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The Judge, the Judiciary and the Court
The Judge, the Judiciary and the Court is aimed at anyone interested in the Australian judiciary today. It examines the impact of the individual on the judicial role, while exploring the collegiate environment in which judges must operate. This professional community can provide support but may also present its own challenges within the context of a particular court's relational dynamic and culture. The judge and the judiciary form the 'court', an institution grounded in a set of constitutional values that will influence how judges and the judiciary perform their functions. This collection brings together analysis of the judicial role that highlights these unique aspects, particularly in the Australian setting. Through the lenses of judicial leadership, diversity, collegiality, dissent, style, technology, the media and popular culture, it analyses how judges work individually and as a collective to protect and promote the institutional values of the court.
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A Cultural History of the Emotions in the Late Medieval, Reformation, and Renaissance Age
The period 1300-1600 CE was one of intense and far-reaching emotional realignments in European culture. New desires and developments in politics, religion, philosophy, the arts and literature fundamentally changed emotional attitudes to history, creating the sense of a rupture from the immediate past. In this volatile context, cultural products of all kinds offered competing objects of love, hate, hope and fear. Art, music, dance and song provided new models of family affection, interpersonal intimacy, relationship with God, and gender and national identities. The public and private spaces of courts, cities and houses shaped the practices and rituals in which emotional lives were expressed and understood. Scientific and medical discoveries changed emotional relations to the cosmos, the natural world and the body. Both continuing traditions and new sources of cultural authority made emotions central to the concept of human nature, and involved them in every aspect of existence.
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The Superhero's Closet
When the first superhero went public during World War II, the world responded with wonder. We treated the original superhero like a famous writer or singer, heaping on him the riches of international celebrity. Others came after him, as noble, as mighty. Committed to a fate that set them apart from normal humans, the new superhumans eventually became as natural as pop stars.Today, long after the retirement of the original superhero, hundreds of extraordinary individuals grapple with their place in society. Are they heroes? Villains? Are they volatile or do they contribute to the betterment of mankind?Lain Grey is just such a person, but at 16, he's far less moved by his budding powers than he is by sexuality, or his natural mother, who died when he was an infant.And there are others. Kathleen, the young woman who channels dead philosophers through her dog. Or Vernon Hood, the most powerful man alive, who ducked out of public life to raise normal kids.Then, there's Geoffrey Gilman, the original superhero himself, who's finding that retirement is an uncomfortable stepping stone to the grave. In more ways than one.Enter The Superhero's Closet, where secrets, lies, and the shadows of the past fester, giving life to new dangers, new villains, and tragic surprises for everyone.
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The Tim Carmody Affair
In 2014 when Tim Carmody, a former police officer, was sworn in as Chief Justice of Queensland, he had been Chief Magistrate for only nine months and had never served on the Supreme Court. It was one of the most controversial judicial appointments in Australia’s history. Chaos ensued.Appointed by then-premier Campbell Newman, Carmody lacked the experience and nous to hold Queensland’s judicial system together. How could someone with a limited judicial background be appointed to such a powerful position? The Tim Carmody Affair explores his damaging and divisive tenure and the judicial rebellion that followed. It proposes ways Australia can improve the process of judicial appointments to avoid this kind of controversy again.
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Taylor and Politics
A critical appreciation of Charles Taylor's endeavour to reframe contemporary political debatesCharles Taylor is one of the most influential contemporary philosophers, and arguably the most important living political philosopher writing in English. This book assesses Taylor's thought and its relevance to contemporary political challenges, especially those relating to religion and secularity, multicultural diversity, political alienation and demands for greater democracy.Taylor and Politics provides an authoritative and accessible explication of Taylor's theory, outlining key concepts and highlighting substantive applications of his ideas. It explains the substantial differences between Taylor's conception of social imaginaries and that of Cornelius Castoriadis, as well as the contrasts between Taylor's account of the political form of modernity and that of Claude Lefort. The book positions Taylor in contemporary continental thought and introduces the reader to intense debates over Taylor's politics.Key Features. Explains why Charles Taylor makes a major contribution to understanding democratic culture and to the development of a richer conception of human freedom;. Assesses the political implications of Taylor's landmark work, A Secular Age, and details why his arguments on secularity have generated intense discussions and divided opinion;. Sketches the innovations and tensions that result from Taylor's political thought's synthesis of ideas taken from various theoretical perspectives and movements, including romanticism, liberalism and phenomenology;. Reviews Taylor's critical diagnoses of the tendencies of contemporary society that lead to discontent, alienation and atomisation.Craig Browne is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Sydney. He is the author of Habermas and Giddens on Praxis and Modernity: A Constructive Comparison (2017), and Critical Social Theory (2017).Andrew P. Lynch teaches and researches on the sociology of religion and sociological theory at the University of Sydney.Cover image and design:[EUP logo]edinburghuniversitypress.comISBN 978-0-7486-9193-7 [PPC]ISBN 978-0-7486-9194-4 [cover]Barcode
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Inside Australia's Anti-Terrorism Laws and Trials
Over ten years after Australia's first national laws were enacted to combat the threat of terrorism, yet more anti-terrorism laws were passed in the Australian Parliament in late 2014. The first laws were often introduced in great haste and were stunning in scope and number. The latest laws are similarly extensive and controversial. Yet again, powers and sanctions once thought to lie outside the rules of a liberal democracy except during wartime have become part of Australian law.Timely, piercing and in regard to the first set of laws, written with the benefit of hindsight, this book asks whether Australia really needed to enact anti-terrorism laws in the first place, let alone add to them? Do the new laws pose increased threats to freedom of speech and freedom of the press? Have these laws been effective in protecting the community, or do they represent a long-term threat to the health of Australian democracy? Which laws have proved their worth - and which have not? And what has been the impact of the laws in Australia's anti-terrorism trials and on the Muslim community?Most tellingly, the book asks whether seeing these anti-terror laws as normal is a danger in itself.
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How To Make A Good Mind Great
The only book ever to draw the big findings of NLP into one easy-to-use model How to Make a Good Mind Great provides the perfect solution for being in the right frame of mind at the right moment for the right length of time to get the result you want. We often talk about 'being in the right frame of mind' to do something, and as soon as we think we're on the right path, suddenly find ourselves in exactly the wrong frame of mind to achieve our objective. How to Make a Good Mind Great provides the momentum and direction to remain focused and motivated right to the end. It runs on the best, most sophisticated piece of machinery we have ever known: ourselves! Unlike many other systems which rely upon you or I fitting into some framework or following a procedure which seems 'alien' to us, How to Make a Good Mind Great works purely from the subjective template; how you or I work best. We all do many things very well indeed, often without realising - and takes those abilities and successes over to other parts of our lives where we would like to improve things further. Although we are each unique, complex and fascinating beings, there are structural similarities in our subjective experience which provides a great framework to utilise. This prompted the development of MindFrame Patterns©; a model for how we all act within a standard operating procedure: most of us see, hear, feel, touch and smell the world around us. From there the innumerable complex differences spread out, but this simple starting point allows us to restructure what works best for each and every one of us. MindFrame Patterns© is shorthand for a tool or model that creates an opportunity to access that 'right frame of mind' in whichever situation we find ourselves. It links our personal experience of the outside world, in every conceivable context, with our internal existence. It is at once an exceptionally sophisticated and simple model encapsulating the key findings from Neuro-Linguistic Programming. NLP itself is the study of the structure of subjective experience; a series of models on what works best for successful people that can be integrated into our ways of thinking and behaving. Although NLP has developed some magnificent tools, there are hundreds of models, some of which are not easily accessible to every person wishing to use them. MindFrame Patterns© takes the really big themes of NLP - communication, strategies and modelling success - and brings them into one, overarching framework that can be used by anyone. For the first time the world of NLP can be readily accessible to anyone and everyone in an instant. How to Make a Good Mind Great demystifies some of the extraordinary findings of NLP and presents them in accessible, user friendly ways to achieve powerful and lasting change. What's more it works and it works exceedingly well. Why? Because, it simply uses what we already have. It does not make anything up. It is a subjective model that allows us to enter into our every success and positive experience, and use those findings to transform every aspect of our lives. If it is so simple, why hasn't this been covered before? It has, in hundreds of books, CDs, DVDs and articles. Trying to find one book, one CD that covers it all is a nightmare. There are good and bad books out there and everything in between. But it has never, ever, been compressed into a simple, effective working model that covers the big, key themes of NLP. How to Make a Good Mind Great presupposes that we all have good working minds, capable of achieving excellence; an indisputable fact given the multitude of positive experiences we have amassed. This book gives each and every one of us the capacity to move to the next level; to engrain a resourceful, highly-developed frame of mind to make that good mind great. If you only buy one book on changing your life, this is it.
€ 32,00