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Gaming, suppression and prejudice: gaming before the great war -- Gaming and the law 1939-1960 -- The tortuous road to the 1960 betting and gaming act -- The dance of the seven veils: gaming in Britain under the 1960 betting and gaming act -- The 1968 betting and gaming act -- Gangsters, ponces and thieves: the gaming act 1968 and the gaming board for Great Britain -- Blood on the carpet: the enforcement of the 1968 gaming act -- Towards deregulation...and beyond.

In this third edition of the bestselling classic textbook, Martin Montgomery explores the key connections between language and social life. Guiding the student through discussions on child language, accent and dialect, social class and gender, as well as a number of other topics, Montgomery provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the function of language in modern society.This third edition includes:new sections on dialect levelling and estuary English; hip-hop and rapping as anti-language and 'crossing' between Creole, Panjabi and South Asian En

This book chapter is from Imagining the future city : London 2062: London is one of the world's leading cities. It is home to an extraordinary concentration and diversity of people, industries, politics, religions and ideas, and plays an important role in our highly globalised and tightly networked modern world.What does the future hold for London? Investigating any aspect of the city's future reveals a complex picture of interrelations and dependencies. The London 2062 Programme from University College London brings a new, cross-disciplinary and highly collaborative approach to investigating this complexity. The programme crosses departmental boundaries within the university, and promotes active collaboration between leading academics and those who shape London through policy and practice.This book approaches the question of London's future by considering the city in terms of Connections, Things, Power and Dreams.

This book provides an introduction to Islamic law for western readers. It explains the origin and development of the Shariah (Islamic law). It contains updated chapters on the Islamic laws of War and Peace, including juristic opinions on the legality of suicide bombing and the use of modern weapons of mass destruction. It explains the commonalities and the differences in family laws, and the differences in Muslim opinion concerning the status of women. It contains a completely rewritten chapter on Islamic finance and rounds off with a look at Muslim communities in Australia and the way they live their lives.--

I suggest here that change in a number of social variables, including values, vertical mobility, political and social power, technology and law, appear to be associated with economic growth or decline and that the study of economic history would be enriched by investigations of the nature and timing of those linkages. Illustrative models of the linkages are drawn for the early Middle Ages in Western Europe and for the colonial and antebellum periods of American history.

When animals and humans meet in the Middle Kingdom : introduction -- Happy fish and royal workers : animals in traditional philosophy and law -- Pandamonium : wildlife law -- Crouching tiger bones, hidden elephant tusks : wildlife crimes -- The f-word of cats and dogs : food or friends -- Caged monkey kings, naked foxes and screaming bunnies : working animals -- Chinese animal lib : an emerging social movement -- Last words