One of the main aims of the Companies Act 2006 was to improve the way small businesses are regulated. Accordingly, the new Act reforms the law relating to private companies in significant ways, and...
This well-established textbook is part of the Law in Context series. Colin Turpin, author of the first five editions, has been joined by Adam Tomkins, a leading critical scholar.Who is it for?...
This book is designed as a "taster" for the study of law.Who is it for? Potential law students.Presentation: Clear and accessible chapters by six experienced law teachers covering seven of the main...
A defence of democracy against judicial review; political against legal constitutionalism; the electoral system against the judges.Who is it for? Advanced undergraduate students of law or politics...
A handbook addressing legal and practical issues arising from employment of school staff, revised in light of the Education Act 2002, the Employment Rights Act 2002 and changes to discrimination law....
This book, updated in light of recent developments, explains rules and procedure relating to costs in all matrimonial proceedings including divorce, ancillary relief cases and Children Act...
"The philosophy of the social sciences" can refer to either a philosophical argument for something called "social sciences", which may or may not yet exist, or the philosophical foundations of what...
In the 20th century, a good way to prove that "society" exists in the sense Margaret Thatcher notoriously denied was to claim it had "problems". Thus, many sociology textbooks had "social problems"...
George Ritzer is the best-selling author of sociological theory books in the US, but he is definitely not America's answer to Anthony Giddens. Giddens came to sociology from philosophy, Ritzer from...
IP - The battle for Intellectual Property
If you don’t want to lose students, recruit honestly and be sure freshers know what to expect, and what support is available, right from the start
This week’s competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a classic Christian allegory:“As I walk'd through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain...
Timothy Gowers devours a dram of pure pleasure
How Fiction Works by James Wood, professor of the practice of literary criticism, Harvard University. Cape, £12.99, ISBN 9780224079839"Wood's roots are deep in English religious non-conformity. He...