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Das Symposium «Islamisches und arabisches Recht als Problem der Rechtsanwendung» soll auf die Schwierigkeiten aufmerksam machen, die dann entstehen, wenn der einheimische Rechtsanwender fremde Rechtsnormen aus Staaten mit unterschiedlichem kulturellen, religiösen und rechtlichen Hintergrund anzuwenden hat. Die gesammelten Beiträge behandeln vornehmlich Fragen des Staatsangehörigkeits-, internationalen Verfahrens- und Privatrechts, des islamisc...

Last words from the one of America's most important poetic voices.

Who am I? Who is God? What's this all about? What is a soul? Discover your soul's evolution.

The true story of a young Mendocino Coast fisherman who tells us first-hand about the life and its terrors and charms. He takes us with him on small, wooden boats to fish for salmon and albacore, and into his worst Pacific storm.

An important contribution to modern drama.--"Choice

Here is a retrospective and history of this particular type of housing. It makes clear the importance of council housing to modern life and culture, both at a personal and a societal level. Council housing is germane to issues of crucial importance to today's world: how a society should regard and treat its poor, the perennial problem of the individual's relationship to the state, the alleged obsolescence of socialism, and the relevance, place...

Can we balance the needs of the host, the environment and the visitor?Most people live for their leisure, recreation and travel opportunities. Managing Environments for Leisure and Recreation seeks to bring together the different strands of thought that inform the management of settings, for leisure and recreation. The text shows how a positive difference can be made to such activities, by taking a balanced approach in managing for the environ...

Draws together exciting new and controversial findings from field research on a wide variety of primates including humans.

This key text explores the nature and extent of racial discrimination, and the successes and failures of equal opportunities programmes. A successful balance of important recent articles and substantial contributions specially written for the volume, it presents analyses of institutional racism in immigration law, housing, social work, employment training and the criminal justice system. The contributors explore changes over time and examine t...

Offers a comprehensive introduction to distance sampling, a statistical method used by many biologists and conservationists to estimate animal abundance. The text discusses point transect sampling and line transect sampling and also describes several other related techniques. There are updates on study design and field methods, laser range finders, theodolites and the GPS and advice is given on a wide range of survey methods. Analysis methods ...

Through the contributions of well-known scholars, this book provides an updated overview of some relevant developments and applications in this rapidly growing field. Topics include constitutive models for geomaterials, numerical analysis of ground improvement techniques and tunnelling problems.

The true story of a young Mendocino Coast fisherman who tells us first-hand about the life and its terrors and charms. He takes us with him on small, wooden boats to fish for salmon and albacore, and into his worst Pacific storm.

?Supernatural events bring two people of vastly differing cultures into conflict on the rugged Ironshore Coast of Roatan, an island in the Western Caribbean Sea. Based on actual occurrences.

Linguistically brilliant and challenging new voice.

Explores the spiritual tradition embodied by the followers of St. Dominic, the thirteenth-century founder of the Order of Preachers. Woods focuses on the interplay between mystical and prophetic elements in Dominican spirituality, especially the relation between "knowing" and unknowing which characterized the work of such figures as Thomas Aquinas, Meister Eckhard, and Catherine of Siena.

Before Martha Finley had completed the first six titles of The Elsie Books in 1876, she began a new series based upon the Dinsmore's Midwestern relatives, the Keiths. The resulting seven-book series, The Mildred Series, introduces Mildred Keith, their sixteen-year-old daughter. Her father, a lawyer by trade, had moved with his wife and eight children from Ohio to the frontier of Indiana in the 1830s (not unlike Martha Finley's identical journe...

An expert on traditional holidays and the special baked treats that mark them, veteran chef and cookbook writer Beatrice Ojakangas presents recipes for twenty-one seasonal occasions and cultural holidays. She takes you from spring to winter with recipes like heart-shaped coffee cake for Valentine’s Day, Austrian carnival doughnuts or spicy rabbit cookies for Easter, and cinnamon-walnut kamish bread or challah for Rosh Hashanah. For Christmas, ...