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  • The Double-Facing Constitution

    Edited by Jacco Bomhoff, David Dyzenhaus, Thomas Poole ...
    This collection explores some of the many ways in which constitutional orders engage with, and are shaped by, their exteriors. Constitutional and legal theory often marginalize 'foreign' elements, such as norms originating in other legal systems, the movement of individuals across borders, or the application of domestic law to foreign affairs. In The Double-Facing Constitution, these instances of ... Read more

    $48.99 CAD

  • Reason of State

    Law, Prerogative and Empire

    by Thomas Poole ...
    Series Book 14 - Cambridge Studies in Constitutional Law
    This historically embedded treatment of theoretical debates about prerogative and reason of state spans over four centuries of constitutional development. Commencing with the English Civil War and the constitutional theories of Hobbes and the Republicans, it moves through eighteenth-century arguments over jealousy of trade and commercial reason of state to early imperial concerns and the ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Law, Liberty and State

    Oakeshott, Hayek and Schmitt on the Rule of Law

    Edited by David Dyzenhaus, Thomas Poole ...
    Oakeshott, Hayek and Schmitt are associated with a conservative reaction to the 'progressive' forces of the twentieth century. Each was an acute analyst of the juristic form of the modern state and the relationship of that form to the idea of liberty under a system of public, general law. Hayek had the highest regard for Schmitt's understanding of the rule of law state despite Schmitt's hostility ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • The Bible on the Shakespearean Stage

    Cultures of Interpretation in Reformation England

    Edited by Thomas Fulton, Kristen Poole ...
    The Bible was everywhere in Shakespeare's England. Through sermons, catechisms, treatises, artwork, literature and, of course, biblical reading itself, the stories and language of the Bible pervaded popular and elite culture. In recent years, scholars have demonstrated how thoroughly biblical allusions saturate Shakespearean plays. But Shakespeare's audiences were not simply well versed in the ... Read more

    $122.99 CAD

  • Hobbes and the Law

    Edited by David Dyzenhaus, Thomas Poole ...
    Hobbes's political thought provokes a perennial fascination. It has become particularly prominent in recent years, with the surge of scholarly interest evidenced by a number of monographs in political theory and philosophy. At the same time, there has been a turn in legal scholarship towards political theory in a way that engages recognisably Hobbesian themes, for example the relationship between ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Facilitating Watershed Management

    Fostering Awareness and Stewardship

    by Robert M. Abbott, Carolyn A. Adams, Steven I. Apfelbaum, Sandra Brown, Joe Bonnell, Chester Bowling, Lisa Brukilacchio, Kathleen Bullard, Elizabeth Cavicchi, Mark Chandler, Betsy Damon, David F. Fletcher, Mags Harries, Lajos Héder, Jennifer Hill, James Landry, Ruth Lansford, Anne H. Mavor, David O. Mendelsohn, Suzanne Meyer, Peter H. North, Kathy Poole, Wendy Rains, Thomas Richman, Nancy Rottle, Hans Schreier, Robert J. Steedman, Paul Zandbergen ...
    Facilitating Watershed Management brings together myriad distinctive voices to create an experiential learning process drawn from the most important innovators in the field. Presenting an introduction to the diversity of tools (sociological, pedagogical, phenomenological) needed to implement watershed management in the real world trenches, the book helps move students and practitioners from being ... Read more

    $100.99 CAD

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  • Tyndale

    The Man Who Gave God an English Voice

    by David Teems ...
    It was an outlawed book, a text so dangerous "it could only be countered by the most vicious burnings, of books and men and women." But what book could incite such violence and bloodshed? The year is 1526. It is the age of Henry VIII and his tragic Anne Boleyn, of Martin Luther and Thomas More. The times are treacherous. The Catholic Church controls almost every aspect of English life, including ... Read more

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  • Killing Physicians

    Shakespeare's Blind Heroes and Reformation Saints

    by John J Norton ...
    Killing Physicians: Shakespeare's Blind Heroes and Reformation Saints is intended give its reader a street-level perspective of Shakespeare’s great tragedies and late plays.Diving into the social and theological tensions alive in sixteenth-century London neighborhoods, this book uncovers what may have been Shakespeare’s answer to a world fraught with political and religious controversy. ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • In the Beginning

    The Story of the King James Bible

    by Dr Alister E McGrath ...
    The King James Bible was a landmark in the history of the English language, and an inspiration to poets, dramatists, artists and politicians. Without the King James Bible there would have been no Paradise Lost, no Pilgrim's Progress, no Handel's Messiah. Yet more than a literary, even more than a religious influence, it was seen as a social, economic and political text. Those seeking to overthrow ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Milton

    Edited by Dennis Danielson ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    An accessible, helpful guide for any student of Milton, whether undergraduate or graduate, introducing readers to the scope of Milton's work, the richness of its historical relations, and the range of current approaches to it. This second edition contains several new and revised essays, reflecting increasing emphasis on Milton's politics, the social conditions of his authorship and the climate in ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Paradise Lost

    Edited by Louis Schwartz ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Fifteen short, accessible essays exploring the most important topics and themes in John Milton's masterpiece, Paradise Lost. The essays invite readers to begin their own independent exploration of the poem by equipping them with useful background knowledge, introducing them to key passages, and acquainting them with the current state of critical debates. Chapters are arranged to mirror the way the ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Shakespeare's Common Prayers

    The Book of Common Prayer and the Elizabethan Age

    by Daniel Swift ...
    Societies and entire nations draw their identities from certain founding documents, whether charters, declarations, or manifestos. The Book of Common Prayer figures as one of the most crucial in the history of the English-speaking peoples. First published in 1549 to make accessible the devotional language of the late Henry the VIII's new church, the prayer book was a work of monumental religious, ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD