Crime, addiction and the regulation of gambling [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Toine Spapens, Alan Littler and Cyrille Fijnaut

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910455064903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Leiden ; ; Boston, : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2008
• ISBN: 1-282-40065-7; 9786612400650; 90-474-2565-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (268 p.)
• Collana: Nijhoff eBook titles 2008
• Altri autori (Persone): SpapensA. C; LittlerAlan; FijnautCyrille <1946->
• Disciplina: 345.24/0272
• Soggetti: Gambling - Law and legislation - European Union countries - Criminal provisions; Gambling - Law and legislation - United States - Criminal provisions; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Preliminary Material / Toine Spapens , Alan Littler and Cyrille Fijnaut -- General Introduction / Cyrille Fijnaut -- Crime Problems Related to Gambling: an Overview / Toine Spapens -- The Proper Functioning of the Internal Market: Observations from Brussels / Erik Bertil Vagnhammar -- Placanica: Combating Criminality vs. Reducing Gambling Opp Ortunities as Grounds for Justification in the EC J’s Jurisprudence / Nele Hoekx -- Regulating ILL Egal Gambling Markets: the Case of Illegal Casinos in the Netherlands / Toine Spapens -- Gambling and Addiction Problems in the Netherlands / Dick De Bruin -- The Role of Crime and Addiction in theGambling Policy of France / Franois Trucy -- The German Market for Gambling and Betting / Tilman Becker -- The Culture of Gambling in Great Britain: Legislative and Social Change / Gerda Reith -- Preventing Problem Gambling on the Internet through the Use of Social Responsibility Mechanisms / Caroline Jawad and Stephen Griffiths -- Concluding Remarks / Cyrille Fijnaut -- Appendix / Toine Spapens , Alan Littler and Cyrille Fijnaut -- About the ; Authors / Toine Spapens , Alan Littler and Cyrille Fijnaut -- Index / Toine Spapens , Alan Littler and Cyrille Fijnaut.
• Sommario/riassunto: This is the third book to be produced by members of the Gambling Research Group – associated with Tilburg University’s Faculty of Law concerning issues closely connected with the debate on the gambling policies that the European Union and its Member States are pursuing. The first book – Alan Littler and Cyrille Fijnaut (eds), The Regulation of Gambling: European and National Perspectives (Leiden, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2007) – mainly considers the legal aspects of gambling regulation, at both European Union and Member State level. The second book – Tom Coryn, Cyrille Fijnaut and Alan Littler (eds), Economic Aspects of Gambling Regulation: EU and US Perspectives (Leiden, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2008) – looks at research conducted in the United States and the European Union into the costs and benefits involved in the regulation of gambling. The contributions to this third book turn the spotlight on two social problems: crime and addiction, both of which play a significant part in the institutional debate in the European Union concerning whether gambling should be treated as a service that – like other services – should be subject to the laws universally applicable to the internal market. This volume is primarily devoted to the research that has been conducted in several Member States into the problems of gambling-related crime and addiction. It also examines developments at EU level: What policy is the European Commission currently pursuing? And what stance does the European Court of Justice take these days? Crime and addiction problems that can arise in the context of online gambling and at possible ways of keeping them under control. are also examined.

Philosophy on bamboo [[electronic resource] ] : text and the production of meaning in early China / / by Dirk Meyer

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910457712303321
• Autore: Meyer Dirk <1975 Apr. 18->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2012
• ISBN: 1-283-32685-X; 9786613326850; 90-04-20808-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (406 p.)
• Collana: Studies in the history of Chinese texts ; ; v. 2
• Disciplina: 181/.11
• Soggetti: Chinese classics - Criticism, Textual; Chinese literature - Criticism, Textual; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Preliminary Material -- INTRODUCTION -- 1. The “Zhōng xin zhī dao” 忠信之道 “The Way of Fidelity and Trustworthiness” -- 2. The “Qiong da yı ̌ shi” 窮達以時 “Failure and Success Appear at Their Respective Times” -- 3. The “Wǔ xing” 五行 “Five Aspects of Virtuous Conduct” -- 4. The “Xing zi ming chū” 性自命出 “Human Nature is Brought Forth by Decree” -- 5. Text, Structure, Meaning -- 6. Applying the Methodology: “Tai yī shēng shuı ̌” 太一生水 “The Ultimate One Gives Birth to Water” and “Lǎozı ̌” 老子 -- 7. Writing Meaning: Material Conditions of Meaning Construction in Warring States Philosophy -- 8. Conclusion: Writing Philosophy -- 9. Reconstructing the “Zhōng xin zhī dao” 忠信之道 -- 10. Reconstructing the “Qiong da yı ̌ shi” 窮達以時 -- 11. Reconstructing the “Wǔ xing” -- 12. Reconstructing the “Xing zi ming chū” 性自命出 -- 13. Reconstructing the “Tai yī shēng shuı ̌” 太一生水 -- Bibliography -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: Scholarship on early Chinese thought has long tended to treat texts as mere repositories of ideas rather than as meaningful objects in their own right. Not only does this approach present an idealised account of China’s intellectual past, but it also imposes artificial boundaries between textual and philosophical traditions. As the first study to treat text as a cultural phenomenon during the Warring States period, this ; book demonstrates the interplay among the material conditions of text and manuscript culture, writing, and thought. Through close readings of philosophical texts excavated at Guōdiàn, it analyses crucial strategies of meaning construction and casts light on the ways in which different communities used texts to philosophical ends. Meyer thus establishes new understandings of the correlation between ideas, their material carrier, and the production of meaning in early China.