This leading Arabic dictionary lists English words and phrases with their Arabic equivalents. Clearly distinguishes between different shades of meaning in English expressions. Includes coverage of regional variations of the Arabic Comprehensive coverage This lea... Lees meer.

Intellectual property rights IPRs are increasingly significant elements of economic policy. they are vital to developed countries in an age of global trade. Today s new technologies stemming from the digital and biotechnological revolutions are creating new problems... Lees meer.

Metamorphosis is a dynamic principle of creation vital to natural processes of generation and evolution growth and decay yet it also threatens personal identity if human beings are subject to a continual process of bodily transformation. Shape-shifting also belongs i... Lees meer.

This is an account of how moral concepts such as forgiveness praise guilt and punishment apply to human interaction and behaviour. The author attempts to reach conclusions about which versions of traditional Christian doctrines utilizing such notions are morally accep... Lees meer.

A young girl is reborn as an angel-like creature called a haibane with no memory of who she once was.... Lees meer.

In recent years a growing number of commentators have declared that we are at the beginning of a technical revolution that will see profound changes in the way we live and work. Yet what constitutes a technological revolution and what logic supports how successive tech... Lees meer.

David and Mary Norton present the definitive scholarly edition of Hume s Treatise one of the greatest philosophical works ever written. This second volume contains their historical account of how the Treatise was written and published an explanation of how they have e... Lees meer.

A critical edition of John Locke s Essay concerning Toleration based on manuscripts and other writings on law and politics composed between 1667 and 1683. Providing contextual guidance this book is meant for historians of early modern philosophy of legal political... Lees meer.

Fifty years on from its original publication HLA Hart s The Concept of Law is widely recognized as the most important work of legal philosophy published in the twentieth century and remains the starting point for most students coming to the subject for the first time.... Lees meer.

Great Expectations was first published as a weekly serial in All the Year Round December 1860 - August 1861. Its first appearance in volume form was as three-volume novel without illustrations in July 1861. A one-volume edition the next year preceded its inclusion... Lees meer.

This book contends that the police have become information brokers to institutions such as insurance companies and health and welfare organisations that operate based on knowledge of risk. In turn these institutions influence the ways that police officers think and act... Lees meer.

A study tracing the emergence of the Zionist movement through which the Jews were reformed as a political people. It concentrates on 1897 when Herzl launched the Zionist movement and the following decade which saw the establishment of the movement s main ideas and ce... Lees meer.

Apart from individual rights claims have long been made for collective minority rights. Now a third generation of rights is appearing the rights of peoples exemplified by the African Charter of Human and Peoples Rights of 1981. This volume discusses the new gener... Lees meer.

This text presents the eighth book of Aristotle s Physics . He discusses physics the origins of the universe and the metaphysical foundations of cosmology and physical science. A commentary aims to guide the reader towards an understanding of the important and influen... Lees meer.

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