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The Extraordinary Life of Felice della RovereThe illegitimate daughter of Pope Julius II, Felice della Rovere became one of the most powerful and accomplished women of the Italian Renaissance. Caroline Murphy vividly captures the untold story of a rare woman who moved with confidence through a world of popes and princes. Using a wide variety of...

A comprehensive discussion of EU energy law, this work covers key issues such as environmental and contractual matters, and the role of regulatory authorities. It derives from a section in the looseleaf Law of the EU (Vaughan & Robertson, eds), and is made available here for the benefit of those who do not subscribe to the looseleaf....

The first book-length study of a much-debated group of characters in Moliere's plays, the so-called 'raisonneurs'. Examining them in detail in the most famous plays -   L'Ecole des femmes,  Le Tartuffe,  Le Misanthrope,  Le Malade imaginaire - Hawcroft provides one of the best accounts available of the seventeenth-century French playwright whose...

Global Norms, Local ChoicesUsing case studies to investigate the design of competition law systems, this is the first major analysis of the extent to which each national, regional, or international system fulfils global norms including due process rights for litigants, reasonable expedition in adjudication, and knowledgeable decision-making....

This collection of essays examines how "e;the secular"e; is constituted and understood, and how new understandings of secularism and religion shape analytic perspectives in the social sciences, politics, and international affairs....

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