Oxford University Press

A Very Short IntroductionWhat is a family? What makes someone a parent? What rights should children have? Family Law: A Very Short Introduction gives the reader an insight not only into what the law is, but why it is the way it is. It examines how laws have had to respond to social changes in family life, from rapidly rising divorce rates to...

Principles, Policy, and PracticeStephen Gilmore and Lisa Glennon provide a timely update, to this popular and highly readable account of family law. Noted for its accessibility, this new edition of Hayes and Williams &'Family Law:Principles, Policy and Practice guides the student carefully through the legislation and case law helping them fully...

The Fall of Film Musicals in the 1960sIn Roadshow! The Fall of Film Musicals in the 1960s, film historian Matthew Kennedy explores the downfall of a beloved genre caught in the hands of misguided creators who glutted the American film market with a spate of expensive and financially unrewarding musicals between 1967 and 1972. In doing so, it offers...

Understanding and Managing Pain in Diverse PopulationsIn this state-of-theart volume, culture is placed in the forefront of studying pain in an integrative manner. The authors put forth that a patient&'s culture should be studied with the purpose of unveiling its effects upon biological systems and the pain neuromatrix....

Phenomenological Perspectives on the Historical WorldDavid Carr outlines a distinctively phenomenological approach to history. Rather than asking what history is or how we know history, a phenomenology of history inquires into history as a phenomenon and into the experience of the historical. How does history present itself to us, how does it enter...

The law of torts is concerned with the obligations that are created by the infringement of rights. This work seeks to show that this apparently simple proposition provides the groundwork for a new theoretical model for conceiving the law of torts, and a new way of understanding the subject....