Patrick Press's Books

Historicism, Originalism and the Constitution

The Use and Abuse of the Past in American Jurisprudence

By: Patrick J. Charles

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Historicism, Originalism and the Constitution

The Use and Abuse of the Past in American Jurisprudence

By: Patrick J. Charles

The use of history in law is a time honored tradition. Over the years the practice has assumed many forms, including historicism, intentionalism, interpretivist history, law office history, historical narrative, originalism, etc. This book picks up where past commentators have left off. The different historically based approaches to adjudicating constitutional questions are weighed and considered, particularly originalism, and asserts that history in law is legitimate only if it leads to accurate results. The book then purposes an approach to accomplish the objectives of historical accuracy and objectivity, and therefore legitimacy.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

272

Publisher

McFarland

Published Date

ISBN 10

1476615152

ISBN 13

9781476615158

The Concept of Justice

Is Social Justice Just?

By: Thomas Patrick Burke

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Concept of Justice

Is Social Justice Just?

By: Thomas Patrick Burke

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

257

Publisher

A&C Black

Published Date

ISBN 10

1441169911

ISBN 13

9781441169914

Property Possession as Identity

An Essay in Metaphysics

By: Patrick X. Monaghan

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Property Possession as Identity

An Essay in Metaphysics

By: Patrick X. Monaghan

In this essay, Monaghan argues for an account of property possession as strict, numerical identity. According to this account, for an entity to possess a property is for that entity and that property to be numerically identical to each other. To defend this view, he argues against two views he call Externalism and Internalism about property possession. Monaghan argues that it is impossible for one entity to possess a second entity as a property. He provides replies to variety of objections one might raise against his account.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

204

Publisher

Walter de Gruyter

Published Date

ISBN 10

3110325748

ISBN 13

9783110325744

Scrambling for Protection

The New Media and the First Amendment

By: Patrick M. Garry

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Scrambling for Protection

The New Media and the First Amendment

By: Patrick M. Garry

In our age of media revolutions, Patrick M. Garry offers guidelines for constitutionally redefining the press, and maintains that the First Amendment press clause must broaden the scope of its freedoms to include the communication activities of a much larger public.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

209

Publisher

University of Pittsburgh Pre

Published Date

ISBN 10

0822974746

ISBN 13

9780822974741

Crusoe's Footprints

Cultural Studies in Britain and America

By: Patrick Brantlinger

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Crusoe's Footprints

Cultural Studies in Britain and America

By: Patrick Brantlinger

Cultural Studies" has emerged in British and American higher education as a movement that challenges the traditional humanities and social science disciplines. Influenced by the New Left, feminism, and poststructualist literary theory, cultural studies seeks to analyze everday life and the social construction of "subjectivities." Crusoe's Footprints encompasses the movement of many colleges and universities in the 1960s towards such interdisciplinary and "radical" programs as American Studies, Women's Studies, and Afro-American Studies. Brantlinger also examines the role of feminist criticism which has been particularly crucial in both Britain and the U.S.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

223

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1136038140

ISBN 13

9781136038143

Human Dignity and the Foundations of International Law

By: Patrick Capps

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Human Dignity and the Foundations of International Law

By: Patrick Capps

International lawyers have often been interested in the link between their discipline and the foundational issues of jurisprudential method, but little that is systematic has been written on this subject. In this book, an attempt is made to fill this gap by focusing on issues of concept-formation in legal science in general with a view to their application to the specific concerns of international law. In responding to these issues, the author argues that public international law seeks to establish and institutionalise a system of authoritative judgment whereby the conditions by which a community of states can co-exist and co-operate are ensured. A state, in turn, must be understood as ultimately deriving legitimacy from the pursuit of the human dignity of the community it governs, as well as the dignity of those human beings and states affected by its actions in international relations. This argument is in line with a long and now resurgent Kantian tradition in legal and political philosophy. The book shows how this approach is reflected in accepted paradigm cases of international law, such as the United Nations Charter. It then explains how this approach can provide insights into the theoretical foundations of these accepted paradigms, including our understanding of the sources of international law, international legal personality and the design of global institutions.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

308

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

1847315127

ISBN 13

9781847315120

Becoming God

Pure Reason in Early Greek Philosophy

By: Patrick Lee Miller

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Becoming God

Pure Reason in Early Greek Philosophy

By: Patrick Lee Miller

A lucid presentation of the first and most influential attempts to weave together philosophical thought on God, reason and happiness.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

191

Publisher

A&C Black

Published Date

ISBN 10

1847061648

ISBN 13

9781847061645

The Pursuit of Justice

Supreme Court Decisions that Shaped America

By: Kermit L. Hall,John J. Patrick

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Pursuit of Justice

Supreme Court Decisions that Shaped America

By: Kermit L. Hall,John J. Patrick

With a survey of the thirty Supreme Court cases that, in the opinion of U.S. Supreme Court justices and leading civics educators and legal historians, are the most important for American citizens to understand, The Pursuit of Justice is the perfect companion for those wishing to learn more about American civics and government. The cases range across three centuries of American history, including such landmarks as Marbury v. Madison (1803), which established the principle of judicial review; Scott v. Sandford (1857), which inflamed the slavery argument in the United States and led to the Civil War; Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), which memorialized the concept of separate but equal; and Brown v. Board of Education (1954), which overturned Plessy. Dealing with issues of particular concern to students, such as voting, school prayer, search and seizure, and affirmative action, and broad democratic concepts such as separation of powers, federalism, and separation of church and state, the book covers all the major cases specified in the national and state civics and American history standards. For each case, there is an introductory essay providing historical background and legal commentary as well as excerpts from the decision(s); related documents such as briefs or evidence, with headnotes and/or marginal commentary, some possibly in facsimile; and features or sidebars on principal players in the decisions, whether attorneys, plaintiffs, defendants, or justices. An introductory essay defines the criteria for selecting the cases and setting them in the context of American history and government, and a concluding essay suggests the role that the Court will play in the future.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

256

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0198042612

ISBN 13

9780198042617

Reading James Joyce

An Introduction

By: A. Nicholas Fargnoli,Michael Patrick Gillespie

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Reading James Joyce

An Introduction

By: A. Nicholas Fargnoli,Michael Patrick Gillespie

Reading James Joyce is a ready-at-hand compendium and all-encompassing interpretive guide designed for teachers and students approaching Joyce’s writings for the first time, guiding readers to better understand Joyce’s works and the background from which they emerged. Meticulously organized, this text situates readers within the world of Joyce including biographical exploration, discussion of Joyce’s innovations and prominent works such as Dubliners, Ulysses, and Finnegans Wake, surveys of significant critical approaches to Joyce’s writings, and examples of alternative readings and contemporary responses. Each chapter will provide interpretive approaches to contemporary literary theories and key issues, including end-of-chapter strategies and extended readings for further engagement. This book also includes shorter assessments of Joyce’s lesser-known works—critical writings, drama, poetry, letters, epiphanies, and personal recollections—to contextualize the creative and social environments from which his most notable publications arose. This uniquely comprehensive guide to Joyce will be an invaluable and comprehensive resource for readers exploring the influential world of Joyce studies.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

230

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Published Date

ISBN 10

1000839117

ISBN 13

9781000839111

The Irish and the Making of American Sport, 1835-1920

By: Patrick R. Redmond

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Irish and the Making of American Sport, 1835-1920

By: Patrick R. Redmond

Jerrold Casway coined the phrase "The Emerald Age of Baseball" to describe the 1890s, when so many Irish names dominated teams' rosters. But one can easily agree--and expand--that the period from the mid-1830s well into the first decade of the 20th century and assign the term to American sports in general. This book covers the Irish sportsman from the arrival of James "Deaf" Burke in 1836 through to Jack B. Kelly's rejection by Henley regatta and his subsequent gold medal at the 1920 Olympics. It avoids recounting the various victories and defeats of the Irish sportsman, seeking instead to deal with the complex interaction that he had with alcohol, gambling and Sunday leisure: pleasures that were banned in most of America at some time or other between 1836 and 1920. This book also covers the Irish sportsman's close relations with politicians, his role in labor relations, his violent lifestyle--and by contrast--his participation in bringing respectability to sport. It also deals with native Irish sports in America, the part played by the Irish in "Team USA's" initial international sporting ventures, and in the making and breaking of amateurism within sport.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

479

Publisher

McFarland

Published Date

ISBN 10

147660584X

ISBN 13

9781476605845

Starting with Kierkegaard

By: Patrick Sheil

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Starting with Kierkegaard

By: Patrick Sheil

Søren Kierkegaard was one of the most important European philosophers of the nineteenth-century and is widely regarded as the founder of existentialism. His work had a profound influence on some of the main intellectual currents of the last two centuries. Clearly and thematically structured, with investigations into a host of Kierkegaard's key concepts-including 'immediacy', 'sin', 'despair', 'individuality' and 'the crowd'-and with references to a wide range of his works, Starting with Kierkegaard provides the reader with a balanced overview of the Danish philosopher's project, paying as much attention to the signed 'edifying' works as to the famous authorship of the pseudonyms. Starting with Kierkegaard also offers a short survey of the historical, biographical and philosophical context of Kierkegaard's ideas as they started to take shape in the 1830s. The book closes with a discussion of Kierkegaard and society, and of his continuing relevance to today. Starting with Kierkegaard is the ideal introduction for anyone coming to the work of this hugely important thinker for the first time.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

185

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

1441130047

ISBN 13

9781441130044

The Effectiveness of UN Human Rights Institutions

By: Patrick J. Flood

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Effectiveness of UN Human Rights Institutions

By: Patrick J. Flood

Since the 1970s, the international community of states has demonstrated increasing willingness to invest UN institutions with politico-ethical authority to act on its behalf in addressing human rights abuses. Through trial and error, some of these institutions have had a degree of success in securing better practical observance of international human rights standards. Flood examines the reasons why some structural approaches have had more impact than others. He argues that states must make policy choices in an environment where many political actors operate simultaneously and where several state interests are in play simultaneously. This situation creates the political space in which community structures can operate to influence behavior. Because states require the active or tacit cooperation of other states to promote their interests, they seek to avoid prolonged political isolation. Thus, the most effective UN human rights institutions are those linked in meaningful ways with Charter-based human rights mechanisms. These mechanisms—thematic and country-specific—have different structural advantages, and their concrete effectiveness depends on the specific circumstances of the particular case they are asked to address. There is evidence that they have greater impact when employed simultaneously, as well as when key states support their efforts bilaterally. Through case studies, Flood analyzes the work of the thematic mechanisms on disappearances and religious discrimination and the country-specific mechanisms used with Chile and Iran. He concludes that Charter-based UN human rights institutions have become an enduring part of the international environment and that their activities have strengthened the concept and practice of state accountability to the international community for human rights conduct.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

184

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published Date

ISBN 10

0313025274

ISBN 13

9780313025273

Utopian Literature and Science

From the Scientific Revolution to Brave New World and Beyond

By: Patrick Parrinder

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Utopian Literature and Science

From the Scientific Revolution to Brave New World and Beyond

By: Patrick Parrinder

Scientific progress is usually seen as a precondition of modern utopias, but science and utopia are frequently at odds. Ranging from Galileo's observations with the telescope to current ideas of the post-human and the human-animal boundary, this study brings a fresh perspective to the paradoxes of utopian thinking since Plato.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

222

Publisher

Springer

Published Date

ISBN 10

1137456787

ISBN 13

9781137456786

South Africa and Global Apartheid

Continental and International Policies and Politics : Address to the Nordiska Afrikainstitutet Nordic Africa Days, Uppsala, Sweden 4 October 2003

By: Patrick Bond

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

South Africa and Global Apartheid

Continental and International Policies and Politics : Address to the Nordiska Afrikainstitutet Nordic Africa Days, Uppsala, Sweden 4 October 2003

By: Patrick Bond

This study covers a variety of political and economic aspects of Africa's and South Africa's relationships to the world. The author considers the context of global apartheid, in terms of international stagnation, uneven development and African marginalisation, and evaluates the South African setting as a telling site of worsening inequality. Where does then the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) stand on the largest economic and political problems? South Africa's other proposed global reforms are also discussed. Finally, the author records an emerging ideology based not on commodification via globalisation but on decommodification and deglobalisation, and the strategies, tactics and alliances required for African and international progress."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

Publisher

Nordic Africa Institute

Published Date

ISBN 10

9171065237

ISBN 13

9789171065230

Imagination and Postmodernity

By: Patrick L. Bourgeois

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Imagination and Postmodernity

By: Patrick L. Bourgeois

Imagination and Postmodernity addresses the role of the imagination in philosophy today. By focusing on philosophy at the boundary of reason with constant reference to Kant’s view of the boundary-limit, it is possible to advance a viable alternative to deconstructing the imagination. Patrick L. Bourgeois puts forth the claim that by refocusing the imagination in the postmodern conversation, a far-reaching contemporary position can be reached that reestablishes the position of the humanities as central against the anti-humanism of deconstruction. This work addresses some of the challenges and problems that emerge in conflicting positions within contemporary philosophy, including a concentration on the role of the imagination in the work of Paul Ricoeur in contrast and in opposition to its role in such postmodern thinkers as Derrida and Lyotard. This treatment requires going back to the role of the imagination in the period of Kant and his immediate followers in order to clarify the various ways of seeing the imagination then and now, for the role today is anticipated in the nineteenth century. Finally, this work, as a creative appropriation of the position of Paul Ricoeur, presents a role for the imagination today that is more encompassing than most thinkers allow for.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

167

Publisher

Lexington Books

Published Date

ISBN 10

0739181904

ISBN 13

9780739181904

The Lean Practitioner's Field Book

Proven, Practical, Profitable and Powerful Techniques for Making Lean Really Work

By: Charles Protzman,Fred Whiton,Joyce Kerpchar,Christopher Lewandowski,Steve Stenberg,Patrick Grounds

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Lean Practitioner's Field Book

Proven, Practical, Profitable and Powerful Techniques for Making Lean Really Work

By: Charles Protzman,Fred Whiton,Joyce Kerpchar,Christopher Lewandowski,Steve Stenberg,Patrick Grounds

While there are numerous Lean Certification programs, most companies have their own certification paths whereby they bestow expert status upon employees after they have participated in or led a certain number of kaizen events. Arguing that the number of kaizen events should not determine a person's expert status, The Lean Practitioner's Field Book: Proven, Practical, Profitable and Powerful Techniques for Making Lean Really Work outlines a true learning path for anyone seeking to understand essential Lean principles. The book includes a plethora of examples drawn from the personal experiences of its many well-respected and award-winning contributors. These experts break down Lean concepts to their simplest terms to make everything as clear as possible for Lean practitioners. A refresher for some at times, the text provides thought-provoking questions with examples that will stimulate learning opportunities. Introducing the Lean Practitioner concept, the book details the five distinct Lean Practitioner levels and includes quizzes and criteria for each level. It highlights the differences between the kaizen event approach and the Lean system level approach as well as the difference between station balancing and baton zone. This book takes readers on a journey that begins with an overview of Lean principles and culminates with readers developing professionally through the practice of self-reliance. Providing you with the tools to implement Lean tools in your organization, the book includes discussions and examples that demonstrate how to transition from traditional accounting methods to a Lean accounting system. The book outlines an integrated, structured approach identified by the acronym BASICS (baseline, analyze, suggest solutions, implement, check, and sustain), which is combined with a proven business strategy to help ensure a successful and sustainable transformation of your organization.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

1752

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Published Date

ISBN 10

1315360500

ISBN 13

9781315360508

Empires of Print

Adventure Fiction in the Magazines, 1899-1919

By: Patrick Scott Belk

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Empires of Print

Adventure Fiction in the Magazines, 1899-1919

By: Patrick Scott Belk

At the turn of the twentieth century, the publishing industries in Britain and the United States underwent dramatic expansions and reorganization that brought about an increased traffic in books and periodicals around the world. Focusing on adventure fiction published from 1899 to 1919, Patrick Scott Belk looks at authors such as Joseph Conrad, H.G. Wells, Conan Doyle, and John Buchan to explore how writers of popular fiction engaged with foreign markets and readers through periodical publishing. Belk argues that popular fiction, particularly the adventure genre, developed in ways that directly correlate with authors’ experiences, and shows that popular genres of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries emerged as one way of marketing their literary works to expanding audiences of readers worldwide. Despite an over-determined print space altered by the rise of new kinds of consumers and transformations of accepted habits of reading, publishing, and writing, the changes in British and American publishing at the turn of the twentieth century inspired an exciting new period of literary invention and experimentation in the adventure genre, and the greater part of that invention and experimentation was happening in the magazines.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

180

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1317185048

ISBN 13

9781317185048

America's Forgotten Middle East Initiative

The King-Crane Commission of 1919

By: Andrew Patrick

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

America's Forgotten Middle East Initiative

The King-Crane Commission of 1919

By: Andrew Patrick

Sent to the Middle East by Woodrow Wilson to ascertain the viability of self-determination in the disintegrating Ottoman Empire, the King-Crane Commission of 1919 was America's first foray into the region. The commission's controversial recommendations included the rejection of the idea of a Jewish state in Syria, US intervention in the Middle East and the end of French colonial aspirations. The Commission's recommendations proved inflammatory, even though its counsel on the question of the Palestinian mandate was eventually disregarded by Lloyd George and Georges Clemenceau in favour of their own national interests. In the ensuing years, the Commission's dismissal of claims by Zionist representatives like David Ben-Gurion on their 'right to Palestine' proved particularly divisive, with some historians labeling it prophetic and accurate, and others arguing that Commission members were biased and ill-informed. Here, in the first book-length analysis of the King-Crane report in nearly 50 years, Andrew Patrick chronicles the history of early US involvement in the region, and challenges extant interpretations of the turbulent relationship between the United States and the Middle East.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

332

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

0857727001

ISBN 13

9780857727008

From Sin to Amazing Grace

Discovering the Queer Christ

By: Patrick S. Cheng

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

From Sin to Amazing Grace

Discovering the Queer Christ

By: Patrick S. Cheng

Throughout the history of Christianity, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (“LGBT” or“queer”) people have been condemned as unrepentant sinners who are in dire need of God’s saving grace. As a result of this condemnation, LGBT people have been subjected to great spiritual, emotional and physical abuse and violence. This issue takes on a particular urgency in light of the ongoing harassment and bullying of LGBT young people by their classmates. Cheng argues that people need to be liberated from the traditional legal model of thinking about sin and grace as a violation of divine and natural laws in which grace is understood as the strength to refrain from violating such laws. Rather Cheng proposes a Christological model based upon the theologies of Irenaeus, Bonaventure and Barth, in which sin and grace are defined in terms of what God has done for us in Jesus Christ. This book serves as a useful resource for all people who struggle to make sense of the traditional Christian doctrines of sin and grace in the context of the 21st century.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

193

Publisher

Church Publishing, Inc.

Published Date

ISBN 10

1596272392

ISBN 13

9781596272392

The Trace of the Face in the Politics of Jesus

Experimental Comparisons Between the Work of John Howard Yoder and Emmanuel Levinas

By: John Patrick Koyles

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Trace of the Face in the Politics of Jesus

Experimental Comparisons Between the Work of John Howard Yoder and Emmanuel Levinas

By: John Patrick Koyles

Taking its cue from Mark Nation's regret that John Howard Yoder refrained from a fuller engagement with the Western philosophical tradition, this book is an effort to explore the possibilities inherent in that conversation. It develops a dialogue between Yoder and the French philosopher Emmanuel Levinas. The placement of Yoder's work alongside of Levinas' conception of otherness cashes out the embedded hope in Nation's remarks by demonstrating the continuing relevancy of Yoder's thought for current Christian sociopolitical discourse. This book is especially aimed at those who seek to continue exploring the themes and ideas of John Howard Yoder.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

154

Publisher

Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published Date

ISBN 10

1621897516

ISBN 13

9781621897514

Cosmopolitan Global Politics

By: Patrick Hayden

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Cosmopolitan Global Politics

By: Patrick Hayden

Cosmopolitan conceptions of justice in global politics are gaining in importance in the field of international political theory. Cosmopolitanism claims that we owe duties of justice to all the persons of the world and thus that normative theories of global politics should focus first on the interests or welfare of persons rather than of states. Providing a thorough analysis of relevant literature and covering issues such as war and conflict, peace and human security, accountability for gross violations of human rights, environmental degradation, and the democratic deficit in transnational political actions and institutions, Patrick Hayden deftly examines the connections between accounts of cosmopolitanism and the part they play in contemporary global politics. He identifies competing theories of cosmopolitanism and defends them as strategies for serving the aims of justice in world affairs. Furthermore, he explores how cosmopolitan theories can function positively in processes of shaping international norms.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

171

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1351948288

ISBN 13

9781351948289

History as an Art of Memory

By: Patrick H. Hutton

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

History as an Art of Memory

By: Patrick H. Hutton

Hutton considers the ideas of philosophers, poets, and historians to seek outthe roots of fact as mere recollection.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

264

Publisher

UPNE

Published Date

ISBN 10

0874516374

ISBN 13

9780874516371

Power in Africa

An Essay in Political Interpretation

By: Patrick Chabal

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Power in Africa

An Essay in Political Interpretation

By: Patrick Chabal

This book will rightfully head many a reading list...'C.Allen, British Book News Power in Africa casts a fresh look at contemporary Black African politics. It reviews the merits and failings of existing interpretations of Africa's post-colonial society and offers a new approach to its understanding. It has two main aims. First, to present a comparative conceptual framework which places Africa's politics within its appropriate historical context. Second, to offer an explanation of what is actually happening in Africa - beyond the clichs of a dark continent perennially in crisis.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

314

Publisher

Springer

Published Date

ISBN 10

1349124680

ISBN 13

9781349124688

The Sense of Creation

Experience and the God Beyond

By: Patrick Masterson

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Sense of Creation

Experience and the God Beyond

By: Patrick Masterson

What kind of experience might help to confirm and make sense of the puzzling belief in divine creation, so central to the main monotheistic religions? Anselm and Aquinas developed a philosophical understanding of 'Creation' as an asymmetrical relationship between the world and God, that is, that the world is really related to God in a relationship of total dependence but God is in no way really related to or modified by this created world. This idea of an asymmetrical relationship is the key concept unifying all aspects of this book which discusses the three main inter-related questions in a philosophical discussion about God -- the question of meaning, the question of existence, and the question of co-existence. The book explores various 'ciphers' of this asymmetrical relationship in our pre-philosophical lived experience. These are experiences such as that of the relationship between our knowledge and what we know, or our sense of obligation to our vulnerable neighbour. It argues that deciphering such experiences helps to make sense of the 'asymmetrical' relation of creation and that it in turn makes sense of them. Masterson argues further that this idea of asymmetrical relationship provides insight into the main questions of philosophy of religion and is an illuminating source of critical dialogue with contemporary Anglo/American and Phenomenological approaches in philosophy of religion.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

166

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1317016394

ISBN 13

9781317016397

Catholics in America

A History

By: Patrick W. Carey

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Catholics in America

A History

By: Patrick W. Carey

The Roman Catholics have a long and storied history in the United States. From colonial times to the present, this group has seen its share of ups and downs, and has recently come under heated and extensive scrutiny. There is, however, a richer and more interesting history to this important denomination, and Carey details it here. Beginning with an overview of the transplanting of this faith into the New World, the author then details the extensive involvement this community has had in civil and political affairs, social and cultural milieus, and family and everyday life. Focusing on the people and events that have shaped Roman Catholicism in the United States, this broad history introduces readers to a vital American community. Beginning with a narrative history of Catholics and Catholicism in America, Carey brings the discussion through to current times, addressing the recent problems in the Church, women's roles, and responses to terrorism and war. He then goes on to include brief biographical sketches of important figures in the Church, and offers a chronology of key events. The result is one of the most comprehensive histories of Catholics in America available.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

304

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published Date

ISBN 10

0313014728

ISBN 13

9780313014727

The Economies of Imperial China and Western Europe

Debating the Great Divergence

By: Patrick Karl O'Brien

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Economies of Imperial China and Western Europe

Debating the Great Divergence

By: Patrick Karl O'Brien

This book is a critical interpretation of a seminal and protracted debate in comparative global economic history. Since its emergence, in now classic publications in economic history between 1997-2000, debate on the divergent economic development that has marked the long-term economic growth of China and Western Europe has generated a vast collection of books and articles, conferences, networks, and new journals as well as intense interest from the media and educated public. O’Brien provides an historiographical survey and critique of Western views on the long-run economic development of the Imperial Economy of China – a field of commentary that stretches back to the Enlightenment. The book’s structure and core argument is concentrated upon an elaboration of, and critical engagement with, the major themes of recent academic debate on the “Great Divergence” and it will be of enormous interest to academics and students of economic history, political economy, the economics of growth and development, state formation, statistical measurements, environmental history, and the histories of science and globalization.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

121

Publisher

Springer Nature

Published Date

ISBN 10

3030546144

ISBN 13

9783030546144

Recreation, Event, and Tourism Businesses

Start-up and Sustainable Operations

By: Robert E. Pfister,Patrick T. Tierney

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Recreation, Event, and Tourism Businesses

Start-up and Sustainable Operations

By: Robert E. Pfister,Patrick T. Tierney

Recreation, Event, and Tourism Businesses: Start-Up and Sustainable Operations reveals the keys to business success in the commercial recreation, event, and tourism sector. Until now, students, professors, and professionals interested in this growing industry have been limited to general business or basic recreation texts. In this book the authors have combined their expertise as both business owners and professors to offer a comprehensive and industry-specific course textbook and step-by-step guide for business start-up." "Recreation, Event, and Tourism Businesses presents new professionals and potential business owners with clear, easy-to-read directions for developing and writing a business plan. The book's business profiles and case studies serve as examples to follow when working on the plan and help readers gain insight into how businesses are planned, started, and funded. It also lays out important strategies for starting a business and shares best practices based on successful recreation businesses."--BOOK JACKET.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

302

Publisher

Human Kinetics

Published Date

ISBN 10

0736063536

ISBN 13

9780736063531

General Custer, Libbie Custer and Their Dogs

A Passion for Hounds, from the Civil War to Little Bighorn

By: Brian Patrick Duggan

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

General Custer, Libbie Custer and Their Dogs

A Passion for Hounds, from the Civil War to Little Bighorn

By: Brian Patrick Duggan

General George Armstrong Custer and his wife, Libbie Custer, were wholehearted dog lovers. At the time of his death at Little Bighorn, they owned a rollicking pack of 40 hunting dogs, including Scottish Deerhounds, Russian Wolfhounds, Greyhounds and Foxhounds. Told from a dog owner's perspective, this biography covers their first dogs during the Civil War and in Texas; hunting on the Kansas and Dakota frontiers; entertaining tourist buffalo hunters, including a Russian Archduke, English aristocrats and P. T. Barnum (all of whom presented the general with hounds); Custer's attack on the Washita village (when he was accused of strangling his own dogs); and the 7th Cavalry's march to Little Bighorn with an analysis of rumors about a Last Stand dog. The Custers' pack was re-homed after his death in the first national dog rescue effort. Well illustrated, the book includes an appendix giving depictions of the Custers' dogs in art, literature and film.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

362

Publisher

McFarland

Published Date

ISBN 10

1476669546

ISBN 13

9781476669540

Critical Companion to James Joyce

A Literary Reference to His Life and Work

By: A. Nicholas Fargnoli,Vice-President of the James Joyce Society and Professor of Theology and English A Nicholas Fargnoli,Michael Patrick Gillespie,Professor of English Michael Patrick Gillespie

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Critical Companion to James Joyce

A Literary Reference to His Life and Work

By: A. Nicholas Fargnoli,Vice-President of the James Joyce Society and Professor of Theology and English A Nicholas Fargnoli,Michael Patrick Gillespie,Professor of English Michael Patrick Gillespie

Examines the life and writings of James Joyce, including a biographical sketch, detailed synopses of his works, social and historical influences, and more.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

465

Publisher

Infobase Publishing

Published Date

ISBN 10

1438108486

ISBN 13

9781438108483

James Joyce A to Z

The Essential Reference to the Life and Work

By: A. Nicholas Fargnoli,Michael Patrick Gillespie

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

James Joyce A to Z

The Essential Reference to the Life and Work

By: A. Nicholas Fargnoli,Michael Patrick Gillespie

(series copy)These encyclopedic companions are browsable, invaluable individual guides to authors and their works. Useful for students, but written with the general reader in mind, they are clear, concise, accessible, and supply the basic cultural, historical, biographical and critical information so crucial toan appreciation and enjoyment of the primary works. Each is arranged in an A-Z fashion and presents and explains the terms, people, places, and concepts encountered in the literary worlds of James Joyce, Mark Twain, and Virginia Woolf.As a keen explorer of the mundane material of everyday life, James Joyce ranks high in the canon of modernist writers. He is arguably the most influential writer of the twentieth-century, and may be the most read, studied, and taught of all modern writers. The James Joyce A-Z is the ideal companionto Joyce's life and work. Over 800 concise entries relating to all aspects of Joyce are gathered here in one easy-to-use volume of impressive scope.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

326

Publisher

Literary A-Z's

Published Date

ISBN 10

0195110293

ISBN 13

9780195110296

Rhetoric and Settler Inertia

Strategies of Canadian Decolonization

By: Patrick Belanger

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Rhetoric and Settler Inertia

Strategies of Canadian Decolonization

By: Patrick Belanger

Rhetoric and Settler Inertia: Strategies of Canadian Decolonization explores how communication might accelerate decolonial actions in Canada. Tracing a middle path between essential Indigenous-focused calls for resurgence, and idealistic appeals to settler conscience, Patrick Belanger identifies communication forms that can generate settler support for decolonization. Accenting the importance of both Indigenous and settler audiences, this book suggests the promise of decolonial rhetoric framed in the language of mutual benefit.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

157

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield

Published Date

ISBN 10

1498587364

ISBN 13

9781498587365

The Odyssey of Political Theory

The Politics of Departure and Return

By: Patrick J. Deneen

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Odyssey of Political Theory

The Politics of Departure and Return

By: Patrick J. Deneen

This path-breaking and eloquent analysis of The Odyssey, and the way it has been interpreted by political philosophers throughout the centuries, has dramatic implications for the current state of political thought. This important book offers readers original insights into The Odyssey and it provides a new understanding of the classic works of Plato, Rousseau, Vico, Horkheimer, and Adorno. Through his analysis Patrick J. Deneen requires readers to rethink the issues that are truly at the heart of our contemporary 'Culture Wars,' and he encourages us to reassess our assumptions about the Western canon's virtues or viciousness. Deneen's penetrating exploration of Odysseus's and our own enduring battles between the dual temptations of homecoming and exploration, patriotism and cosmopolitanism, and relativism and universality provides an original perspective on contentious debates at the center of modern political theory and philosophy.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

286

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Published Date

ISBN 10

146164500X

ISBN 13

9781461645009

John Patrick's Craps

Walk Out a Winner!

By: John Patrick

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

John Patrick's Craps

Walk Out a Winner!

By: John Patrick

In this comprehensive guide, John Patrick provides beginners and experts alike with specific, easy-to-learn approaches to mastering the complexities of the craps table. John Patrick's Craps covers the Big 4 - Bankroll, Knowledge, Money Management and Discipline, the keys of his winning program - and how to master and use them to become a consistent winner. In his unique, easy-going style, Patrick walks readers through the right moves for every situation in craps as well as the most common mistakes players make, which cost them their winnings.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

340

Publisher

Lyle Stuart

Published Date

ISBN 10

0818407034

ISBN 13

9780818407031

Psychoanalysis and Discourse

By: Patrick Mahony

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Psychoanalysis and Discourse

By: Patrick Mahony

After a detailed discussion of the significance of translation as a critical concept in psychoanalysis, Patrick Mahony proceeds to a comprehensive examination of 'free association', the cornerstone of psychoanalytic method. Next follows the consideration of free association in its relation to scientific rhetorical, expressive and literary discourse. Mahony then begins a detailed study of certain aspects of the text of Freud's Interpretation of Dreams and of issues involved in the oral reporting of dreams. Attention is subsequently turned to the analysis of Freud's own writing in general, and specifically to Totem and Taboo. Finally, the author shows how his ideas can illuminate literary classics (by Villon, Shakespeare, Kafka, and Jonson) and the debate about whether there is anything specific to women's discourse.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

259

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1135479798

ISBN 13

9781135479794

Hope for the Oppressor

Discovering Freedom through Transformative Community

By: Patrick Oden

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Hope for the Oppressor

Discovering Freedom through Transformative Community

By: Patrick Oden

The liberating work of God calls the oppressed out of oppression and the oppressor out of oppressing. The challenge in seeking a thorough liberation of oppressors is to help them understand their need for freedom and how to seek this freedom in their own contexts. Patrick Oden provides a holistic biblical, historical, and theological analysis that diagnoses the underlying motivations and inclinations that lead to oppression. Part one addresses the context of oppression, in which most participants in oppression do not actively seek to harm others but are caught up in systems that tend toward the diminishment of others. Part two examines the biblical and early Christian response to oppression, discovering a thread that avoids condemning participation in society generally while also cautioning the people of God about being co-opted by society. Part three discusses how oppressors can withdraw from oppression, through a constructive analysis of four contemporary theologians—Wolfhart Pannenberg, Jürgen Moltmann, Sarah Coakley, and Jean Vanier—each of whom contributes to a widening vision of liberated and liberating life in which the once-oppressed and former oppressor can find peace together in community.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

244

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield

Published Date

ISBN 10

1978709161

ISBN 13

9781978709164

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Knockout Workouts for Every Shape, Illustrated

Customizable Exercise Plans for Every Age and Fitness Level

By: Patrick S. Hagerman

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Knockout Workouts for Every Shape, Illustrated

Customizable Exercise Plans for Every Age and Fitness Level

By: Patrick S. Hagerman

It's time to get into shape ... the easy way! Author and fitness expert Patrick Hagerman provides comprehensive information and customized workout plans for every age, ability level, and physical condition. With Hagerman as their coach, readers will be on the right track to fitness in no time, improving their health, self-esteem, and appearance. * Presented in a style easily referenced and cross-referenced for all ages and ability levels * Written by an experienced author and fitness expert * Well-illustrated for increased comprehension of programs and exercises * Caters to everyone from pregnant women to older men with lower back pain

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

269

Publisher

Penguin

Published Date

ISBN 10

1440614776

ISBN 13

9781440614774

Liberalism, Communitarianism and Education

Reclaiming Liberal Education

By: Patrick Keeney

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Liberalism, Communitarianism and Education

Reclaiming Liberal Education

By: Patrick Keeney

Communitarian thinkers have identified important deficiencies in liberal thought, in particular the limits of the account of justice given in liberal theories. This book makes transparent for the reader the implications that the liberal account of justice has for our ways of thinking about education. Citing the work of John Rawls as the principal expression of contemporary liberal thought, Keeney argues that there are certain intractable tensions between the view of the individual given in rights-based theories of justice and a certain valuable conception of education, which in the West has traditionally been termed a "liberal" or "general" education and concludes that ideals of a liberal education are only available to a political ethic which is capable of articulating a public conception of virtue and the good.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

168

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

131710546X

ISBN 13

9781317105466

Modernism on Fleet Street

By: Patrick Collier

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Modernism on Fleet Street

By: Patrick Collier

British modernism came of age at a time of great cultural anxiety about the state of journalism. The new newspapers, with their brief, flashy articles, striking visuals, hyperbolic headlines, and sensational news, stood at the center of debates about reading in the period, seeming to threaten the viability of representative democracy, the health and vitality of the language, and the very future of literature itself. Patrick Collier's study brings an impressive array of archival research to his exploration of modernism's relationship to the newspaper press. People who sought to make their way as writers could neither remain neutral on this issue nor abandon journalism, which offered an irreplaceable source of income and self-advertisement. Collier discusses five modern writers-T. S. Eliot, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Rebecca West, and Rose Macaulay-showing how their work takes part in contemporary debates about journalism and examining the role journalism played in establishing their careers. In doing so, he uncovers tensions and contradictions inherent in the identity of the 'serious artist' who relied on the ephemeral forms of journalism for money and reputation.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

290

Publisher

Routledge

Published Date

ISBN 10

1351916939

ISBN 13

9781351916936

Pro Football in the 1960s

The NFL, the AFL and the Sport's Coming of Age

By: Patrick Gallivan

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Pro Football in the 1960s

The NFL, the AFL and the Sport's Coming of Age

By: Patrick Gallivan

The 1960s were a tumultuous period in U.S. history and the sporting world was not immune to the decade's upturn of tradition. As war in Southeast Asia, civil unrest at home and political assassinations rocked the nation, professional football struggled to attract fans. While some players fought for civil rights and others fought overseas, the ideological divides behind the protests and riots in the streets spilled into the locker rooms, and athletes increasingly brought their political beliefs into the sports world. This history describes how a decade of social upheaval affected life on the gridiron, and the personalities and events that shaped the game. The debut of the Super Bowl, soon to become a fixture of American culture, marked a professional sport on the rise. Increasingly lucrative television contracts and innovations in the filming and broadcasting of games expanded pro football's audiences. An authoritarian old guard, best represented by the revered Vince Lombardi, began to give way as star players like Joe Namath commanded new levels of pay and power. And at last, all teams fielded African American players, belatedly beginning the correction of the sport's greatest wrong.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

250

Publisher

McFarland

Published Date

ISBN 10

1476678316

ISBN 13

9781476678313

The Mormon Menace

Violence and Anti-Mormonism in the Postbellum South

By: Patrick Mason

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Mormon Menace

Violence and Anti-Mormonism in the Postbellum South

By: Patrick Mason

It incarnates every unclean beast of lust, guile, falsehood, murder, despotism and spiritual wickedness." So wrote a prominent Southern Baptist official in 1899 of Mormonism. Rather than the "quintessential American religion," as it has been dubbed by contemporary scholars, in the late nineteenth century Mormonism was America's most vilified homegrown faith. A vast national campaign featuring politicians, church leaders, social reformers, the press, women's organizations, businessmen, and ordinary citizens sought to end the distinctive Latter-day Saint practice of plural marriage, and to extinguish the entire religion if need be. Placing the movement against polygamy in the context of American and southern history, Mason demonstrates that anti-Mormonism was one of the earliest vehicles for reconciliation between North and South after the Civil War and Reconstruction. Southerners joined with northern reformers and Republicans to endorse the use of newly expanded federal power to vanquish the perceived threat to Christian marriage and the American republic. Anti-Mormonism was a significant intellectual, legal, religious, and cultural phenomenon, but in the South it was also violent. While southerners were concerned about distinctive Mormon beliefs and political practices, they were most alarmed at the "invasion" of Mormon missionaries in their communities and the prospect of their wives and daughters falling prey to polygamy. Moving to defend their homes and their honor against this threat, southerners turned to legislation, to religion, and, most dramatically, to vigilante violence. The Mormon Menace provides new insights into some of the most important discussions of the late nineteenth century and of our own age, including debates over the nature and limits of religious freedom; the contest between the will of the people and the rule of law; and the role of citizens, churches, and the state in regulating and defining marriage.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

265

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

019979233X

ISBN 13

9780199792337

Book's by Patrick Press

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email