An innovative examination of the law's treatment of property, this student textbook provides a readable account of general property law principles. It draws on a wide range of materials on property rights in general, and the English property law system in particular, looking at all kinds of property, not just land. It includes the core legal source materials in property law along with excerpts from social science literature, legal theory, and economics, many of which are not easily accessible to law students. These materials are accompanied by a critical commentary, as well as notes,...
An innovative examination of the law's treatment of property, this student textbook provides a readable account of general property law principles. It...
Based on a true story, Not A Day Passes spans a period of nearly sixty years commencing in the midst of the Second World War. This poignant human-interest story creates an emotionally complex tapestry as it explores societys changing attitudes towards women, mental illness, illegitimacy and divorce. 1943 and in Plymouth, Devon, feisty but sheltered Kate Aldworth craves independence from her loving but crushingly conservative parents. In Malta, sultry Dutch nanny Evelien van der Post is living life to the full, despite the ravages of war. Three years later both young women are happily married...
Based on a true story, Not A Day Passes spans a period of nearly sixty years commencing in the midst of the Second World War. This poignant human-inte...
Design Anthropology brings together leading international design theorists, consultants and anthropologists to explore the changing object culture of the 21st century.
Decades ago, product designers used basic market research to fine-tune their designs for consumer success. Today the design process has been radically transformed, with the user center-stage in the design process. From design ethnography to culture probing, innovative designers are employing anthropological methods to elicit the meanings rather than the mere form and function of objects. This important volume...
Design Anthropology brings together leading international design theorists, consultants and anthropologists to explore the changing object c...
Emigre Cultures in Design and Architecture considers the lasting contribution made by Central European emigre designers, such as Edward Bernays, Eve Zeisel, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Victor Papanek and Otto and Marie Neurath, to 20th century American design and architecture.
Contributors to this important volume address the intellectual and artistic formation of emigre designers in their home countries, and examine how they drew on networks of emigre and exiled designers in the United States in order to develop a design culture in mid-century America that was humanist, progressive...
Emigre Cultures in Design and Architecture considers the lasting contribution made by Central European emigre designers, such as Edward Bern...
