The Illustrated Guide to Criminal Procedure, Vol I: Parts 1-3, Including the Fourth Amendment Flowchart, Burney Nathaniel

Автор: Claire Harman
Название: Fanny Burney
ISBN: 0006550363 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780006550365
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
Цена: 13190.00 T
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Описание: On 13 June 1767, her 15th birthday, Fanny Burney made a bonfire of all her works, "with the sincere intention to extinguish for ever in their ashes her scribbling propensity". Fanny was genuinely worried that she might turn into an author, a fate incompatible - for a woman - with respectability. Her hope was in vain. Not only was she to write four novels ("Evelina", "Cecilia", "Camilla" and "The Wanderer"), but she also kept a voluminous diary for the next 70 years and was a prolific letter-writer. Daughter of the eminent music historian Dr Charles Burney; editor of his infamous Memoirs; friend of Sheridan, Garrick, Burke, Boswell and Johnson; second keeper of the robes to George III's Queen Charlotte; wife to a refugee French aristocrat; detained for ten years in revolutionary France; victim of a mastectomy without anaesthetic. Fanny Burney's life was as eventful as any novel. This text is the biography of Fanny Burney, one of the the first truly literary woman novelists in English, who exercised a profound influence on Jane Austen and whose own life, spanning the years 1752 to 1840, embraced the worlds of music, literature, politics, English Court life and the French Revolution.

Автор: Burney Ian A.
Название: Poison, Detection and the Victorian Imagination
ISBN: 0719087783 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780719087783
Издательство: NBN International
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Описание: A history of poisoning in the nineteenth century and in particular the case of Dr William Palmer, convicted of murder by poisoning, and how he baffled toxicologists, doctors, detectives and judges -- .

Автор: Abbas Shemeem Burney
Название: Pakistan`s Blasphemy Laws: From Islamic Empires to the Taliban
ISBN: 0292762127 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780292762121
Издательство: Wiley EDC
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Under the guise of Islamic law, the prophet Muhammad’s Islam, and the Qur’an, states such as Pakistan, Afghanistan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Bangladesh are using blasphemy laws to suppress freedom of speech. Yet the Prophet never tried or executed anyone for blasphemy, nor does the Qur’an authorize the practice. Asserting that blasphemy laws are neither Islamic nor Qur‘anic, Shemeem Burney Abbas traces the evolution of these laws from the Islamic empires that followed the death of the Prophet Muhammad to the present-day Taliban. Her pathfinding study on the shari’a and gender demonstrates that Pakistan’s blasphemy laws are the inventions of a military state that manipulates discourse in the name of Islam to exclude minorities, women, free thinkers, and even children from the rights of citizenship.

Abbas herself was persecuted under Pakistan’s blasphemy laws, so she writes from both personal experience and years of scholarly study. Her analysis exposes the questionable motives behind Pakistan’s blasphemy laws, which were resurrected during General Zia-ul-Haq’s regime of 1977–1988—motives that encompassed gaining geopolitical control of the region, including Afghanistan, in order to weaken the Soviet Union. Abbas argues that these laws created a state-sponsored “infidel” ideology that now affects global security as militant groups such as the Taliban justify violence against all “infidels” who do not subscribe to their interpretation of Islam. She builds a strong case for the suspension of Pakistan’s blasphemy laws and for a return to the Prophet’s peaceful vision of social justice.

Автор: Frances Burney
Название: Journals and Letters
ISBN: 0140436243 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780140436242
Издательство: Random House - Penguin
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Описание: From her youth in London high society to a period in the court of Queen Charlotte and her years interned in France with her husband Alexandre d`Arblay during the Napoleonic Wars, she captures the changing times around her. She includes portraits such as the mad` King George, Samuel Johnson, Sir Joshua Reynolds, David Garrick, and more.