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Selbständige (Gabler-Studientexte)

Sexuality and the Law: American Law and Society (American Law and Society)

First Published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Sexuality and the Law: American Law and Society (American Law and Society)

First Published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Soziologische Theorien der Gegenwart: Darstellung der großen Paradigmen

Es werden zentrale soziologische Theorien, die die Diskussion im Fach prägen, dargestellt: Strukturfunktionalismus und Systemtheorie, Konflikttheorien, Symbolischer Interaktionismus, Ethnomethodologie, phänomenologische Soziologie, Strukturalismus und Kritische Theorie. Obwohl sich diese Theorien im Hinblick auf Problemebenen und Erklärungsansätzen stark unterscheiden - ein Charakteristikum des soziologischen Theoretisierens - werden Gemeinsamkeiten und Verbindungslinien dieser Theorieansätze herausgearbeitet. Es wird dargestellt, in welche Forschungsprogramme sich die jeweiligen Theorieansätze oder "Paradigmen" umgesetzt haben, mit welchen Forschungstraditionen und grundsätzlichen methodologischen Positionen sie verbunden sind. In der kritischen Diskussion jeder Theorie wird hervorgehoben, welcher Erklärungsanspruch für das Handeln des Einzelnen und für die Veränderungen des sozialen Systems besteht.

Taxation in the United States and Europe: Theory and Practice (Confederation of European Economic Associations)

This book focuses on taxation and economic policy making. It contains a variety of contributions devoted to important theoretical and empirical topics of taxation. Among the issues discussed are tax reforms, the poverty trap and the Laffer curve, taxation and the inverted Haavelmo effect, the excess burden of taxation in the United States, corporation tax harmonisation and taxation policy and economic integration. In addition, it contains a survey of the tax policies actually pursued by Austria, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1980s and the 1990s thus providing an unique documentation for an international comparison. The book will be of interest for anyone who is professionally involved with the theory and practise of taxation.

Technology and Infertility: Clinical, Psychosocial, Legal, and Ethical Aspects

Medicine is changing at a speed never witnessed before in history. With each passing year, medical technology achieves the capacity to provide cures and improve treatments that even a short time before were difficult to con­ ceptualize and impossible to provide. Reproductive technology personifies this concept perhaps better than any other field of medicine. The 1990s have seen an explosion in endoscopic and ambulatory procedures, the application of molecular biology to clinical conditions, and the refinement of assisted reproduction to allow third parties (donors and surrogates) into the process of family building. More than ever before, comprehensive medical care requires a team approach. However, the team comprises not only medical and scientific personnel, but also mental health professionals, lawyers, and ethicists. This integrated and multidisciplinary approach to medical care will become even more necessary as medical capabilities continue to develop faster than society can respond. This book reflects such an approach. It is based on a Harvard Postgraduate Course in June 1990 entitled Infertility in the 1990s: Technological Advances and Their Psychosocial Implications that was sponsored by the Faulkner Centre for Reproductive Medicine. The first half of the course was directed by Drs. M. Seibel, A. Kiessling, and C. Richards. The second half of the course was directed by Dr. M. Seibel, J. Bernstein, R. N. and S. Levin, LICSW.

Thrombosen und Embolien: Arzthaftung

Time-barred Actions

A book which sets out the latest national law relating to time bars on the most common maritime claims in over 30 countries. It includes new jurisdictions and additional information. It provides the answers to such questions as what is the time-bar period for a particular type of claim, when does a time-bar period for a claim begin, how can the time-bar period be interrupted, extended or ended and what are the consequences of the time-bar period running out?

Time-barred Actions

A book which sets out the latest national law relating to time bars on the most common maritime claims in over 30 countries. It includes new jurisdictions and additional information. It provides the answers to such questions as what is the time-bar period for a particular type of claim, when does a time-bar period for a claim begin, how can the time-bar period be interrupted, extended or ended and what are the consequences of the time-bar period running out?

Torts (Macmillan Law Masters)

Tort is notorious as a difficult topic for students which is misleading when 'potted' by the traditional textbooks. Mullis and Oliphant present the issues clearly and helpfully, do not hide the complexities but show how they should be understood. The major focus of the book is negligence, where the authors give a full treatment of the nervous shock issue; the other torts - concerning persons, personal property and land, reputation and privacy - receive a judicious and up-to-date presentation.

The Tragedy and Comedy of Life: Plato's Philebus

In The Tragedy and Comedy of Life, Seth Benardete focuses on the idea of the good in what is widely regarded as one of Plato's most challenging and complex dialogues, the Philebus. Traditionally the Philebus is interpreted as affirming the doctrine that the good resides in thought and mind rather than in pleasure or the body. Benardete challenges this view, arguing that Socrates vindicates the life of the mind over the life of pleasure not by separating the two and advocating a strict asceticism, but by mixing pleasure and pain with mind in such a way that the philosophic life emerges as the only possible human life. Benardete combines a probing and challenging commentary that subtly mirrors and illuminates the complexities of this dialogue with the finest English translation of the Philebus yet available. The result is a work that will be of great value to classicists, philosophers, and political theorists alike.

Treatise on Ethics (International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées #133)

explanation might be understood in relationship to our mental, moral, and spiritual life, leapt to his attention and was to occupy it from that day until his death. II. MALEBRANCHE'S THEORY OF BEING His fIrst work, The Search After Truth, appeared from 1674-76, some fourteen to sixteen years after his dramatic encounter with Descartes' work; to this day it is the only work unfailingly associated with his name, though it was the first of nine studies and several volumes of responses in which he went on to explore and develop his thought. Malebranche criticizes the prevailing theories of sense perception, imagination, memory and cognition, and fIrst proposes his own theory of how we acquire and evaluate ideas - from mathematical to physical, and moral to self-reflective. Underlying this theory is his rejection of Scholastic Aristotelian metaphysics, in which particular beings are said to have powers or forms that act on our minds to inform us. Malebranche - here in company with other critics . of that metaphysics from Montaigne to Bacon and Hobbes - argues that the prevailing view of beings endowed with powers by which they act unilaterally, as "causes" in the full sense of that word, makes no sense and cannot be confirmed by experience. For Malebranche, on the other hand, power can be predicated univocally only of God. Created beings have only that limited power given by God under the conditions of creation.

Übergangsgeld (Gabler-Studientexte)

Umweltpolitik als Modernisierungsprozeß: Politikwissenschaftliche Umweltforschung und -lehre in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland

Versicherungspflicht Beschäftigter und sonstiger Versicherter: Studientext Nr.2 (Gabler-Studientexte)

Victims Still: The Political Manipulation Of Crime Victims (PDF)

The 1980s saw official crime policy in the United States shifting its focus from crime and criminals to victimization and victims. In this thought-provoking book, Robert Elias evaluates the effectiveness of this shift in policy and argues that victims have been politically manipulated for official objectives. From a thorough examination of victim legislation, get-tough crime policies, media crime coverage, the victim movement, and the wars on crime and drugs, Elias concludes that little victim support has actually occurred and that victimization is, in fact, escalating. He argues for a change in the structural sources of crime and proposes a `new culture' that could lead to substantially less crime.

Violent Ward (Booket Ser. #Vol. 256)

If America is a lunatic asylum, then California is the Violent Ward.

Violent Ward (Penguin Modern Classics)

'Superbly edgy. Entertaining, full of good one-liners' Sunday TimesDowntown LA. Streetwise lawyer Mickey Murphy has a shabby office in a low-rent district, an ex who bleeds him dry and the kind of clients who would plead the Fifth if they could count that high. He's also been bought out by millionaire tycoon Zach Petrovitch - who just happens to be married to the love of Mickey's life. When she asks him for help, Mickey finds himself thrown into a world of Hollywood stars, shady schemes, riots - and murder.'Crime at its most entertaining, filled with lively dialogue' Sunday Telegraph'Deighton's ear for dialogue and eye for lunatic California are perfect' Sunday Express

Vorrang der Abfallverwertung: Eine Analyse des Bundesabfallgesetzes

Wartezeiten (Gabler-Studientexte)

Welt im Wandel: Jahresgutachten 1993 (Welt im Wandel)

Wertpapier-Investmentfonds in Lebensversicherungsunternehmen: Ein Leitfaden für Praktiker

Women’s Studies of the Christian and Islamic Traditions: Ancient, Medieval and Renaissance Foremothers

World Court Digest: Formerly Fontes Iuris Gentium

The World of Women: In Pursuit of Human Rights

The book is concerned with social issues and problems that effect women throughout the world, the policies and practices that impinge on their human rights, and the programmes around the globe that are successfully changing their conditions. This interdisciplinary work provides a rich resource of information, linking discrimination and violence against women to family law, sex roles to sex industries, and sexual oppression to politics, education, employment, health and mental health.