| Weight | 0.25 kg |
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| ISBN | 9781032125305 |
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| Publication Date | 2022 |
| Pages | 124 |
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A FIELD GUIDE TO GHOST GUNS
₨ 18,983
ISBN: 9781032125305
Publisher: CRC PRESS
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₨ 18,983
ISBN: 9781032125305
Publisher: CRC PRESS
In stock
| Weight | 0.25 kg |
|---|---|
| ISBN | 9781032125305 |
| Format | |
| Publication Date | 2022 |
| Pages | 124 |
| Author | |
| Author Description | |
| Publisher | |
| Language |
Crucial to the social position of women in Pakistan is their access to and control of material resources. A key factor in this respect is the situation of legal pluralism in the country whereby state laws derived from Pakistan’s Islamic and colonial heritages are often contradicted by local customary laws and practices. This study is based on extensive fieldwork in four villages in different provinces of Pakistan, and takes both a socio-legal and an anthropological approach. Its focus is not confined to property alone but includes many other areas of life that have a bearing on women’s access to property and enables the reader to better envisage the environment. Arguing that official law-is largely ineffective in securing property rights for women, the study offers insights into the interaction of customary and state laws in Pakistan that will be of interest to scholars, lawyers and development specialists. This book also provides background to students and researchers engaged in studies on Pakistani immigrants in Europe.
ISBN: 9694023696
Publisher: VANGUARD BOOKS
A Harvard Law School faculty member since 1964, Dershowitz is noted for representing controversial and unpopular clients. In addition to tomes on the law and two novels, he wrote a 1987 book prescribing a remedy to save American Jews (The Vanishing American Jew). In this further demonstration of his versatility, he turns to 10 stories from Genesis to demonstrate how the Bible provides a basis for contemporary ideas about justice and injustice. The narratives deal with Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, Abraham, Lot, Jacob, Dina, Tamar and Joseph. Dershowitz includes a translation of each story, recounts some theological commentaries and offers his own interpretations. He acknowledges the failings of the biblical characters, pointing out that they were guilty of deception, lust, crime, incest, revenge and murder. Their problematic actions highlighted the need for the laws that appear later in the Torah, starting with Exodus and the Ten Commandments. The book concludes with four chapters on “The Genesis of Justice in the Injustice of Genesis.” Dershowitz argues that the “bad actions” depicted in Genesis gave rise to the “common law of justice.” He addresses the question of theodicy, claiming that the belief in the hereafter solves the problem of why evil exists on earth. Finally, he asserts that the stories he has examined explain the need for judicial codes. The book makes an important contribution by clearly validating this claim, although Dershowitz disregards the stories’ significance as a basis for moral and ethical development.
ISBN: 0446524794
Publisher: ENCHANTED LION BOOKS
