The Leading eBooks Store Online
for Kindle Fire, Apple, Android, Nook, Kobo, PC, Mac, Sony Reader...
Most popular at the top
Introduction to Feminist Jurisprudence
Taylor and Francis 1998; US$ 55.95This book provides a student text covering the major issues in feminist jurisprudence and to analyse the manner in which both traditional jurisprudence and law have remained a masculine subject. more...
Sourcebook on Feminist Jurisprudence
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 145.00This book is a comprehensive analysis of the relationship between feminist theories and the law, and the way in which developments of the former have affected, and been affected by, the latter. The book takes as its starting point a study of women and culture on an international level, which demonstrates how religious and cultural influences have... more...
Sharing Transboundary Resources
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 101.00Why do states often use transboundary resources inefficiently? Benvenisti considers a range of factors, including mismanagement as a link between domestic and international processes. He also looks forward to potential solutions in this multi-disciplinary approach. Benvenisti's analysis will interest international environmentalists and lawyers, and... more...
Open Government
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development 2003; US$ 67.00Building open and transparent government is a challenge shared by all countries. Transparency and accountability in the public administration are enhanced by strong public scrutiny based on solid legal provisions for access to information. Investing in consultation and public participation allows governments to tap new sources of policy-relevant ideas,... more...
Gender, Culture and Human Rights
Hart Publishing Limited 2006; US$ 91.80Argues that feminism must return to the universal and reconstruct the theory and practice of human rights. This work offers discourse ethics and its post-metaphysical defence of universalism as a key to this process of reconstruction. The implications of discourse ethics and the possibility of reclaiming universalism are also explored. more...
Unspeakable Subjects
Hart Publishing Limited 1998; US$ 61.20This feminist critique of law analyzes the ways in which modern law is gendered. It reveals why the author has been led to question some of the central assumptions of traditional legal education and scholarship and sets out a vision of jurisprudence as a form of critical social theory. more...
Planning, Law and Economics
Taylor and Francis 2006; US$ 53.95What rights does the state have over privately owned land? Why should some landowners be favoured over others? How can the practice of land-use planning be improved? This book addresses these essential questions and shows that the interests people have in property rights over land and buildings are not just emotional but often financial too.... more...
Land Use Law for Sustainable Development
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 60.00This book surveys the global experience to date in implementing land-use policies that move us further along the sustainable development continuum. It includes chapters that discuss the challenges of implementing sustainable land-use policies in different regions of the world and also documents new and emerging approaches to sustainable land use. more...
Community-Based Water Law and Water Resource Management Reform in Developing Countries
CABI 2007; US$ 150.00Shows how bringing together the strengths of community-based laws rooted in user participation and the formalized legal systems of the public sector, water management regimes will be able to reach their goals. more...
Handbuch des internationalen und ausländischen Baurechts (German Edition)
Springer 2005; US$ 169.99Das Praxis-Handbuch vermittelt das Verständnis internationalen und ausländischen Bau- und Bauvertragsrechts und liefert das Know-how für die Erstellung eigener Vertragsbedingungen im Auslandsgeschäft. Das Werk erläutert, wie in Fällen mit Auslandsbezug das anwendbare Recht ermittelt oder vereinbart wird. Bau- und Architektenverträge sowie weitere Vertragsarten... more...









