Charlie Chaplin: Interviews, Hayes, Kevin J (Editor)
Автор: Heller, Kevin (Editor), Dubber, Markus D (Editor) Название: The Handbook of Comparative Criminal Law ISBN: 0804757585 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780804757584 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 14243.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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This handbook explores criminal law systems from around the world, with the express aim of stimulating comparison and discussion. General principles of criminal liability receive prominent coverage in each essay—including discussions of rationales for punishment, the role and design of criminal codes, the general structure of criminal liability, accounts of mens rea, and the rights that criminal law is designed to protect—before the authors turn to more specific offenses like homicide, theft, sexual offenses, victimless crimes, and terrorism.
This key reference covers all of the world's major legal systems—common, civil, Asian, and Islamic law traditions—with essays on sixteen countries on six different continents. The introduction places each country within traditional distinctions among legal systems and explores noteworthy similarities and differences among the countries covered, providing an ideal entry into the fascinating range of criminal law systems in use the world over.
Автор: Anderson, Kevin J (Editor) Название: Tales from Jabba`s Palace ( Star Wars (Random House Paperback) ) ISBN: 0553568159 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780553568158 Издательство: Random House (USA) Цена: 827.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Kevin M. F. Platt (Editor), Название: Epic revisionism : ISBN: 0299215040 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780299215040 Издательство: Turpin Рейтинг: Цена: 4281.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Focusing on a number of historical and literary personalities who were regarded with disdain in the aftermath of the 1917 revolution, this book tells the fascinating story of these individuals` return to canonical status during the darkest days of the Stalin era. It also features pieces on literary and cultural history, film, opera, and theater.
Автор: Hayes Kevin J. Название: An American Cycling Odyssey, 1887 ISBN: 0803244932 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780803244931 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 2744.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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In 1887 a twenty-one-year-old newspaperman named George Nellis (1865–1948) rode a bicycle from Herkimer, New York, to San Francisco in seventy-two days, surpassing the transcontinental bicycle record by several weeks. He averaged fifty miles a day pedalling a fifty-two-inch, high-wheeled Columbia Expert "ordinary" bicycle with a tubular steel frame and hard rubber tires, and he lost twenty-three pounds in the process.
He bicycled ever westward through sleepy villages, farmlands, and growing cities of the rapidly changing nation and trekked across uninhabited stretches of prairies and mountains that marked its shrinking frontier. Following his daily ten-hour rides, Nellis sat down and wrote letters about his adventures to his hometown newspapers and a national cycling magazine to finance his cross-country journey.
Nellis's epic journey over dirt paths, muddy roads, and occasional railroad ties was plagued by terrible weather, frightening experiences, and odd encounters; yet it was also enriched by breathtaking natural wonders and the generous spirit of many people he met. He nearly drowned in a flash flood, was chased by a furious bull, killed a coyote that accosted him one night, fell victim to mirages in Utah's Great Salt Desert, narrowly missed a tremendous fire that wiped out half of a California town only hours after he had left, and witnessed a horrifying accident on a train track. Nellis also managed to meet the legendary baseball player A. G. Spalding in Chicago, take in professional baseball games in Detroit and Chicago, participate in several bicycle races in Omaha, attend an opera in Cheyenne, Wyoming, enjoy a circus, and eat over two dozen bananas in one sitting in Osceola, Indiana.
Drawing on Nellis's letters and media coverage of the trip, Kevin J. Hayes recreates in compelling detail this amazing trip and the many ordinary and extraordinary faces of late-nineteenth-century America that were once revealed to a young bicyclist.