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This book combines comprehensive discussion of the main aspects of Justinian's rule, together with a varied selection of source material, from both textual and material culture, making it a valuable resource for students and lecturers alike.

Drawing on received sources of maqasid (Shari'ah's practical objectives), this book demonstrates how the principles of market economics affect how markets and financial institutions actually operate under Shari'ah law. It explains the maqasid economic rationale of precluding interest rates on money capital from legitimate economic exchange.

Christopher Harvie analyses the pressures and influences that over the last hundred years have eroded to the point of destruction Scotland's position as a world industrial power.

How can we find true or reasonable moral principles to live our everyday lives by? This title presents 7 different moral theories, each of which attempts to provide the answer to the question of what we ought to do and why. It describes each theory, showing how it works in practice, assessing it and putting it into its historical perspective.

This textbook introduction to Social Theory is unique in addressing key issues in sociological, political and cultural analysis through an examination of modern theories of social conflict, cohesion and consent.

Key Concepts in the Gothic' provides a one-stop resource which details and defines, in accessible language, those contexts essential for the study of the Gothic in all periods and media.

Analyses the influence of eight classic Chinese thinkers on the development of Chinese law: Confucius, Laozi, Mozi, Zhuangzi, Mencius, Xunzi, Shang Yang and Han Fei. These thinkers helped found the Confucian, Daoist, Mohist and Legalist schools of thought, and their ideas continue to guide China's law, philosophy and society.

Using 4 case studies - democratic Athens, the Weimar Republic, contemporary American democracy and China's fledging efforts to democratise - Mark Chou examines why democracy is prone to self-destruction.

In Kathy Acker: Writing the Impossible, Georgina Colby explores Acker's compositional processes and intricate experimental practices, from early poetic exercises written in the 1970s to her final writings in 1997.

An introduction to the Frankfurt School's important attempts to relate the social, political, and philosophical conditions of modernity to innovations in 20th-century art, literature, and culture. It introduces major figures such as Benjamin and Adorno in a new light, while connecting their ideas with problems in modernist art and culture.

Provides a fresh account of modernist writing in a perspective based on the reading strategies developed by postcolonial studies. In this book, the basic argument is that neither modernity nor colonalism (and likewise, neither postmodernity nor postcoloniality) can be properly understood without recognition of their intertwined development.

Anthony Paul Smith - one of the translators of Principles of Non-Philosophy - introduces you to this key Laruelle text. He guides you through the figures and concepts Laruelle engaged with, helping you to understand and, more importantly, use the project of non-philosophy.

In times of war and peace, boom and bust, strategy has been vital in orientating peoples, governments and nations towards the future. Aaron Edwards delves into the theoretical history of strategy, and shows how it has been effectively applied in political and military situations throughout the world.

Provides advanced introductions to the main areas of study in contemporary Applied Linguistics, with a principal focus on the theory and practice of language teaching and language learning and on the processes and problems of language in use.

This study will enable readers to gain clearer understanding of the life and major works of Seamus Heaney. It considers literary influences on Heaney, ranging from English poets such as Wordsworth, Hughes, and Auden to Irish poets such as Kavanagh and Yeats to world poets such as Virgil and Dante.

What is the nature of the relationship between the Hollywood Western and American frontier mythology? This book re-invigorates the debate surrounding the relationship between the Western and frontier mythology, arguing for the importance of the genre's socio-cultural, historical and political dimensions.

Based on 216 in-depth interviews of Muslims in Britain, the book examines how British Muslim youths and young adults define their identities, values and culture and whether these conflict either with those of their parents or with the dominant non-Muslim British culture.

A compact introduction and reader's guide to the Qur'an.

In a fresh and invigorating look at British cinema that considers film as an art form among other arts, John Orr takes a critical look at the intriguing relationship between romanticism and modernism in British cinema.

A study of one of the most intriguing aspects of contemporary French cinema - the cinema of transgression.

A study of the themes of travelling and movement of and in films.

A new and significantly expanded edition of the first systematic reading of Hegel's political philosophy.