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Midcentury Houses Today

By: Lorenzo Ottaviani,Jeffrey Matz,Cristina A. Ross

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Midcentury Houses Today

By: Lorenzo Ottaviani,Jeffrey Matz,Cristina A. Ross

Architects Philip Johnson, Marcel Breuer, Landis Gores, Eliot Noyes, Edward Durell Stone, and others created an extraordinary collection of modern houses in New Canaan, Connecticut, in the 1940s and 1950s. The bucolic New England town—a suburb of Manhattan—became the site of fervent experimentation by some of the leading lights of the movement in the United States, the architects known as the Harvard Five, whose modern aesthetic could be traced to the Bauhaus school of design. There they promoted their core principles: simplicity, openness, and sensitivity to site and nature, and built glass, wood, steel, and fieldstone houses that established architectural modernism as the ideal of domesticity in the twentieth century. Architects Jeffrey Matz and Cristina A. Ross, photographer Michael Biondo, and graphic designer Lorenzo Ottaviani present this vanishing generation of iconic American houses as more than an issue of restoration or preservation, but as an evolving legacy that adapts to contemporary life. Selecting a representative group of sixteen houses covering the period between the 1950s and 1978, they portray each one in great detail, with floor plans, timelines, and both archival and luminous new photography—from the clean, minimalist look of the initial construction, to subsequent additions by some of the most significant architects of our time including Toshiko Mori, Roger Ferris, and Joeb Moore. Voices of the architects and builders, original owners and current occupants combine to describe how the houses are enjoyed and lived in today, and how the modernist residence is more than just a philosophy of design and construction, but also a philosophy of living.

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The Monacelli Press, LLC

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1580933858

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Feminist Ethics and Natural Law

The End of the Anathemas

By: Cristina L. H. Traina

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Feminist Ethics and Natural Law

The End of the Anathemas

By: Cristina L. H. Traina

Heated debates over such issues as abortion, contraception, ordination, and Church hierarchy suggest that feminist and natural law ethics are diametrically opposed. Cristina L.H. Traina now reexamines both Roman Catholic natural law tradition and Anglo-American feminist ethics and reconciles the two positions by showing how some of their aims and assumptions complement one another. After carefully scrutinizing Aquinas’s moral theology, she analyzes trends in both contemporary feminist ethics, theological as well as secular, and twentieth-century Roman Catholic moral theology. Although feminist ethics reject many of the methods and conclusions of the scholastic and revisionist natural law schools, Traina shows that a truly Thomistic natural law ethic nonetheless provides a much-needed holistic foundation for contemporary feminist ethics. On the other hand, she offers new perspectives on the writings of Josef Fuchs, Richard McCormick, and Gustavo Gutierrez, arguing that their failure to catch the full spirit of Thomas’s moral vision is due to inadequate attention to feminist critical methods. This highly original book proposes an innovative union of two supposedly antagonistic schools of thought, a new feminist natural law that would yield more comprehensive moral analysis than either existing tradition alone. This is a provocative book not only for students of moral theology but also for feminists who may object to the very notion of natural law ethics, suggesting how each might find insight in an unlikely place.

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Georgetown University Press

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158901846X

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9781589018464

Processes of Constitutional Decisionmaking

Cases and Materials

By: Akhil Reed Amar,Jack M. Balkin,Sanford Levinson,Cristina M. Rodriguez,Reva B. Siegel

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Processes of Constitutional Decisionmaking

Cases and Materials

By: Akhil Reed Amar,Jack M. Balkin,Sanford Levinson,Cristina M. Rodriguez,Reva B. Siegel

The purchase of this ebook edition does not entitle you to receive access to the Connected eBook with Study Center on CasebookConnect. You will need to purchase a new print book to get access to the full experience, including: lifetime access to the online ebook with highlight, annotation, and search capabilities; practice questions from your favorite study aids; an outline tool and other helpful resources. This hugely successful materials-and-problems book is acclaimed for its textual clarity, evenhanded perspective, and contemporary, up-to-date character. Easily distinguished from other property casebooks for its plain-language descriptions of legal doctrine; explanations of the social ramifications of our system of property law; emphasis on statutory and regulatory interpretation; comprehensive treatment of public accommodations and fair housing law, tribal property issues, and property in human bodies; and use of the problem method to teach legal reasoning and lawyering skills. Streamlined for more accessible teaching, the Eighth Edition has been thoroughly updated to reflect significant changes in the law of property, including in responses to the Covid-19 pandemic, in intellectual property, housing discrimination, regulatory takings, and more. Key Features: Updated to reflect significant changes in the law of property to help professors keep current and be aware of emerging disputes Streamlined to assist in making teaching from the casebook more accessible, without sacrificing coverage and depth New materials and problems have been added in an array of areas, including: The importance of race and slavery in shaping property law and distribution The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on several core areas of property law Growing questions about the balance between public accommodations and religious liberty, including Masterpiece Cakeshop, Inc. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, 138 S. Ct. 1719 (2018) and its aftermath Emerging caselaw on the rights of people experiencing homelessness; Shifts in property rights emerging from marriage and non-marital intimate relationships; New materials on the law and practice of trusts and the impact of reproductive technologies Recent developments in tribal sovereignty disputes, including McGirt v. Oklahoma, 140 S. Ct. 2452 (2020) Developments in intellectual property, including in copyright and fair use Shifts in fair housing law, including developments involving landlord responsibility for tenant-to-tenant discriminatory harassment Recent Supreme Court developments in the realm of regulatory takings, including Murr v. Wisconsin, 137 S.Ct. 1933 (2017), Knick v. Township of Scott, 139 S. Ct. 2162 (2019); and Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid (to be decided by the end of this Term) Professors and students will benefit from: Clear, concise, accessible coverage of core property doctrines, through caselaw, statutes, and regulatory materials Fully updated engagement with contemporary controversies in our system of property; and Excellent opportunities for problem- and exercise-based learning in every section

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Aspen Publishing

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1543838561

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9781543838565

Humanism in FIfteenth-Century Europe

By: Stephen J. Milner,John Monfasani,John L. Flood,Jacqueline Glomski,Cristina Neagu,Jeremy Lawrance,Craig Taylor,Tom Rutledge,Daniel Wakelin,Oren Margolis

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Humanism in FIfteenth-Century Europe

By: Stephen J. Milner,John Monfasani,John L. Flood,Jacqueline Glomski,Cristina Neagu,Jeremy Lawrance,Craig Taylor,Tom Rutledge,Daniel Wakelin,Oren Margolis

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The Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature

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0907570232

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9780907570233

The Makings and Unmakings of Americans

Indians and Immigrants in American Literature and Culture, 1879-1924

By: Cristina Stanciu

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The Makings and Unmakings of Americans

Indians and Immigrants in American Literature and Culture, 1879-1924

By: Cristina Stanciu

Challenges the myth of the United States as a nation of immigrants by bringing together two groups rarely read together: Native Americans and Eastern European immigrants In this cultural history of Americanization during the Progressive Era, Cristina Stanciu argues that new immigrants and Native Americans shaped the intellectual and cultural debates over inclusion and exclusion, challenging ideas of national belonging, citizenship, and literary and cultural production. Deeply grounded in a wide-ranging archive of Indigenous and new immigrant writing and visual culture--including congressional acts, testimonies, news reports, cartoons, poetry, fiction, and silent film--this book brings together voices of Native and immigrant America. Stanciu shows that, although Native Americans and new immigrants faced different legal and cultural obstacles to citizenship, the challenges they faced and their resistance to assimilation and Americanization often ran along parallel paths. Both struggled against idealized models of American citizenship that dominated public spaces. Both participated in government-sponsored Americanization efforts and worked to gain agency and sovereignty while negotiating naturalization. Rethinking popular understandings of Americanization, Stanciu argues that the new immigrants and Native Americans at the heart of this book expanded the narrow definitions of American identity.

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Yale University Press

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0300224354

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9780300224351

Construyendo mentes. Ensayos en homenaje a Juan Delval. Constructing minds. Essays in honor of Juan Delval

By: Juan Antonio GARCÍA MADRUGA,Raquel KOHEN KOHEN,Cristina DEL BARRIO,Ileana ENESCO ARANA,José Luis LINAZA IGLESIA

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Construyendo mentes. Ensayos en homenaje a Juan Delval. Constructing minds. Essays in honor of Juan Delval

By: Juan Antonio GARCÍA MADRUGA,Raquel KOHEN KOHEN,Cristina DEL BARRIO,Ileana ENESCO ARANA,José Luis LINAZA IGLESIA

El lector podrá encontrar en este volumen breves presentaciones y revisiones en campos específicos tan relevantes como el pensamiento de los primates y su relación con el desarrollo cognitivo humano, la emergencia de la morfología y las estructuras verbales de hablantes españoles, la génesis de los conocimientos sobre la sociedad, la complejidad de las decisiones morales, la vigencia de las concepciones constructivistas en la educación, el cambio conceptual en historia o el desarrollo de las concepciones infantiles sobre el origen de las especies.

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Editorial UNED

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8436263553

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9788436263558

Urban Children Distress

By: Cristina Szanton Blanc

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Urban Children Distress

By: Cristina Szanton Blanc

This book describes how deprived urban children and their families and communities try to cope with scarcity, neglect and discrimination. It communicates the smell, the sweat, the agonies and the occasional triumphs of the poor in their day-to-day struggle for a rightful share of human dignity.

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Routledge

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1000141195

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Building Sustainable Agriculture for Food Security in the Euro-Mediterranean Area

By: Maria Cristina Paciello

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Building Sustainable Agriculture for Food Security in the Euro-Mediterranean Area

By: Maria Cristina Paciello

Sustainable agrocolture and food security are of particular concern for the countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, and represent one of the biggest challenges facing the area. As a consequence of the region’s heavy reliance on food imports, the sharp increase in food prices since 2007 and the consequent world food crisis has had macro-economic problems (inflation, trade deficits, fiscal pressure), increased poverty and political instability. This challenge, coupled with the consequences of environmental degradation, water scarcity, urbanization and climate stress, call for the urgent development of sustainable agriculture has mostly been ignored in Euro-Mediterranean relations, due to strong opposition from the EU. However, academics and policymakers have increasingly acknowlendged that agriculture that needs to be placed at the core of Euro-Mediterranean regional cooperation. Given the sensitiveness and strategic importance of agriculture for both shores of the Mediterranean, the IAI and the OCP Policy Center jointly organized a two-day conference in Rabat on November 20-21, 2014, to discuss food security and agriculture challeges in the framework of Euro-Mediterranean relations. The present colume collects the updated and revised versions of the twelve papers that were discussed in that meeting.

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Edizioni Nuova Cultura

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8868125080

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Resolviendo

Narratives of Survival in the Hebrew Bible and in Cuba Today

By: Cristina García-Alfonso

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Resolviendo

Narratives of Survival in the Hebrew Bible and in Cuba Today

By: Cristina García-Alfonso

The story of Rahab (Joshua 2) has traditionally been interpreted as the account of a foreign woman and prostitute who changes the course of her life when she converts to Yahweh. In return for her faithful act of saving the spies sent by Joshua to search the land of Canaan, Rahab and her family obtain salvation once her city of Jericho is destroyed. The story of Jael (Judges 4:17-23) has commonly been read as Jael's violent act of killing Sisera, King Jabin's commander in chief, with a tent peg to his temple while he was asleep. Jael is perceived as someone who fails to fulfill the hospitality codes of her society. The story of Jephthah and his unnamed daughter (Judges 10:6-12:7) describes the tragic event in which Jephthah makes a foolish and horrible vow offering his innocent daughter in sacrifice to God. Typically this text is read as Jephthah being immensely irresponsible and his daughter being the poor victim who pays for her father's oath. Cristina García-Alfonso proposes that the stories of Rahab, Jael, and Jephthah can be particularly enriched and give hope to contemporary contexts of hardship when they are read through the Cuban notion of resolviendo (survival). Using narrative criticism along with different contemporary approaches to the texts including feminist and post-colonial approaches, García-Alfonso's readings of the biblical narratives from a perspective of resolviendo offer insights in the struggle for survival many Cubans face today. Also explored are the implications that a reading through the notion of resolviendo or survival can have for other contexts in contemporary societies where survival is at stake.

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Peter Lang

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143310704X

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Book's by Cristina A. Ross

Midcentury Houses Today

Midcentury Houses Today

Feminist Ethics and Natural Law

Feminist Ethics and Natural Law

Processes of Constitutional Decisionmaking

Processes of Constitutional Decisionmaking

Humanism in FIfteenth-Century Europe

Humanism in FIfteenth-Century Europe

The Makings and Unmakings of Americans

The Makings and Unmakings of Americans

Construyendo mentes. Ensayos en homenaje a Juan Delval. Constructing minds. Essays in honor of Juan Delval

Construyendo mentes. Ensayos en homenaje a Juan Delval. Constructing minds. Essays in honor of Juan Delval

Urban Children Distress

Urban Children Distress

Building Sustainable Agriculture for Food Security in the Euro-Mediterranean Area

Building Sustainable Agriculture for Food Security in the Euro-Mediterranean Area

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