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Contemporary Australian Corporate Law
Stephen Bottomley; Kath Hall; Peta Spender; Beth Nosworthy
Cambridge University Press
2025
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Contemporary Australian Corporate Law
Stephen Bottomley; Kath Hall; Peta Spender; Beth Nosworthy
Cambridge University Press
2020
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Contemporary Australian Corporate Law is a highly-regarded introduction to corporate law in Australia that provides an authoritative, contextual and critical analysis of the law governing Australian corporations and financial markets. It explores the rules, principles, doctrines and policies that constitute corporate law in Australia within their legal, social, economic and political contexts. Clearly and precisely written, this edition has been thoroughly updated and refined to reflect current Australian corporate law, including recent case law, changes to the Corporations Act 2001 and the impact on the corporate sector of the Financial Services Royal Commission. Written by leading legal scholars, Contemporary Australian Corporate Law will assist students to develop a critically informed understanding of corporate law and the role of corporations in contemporary society.
Contemporary Australian Corporate Law
Stephen Bottomley; Kath Hall; Peta Spender; Beth Nosworthy
Cambridge University Press
2017
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Contemporary Australian Corporate Law provides an authoritative, contextual and critical analysis of Australian corporate and financial markets law, designed to engage today's LL.B. and JD students. Written by leading corporate law scholars, the text provides a number of features including: a well-structured presentation of topics for Australian corporate law courses, consistent application of theory with discussion of corporate law principles (both theoretical and historical), comprehensive discussion of case law with modern examples, and integration of corporate law and corporate governance, all with clarity, insight and technical excellence. Central concepts are enhanced with dynamic and relevant discussions of corporate law in context, including debates relating to the role of corporations in society, the global convergence of corporate law as well as corporations and human rights. Exploring the social, political and economic forces which shape modern corporations law, Contemporary Australian Corporate Law encourages a forward-thinking approach to understanding key concepts within the field.
Se llam Thirties (as como Auden Group y War Generation...) a un conjunto de poetas ingleses de la d cada del 30 (W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice, Cecil Day-Lewis, Stephen Spender, entre otros), que asumi un rol activo frente a la contingencia de una sociedad en crisis, con variables colectivas dram ticas y urgentes. Este grupo era, por un lado, ep gono de la Primera Guerra Mundial, con su r mora de cerca de diez millones de muertos; por el otro, antesala de la Segunda, con sus siguientes millones de vidas por cobrar."Los Thirties" autores que hicieron propaganda de una poes a al servicio del socialismo La burgues a tiene que esperar un poco de dolor, una penitencia ].A. T. Tolley, en The poetry of the Thirties, sencillamente dec a hacia 1975: "Un cambio que est asociado en los nuevos poetas de los a os treinta: la aparici n de una preocupaci n por temas pol ticos".Para una mayor indagaci n cr tica, se recomienda tanto el libro de Tolley (London: Gollancz, 1975), as como el estudio de Desmond Ernest Stewart: Poets of the thirties, London, Routledge & K. Paul, 19692.Hoy en d a, sin embargo, estas conexiones pueden despreciarse. En un homenaje a Louis MacNeice, Auden escribi "Desde un punto de vista literario, el v nculo period stico contempor neo de los nombres de Auden, Day-Lewis, MacNeice, Spender, es y siempre fue absurdo". Y Day-Lewis, en su autobiograf a (The buried day), fue a n m s enf tico: "Aunque Auden, Spender, MacNeice y yo nos conocemos personalmente desde mediados de los a os treinta, ninguno de nosotros ni siquiera hab a conocido a los otros tres hasta despu s de la publicaci n de New Signatures (...). No sab amos que ramos un movimiento hasta que los cr ticos nos dijeron que lo ramos".Sin embargo, no s lo una poca los se ala. Adem s de pasar por la Universidad de Oxford, estos poetas sintieron la obligaci n social de preocuparse por los asuntos p blicos, adoptando de esta forma una dicci n m s cercana para todos, adecuada a la experiencia y representaciones que el mundo le proporcionaba a sus s bditos.Adem s, tanto Day-Lewis (que le dedica a Auden su libro The Magnetic Mountain, as como el poema "Epilogue: For W. H. Auden") como MacNeice (en "Postcript to Iceland: for W. H. Auden") as como Spender (en "One More New Bocthed Beginning", donde recuerda a MacNeice) comparten algo m s que una etiqueta de la cr tica, que se hace notoriamente visible en sus trabajos po ticos: la autorreferencialidad de un espec fico proyecto.Dicho de otro modo, estos poetas (pese a sus individualidades) estaban inmersos dentro de una interacci n mucho m s amplia, como bien anota Desmond Ernest Stewart en materia de industria cultural: "Faber & Faber lideraron el campo en la publicaci n de muchos de los principales poetas, dramaturgos, arquitectos y cineastas de los a os treinta, hasta tal punto que Faber & Faber mismo podr a ser considerado como parte del fen meno de los a os 30. En cierto modo, esto fue un desarrollo sorprendente, ya que las opiniones pol ticas de los escritores en muchos casos deben haber ido directamente en contra de las creencias pol ticas de T. S. Eliot, la influencia literaria dominante en Faber & Faber durante este per odo, y de Geoffrey Faber, el fundador de la firma".Si bien la lista podr a haber sido m s inclusiva, por ejemplo Tolley recuerda a otros poetas de Oxford, como Rex Warner, Norman Cameron o John Betjeman, "the big four", forjan una metaliteratura, capaz de ser le da o analizada en conjunto.
Confronting Managerialism offers a scathing critique of the influence of neoclassical economics and modern finance on business school teaching and management practice. Locke and Spender show that responsible management has given way to ‘managerialism’, whereby an elite caste of businessmen disconnected from any ethical considerations call the shots. The book traces the loss of managers’ earlier social concerns, amply encouraged by management education’s transformation since the 1960's, especially in the US. It also questions not only the social ethics of the US management caste but its management efficacy compared to systems of management that are highly employee participatory and dependent, such as in Germany and Japan. A unique, topical and controversial look at a subject that impacts us all.
Confronting Managerialism offers a scathing critique of the influence of neoclassical economics and modern finance on business school teaching and management practice. Locke and Spender show that responsible management has given way to ‘managerialism’, whereby an elite caste of businessmen disconnected from any ethical considerations call the shots. The book traces the loss of managers’ earlier social concerns, amply encouraged by management education’s transformation since the 1960's, especially in the US. It also questions not only the social ethics of the US management caste but its management efficacy compared to systems of management that are highly employee participatory and dependent, such as in Germany and Japan. A unique, topical and controversial look at a subject that impacts us all.
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One man's search for the truth about one of the most intriguing urban legends ever--the modern bogeyman, Slender Man--leads him down a dark, dangerous path in this creepy supernatural fantasy that will make you question where the line between dark myth and terrifying reality begins.Lauren Bailey has disappeared. As friends at her exclusive school speculate on what happened and the police search for answers, Matt Barker dreams of trees and a black sky . . . and something drawing closer. Through fragments of journals, news stories, and online conversations, a figure begins to emerge--a tall, slender figure--and all divisions between fiction and delusion, between nightmare and reality, begin to fall.Chilling, eerie, and addictively readable, Slender Man is a unique spine-tingling story and a brilliant and frightening look at one of the most fascinating--and diabolical--mythical figures in modern times.
A dramatic account, describing the mountaineering disaster on the unclimbed and sacred mountain of Panch Chuli, which so nearly ended the life of Stephen Venables, and the committed teamwork that brought him to safety.
During his lifetime (1900-67), Spencer Tracy was known as Hollywood's actor's actor. Critics wrote that what Olivier was to theatre, Tracy was to film. This title tells his story.
A scholarly edition of poems by Edmund Spenser. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.
Spenser's "Monstrous Regiment" is a scholarly account of how the experience of living and writing in Ireland qualified Spenser's attitude towards female regiment and challenged his notions of English nationhood. It also provides a detailed analysis of his association with Lord Grey through examination of secretarial letters.
In Spenser's Forms of History, Bart van Es describes six modes through which Early Modern England addressed the past: chronicle, chorography, antiquarian discourse, euhemerism, typology, and prophecy. By setting this material alongside the works of Edmund Spenser, the book explores allusive strategies ranging in effect from euology to polemic. Key Spenserian texts, including The Faerie Queene, The Shepeardes Calendar, and A View of the Present State of Ireland, are read against Elizabethan cultural documents extending from popular print to restricted manuscripts. Over the course of six chapters, each focusing on a single 'form', the book shows Spenser to have been an exceptional historical thinker. Drawing on recent studies of nationhood, the study not only offers a new picture of the English 'Poet Historical', but also makes an innovative contribution to current debates concerning the relationship between literature and history.
In this important study of Spenser and nationhood - the first to contextualize Spenser's response to the Irish colonial situation by reference to contemporary Gaelic literature - Richard McCabe examines the poet's canon within the dual contexts of imperial aspiration and female 'regiment'. He shows how the experience of writing from Ireland, where the queen's influence repeatedly frustrated the expansionist ambitions of New English settlers, intensified Spenser's sense of alienation from female sovereignty and led to the remarkable fusion of colonial and sexual anxieties evident in The Faerie Queene's pervasive images of anti-heroic emasculation. At the same time the paradoxical attempt to impose civility through violence compromised the poem's moral vision and problematized its conception of national identity. The attempt to create an English myth of origin coincided uneasily with the need to discredit its Gaelic counterpart, as formulated in such works as the Lebor Gabála Érenn, while the perceived 'degeneration' of Old English families within the Pale confounded the ethnic distinctions upon which the colonial enterprise had come to rest and challenged the validity of all nationalist 'myth'. By drawing upon a wide range of Gaelic poets, historians, and polemicists, McCabe seeks to recover the voices that the dialectical format of A View of the Present State of Ireland is designed to exclude and to demonstrate how the Irish dimension of The Faerie Queene provides a dark, but aesthetically enhancing subtext to the poetics of national celebration.
A scholarly edition of The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.
A scholarly edition of The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser. The edition presents an authoritative text, together with an introduction, commentary notes, and scholarly apparatus.