This book is an exercise in "evolutionary psychology": the attempt to understand normal social motives as products of the process of evolution by natural selection. There is simply no question that this is the process that created the human psyche, and yet psychologists seldom ask what implications this fact might have for their discipline. We think that the implications are many and profound, touching on such matters as parental affection and rejection, sibling rivalry, sex differences in interests and inclinations, social comparisons and achievement motives, our sense of justice, lifespan developmental changes in attitudes, and that phenomenology of the self.
Primarily focused on idioms and other figurative phraseology, Colouring Meaning describes how the meanings of established phrases are enhanced, refocused and modified in everyday language use. Unlike many studies of creativity in language, this book-length survey addresses the matter at several levels, from the purely linguistic level of collocation, through its abstractions in colligation and semantic preference, to semantic prosody and connotation. This journey through both linguistic and cognitive levels involves the examination of habitual language and its exploitations, both mundane and colourful, explaining the phenomena observed in terms of current psycholinguistic research as well as corpus linguistics theory and analysis. The relationships between meaning in text and meaning in the mind are discussed at length and extensively illustrated with worked case studies to offer the reader a comprehensive overview of metaphorical and other secondary meanings as they emerge in real-world communicative situations.
The Department of Public Prosecution and Judicial Police in Cameroon, while tracing the historical background of the Legal Department, carefully walks you through its institutional framework and governing principles, while highlighting its omnipresence at all phases of the procedure (police investigation, preliminary inquiry, hearing before the Courts as well as in the execution of Court Judgments). The said ubiquitous presence is accentuated by the lawmakers who in some instances render it not only necessary but mandatory as well. Curiously, the Department of Public Prosecution is presented as that principal party who is not responsible for malicious prosecution. Chief Justice Bechem Eyong Eneke President Court of Appeal, Buea, South West Region &&&&& This book is incontrovertibly a major contribution towards the development of Cameroons legal system. It presents the Public Prosecution Department (Legal Department), incarnated by the Public Prosecutor (State Counsel), as one of the rare omnipresent actors in criminal proceedings whose presence in all phases of the criminal procedure is almost mandatory, while her role is primordial. It presents a cogent, critical, and lucid analysis of the multi-dimensional institution embodied by the State Counsel from a historical perspective and within the context of the CPC. In a clear and simple style, the book provides practical solutions to diverse theoretical and practical issues faced by legal practitioners in the application of the CPC pertaining to the institution the Legal Department. The discussion is incisive, meticulous, and buttressed with statutory provisions and available cases. Bih Che épouse Anye Nde Abegley State Counsel, Court of First Instance Bali, North West Region
In this interdisciplinary exploration of the cultural and social history of early 19th-century France, Patricia Mainardi focuses on what was considered a major social problem of the time - adultery. In a period when expectations about marriage were changing, the problems of husbands, wives and lovers became a major theme in theatre, literature and the visual arts. The author demonstrates that this intense interest was historically grounded in the post-revolutionary collision between the new concept of the individual's right to happiness and the traditional prerogatives of family and state. duty or happiness more important? Are arranged marriages doomed to be empty of love and poisoned by adultery? Should adulterous wives and their lovers be punished while husbands may commit adultery with impunity? Out of such legal, social and cultural debates ultimately emerged modern bourgeois family values, Mainardi argues. And she illuminates how art, in all its varieties, both influences and is influenced by social change.
In this third installment of The Graziano Series, the author focuses on the primal urges and the dark, sensual scenarios inspired by the subject's virility and physical presence. **This book contains adult themes and language and may not be suitable for readers under 18 years of age.
This book offers a thorough, critical, and accessible analysis of the American Convention on Human Rights which is the main human rights treaty of the Americas. The authors closely review the jurisprudence and the binding judgments of the two institutions charged with interpreting the Convention: The Inter-American Court of Human Rights and The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.They focus on the rights most developed by the Court and Commission, namely the rights to equality, life, humane treatment, personal liberty, property, due process and judicial protection, as well as the freedom of expression and reparations. They examine the case law with a victim-centered lens while identifying key jurisprudential developments, discussing critical areas that lack consistency and rigor, and proposing alternative conceptual approaches. Each chapter contains an Introduction to compare the Convention right's formulation with equivalent rights in other major international and regional treaties; a background section to consider the right's negotiation history; a Scope of Protection section to analyze the right's provisions (paragraph-by-paragraph or topic-by-topic); and lastly, a Limitations section, if applicable, to study any limitations to the right. In addition, the book's Introduction presents an up-to-date overview of the dynamic Inter-American Human Rights System, discussing the System's legal instruments, major institutions, significant impact, key developments, and current challenges.
Although the Schengen Convention has been in force since March 1995, no book has to date attempted an interpretation of the three authentic versions of the Convention in the light of a comparative study of applicable norms in the five original Schengen countries. This book is the result of a five-year study of the law applicable to the police in five countries (Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxembourg, France and Germany) and the possible impact of the differences on the application of the Schengen Convention. Moreover, the European Convention on Human Rights is used as a standard minimum for the interpretation. This book is an important tool for all practitioners in the field of cross-border criminal procedure law.
