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Ideal Government and the Mixed Constitution in the Middle Ages

By: James M. Blythe

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Ideal Government and the Mixed Constitution in the Middle Ages

By: James M. Blythe

Ancient Greeks and Romans often wrote that the best form of government consists of a mixture of monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy. Political writers in the early modern period applied this idea to government in England, Venice, and Florence, and Americans used it in designing their constitution. In this history of political thought James Blythe investigates what happened to the concept of mixed constitution during the Middle Ages, when the work of the Greek historian Polybius, the source of many of the formal elements of early modern theory, was unknown in Latin. Although it is generally argued that Renaissance and early modern theories of mixed constitution derived from the revival of classical Polybian models, Blythe demonstrates the pervasiveness of such ideas in high and late medieval thought. The author traces medieval Aristotelian theories concerning the best form of government and concludes that most endorsed a limited monarchy sharing many features with the mixed constitution. He also shows that the major early modern ideas of mixed constitutionalism stemmed from medieval and Aristotelian thought, which partially explains the enthusiastic reception of Polybius in the sixteenth century. Originally published in 1992. 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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1400862604

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9781400862603

The Differentiation of Authority

The Medieval Turn Toward Existence

By: James Greenaway

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The Differentiation of Authority

The Medieval Turn Toward Existence

By: James Greenaway

In this study, James Greenaway explores the philosophical continuity between contemporary Western society and the Middle Ages. Allowing for genuinely modern innovations, he makes the claim that the medieval search for order remains fundamentally unbroken in our search for order today.

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322

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CUA Press

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0813219566

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9780813219561

Criminal Justice in Austerity

Legal Aid, Prosecution and the Future of Criminal Legal Practice

By: James Thornton

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Criminal Justice in Austerity

Legal Aid, Prosecution and the Future of Criminal Legal Practice

By: James Thornton

This book offers a timely and detailed examination of the reality of criminal legal practice today. Drawing upon extensive anonymous interviews with criminal lawyers in England and Wales, it illuminates how financial pressures arise within the criminal justice system and how lawyers seek to navigate them. The work of criminal lawyers is frequently depicted in the news and media as exciting, well-paid and worthwhile, with prosecutors aiming to convict the guilty and defence lawyers fighting against miscarriages of justice. In contrast, the picture reported by many is of an already creaking and under-resourced system, now exacerbated by fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic. Against this backdrop, the book considers whether the criminal legal aid system really can continue to provide those unable to afford a lawyer with access to justice and whether the Crown Prosecution Service can provide justice to victims of crime. The book presents detailed findings about the work and experiences of both prosecutors and defence lawyers, how financial pressures influence this and to what extent this has changed with the new ways of working brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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187

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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150995533X

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9781509955336

Backwoods Tales

Paddy McGann, Sharp Snaffles, and Bill Bauldy

By: William Gilmore Simms,James West

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Backwoods Tales

Paddy McGann, Sharp Snaffles, and Bill Bauldy

By: William Gilmore Simms,James West

The writings of William Gilmore Simms (1806–1870) provide a sweeping fictional portrait of the colonial and antebellum South in all of its regional diversity. Simms’s account of the region is more comprehensive than that of any other author of his time; he treats the major intellectual and social issues of the South and depicts the bonds and tensions among all of its inhabitants. By the mid-1840s Simms’s novels were so well known that Edgar Allan Poe could call him “the best novelist which this country has, on the whole, produced.” The twelfth volume in the ongoing Arkansas Edition of the works of William Gilmore Simms, Backwoods Tales brings together three of the best examples of his comic writing. All were written during the last decade of Simms’s life, when he had become a master of his craft. These three tales belong in the tradition of southern backwoods humor, a genre that flourished before the Civil War and produced classic tales by such authors as George Washington Harris, Johnson Jones Hooper, and Thomas Bangs Thorpe. Paddy McGann, “Sharp Snaffles,” and “Bill Bauldy” are all frame tales, told by rustic narrators in authentic dialect, with frequent pauses for libation and comment. These three pieces of writing, never before published together, stand among the best examples of American humor of the nineteenth century.

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University of Arkansas Press

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1557289220

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9781557289223

A History of Regulating Working Families

Strains, Stereotypes, Strategies and Solutions

By: Nicole Busby,Grace James

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A History of Regulating Working Families

Strains, Stereotypes, Strategies and Solutions

By: Nicole Busby,Grace James

Families in market economies have long been confronted by the demands of participating in paid work and providing care. Across Europe the social, economic and political environment within which families do so has been subject to substantial change in the post-World War II era and governments have come under increasing pressure to engage with this important area of public policy. In the UK, as elsewhere, the tensions which lie at the heart of the paid work/unpaid care conflict remain unresolved posing substantial difficulties for all of law's subjects both as carers and as the recipients of care. What seems like a relatively simple goal – to enable families to better balance care-giving and paid employment – has been subject to and shaped by shifting priorities over time leading to a variety of often conflicting policy approaches. This book critiques how working families in the UK have been subject to regulation. It has two aims: · To chart the development of the UK's law and policy framework by focusing on the post-war era and the growth and decline of the welfare state, considering a longer historical trajectory where appropriate. · To suggest an alternative policy approach based on Martha Fineman's vulnerability theory in which the vulnerable subject replaces the liberal subject as the focus of legal intervention. This reorientation enables a more inclusive and cohesive policy approach and has great potential to contribute to the reconciliation of the unresolved conflict between paid work and care-giving.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1509904611

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9781509904617

The Gaberlunzie's Wallet

By: James Ballantine

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The Gaberlunzie's Wallet

By: James Ballantine

Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

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382

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BoD – Books on Demand

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3385246393

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9783385246393

The English and Scottish Popular Ballads

By: Francis James Child

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The English and Scottish Popular Ballads

By: Francis James Child

This 19th-century collection compiles all the extant ballads with all known variants and features Child's commentaries. Includes Parts IX and X of the original set — ballads 266-305 — plus indexes, glossary.

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642

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Courier Corporation

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0486145891

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9780486145891

Microbial Functional Genomics

By: Jizhong Zhou,Dorothea K. Thompson,Ying Xu,James M. Tiedje

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Microbial Functional Genomics

By: Jizhong Zhou,Dorothea K. Thompson,Ying Xu,James M. Tiedje

Microbial Functional Genomics offers a timely summary of the principles, approaches, and applications. It presents a comprehensive review of microbial functional genomics, covering microbial diversity, microbial genome sequencing, genomic technologies, genome-wide functional analysis, applied functional genomics, and future directions. An introduction will offer a definition of the field and an overview of the historical and comparative genomics aspects.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0471071900

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9780471071907

Sundays at Tiffany's

What If Your Imaginary Friend from Childhood was Your One True Love?

By: James Patterson,Gabrielle Charbonnet

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What If Your Imaginary Friend from Childhood was Your One True Love?

By: James Patterson,Gabrielle Charbonnet

The successful but lonely daughter of a powerful New York theater icon falls for her childhood imaginary friend in this touching love story. As a little girl, Jane has no one. Her mother, a powerful Broadway producer, makes time for her only once a week, for their Sunday trip to admire jewelry at Tiffany's. Jane has only one friend: a handsome, comforting, funny man named Michael. He's perfect. But only she can see him. Years later, Jane is in her thirties and just as alone as ever. Then she meets Michael again-as handsome, smart and perfect as she remembers him to be. But not even Michael knows the reason they've really been reunited. Sunday at Tiffany's is a love story with an irresistible twist, a novel about the child inside all of us and the boundary-crossing power of love.

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223

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Little, Brown

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0316182451

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9780316182454

He's the One

By: Timothy James Beck

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He's the One

By: Timothy James Beck

The critically acclaimed author of It Had to Be You delivers his second delightfully witty, thoroughly heartfelt novel featuring a Mid-western jock cum computer geek who arrives in the big city in search of love, work, friendship and a chance to find Mr. Right.

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Kensington Books

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0758203241

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9780758203243

Book's by James M. Blythe

Ideal Government and the Mixed Constitution in the Middle Ages

Ideal Government and the Mixed Constitution in the Middle Ages

The Differentiation of Authority

The Differentiation of Authority

Criminal Justice in Austerity

Criminal Justice in Austerity

Backwoods Tales

Backwoods Tales

A History of Regulating Working Families

A History of Regulating Working Families

The Gaberlunzie's Wallet

The Gaberlunzie's Wallet

The English and Scottish Popular Ballads

The English and Scottish Popular Ballads

Microbial Functional Genomics

Microbial Functional Genomics

Sundays at Tiffany's

Sundays at Tiffany's

He's the One

He's the One

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