Courting Politics chronicles inspiring life stories of nine eminent lawyers turned politicians. The book is an engaging narrative of these distinguished personalities who are now...
By Prof. Amartya Sen (winner of Nobel Prize for ...
2009
This major philosophical work, by one of the world`s leading public intellectuals, constructs a new theory of justice, not from abstract ideals or notions of what perfect institutions and rules might...
This scholarly work unfolds the collective wisdom of legal luminaries on a subject of great topical interest.
The book focusses attention on the myriad problems of the weaker...
This book studies the struggle to enforce international human rights law in federal courts. In 1980, a federal appeals court ruled that a Paraguayan family could sue a Paraguayan official under the...
A comprehensive book giving the law for cinemas as well as for films, video, cable TV, sound recordings and computer programmes.
This most comprehensive work gives all rules and...
Any arrangement for the allocation of social positions and goods should ... proceed on the basic assumption that everyone has a right to equal concern and respect. Any arrangement that pays unequal...
For more than two millennia, the Elements of Geometry by the Greek mathematician Euclid of Alexandria (ca. 300 B.C.E. ) was held to be ?the supreme example of the exercise of human reason? and ?a paradigm...
This book examines the knowledge and therapeutic use of opium and various species of poppy by physicians in ninth-century Baghdad (the leading medical centre then) as seen in key works by six outstanding...