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Interreligious Dialogue Models From the Life of the Prophet Muhammad

Interreligious Dialogue Models From the Life of the Prophet Muhammad

How did the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) converse and engage with other religious believers? Did he start off with prejudice and mistrust? Or was he convivial and open-minded? This book analyses six models of the dealings in the lifetime of the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) specifically but not restricted to the siblings of Abrahamic religious believers. The six models of dialogue analysed in the book are dialogue with Ashamah Najashi of Abyssinia delegation of Najran Christians different Jews of Yathrib and emperors of Byzantine and Sassanid. The analysis applies Ibn Khaldun’s (d. 1406) historical approach which the author termed as Khaldunian Hermeneutics due to the similarity between his ideas to that of Johann Gustav Droysen (d. 1884) a German philosopher in historical hermeneutics. As such the analysis goes beyond the dialogue content taking into consideration the immediate and larger contextual settings and changes of the contexts due to the passage of time. It critically considers the suitability of each model due to the difference in times and contexts. The book serves as a reference for Muslim dialogue advocates and practitioners to provide substantial evidence of the dialogue application by the role model of Muslims – the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) whom they hold very dear to their hearts. | Interreligious Dialogue Models From the Life of the Prophet Muhammad

GBP 130.00
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Becoming a Genuine Muslim Kierkegaard and Muhammad Iqbal

Becoming a Genuine Muslim Kierkegaard and Muhammad Iqbal

Despite the apparent lack of any cultural and religious connection between Kierkegaard and Iqbal their philosophical and religious concerns and their methods of dealing with these concerns show certain parallels. This book provides a Kierkegaardian reading of Muhammad Iqbal’s idea of becoming a genuine Muslim. It reflects on the parallels between the philosophical approaches of Kierkegaard and Iqbal and argues that though there are certain parallels between their approaches there is a significant difference between their philosophical stances. Kierkegaard was concerned with developing an existential dialectics; Iqbal however focused mostly on the identification of the problems of the modern Muslim world. As a result Iqbal’s idea of becoming a genuine Muslim – the practical aspect of his thought and one of the most central issues of his philosophy – seems to be unclear and even contradictory at points. This book therefore uses the parallels between the two philosophers' endeavours and the notions developed by Kierkegaard to provide a strong hermeneutical tool for clarifying where the significance of Iqbal’s idea of becoming a Muslim lies. By bringing together two philosophers from different cultural traditional and religious backgrounds this book will appeal to students and scholars of Comparative Politics Contemporary Islamic Philosophy and the Philosophy of Religion. | Becoming a Genuine Muslim Kierkegaard and Muhammad Iqbal

GBP 38.99
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Modern Debates on Prophecy and Prophethood in Islam Muhammad Iqbal and Said Nursi

Modern Debates on Prophecy and Prophethood in Islam Muhammad Iqbal and Said Nursi

While prophethood is the backbone of the Islamic tradition and an uncompromised tenet of faith the impact of modernity with its ambivalent status afforded to the prophet and institution of prophethood shook many Muslim scholars. Through analysis of these modern debates on prophethood in Islam this book situates Muhammad Iqbal’s (1877–1938) and Said Nursi’s (1877–1960) discourses within it and assesses their implications on the modern period. This book introduces the what who and how of the prophets in the Islamic tradition. It unveils the rich Islamic literature of both the classical and modern periods and analyses the construction of their philosophies and theologies. Concise in both historical and textual analyses this book makes an important contribution to our understanding of contemporary debates on prophecy and prophethood in Islam and will be of great interest to postgraduate students and researchers of Islam religious studies medieval studies and contemporary studies of Islam and religion. | Modern Debates on Prophecy and Prophethood in Islam Muhammad Iqbal and Said Nursi

GBP 120.00
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Near Eastern Cities from Alexander to the Successors of Muhammad

Near Eastern Cities from Alexander to the Successors of Muhammad

Near Eastern Cities from Alexander to the Successors of Muhammad compares the evolution of several cities in the Near East from the time of Alexander the Great until the beginning of the Islamic 'Abbasid Dynasty. This volume examines both archaeological remains and literary sources to explain the diversity of imperial cultural and religious influences on urban life. It offers several case studies chosen from different regions of the Roman Near East demonstrating that Greco-Roman and Islamic culture spread unevenly through these various cities and that it is impossible to make broad generalizations. It argues instead that there were different patterns of urbanism that demonstrate a continued vitality of civic life up to the 'Abbasid revolution. Near Eastern Cities from Alexander to the Successors of Muhammad will be of particular interest to students of this period in the Ancient Near East as well as those studying ancient cities and everyday life.

GBP 38.99
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The Roman World from Romulus to Muhammad A New History

The Roman World from Romulus to Muhammad A New History

This volume provides a detailed examination of nearly 1 400 years of Roman history from the foundation of the city in the eighth century BC until the evacuation of Roman troops from Alexandria in AD 642 in the face of the Arab conquests. Drawing on a vast array of ancient texts written in Latin Greek Syriac Armenian and Arabic and relying on a host of inscriptions archaeological data and the evidence from ancient art architecture and coinage The Roman World from Romulus to Muhammad brings to the fore the men and women who chronicled the story of the city and its empire. Richly illustrated with 71 maps and 228 illustrations—including 20 in colour—and featuring a detailed glossary and suggestions for further reading this volume examines a broad range of topics including ancient climate change literature historiography slavery war and conquest the development of Christianity the Jewish revolts and the role of powerful imperial women. The author also considers the development of Islam within a Roman historical context examines the events that led to the formation of the post-Roman states in Western Europe and contemplates aff airs on the imperial periphery in the Caucasus Ethiopia and the Arabian Peninsula. Emphasising the voices of antiquity throughout The Roman World from Romulus to Muhammad is an invaluable resource for students and scholars interested in the beguiling history of the world’s most famous empire. | The Roman World from Romulus to Muhammad A New History

GBP 36.99
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Islam as Power Shi‛i Revivalism in the Oeuvre of Muhammad Husayn Fadlallah

Islam as Power Shi‛i Revivalism in the Oeuvre of Muhammad Husayn Fadlallah

Providing an in-depth and extensive analysis of the concept of power as articulated by Muhammad Husayn Fadlallah (1935–2010) this case study analyses the systemic conceptualisation of power and his argumentation of sacralising Islamised power. The volume also offers a quick overview of how the concept was understood and articulated by other Shi‛ite jurists such as Ayatollah Khomeini. Examining Fadlallah’s oeuvre in particular his seminal book Islam and the Logic of Power [ al-Islam wa-mantiq al-quwwa ] this book focuses on the narrative itself which played a central role in the radical transformation that occurred in the Shi‛te concept of empowerment and its recognition as a necessity. The analysis of Fadlallah’s conceptualisation and argumentation illustrates the mechanism of sacralising righteous power as well as the means of gaining it. Fadlallah reinterpreted Shi‛sm as a project of empowerment to initiate and sustain an “impulse of power” amongst the Lebanese Shi‛tes in the most critical moment of modern Lebanese history. Dealing with the concept of power in Shi‛te political thought from a theoretical perspective the study has an innovative approach that offers an insight into how the transformative narrative is constructed and what makes it convincing. Shedding light on the content and logical structure of Fadlallah’s argumentation this volume will be of interest to scholars and students researching contemporary politics Islam and the Middle East. | Islam as Power Shi‛i Revivalism in the Oeuvre of Muhammad Husayn Fadlallah

GBP 36.99
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Rome Persia and Arabia Shaping the Middle East from Pompey to Muhammad

Rome Persia and Arabia Shaping the Middle East from Pompey to Muhammad

Rome Persia and Arabia traces the enormous impact that the Great Powers of antiquity exerted on Arabia and the Arabs between the arrival of Roman forces in the Middle East in 63 BC and the death of the Prophet Muhammad in AD 632. Richly illustrated and covering a vast area from the fertile lands of South Arabia to the bleak deserts of Iraq and Syria this book provides a detailed and captivating narrative of the way that the empires of antiquity affected the politics culture and religion of the Arabs. It examines Rome’s first tentative contacts in the Syrian steppe and the controversial mission of Aelius Gallus to Yemen and takes in the city states kingdoms and tribes caught up in the struggle for supremacy between Rome and Persia including the city state of Hatra one of the many archaeological sites in the Middle East that have suffered deliberate vandalism at the hands of the ‘Islamic State’. The development of an Arab Christianity spanning the Middle East the emergence of Arab fiefdoms at the edges of imperial power and the crucial appearance of strong Arab leadership in the century before Islam provide a clear picture of the importance of pre-Islamic Arabia and the Arabs to understanding world and regional history. Rome Persia and Arabia includes discussions of heritage destruction in the Middle East the emergence of Islam and modern research into the anthropology of ancient tribal societies and their relationship with the states around them. This comprehensive and wide-ranging book delivers an authoritative chronicle of a crucial but little known era in world history and is for any reader with an interest in the ancient Middle East Arabia and the Roman and Persian empires. | Rome Persia and Arabia Shaping the Middle East from Pompey to Muhammad

GBP 35.99
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The Book of the Jihad of 'Ali ibn Tahir al-Sulami (d. 1106) Text Translation and Commentary

The Book of the Jihad of 'Ali ibn Tahir al-Sulami (d. 1106) Text Translation and Commentary

In 1105 six years after the first crusaders from Europe conquered Jerusalem a Damascene Muslim jurisprudent named ’Ali ibn Tahir al-Sulami (d. 1106) publicly dictated an extended call to the military jihad (holy war) against the European invaders. Entitled Kitab al-Jihad (The Book of the Jihad) al-Sulami’s work both summoned his Muslim brethren to the jihad and instructed them in the manner in which it ought to be conducted covering topics as diverse as who should fight and be fought treatment of prisoners and plunder and the need for participants to fight their own inner sinfulness before turning their efforts against the enemy. Al-Sulami’s text is vital for a complete understanding of the Muslim reaction to the crusades providing the reader with the first contemporary record of Muslim preaching against the crusaders. However until recently only a small part of the text has been studied by modern scholars as it has remained for the most part an unedited manuscript. In this book Niall Christie provides a complete edition and the first full English translation of the extant sections (parts 2 8 9 and 12) of the manuscript of al-Sulami’s work making it fully available to modern readers for the first time. These are accompanied by an introductory study exploring the techniques that the author uses to motivate his audience the precedents that influenced his work and possible directions for future study of the text. In addition an appendix provides translations of jihad sermons by Ibn Nubata al-Fariqi (d. 985) a preacher from Asia Minor whose rhetorical style was highly influential in the development of al-Sulami’s work. | The Book of the Jihad of 'Ali ibn Tahir al-Sulami (d. 1106) Text Translation and Commentary

GBP 38.99
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Studies on the Life of Muhammad and the Dawn of Islam Idol Worshippers Christians and Jews in Pre- and Early Islam

Studies on the Life of Muhammad and the Dawn of Islam Idol Worshippers Christians and Jews in Pre- and Early Islam

This volume includes 20 articles published between 1994 and 2020 on the subject of Muḥammad and the history of early Islam covered in five sections: Arabia on the Eve of Islam Muḥammad at Medina Muḥammad and the Jews Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq and the sīra and studies on early Islamic literature. The book focuses on a variety of historical questions from the presumed Ghassanid/Byzantine involvement in the hijra to Muḥammad’s treaties with the main Jewish tribes of Yathrib/Medina. Predilection for detail especially in the realms of genealogy and geography is a salient characteristic of Lecker’s research which in recent years has been increasingly based on digitized text repositories. Many of the articles deal with the social and economic environment of early Islam which is vital for the study of Muḥammad’s biography. They are conceived of as building blocks in a future critical biography of the Arabian prophet. Studies on the Life of Muhammad and the Dawn of Islam will appeal to those interested in the history of pre- and early Islam with an emphasis on Muḥammad’s life and his relations with the Jews of Arabia. | Studies on the Life of Muhammad and the Dawn of Islam Idol Worshippers Christians and Jews in Pre- and Early Islam

GBP 130.00
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Leadership and Nationalism in Azerbaijan Ali Mardan bey Topchibashov Founder and Creator

Leadership and Nationalism in Azerbaijan Ali Mardan bey Topchibashov Founder and Creator

Ali Mardan bey Topchibashov was a prominent politician who played a crucial role in the history of Azerbaijan. One of the most striking personalities in the history of Azerbaijan the founder of liberal ideas and the first President of the Republic of Azerbaijan he led the Muslim faction in the first Russian Duma and the Union of Muslims of Russia and was a central figure of the Caucasian émigrés in Europe. This book analyses and presents the life of the first independent Azerbaijani political leaders. Based on extensive research from archives in Azerbaijan France Georgia Russia (Moscow and Kazan) and the UK some of which are newly accessible it traces the political personality of Topchibashov as one of the largest Muslim leaders and founder of the Azerbaijan Republic. At the same time it offers insights into the history of the formation and creation of the national consciousness of the Russian Muslims and tracks the challenges in the national and religious policy of the Imperial administration of the Soviet Union. The author sheds light on the significant problems of the Russian Empire (nationalities specifically) and global movements such as the post-World War I settlement and the difficulties of the many non-Russian groups that declared independence after the Bolshevik rise of power. Filling a lacuna in modern Azerbaijan history this book will be of interest to academics working on Russian Soviet South Caucasus and Central Asian History in particular Russian Empire Muslim nations and nationalism in Central Asia and the Caucasus. | Leadership and Nationalism in Azerbaijan Ali Mardan bey Topchibashov Founder and Creator

GBP 39.99
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Family School Community Engagement and Partnerships Theory and Best Practices

Family School Community Engagement and Partnerships Theory and Best Practices

How can colleges and schools support the inclusion of family school and community engagement curricula in teacher and administrator preparation programs? The contributions in this book try to answer this question with contributors describing their experiences their programs and their support for the goal of enhancing parental involvement and engagement in Schools and Colleges of Education. The authors and researchers such as Joyce Epstein who is the foremost researcher on the topic have the knowledge and expertise in family school and community engagement and partnerships from both theory and best practice perspectives. The book is designed to be interactive and readers are encouraged to engage themselves in the conversation. Readers are invited to e-mail any of the editors to discuss the questions posed. This book was originally published as a special issue of Teaching Education. | Family School Community Engagement and Partnerships Theory and Best Practices

GBP 44.99
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Architect's Pocket Book

Architect's Pocket Book

This handy pocket book brings together a wealth of useful information that architects need on a daily basis – on-site or in the studio. It provides clear guidance and invaluable detail on a wide range of issues from planning policy through environmental design to complying with Building Regulations from structural and services matters to materials characteristics and detailing. This sixth edition includes the updating of regulations standards and sources across a wide range of topics with a particular focus on sustainability issues. Compact and easy to use the Architect’s Pocket Book has sold well over 100 000 copies to the nation’s architects architecture students designers and construction professionals who do not have an architectural background but need to understand the basics fast. This is the famous little blue book that you can’t afford to be without. | Architect's Pocket Book

GBP 28.99
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Binding Space: The Book as Spatial Practice

Binding Space: The Book as Spatial Practice

Books orient intrigue provoke and direct the reader while editing interpreting encapsulating constructing and revealing architectural representation. Binding Space: The Book as Spatial Practice explores the role of the book form within the realm of architectural representation. It proposes the book itself as another three-dimensional complementary architectural representation with a generational and propositional role within the design process. Artists’ books in particular – that is a book made as an original work of art with an artist designer or architect as author – have certain qualities and characteristics quite different from the conventional presentation and documentation of architecture. Paginal sequentiality the structure and objecthood of the book and the act of reading create possibilities for the book as a site for architectural imagining and discourse. In this way the form of the book affects how the architectural work is conceived constructed and read. In five main sections Binding Space examines the relationships between the drawing the building and the book. It proposes thinking through the book as a form of spatial practice one in which the book is cast as object outcome process and tool. Through the book we read spatial practice anew.

GBP 48.99
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Wiring Regulations Pocket Book

Wiring Regulations Pocket Book

This new Routledge Pocket Book provides a user-friendly guide to the latest amendments to the 18th Edition of IET Wiring Regulations (BS 7671:2018). This Pocket Book contains topic-based chapters that link areas of working practice with the specifics of the Regulations themselves. The requirements of the Regulations are presented in an informal easy-to-read style that strips away confusion. Packed with useful hints and tips that highlight the most important or mandatory requirements the book is a concise reference on all aspects of the 18th edition of the IET Wiring Regulations. This handy guide provides an on-the-job reference source for Electricians Designers Service Engineers Inspectors Builders and Students. | Wiring Regulations Pocket Book

GBP 24.99
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Landscape Architect's Pocket Book

Landscape Architect's Pocket Book

This third edition of the bestselling Landscape Architect’s Pocket Book written by leading practitioners incorporates updates and revisions to environmental and building regulations contracts and a range of design guidelines including materials SuDS environmental impact and landscape character assessment. The book is an indispensable tool for all landscape architects providing a timesaving guide and first point of reference to everyday topics both out on site and in the office. The pocket book covers all major subjects including hard and soft landscaping national guidelines and standards and key planning policy and legislation. Providing concise easy-to-read reference material useful calculations and instant access to a wide range of topics it is an essential resource for landscape architects construction industry professionals and students. | Landscape Architect's Pocket Book

GBP 27.99
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Building Surveyor’s Pocket Book

Building Surveyor’s Pocket Book

This handy book brings together a wealth of useful information that building surveyors need on-site or in the office. It provides clear guidance and fundamental principles in key practice areas such as building pathology building performance and building forensics. The book is not overly bound by the regulation and legislation of one region and the principles can be applied internationally. Compact portable and easy to use the Building Surveyor’s Pocket Book helps surveyors anyone studying for their RICS APC and students get access to the basics fast.

GBP 24.99
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THE ADOBE PHOTOSHOP LAYERS BOOK

THE ADOBE PHOTOSHOP LAYERS BOOK

Layers are the building blocks for working in Photoshop. With the correct use of the Layers Tool you can edit individual components of your images nondestructively to ensure that your end result is a combination of the best parts of your work. Despite how important it is for successful Photoshop work the Layers Tool is one of the most often misused and misunderstood features within this powerful software program. This book will show you absolutely everything you need to know to work with layers including how to use masks blending modes and layer management. You'll learn professional techniques as you become completely familiar with the power of layers as an organizational correction and revision tool that will quickly become an essential part of your overall Photoshop workflow. | THE ADOBE PHOTOSHOP LAYERS BOOK

GBP 175.00
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Inside Book Publishing

Inside Book Publishing

Now fully revised and updated for its sixth edition Inside Book Publishing is the classic introduction to the book publishing industry. Giles Clark and Angus Phillips offer authoritative coverage of all sectors of the industry from commercial fiction and non-fiction to educational publishing and academic journals. They reveal how publishers continue to adapt to a fast-changing and highly interconnected world in which printed books have proved resilient alongside ebooks and the growth of audio. Major themes are explored including the development of digital products and the use of social media in book marketing as well as those that affect publishers’ businesses such as the rise of internet retailing; rental models for student textbooks; and open access where academic content is free to the user. Case studies from industry experts give fascinating perspectives on topics such as crowdfunding self-publishing and how authors can market themselves. The book provides excellent overviews of the main aspects of the publishing process: commissioning authors product development design and production marketing sales and distribution. As a manual for those in the profession and a guide for the potential publishers of the future Inside Book Publishing remains a seminal work for anyone with an interest in the industry. It will also be of interest to authors seeking an insider’s view of this exciting industry.

GBP 36.99
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Architect's Legal Pocket Book

Architect's Legal Pocket Book

A little book that's big on information the Architect's Legal Pocket Book is the definitive reference on legal issues for architects and architectural students. This handy pocket guide covers key legal principles which will help you to quickly understand the law and where to go for further information. Now in a fully updated new edition this bestselling book covers a wide range of subjects focused on the UK including building legislation negligence liability planning policy and development listed buildings party wall legislation and rights of light. This edition also contains greater coverage of contracts including the RIBA contracts dispute resolution and legal issues in professional practice. Illustrated with clear diagrams and featuring key cases this is an invaluable source of practical information and a comprehensive guide of the current law for architects. It is a book no architect should be without.

GBP 160.00
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Unaccompanied Children in European Migration and Asylum Practices In Whose Best Interests?

Unaccompanied Children in European Migration and Asylum Practices In Whose Best Interests?

Unaccompanied minor migrants are underage migrants who for various reasons leave their country and are separated from their parents or legal/customary guardians. Some of them live entirely by themselves while others join their relatives or other adults in a foreign country. The concept of the best interests of a child is widely applied in international national legal documents and several guidelines and often pertains to unaccompanied minor migrants given that they are separated from parents who are not able to exercise their basic parental responsibilities. This book takes an in-depth look at the issues surrounding the best interests of the child in relation to unaccompanied minor migrants drawing on social legal and political sciences in order to understand children’s rights not only as a matter of positive law but mainly as a social practice depending on personal biographies community histories and social relations of power. The book tackles the interpretation of the rights of the child and the best interests principle in the case of unaccompanied minor migrants in Europe at political legal and practical levels. In its first part the book considers theoretical aspects of children’s rights and the best interests of the child in relation to unaccompanied minor migrants. Adopting a critical approach to the implementation of the Convention of Rights of a Child authors nevertheless confirm its relevance for protecting minor migrants’ rights in practice. Authors deconstruct power relations residing within the discourses of children’s rights and best interests demonstrating that these rights are constructed and decided upon by those in power who make decisions on behalf of those who do not possess authority. Authors further on explore normative and methodological aspects of Article 3 of the Convention on the Rights of a Child and its relevance for asylum and migration legislation. The second part of the book goes on to examine the actual legal framework related to unaccompanied minor migrants and implementation of children’s’ rights and their best interests in the reception protection asylum and return procedures. The case studies are based on from the empirical research on interviews with key experts and unaccompanied minor migrants in Austria France Slovenia and United Kingdom. Examining age assessment procedures unaccompanied minors’ survivals strategies and their everyday life in reception centres the contributors point to the discrepancy between the states’ obligations to take the best interest of the child into account when dealing with unaccompanied minor migrants and the lack of formal procedures of best interest determination in practice. The chapters expose weaknesses and failures of institutionalized systems in selected European countries in dealing with unaccompanied children and young people on the move. | Unaccompanied Children in European Migration and Asylum Practices In Whose Best Interests?

GBP 42.99
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Architect's Legal Pocket Book

Architect's Legal Pocket Book

A little book that’s big on information the Architect’s Legal Pocket Book is the definitive reference guide on legal issues for architects and architectural students. This handy pocket guide covers key legal principles which will help you to quickly understand the law and where to go for further information. Now in its third edition this bestselling book has been fully updated throughout to provide you with the most current information available. Subjects include contract administration building legislation planning listed buildings contract law negligence liability and dispute resolution. This edition also contains new cases and legislation government policy contract terms and certificates including the RIBA contract administration certificates inspection duties and practical completion The Building a Safer Future Proposals for Reform of the Building Safety Regulatory System Report the Hackitt review the Report of the Independent Inquiry into the Construction of Edinburgh Schools and practical issues facing architects. Illustrated with clear diagrams and featuring key cases this is a comprehensive guide to current law for architects and an invaluable source of information. It is a book no architect should be without. | Architect's Legal Pocket Book

GBP 31.99
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