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Reading Law Forward

The Making of a Democratic Jurisprudence from John Marshall to Stephen G. Breyer

By: Peter Charles Hoffer

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Reading Law Forward

The Making of a Democratic Jurisprudence from John Marshall to Stephen G. Breyer

By: Peter Charles Hoffer

In the current legal climate where “everyone is an originalist,” conventional wisdom suggests that judges merely find law, rather than make it. Orthodox common-law jurisprudence makes fidelity to the past the central goal and criterion. By contrast, the alternative approach, “reading the law forward”—what some call judicial pragmatism or consequentialism—is viewed as heretical. Rather than mount a theoretical defense of a forward-thinking jurisprudence, legal historian Peter Charles Hoffer offers an empirical study of how this approach to constitutional interpretation actually leads to better law. Reading Law Forward looks at seven judges who exemplify this alternative jurisprudence: John Marshall, Joseph Story, Lemuel Shaw, Louis D. Brandeis, Benjamin Cardozo, William O. Douglas, and Stephen G. Breyer. “In the hands of America’s leading judges, a jurisprudence of reading law forward enabled courts to respond to the challenges of changing conditions. It kept law fresh. It promoted and still promotes the growth of a democratic society,” Hoffer convincingly argues.

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University Press of Kansas

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0700635084

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9780700635085

External Parasites of Small Ruminants A Practical Guide to their Prevention and Control

By: Peter George Bates

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External Parasites of Small Ruminants A Practical Guide to their Prevention and Control

By: Peter George Bates

This book is comprised of 11 chapters covering the prevention and control of ectoparasites that contribute to disease and infection in sheep and goats, types of parasites, diseases caused by these parasites and control methods that are currently available. Moreover, the implications of these ectoparasitoses on animal welfare and environmental impacts are also discussed. Focus is given on mites (Acari), ticks (Ixodida), lice (Phthiraptera), flies (Diptera), fleas (Siphonaptera), diagnosis, prevention, chemical control, alternative control methods and economic damage.

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245

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CABI

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1845939328

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9781845939328

Hawai‘i’s Russian Adventure

A New Look at Old History

By: Peter R. Mills

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Hawai‘i’s Russian Adventure

A New Look at Old History

By: Peter R. Mills

In the early 1800s thousands of American and European traders arrived in Hawai‘i to lay in supplies for the long trip east or to take on Hawaiian sandalwood, which commanded a high price in China. In response to this developing global economy in the Pacific, Russia expanded its trading outposts as far as western Kaua‘i and together with Kaua‘i chiefs began planning the construction of Fort Elisabeth in Waimea in 1816. A year later, the structure was abandoned by the Russians, but, as Peter Mills argues convincingly, a long and significant history of the fort remains to be told, even after its Russian one had ended. Seeking to redress the imbalance that exists between the colonized and the colonizers in Pacific historiography, Mills examines the fort and its place in the history of Kaua‘i under paramount chief Kaumuali‘i and in relation to the expanding kingdom of Kamehameha and his successors. His work exposes how Hawaiians have been ignored in their own history and challenges commonly held assumptions such as Kamehameha’s unification of the Islands in 1810 and the victimization of Kaumuali‘i by representatives of the Russian-American Company. Using hundreds of firsthand accounts in combination with field archaeology, Mills shows that the fort was originally built and used by Hawaiians as a heiau (ritual temple). After the Russians’ departure, Hawaiians continued to use the fort but in ways that reflected an ongoing transformation of cultural values provoked by contact with outsiders and the development of multiethnic communities in Waimea and other port settlements throughout the Hawaiian chain. Hawai‘i’s Russian Adventure is an original look at a significant chapter in the history of Hawai‘i. It overturns many popular myths and perceptions about the fort at Waimea and about European and Hawaiian interaction in the first half of the nineteenth century while delving into some of the central issues in historical anthropology, colonialism, and the development of global networks.

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310

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University of Hawaii Press

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0824842332

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9780824842338

Consider the Turkey

By: Peter Singer

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Consider the Turkey

By: Peter Singer

Each year, Peter Singer, the philosopher, ethicist, and Animal Rights activist, teaches a large undergraduate class on Ethics. In advance of the Thanksgiving holiday in America, he gives a lecture to his students on the ethical issues involved with its journey to our holiday tables. He covers how the bird came into existence and the kind of life and death it has as well as the conditions of the workers involved with its production and the environmental impact of their being factory farmed. It is not a pretty picture and may lead one to think twice about their turkey traditions. This very short book will be an expanded form of the essay based on that lecture he wrote for our book, Ethics in the Real World. The plan is to increase that essay from about 1,000 words to 8,000 and package it as an On Bullshit-sized book which could be a Thanksgiving classic!"--

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128

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Princeton University Press

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0691231680

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9780691231686

From the Grassroots to the Supreme Court

Brown V. Board of Education and American Democracy

By: Peter F. Lau

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From the Grassroots to the Supreme Court

Brown V. Board of Education and American Democracy

By: Peter F. Lau

Perhaps more than any other Supreme Court ruling, Brown v. Board of Education and American Democracy Series title: Constitutional Conflicts Ser.

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Duke University Press

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0822334496

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9780822334491

Before the Baton

Musical Direction and Conducting in Stuart and Georgian Britain

By: Peter Holman

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Before the Baton

Musical Direction and Conducting in Stuart and Georgian Britain

By: Peter Holman

How was large-scale music directed or conducted in Britain before baton conducting took hold in the 1830s?

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Boydell & Brewer

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1783274565

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9781783274567

The Murrumbidgee Kid

By: Peter Yeldham

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The Murrumbidgee Kid

By: Peter Yeldham

A heart-warming evocation of childhood during the Great Depression . . . I loved every page.' BRYCE COURTENAY The small town of Gundagai in the 1930s is no place for the attractive and flamboyant Belle Carson and her young son, Teddy – particularly when she longs for him to achieve the success that eluded her on the stage and screen. Determined to pursue this dream, she abandons her husband and their Murrumbidgee River home for a more vibrant city life. But Belle's obsession leads her and Teddy – whom the press christens 'the Murrumbidgee Kid' – into a world where nothing is safe or familiar. And from her carefully hidden past a threat soon emerges to make their precarious lives even more vulnerable . . . From rural Gundagai to the bright lights and shady underbelly of 1930s Sydney, this is a beautifully written and adsorbing story about an unconventional family's coming-of-age.

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400

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Penguin UK

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0857965484

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9780857965486

The Courage of Their Convictions

By: Peter H. Irons

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The Courage of Their Convictions

By: Peter H. Irons

The Courage of their Convictions cites sixteen landmark civil liberties cases and the individuals who challenged laws that they felt impinged upon their personal freedom and who took their battles to the nation’s highest court of law. “Thank goodness for the sixteen brave men and women who fought official intolerance all the way to the US Supreme Court. And thanks to the Peter Irons for presenting their moving personal reasons, in their own words, for questioning authority. Like Anthony Lewis’s Gideon’s Trumpet, this book presents constitutional law with a human face. It will be a classic.” —Norman Dorsen, President, American Civil Liberties Union New York University Law School “A fascinating account of how complex, multi-faceted conduct by individual citizens is forced into narrow, legal categories for decision by our judicial system.” —Thomas I. Emerson, Yale Law School

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Simon and Schuster

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150115513X

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9781501155130

Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock 'n' Roll

By: Peter Guralnick

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Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock 'n' Roll

By: Peter Guralnick

From the author of the critically acclaimed Elvis Presley biography: Last Train to Memphis brings us the life of Sam Phillips, the visionary genius who singlehandedly steered the revolutionary path of Sun Records. The music that he shaped in his tiny Memphis studio with artists as diverse as Elvis Presley, Ike Turner, Howlin' Wolf, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Johnny Cash, introduced a sound that had never been heard before. He brought forth a singular mix of black and white voices passionately proclaiming the vitality of the American vernacular tradition while at the same time declaring, once and for all, a new, integrated musical day. With extensive interviews and firsthand personal observations extending over a 25-year period with Phillips, along with wide-ranging interviews with nearly all the legendary Sun Records artists, Guralnick gives us an ardent, unrestrained portrait of an American original as compelling in his own right as Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, or Thomas Edison.

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648

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Little, Brown

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0316341843

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9780316341844

Alfred Russel Wallace

A Life

By: Peter Raby

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Alfred Russel Wallace

A Life

By: Peter Raby

This new biography of Wallace traces the development of one of the most remarkable scientific travelers, naturalists, and thinkers of the nineteenth century. With vigor and sensitivity, Peter Raby reveals his subject as a courageous, unconventional explorer and a man of exceptional humanity. He draws more extensively on Wallace's correspondence than has any previous biographer and offers a revealing yet balanced account of the relationship between Wallace and Darwin.

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Princeton University Press

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0691102406

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9780691102405

Nineteenth-Century Travels, Explorations and Empires, Part II vol 8

Writings from the Era of Imperial Consolidation, 1835-1910

By: Peter J Kitson,William Baker

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Nineteenth-Century Travels, Explorations and Empires, Part II vol 8

Writings from the Era of Imperial Consolidation, 1835-1910

By: Peter J Kitson,William Baker

A collection of writings on travels undertaken in the Victorian era. The texts collected in these volumes show how 19th century travel literature served the interests of empire by promoting British political and economic values that translated into manufacturing goods.

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Routledge

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1000559009

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9781000559002

Nineteenth-Century Travels, Explorations and Empires, Part I Vol 2

Writings from the Era of Imperial Consolidation, 1835-1910

By: Peter J Kitson,William Baker,Indira Ghose,Susan Schoenbauer Thurin

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Nineteenth-Century Travels, Explorations and Empires, Part I Vol 2

Writings from the Era of Imperial Consolidation, 1835-1910

By: Peter J Kitson,William Baker,Indira Ghose,Susan Schoenbauer Thurin

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Routledge

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1000558940

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Unimpeded Sailing

A Critical Edition of Johann Gröning’s Navigatio Libera (Extended 1698 Edition)

By: Peter Maxwell-Stuart,Steve Murdoch,Leos Müller

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Unimpeded Sailing

A Critical Edition of Johann Gröning’s Navigatio Libera (Extended 1698 Edition)

By: Peter Maxwell-Stuart,Steve Murdoch,Leos Müller

The original Latin text of Johann Gröning’s Navigatio libera has never before been translated into any modern vernacular language. Gröning’s intention was to set out the position of neutral nations (in this case the Danes and Swedes), and their right to pursue trade during the wars of the great maritime powers (particularly the English and the Dutch). It specifically sought to engage with and refute the work of Hugo Grotius while taking cognisance of the critique of Gröning’s work by Samuel Pufendorf. The text serves as a bridge between 17th-century polemical discourse surrounding the ‘free sea’ versus ‘enclosed sea’ debate and later 18th-century legal literature on the rights of neutrals and the continuation of free trade in time of war.

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BRILL

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9004352708

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9789004352704

Book's by Peter George Bates

Reading Law Forward

Reading Law Forward

External Parasites of Small Ruminants A Practical Guide to their Prevention and Control

External Parasites of Small Ruminants A Practical Guide to their Prevention and Control

Hawai‘i’s Russian Adventure

Hawai‘i’s Russian Adventure

Consider the Turkey

Consider the Turkey

From the Grassroots to the Supreme Court

From the Grassroots to the Supreme Court

Before the Baton

Before the Baton

The Murrumbidgee Kid

The Murrumbidgee Kid

The Courage of Their Convictions

The Courage of Their Convictions

Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock 'n' Roll

Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock 'n' Roll

Alfred Russel Wallace

Alfred Russel Wallace

Nineteenth-Century Travels, Explorations and Empires, Part II vol 8

Nineteenth-Century Travels, Explorations and Empires, Part II vol 8

Nineteenth-Century Travels, Explorations and Empires, Part I Vol 2

Nineteenth-Century Travels, Explorations and Empires, Part I Vol 2

Unimpeded Sailing

Unimpeded Sailing

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