popular science
lectures. In 1862 he developed a stage-show illusion called 'the
ghost'. This involved using strategically placed pieces of glass
and specific lighting in order to create the illusion of ghostly
figures on stage. The illusion was immensely popular in the second
half of the nineteenth century - it was visited by royalty, and
Pepper's show toured to America, Canada and Australia. In this
book, first published in 1890, Pepper details the history of 'the
ghost' and the process of carrying out the illusion. 'Pepper's
Ghost' is considered to be a precursor to cinema, and this book
will be of interest to those studying the development of popular
nineteenth-century culture, the 'entertainment industry', and the
origins of cinema.
Globalization has increased the number of individuals in criminal
proceedings who are unable to understand the language of the
courtroom, and as a result the number of court interpreters has
also increased. But unsupervised interpreters can severely
undermine the fairness of a criminal proceeding. In this innovative
and methodological new study, Dingfelder Stone comprehensively
examines the multitudes of mistakes made by interpreters, and
explores the resultant legal and practical implications. Whilst
scholars of interpreting studies have researched the prevalence of
interpreter error for decades, the effect of these mistakes on
criminal proceedings has largely gone unanalyzed by legal scholars.
Drawing upon both interpreting studies research and legal
scholarship alike, this engaging and timely study analyzes the
impact of court interpreters on the right to a fair trial under
international law, which forms the minimum baseline standard for
national systems.
Guided by and complimenting the writings of Robert K. Greenleaf,
this book aims to deepen, expand and extend the philosophy of
servant-leadership. Proposing a grounding framework for the studies
of leadership, training and development, the author suggests that
servant-leadership is primarily based on the structures of human
development. Emphasizing the notion of a developing
servant-consciousness and explaining the composition of a
servant-leader disposition, this book analyzes the way that
leadership has evolved. The characteristics of a servant-leader are
categorized into five primary capacities, each with a focus on
holistic listening and path-finding foresight. Servant-leaders in
Training is essential reading for scholars of organizational
leadership and management, and those wishing to gain a deeper
understanding of servant-leader philosophy more generally.
Globalization has increased the number of individuals in criminal
proceedings who are unable to understand the language of the
courtroom, and as a result the number of court interpreters has
also increased. But unsupervised interpreters can severely
undermine the fairness of a criminal proceeding. In this innovative
and methodological new study, Dingfelder Stone comprehensively
examines the multitudes of mistakes made by interpreters, and
explores the resultant legal and practical implications. Whilst
scholars of interpreting studies have researched the prevalence of
interpreter error for decades, the effect of these mistakes on
criminal proceedings has largely gone unanalyzed by legal scholars.
Drawing upon both interpreting studies research and legal
scholarship alike, this engaging and timely study analyzes the
impact of court interpreters on the right to a fair trial under
international law, which forms the minimum baseline standard for
national systems.
When archaeologist John Henry Phillips volunteered with a charity
that took D-Day veterans back to Normandy, due to an administrative
error he found himself without a hotel room and reliant on the
generosity of one of the veterans who had a spare bed. That veteran
was Patrick Thomas - and it was an encounter that would change both
their lives forever. Patrick's landing craft, LCH 185, had led the
first wave into Sword Beach on D-Day, and stayed off Normandy until
the 25th June when an acoustic mine sent it to the seabed along
with most of the crew. His story transfixed John, and the resulting
search for the shipwreck was to consume him. Jumping back and
forwards in time, between vivid descriptions of the final days on
board LCH 185 and John's thrilling search to find the shipwreck,
The Search is an emotional story of a devastating time in history,
an unlikely, life-changing friendship and a quest to honour a
wartime home and family lost over seventy-five years ago.
The Oxford bookseller and publisher John Henry Parker (1806-84), a
supporter of the Tractarian movement and a friend of Cardinal
Newman, was also a historian of architecture, and first published
this glossary in 1836. Reissued here is the enlarged third edition
of 1840. The work is ordered alphabetically, and illustrated with
700 woodcuts by various artists. As stated in the first edition's
preface, the book 'lays no claim to originality, its sole object
being utility'. By 1837, 'the rapid sale of the first edition of
this work clearly shews that something of the kind was required'.
The third edition was followed in 1841 by a companion volume which
contained 400 further examples and a chronological table: the two
books offered a useful guide for those travellers and others who
were taking a keen interest in the built environment. The first
volume contains explanations of terms from 'abacus' to 'zotheca'
and 105 plates with notes.
The Oxford bookseller and publisher John Henry Parker (1806-84), a
supporter of the Tractarian movement and a friend of Cardinal
Newman, was also a historian of architecture, and first published
this glossary in 1836. Reissued here is the enlarged third edition
of 1840. The work is ordered alphabetically, and illustrated with
700 woodcuts by various artists. As stated in the first edition's
preface, the book 'lays no claim to originality, its sole object
being utility'. By 1837, 'the rapid sale of the first edition of
this work clearly shews that something of the kind was required'.
The third edition was followed in 1841 by a companion volume: the
two books offered a useful guide for those travellers and others
who were taking a keen interest in the built environment. The
companion volume contains further line drawings and plates, an
index to the plates in both volumes, and a chronology of the
architectural developments and individual buildings being
discussed.
The Oxford bookseller and publisher John Henry Parker (1806-84), a
supporter of the Tractarian movement and a friend of Cardinal
Newman, was also a historian of architecture, whose two-volume
Glossary of Terms Used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic
Architecture is also reissued in this series. In 1851, he published
a volume on English domestic architecture from the Norman Conquest
to 1300 by the antiquary Thomas Hudson Turner (1815-52), and on
Turner's death he completed the second volume, on the fourteenth
century, himself. Both volumes are highly illustrated with line
drawings and plans. Volume 2 follows a similar plan, describing the
rooms (such as halls, kitchens and chambers) common to domestic
buildings, of whatever size, in the fourteenth century, and
discussing their individual features and construction. The coverage
of surviving buildings is organised by county, and there is a
section on comparable buildings in France.
Famed for his masterful oratory and fearless criticism of
parliamentary opponents, William Pitt the Elder (1708 78)
distinguished himself through the strong leadership he provided
during Britain's struggle against France in the Seven Years' War.
Edited by his great-grandsons and first published between 1838 and
1840, this four-volume collection presents nearly forty years'
worth of letters to and from the great statesman. Each volume also
contains a useful list of the principal officers of state for the
period covered, along with facsimile plates of letters and
signatures by some of Pitt's eminent correspondents. Volume 1
(1838) covers the period 1741 59, although most of the letters date
from 1754 onwards. Pitt's early political career saw him launch
attacks on Sir Robert Walpole, contributing to the latter's
resignation in 1742. Once Pitt had himself taken up the reins of
power, the annus mirabilis of 1759 marked a high point of his
wartime strategy."
Famed for his masterful oratory and fearless criticism of
parliamentary opponents, William Pitt the Elder (1708 78)
distinguished himself through the strong leadership he provided
during Britain's struggle against France in the Seven Years' War.
Edited by his great-grandsons and first published between 1838 and
1840, this four-volume collection presents nearly forty years'
worth of letters to and from the great statesman. Each volume also
contains a useful list of the principal officers of state for the
period covered, along with facsimile plates of letters and
signatures by some of Pitt's eminent correspondents. Including six
pre-1760 letters, Volume 2 (1838) chiefly covers the period from
1760 through to the end of July 1766. The accession of a hostile
George III in October 1760 created difficulties for Pitt, which
resulted in his resignation from government a year later. During
his time in opposition, the Treaty of Paris concluded Anglo-French
hostilities."
Famed for his masterful oratory and fearless criticism of
parliamentary opponents, William Pitt the Elder (1708 78)
distinguished himself through the strong leadership he provided
during Britain's struggle against France in the Seven Years' War.
Edited by his great-grandsons and first published between 1838 and
1840, this four-volume collection presents nearly forty years'
worth of letters to and from the great statesman. Each volume also
contains a useful list of the principal officers of state for the
period covered, along with facsimile plates of letters and
signatures by some of Pitt's eminent correspondents. Volume 3
(1839) covers the period from 1766 through to November 1770.
Following Rockingham's resignation in July 1766, Pitt accepted a
peerage and became the Earl of Chatham, forming a new ministry that
lasted until 1768. As prime minister, he was constantly troubled by
longstanding health problems."
Famed for his masterful oratory and fearless criticism of
parliamentary opponents, William Pitt the Elder (1708 78)
distinguished himself through the strong leadership he provided
during Britain's struggle against France in the Seven Years' War.
Edited by his great-grandsons and first published between 1838 and
1840, this four-volume collection presents nearly forty years'
worth of letters to and from the great statesman. Each volume also
contains a useful list of the principal officers of state for the
period covered, along with facsimile plates of letters and
signatures by some of Pitt's eminent correspondents. Volume 4
(1840) covers the period from November 1770 until Pitt's death in
May 1778. Despite his retirement and deteriorating health, he
continued to take an active interest in politics, writing to his
many correspondents on a wide range of subjects, notably the
unfolding American Revolution."
It may seem surprising to discover that a Catholic cardinal was a
novelist, and Newman advanced this as an obstacle to his own
canonization: "Saints are not literary men," he wrote, "they do not
love the classics, they do not write Tales." He was only fit "to
black the saints' shoes—if Saint Philip uses blacking, in
heaven." The background to Loss and Gain was a controversial one.
Newman wrote the book in part to provide a title for publication by
James Burns, of the later celebrated firm of Burns and Oates, who
had lost his stable of Anglican authors by converting in 1847 to
Catholicism. An understanding of the novel requires some knowledge
of its Oxford background, of the university setting, which was
compared in the fierceness of its loyalties by Newman's friend
Richard Church to a Renaissance Italian city, implying an assassin
with a stiletto round every corner. In short, there is a sense in
which, in spite of its fictional character, Loss and Gain is a work
of controversy, full of echoes of old battles over whether the
Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion and the Book of Common Prayer
should be interpreted in a "Catholic" or a "Protestant" sense. It
is a response, like Newman's other works, to a challenge, and so
its hero, Charles Reding, as a student in Oxford, passes through
the hands of the representatives of a number of Anglican parties
and schools of theology before resolving his doubts in Rome.
One of the leading Christian theologians of the nineteenth century,
John Henry Newman (1801 90) was already a famous and controversial
figure, as the leader of the Oxford Movement, by the time he
published these lectures in 1838. He was still a Church of England
vicar, but in 1845 he would join the Roman Catholic Church and
eventually become a cardinal. The thirteen lectures here,
addressing the doctrine of salvation through faith, cover issues of
obedience, righteousness, Christ's resurrection, faith as the sole
source of justification, the role of rites and works, and that of
preaching. Offering a complementary rather than dichotomous
interpretation of the competing theological positions, this work
reveals the progress of Newman's thinking and reflects his journey
towards leaving the Church of England.
Originally published in 1908, this book contains untranslated
passages from the Hisperica Famina in verse, together with a large
index verborum and original manuscript images. The use of verse is
notable because previous reproductions had opted for prose.
Following on from research carried out by the renowned textual
scholar Henry Bradshaw, this volume constituted an attempt to
emphasize the essential metrical quality of the text. Consummately
researched, this book will be of value to anyone with an interest
in Hiberno-Latin and Irish literature.
Ecclesiasticus is a religious work, written in Hebrew in the second
century BCE by the Jewish scribe Jesus ben Sirach. Although it was
not accepted into the Hebrew Bible and the original version is
lost, its Greek translation is found in the Septuagint. The focus
of this study by Cambridge scholar J. H. A. Hart (1876 1952) is on
the Greek text of Ecclesiasticus from a fourteenth-century codex,
written in a miniscule cursive hand. First published in 1909, the
book contains the text in transcription, based on the work of
Charles Taylor, who had previously published a study of the text.
Hart next investigates its relationship to surviving fragments of
the Hebrew version, and the results of his research are included in
his textual commentary. He provides a thorough analysis of the
Greek translator's prologue and compares variant Greek versions of
the work. Hart's edition remains of use to biblical scholars today.
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