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In Defense of Gun Control

By: Hugh LaFollette

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The gun control debate is more complex than we often acknowledge. What is often phrased as a single question -- should we have gun control -- Is actually made up of three distinct policy questions. First, who should we permit people to have guns? Second, which guns should be allowed? Thirdly, how should we regulate the acquisition, storage, and carrying of the guns people may legitimately own? To answer these questions we must decide whether (and which) people have a right to bear arms, what kind of right they have, and how stringent that right is. We must also evaluate divergent empirical claims about (a) the role of guns in causing harm, and (b) the degree to which private ownership of guns can protect innocent civilians from attacks by criminals, either in their homes or in public. Hugh LaFollette sorts through the conceptual, moral, and empirical claims to fairly assess arguments for and against serious gun control, and ultimately argues that the US needs far more gun control than we currently have in most jurisdictions.

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Oxford University Press

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0190873396

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9780190873394

The Practice of Ethics

By: Hugh LaFollette

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The Practice of Ethics

By: Hugh LaFollette

The Practice of Ethics is an outstanding guide to the burgeoning field of applied ethics, and offers a coherent narrative that is both theoretically and pragmatically grounded for framing practical issues. Discusses a broad range of contemporary issues such as racism, euthanasia, animal rights, and gun control. Argues that ethics must be put into practice in order to be effective. Draws upon relevant insights from history, psychology, sociology, law and biology, as well as philosophy. An excellent companion to LaFollette's authoritative anthology, Ethics in Practice: An Anthology, Third Edition (Blackwell, 2006).

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Wiley-Blackwell

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0631219447

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9780631219446

In Defense of Gun Control

By: Hugh LaFollette

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In Defense of Gun Control

By: Hugh LaFollette

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Oxford University Press

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Brute Science

Dilemmas of Animal Experimentation

By: Hugh LaFollette,Niall Shanks

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Dilemmas of Animal Experimentation

By: Hugh LaFollette,Niall Shanks

Brute Science investigates whether biomedical research using animals is, in fact, scientifically justified. Hugh LaFollette and Niall Shanks examine the issues in scientific terms using the models that scientists themselves use. They argue that we need to reassess our use of animals and, indeed, rethink the standard positions in the debate.

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300

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Routledge

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1000142868

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9781000142860

The Limits of Symbolic Reform

The New Deal and Taxation, 19331939

By: Mark H. Leff,Mark Hugh Leff

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The Limits of Symbolic Reform

The New Deal and Taxation, 19331939

By: Mark H. Leff,Mark Hugh Leff

Mark Leff examines the gap between politics and economics, between symbol and substance in the New Deal.

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324

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Cambridge University Press

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0521521246

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9780521521246

The Escape from Poverty

Breaking the Vicious Cycles Perpetuating Disadvantage

By: Olivier De Schutter,Hugh Frazer,Anne-Catherine Guio,Eric Marlier

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The Escape from Poverty

Breaking the Vicious Cycles Perpetuating Disadvantage

By: Olivier De Schutter,Hugh Frazer,Anne-Catherine Guio,Eric Marlier

ePDF and ePUB available Open Access under CC-BY-NC-ND license. The perpetuation of poverty across generations damages lives. It weakens social cohesion and the economy and undermines environmental sustainability. This book examines why poverty is carried on from one generation to the next and what needs to be done to eradicate it. This book draws on a wide variety of sources and academic disciplines (social sciences, economics, law, community development, neuroscience and developmental psychology) along with the lived experience of people in poverty. Challenging the myths and prejudices about poverty that hinder progress, it calls for a comprehensive approach based on ensuring real equality of opportunity for all. It stresses the need to intervene early to combat child poverty and break the vicious cycles that perpetuate poverty and disadvantage.

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217

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Policy Press

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1447370619

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9781447370611

Personal Relationships

Love, Identity, and Morality

By: Hugh LaFollette

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Personal Relationships

Love, Identity, and Morality

By: Hugh LaFollette

This volume is a philosophical introduction and exploration of the nature and value of personal relationships. It is an ideal text for introductory philosophy, ethics, or applied ethics courses.

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240

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Wiley-Blackwell

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0631196846

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9780631196846

The Right to Rule

American Exceptionalism and the Coming Multipolar World Order

By: Hugh De Santis

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The Right to Rule

American Exceptionalism and the Coming Multipolar World Order

By: Hugh De Santis

In The Right to Rule: American Exceptionalism and the Coming Multipolar World Order, Hugh De Santis explores the evolution of American exceptionalism and its effect on the nation’s relations with the external world. De Santis argues that the self-image of an exceptional, providentially blessed society unlike any other is a myth that pays too little heed to the history that shaped America’s emergence, including its core beliefs and values, which are inheritances from seventeenth-century England. From the republic’s founding to its rise as the world’s preeminent power, American exceptionalism has underpinned the nation’s foreign policy, but it has become an anachronism in the twenty-first century. De Santis argues that, in the emerging multipolar world order, the United States will be one of several powers that determine the structure and rules of international politics, rather than the sole arbiter.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1793624097

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9781793624093

A Lincoln Legacy

The History of the U.s. District Court for the Western District of Michigan

By: David Gardner Chardavoyne,Hugh W. Brenneman, Jr

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A Lincoln Legacy

The History of the U.s. District Court for the Western District of Michigan

By: David Gardner Chardavoyne,Hugh W. Brenneman, Jr

Examines the history of the federal trial courts in Western Michigan and the Upper Peninsula. A Lincoln Legacy: The History of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michiganby David Gardner Chardavoyne with Hugh W. Brenneman, Jr. provides the first and only comprehensive examination of the history of the United States federal courts in the Western District of Michigan. The federal courts were established by the U.S. Constitution to adjudicate disputes involving federal laws, disputes between litigants from different states involving state and federal laws, and to punish violations of criminal laws passed by Congress. During the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln signed legislation creating two federal districts in the state of Michigan: the Eastern and Western Districts—the latter of which is headquartered in Grand Rapids and which now encompasses the western half of the Lower Peninsula and all of the Upper Peninsula. With the rapid expansion of legislation passed by Congress, the increasing mobility of society, and the growth of interstate commerce, the federal courts have assumed an important and sometimes dominant role in major litigation today. In A Lincoln Legacy, Chardavoyne tracks the history of these courts over eleven chapters, from their creation by the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 to 2020. He discusses the changes in society that drove the evolving federal litigation and some significant cases heard in the Western District. Additionally, fifteen appendices are included in the book, listing of all the federal circuit and district judges in the Western District; commissioners; magistrate judges and bankruptcy judges; U.S. Attorneys; clerks of the courts; and more. Chardavoyne also identifies auxiliary offices and organizations revolving around the federal court that play a major role in its activities (e.g., the U.S. Attorney’s Office, the Federal Public Defender’s Office, the Federal Bar Association, etc.). A Lincoln Legacyprovides a thorough examination of the history of the federal courts of Western Michigan. It will appeal to those learning and practicing law, as well as those with an interest in Michigan history.

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372

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Wayne State University Press

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081434805X

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9780814348055

Is Science Value Free?

Values and Scientific Understanding

By: Hugh Lacey

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Is Science Value Free?

Values and Scientific Understanding

By: Hugh Lacey

Hugh Lacey discusses how science and values interact, with a focus on a discussion of development, and science's place in development, particularly in third world countries.

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296

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Routledge

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1134619758

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9781134619757

Scientific Management in Action

Taylorism at Watertown Arsenal, 1908-1915

By: Hugh G.J. Aitken

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Scientific Management in Action

Taylorism at Watertown Arsenal, 1908-1915

By: Hugh G.J. Aitken

The book is a balanced analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of Taylorism, including the naiveté that led its proponents to ignore the emotional side of the complex roles and patterns that govern the world of work. Originally published in 1985. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Princeton University Press

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1400857899

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9781400857890

Radio and Television Regulation

Broadcast Technology in the United States, 1920-1960

By: Hugh R. Slotten

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Radio and Television Regulation

Broadcast Technology in the United States, 1920-1960

By: Hugh R. Slotten

From AM radio to color television, broadcasting raised enormous practical and policy problems in the United States, especially in relation to the federal government's role in licensing and regulation. How did technological change, corporate interest, and political pressures bring about the world that station owners work within today (and that tuned-in consumers make profitable)? In Radio and Television Regulation, Hugh R. Slotten examines the choices that confronted federal agencies—first the Department of Commerce, then the Federal Radio Commission in 1927, and seven years later the Federal Communications Commission—and shows the impact of their decisions on developing technologies. Slotten analyzes the policy debates that emerged when the public implications of AM and FM radio and black-and-white and color television first became apparent. His discussion of the early years of radio examines powerful personalities—including navy secretary Josephus Daniels and commerce secretary Herbert Hoover—who maneuvered for government control of "the wireless." He then considers fierce competition among companies such as Westinghouse, GE, and RCA, which quickly grasped the commercial promise of radio and later of television and struggled for technological edge and market advantage. Analyzing the complex interplay of the factors forming public policy for radio and television broadcasting, and taking into account the ideological traditions that framed these controversies, Slotten sheds light on the rise of the regulatory state. In an epilogue he discusses his findings in terms of contemporary debates over high-resolution TV.

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JHU Press

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0801872987

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9780801872983

The Rise of American Research Universities

Elites and Challengers in the Postwar Era

By: Hugh Davis Graham,Nancy Diamond

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The Rise of American Research Universities

Elites and Challengers in the Postwar Era

By: Hugh Davis Graham,Nancy Diamond

In this important and timely work, Graham and Diamond reassess the success of American universities as research institutions and the role of public funding in their developmentfrom the expansionist golden yearsof the 1950s and '60s, through the austerity measures of the 1970s and the entrepreneurial ethos of the 1980s, to the budget crises universities face in the 1990s.

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0801880637

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9780801880636

Hugh Johnson's Pocket Wine Book 2018

By: Hugh Johnson

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Hugh Johnson's Pocket Wine Book 2018

By: Hugh Johnson

Hugh Johnson's Pocket Wine Book is the essential reference book for everyone who buys wine - in shops, restaurants, or on the internet. Now in its 41st year of publication, it has no rival as the comprehensive, up-to-the-minute annual guide. Hugh Johnson provides clear succinct facts and commentary on the wines, growers and wine regions of the whole world. He reveals which vintages to buy, which to drink and which to cellar, which growers to look for and why. Hugh Johnson's Pocket Wine Book gives clear information on grape varieties, local specialities and how to match food with wines that will bring out the best in both. This new edition also contains a colour supplement on Syrah and Garnacha grapes.

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Mitchell Beazley

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1784722944

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9781784722944

The Making of James Agee

By: Hugh Davis

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The Making of James Agee

By: Hugh Davis

In The Making of James Agee, Hugh Davis takes a comprehensive look at Agee's career, showing the interrelatedness of his concerns as a writer. A full view of Agee's oeuvre, Davis argues, illuminates its deeply political nature and reveals a debt to various sources, particularly European surrealism, that have been little noted by previous Agee scholars." "Davis challenges the view of Agee that has persisted since his death - that he is best understood primarily as a romantic individualist at odds with convention and the literary mainstream - and argues that this myth was largely constructed by friends and associates who were so immersed in the tenets of modernism that they distorted Agee's work (and aesthetic intent) in an attempt to purify it in modernist terms. In revealing a writer of far greater complexity than the myth allows, Davis explores, for example, the leftist poetry that Agee wrote in the 1930s, which was almost completely suppressed by his editors. He also throws a fresh light on Agee's collaboration with photographer Walker Evans on Let Us Now Praise Famous Men and reevaluates A Death in the Family in light of recent scholarship that has produced an almost entirely new version of the novel, one much closer to Agee's original intentions."--BOOK JACKET.

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Univ. of Tennessee Press

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1572336072

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Book's by Hugh LaFollette

In Defense of Gun Control

In Defense of Gun Control

The Practice of Ethics

The Practice of Ethics

In Defense of Gun Control

In Defense of Gun Control

Brute Science

Brute Science

The Limits of Symbolic Reform

The Limits of Symbolic Reform

The Escape from Poverty

The Escape from Poverty

Personal Relationships

Personal Relationships

The Right to Rule

The Right to Rule

A Lincoln Legacy

A Lincoln Legacy

Is Science Value Free?

Is Science Value Free?

Scientific Management in Action

Scientific Management in Action

Radio and Television Regulation

Radio and Television Regulation

The Rise of American Research Universities

The Rise of American Research Universities

Hugh Johnson's Pocket Wine Book 2018

Hugh Johnson's Pocket Wine Book 2018

The Making of James Agee

The Making of James Agee

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