Contract Law: Principles and Context presents the development of contract law through a considered selection of cases that are both authoritative and used as factual examples to explain the law. The text introduces readers to the nature and range of contracts, the process for making a contract, rights and duties, adjustments to contracts, vitiating factors and unfair conduct, ending contracts, and remedies and restitution. The text considers the historical development of contracts through ...

As threats to the security of information pervade the fabric of everyday life, A Vulnerable System describes how, even as the demand for information security increases, the needs of society are not being met. The result is that the confidentiality of our personal data, the integrity of our elections, and the stability of foreign relations between countries are increasingly at risk.Andrew J. Stewart convincingly shows that ...

Andrew J. Stewart convincingly shows that emergency software patches and new security products cannot provide the solution to threats such as computer hacking, viruses, software vulnerabilities, and electronic spying. Profound underlying structural problems must first be understood, confronted, and then addressed.A Vulnerable System delivers a long view of the history of information security, beginning with the creation of the first digital computers during the Cold War. F...

Acid Testimonies is a collection of thirty-five poems organised into six interconnected movements exploring complacency, social degradation, sexuality, institutional power, historical recurrence and metaphysical reflection.Moving from the intimate textures of everyday life towards broader questions of civilisation and identity, the collection examines recurring patterns of authority, alienation, aspiration and belief. The poems inhabit spaces between observation and testim...

The Patient is a philosophical chamber play set within a yellow room governed by invisible barriers, recurring newspapers, altered states of waking and sleep, and a logic that is never fully explained.Bentham and Giene inhabit a space in which time appears to repeat, language becomes unstable, and the smallest change acquires enormous significance. A mushroom grows and dies. Black flowers emerge from mouths. A newspaper continually reappears with new headlines. Commands ar...

Fragments from the Leper Colony is a novel of consciousness told through 131 interlocking fragments.Its unnamed narrator inhabits the Colony: a world of unemployment, meaningless labour, rented rooms, political meetings, television schedules, computer courses, cultural debris and relationships that repeatedly fail to provide connection. The Colony is not merely a location. It is a condition entered when time loses its shape, meaningful work disappears and the future contra...

Delve into the fascinating intersection of nature, art, and human perception with Stewart Andrew McDowall in Beauty and the Beast: An Essay in Evolutionary Aesthetic, an audiobook that explores the origins and development of aesthetic appreciation through the lens of evolution. McDowall examines how beauty, taste, and artistic sensibility have been shaped by natural selection and human experience, offering listeners a unique blend of science, philosophy, a...

An essay examining beauty through evolutionary theory, psychology, and aesthetic philosophy.

Raul has a destiny: claim his birthright as the last surviving heir of King Balbainus and lead his conquered people to freedom.The signs are all there—his birthmark, in the shape of Balbainus’ halfmoon and dagger sigil, the gemstone-hilted sword he found in his parents’ inn, and the sudden influx of illegal books featuring the late king’s lineage. Nevermind that his ma is a hidden scribe writing a play about Balbainus’ return, or that his da, a hardened warrior, ha...

I guess trying to catch the bus with your laces undone isn't such a smart decision after all…One fatal collision later, and I'm facing my judgment. As it turns out, I've been a lazy sob, and my short, uneventful life of playing games and getting up late wasn't worth much. And so I don't qualify to move on to the afterlife.I try to argue to the goddess in front of me that I do have skills, that it was hard work playing those simulation and management games. ...

The English Electric Canberra first came into production in the late 1940s and has since played a hugely significant part in world events. In Canberra Boys, Andrew Brookes takes us through its rich history with the help of those who operated this magnificent machine. Contributors include Roly "Bee" Beamont, the English Electric test pilot who first flew the aircraft in 1949.As part of the expansion of the RAF's Bomber Command in the 1950s, RAF Binbrook was the first statio...

How do people perceive the land around them, and how is that perception changed by history? This book explores this question from an anthropological angle, assessing the connections between place, space, identity, nationalism, history and memory in a variety of different settings around the world. Taking historical change and memory as key themes, it is a broad study that will appeal to a readership across the social sciences.Contributors from North America, Australia, New Zealand,...