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  • En todos los rincones imperiales

    apropiaciones de tierras baldías y composiciones de propiedades agrarias en América y Filipinas (siglos XVI-XIX)

    "En 1591, el rey Felipe II requirió la contribución de sus súbditos en las Indias para la creación de una armada que se encargara de defender los navíos españoles de los ataques de corsarios y enemigos del Imperio español. También advirtió el desorden y el exceso habidos en la distribución de tierras en los virreinatos indianos. Para recaudar recursos y poder fundar la armada, el rey demandó de ... Read more

    PHP387.59 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Land System Reform in China Since the 1980s

    Translated by Thomas Smith ...
    by Shouying Liu ...
    Land system reform in China has always been a hot topic and a controversial one. After the Third Plenary Session of the 18th CPC Central Committee (2013) issued its “Decision,” people throughout society generally responded well to the part relating to land system reform, but there were also a few dissenting voices. In the face of controversy, the central government determined the principles of ... Read more

    PHP5,984.59

  • Goethes Faust: Oekonom – Landesplaner – Unternehmer

    Series Book 21 - Heidelberger Beitraege zur deutschen Literatur
    In dieser Studie stellt der Autor Fausts Werdegang vom Gelehrten zum Ökonomen, Landesplaner und Unternehmer dar und zeigt durch die innovative «geographische Deutung» des fünften Akts, inwiefern durch Fausts Neulandgewinnung eine blühende Kulturlandschaft hat entstehen können. Bislang bestand in der Faust-Forschung weitgehend Konsens darüber, dass Faust am Ende des Dramas ein Egomane und ein ... Read more

    PHP2,034.59

  • Legal Responses to Vacant Houses

    An International Comparison

    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book presents an international comparison of legal responses to the issue of vacant housing in Japan, the USA, France and Germany. While vacant housing is a shared problem in these four countries, the origin and context of the problem, as well as the focus of legal responses, differ considerably. Presenting the outcomes of an international symposium, this book explores different legal ... Read more

    PHP3,874.79

  • The Constitutional Law of Bangladesh

    Progression and Transformation at its 50th Anniversary

    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book provides a supportive lending hand to researchers of constitutional law worldwide about the constitutional law of Bangladesh. Moreover, this book discusses the evolution and development of the constitutional law of Bangladesh over 50 years from its embryonic stage with reference to comparative constitutional law. This book is a very useful resource for the comparative constitutional ... Read more

    PHP14,145.09

  • Climate Change, Forests and Federalism

    Australian Experience

    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    Climate change is one of the most serious global challenges facing humankind. Climate change has enormous environmental and economic implications, and finding a solution is a daunting task. The purpose of this book is to look at the global problem of climate change through the prism of an individual country's attempt to tackle this problem.This book begins with a discussion of the origins of ... Read more

    PHP4,843.59

  • Perspectives for Agronomy

    Adopting Ecological Principles and Managing Resource Use

    Series Book 25 - Developments in Crop Science
    During the 4th ESA-Congress, held in the Netherlands, 7-11 July 1996, a new perspective for agronomy emerged. Various contributions demonstrate the need for a new role of agronomy and its tools. In recent decades, agriculture has evolved from an activity with mainly productivity aims, into an issue conciliating environmental, agricultural, and economic and social objectives. Placing agriculture in ... Read more

    PHP18,233.99

  • Religious Property Disputes and the Law

    House of God, Laws of Man

    As the role of organized religion in American public life continues to evolve, religious organizations face complicated questions about land use and the ownership of real property. This book on religious property law covers three types of religious property disputes:Between the local church and a denomination over the ownership of land and real property when the church leaves the denomination;Over ... Read more

    PHP3,989.39

  • Slick Water

    Fracking and One Insider's Stand against the World's Most Powerful Industry

    The fossil fuel industry and many environmental groups tout hydraulic fracturing - fracking” - as a panacea, with slick promises of energy independence, greenhouse gas reductions, and benefits to local economies. Yet the controversial technology, which blasts massive volumes of fluids, sand, and chemicals into rock and coal formations, has sparked huge public protests. Slick Water tells the ... Read more

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  • Defending the Undefendable III

    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book probes the depths of libertarian philosophy and highlights the need for laws that protect all individuals in society. This book defines libertarianism as a theory of what is just law, it is predicated upon the non-aggression principle (NAP). This legal foundation of the libertarian philosophy states that it should be illicit to threaten or engage in initiatory violence against innocent ... Read more

    PHP7,750.09

  • Modern Land Law

    by Martin Dixon ...
    Modern Land Law is one of the most current and reliable textbooks available on land law today, offering a lively and thought-provoking account of a subject that remains at the heart of our legal system. Providing an accessible approach to a complex subject, this compact textbook provides an absorbing analysis of all the key legal principles relating to land.Written with students firmly in mind, a ... Read more

    PHP3,448.89

  • Contextual Analysis of UK Property Practice

    Ein praxisnaher Ansatz zum englischen Recht mit Rechtsgrundsätzen, Fallanalysen und juristischer Argumentation

    by Mil Divad ...
    Series Book 11 - Die kontextbezogene Lehrbuchreihe zum englischen Recht für die SQE
    Ein klarer und strukturierter Ansatz zur Beherrschung des Immobilienrechts für die SQEDas Immobilienrecht wird häufig als ein technisches und stark praxisorientiertes Rechtsgebiet betrachtet. Ein echtes Verständnis erfordert jedoch mehr als das bloße Auswendiglernen von Regeln und Verfahren — es verlangt ein klares Verständnis der Grundprinzipien, des Zwecks und der Struktur, die dem Eigentum, der ... Read more

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  • Mining Law and Economic Policy

    Critical Perspectives and Challenges for Mining in Africa

    Edited by Akua Debrah, Hudson Mtegha ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book explores the impacts of current mining licensing regimes in Africa and how they influence sustainable development principles. International law and conventions on mining are used as a lens to examine a regionalized perspective of the history of mining law and customary land law. Alternative approaches are then suggested, through a comparative and sovereignty-based study of mining laws ... Read more

    PHP2,905.89

  • The Routledge Research Companion to Law and Humanities in Nineteenth-Century America

    Nineteenth-century America witnessed some of the most important and fruitful areas of intersection between the law and humanities, as people began to realize that the law, formerly confined to courts and lawyers, might also find expression in a variety of ostensibly non-legal areas such as painting, poetry, fiction, and sculpture. Bringing together leading researchers from law schools and ... Read more

    PHP4,311.27

  • Every Californian's Guide To Estate Planning

    Wills, Trust & Everything Else

    Finally, an Estate Planning Guide for CaliforniansEvery Californian’s Guide to Estate Planning helps you understand the basics of leaving money and property to loved ones and charities, and naming a guardian for children—with a special focus on issues unique to California, like:how community property rules affect inheritance and taxesminimizing capital gains on high-value real estatelegal and tax ... Read more

    PHP1,330.09 or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Guide pratique du propriétaire bailleur et de ses conseillers

    Comprendre le droit de la propriété belge

    by Pierre Jammar ...
    Comment aider le propriétaire bailleur belge à développer les qualités indispensables d'un excellent régisseur ?Les propriétaires belges semblent souvent dépassés par la gestion de leurs immeubles, les risques de dégradation, les conflits de paiement et surtout par la masse de textes et de lois engendrée par nos dirigeants.Ce constat m'a amené à réfléchir sur les conditions des propriétaires ... Read more

    PHP1,983.68

  • An Historical Introduction to Modern Civil Law

    Series series Laws of the Nations Series
    The civil law systems of continental Europe, Latin America and other parts of the world, including Japan, share a common legal heritage derived from Roman law. However, it is an inheritance which has been modified and adapted over the centuries as a result of contact with Germanic legal concepts, the work of jurists in the mediaeval universities, the growth of the canon law of the western Church, ... Read more

    PHP8,684.75

  • Negotiating Development

    Rationales and practice for development obligationsand planning gain

    Planning gain is the legal process by which property development is linked to social provisions. This book examines the rationale for planning gain and development obligations and reviews the practice of development negotiation through a wide range of case histories. ... Read more

    PHP4,804.05

  • Southern African Development Community Land Issues Volume I

    Towards a New Sustainable Land Relations Policy

    Edited by Ben Chigara ...
    This book constitutes volume one of a two volume examination of development community land issues in Southern Africa. In this volume, Ben Chigara undertakes a holistic inter-disciplinary evaluation of the legitimacy of colonial and emergent post-colonial rule property rights in affected States of the Southern African Development Community (SADC). It particularly focuses on intensifying litigation ... Read more

    PHP2,155.33

  • The World of the Tavern

    Public Houses in Early Modern Europe

    The subject of drink received a great deal of attention from early modern Europeans. Preachers, physicians, authorities, artists and travellers all addressed it from a range of different perspectives. At the same time, inns, taverns and alehouses served as multifunctional centres in towns and villages throughout Europe. This combination resulted in a wealth of sources, both institutional and ... Read more

    PHP4,003.28

  • Conciliarism and Church Law in the Fifteenth Century

    Studies on Franciscus Zabarella and the Council of Constance

    Series series Variorum Collected Studies
    Crises are never the best of times and the era of the Great Western Schism (1378-1417) easily qualifies as one of the worst of times. As a professor of canon law at the University of Padua and later cardinal, and as a major theorist in the conciliarist movement, Franciscus Zabarella (1360-1417) tried to do what a good legal mind does: find and explicate a viable and legal solution to the crises of ... Read more

    PHP3,695.28

  • Imprisoning Medieval Women

    The Non-Judicial Confinement and Abduction of Women in England, c.1170-1509

    The non-judicial confinement of women is a common event in medieval European literature and hagiography. The literary image of the imprisoned woman, usually a noblewoman, has carried through into the quasi-medieval world of the fairy and folk tale, in which the 'maiden in the tower' is one of the archetypes. Yet the confinement of women outside of the judicial system was not simply a fiction in ... Read more

    PHP4,003.28

  • Behaving Badly

    Social Panic and Moral Outrage - Victorian and Modern Parallels

    Both the Victorian age and the late twentieth century are often characterised by contemporaries as times of apparent economic affluence and stability. They are often depicted as periods that shared a conviction that the stability of society, including its affluence, was threatened by the activities of social deviants. These essays aim to examine crime of a socially visible nature, in the context ... Read more

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  • La doctrine canonique médiévale

    by Jean Gaudemet ...
    Series series Variorum Collected Studies
    The question these articles seek to respond to, in this fifth collection by Jean Gaudemet to be published by Variorum, is how the intellectual elite of the medieval Church perceived the institutions among which they lived - how they portrayed them, and how they sought to influence them. Whether dealing with the papacy and its place in the Church and the world, with the role of the people in ... Read more

    PHP3,572.09