The Law of Loyalty is a study of the principles governing the use of legal powers that are held for other-regarding ends. It addresses both public law and private law, and examines both the common law and the civil law. It aims to provide a theory of how Western law regulates the situations in which we hold legal powers, not for ourselves, but for and on behalf of others. It does this by elucidating the justificatory principles that are attracted in those situations. These princip...

Swathes of the human world are covered in ornamental grass lawns; they are the single most commonly encountered horticultural feature on the planet. Unfortunately, they are now often viewed as resource-draining green deserts due to the lack of plant and animal diversity, the need for frequent mowing and watering, and addition of lawn greening products to keep them looking at their best. It is a venerable horticultural feature that is essentially frozen in time, and with few alternatives to...

Table des matièresCréatures des ténèbres et Choses d’un autre monde : le cinéma de John Carpenter (Lionel Viscogliosi)Hommage George A. RomeroAsia, Hawks, les femmes et les zombiesHommage à Tobe HooperTexte Mike GarrisfFrewell Tobe (Thomas Révay)Dossier Dario ArgentoEntretien Dario ArgentoPeur, extrait de l’autobiographie de Dario Argento (© Rou...

Revue Ciné-Bazar n°5 - Entretiens et interviewsArticle. Don Johnson, l’homme et la bête : A Boy and His Dog (Mathieu Germain)Dossier Jean-Pierre MockyEntretien Jean-Pierre MockyArticle. Réflexions d’un ex-chasseur de gueules (Christophe Bier)Article. Sexe, sang et stupeur. Quand Paul Naschy revisitait le Moyen Âge (Yohann Chanoir)Dossier Roger CormanEntretien Roger CormanArticle....

In The Moral Imagination, Gertrude Himmelfarb, one of America's most distinguished intellectual historians, explores the minds and lives of some of the most brilliant and provocative thinkers of modern times. In their distinctive ways, she argues, they exemplify what Burke two centuries ago and Trilling most recently have called the “moral imagination.” Himmelfarb describes how each of these thinkers, coming from different traditions, responding to different concerns, and writing in differ...

"Embarquez avec une joyeuse bande de copains et copines prêts à partir à l'aventure ! Que ce soit aux côtés d'un bébé licorne, d'une petite poule faisane prête à tout pour sauver ses amis ou d'un trio paré pour les 400 coups, pas le temps de s'ennuyer avec des amis pareils : - ""Mon amie la licorne"" et ""En avant, les animaux !"" de Briony May Smith - ""Je t'invite chez moi"" de Susan Varley - ""L'oiseau qui ne savait pas chanter"" de Satoshi Kitamura - ""L'adorable ours des neiges"" de L...

Originally published in 1984. Without technical Jargon or a mass of confusing statistics, this book describes a wide range of factors influencing agricultural productivity including weather, soil biology and ecology, and human, social, economic and political factors. The ways in which these factors operate and interact with each other to produce the changing circumstances in which farmers take their decisions are discussed. These decisions are the crucial factors in every productivity prob...

Short story writers often say that, for maximum dramatic effect, you should arrive fashionably late to a scene. After years of living in the literary wilderness, it seems the short story s own moment has finally arrived. The last twelve months have marked an extraordinary year for the form. The Nobel Prize for Literature, the Man Booker International Prize, the Folio Prize and the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize were all awarded to short story writers.The shortlist for the BBC Na...

Henry Green eats so much chocolate he comes down with chocolate fever.

This book is unique in presenting an interdisciplinary conversation between jurists and logicians. It brings together scholars from both law and philosophy, and looks at the application of 'the new logics' to law and legal ordering, in a number of legal systems. The first Part explores the ways in which the new logics shed light on the functioning of legal orders, including the structure of legal argumentation and the rules of evidence. The second addresses how non-classical logics can hel...

Despite the common belief that they are found only in the common law tradition, trusts have long been known in mixed jurisdictions even where they have a civilian law of property. Trusts have now been introduced by legislation in a number of civilian jurisdictions, such as France and China. Other recent developments include the reception of foreign trusts through private international law in Italy and Switzerland and the inclusion of a chapter on trusts in Europe's Draft Common Frame of Re...

In this fifth and final volume of Peggy Raymond and her Friendly Terrace entourage, we find the Girls winding down from the Great War, and pursuing more domestic and mischievous pursuits. Finishing up college and preparing for Peggy and Grahame's wedding, Ruth, Amy and Priscilla look toward their own opportunities of future relationships and potential marriages. As Harriet Lummis Smith is so good at, it is a neat blend of continuity toward the known characters and charming introductions of...