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Laws and Lawmakers Science, Metaphysics, and the Laws of Nature - Marc Lange - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

Laws of nature have long puzzled philosophers. What distinguishes laws from facts about the world that do not rise to the level of laws? How can laws be contingent and nevertheless necessary? In this brief, accessible study, Lange offers provocative and original answers to these questions. He argues that laws are distinguished by their necessity, which is grounded in primitive subjunctive facts (expressed by counterfactual conditionals). While recognizing that natural necessity is distinct from logical, metaphysical, and mathematical necessity, Lange explains how natural necessity constitutes a species of the same genus as those other varieties of necessity. Along the way, Lange discusses the relation between laws and objective chances, as well as such unjustly neglected topics as the completeness of the laws of physics and whether the laws of nature can change. Lange''s elegant, engagingly written book is non-technical and suitable for undergraduate philosophers (and undergraduate scientists interested in the logical foundations of science). It is "must reading" for metaphysicians and philosophers of science working on laws, chance, counterfactuals, modality, or the philosophy of physics.

DKK 946.00

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Lange Review Ultrasonography Examination: Fifth Edition - Charles Odwin - Bog - McGraw-Hill Education - Plusbog.dk

Trust the #1 selling ultrasonography study guide—1,000+ images, 3,000 review questions/answers, content from leading experts in the field Lange Review Ultrasonography Examination has long been the go-to guide for anyone seeking certification or recertification in ultrasonography. This unbeatable study aid summarizes the entire ultrasonography curriculum in concise, readable narrative, helping you understand and retain key concepts. Covering the latest ultrasonography technologies and techniques, this new edition brings you fully up to date on the topics you need to know most—and it includes all-new chapters on 3D sonography in obstetrics and gynecology, musculoskeletal ultrasound, and breast sonography. With its authoritative and engaging coverage combined with thousands of sample questions and detailed answers that reinforce learning, Lange Review Ultrasonography Examination provides the fully rounded learning experience you need to ace the exam.

DKK 839.00

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Smile When You Call Me a Hillbilly - Jeffrey J. Lange - Bog - University of Georgia Press - Plusbog.dk

Lange examines the 1940s and early 1950s as the most crucial period in country music’s transformation from a rural, southern folk art form to a national phenomenon. He shows how country music and its audience became more sophisticated and how subgenres blended with one another and with American popular music.

DKK 860.00

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Killing Others - Matthew Lange - Bog - Cornell University Press - Plusbog.dk

In Killing Others , Matthew Lange explores why humans ruthlessly attack and kill people from other ethnic communities. Drawing on an array of cases from around the world and insight from a variety of disciplines, Lange provides a simple yet powerful explanation that pinpoints the influential role of modernity in the growing global prevalence of ethnic violence over the past two hundred years. He offers evidence that a modern ethnic mind-set is the ultimate and most influential cause of ethnic violence.Throughout most of human history, people perceived and valued small sets of known acquaintances and did not identify with ethnicities. Through education, state policy, and other means, modernity ultimately created broad ethnic consciousnesses that led to emotional prejudice, whereby people focus negative emotions on entire ethnic categories, and ethnic obligation, which pushes people to attack Others for the sake of their ethnicity. Modern social transformations also provided a variety of organizational resources that put these motives into action, thereby allowing ethnic violence to emerge as a modern menace. Yet modernity takes many forms and is not constant, and past trends in ethnic violence are presently transforming. Over the past seventy years, the earliest modernizers have transformed from champions of ethnic violence into leaders of intercommunal peace, and Killing Others offers evidence that the emergence of robust rights-based democracy—in combination with effective states and economic development—weakened the motives and resources that commonly promote ethnic violence.

DKK 959.00

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Excommunication for Debt in Late Medieval France - Tyler Lange - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

Late medieval church courts frequently excommunicated debtors at the request of their creditors. Tyler Lange analyzes over 11,000 excommunications between 1380 and 1530 in order to explore the forms, rhythms, and cultural significance of the practice. Three case studies demonstrate how excommunication for debt facilitated minor transactions in an age of scarce small-denomination coinage and how interest-free loans and sales credits could be viewed as encouraging the relations of charitable exchange that were supposed to exist between members of Christ''s body. Lange also demonstrates how from 1500 or so believers gradually turned away from the practice and towards secular courts, at the same time as they retained the moralized, economically irrational conception of indebtedness we have yet to shake. The demand-driven rise and fall of excommunication for debt reveals how believers began to reshape the institutional Church well before Martin Luther posted his theses.

DKK 858.00

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Darcy Lange, Videography as Social Practice - Mercedes Vicente - Bog - Springer International Publishing AG - Plusbog.dk

The Videography of Darcy Lange is a critical monograph of a pivotal figure in early analogue video. Trained as a sculptor at the Royal College of Art, Lange developed a socially engaged video practice with remarkable studies of people at work in industrial, farming, and teaching contexts that drew from conceptual art, social documentary and structuralist filmmaking. Lange saw in portable video a democratic tool for communication and social transformation, continuing the legacy of the revolutionary avant-garde projects that merged art with social life and turned audiences into producers. This book follows Lange's trajectory from his early observational studies to the crisis of representation and socially engaged video and activism, as it is shaped by, and resists, the artistic, cultural and political preoccupations of the 1970s and 1980s. It strikes a balance between being a monographic account providing a close analysis of Lange's oeuvre and drawing from unpublished archival materials—a sort of catalogue raisonné—whilst maintaining a breadth with theoretical discourses around the themes of labour and class, education, and indigenous struggles central to his work. The book's frameworks of Conceptual Art, structuralist and ethnographic film theory, social documentary and the critique of representation, video as social practice and the notion of 'feedback', participatory socially engaged art and postcolonial and indigenous theory,—expand our understanding of video outside the predominant structuralist tendencies. Lange's transnational and nomadic career introduces notions of alterity and challenges nationalistic accounts that excluded him in the past.

DKK 986.00

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Legacies of British Rule - Matthew Lange - Bog - Princeton University Press - Plusbog.dk

The relationship between colonial pluralism and nationalist civil war in former British colonies Why do some communities fight civil wars over national self-rule while others do not? In Legacies of British Rule , Matthew Lange offers insight into this question through a rigorous multimethod and comparative analysis that pinpoints the combined impact of precolonial statehood and British colonialism. During transitions from empire to nation-state, postcolonial officials in places with large and long-standing precolonial states commonly try to build a unified nation around the dominant community in ways that discriminate against and exclude smaller communities. While such national chauvinism can fuel reactions leading to nationalist civil war, a history of British colonialism intensifies these reactions by increasing sensitivity to national chauvinism and empowering communities to act. Consequently, nationalist civil wars are three times more common in former British colonies than in other former overseas colonies.And yet, Lange finds that British colonialism exerts a very different effect on places with a limited history of precolonial statehood; in an environment with little national chauvinism, British colonialism deters nationalist civil war by promoting more inclusive postcolonial states that strengthen plurinationalism and limit fear and anger over reduced communal autonomy. Lange’s account provides valuable new insights into the roots of nationalist civil war, broad patterns of conflict, and the mixed effects of colonialism and pluralism.

DKK 1027.00

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Because Without Cause - Marc Lange - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

Not all scientific explanations work by describing causal connections between events or the world''s overall causal structure. Some mathematical proofs explain why the theorems being proved hold. In this book, Marc Lange proposes philosophical accounts of many kinds of non-causal explanations in science and mathematics. These topics have been unjustly neglected in the philosophy of science and mathematics.One important kind of non-causal scientific explanation is termed explanation by constraint. These explanations work by providing information about what makes certain facts especially inevitable - more necessary than the ordinary laws of nature connecting causes to their effects. Facts explained in this way transcend the hurly-burly of cause and effect. Many physicists have regarded the laws of kinematics, the great conservation laws, the coordinate transformations, and the parallelogram of forces as having explanations by constraint. This book presents an original account of explanations by constraint, concentrating on a variety of examples from classical physics and special relativity. This book also offers original accounts of several other varieties of non-causal scientific explanation. Dimensional explanations work by showing how some law of nature arises merely from the dimensional relations among the quantities involved. Really statistical explanations include explanations that appeal to regression toward the mean and other canonical manifestations of chance. Lange provides an original account of what makes certain mathematical proofs but not others explain what they prove. Mathematical explanation connects to a host of other important mathematical ideas, including coincidences in mathematics, the significance of giving multiple proofs of the same result, and natural properties in mathematics. Introducing many examples drawn from actual science and mathematics, with extended discussions of examples from Lagrange, Desargues, Thomson, Sylvester, Maxwell, Rayleigh, Einstein, and Feynman, Because Without Cause''s proposals and examples should set the agenda for future work on non-causal explanation.

DKK 1028.00

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LANGE Vascular and Endovascular Surgery: Clinical Diagnosis and Management - John Blebea - Bog - McGraw-Hill Education - Plusbog.dk

A concise introduction to clinical diagnosis and management―with 1,500+ practice questions and answers for effective board prep LANGE Vascular and Endovascular Surgery: Clinical Diagnosis and Management is an essential, quick-reference guide for residents and attending physicians in vascular surgery, general surgery, interventional cardiology, and interventional radiology. Divided into four sections—General Vascular, Venous Disease, Arterial Disease, and Special Vascular Conditions—the text covers all aspects of vascular disease diagnosis and management. Each chapter begins with an overview of the disease process and includes symptoms, general considerations, anatomy, clinical findings, treatment, complications of therapy and management, guidelines, and management algorithms. The high-yield content and multiple-choice questions are ideal for board prep. This unparalled guide is perfect for a range of providers, including vascular surgeons, general surgeons, interventional radiologists, interventional cardiologists, and nurse practitioners and physician assistants who specialize in vascular medicine. LANGE Vascular and Endovascular Surgery: Clinical Diagnosis and Management features: - Clear, succinct presentation of the etiology, pathogenesis, clinical findings, differential diagnosis, and medical/surgical treatment of major vascular conditions - - High-yield descriptions of the latest diagnostic modalities and management protocols - - 800+ illustrations and images, including CT scans, MRIs, x-rays, and anatomic renderings - 1,500+ multiple-choice questions and answers for board preparation

DKK 998.00

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Local Fusions - Barbara Rose Lange - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

In Local Fusions, author Barbara Rose Lange explores musical life in Hungary, Slovakia, and Austria between the end of the Cold War and the world financial crisis of 2008. With case studies from Budapest, Bratislava, and Vienna, the book looks at the ways that artists generated social commentary and tried new ways of working together as the political and economic atmosphere shifted during this time. Drawn from a variety of sources, the case studies illustrate how young musicians redefined a Central European history of elevating the arts by fusing poetry, local folk music, and other vernacular music with jazz, Asian music, art music, and electronic dance music. Their projects rejected exclusion based on ethnic background or gender prevalent in Central Europe''s present far-right political movements, and instead embraced diverse modes of expression. Through this, the musicians asserted woman power, broadened masculinities, and declared affinity with regional minorities such as the Romani people.

DKK 1020.00

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Paradise and Hell in Islamic Traditions - Christian Lange - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

The Muslim afterworld, with its imagery rich in sensual promises, has shaped Western perceptions of Islam for centuries. However, to date, no single study has done justice to the full spectrum of traditions of thinking about the topic in Islamic history. The Muslim hell, in particular, remains a little studied subject. This book, which is based on a wide array of carefully selected Arabic and Persian texts, covers not only the theological and exegetical but also the philosophical, mystical, topographical, architectural and ritual aspects of the Muslim belief in paradise and hell, in both the Sunni and the Shiʿi world. By examining a broad range of sources related to the afterlife, Christian Lange shows that Muslim religious literature, against transcendentalist assumptions to the contrary, often pictures the boundary between this world and the otherworld as being remarkably thin, or even permeable.

DKK 773.00

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LANGE Current Diagnosis and Treatment Pediatric Emergency Medicine - Maria Stephan - Bog - McGraw-Hill Education - Europe - Plusbog.dk

Publisher''s Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product. Deliver faster diagnosis, more effective treatments, and improved outcomes with this concise guide to pediatric emergency medicine - Provides immediate access to life-saving and routine information through consistent chapter outlines - Begins with a section on emergency procedures and child-safety issues - Presents information the way an emergency medicine provider thinks and acts: by symptomatic presentation, including cardiac arrest, respiratory distress, shock,fever, abdominal pain, seizures, trauma - Details evaluation and management of disorders routinely seen in Pediatric Emergency Medicine such as foreign bodies, respiratory infections, asthma, heart defects, dehydration, rashes, sickle-cell disease, sports-injuries and more - Enhanced by numerous tables, and more than 400 illustrations and photographs to clarify concepts and improve understanding LANGE Valuable to all practitioners of emergency medicine, from prehospital care providers to nurses and physicians Designed for use in a busy, fastpaced emergency department Focuses on the practical aspects of emergency care Covers a wide spectrum of pediatric conditions

DKK 883.00

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Natural Laws in Scientific Practice - Marc Lange - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

Laws of nature have long been thought to have special significance for aspects of scientific reasoning such as counterfactual conditionals, inductive projections, and scientific explanations. But the laws'' distinctive roles in scientific reasoning have proved notoriously difficult to identify precisely, leading some philosophers even to suggest that there are no such roles. The aim of this book is to determine these roles and see what a law of nature must be in order for the laws to function as they do in scientific practice. Lange shows that the laws possess a uniquely broad range of invariance under counterfactual perturbations, a range that for the first time is characterised without appealing to the concept of a law. It is argued that the laws fail to supervene on the nonnomic facts, just as the rules governing chess fail to supervene on the moves made in a given actual game. It is also argued, against both regularity accounts and analyses of laws as relations among universals, that a law need not be associated with an exceptionless regularity. It is explained how a law of one scientific field (e.g. cardiology) can be an accident of another (e.g. fundamental physics). Special attention is paid to laws of biology and other ''special sciences'', and it is argued that their distinctive range of invariance allows these fields to supply scientific explanations that are irreducible, even in principle, to explanations in terms of fundamental physics. Another special feature of this book is its emphasis on the distinction between laws of nature and physically necessary coincidences, a distinction crucial to the concept of natural kind. An account is also given of ''meta-laws'', such as symmetry principles. Among the philosphers receiving special discussion are Lewis, Goodman, van Fraassen, Armstrong, Dretske, Earman, Mill, Fodor, Hempel, Giere, Putnam, Dennett, and Mackie.

DKK 1060.00

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Menacing Tides - Erik De Lange - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

Over the course of the nineteenth century, European states worked together to install a new order of collective security, legitimising the repression of piracy. Menacing Tides demonstrates how this European cooperation against shared threats remade the Mediterranean and unleashed a new form of collaborative imperialism.

DKK 854.00

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Crime as Destiny - Johannes Lange - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

First published in 1931, Crime as Destiny throws a beam of light across the darkness which enshrouds the study of the deeper causes of crime and the eternal debate between nature versus nurture. The author’s investigations led him to conclusions of the first importance to the sociologist and the psychologist. But the subject is wilder than it seems and by its direct bearing on the question of determinism will arouse the interest of the theologian and the student of philosophy as well. For the student of history, this research work will help trace the beginning of the logic of eugenics that will eventually take its nightmarish form under Hitler.

DKK 1042.00

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Meanings of Maple - Michael Lange - Bog - University of Arkansas Press - Plusbog.dk

Provides a cultural analysis of maple syrup making, known in Vermont as sugaring, to illustrate how maple syrup as both process and product is an aspect of cultural identity. So much more than a commodity study, Meanings of Maple frames a new approach for evaluating the broader implications of iconic foodways, and it will animate conversations in food studies for years to come.

DKK 791.00

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Implementing EU Pollution Control - Bettina Lange - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

Through a detailed analysis this book examines the role of law in European Union integration processes through the implementation of the EU Directive on Integrated Pollution Prevention and Control at European Level and in the UK and Germany. The book questions traditional conceptions which perceive law as the ''formal law in the books'', as instrumental and as relatively autonomous in relation to its social contexts. The book also discusses in depth how the key legal obligation on the Directive, to employ ''the best available techniques'', is actually implemented. This research locates the analysis of the implementation of the IPPC Directive in the wider context of current, cutting-edge political science and sociology of law debates about the role of law in EU integration processes, the nature of EU law, new modes of governance and the significance of ''law in action'' for understanding legal process.

DKK 948.00

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Holy Brotherhood - Barbara Rose Lange - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

Holy Brotherhood: Romani Music in a Hungarian Pentecostal Church is a musical ethnography of a religious community. After the end of socialism, different ethnic groups in Hungary harbored antagonism toward one another. In one Pentecostal church in Pecs, Hungary, however, both Hungarians and Roma (Gypsies) worshipped and made music together. Three musical repertoires coexisted, each with a separate historical background and complex social meanings: Romani religious song; nineteenth-century gospel hymns originally from the United States; and contemporary Christian pop from the United States. Church members accommodated cultural and musical differences by developing several distinct performance styles.

DKK 1071.00

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Extending the Evolutionary Synthesis - Axel Lange - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The theory of evolution is itself evolving with new findings and changes in the fundamental underlying concepts. It is true that today''s synthetic theory, which goes back to Darwin, is persistently successful. However, it offers no convincing explanation to many questions, some examples of which are as follows: What forms of inheritance exist besides genetics; how complex variations, especially evolutionary innovations such as bird feathers and turtle shells, arise; how the environment affects the evolution of species and is changed by them simultaneously; and why the evolution of birds, corals, and human culture is not explainable by natural selection alone. Scientific findings of the last decades require continuous rethinking and integration of new data and concepts into the theory of evolution. This comprehensibly written and excellently researched book provides exciting new insights into the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis using fascinating new examples from evolutionary biology. Key Features - Comprehensively explains the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis - Understandably written for a broad audience - Includes interviews with world-leading evolutionary biologists - Reviews the historical development of evolutionary theory with explanations of open, unanswered questions - Explains the new concepts with powerful illustrations Related Titles Bard, J. Evolution: The Origins and Mechanisms of Diversity (ISBN 9781032138480) Johnson, N. Darwin’s Reach: 21 st Century Applications of Evolutionary Biology (ISBN 9781138587427)

DKK 778.00

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Practical Machine Learning with R - Carsten Lange - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

This textbook is a comprehensive guide to machine learning and artificial intelligence tailored for students in business and economics. It takes a hands-on approach to teach machine learning, emphasizing practical applications over complex mathematical concepts. Students are not required to have advanced mathematics knowledge such as matrix algebra or calculus. The author introduces machine learning algorithms, utilizing the widely used R language for statistical analysis. Each chapter includes examples, case studies, and interactive tutorials to enhance understanding. No prior programming knowledge is needed. The book leverages the tidymodels package, an extension of R, to streamline data processing and model workflows. This package simplifies commands, making the logic of algorithms more accessible by minimizing programming syntax hurdles. The use of tidymodels ensures a unified experience across various machine learning models. With interactive tutorials that students can download and follow along at their own pace, the book provides a practical approach to apply machine learning algorithms to real-world scenarios. In addition to the interactive tutorials, each chapter includes a Digital Resources section, offering links to articles, videos, data, and sample R code scripts. A companion website further enriches the learning and teaching experience: https://ai.lange-analytics.com . This book is not just a textbook; it is a dynamic learning experience that empowers students and instructors alike with a practical and accessible approach to machine learning in business and economics. Key Features: - Unlocks machine learning basics without advanced mathematics — no calculus or matrix algebra required. - Demonstrates each concept with R code and real-world data for a deep understanding — no prior programming knowledge is needed. - Bridges the gap between theory and real-world applications with hands-on interactive projects and tutorials in every chapter, guided with hints and solutions. - Encourages continuous learning with chapter-specific online resources—video tutorials, R-scripts, blog posts, and an online community. - Supports instructors through a companion website that includes customizable materials such as slides and syllabi to fit their specific course needs.

DKK 810.00

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An Introduction to Judaism - Nicholas De Lange - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

In this book contemporary Judaism is presented in all its rich diversity. While the focus of the book is on developments that have taken place in the past two hundred years, they are set against a historical background, going back to the Bible.

DKK 810.00

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'Vergeten' Bandkeramiek - - Bog - Sidestone Press - Plusbog.dk

Het archeologisch onderzoek in Nederland naar de vroegneolithische Lineaire Bandkeramiek cultuur of LBK (5250-4950 v. Chr.) heeft een lange geschiedenis. Sinds de eerste vondsten in 1925 werken amateur- en beroepsarcheologen er aan om onze kennis van deze cultuur te vergroten.

DKK 1010.00

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Body MRI Cases - Eduard E. De Lange - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

Body MRI Cases serves as a ready reference of 143 cases and nearly 900 superb quality images of common and uncommon conditions encountered in the daily practice of body MRI.

DKK 1136.00

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Learning to be a Teacher - Sue Burroughs Lange - Bog - Sage Publications Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Being a successful teacher means constantly examining your own development to identify blind spots and ensure you engage on a meaningful level with teaching and learning. This book discusses theoretical and conceptual ideas, linked to direct strategies for the classroom, that guide students towards becoming proactive and effective learners, giving them the confidence to take charge of their professional future in teaching. Built around a series of ‘contributing ideas′, this book includes a conceptual framework for critically analysing and thinking about the teaching and learning environment. Examples throughout explore how to make the most of professional learning opportunities so students can take personal control of their learning, through self-regulation and self-monitoring. Strategies for making practical use of these ideas for classroom planning and preparation for learning are also included.

DKK 1011.00

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Justice, Punishment and the Medieval Muslim Imagination - Christian Lange - Bog - Cambridge University Press - Plusbog.dk

An in-depth study of the phenomenon of punishment, both divine and human, in eleventh-to-thirteenth-century Islamic society. This book examines the relationship between state and society in meting out justice, Muslim attitudes to hell and the legal dimensions of punishment.