Comparative category: 2220 books
Capital and Collusion
The Political Logic of Global Economic Development
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
Why does capital formation often fail to occur in developing countries? Capital and Collusion explores the political incentives that either foster growth or steal nations' growth prospects.
Hilton Root examines the frontier between risk and uncertainty, analyzing the forces driving development...
The Awakened Ones
Phenomenology of Visionary Experience
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
While a rational consciousness grasps many truths, Gananath Obeyesekere believes an even richer knowledge is possible through a bold confrontation with the stuff of visions and dreams. Spanning both Buddhist and European forms of visionary experience, he fearlessly pursues the symbolic, nonrational...
by Kathryn Adams Shapiro
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2010
Wisdom's Choice is designed to help individuals connect with their own inner wisdom. Think of it as a kind of ''spirit world's little instruction book'' full of simple insights anyone can use on the power of thought, forgiveness, compassion, and unconditional love. This remarkable little book can serve...
Mythography
The Study of Myths and Rituals
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
This new edition of William Doty's critically acclaimed study provides a comprehensive guidebook to the many schools of interpretation in this burgeoning field. William Doty's popular text has been hailed as the most comprehensive work of its kind. Extensively rewritten and completely restructured,...
by Docamali Ltd
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2012
Organised religions and rituals are mushrooming and so are adherents and devotees.The message in most religions is “love” and yet there is great violence created in by the supremacy between religions themselves. Each attempting to compete for its proliferation at the expense of the virtues...
Theology and California
Theological Refractions on California’s Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2016
Exploring California as a theological place, this book renders critical engagement with significant Californian religious and theological phenomena and the inherent theological impulses within major Californian cultural icons. Harnessing conceptual tools inherent to theology, through theological reflection,...
by Mark Davys
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2015
The ninth edition of this popular text has been thoroughly updated to reflect recent legislative and case law developments. Useful features include a glossary, mind maps and key concepts at the beginning of each chapter, as well as end of chapter summaries, self-test exercises and suggestions for...
The New Mormon Challenge
Responding to the Latest Defenses of a Fast-Growing Movement
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2010
Current facts about Mormonism:
Over 11 million members.
Over 60,000 full-time missionaries—more than any other single missionary-sending organization in the world.
More than 310,000 converts annually.
As many as eighty percent of converts come from Protestant backgrounds. (In Mormon circles,...
Litigation, Costs, Funding and Behaviour
Implications for the Law
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
This collection explores the practical operation of the law in the area of litigation costs and funding, and confronts the issue of how exposure to cost risks affects litigation strategy. It looks at the interaction of the relevant legal regime, regulatory framework and disciplinary rules with the...
Lawyers and the Public Good
Democracy in Action?
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
For the 2010 Hamlyn Lectures, Alan Paterson explores different facets of three key institutions in a democracy: lawyers, access to justice and the judiciary. In the case of lawyers he asks whether professionalism is now in terminal decline. To examine access to justice, he discusses past and present...
The Indian Legal Profession in the Age of Globalization
The Rise of the Corporate Legal Sector and its Impact on Lawyers and Society
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of the impact of globalization on the Indian legal profession. Employing a range of original data from twenty empirical studies, the book details the emergence of a new corporate legal sector in India including large and sophisticated law firms and...
by Kyle Parton
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2016
2,500 years ago, aspiring meditators had to scale treacherous mountains to find a guru who might guide them to spiritual awakening. Today’s spiritual practitioners have a much different problem: The marketplace is supersaturated with books, blogs, teachers, temples, and workshops—all who seem...
by Yonghong Yang
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2017
This book explores China’s perspective on sovereignty. The concept of sovereignty is universal, however, the understanding of it varies in different states and due to cultural backgrounds, history or the composition of ethnic groups. In order to comprehend China’s current perspective on sovereignty,...
by Eric Heinze
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
Most modern democracies punish hate speech. Less freedom for some, they claim, guarantees greater freedom for others. Heinze rejects that approach, arguing that democracies have better ways of combatting violence and discrimination against vulnerable groups without having to censor speakers. Critiquing...