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  • Tantric Revisionings

    New Understandings of Tibetan Buddhism and Indian Religion

    by Geoffrey Samuel ...
    Tantric Revisionings presents stimulating new perspectives on Hindu and Buddhist religion, particularly their Tantric versions, in India, Tibet or in modern Western societies. Geoffrey Samuel adopts an historically and textually informed anthropological approach, seeking to locate and understand religion in its social and cultural context. The question of the relation between 'popular' (folk, ... Read more

    $98.99 CAD

  • A Critical Approach to Introductions to Law

    by Geoffrey Samuel ...
    In this highly original book Geoffrey Samuel investigates and reviews introductory books to law, with particular emphasis on those explaining legal reasoning and legal methods. This book assesses the impact of introductions to law in the context of legal education, theory, taxonomy, concepts and institutions. It also explores whether lessons can be learned from the way introductions are framed in ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Principia Iuris

    A Historical and Comparative Introduction to the English Common Law

    by Geoffrey Samuel ...
    This book provides a strong introduction to the principal domains of legal knowledge by examining a structured list of legal maxims, many originating in medieval Roman and canon law. Oriented by historical and methodological approaches, it explores legal thought and reasoning through a comparative lens.Geoffrey Samuel explains the differences between common law and civil continental traditions, ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • The Origins of Yoga and Tantra

    Indic Religions to the Thirteenth Century

    by Geoffrey Samuel ...
    Yoga, tantra and other forms of Asian meditation are practised in modernized forms throughout the world today, but most introductions to Hinduism or Buddhism tell only part of the story of how they developed. This book is an interpretation of the history of Indic religions up to around 1200 CE, with particular focus on the development of yogic and tantric traditions. It assesses how much we really ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Law of Obligations & Legal Remedies

    by Geoffrey Samuel ...
    This book examines the notion of a law of obligations as a conceptual category in itself; and, in doing this, it presents the foundational material in a context that draws on some comparative and theoretical ideas while, at the same time, emphasising the special characteristics of the common law.The book is specifically designed to act as an introduction to the legal research skills of reasoning ... Read more

    $119.99 CAD

  • A Short Introduction to Judging and to Legal Reasoning

    by Geoffrey Samuel ...
    This Short Introduction looks at judging and reasoning from three perspectives: what legal reasoning has been; what legal reasoning is from the view of judges and jurists; and what legal reasoning is from the view of a social scientist epistemologist or humanities specialist.Geoffrey Samuel begins by identifying the main institutional focal points of legal reasoning (ius, regulae iuris, ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Rethinking Legal Reasoning

    by Geoffrey Samuel ...
    Series series Rethinking Law series
    ‘'Rethinking’' legal reasoning seems a bold aim given the large amount of literature devoted to this topic. In this thought-provoking book, Geoffrey Samuel proposes a different way of approaching legal reasoning by examining the topic through the context of legal knowledge (epistemology). What is it to have knowledge of legal reasoning?At a more specific level the pursuit of this understanding is ... Read more

    $66.99 CAD

  • An Introduction to Comparative Law Theory and Method

    by Professor Geoffrey Samuel ...
    Series series European Academy of Legal Theory Series
    This short book on comparative law theory and method is designed primarily for postgraduate research students whose work involves comparison between legal systems. It is, accordingly, a book on research methods, although it will also be of relevance to all students (undergraduate and postgraduate) taking courses in comparative law and to academics entering the field of comparison. The substance of ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Epistemology and Method in Law

    by Geoffrey Samuel ...
    Series series Applied Legal Philosophy
    This book seeks to question the widely held assumption in Europe that to have knowledge of law is simply to have knowledge of rules. There is a knowledge dimension beyond the symbolic which reaches right into the way facts are perceived, constructed and deconstructed. In support of this thesis the book examines, generally, the question of what it is to have knowledge of law; and this examination ... Read more

    $108.99 CAD

  • Producing Legal Knowledge

    Comparative Methods, Models and Schemes

    by Horatia Muir Watt, Geoffrey Samuel ...
    This thought-provoking book opens up a distinctive and original framework of analysis of the relationship between legal methodologies and the social and human sciences. Rich in implications both for comparative legal theory and for the understanding of legal reasoning in practice, it adopts a critical epistemological perspective by enlarging the focus of comparative legal studies and allowing for ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Collected Writings of Giles Clark

    Recycling Madness with Jung, Spinoza and Santayana

    Edited by Judith Pickering, Geoffrey Samuel ...
    This timeless and thought-provoking volume makes available the collected writings of Giles Clark (1947–2019), whose original clinical theory constitutes a major contribution to the areas of analytical psychology, psychoanalysis and philosophy.Clark’s work influenced generations of analytical psychologists, psychoanalytic psychotherapists and trainees in England, Australia and elsewhere. His oeuvre ... Read more

    $56.99 CAD

  • Another End of the World is Possible

    Living the Collapse (and Not Merely Surviving It)

    by Pablo Servigne, Gauthier Chapelle, Raphaël Stevens ...
    Translated by Geoffrey Samuel ...
    The critical situation in which our planet finds itself is no longer in doubt. Some things are already collapsing while others are beginning to do so, increasing the possibility of a global catastrophe that would mean the end of the world as we know it.As individuals, we are faced with a daily deluge of bad news about the worsening situation, preparing ourselves to live with years of deep ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD