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Hobbes envisions a chaotic world driven by self-interest, where survival is brutal. He argues peace requires the "Leviathan," balancing freedom and control to ensure societal stability and security.

"Using the theory of the encryption of power, this book explores whether it is possible to decrypt justice as it has been predominantly shaped by Western hegemony. Decrypting Justice argues that envisioning and creating a more just world, founded on new communalities, is not only possible but necessary"--

This book explores the 1975 Australian constitutional crisis, focusing on the dismissal of Prime Minister Gough Whitlam and its implications for Australian constitutional law and politics.

Smith, Hogan & Ormerod's Essentials of Criminal Law takes students to the heart of this fascinating subject, providing focused, expert coverage alongside a wealth of student-friendly learning features to aid study.

This volume explores the importance of constitutivism for legal studies. It brings together world-renowned practical philosophers and legal theorists, whom systematically and innovatively address key dimensions of the relationships between constitutivism and theoretical study of law.

This book explores the integration of AI in environmental engineering, emphasizing the unique challenges and approaches required for accurate modeling of physical phenomena.

Originally published in 1958 and as a third edition in 1971, this comprehensive account of political thought in the Middle Ages presents medieval thinking against the historical background which animated it.

Explores the work of interpreters and translators at the First Frankfurt Auschwitz Trial.

Originally published in 1930, this book outlines the system of local government at work in the reign of Edward I. The Hundreds were the districts of England into which every county was subdivided. The Hundred Rolls were a complete statement as to the administration of the counties of England.

This book takes an in-depth look at corruption in sport and its intersection with criminal justice and governance processes.

This multi-disciplinary volume provides an innovative approach to children and violence, looking beyond the existing literature that focuses on child soldiers in the 'Global South'.

In the existing literature, there is no universal standard for defining obscenity. The book aims to demonstrate that there indeed exist underlying universal standards for defining obscenity (USDOs). However, their application to different contexts of time, place, and culture, may legitimately result in varied manifestations.