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Everyday Politics in the Wake of Total WarBeing a good citizen under Stalin meant taking an active part in political rituals, such as elections, parades, festive meetings, political information sessions, and subscriptions to state bonds. In Stalin&'s Citizens, Serhy Yekelchyk examines how ordinary citizens came to embrace some parts of this...

Providing detailed commentary of unrivalled quality on the process of civil litigation, this is the only major civil work to adopt a narrative approach based on the chronology of a claim. Written by a team of expert practitioners and academics, it provides authoritative analysis on the process of civil litigation from commencement of a claim to...

The Winding Road from the Late Teens Through the TwentiesIn recent decades, the lives of people in their late teens and twenties have changed so dramatically that a new stage of life has developed. In his provocative work, Jeffrey Jensen Arnett has identified the period of emerging adulthood as distinct from both the adolescence that precedes it...

The new edition of the bestselling Blackstone&'s Magistrates&' Court Handbook provides a complete practical guide for the busy practitioner. Incorporating essential extracts from the Magistrates&' Court Sentencing Guidelines, it offers all you need in one trustworthy source. Covering all the key aspects of magistrates&' court practice, the book...

The Rule of Recognition and the U.S. Constitution is a volume of original essays that discuss the applicability of Hart's rule of recognition model of a legal system to U.S. constitutional law. The contributors are leading scholars in analytical jurisprudence and constitutional theory, including Matthew Adler, Larry Alexander, Mitchell Berman,...

How Parents and their Allies Changed New York City&'s Child Welfare SystemIn the early 1990s 50,000 children were in New York City&'s foster care system. By 2011 there were fewer than 15,000. In his book, David Tobis shows how such radical change was driven largely by a movement of mothers whose children had been placed into foster care, who fought...