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Losing It
In Losing It, William Ian Miller brings his inimitable wit and learning to the subject of growing old: too old to matter, of either rightly losing your confidence or wrongly maintaining it, culpably refusing to face the fact that you are losing it. The “it” in Miller’s “losing it” refers mainly to mental faculties—memory, processing speed, sensory acuity, the capacity to focus. But it includes other evidence as well—sags and flaccidities, aches and pains, failing joints and organs. What are we to make of these tell-tale signs? Does growing old gracefully mean more than simply refusing unseemly cosmetic surgeries? How do we face decline and the final drawing of the blinds? Will ...
Law and Revolution
This book explores challenges for law brought about by various disruptive realities, exploring the past as well as the future. Contributions examine the law and revolution in 1918, challenges posed by more gradual political or technological transformations, the effects of globalisation, and challenges posed for law by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Law and Revolution
The last one hundred years have seen a number of events that could be perceived as disruptive challenges to the normal operation of the legal order. Some have been disruptive innovations of technologies or business practices, others social changes or constitutional transformations, further buttressed by the impact of globalisation and interdependence affecting the development of international, transnational and global law. Coincidentally, this period of one hundred years has been bookended by two pandemics, themselves disruptive realities testing the resilience as well as the adaptability of the legal regimes. A hundred years ago, the founding dean of a newly established law faculty beginnin...
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Marzahn, Mon Amour
A woman approaching the 'invisible years' of middle age abandons her failing writing career to retrain as a chiropodist in the East Berlin suburb of Marzahn, once the GDR's largest prefabricated housing estate. From her intimate vantage point at the foot of the clinic chair, she observes her clients and co-workers, listening to their stories with empathy and curiosity. Part memoir, part collective history, Katja Oskamp's love letter to the inhabitants of Marzahn is a tender reflection on life's progression and our ability to forge connections in the unlikeliest of places. Each person's story stands alone as a beautifully crafted vignette, but together they form a portrait of a community.
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»Ritus gentis« Slovanov v vzhodnih Alpah
Avtorica poizkuša v knjigi odgovoriti na dve temeljni vprašanji, in sicer na kakšna pravna razmerja in na katere pravne institute pri Slovanih v vzhodnih Alpah, prvih zgodovinsko zanesljivo izpričanih prednikih Slovencev, ki so bili v zgodnjem srednjem veku organizirani v gentilne kneževine (Karantanija, Karniola), nam kažejo v kontinuiranem domačem jezikovnem razvoju nastala poimenovanja (npr. besedne družine zakon, zakonik; odvetnik, svet, obet, veča; sodnik, soditi, sodba itd.) in na kakšen način je pri tem treba soočiti metode primerjalnega zgodovinskega jezikoslovja s pravnozgodovinskimi metodami.
Revolving Door
The English debut of an idiosyncratic narrative voice. "What now?" wonders Asta, a nurse who has returned to Germany after a final assignment in Nicaragua. After over twenty years working for international aid organizations, her services are no longer needed. No one is waiting for her. She has nowhere to go. Even the language has lost its familiarity. She stands next to a revolving door at Munich airport, observing the other travelers as she smokes one duty-free cigarette after another. Some of these strangers resemble figures from her past, bringing memories of an adventurous life flooding back. Her catalog of tragicomic attempts at assistance in Germany, Nicaragua, India, Mongolia, and Tunisia raises questions about what it takes to help and whom we are really helping. Katja Lange-Müller's works have been critically acclaimed for their dark humor and affectionate, nuanced portrayals of characters wrestling with knotty situations and relationships. Revolving Door marks a fitting English debut of this most idiosyncratic of narrative voices.
