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Political Meritocracy in Renaissance Italy

By: James Hankins

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Political Meritocracy in Renaissance Italy

By: James Hankins

James Hankins offers the first full-length study of Francesco Patrizi’s life and thought. A key but largely forgotten Renaissance thinker, Patrizi wrote influentially on “virtue politics,” with the goal of nurturing citizens’ character and education so societies could effectively balance demands of liberty, equality, and merit-based leadership.

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Harvard University Press

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0674274709

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9780674274709

Virtue Politics

Soulcraft and Statecraft in Renaissance Italy

By: James Hankins

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Virtue Politics

Soulcraft and Statecraft in Renaissance Italy

By: James Hankins

Winner of the Helen and Howard Marraro Prize A Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year “Perhaps the greatest study ever written of Renaissance political thought.” —Jeffrey Collins, Times Literary Supplement “Magisterial...Hankins shows that the humanists’ obsession with character explains their surprising indifference to particular forms of government. If rulers lacked authentic virtue, they believed, it did not matter what institutions framed their power.” —Wall Street Journal “Puts the politics back into humanism in an extraordinarily deep and far-reaching way...For generations to come, all who write about the political thought of Italian humanism will have to refer to it; its influence will be...nothing less than transformative.” —Noel Malcolm, American Affairs “[A] masterpiece...It is only Hankins’s tireless exploration of forgotten documents...and extraordinary endeavors of editing, translation, and exposition that allow us to reconstruct—almost for the first time in 550 years—[the humanists’] three compelling arguments for why a strong moral character and habits of truth are vital for governing well. Yet they are as relevant to contemporary democracy in Britain, and in the United States, as to Machiavelli.” —Rory Stewart, Times Literary Supplement “The lessons for today are clear and profound.” —Robert D. Kaplan Convulsed by a civilizational crisis, the great thinkers of the Renaissance set out to reconceive the nature of society. Everywhere they saw problems. Corrupt and reckless tyrants sowing discord and ruling through fear; elites who prized wealth and status over the common good; religious leaders preoccupied with self-advancement while feuding armies waged endless wars. Their solution was at once simple and radical. “Men, not walls, make a city,” as Thucydides so memorably said. They would rebuild the fabric of society by transforming the moral character of its citizens. Soulcraft, they believed, was a precondition of successful statecraft. A landmark reappraisal of Renaissance political thought, Virtue Politics challenges the traditional narrative that looks to the Renaissance as the seedbed of modern republicanism and sees Machiavelli as its exemplary thinker. James Hankins reveals that what most concerned the humanists was not reforming institutions so much as shaping citizens. If character mattered more than laws, it would have to be nurtured through a new program of education they called the studia humanitatis: the precursor to our embattled humanities.

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Belknap Press

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0674237552

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9780674237551

The Analogy of The Faerie Queene

By: James Nohrnberg

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The Analogy of The Faerie Queene

By: James Nohrnberg

This book combines an analysis of The Faerie Queene's, total form with an exposition of its allegorical content. Originally published in 1977. 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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1400856256

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9781400856251

The Rope Job

Memoirs of a Private Investigator

By: James Curtis

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The Rope Job

Memoirs of a Private Investigator

By: James Curtis

Back in the 1960’s, the private investigators were able to disprove fraudulente injury claims by gaining the confidence of claimants and having them perform activities that they had the doctors, attorneys, insurance adjusters and courts convinced could not be performed. The millions of dollars saved by the insurance companies using the ‘Rope Job’ came to a sudden halt in 1970 due to claimants attorneys filing law suits against the insurance companies for invasion of privacy. The claimants attorneys stated their claimants could not be contacted by anyone representing the insurance industry once they became represented by an attorney. Since 1970, the insurance companies spend tens of thousands of dollars for surveillance on what they perceive to be bogus claims and often with no tangeble results.

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252

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iUniverse

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1532083459

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9781532083457

Meat Refrigeration

By: S J James,Christian James

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Meat Refrigeration

By: S J James,Christian James

Refrigeration and meat quality; The cold chain from carcass to consumer; Process control.

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Woodhead Publishing

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1855734427

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9781855734425

Sociology and the Race Problem

The Failure of a Perspective

By: James B. McKee

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Sociology and the Race Problem

The Failure of a Perspective

By: James B. McKee

Tracing developments in the sociology of race relations from the 1920s to the 1960s, McKee maintains that sociologists assumed the United States would move unimpeded toward modernization and assimilation, aided by industrialization and urbanization. The fatal flaw in their perspective was the notion that blacks were culturally inferior, backward, and pre-modern, a people who had lost their own culture and couldn't grasp that of their new society. Designed to detail a failure the author says is widely acknowledged but little examined, this book will be of interest to both specialists and general readers. "Masterful. . . . McKee transports the reader back to the intellectual world in which the early sociologists worked and does not simply treat them as evil racists. His approach is informed by the sociology of knowledge." -- Lewis M. Killian, author of The Impossible Revolution, Phase 2: Black Power and the American Dream

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University of Illinois Press

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0252063287

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9780252063282

Maxwell on Heat and Statistical Mechanics

On "avoiding All Personal Enquiries" of Molecules

By: James Clerk Maxwell

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Maxwell on Heat and Statistical Mechanics

On "avoiding All Personal Enquiries" of Molecules

By: James Clerk Maxwell

. These papers shed light on the formation of Maxwell's ideas and theories within the structure of a professional scientific discipline, physics, that had only recently taken shape. While Maxwell responded to and relied on the work of his colleagues, his interpretations often placed his work apart from theirs, to be exploited by later generations of physicists.

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Lehigh University Press

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0934223343

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9780934223348

Spenser's Allegory of Love

Social Vision in Books III, IV, and V of The Faerie Queene

By: James W. Broaddus

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Spenser's Allegory of Love

Social Vision in Books III, IV, and V of The Faerie Queene

By: James W. Broaddus

Spenser's Allegory of Love approaches the major characters in Books III, IV, and V of The Faerie Queene as fictional personages who function psychically according to Renaissance sexual psychology and physically according to Renaissance sexual physiology. This approach enables readings of the quests in their own peculiar, allegorical way as imitations of actions. For each of the questers - Britomart, Florimell, Scudamour, and Timias - union with a loved one is the goal; and that goal is achieved, however problematically, in each of the quests. When the interwoven quests, which begin in Book III, continue through Book IV, and, with Britomart's quest, into Book V, are separated out and explicated, these three books of Spenser's Faerie Queene can be read so as to constitute a social vision.

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Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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0838636322

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9780838636329

Property

Cases and Materials

By: James Charles Smith,Edward J. Larson,John Copeland Nagle

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Property

Cases and Materials

By: James Charles Smith,Edward J. Larson,John Copeland Nagle

Property: Cases and Materials features sweeping coverage in a single volume, from “old property” (such as the basics of estates in land and servitudes) to “new property,” including intellectual property, cultural property, and property in living things. The text provokes debate on fundamental questions such as the creation of property, information as property, collective vs. individual rights, and property as related to other bodies of law. Its coverage of intellectual property shows how the law grows and responds to social and technological change. Designed for flexibility, stand-alone chapters can be omitted if time constraints require. Property: Cases and Materials includes appellate decisions, statutes, regulations, administrative decisions, law review articles, and non-legal materials. Principal cases include Elvis Presley International Memorial Foundation v. Crowell, Popov v. Hayashi (Barry Bonds home run ball); People v. Chubbs (software for DNA matching), and Dred Scott v. Sandford. Key Features: Updated with more recent cases, including more cases from the twenty-first century than any other major property casebook. Improved coverage of natural resources law and intellectual property. Thorough update of all existing materials.

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Aspen Publishing

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1454897740

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9781454897743

Platonic Theology

By: Marsilio Ficino

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Platonic Theology

By: Marsilio Ficino

Platonic Theology is the visionary and philosophical masterpiece of Marsilio Ficino (1433–1499), the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus largely responsible for the Renaissance revival of Plato. This work, translated into English for the first time, is a key to understanding the art, thought, culture, and spirituality of the Renaissance.

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Harvard University Press

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0674017196

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9780674017191

A Branch of a Tree

A McGee Family in History

By: James McGee

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A Branch of a Tree

A McGee Family in History

By: James McGee

The author tracks his Scots-Irish roots from the Irish Sea kingdom of Dal Riata in the 500's to McGee's Town (Balmaghie), Scotland in the 900's and on to McGee's, Colorado in the 1880's. He writes of his ancestors as they immigrate to America, participate in the Westward Movement, fight in the Civil War, experience the gold rushes of Colorado, the Great Depression, World War II and more recent events. The impact of these events on one family and its descendents is the story of America. History sings to us from the pages of this book.

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Xlibris Corporation

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1462802133

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9781462802135

Platonic Theology, Volume 5

By: James Hankins

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Platonic Theology, Volume 5

By: James Hankins

The Platonic Theology is a visionary work and the philosophical masterpiece of Marsilio Ficino, the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus who was largely responsible for the Renaissance revival of Plato.

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0674036816

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The Devil's Anvil

The Assault on Peleliu

By: James H. Hallas

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The Devil's Anvil

The Assault on Peleliu

By: James H. Hallas

On September 15, 1944, General William Rupertus and the 16,000 Marines of the U.S. 1st Marine Division moved confidently toward Peleliu, an obscure speck of coral island 500 miles east of the Philippines. Though he knew a tough fight awaited him, Rupertus anticipated a quick two-day crush to victory, strengthening Gen. Douglas MacArthur's flank in his drive on the Philippines. Instead, as The Devil's Anvil reveals, American forces struggled desperately for more than two months against 10,000 deeply entrenched Japanese soldiers who had spent six months preparing for the battle. By the time the weary Americans could claim a victory, the fight had become one of the war's most costly successes. Even more tragic, Peleliu was later deemed a more or less unnecessary seizure. For those who survived, Peleliu remains a bitter, emotionally exhausting chapter of their lives. In The Devil's Anvil, Hallas reports on the personal combat experience of scores of officers and enlisted men who were at Peleliu. These men describe the heartbreaking loss of friends, the pain of wounds, and the heat, dirt, and exhaustion of a fight that never seemed to end.

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0313388555

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Book's by James Hankins

Political Meritocracy in Renaissance Italy

Political Meritocracy in Renaissance Italy

Virtue Politics

Virtue Politics

The Analogy of The Faerie Queene

The Analogy of The Faerie Queene

The Rope Job

The Rope Job

Meat Refrigeration

Meat Refrigeration

Sociology and the Race Problem

Sociology and the Race Problem

Maxwell on Heat and Statistical Mechanics

Maxwell on Heat and Statistical Mechanics

Spenser's Allegory of Love

Spenser's Allegory of Love

Property

Property

Platonic Theology

Platonic Theology

A Branch of a Tree

A Branch of a Tree

Platonic Theology, Volume 5

Platonic Theology, Volume 5

The Devil's Anvil

The Devil's Anvil

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