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Dry Mouth, The Malevolent Symptom - - Bog - John Wiley and Sons Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Invention of Custom - Francesca Iurlaro - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

The Invention of Custom - Francesca Iurlaro - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

The concept of customary international law, although differently formulated, is already present in early modern European debates on natural law and the law of nations. However, no scholarly monograph has, until now, addressed the relationship between custom and the European natural law and ius gentium tradition. This book tells that neglected story, and offers a solid conceptual framework to contextualize and understand the ''problematic of custom'', namely how to identify its normative content. Natural law doctrines, and the different ways in which they help construct human reason, provided custom with such normative content. This normative content consists of a set of fundamental moral values that help identify the status of custom as either a fundamental feature or an original source of ius gentium. This book explores what cultural values and practices facilitated the emergence of custom and rendered it into as a source of the law of nations, and how they did so. Two crucial issues form the core of the book''s analysis. Firstly, it qualifies the nature of the interrelation between natural law and ius gentium, explaining why it matters in relation to our understanding of the idea of custom. Second, the book claims that the process of custom formation as a source of law calls into question the role of the authority of history. The interpretation of the past through this approach can thus be described as one of ''invention''.

DKK 975.00
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On Custom in the Economy - Ekkehart Schlicht - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

On Custom in the Economy - Ekkehart Schlicht - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

The aim of this book is to re-establish custom in economics. Current economic theorizing largely neglects the customary forces that underpin market exchange. Economic sociologists have stressed this repeatedly by referring to the ''embeddedness'' of all kinds of economic processes. It is true that market processes do hinge on elements of custom, but custom is in turn moulded by economic processes. This other causal direction needs more attention than it has hitherto received. The way modern institutional economics has developed points to the same deficiency. Institutional economics initially tried to analyse economic institutions as arising from market processes and competition whilst avoiding reference to all elements of custom, but it became increasingly clear that answers obtained in this fashion were critically dependent on tacit underlying assumptions about the customary infrastructure.Another current strand of thought, notably originating with game theory, has tried to understand the emergence of customs by viewing them as routines that have been adopted because of their success. This approach views customs essentially as conventions that solve coordination problems. It is driven by the economic paradigm that interprets behaviour as fully reducible to the interplay of (given) preferences and constraints whilst neglecting the direct motivational impact of custom. The second aim of the book is thus to systematically harmonize the motivational significance of custom with institutional theorizing. The re-establishment of custom in economics will provide foundations for institutional economics which reduce the arbitrariness of current thinking.

DKK 875.00
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Talkin' With Your Mouth Full - - Bog - Duke University Press - Plusbog.dk

Talkin' With Your Mouth Full - - Bog - Duke University Press - Plusbog.dk

Steve Fagin is an artist whose videos incorporate, challenge, and cross over into the realm of literary and cultural studies. Talkin’ with Your Mouth Full includes not only scripts of Fagin’s works but critical responses to—and meditations on—a variety of his influential videos by a distinguished, if intriguingly disparate, group of artists and scholars. Combining elements of criticism with various modes of artistic expression, these responses take the form of reviews, letters, interviews, and in one case an imaginary TV programming schedule. Interspersed with—and sometimes literally interrupting—the video scripts, these contributions interact with one another on multiple levels and complement Fagin’s scripts. Historical, political, and theoretical issues dovetail, ricochet, and interplay in this book, revealing a multiplicity of voices, concerns, and cultural revelations. Unique in its structure and intellectual approach, Talkin’ with Your Mouth Full will appeal equally to those who have seen Fagin’s videos and those who have not. Students of art history and cultural critique, and anyone interested in the ongoing dialogue between artists and theorists, will find particular value in this book.Contributors. Gregg Bordowitz, Constance DeJong, Leslie Dick, Steve Fagin, Barry Gifford, Victoria Gill, Bill Horrigan, Bertha Jottar, Ivone Margulies, Patricia Mellencamp, Margaret Morse, Constance Penley, Vicente L. Rafael, Mark Rappaport, Andrew Ross, Vivian Sobchack, Trinh T. Minh-ha, John Welchman, Peter Wollen

DKK 816.00
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Islamic Jurisprudence and the Role of Custom - Sumeyra Yakar - Bog - Gorgias Press - Plusbog.dk

Towards the River’s Mouth (Verso la foce), by Gianni Celati - - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

Towards the River’s Mouth (Verso la foce), by Gianni Celati - - Bog - Lexington Books - Plusbog.dk

Italian writer and filmmaker Gianni Celati’s 1989 philosophical travelogue Towards the River’s Mouth explores perception, memory, place and space as it recounts a series of journeys across the Po River Valley in northern Italy. The book seeks to document the “new Italian landscape” where divisions between the urban and rural were being blurred into what Celati terms “a new variety of countryside where one breathes an air of urban solitude.” Celati traveled by train, by bus, and on foot, at times with photographer Luigi Ghirri, at others exploring on his own without predetermined itineraries, taking notes on the places he encountered, watching and listening to people in stations, fields, bars, houses, squares, and hotels. In this way the book took shape as Celati traveled and wrote, gathering and rewriting his notes into “stories of observation” (9). Celati attempts to find meaning by seeking the uncertain limits of our ability to discern everyday surroundings. “Every observation,” as he puts it, “needs liberate itself from the familiar codes it carries, to go adrift in the middle of all things not understood, in order to arrive at an outlet, where it must feel lost.” At the forefront of the then-nascent spatial turn in the humanities, Towards the River’s Mouth is a key text of what in recent years has been variously termed literary cartography, literary geography, and spatial poetics. Its call to carefully and affectionately examine our surroundings while attempting to step back from habitual ways of perceiving and moving through space, has resonated as much with literary scholars and other writers as with geographers and architects. By now a classic of twentieth-century Italian literature, it has in recent years garnered increasing attention, especially with the growth of ecocriticism and new materialism within the environmental humanities. This edition, translated into English for the first time, features an introduction that places Towards the River’s Mouth in the context of Celati’s other work, and a selection of ten scholarly essays by prominent figures in comparative literature and Italian studies.

DKK 848.00
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Bad Mouth - Robert M. Adams - Bog - University of California Press - Plusbog.dk

Bad Mouth - Robert M. Adams - Bog - University of California Press - Plusbog.dk

Bad Mouth: Fugitive Papers on the Dark Side examines the pervasive and complex ways in which language is used to harm, distort, and alienate. Through a series of essays, the book explores the concept of "counter-language"—words deployed as weapons to insult, deceive, and subvert standards of truth and decency. The collection broadens to examine how these linguistic tendencies mirror and contribute to modern cultural shifts, where the once exceptional use of provocative or offensive language has become increasingly normalized. Beyond language, the book delves into the aesthetics of ugliness and its metaphors—rags, garbage, and excrement—as symbols of a broader cultural fixation on the grotesque. The author reflects on a significant transformation in art, literature, and everyday discourse over the last fifty years. What was once a minority mode of offense and alienation in art is now dominant, driven by a society increasingly desensitized to shock and degradation. The book resists offering definitive explanations for this shift but presents it as a symptom of cultural upheaval. Whether this trend represents a genuine expansion of expressive possibilities or a descent into sensationalism is left open to interpretation. Ultimately, Bad Mouth challenges readers to confront the evolving vocabulary of modern life and its implications for self-definition, truth, and the human experience. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1977.

DKK 971.00
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Nigerian Land Law and Custom - T. Olawale Elias - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Concealed Influence of Custom - Jay L. Garfield - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

The Concealed Influence of Custom - Jay L. Garfield - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

Jay L. Garfield defends two exegetical theses regarding Hume''s Treatise on Human Nature. The first is that Book II is the theoretical foundation of the Treatise. Second, Garfield argues that we cannot understand Hume''s project without an appreciation of his own understanding of custom, and in particular, without an appreciation of the grounding of his thought about custom in the legal theory and debates of his time. Custom is the source of Hume''s thoughts about normativity, not only in ethics and in political theory, but also in epistemological, linguistics, and scientific practice- and is the source of his insight that our psychological and social natures are so inextricably linked. The centrality of custom and the link between the psychological and the social are closely connected, which is why Garfield begins with Book II. There are four interpretative perspectives at work in this volume: one is a naturalistic skeptical interpretation of Hume''s Treatise; a second is the foregrounding of Book II of the Treatise as foundational for Books I and III. A third is the consideration of the Treatise in relation to Hume''s philosophical antecedents (particularly Sextus, Bayle, Hutcheson, Shaftesbury, and Mandeville), as well as eighteenth century debates about the status of customary law, with one eye on its sequellae in the work of Kant, the later Wittgenstein, and in contemporary cognitive science. The fourth is the Buddhist tradition in which many of the ideas Hume develops are anticipated and articulated in somewhat different ways. Garfield presents Hume as a naturalist, a skeptic and as, above all, a communitarian. In offering this interpretation, he provides an understanding of the text as a whole in the context of the literature to which it responded, and in the context of the literature it inspired.

DKK 774.00
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The Mouth That Begs - Gang Yue - Bog - Duke University Press - Plusbog.dk

The Mouth That Begs - Gang Yue - Bog - Duke University Press - Plusbog.dk

The Chinese ideogram chi is far richer in connotation than the equivalent English verb “to eat.” Chi can also be read as “the mouth that begs for food and words.” A concept manifest in the twentieth-century Chinese political reality of revolution and massacre, chi suggests a narrative of desire that moves from lack to satiation and back again. In China such fundamental acts as eating or refusing to eat can carry enormous symbolic weight. This book examines the twentieth-century Chinese political experience as it is represented in literature through hunger, cooking, eating, and cannibalizing. At the core of Gang Yue’s argument lies the premise that the discourse surrounding the most universal of basic human acts—eating—is a culturally specific one. Yue’s discussion begins with a brief look at ancient Chinese alimentary writing and then moves on to its main concern: the exploration and textual analysis of themes of eating in modern Chinese literature from the May Fourth period through the post-Tiananmen era. The broad historical scope of this volume illustrates how widely applicable eating-related metaphors can be. For instance, Yue shows how cannibalism symbolizes old China under European colonization in the writing of Lu Xun. In Mo Yan’s 1992 novel Liquorland , however, cannibalism becomes the symbol of overindulgent consumerism. Yue considers other writers as well, such as Shen Congwen, Wang Ruowang, Lu Wenfu, Zhang Zianliang, Ah Cheng, Zheng Yi, and Liu Zhenyun. A special section devoted to women writers includes a chapter on Xiao Hong, Wang Anyi, and Li Ang, and another on the Chinese-American women writers Jade Snow Wong, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Amy Tan. Throughout, the author compares and contrasts the work of these writers with similarly themed Western literature, weaving a personal and political semiotics of eating. The Mouth That Begs will interest sinologists, literary critics, anthropologists, cultural studies scholars, and everyone curious about the semiotics of food.

DKK 884.00
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Kafkaesque Laws, Nisour Square, and the Trials of the Former Blackwater Guards - Marouf A. Hasian - Bog - Fairleigh Dickinson University Press -

Torah in the Mouth - Martin S. Jaffee - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

Custom and Politics in Urban Africa - Abner Cohen - Bog - University of California Press - Plusbog.dk

Custom and Politics in Urban Africa - Abner Cohen - Bog - University of California Press - Plusbog.dk

Custom & Politics in Urban Africa: A Study of Hausa Migrants in Yoruba Towns offers a detailed examination of the intersection of custom, politics, and long-distance trade within the urban settings of West Africa. This scholarly work focuses on the Hausa communities in Yoruba towns, exploring how these migrant groups maintain cultural distinctiveness while adapting to new political and economic realities. Through an intensive study of the Hausa diaspora, the book highlights how traditional norms, values, and ceremonial practices are used to establish informal political organizations. These structures not only safeguard economic monopolies but also navigate the complexities of ethnic interaction and political power in rapidly evolving urban environments. Based on extensive fieldwork conducted in Nigeria from 1962 to 1963, the monograph provides a micro-historical perspective, tracing the sociopolitical and economic dynamics of Hausa communities within the broader context of post-colonial change. By analyzing processes such as ethnic reorganization, religious transformations, and the intricate workings of long-distance trade in cattle and kola, the book illuminates how ethnic groups use custom as a political strategy in diverse settings. Drawing on comparative analyses, the work contributes to understanding political ethnicity as a global phenomenon and positions social anthropology as integral to the study of power, identity, and societal transformation in modern contexts. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1969.

DKK 820.00
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Custom, Law, and Monarchy - Marie Seong Hak Kim - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Tort, Custom, and Karma - David Engel - Bog - Stanford University Press - Plusbog.dk

The Politics of Custom - - Bog - The University of Chicago Press - Plusbog.dk

Fanuc CNC Custom Macros - Peter Smid - Bog - Industrial Press Inc.,U.S. - Plusbog.dk

The Philosophy of Customary Law - James Bernard Murphy - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

The Philosophy of Customary Law - James Bernard Murphy - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

Although many modern philosophers of law describe custom as merely a minor source of law, formal law is actually only one source of the legal customs that govern us. Many laws grow out of custom, and one measure of a law''s success is by its creation of an enduring legal custom. Yet custom and customary law have long been neglected topics in unsettled jurisprudential debate. Smaller concerns, such as whether customs can be legitimized by practice or by stipulation, stipulated by an authority or by general consent, or dictated by law or vice versa, lead to broader questions of law and custom as alternative or mutually exclusive modes of social regulation, and whether rational reflection in general ought to replace sub-rational prejudice. Can legal rules function without customary usage, and does custom even matter in society? The Philosophy of Customary Law brings greater theoretical clarity to the often murky topic of custom by showing that custom must be analyzed into two more logically basic concepts: convention and habit. James Bernard Murphy explores the nature and significance of custom and customary law, and how conventions relate to habits in the four classic theories of Aristotle, Francisco Suarez, Jeremy Bentham, and James C. Carter. He establishes that customs are conventional habits and habitual conventions, and allows us to better grasp the many roles that custom plays in a legal system by offering a new foundation of understanding for these concepts.

DKK 1040.00
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Advanced Digital System Design using SoC FPGAs - Ross K. Snider - Bog - Springer International Publishing AG - Plusbog.dk

Custom Search - Discover more: - Irina Shamaeva - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Custom Search - Discover more: - Irina Shamaeva - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Google’s Programmable Search Engines (PSEs, previously called Custom Search Engines) provide search opportunities that are unavailable with any other tool. PSEs have advanced settings and search operators that are not supported by "regular" Google. With PSEs, it is possible to perform filtered searches within parts of the web as if they were databases! While lots of professionals use existing PSEs to source for talent or with other research goals, few people have experience creating them. Even fewer know about powerful PSE-only search operators. The main reason PSEs are not as popular as they should be is that it is not easy to get educated on PSE creation. There is little information online and no books (other than this one) on the subject. Even less info is available on the "structured" operators that allow for filtered searches. The first of its kind, this book hopes to popularize these fun and powerful tools so that many more people can include PSEs in their work. Key Features: - - A detailed introduction to creating PSEs, including info absent in Google’s help - - - A "hack" for creating PSEs that look for profiles in seconds - - - An introduction to advanced PSE-only search operators allowed to perform filtered searches of parts of the web - - - A "hack" for expanding Google’s search limits to 500 terms - - - Use cases, examples, and approaches that would be educational for those doing online research - This book will be of interest to researchers, OSINT specialists, investigative journalists, Competitive Intelligence people, recruiters, and Sourcers, to name a few categories, and to the general public interested in how to search better.

DKK 1042.00
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The Custom House of Desire - - Bog - University of California Press - Plusbog.dk

The Custom House of Desire - - Bog - University of California Press - Plusbog.dk

The Custom-House of Desire: A Half-Century of Surrealist Stories is an intriguing anthology that explores the breadth and depth of surrealist storytelling over a fifty-year period. Through the lens of both imagination and desire, the collection reveals how surrealist writers challenge conventional narrative forms and literary genres to uncover the marvelous—a perspective on reality that transcends ordinary perception. This anthology presents stories written in French by authors from diverse national and cultural backgrounds, such as Fernando Arrabal, Joyce Mansour, and André Pieyre de Mandiargues, showcasing the movement’s global influence and thematic diversity. The selected works range from fully structured tales to experimental narratives, reflecting surrealism’s disdain for traditional literary conventions and its relentless pursuit of the ineffable. The book invites readers to engage with surrealist writing on their own terms, offering a flexible arrangement of stories that encourage exploration based on curiosity, themes, or the appeal of individual authors. Themes such as humor, terror, eroticism, and the surrealist marvelous weave through the collection, each serving as an entry point into the movement’s radical reimagining of storytelling. Through these narratives, readers encounter the surrealist’s rejection of literary orthodoxy and aesthetic formalism in favor of a poetic vision driven by imagination and boundless desire. Whether exploring the disorienting humor of Marianne van Hirtum or the evocative eroticism of Markale, the anthology underscores surrealism’s enduring ambition: to redefine human experience and transform our understanding of reality. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1975.

DKK 971.00
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