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        March 2012

        National Criminal Law in a Comparative Legal Context.

        Vol. 2.1: General limitations on the application of criminal law: Principle of legality – Extraterritorial jurisdiction. Australia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary, India, Iran, Japan, Romania, Russia, Switzerland, Uruguay, USA.

        by Herausgegeben von Sieber, Ulrich; Herausgegeben von Forster, Susanne; Herausgegeben von Jarvers, Konstanze

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        March 2011

        An Historical Atlas of Staffordshire

        by A. D. M. Phillips, C. B. Phillips

        Within its ancient boundaries, Staffordshire is a county of diverse and contrasting historic landscapes. World-renowned industrial complexes sit alongside agricultural systems; castles rub shoulders with urban-industrial housing; the cathedral centre of a vast diocese lies close to the birthplace of primitive Methodism; overtly planned landscapes mingle with the uplands of the Moorlands and the heathlands of Cannock Chase. These many and varied landscapes are both products and reflections of a multiplicity of histories, and students of the county have been keen to explore and relate these pasts. However, no systematic attempt has previously been made to express these accounts in spatial form. This book seeks to demonstrate by maps the various histories that contribute to the diversity of Staffordshire. With its succinct discussions and detailed map presentations of these themes, incorporating new thinking and recent research, the atlas provides an innovative and major contribution to the study of the history of Staffordshire. ;

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        November 2017

        National Criminal Law in a Comparative Legal Context. Vol. 3.2.

        Defining criminal conduct: The criminal offense - definitions and internal structure – Objective side of the criminal offence – Subjective side of the criminal offense. Austria, Bulgaria, France, Greece, Portugal, Thailand, Turkey, Uganda.

        by Herausgegeben von Sieber, Ulrich; Herausgegeben von Jarvers, Konstanze; Herausgegeben von Silverman, Emily

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        March 2012

        National Criminal Law in a Comparative Legal Context. Vol. 3.1.

        Defining criminal conduct: Concept and systematization of the criminal offense – Objective aspects of the offence – Subjective aspects of the offense. Australia, Bosnia and Herz., Hungary, India, Iran, Japan, Romania, Russia, Switzerland, Uruguay, USA.

        by Herausgegeben von Sieber, Ulrich; Herausgegeben von Forster, Susanne; Herausgegeben von Jarvers, Konstanze

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        April 2024

        Riddles at work in the early medieval tradition

        Words, ideas, interactions

        by Megan Cavell, Jennifer Neville

        Capitalising on developments in the field over the past decade, Riddles at work provides an up-to-date microcosm of research on the early medieval riddle tradition. The book presents a wide range of traditional and experimental methodologies. The contributors treat the riddles both as individual poems and as parts of a tradition, but, most importantly, they address Latin and Old English riddles side-by-side, bringing together texts that originally developed in conversation with each other but have often been separated by scholarship. Together, the chapters reveal that there is no single, right way to read these texts but rather a multitude of productive paths. This book will appeal to students and scholars of early medieval studies. It contains new as well as established voices, including Jonathan Wilcox, Mercedes Salvador-Bello and Jennifer Neville.

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        July 1990

        Comparative and Private International Law.

        Essays in Honor of John Henry Merryman on his Seventieth Birthday.

        by Clark, David

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        February 2023

        Globalized urban precarity in Berlin and Abidjan

        Young men and the digital economy

        by Hannah Schilling

        Digital technologies promise efficiency and comfort, but the smoothness of platform services relies on the hidden social labour of those who keep the gig economy running. This book presents a comparative ethnography of young men making a living through digital technologies: selling mobile airtime in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, and app-based delivery riders in Berlin, Germany. These case studies explore the significance of symbolic capital in urban youth's social existence and organisation of livelihood in the digital economy, and the technological mechanisms producing a new form of urban precarity. Globalized urban precarity in Berlin and Abidjan puts forward an original comparative approach to develop a global urban sociology for the digital era. It provides an innovative analytical toolbox that decentres discussions of precarity from the standard of a normal employment contract. With its focus on symbolic capital, the ethnography shows the consequences of the proliferating gig economy for status struggles among urban youth, and carefully embeds the densification of software and services into the socio-material relations on which these new urban infrastructures are built.

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        November 1998

        The Biological Standard of Living in Comparative Perspective

        Contributions to the Conference held in Munich, January 18–22, 1997, for the XIIth Congress of the International Economic History Association

        by Herausgegeben von Komlos, John; Herausgegeben von Baten, Jörg

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        March 2017

        Ephemeral vistas

        by Paul Greenhalgh

        The international exhibitions held around the world between 1851 and 1939 were spectacular gestures, which briefly held the attention of the world before disappearing into an abrupt oblivion, of the victims of their planned temporality. Known in Britain as Great Exhibitions, in France as Expositions Universelles and in America as World's Fairs, the genre became a self-perpetuating phenomenon, the extraordinary cultural spawn of industry and empire. Thoroughly in the spirit of the first industrial age, the exhibitions illustrated the relation between money and power, and revelled in the belief that the uncontrolled expression of that power was the quintessence of freedom. Philanthropy found its place on exhibition sites functioning as a conscience to the age although even here morality was inextricably linked to economic efficiency and expansion. Imperial achievement was celebrated to the full at international exhibitions. Nevertheless, most World's Fairs maintained an imperial element and out of this blossomed a vibrant racism. Between 1889 and 1914, the exhibitions became a human showcase, when people from all over the world were brought to sites in order to be seen by others for their gratification and education. In essence, the English national profile fabricated in the closing decades of the nineteenth century was derived from the pre-industrial world. The Fine Arts were an important ingredient in any international exhibition of calibre. This book incorporates comparative work on European and American empire-building, with the chronological focus primarily on the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, when these cultural exchanges were most powerfully at work.

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        September 2003

        Political and Legal System of the Republic of Cyprus – A Selfreferential and Comparative Approach to Law.

        Deutsch-Zyprisches Symposium an der Universität Münster. SONDERHEFT ZYPERN. Zeitschrift Rechtstheorie, 34. Band (2003), Heft 1.

        by Herausgegeben von Krawietz, Werner; Herausgegeben von Rogge, Sabine

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        November 2021

        The gothic novel in Ireland, c. 1760–1829

        by Christina Morin

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        May 2024

        Conceiving bodies

        Reproduction in early medieval English medicine

        by Dana Oswald

        Despite reliance on ingredients like horse dung, Old English remedies for women's medicine speak to contemporary reproductive concerns. Previous translators reduced the remedies to a general category of women's medicine, but sustained examination of language reveals important distinctions: remedies for menstruation indicate social concerns about fertility, where remedies for 'cleansing' do not provide a clear path to conception, but rather foreclose it. Rarest of all are the remedies for childbirth, but their rarity is compounded by the practices of translators who conflate the language for women's reproduction into an amorphous singularity. Through an original method of hysteric philology-the combining of traditional philology with contemporary feminist and medical epistemologies-this book situates itself in the historical treatment of reproductive people as both objects and subjects of medical practice, and gestures forward in time to the contemporary struggle for bodily autonomy.

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