As a critical analysis of the law-making process this book has no equal. For more than two decades it has filled a gap in the requirements of law students & others taking introductory courses on the legal system. It deals with every aspect of the law-making process: the preparation of legislation; its passage through Parliament; statutory interpretation; binding precedent; how precedent works; law reporting; the nature of the judicial role; European Union law; & the process of law reform. It presents a large number of original texts from a variety of sources
- cases official reports articles books speeches & empirical research studies
- laced with the authors informed commentary & reflections on the subject. This book is a mine of information dealing with both the broad sweep of the subject & with all its detailed ramifications.

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The Bondurant Boys were notorious gangster brothers who ran liquor though Franklin County during Prohibition. LAWLESS is their story. Based on the true account of Matt Bondurants grandfather & two granduncles this is a gripping tale of bootlegging brotherhood & revenge. ...

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The best life of Lawrence yet published
- The Express". Lawrence was a brilliant propagandist rhetorician & manipulator who
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Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836-1912) was one of the finest & most distinctive of the Victorian painters. Dutch-born he moved to London in 1870 & became famous for his depictions of the luxury & decadence of the Roman Empire set in fabulous marbled interiors or against a backdrop of dazzling blue Mediterranean sea & sky. In this original study Rosemary Barrow presents an absorbing & often amusing portrait of an exuberant personality who carved out a brilliant career for himself at the heart of Londons artistic & cultural elite. But above all she subjects the paintings to a fresh scrutiny & reveals that Alma-Tadema a knowledgeable student of antiquity repeatedly used literary & archaeological allusions in his paintings to play a game of interpretation with his viewers. Time & again the seeming innocence of the scenes he depicts is subverted by a mischievously placed inscription or statue suggesting to the initiated a darker & usually risque meaning. Neglected after his death Alma-Tademas paintings are once again admired for their beauty & their remarkable mastery of light colour & texture. With its intriguing insights into his personality & intentions this book should provide a challenging reassessment of a major artist. ...

Cicero (Marcus Tullius 106-43 BCE) Roman lawyer orator politician & philosopher of whom we know more than of any other Roman lived through the stirring era which saw the rise dictatorship & death of Julius Caesar in a tottering republic. In his political speeches especially & in his correspondence we see the excitement tension & intrigue of politics & the part he played in the turmoil of the time. Of about 106 speeches delivered before the Roman people or the Senate if they were political before jurors if judicial 58 survive (a few of them incompletely). In the fourteenth century Petrarch & other Italian humanists discovered manuscripts containing more than 900 letters of which more than 800 were written by Cicero & nearly 100 by others to him. These afford a revelation of the man all the more striking because most were not written for publication. Six rhetorical works survive & another in fragments. Philosophical works include seven extant major compositions & a number of others; & some lost. There is also poetry some original some as translations from the Greek. The Loeb Classical Library edition of Cicero is in twenty-nine volumes. ...

The Laws of Spirit opens with the story of Dan Millmans encounter with a sage in the wooded hills near his home. Through stories tests & experiences in the wild the sage challenges Millman to examine 12 core principles that underlie human existence: balance choice process presence compassion faith expectation integrity action cycles surrender & unity. The book shows how these keys -- at the heart of every religion culture & moral system -- can lead to a deeper sense of meaning connection & harmony with the world. It also shows readers how these principles can transform relationships careers finance & health."ations & reminders from across the centuries inform & inspire readers as they accompany Millman on his journey. ...

Brian Laws has played in all four professional divisions of English football. He has also managed at every level. & he spent six years playing under the most charismatic manager the English game has ever seen the legendary Brian Clough. Yet even Cloughie was never at the centre of a bigger sensation than the day Laws as a young manager in his first job was embroiled in a dressing room bust-up that left his star striker with a broken cheekbone. Here for the first time Brian lifts the lid on his six years with Cloughie
- & reveals what really happened on the night a certain Italian striker called Ivano Bonetti ended up in hospital leaving his boss ambushed at home under siege from the media. It has never emerged either
- until now
- that Laws also engaged in a bout of fisticuffs with one of Nottingham Forest's top stars of the Clough era. & got thanked by his boss for hitting the player concerned! Life in a football dressing room is never dull; they were fun times for Laws at the City Ground. However there are also chilling reflections on being a Nottingham Forest player on the day of the Hillsborough Disaster. & of the replay anguish that left him the victim of a cruel put-down by John Aldridge a star on whom Laws was later to exact revenge
- using Bonetti as bait! In between times Laws has been a Wembley winner fulfilling all the boyhood dreams he nurtured at the famous Wallsend Boys Club. But above all this is the story of a life in football & how to survive in it. His journey takes us through Burnley Huddersfield Middlesbrough Nottingham Grimsby Scunthorpe Sheffield & Burnley again. Along the way Brian has endured career-threatening injuries managerial bust-ups & inevitably being sacked. But there have been plenty of laughs & besides he has repeatedly bounced back into the fray. Why? Because having grown up in the soccer hotbed of the North East he loves a game that has always been at the centre of his soul. Brian is not & would never claim to be one of the biggest names. But this is one big read for anyone who shares his passion for football.



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As I stood there on my front porch that hot breathless July day leaning against the column with the six bullet holes now worn & smooth I could see Hacks whitewashed marker under the pin oaks in the Holland family cemetery.. . Four generations of my family were buried there. Hack Holland is a product of the South both old & new. Hard-drinking ex-POW & wealthy progressive Democrat he stands in the long shadow cast by his ancestors. When Hollands candidacy for a congressional seat brings him increasingly into conflict with those around him his almost unwitting involvement with a violent civil rights conflict forces him to reassess his future
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The Lucky Charm. The Sure Thing. The Long Shot. The Jinx. Beth Raymer came to Vegas to live the dream. instead she winds up waiting tables in a low-rent diner & living in a fleapit motel. Then she meets Dink the King of Last Vegas sports betting. Dink introduces her to the testorsterone fuelled underworld of high stakes gambling a dog-eat-dog realm of grifters & strippers wise-guys & hardened cons. New to the game but with big ambitions beth must get smart to get ahead. The real money is off-shore where gambling regulations dont count. But nor do other rules. In the free-wheeling caribbean Beth discovers that the difference between winning big & losing everything comes down to how sharp you play. ...