This book looks at iron- and steel-working in Iran, from pre-Islamic times to the present day. The authors unify art-historical and scientific aspects of steel-making and provide a wide-ranging survey of the development of the technologies and trades involved. Nearly 400 objects are cataloged and illustrated, and over 70 are subjected to metallurgical analysis.

Persian Steel: The Tanavoli Collection (Oxford Studies in Islamic Art)

Arts & Photography

ALLAN, James

Gilmour, Brian

History & Criticism

Oxford University Press

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Under The Dragon Flag: My Experiences In The Chino-Japanese War

History

Military

Kessinger Publishing, LLC

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Under the Dragon Flag: My Experiences in the Chino-Japanese War (Bibliobazaar Reproduction Series)

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

BiblioLife

Under the Dragon Flag: My Experiences in the Chino-japanese War

The search for a moral standard of right and wrong which is external to any particular evaluator, and so escapes subjectivity, has a long history. Jeremy Bentham, in trying to find such a standard, opted for utilitarianism, which at least provides an inter-subjective standard of right and wrong. Everything else, thought Bentham, however dressed up, collapses into the purely subjective principle of sympathy and antipathy - "I like it" or "I don't like it". The essays in this book seek to show this principle of sympathy and antipathy continues to be alive and well in legal philosophy. This is the central theme of the book and the author uses it throughout to illuminate a host of questions ranging from the worth of constitutional rights to the merits of scepticism to the acceptability of spanking.

Sympathy and Antipathy: Essays Legal and Philosophical

Ashgate Pub Ltd

Part lament, part provocative call-to-action, Democracy in Decline charts how democracy is being diluted and restricted in five of the world's oldest democracies - the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand. James Allan targets four main, interconnected causes of decline - judicial activism, the transformation and growth of international law, the development of supranational organizations, and the presence of undemocratic elites. He presents a convincing argument that the same trends are occurring whether the country has a constitutional bill of rights (United States and Canada), a statutory bill of rights (the United Kingdom and New Zealand), or no bill of rights at all (Australia). Identifying tactics used by lawyers, judges, and international bureaucrats to deny that any decline has occurred, Allan looks ahead to further deterioration caused by attacks on free speech, intolerant worldviews, internationalization through treaties and conventions, and illegal immigration. Social and political decisions, Allan argues, must be based on counting every adult in a nation state as equal. An essential book for anyone concerned with majority rule and fairness in numbers, Democracy in Decline presents a clear, well-stated account of trends that have been undermining democracy over three decades.

Democracy in Decline: Steps in the Wrong Direction

Business & Money

Economics

McGill-Queen's University Press

Excerpt: ...no doubt, of the exposure I had recently undergone. It was nothing serious, but caused a feeling of great lassitude and depression, and confined me indoors for some ten or twelve days. I had the place almost to myself, as the approach of the Japanese armies had not been favourable to custom, and the usual course of travel to and from the north had been suspended. Sen was anxious to learn from me whether I considered it advisable for residents and townspeople to leave the port. I replied, as I sincerely thought, that the Japanese, if they succeeded in taking the 63 place, would do no harm to non-combatants. I was, however, fatally mistaken. The inn was a place of two storeys

Under the Dragon Flag: My Experiences in the Chino-Japanese War (Japan Library (rl))

Leaders & Notable People

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Learn Ruth Bader Ginsburg 15 Mins Biography Book\nRead All About RBG from Birth to Death in 15 Minutes!\nThis is an unofficial tribute book to Ruth Bader Ginsburg from a fan for a fan to support his legacy.\nHere's a Short Sample What You'll See Inside the Book:\nOn September 5, 2020, a flag-draped casket of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was carried up the steps of the U.S. Capitol for her lying in state. With this, Ginsburg became the first woman to lie in state at the U.S. Capitol. Only 12 United States presidents have had the honor, and Ginsburg is only the second Supreme Court Justice to enter the reserved group. Chief Justice William Howard Taft, who was the first to get the honor, was also president. Before her death at the age of 87, Ginsburg was widely embraced as a feminist icon, an exceptional legal luminary, and a model for moral courage to pursue social justice. Her life and work have been celebrated in books and movies. Her achievements and what she stood for have been featured prominently in pop culture. From tattoos etched on people's shoulders to T-shirts bearing her initials. Ruth Bader Ginsburg was a widely celebrated judge. Ginsburg's life and career in law may have been star-spangled but her story runs much deeper that most people immediately see.\nBooks of the time didn't really feature women as heroes or adventurers. Girls or women were mostly depicted as wearing beautiful pinks dresses, anything of the sort, and just sitting around not really doing anything interesting. However, among the books Ruth was fond of reading, she was quite attracted to a book featuring a young female detective, Nancy Drew. As Ginsburg later recollected, she loved the book because Nancy Drew, the main character, was smarter than her boyfriend and because she was daring and adventuresome. Perhaps consequently, many of Ginsburg's role models would be people that fit the Nancy Drew profile. Even from a young age, Ruth admired women who succeeded in traditionally reserved roles for men. Like Amelia Earhart, who set impressive precedence of succeeding as a pilot and a businesswoman. Ruth also admired the Greek goddess of wisdom and arts, Pallas Athena.\nYou'll Soon Discover... Early Life and Education Building Her Legal Career Gender Discrimination in Early Career Championing Gender Equality Ginsburg At The Court Of Appeals Career At The Supreme Court In Her Own Words Death And Last Days\nScroll Up and Download Now!\n100% Satisfaction Guaranteed or Your Money Back.

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James Allan

The Vantage of Law: Its Role in Thinking about Law, Judging and Bills of Rights (Applied Legal Philosophy)

The premise of this book is that a shift of vantage will help elucidate various important issues of law related to judging, to bills of rights and to more abstract questions of legal philosophy. The work begins by focussing on the jurisprudential issue of whether it is desirable to keep separate the demands of law and of morality and uses the device of changing vantages to elucidate the many issues that fall under that aegis. This is followed by a consideration of how judges ought to do their job when interpreting and whether the rule of law ideal differs from rule by judges. The last part of the book focuses explicitly on bills of rights. Building on the earlier parts, the author uses his device of shifting vantages to provide insights into how these instruments affect democratic decision-making and from which perspectives they will look attractive and unattractive. Written in a clear, accessible and engaging style, the book demonstrates that vantage point is a key criterion affecting how one understands and evaluates, firstly, some of the theoretical debates in jurisprudence and then, secondly, what judges are doing and whether a bill of rights is desirable or not.

Legal Theory & Systems

Routledge

The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.The Age of Enlightenment profoundly enriched religious and philosophical understanding and continues to influence present-day thinking. Works collected here include masterpieces by David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, as well as religious sermons and moral debates on the issues of the day, such as the slave trade. The Age of Reason saw conflict between Protestantism and Catholicism transformed into one between faith and logic -- a debate that continues in the twenty-first century.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification:++++British LibraryT087082With a half-title.London : printed for D. Wilson, 1764. 51,[1]p. ; 8°

Moderation explained and recommended. A sermon, ... preached before the synod of Merse and Teviotdale, at Kelso, the 18th of April 1749. By James Allan, ... The second edition, corrected.

World

Gale ECCO, Print Editions

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