This new dictionary is the most up-to-date A to Z of construction, surveying, and civil engineering terms and definitions available. Covering all core aspects of construction and related areas, it provides a one-stop reference for construction students and professionals.
David Johnston Books
David Johnston crafts imaginative worlds and intricate narratives in his spare time, offering readers journeys that are both unique and unexpected, regardless of length. His work, often exploring science fiction, horror, thriller, and drama, is characterized by its originality and its ability to immediately captivate the audience. Critics have noted his compelling storytelling and the immediate desire to know 'what happens next' after engaging with his tales.
The Cambridge Companion to Roman Law
- 554 pages
- 20 hours of reading
This book reflects the wide range of current scholarship on Roman law. The essays, newly-commissioned for this volume, cover the sources of evidence for classical Roman law; the elements of private law, as well as criminal and public law; and the second life of Roman law in Byzantium, in civil and canon law, and in political discourse from AD 1100 to the present. Roman law nowadays is studied in many different ways, which is reflected in the diversity of approaches in the essays. Some focus on how the law evolved in ancient Rome, others on its place in the daily life of the Roman citizen, still others on how Roman legal concepts and doctrines have been deployed through the ages. All of them are responses to one and the same thing: the sheer intellectual vitality of Roman law, which has secured its place as a central element in the intellectual tradition and history of the West.
This book explains the rules of Roman law in the light of the society and economy in which it operated. The main topics discussed are: the family and inheritance; property and the use of land; commercial transactions and the management of businesses; litigation and the assertion of legal rights.
Roman Law in Context
- 236 pages
- 9 hours of reading
This brief survey of Roman law in practice sets the law in its social and economic context, avoiding all unnecessary legal technicalities, and shows its importance for a wider understanding of Roman history. The second edition has been extensively updated and includes a new chapter on crime and punishment.
El concierto de San Ovidio
- 208 pages
- 8 hours of reading
El Concierto de San Ovidio viene a replantear el tema de la ceguera, ahora en circunstancias distintas de las de En la ardiente oscuridad. Por otra parte, reabsorbe el tema social situandolo en un plano que hasta aqui Buero Vallejo no habia abordado explicitamente: el de la lucha de clases. En tanto que nueva incursion en el ambito de lo tragico, avanza ademas en una direccion que incluye una dimension fundamental de lo grotesco.El Concierto de San Ovidio viene a replantear el tema de la ceguera, ahora en circunstancias distintas de las de En la ardiente oscuridad. Por otra parte, reabsorbe el tema social situandolo en un plano que hasta aqui Buero Vallejo no habia abordado explicitamente: el de la lucha de clases. En tanto que nueva incursion en el ambito de lo tragico, avanza ademas en una direccion que incluye una dimension fundamental de lo grotesco.