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The Hong Kong Ballet
Over the past few years, the photographer has recorded on film 25 different ballets that have been in the Hong Kong Ballet's repertoire. The ballets include classics such as Swan Lake, Giselle and The Nutcracker, ones especially appropriate for a Chinese ballet company such as Butterfly Lovers, and The Last Emperor, and such modern works as The Happenings and In the School of the Dolls. From the many pictures of each ballet that he has taken, Siu has selected exceptional and memorable images. For each ballet the book also provides a synopsis of the story, and biographical information for each of the dancers in the company who are pictured. This is a book for all who delight in the ballet, and for all who admire outstanding photographs.
Polygamy in the Monogamous World
This fact-filled book on polygamy and plural unions around the world supports an in-depth consideration of policy options for Western countries. Polygamy and plural marriage have become front-and-center issues in Europe, Canada, and the United States, notably on two religious fronts: among some splinter groups of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and in Islam. Polygamy in the Monogamous World: Multicultural Challenges for Western Law and Policy takes both groups into account as it provides a careful examination of legal polygamy in non-Western countries and plural unions in North America. Comparing these similar, but legally distinct forms of union, it offers a fresh perspectiv...
Religion, Human Rights and International Law
Freedom of religion is a subject, which has throughout human history been a source of profound disagreements and conflict. In the modern era, religious-based intolerance continues to provide lacerative and tormenting concern to the possibility of congenial human relationships. As the present study examines, religions have been relied upon to perpetuate discrimination and inequalities, and to victimise minorities to the point of forcible assimilation and genocide. The study provides an overview of the complexities inherent in the freedom of religion within international law and an analysis of the cultural-religious relativist debate in contemporary human rights law. As many of the chapters examine, Islamic State practices have been a major source of concern. In the backdrop of the events of 11 September 2001, a considerable focus of this volume is upon the Muslim world, either through the emergent State practices and existing constitutional structures within Muslim majority States or through Islamic diasporic communities resident in Europe and North-America.
Annual Report of the Commissioner of Patents
Prior to 1862, when the Department of Agriculture was established, the report on agriculture was prepared and published by the Commissioner of Patents, and forms volume or part of volume, of his annual reports, the first being that of 1840. Cf. Checklist of public documents ... Washington, 1895, p. 148.
