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“desmond manderson”

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  • High Time

    How Australia Changed Its Mind About Illegal Drug Use

    de Desmond Manderson ...
    A unique look at Australia's treatment of illegal drugs from the 1980s to the presentHow did the nation change its mind about drugs? Australia’s repressive treatment of illicit drugs began with racist anti-Chinese laws around 1900. Until the mid-1980s, prohibition seemed absolute and unalterable, supported by local police forces, state and federal agencies and international law.This book tells the ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • Twenty Minutes With The Devil

    de Luis Gómez Romero ...
    'You think he's some cowboy from the wild west? You think he's from the past? Wake up man. He's from the future ... the future of the whole stinking world.'Half an hour alone with your worst fears and wildest dreams. No help, no witnesses, and not a minute to lose. When the crisis comes—what would you do?On a lonely desert road in the dead of night, highway police Angela and Romulo are a team—sort ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Danse Macabre

    Temporalities of Law in the Visual Arts

    de Desmond Manderson ...
    The visual arts offer refreshing and novel resources through which to understand the representation, power, ideology and critique of law. This vibrantly interdisciplinary book brings the burgeoning field to a new maturity through extended close readings of major works by artists from Pieter Bruegel and Gustav Klimt to Gordon Bennett and Rafael Cauduro. At each point, the author puts these works of ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD

  • Law and the Visual

    Representations, Technologies, Critique

    de Desmond Manderson ...
    In Law and the Visual, leading legal theorists, art historians, and critics come together to present new work examining the intersection between legal and visual discourses. Proceeding chronologically, the volume offers leading analyses of the juncture between legal and visual culture as witnessed from the fifteenth to the twenty-first centuries. Editor Desmond Manderson provides a contextual ... Leer más

    $66.99 USD

  • Imagining Legality

    Where Law Meets Popular Culture

    de Desmond Manderson, Montré D. Carodine, Naomi Mezey, Richard Sherwin, Michael S. Pardo, Laurie Ouellette, Grace Lee, Anna McCarthy, David E. Patton, Alan L. Durham ...
    Imagining Legality: Where Law Meets Popular Culture is collection of essays on the relationship between law and popular culture that posits, in addition to the concepts of law in the books and law in action, a third concept of law in the image—that is, of law as it is perceived by the public through the lens of public media.Imagining Legality argues that images of law suggested by television and ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • Kangaroo Courts and the Rule of Law

    The Legacy of Modernism

    de Desmond Manderson ...
    Kangaroo Courts and the Rule of Law -The Legacy of Modernism addresses the legacy of contemporary critiques of language for the concept of the rule of law. Between those who care about the rule of law and those who are interested in contemporary legal theory, there has been a dialogue of the deaf, which cannot continue. Starting from the position that contemporary critiques of linguistic meaning ... Leer más

    $82.99 USD

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  • A Good Death

    Making the Most of Our Final Choices

    de Sandra Martin ...
    Having a good death is our final human right, argues Sandra Martin in this updated and expanded version of her bestselling and award-winning social history of the right to die movement in Canada and around the world.Winner of the BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction, finalist for both the Donner Prize in Public Policy and the Dafoe Prize for History, A Good Death has a new chapter on Canada ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • This I Believe

    An A to Z of a Life

    de Carlos Fuentes ...
    In this masterly, deeply personal, and provocative book, the internationally renowned Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes, whose work has been called “a combination of Poe, Baudelaire, and Isak Dinesen” (Newsweek), steps back to survey the wellsprings of art and ideology, the events that have shaped our time, and his extraordinary life and fiercest passions.Arranged alphabetically from “Amore” to ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • Cultural Hybridity

    de Peter Burke ...
    The period in which we live is marked by increasingly frequent and intense cultural encounters of all kinds. However we react to it, the global trend towards mixing or hybridization is impossible to miss, from curry and chips – recently voted the favourite dish in Britain – to Thai saunas, Zen Judaism, Nigerian Kung Fu, ‘Bollywood’ films or salsa or reggae music. Some people celebrate these ... Leer más

    $16.00 USD

  • The Drinking Game

    de Guyon Espiner ...
    An incisive analysis of how our drinking culture is influenced by the government, media and big business, by investigative journalist Guyon Espiner.'This is real, it is raw, and it lays out the truth about booze.' - Patrick Gower'Thought-provoking but never preachy, Espiner blends personal experience with his formidable journalism talents as he dissects the role of booze in our lives.' - Jack Tame ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • Art and its global histories

    A reader

    Edición de Diana Newall ...
    Series Libro 5 - Art and its Global Histories
    The reader Art and its global histories represents an invaluable teaching tool, offering content ranging from academic essays and excerpts, new translations, interviews with curators and artists, to art criticism.The introduction sets out the state of art history today as it undergoes the profound shift of a 'global turn'. Particular focus is given to British India, which represents a shift from ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

  • Undoing Drugs

    How Harm Reduction Is Changing the Future of Drugs and Addiction

    de Maia Szalavitz ...
    From “one of the bravest, smartest writers about addiction anywhere” (Johann Hari, New York Times bestselling author)—the untold story of harm reduction, a surprisingly simple idea with enormous powerDrug overdoses now kill more Americans annually than guns, cars or breast cancer. But we have tried to solve this national crisis with policies that only made matters worse. In the name of “sending ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD