NANO! Far more compact than all comparable amplifiers and new in the product range from CARPOWER. This new amplifier series facilitates compact...... more

NANO! Far more compact than all comparable amplifiers and new in the product range from CARPOWER. This new amplifier series facilitates compact dimensions and a really great sound. Perfectly harmonised and interference-free analog technology ensures a perfect sound of all units. Beside the obvious subwoofer control, this nano block can also be used as paired high-end full range amplifiers. Car HiFi mono amplifier, high-quality, 1 channel, 300W Mono power amplifier of perfect quality with minimum dimensions. Solid diecast housing of a simple but elegant design. Integrated high-pass filter and low-pass filter (alternatively switchable, with variable crossover frequency). Highly efficient SMD technology design and powerful Darlington transistors (particularly low distortion with optimum current amplification). Integrated high-power input for the connection of radio speaker outputs. This mono amplifier is suitable for typical applications as a subwoofer amplifier. A pair of these power amplifiers is particularly suitable for the application as dual mono full range amplifiers for stereo reproductions of the mid-high range: high power capability, ultimate channel separation and perfect stability of the PSU ensure an absolutely perfect high-end result! CAR&HIFI 06/2010 CAR&HIFI technical tip "The NANO power amplifiers require little space only, enhance the power capability and sound of the system - excellent!" Price-performance: very good Max. power: 300WMAX RMS power 1Ω: - RMS power 2Ω: 200WRMS RMS power 4Ω: 120WRMS

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NANO! Far more compact than all comparable amplifiers and new in the product range from CARPOWER. This new amplifier series facilitates compact...... more

NANO! Far more compact than all comparable amplifiers and new in the product range from CARPOWER. This new amplifier series facilitates compact dimensions and a really great sound. Perfectly harmonised and interference-free analog technology ensures a perfect sound of all units. Beside the obvious subwoofer control, this nano block can also be used as paired high-end full range amplifiers. Car HiFi amplifier, high-quality, 2 channels, 250W 2-channel power amplifier of perfect quality with minimum dimensions. Solid diecast housing of a simple but elegant design. Integrated high-pass filter and low-pass filter (alternatively switchable, with variable crossover frequency). Highly efficient SMD technology design and powerful Darlington transistors (particularly low distortion with optimum current amplification). Integrated high-power input for the connection of radio speaker outputs. CAR&HIFI 06/2010 CAR&HIFI technical tip "The NANO power amplifiers require little space only, enhance the power capability and sound of the system - excellent!" Price-performance: very good Output power: Max. power: 250WMAX RMS power 1Ω: - RMS power 2Ω: 2 x 70WRMS RMS power 4Ω: 2 x 40WRMS Bridged power 4Ω: 140WRMS General information:

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NANO! Far more compact than all comparable amplifiers and new in the product range from CARPOWER. This new amplifier series facilitates compact...... more

NANO! Far more compact than all comparable amplifiers and new in the product range from CARPOWER. This new amplifier series facilitates compact dimensions and a really great sound. Perfectly harmonised and interference-free analog technology ensures a perfect sound of all units. Beside the obvious subwoofer control, this nano block can also be used as paired high-end full range amplifiers. Car HiFi amplifier, high-quality, 4 channels, 300W 4-channel power amplifier of pefect quality with minimum dimensions. Solid diecast housing of a simple but elegant design. Integrated high-pass filter and low-pass filter for each channel pair 1/2 and 3/4 (alternatively switchable, with variable crossover frequency). Highly efficient SMD technology design and powerful Darlington transistors (particularly low distortion with optimum current amplification). Integrated high-power input for the connection of radio speaker outputs. CAR&HIFI 06/2010 CAR&HIFI technical tip "The NANO power amplifiers require little space only, enhance the power capability and sound of the system - excellent!" "An incredible 4cm longer than the other NANO amplifiers. Nevertheless, it has been designed for 4 channels." Price-performance: very good Output power: Max. power: 300WMAX RMS power 1Ω: - RMS power 2Ω: 4 x 60WRMS RMS power 4Ω: 4 x 40WRMS Bridged power 4Ω: 2 x 120WRMS

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Political theory has been traditionally confined to the history of Western political thought from Aristotle to Nietzsche, but this limitation is not tenable in...... more

Political theory has been traditionally confined to the history of Western political thought from Aristotle to Nietzsche, but this limitation is not tenable in a global age. This text focuses on Islamic, Indian and Far Eastern civilizations, offering readings of classical teachings and contemporary theoretical developments.

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Non c'è più niente da fare, un titolo, una profezia. Una compagnia di teatro amatoriale si riunisce per mettere in scena "La cavalleria rusticana", un...... more

Non c'è più niente da fare, un titolo, una profezia. Una compagnia di teatro amatoriale si riunisce per mettere in scena "La cavalleria rusticana", un omaggio a Verga, alla sua Sicilia e a compare Turiddu. Nonché alla lirica di Pietro Mascagni, livornese come la compagnia dei perseveranti, allegramente composta - si fa per dire - da una commessa di supermercato, un avvocato, due pensionati e un artista dalle tasche vuote. Un gruppo coeso in lotta contro il temibile Baiocchi, un imprenditore bamboccione che vorrebbe far chiudere i battenti al teatro per sostituirlo con la filiale di una banca.

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Now available in a substantially revised 3rd edition covering the changes of the Seventeenth Party Congress and Eleventh National People's Congress and other...... more

Now available in a substantially revised 3rd edition covering the changes of the Seventeenth Party Congress and Eleventh National People's Congress and other recent developments, this major text by a leading academic authority provides a thorough introduction to all aspects of politics and governance in post-Mao China.

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Political theory has been traditionally confined to the history of Western political thought from Aristotle to Nietzsche, but this limitation is not tenable in...... more

Political theory has been traditionally confined to the history of Western political thought from Aristotle to Nietzsche, but this limitation is not tenable in a global age. This text focuses on Islamic, Indian and Far Eastern civilizations, offering readings of classical teachings and contemporary theoretical developments.

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The field of comparative constitutional law has grown immensely over the past couple of decades. Once a minor and obscure adjunct to the field of domestic...... more

The field of comparative constitutional law has grown immensely over the past couple of decades. Once a minor and obscure adjunct to the field of domestic constitutional law, comparative constitutional law has now moved front and centre. Driven by the global spread of democratic government and the expansion of international human rights law, the prominence and visibility of the field, among judges, politicians, and scholars has grown exponentially. Even in the United States, where domestic constitutional exclusivism has traditionally held a firm grip, use of comparative constitutional materials has become the subject of a lively and much publicized controversy among various justices of the U.S. Supreme Court. The trend towards harmonization and international borrowing has been controversial. Whereas it seems fair to assume that there ought to be great convergence among industrialized democracies over the uses and functions of commercial contracts, that seems far from the case in constitutional law. Can a parliamentary democracy be compared to a presidential one? A federal republic to a unitary one? Moreover, what about differences in ideology or national identity? Can constitutional rights deployed in a libertarian context be profitably compared to those at work in a social welfare context? Is it perilous to compare minority rights in a multi-ethnic state to those in its ethnically homogeneous counterparts? These controversies form the background to the field of comparative constitutional law, challenging not only legal scholars, but also those in other fields, such as philosophy and political theory. Providing the first single-volume, comprehensive reference resource, the Oxford Handbook of Comparative Constitutional Law will be an essential road map to the field for all those working within it, or encountering it for the first time. Leading experts in the field examine the history and methodology of the discipline, the central concepts of constitutional law, const

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In the context of the far-reaching reforms proposed for the Appellate Committee House of Lords and the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, Building...... more

In the context of the far-reaching reforms proposed for the Appellate Committee House of Lords and the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, Building the UK's New Supreme Court considers the operation and reform of courts at the apex of the UK's legal systems. The chapters are linked by broad and overlapping themes. The first of these is the complexity of accommodating national differences within the UK into the institutional design of the new supreme court. It will be not only a court for the UK's three legal systems, and simultaneously a national institution of the whole UK, but it is also likely to be called upon to resolve division of powers disputes within the emerging system of multi-level government. A second theme is the scope for comparative lesson-learning from top courts in other legal systems: the Supreme Court of Canada, the US federal courts system, and the constitutional courts in Germany and Spain are considered. Thirdly, the connections between the UK's top-level court and other courts, especially intermediate courts of appeal, the European Court of Justice, and the European Court of Human Rights are examined.

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How does the way we think and feel about the world around us affect the existence and administration of the death penalty? What role does capital punishment...... more

How does the way we think and feel about the world around us affect the existence and administration of the death penalty? What role does capital punishment play in defining our political and cultural identity? After centuries during which capital punishment was a normal and self-evident part of criminal punishment, it has now taken on a life of its own in various arenas far beyond the limits of the penal sphere. In this volume, the authors argue that in order to understand the death penalty, we need to know more about the "cultural lives"--past and present--of the state's ultimate sanction. They undertake this "cultural voyage" comparatively--examining the dynamics of the death penalty in Mexico, the United States, Poland, Kyrgyzstan, India, Israel, Palestine, Japan, China, Singapore, and South Korea--arguing that we need to look beyond the United States to see how capital punishment "lives" or "dies" in the rest of the world, how images of state killing are produced and consumed elsewhere, and how they are reflected, back and forth, in the emerging international judicial and political discourse on the penalty of death and its abolition. Contributors: Sangmin Bae Christian Boulanger Julia Eckert Agata Fijalkowski Evi Girling Virgil K.Y. Ho David T. Johnson Botagoz Kassymbekova Shai Lavi Jurgen Martschukat Alfred Oehlers Judith Randle Judith Mendelsohn Rood Austin Sarat Patrick Timmons Nicole Tarulevicz Louise Tyler

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A market economy and a more liberal society have brought great challenges to China's outdated governance structure and personnel management. To improve...... more

A market economy and a more liberal society have brought great challenges to China's outdated governance structure and personnel management. To improve decision-making in government and reshape the management system in face of a more complex economy, post-Mao authorities have implemented a number of administrative reforms, including civil service reform which emphasized on selecting and promoting public officials based on their capability and work performance. Thousands of positions have been filled since the civil service system was implemented nationwide in 1993. The Chinese civil service reform is of far-reaching significance because it had the potential to be a departure from the established structure of cadre personnel management system developed in the 1950s. However, after several years of policy development, scholars observe that the new reforms have done little to undermine the old cadre system. Is this true? Or does this conclusion over-simplify the complicated implementation of the reforms? This book examines the implementation and performance of the on-going civil service reforms in China. Using the principal-agent framework, the author draw upon key case studies showing how the reforms affect civil servants' incentives and behavior in the local context and the Chinese leadership's control over the bureaucracy. China's reform experience speaks directly to many Asian countries facing urgent need to improve state capacity as the global financial crisis unfolds.

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The text argues that far from being the fruit of an activist judiciary, the ascendency of civil rights and liberties has rested on the democratization...... more

The text argues that far from being the fruit of an activist judiciary, the ascendency of civil rights and liberties has rested on the democratization of access to the courts - the influence of advocacy groups, the establishment of governmental enforcement agencies, the growth of financial and legal resources for ordinary citizens, and the strategic planning of grass roots organizations. Pointing to the idea that the shift in the rights of individuals is best understood as a "bottom up" rather than a "top down" phenomenon.

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On 1 January 2000 the German Civil Code (BGB) became one hundred years old. It had been remarkably resilient throughout a century marked by catastrophic...... more

On 1 January 2000 the German Civil Code (BGB) became one hundred years old. It had been remarkably resilient throughout a century marked by catastrophic upheavals and a succession of fundamentally different political regimes. Two years later, however, the most sweeping individual reform ever to have affected the Code entered into force. This was the Modernization of the Law of Obligations Act: triggered by the necessity to implement the European Consumer Sales Directive, but going far beyond what was required by the European Community. The most important practical implication of the Modernization Act is the fundamental reform of the German law of prescription. However, the most remarkable feature of the revised BGB in terms of innovative doctrine is the new regime concerning liability for general non-performance, and for non-conformity in sales law. Radically, the face of the BGB has been changed by the incorporation of a number of special statutes aiming at the protection of consumers. The draftsmen of the new law have thus made an effort to streamline, or harmonize, general contract law and consumer contract law. The four topics covered in Chapters 2-5 of the book are prescription, remedies for non-performance, liability for non-conformity, and consumer contract law. In all these cases a historical or comparative perspective is adopted in order to analyze and assess the new rules of German law. Even in its radically new form the German Civil Code continues to be a characteristic manifestation of German legal culture. At the same time, however, the reform has moved German contract law considerably closer to European thinking patterns. Termed 'a milestone on the path towards a European Civil Code', this book offers a unique and authoritative insight into the new German law of obligations.

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German criminal law doctrine, as one of the more influential ones over time and on a global scale, takes rather different approaches to many of the problems of...... more

German criminal law doctrine, as one of the more influential ones over time and on a global scale, takes rather different approaches to many of the problems of substantive law from those of the common law family of countries like the UK, the US, Canada, New Zealand, Australia etc. It also differs markedly from the system which is most often used in Anglophone writing as a civil law comparison, the French law. German criminal law is a code-based model and has been for centuries. The influence of academic writing on its development has been far greater than in the judge-oriented common law models. The book will serve as a useful aid to debates about codification efforts in countries that are mostly based on a case law system, but who wish to re-structure their law in one or several criminal codes. The comparison will show that similar problems occur in all legal systems regardless of their provenance, and the attempts of individual systems at solving them, their successes and their failures, can provide a rich experience on which other countries can draw and on which they can build.The book provides an outline of the principles of German criminal law, mainly the so-called 'General Part' (eg actus reus, mens rea, defences, participation) and the core offence categories (homicide, offences against property, sexual offences). It sets out the principles, their development under the influence of academic writing and judicial decisions. The book is not meant as a textbook of German criminal law, but is a selection of interrelated in-depth essays on the central problems. Wherever it is apposite and feasible, comparison is offered to the approaches of English criminal law and the legal systems of other common and civil law countries in order to allow common lawyers to draw the pertinent parallels to their own jurisdictions.

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The legal status, responsibilities and rights of men who are fathers - married or unmarried, cohabiting or separated, biological or social in nature - is a...... more

The legal status, responsibilities and rights of men who are fathers - married or unmarried, cohabiting or separated, biological or social in nature - is a topic with a long and well-documented history. Yet recent developments in a number of countries suggest a growing politicisation of the relationship between law and fatherhood. In some countries, an increasingly vocal, visible and well-organised fathers' rights movement has been credited with influencing perceptions of the politics of family justice. Fathers, it is argued, have become the new victims of family law justice systems that have swung 'too far' in favour of mothers. Armed with such claims, fathers' rights activists have set out to achieve a range of legal reforms, most notably in the areas of child support law and contact and residence rights following separation. This book presents an attempt to understand these developments. Bringing together leading international commentators it provides a careful, critical and comparative analysis of the work of fathers' rights activists, the role law has played in their campaigning, their legal strategies, their success (or otherwise) in achieving legal reform, similarities and divergences with the women's movement, and the relationship between fathers' rights movements and the societies that frame them.In addition to Collier and Sheldon, contributors include: Susan B Boyd (University of British Columbia, Canada), Jocelyn Crowley (Rutgers University, USA), Maria Eriksson (Goteborg University, Sweden), Keith Pringle (Aalborg University, Denmark), Helen Rhoades (Melbourne University, Australia), and Carol Smart (Manchester University, UK).

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