Product Description: This book features the painting and printmaking work of Czech artist Petr Nikl (born 1964) from the last 30 years, including a series on the subject of hatching, embryos and the mythology of origins. Writing by the artist accompanies his visual works.

Product Description: This collection of essays brings together Zygmunt Bauman and a number of internationally distinguished legal scholars who examine influence of Bauman's recent works on social theory of law and socio-legal studies. Contributors focus on the concept of 'liquid society' and its adoption by legal scholars...read more

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Product Description: The problem of legitimacy and legality is one of the key issues of modern thought and nowhere more intensely debated than in the countries of the former Soviet bloc. Under the Communist system, symbols of modern government had been supplemented and changed in order to serve the totalitarian domination of the Party and all spheres of life, including law, were subsumed within this framework of ideological legitimation...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A collection of papers presented at the workshop "Consequences of the Autopoietic Law Theory", held in Cardiff, March 2000. The papers featured in this book have been edited. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: These essays explore the post-1989 establishment of the rule of law and civil society of countries of Central Europe. Bringing together analysis and perceptions from social scientists, political scientists and lawyers, the contributors explore the similarities and differences between countries...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)