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Normal Rationality

Decisions and Social Order

By: Edna Ullmann-Margalit

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Normal Rationality

Decisions and Social Order

By: Edna Ullmann-Margalit

Normal Rationality is a selection of the most important work of Edna Ullmann-Margalit, presenting some influential and widely admired essays alongside some that are not well known. She was an unorthodox and deeply original philosopher whose work illuminated the largest mysteries of human life. Much of her writing focuses on two fundamental questions. (1) How do people proceed when they cannot act on the basis of reasons, or project likely consequences? (2) How is social order possible? Ullmann-Margalit's answers, emphasizing what might be called biased rationality, are important not only for philosophy, but also for political science, psychology, sociology, cognitive science, economics (including behavioral economics), law, and even public policy. Ullmann-Margalit demonstrates that people have identifiable strategies for making difficult decisions, whether the question is small (what to buy at a supermarket) or big (whether to transform one's life in some large-scale way). She also shows that social dilemmas are solved by norms; that invisible-hand explanations take two identifiable (and dramatically different) forms; that trust can emerge in seemingly unpromising situations; and that considerateness is the foundation on which our relationships are organized in both the thin context of the public space and the intimate context of the family. One of the distinguishing features of Ullmann-Margalit's work is its close attention to the details of human experience, and its use of those details to offer fresh understandings of social phenomena. Her essays cast new light on a diverse assortment of problems in philosophy, social science, and individual lives.

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Oxford University Press

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0192523317

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9780192523310

Wives of the Leopard

Gender, Politics, and Culture in the Kingdom of Dahomey

By: Edna G. Bay

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Wives of the Leopard

Gender, Politics, and Culture in the Kingdom of Dahomey

By: Edna G. Bay

Wives of the Leopard explores power and culture in a pre-colonial West African state whose army of women and practice of human sacrifice earned it notoriety in the racist imagination of late nineteenth-century Europe and America. Tracing two hundred years of the history of Dahomey up to the French colonial conquest in 1894, the book follows change in two central institutions. One was the monarchy, the coalitions of men and women who seized and wielded power in the name of the king. The second was the palace, a household of several thousand wives of the king who supported and managed state functions. Looking at Dahomey against the backdrop of the Atlantic slave trade and the growth of European imperialism, Edan G. Bay reaches for a distinctly Dahomean perspective as she weaves together evidence drawn from travelers' memoirs and local oral accounts, from the religious practices of vodun, and from ethnographic studies of the twentieth century. Wives of the Leopard thoroughly integrates gender into the political analysis of state systems, effectively creating a social history of power. More broadly, it argues that women as a whole and men of the lower classes were gradually squeezed out of access to power as economic resources contracted with the decline of the slave trade in the nineteenth century. In these and other ways, the book provides an accessible portrait of Dahomey's complex and fascinating culture without exoticizing it.

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University of Virginia Press

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0813923867

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9780813923864

Cold Case Squad

By: Edna Buchanan

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Cold Case Squad

By: Edna Buchanan

Like all things good and bad in the world, it began with a woman..." And so begins the first chapter of Edna Buchanan's Cold Case Squad, a new suspense novel that features a special homicide unit that breathes new life into old cases. A man and a woman are shot dead at a strip club in Miami Beach. A few hours later, an explosion in a garage rocks a child's birthday party and burns a father of three to death. The murders go unsolved and the fire is chalked up to an accident. But was it an accident? Twelve years later, a blonde walks in to the Miami Police Department's Cold Case Squad -- which Buchanan fans will remember from The Ice Maiden -- and complains that she's been seeing her husband everywhere she goes. Trouble is, he's been dead for twelve years. In Buchanan's characteristic voice, "Some guys just don't know when to let go." As the Cold Case Squad unearths the details of the strip club deaths and the dead or missing father -- as well as the unsolved killings of a series of little old ladies -- readers get to know the three cops and their boss: veteran homicide detective Sergeant Craig Burch, whose marriage has turned into a case he can't solve; Detective Sam Stone, for whom the past will always be a mystery; Detective Pete Nazario, airlifted out of Cuba during "Operation Pedro Pan" in the 1960s; and Lieutenant K. C. Riley, for whom one case will never grow cold. Edna Buchanan has been thrilling readers since her Pulitzer Prize-winning stint as a crime reporter for The Miami Herald. The Chicago Tribune once raved that "few writers can touch Buchanan," to which The Washington Post Book World seemed to respond, "I doubt if anyone else is doing it better." In Cold Case Squad, Edna Buchanan, the woman the Los Angeles Daily News calls "the Queen of crime," delivers unlikely killers, near-perfect murders, and her most suspenseful novel yet.

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Simon and Schuster

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0743262905

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9780743262903

Holy Warriors

A Journey Into The Heart Of Indian Fundamentalism

By: Edna Fernandes

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Holy Warriors

A Journey Into The Heart Of Indian Fundamentalism

By: Edna Fernandes

Home to all the major religions, India is also, inevitably, host to virtually every type of religious fanatic. No other nation has witnessed as much proselytizing or heard as many war cries in the name of God as India. For centuries, Hindus, Christians, Sikhs and Muslims have waged bloody wars, sought violent conversion and declared jihad against their enemies, as their religions have been hijacked by the forces of fundamentalism. In Holy Warriors, Edna Fernandes travels to the country's recent and past theatres of religious extremism - from Kashmir to Gujarat, Punjab to Goa - to meet the generals and foot soldiers of communal wars who assert their faith in rhetoric and rage. Theirs are stories of bigotry and bloodshed, insecurity and despair, but Fernandes listens with understanding, tolerance and a deft sense of humour, and paints a uniquely vivid and clear-sighted picture of a country divided by dogma.

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Granta Books

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1846274230

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9781846274237

Fundamentals of Civil Engineering

An Introduction to the ASCE Body of Knowledge

By: Richard H. McCuen,Edna Z. Ezzell,Melanie K. Wong

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Fundamentals of Civil Engineering

An Introduction to the ASCE Body of Knowledge

By: Richard H. McCuen,Edna Z. Ezzell,Melanie K. Wong

While the ASCE Body of Knowledge (BOK2) is the codified source for all technical and non-technical information necessary for those seeking to attain licensure in civil engineering, recent graduates have notoriously been lacking in the non-technical aspects even as they excel in the technical.Fundamentals of Civil Engineering: An Introduction to the

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CRC Press

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1439851492

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9781439851494

The Emancipation Proclamation

Three Views

By: Harold Holzer,Edna G. Medford,Frank J. Williams

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The Emancipation Proclamation

Three Views

By: Harold Holzer,Edna G. Medford,Frank J. Williams

The Emancipation Proclamation is the most important document of arguably the greatest president in U.S. history. Now, Edna Greene Medford, Frank J. Williams, and Harold Holzer -- eminent experts in their fields -- remember, analyze, and interpret the Emancipation Proclamation in three distinct respects: the influence of and impact upon African Americans; the legal, political, and military exigencies; and the role pictorial images played in establishing the document in public memory. The result is a carefully balanced yet provocative study that views the proclamation and its author from the perspective of fellow Republicans, antiwar Democrats, the press, the military, the enslaved, free blacks, and the antislavery white establishment, as well as the artists, publishers, sculptors, and their patrons who sought to enshrine Abraham Lincoln and his decree of freedom in iconography. Medford places African Americans, the people most affected by Lincoln's edict, at the center of the drama rather than at the periphery, as previous studies have done. She argues that blacks interpreted the proclamation much more broadly than Lincoln intended it, and during the postwar years and into the twentieth century they became disillusioned by the broken promise of equality and the realities of discrimination, violence, and economic dependence. Williams points out the obstacles Lincoln overcame in finding a way to confiscate property -- enslaved humans -- without violating the Constitution. He suggests that the president solidified his reputation as a legal and political genius by issuing the proclamation as Commander-in-Chief, thus taking the property under the pretext of military necessity. Holzer explores how it was only after Lincoln's assassination that the Emancipation Proclamation became an acceptable subject for pictorial celebration. Even then, it was the image of the martyr-president as the great emancipator that resonated in public memory, while any reference to those African Americans most affected by the proclamation was stripped away. This multilayered treatment reveals that the proclamation remains a singularly brave and bold act -- brilliantly calculated to maintain the viability of the Union during wartime, deeply dependent on the enlightened voices of Lincoln's contemporaries, and owing a major debt in history to the image-makers who quickly and indelibly preserved it.

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177

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LSU Press

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0807155489

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9780807155486

Friendships of Purpose

A Shared Study of Ephesians

By: Edna Ellison

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Friendships of Purpose

A Shared Study of Ephesians

By: Edna Ellison

Third in the Friend to Friend series, this sixweek interactive study of the Book of Ephesians is designed for two friends to experience together. For those eager for support and fellowship in their Christian lives, Ephesians demonstrates the benefits of the family of God. The Book of Ephesians teaches members of the Christian family about the gifts and heritage God has given His children, and shows how we can walk worthy of the calling with which you were called (Ephesians 41 NKJV).

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New Hope Publishers

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1563099012

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9781563099014

The Artarians II

By: Edna W. Christenson

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The Artarians II

By: Edna W. Christenson

I understand you three Generals are in charge of your planet," Dalcamy said. "That's correct," said General Alma. "Generals Norie and Daggany are under me." "I see," said Dalcamy. "You will take orders from these men from now on." Dalcamy said motioning to the Doctors and Scientists. "They will be in charge collectively and have to agree on all decisions." "They are scientists! They know nothing about military defense!" "You don't need military defense now, you need people. We will help bring people to you and also take you to them. But there will be no more harm done. You have hurt enough life forms with your cruelty and 'examinations'. These are the conditions: "First. You will disband your soldiers. We will furnish your protection from now on. "Second. You will destroy that prison. "Third. These six men will be a ruling panel for your planet. And finally, you will begin living on the surface of your planet again." "You can't just walk in and take over like this!" said General Alma. "How long do you estimate the life of your people?" Dalcamy asked Doctor Bella. "About another forty, fifty years. When this last generation expires." Dalcamy turned back to General Alma. "Your men have caused enough mental damage to other beings to warrant us sealing your planet until extinction. We can do anything we want." General Alma became extremely angry. He looked Dalcamy in the eye, drew a blaster and pointed it at him. "You will do as I say or I'll blow you to pieces and take your ship.

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Author House

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1496958691

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9781496958693

We Two; A Novel

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By: Edna Lyall

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We Two; A Novel

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By: Edna Lyall

Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3387016301

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9783387016307

The New Talent Acquisition Frontier

Integrating HR and Diversity Strategy in the Private and Public Sectors and Higher Education

By: Edna Chun,Alvin Evans

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The New Talent Acquisition Frontier

Integrating HR and Diversity Strategy in the Private and Public Sectors and Higher Education

By: Edna Chun,Alvin Evans

Awarded a Silver Medal in the category Human Resources and Employee Training from the 2014 Axiom Business Book Awards • Create the inclusive, high performance workforce needed to succeed in an increasing multicultural society and global marketplace• Learn how global organizations and leading professional associations develop integrated HR/diversity talent strategies, and the specific challenges they face• Get practical tools to assess integrated HR/diversity strategic planning, and see why organizations are not making more diversity progress• Develop specific performance indicators to track your progress in implementing synergistic HR/diversity approaches• Case studies of SHRM, federal and state government, global corporations, and higher education illustrate systematic, integrated HR/diversity effortsFor HR professionals and leaders, chief diversity officers, line managers, and executives in the private and public sectors and higher education, this book presents a systematic approach to integrating HR practices and strategic diversity initiatives to create the inclusive, high performance workforce that every enterprise and institution needs to succeed in an increasingly multicultural society and global marketplace.The authors’ point of departure is that talent is the primary strategic asset necessary for organizational survival and success in a demographically diversifying and globally interconnected world. Organizations seeking to attain their full potential in this new talent frontier must optimize their human capital resources by the deliberate development of synergy between human resource (HR) and diversity programs. Failure to integrate and coordinate these two functions will erode organizational competitiveness, whether it is in developing new markets, products, programs, or services.As the first book to provide a concrete roadmap to integrated HR and diversity strategy, the authors identify two critical practices: talent management through the orchestration of HR and diversity programs to enhance organizational capability by unleashing, mobilizing, nurturing, and sustaining the contributions of a diverse and talented workforce; and talent sustainability through the close integration of HR and diversity to continuously develop systems, structures, processes, and a culture that heighten employee commitment, engagement, and inclusion. They further believe that there should be a commonality of practice across all types of organizations, and that each sector can learn from the others to accelerate its adaptation to today’s rapidly shifting national and global realities.Based on the most current research and on interviews with HR and diversity leaders in major organizations, this book provides the reader with concrete strategies and practical tools for implementing a successful and sustainable talent management program. It also addresses common barriers to the development of synergistic HR and diversity strategy, and how to overcome them.Given the evolutionary nature of the integration of HR and diversity, the authors present nine extensive case studies from all organizational sectors, as well as from the two leading Human Resource professional associations – the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) and the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources (CUPA-HR) – to illustrate the dynamic intersection between HR and diversity practices.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000978230

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9781000978230

The Life and Times of T. H. Gallaudet

By: Edna Edith Sayers

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The Life and Times of T. H. Gallaudet

By: Edna Edith Sayers

A look into the complex life of an icon of deaf education

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Brandeis University Press

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1512600512

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9781512600513

The Artarians

By: Edna W. Christenson

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The Artarians

By: Edna W. Christenson

In The Artarians, Earth is visited by strange people and five humans are abducted. The Artarians are running an experiment; they are telepathic. Can humans and Artarians live together...happily? Can the Artarians live by the laws set down while around humans? This is a story of adventure, technology and a desperate civilization with devastating telepathic powers at their command.

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1728311691

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9781728311692

Shakespeare's English Kings, the People, and the Law

A Study in the Relationship Between the Tudor Constitution and the English History Plays

By: Edna Zwick Boris

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Shakespeare's English Kings, the People, and the Law

A Study in the Relationship Between the Tudor Constitution and the English History Plays

By: Edna Zwick Boris

Demonstrates that knowledge of constitutional history can add to our understanding of the politics of the English history plays and suggests that the nine historical plays that Shakespeare wrote before Elizabeth's death record a transformation in constitutional organization.

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Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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0838619908

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9780838619902

Researching Women In Latin America And The Caribbean

By: Edna Acosta-belen,Christine E. Bose

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Researching Women In Latin America And The Caribbean

By: Edna Acosta-belen,Christine E. Bose

This volume represents more than just a collection of chapters and bibliographic sources. For us, it provides another example of collective solidarity, hard work, and a relentless commitment to contribute to the process of advancing and transforming knowledge about women's condition. It attempts to update and assess how scholarship on women has impacted different disciplines and fields and examines the multivariate conditions and responses to immediate and long-term realities generated by women from different LatinAmerican and Caribbean countries. The editors hope that this publication, modest as it may be, will be a useful tool to other researchers, educators, and students in their efforts at pursuing and expanding the knowledge and visions that will make our different societies more just and liberating for all their citizens.

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255

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Routledge

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1000309800

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9781000309805

Derrick Vaughan, Novelist

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By: Edna Lyall

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Derrick Vaughan, Novelist

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By: Edna Lyall

Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.

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3387011725

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9783387011722

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Normal Rationality

Normal Rationality

Wives of the Leopard

Wives of the Leopard

Cold Case Squad

Cold Case Squad

Holy Warriors

Holy Warriors

Fundamentals of Civil Engineering

Fundamentals of Civil Engineering

The Emancipation Proclamation

The Emancipation Proclamation

Friendships of Purpose

Friendships of Purpose

The Artarians II

The Artarians II

We Two; A Novel

We Two; A Novel

The New Talent Acquisition Frontier

The New Talent Acquisition Frontier

The Life and Times of T. H. Gallaudet

The Life and Times of T. H. Gallaudet

The Artarians

The Artarians

Shakespeare's English Kings, the People, and the Law

Shakespeare's English Kings, the People, and the Law

Researching Women In Latin America And The Caribbean

Researching Women In Latin America And The Caribbean

Derrick Vaughan, Novelist

Derrick Vaughan, Novelist

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