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Methodology in Private Law Theory: Between New Private Law and Rechtsdogmatik represents a first-of-its-kind dialogue between leading lights in German and American private law theory. The chapters in this volume build upon established traditions of scholarship in German private law and harness resurgent scholarly interest in private law in the United States, inviting readers to question how private law functions on both sides of the Atlantic. In the context of the cross-fertilization of legal scholarship, the transnationalization of law, and the historical ties between US and German debates on methodology, the volume encourages reasoned engagement with private law doctrines and institutions....
This textbook introduces the Indian legal system and presents an exhaustive discussion on laws which govern and regulate businesses. It focuses on the application of the laws based on which managers need to take decisions on a day to day basis. It also fulfils its usefulness as a textbook for business management students and managers through a large number of cases and mini-cases highlighting the legal issues that surround and affect businesses. Court rulings and judgements have been weaved appropriately to provide better learning support. Aiming to provide the readers an understanding and knowledge of laws relating to business, the book provides an in-depth coverage of the law of contract, sale of goods, laws dealing with negotiable instruments, consumer rights, competition and laws regulating the incorporation and management of companies in India.
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Scholars from many disciplines discuss the crucial roles played by narrative and metaphor in the theory and practice of law.
This acclaimed and popular text is the only complete market research guide to the American health care industry--a tool for strategic planning, competitive intelligence, employment searches or financial research. Covers national health expenditures, technologies, patient populations, research, Medicare, Medicaid, managed care. Contains trends, statistical tables and an in-depth glossary. Features in-depth profiles of the 500 major firms in all health industry sectors.
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
This is an illustrated history of the extraordinary Anglo-American Wheelwright family.In 1636 an outspoken Puritan, Reverend John Wheelwright, left his native Lincolnshire and headed for the new Boston Bay Colony. His stay in Massachusetts would be short lived.Persecuted and banished, Reverend John went on to found two New England towns and a dynasty which now spans six continents.The Wheelwrights have produced explorers, engineers, clerics, consuls and a family of cannibals. There are philanthropists, philanderers, psychoanalysts, scientists, soldiers and sailors.A sea captain became a pirate. A lawyer became a gold-digging sportsman and a kidnapped child was transformed from Puritan to Catholic mother superior.The Wheelwright's story, complete with black sheep and skeletons a-plenty, spans four centuries. Hundreds of illustrations and family charts, drawn from years of research, bring 580 pages of this most remarkable family's history to life.
An American Teacher in Argentina tells the story of Mary E. Gorman who in 1869 was the first North American woman to accept President Domingo F. Sarmiento’s invitation to set up normal schools in Argentina, where she eventually settled. An ordinary historical actor whose life only sometimes enters the historical record, she moved along the fault lines of some of the greatest historical dramas and changes in nineteenth-century US and Argentine history: she was a pioneering child on the US-Indian frontier; she participated in the push for US women’s education; she was a single woman traveler at a time when few women traveled alone; she was a player in an Argentine attempt to expand common ...
Volume 47
Following the end of World War II, it was widely reported by the media that Jewish refugees found lives filled with opportunity and happiness in America. However, for most of the 140,000 Jewish Displaced Persons (DPs) who immigrated to the United States from Europe in the years between 1946 and 1954, it was a much more complicated story. Case Closed challenges the prevailing optimistic perception of the lives of Holocaust survivors in postwar America by scrutinizing their first years through the eyes of those who lived it. The facts brought forth in this book are supported by case files recorded by Jewish social service workers, letters and minutes from agency meetings, oral testimonies, and...