Andrew Watson

Harbinger of Justice

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Royal Society Research Professor at the University of East Anglia Andrew Watson

As the husband of a family doctor, Andrew Watson thought having a baby would be a problem-free experience. Unfortunately, as he and his wife soon discovered, babies don't always read the textbooks. 'Down to Earth With a Bump' is a first-time dad's diary of the trials and tribulations of becoming a parent.

The Diary of a First-Time Dad

Down to Earth with a Bump

This book analyses the mixed courts of professional and lay judges in the Japanese criminal justice system. It takes a particular focus on the highly public start of the mixed court, the saiban-in system, and the jury system between 1928-1943. This was the first time Japanese citizens participated as decision makers in criminal law. The book assesses reasons for the jury system's failure, and its suspension in 1943, as well as the renewed interest in popular involvement in criminal justice at the end of the twentieth century. Popular Participation in Japanese Criminal Justice proceeds by explaining the process by which lay participation in criminal trials left the periphery to become an important national matter at the turn of the century. It shows that rather than an Anglo-American jury model, outline recommendations made by the Japanese Judicial Reform Council were for a mixed court of judges and laypersons to try serious cases. Concerns about the lay judge/saiban-in system are raised, as well as explanations for why it is flourishing in contemporary society despite the failure of the jury system during the period 1928-1943. The book presents the wider significance of Japanese mixed courts in Asia and beyond, and in doing so will be of great interests to scholars of socio-legal studies, criminology and criminal justice.

From Jurors to Lay Judges

Popular Participation in Japanese Criminal Justice

Charles Watson

As parents, we are always searching for ways to raise our children smarter, better, and happier. What you are about to read is a different kind of parenting book with its unique insights that can last for a lifetime... Using storytelling to convey the message, Dr. Andrew Watson, and Dr. Charles Watson, Ph.D., wrote an engaging and fun-to-read translation of the best research on the field of effective parenting and child development. The Steps: 12 Secrets to Raising Happy and Successful Kids is an amusing and enlightening story of Estela, a hard-nosed journalist in search of answers to the struggling education system. Eager to understand what works and what can be done better, Estela stumbles upon a young boy with Down syndrome. To her surprise, he can read better than half of the adults she knows. Intrigued with the exceptional ability of the boy, she finds out that he attends the Awake Clinic, where Dr. Michael Jansen, a world-renowned neurologist, works. There, Estela discovers about the Steps, an innovative protocol based on the recent advances of neuroscience and psychology. The Steps targets the development of communication and language of the child, early reading, creativity, self-control, discipline, grit, and values, among other things, to give the right tools to promote the cognitive, psychomotor, and affective skills of the baby, the child, and the adolescent, producing highly successful adults with above-average abilities.Dr. Michael Jansen decides to share with Estela the 12 Steps from the protocol. In the meantime, she finds out about her pregnancy. What better time to find out if the Steps really work?

12 Secrets to Raising Happy and Successful Kids

The Steps

Discusses ideas and stories related to the study of quantum chromodynamics, one of the four fundamental forces of nature that controls the universe in which we live, in an accessible and entertaining study.

The Quantum Quark

Christopher Findlay

Harry X. Wu

How and why did the rural enterprise sector get so big in China? This book has the answers. That sector is owned and operated by rural communities. The book explains why these enterprises have been growing so fast, and it explores the implications of their growth.

Rural Enterprises in China

Tim Lenton

The Earth that sustains us today was born out of a few remarkable, near-catastrophic revolutions, started by biological innovations and marked by global environmental consequences. The revolutions have certain features in common, such as an increase in complexity, energy utilization, and information processing by life. This book describes these revolutions, showing the fundamental interdependence of the evolution of life and its non-living environment. We would not exist unless these upheavals had led eventually to 'successful' outcomes - meaning that after each one, at length, a new stable world emerged. The current planet-reshaping activities of our species may be the start of another great Earth system revolution, but there is no guarantee that this one will be successful. The book explains what a successful transition through it might look like, if we are wise enough to steer such a course. This book places humanity in context as part of the Earth system, using a new scientific synthesis to illustrate our debt to the deep past and our potential for the future.

Revolutions that Made the Earth

Colin Mackerras

Donald H. McMillen

As China's political and economic development comes under closer scrutiny, this Dictionary will prove invaluable to anyone with an interest in contemporary China. As well as proving valuable to students and academics of political science, economics, history and Asian studies, it will be of use to government officials, business people and media professionals with current or future connections in the region. The main topics covered by the Dictionary are: * major political processes and events * key issues in domestic policy * China's evolving foreign policy environment * key political personalities * major political institutions and groupings * important aspects of the legal system.

Dictionary of the Politics of the People's Republic of China

This book maps the changes in court advocacy in England and Wales over the last three centuries. Advocacy, the means by which a barrister puts their client’s case to the court and jury, has grown piecemeal and at an uneven pace; the result of a complex interplay of many influences. Andrew Watson examines the numerous principal factors, from the effect on juniors of successful styles deployed by senior advocates, changes in court procedure, reforms in laws determining who and what may be put before courts, the amount of media reporting of court cases, and public and press opinion about the acceptable limits of advocates’ tactics and oratory. This book also explores the extent to which juries are used in trials and the social origins of those serving on them. It goes on to examine the formal teaching of advocacy which was only introduced comparatively recently, arguing that this, and new technology, will likely exert a strong influence on future forensic oratory. Speaking in Court provides a readable history of advocacy and the many factors that have shaped it, and takes a far wider view of the history of advocacy than many titles, analysing the 20th Century developments which are often overlooked. This book will be of interest to general readers, law practitioners interested in how advocacy has developed in courts of yesteryear, teachers of advocacy who want to locate there subject in history and impart this to their students, and to law students curious about the origins of what they are learning.

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