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Justice beyond 'Just Us'

Dilemmas of Time, Place, and Difference in American Politics

By: Professor Gregory W Streich

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Justice beyond 'Just Us'

Dilemmas of Time, Place, and Difference in American Politics

By: Professor Gregory W Streich

Notions of justice and community in the United States are increasingly challenged by trends like immigration, multiculturalism, and economic inequality as well as historical legacies like Jim Crow-era racial segregation. These dynamics continually re-shape the communities in which people live, whether by generating new forms of interdependency and inequality, creating new social cleavages or exacerbating existing ones, or generating new spaces in which cross-boundary contact, conflict, or cooperation is possible. Revealing the ways in which notions of justice and community overlap in American politics and public discourse through concrete political questions which emerge when considering dimensions of time, place, and difference, Gregory W. Streich offers a fresh re-examination of the normative ideas of justice and community. He encourages Americans to move from a view of justice that applies only to people who are "like us" to a view of justice that applies to people beyond "just us.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409489256

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A People and a Nation

Since 1865

By: Mary Beth Norton,Mary Donlon Alger Professor of American History Mary Beth Norton,David M. Katzman,David W. Blight,Howard P. Chudacoff

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A People and a Nation

Since 1865

By: Mary Beth Norton,Mary Donlon Alger Professor of American History Mary Beth Norton,David M. Katzman,David W. Blight,Howard P. Chudacoff

Developed to meet the demand for a low-cost, high-quality history book, this text is an economically priced version of A People and a Nation, 7/e ((c)2005). The Dolphin Edition offers readers the complete text while limiting the number of photos and maps. All volumes feature a paperback, two-color format that appeals to those seeking a comprehensive, trade-sized history text.Like its hardcover counterpart, the Dolphin Edition preserves the text's basic approach to American history as the story of all Americans. The text is known for its emphasis on social history, well-respected author team, attention to race and racial identity, and balanced and engaging narrative. Significant revisions to the Seventh Edition of A People and a Nation are reflected in the Dolphin Edition.

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Houghton Mifflin

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061860801X

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9780618608010

The Stakeholder Society

By: Bruce Ackerman,Anne Alstott,Professor Anne Alstott

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The Stakeholder Society

By: Bruce Ackerman,Anne Alstott,Professor Anne Alstott

Proposes an economic program that would grant all qualified young adults in the United States an initial stake of eighty thousand dollars, providing them with the means to shape their own future

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Yale University Press

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0300078269

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Saving Children from a Life of Crime : Early Risk Factors and Effective Interventions

Early Risk Factors and Effective Interventions

By: Institute of Criminology Cambridge University David P. Farrington Professor of Psychological Criminology,Department of Criminal Justice University of Massachusetts Brandon C. Welsh Assistant Professor, Lowell

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Saving Children from a Life of Crime : Early Risk Factors and Effective Interventions

Early Risk Factors and Effective Interventions

After decades of rigorous study in the United States and across the Western world, a great deal is known about the early risk factors for offending. High impulsiveness, low attainment, criminal parents, parental conflict, and growing up in a deprived, high-crime neighborhood are among the most important factors. There is also a growing body of high quality scientific evidence on the effectiveness of early prevention programs designed to prevent children from embarking on a life of crime. Drawing on the latest evidence, Saving Children from a Life of Crime is the first book to assess the early causes of offending and what works best to prevent it. Preschool intellectual enrichment, child skills training, parent management training, and home visiting programs are among the most effective early prevention programs. Criminologists David Farrington and Brandon Welsh also outline a policy strategy--early prevention--that uses this current research knowledge and brings into sharper focus what America's national crime fighting priority ought to be. At a time when unacceptable crime levels in America, rising criminal justice costs, and a punitive crime policy have spurred a growing interest in the early prevention of delinquency, Farrington and Welsh here lay the groundwork for change with a comprehensive national prevention strategy to save children from a life of crime.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199719624

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Working Women and their Rights in the Workplace

International Human Rights and Its Impact on Libyan Law

By: Professor Naeima Faraj A.A. Al-Hadad

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Working Women and their Rights in the Workplace

International Human Rights and Its Impact on Libyan Law

By: Professor Naeima Faraj A.A. Al-Hadad

Providing a rare insight into a region striving to find its new identity, this book addresses women’s rights to work and motherhood in Libya from a legal and international human rights perspective. In an attempt to solve the problem posed by the perception that there is an unsolvable conflict between the right of women to work and their right to motherhood, the author considers how these two sets of rights, as protected under international human rights law, can and should be recognised and promoted within the Libyan legal system.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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147244499X

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Marlowe's Ovid

The Elegies in the Marlowe Canon

By: Professor M L Stapleton

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Marlowe's Ovid

The Elegies in the Marlowe Canon

By: Professor M L Stapleton

The first book of its kind, Marlowe’s Ovid explores and analyzes in depth the relationship between the Elegies-Marlowe’s translation of Ovid’s Amores-and Marlowe’s own dramatic and poetic works. Stapleton carefully considers Marlowe’s Elegies in the context of his seven known dramatic works and his epyllion, Hero and Leander, and offers a different way to read Marlowe. Stapleton employs Marlowe’s rendition of the Amores as a way to read his seven dramatic productions and his narrative poetry while engaging with previous scholarship devoted to the accuracy of the translation and to bibliographical issues. The author focuses on four main principles: the intertextual relationship of the Elegies to the rest of the author’s canon; its reflection of the influence of Erasmian humanist pedagogy, imitatio and aemulatio; its status as the standard English Amores until the Glorious Revolution, part of the larger phenomenon of pan-European Renaissance Ovidianism; its participation in the genre of the sonnet sequence. He explores how translating the Amores into the Elegies profited Marlowe as a writer, a kind of literary archaeology that explains why he may have commenced such an undertaking. Marlowe’s Ovid adds to the body of scholarly work in a number of subfields, including classical influences in English literature, translation, sexuality in literature, early modern poetry and drama, and Marlowe and his milieu.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1472424964

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An Introduction to the Sociology of Religion

Classical and Contemporary Perspectives

By: Professor Pål Repstad,Assoc Prof Inger Furseth

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An Introduction to the Sociology of Religion

Classical and Contemporary Perspectives

By: Professor Pål Repstad,Assoc Prof Inger Furseth

An Introduction to the Sociology of Religion provides an overview of sociological theories of contemporary religious life. Some chapters are organized according to topic. Others offer brief presentations of classical and contemporary sociologists from Karl Marx to Zygmunt Bauman and their perspectives on social life, including religion. Throughout the book, illustrations and examples are taken from several religious traditions.

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140947710X

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Dictionary of African Biography

By: Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong,Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

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Dictionary of African Biography

By: Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong,Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

From the Pharaohs to Fanon, Dictionary of African Biography provides a comprehensive overview of the lives of the men and women who shaped Africa's history. Unprecedented in scale, DAB covers the whole continent from Tunisia to South Africa, from Sierra Leone to Somalia. It also encompasses the full scope of history from Queen Hatsheput of Egypt (1490-1468 BC) and Hannibal, the military commander and strategist of Carthage (243-183 BC), to Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana (1909-1972), Miriam Makeba and Nelson Mandela of South Africa (1918 -).

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0195382072

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Judging Edward Teller

By: Istvan Hargittai,Professor and Head of the Structural Chemistry Research Group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Istvan Hargittai

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Judging Edward Teller

By: Istvan Hargittai,Professor and Head of the Structural Chemistry Research Group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Istvan Hargittai

A personal acquaintance of Teller's presents the definitive, balanced portrait of the scientist against the backdrop of a turbulent period of history, and reveals the contradictory nature of this complex man in all his strengths, flaws, and brilliance.

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Prometheus Books

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1616142693

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Language and Liberation

Feminism, Philosophy, and Language

By: Professor Kelly Oliver

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Language and Liberation

Feminism, Philosophy, and Language

By: Professor Kelly Oliver

Gathers authors with different backgrounds and methods to advance feminist discussions of the relation between language and women's oppression, suggesting promising new directions for further research.

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SUNY Press

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0791440516

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9780791440513

Edwardian and Georgian Fiction

By: Sterling Professor of Humanities Harold Bloom

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Edwardian and Georgian Fiction

By: Sterling Professor of Humanities Harold Bloom

This volume examines the great writers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, from Thomas Hardy to Joseph Conrad.

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Infobase Publishing

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1438114923

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Masculine Virtue in Early Modern Spain

By: Professor Shifra Armon

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Masculine Virtue in Early Modern Spain

By: Professor Shifra Armon

Masculine Virtue in Early Modern Spain extricates the history of masculinity in early modern Spain from the narrative of Spain’s fall from imperial power after 1640. This book culls genres as diverse as emblem books, poetry, drama, courtesy treatises and prose fiction, to restore the inception of courtiership at the Spanish Hapsburg court to the history of masculinity. Refuting the current conception that Spain’s political decline precipitated a ‘crisis of masculinity’, Masculine Virtue maps changes in figurations of normative masculine conduct from 1500 to 1700. As Spain assumed the role of Europe’s first modern centralized empire, codes of masculine conduct changed to meet the demands of global rule. Viewed chronologically, Shifra Armon shows Spanish conduct literature to reveal three axes of transformation. The ideal subject (gendered male in both practice and law) became progressively more adaptable to changing circumstances, more intensely involved in currying his own public image, and more desirous of achieving renown. By bringing recent advances in gender theory to bear on normative rather than non-normative masculinities of early modern Spain, Armon is able to foreground the emergence of energizing new models of masculine virtue that continue to resonate today.

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1472441915

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Suffering and Moral Responsibility

By: Jamie Mayerfeld Associate Professor of Political Science University of Washington

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Suffering and Moral Responsibility

By: Jamie Mayerfeld Associate Professor of Political Science University of Washington

In this original study, Jamie Mayerfeld undertakes a careful inquiry into the meaning and moral significance of suffering. Understanding suffering in hedonistic terms as an affliction of feeling, he addresses difficulties associated with its identification and measurement. He then turns to an examination of the duty to relieve suffering: its content, its weight relative to other moral considerations, and the role it should play in our lives. Among the claims defended in the book are that suffering needs to be distinguished from both physical pain and the frustration of desire, that interpersonal comparisons of the intensity of happiness and suffering are possible, that several psychological processes hinder our awareness of other people's suffering, and that the prevention of suffering should often be pursued indirectly. Mayerfeld concludes his discussion by arguing that the reduction of suffering is morally more important than the promotion of happiness, and that most of us greatly underestimate the force of the duty to prevent suffering. As the first systematic book-length inquiry into the moral significance of suffering, Suffering and Moral Responsibility makes an important contribution to moral philosophy and political theory, and will interest specialists in each of these areas.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195348214

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François Couperin and 'The Perfection of Music'

By: Professor David Tunley

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François Couperin and 'The Perfection of Music'

By: Professor David Tunley

François Couperin's contribution to the literature of baroque keyboard music has long been recognized. François Couperin and 'The Perfection of Music' updates and expands upon David Tunley's valuable 1982 BBC Music Guide to the composer, and examines the whole of Couperin’s output including the organ masses, motets and chamber music, in addition to the well-known works for harpsichord. Taking as its focal point Couperin's concept of the perfection of music through the union of the French and Italian styles, this book takes a more analytical approach to Couperin's work. Early chapters outline the main contrasting features of the two schools in the seventeenth- and early eighteenth-centuries, and it becomes clear that Couperin's expressive power owed much to his fusion of the polarities of the French classical tradition with that of the Italian baroque. The book features a number of appendices, including the prefaces to Couperin's work both in the original French and in English translation, and a glossary of dances of the French baroque.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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140949361X

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Beyond Ethnicity : Consent and Descent in American Culture

Consent and Descent in American Culture

By: Werner Sollors Professor of American Literature and Afro-American Studies Harvard University

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Beyond Ethnicity : Consent and Descent in American Culture

Consent and Descent in American Culture

By: Werner Sollors Professor of American Literature and Afro-American Studies Harvard University

Nothing is "pure" in America, and, indeed, the rich ethnic mix that constitutes our society accounts for much of its amazing vitality. Werner Sollors's new book takes a wide-ranging look at the role of "ethnicity" in American literature and what that literature has said--and continues to say--about our diverse culture. Ethnic consciousness, he contends, is a constituent feature of modernism, not modernism's antithesis. Discussing works from every period of American history, Sollors focuses particularly on the tension between "descent" and "consent"--between the concern for one's racial, ethnic, and familial heritage and the conflicting desire to choose one's own destiny, even if that choice goes against one's heritage. Some of the stories Sollors examines are retellings of the biblical Exodus--stories in which Americans of the most diverse origins have painted their own histories as an escape from bondage or a search for a new Canaan. Other stories are "American-made" tales of melting-pot romance, which may either triumph in intermarriage, accompanied by new world symphonies, or end with the lovers' death. Still other stories concern voyages of self-discovery in which the hero attempts to steer a perilous course between stubborn traditionalism and total assimilation. And then there are the generational sagas, in which, as if by magic, the third generation emerges as the fulfillment of their forebears' dream. Citing examples that range from the writings of Cotton Mather to Liquid Sky (a "post-punk" science fiction film directed by a Russian emigre), Sollors shows how the creators of American culture have generally been attracted to what is most new and modern. About the Author: Werner Sollors is Chairman of the Afro-American Studies Department at Harvard University and the author of Amiri Baraka: The Quest for a Populist Modernism. A provocative and original look at "ethnicity" in American literature DTCovers stories from all periods of our nation's history DTRelates ethnic literature to the principle of literary modernism DT"Grave and hilarious, tender and merciless...The book performs a public service."-Quentin Anderson

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0198020724

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Revolution, Resistance, and Reform in Village China

By: Professor Edward Friedman,Edward Friedman,Friedman Edward,Professor Paul G Pickowicz,Paul Pickowicz,Mark Selden

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Revolution, Resistance, and Reform in Village China

By: Professor Edward Friedman,Edward Friedman,Friedman Edward,Professor Paul G Pickowicz,Paul Pickowicz,Mark Selden

Drawing on nearly 30 years of field and documentary research in rural North China, this book explores the contested relationship between village and state since the 1960's. The authors bring the countryside to life through personal and poignant accounts of villagers across three generations of social upheaval.

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Yale University Press

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0300108966

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Linguistics Student's Handbook

By: Professor Laurie Bauer

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Linguistics Student's Handbook

By: Professor Laurie Bauer

The book that tells you all the things you felt you were expected to know about linguistics, but were afraid to ask about.*What do you know about Burushaski and Miwok?*What's the difference between paradigmatic and syntagmatic?*What is E-language?*What is a language?*Do parenthetical and non-restrictive mean the same thing?*How do you write a bibiliographic entry for a work you have not seen?Every student who has asked these questions needs this book. A compendium of useful things for linguistics students to know, from the IPA chart to the Saussurean dichotomies, this book will be the constant companion of anyone undertaking studies of linguistics. Part reference work, part revision guide, and with tables providing summary information on some 280 languages, the book provides a new learning tool as a supplement to the usual textbooks and glossaries.

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Edinburgh University Press

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0748631607

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Role-play and the World as Stage in the Comedia

By: Jonathan Thacker,Professor of Golden Age Spanish Literature Jonathan Thacker

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Role-play and the World as Stage in the Comedia

By: Jonathan Thacker,Professor of Golden Age Spanish Literature Jonathan Thacker

The theatrum mundi metaphor was well-known in the Golden Age, and was often employed, notably by Calderón in his religious theatre. However, little account has been given of the everyday exploitation of the idea of the world as stage in the mainstream drama of the Golden Age. This study examines how and why playwrights of the period time and again created characters who dramatize themselves, who re-invent themselves by performing new roles and inventing new plots within the larger frame of the play. The prevalence of metatheatrical techniques among Golden Age dramatists, including Lope de Vega, Tirso de Molina, Calderón de la Barca and Guillén de Castro, reveals a fascination with role-playing and its implications. Thacker argues that in comedy, these playwrights saw role-playing as a means by which they could comment on and criticize the society in which they lived, and he reveals a drama far less supportive of the social status quo in Golden Age Spain than has been traditionally thought to be the case.

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Liverpool University Press

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0853235481

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9780853235484

Empowering the Feminine

The Narratives of Mary Robinson, Jane West, and Amelia Opie, 1796-1812

By: Eleanor Rose Ty,Professor Department of English Eleanor Ty

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Empowering the Feminine

The Narratives of Mary Robinson, Jane West, and Amelia Opie, 1796-1812

By: Eleanor Rose Ty,Professor Department of English Eleanor Ty

That focus invests these attributes with new meaning, making supposed female weaknesses potentially active forces for social change.

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University of Toronto Press

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0802043623

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Queer Attachments

The Cultural Politics of Shame

By: Professor Sally R Munt

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Queer Attachments

The Cultural Politics of Shame

By: Professor Sally R Munt

Why is shame so central to our identity and to our culture? What is its role in stigmatizing subcultures such as the Irish, the queer or the underclass? Can shame be understood as a productive force? In this lucid and passionately argued book, Sally R. Munt explores the vicissitudes of shame across a range of texts, cultural milieux, historical locations and geographical spaces – from eighteenth-century Irish politics to Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy, from contemporary US academia to the aesthetics of Tracey Emin. She finds that the dynamics of shame are consistent across cultures and historical periods, and that patterns of shame are disturbingly long-lived. But she also reveals shame as an affective emotion, engendering attachments between bodies and between subjects – queer attachments. Above all, she celebrates the extraordinary human ability to turn shame into joy: the party after the fall. Queer Attachments is an interdisciplinary synthesis of cultural politics, emotions theory and narrative that challenges us to think about the queerly creative proclivities of shame.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409491315

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9781409491316

Picturing a Nation

Art and Social Change in Nineteenth-century America

By: David M. Lubin,Charlotte C Weber Professor of Art David M Lubin,Professor David M Lubin

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Picturing a Nation

Art and Social Change in Nineteenth-century America

By: David M. Lubin,Charlotte C Weber Professor of Art David M Lubin,Professor David M Lubin

Art historian David Lubin examines the work of six nineteenth-century American artists to show how their paintings both embraced and resisted dominant social values. Lubin argues that artists such as George Bingham and Lily Martin Spencer were aware of the underlying social conflicts of their time and that their work reflected the nation's ambivalence toward domesticity, its conflicting ideas about child rearing, its racial disharmony, and many other issues central to the formation of modern America.--From publisher description.

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Yale University Press

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0300057326

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Architecture and Justice

Judicial Meanings in the Public Realm

By: Dr Renée Tobe,Professor Jonathan Simon,Professor Nicholas Temple

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Architecture and Justice

Judicial Meanings in the Public Realm

By: Dr Renée Tobe,Professor Jonathan Simon,Professor Nicholas Temple

Bringing together leading scholars in the fields of criminology, international law, philosophy and architectural history and theory, this book examines the interrelationships between architecture and justice, highlighting the provocative and curiously ambiguous juncture between the two. Illustrated by a range of disparate and diverse case studies, it draws out the formal language of justice, and extends the effects that architecture has on both the place of, and the individuals subject to, justice. With its multi-disciplinary perspective, the study serves as a platform on which to debate the relationships between the ceremonial, legalistic, administrative and penal aspects of justice, and the spaces that constitute their settings. The structure of the book develops from the particular to the universal, from local situations to the larger city, and thereby examines the role that architecture and urban space play in the deliberations of justice. At the same time, contributors to the volume remind us of the potential impact the built environment can have in undermining the proper juridical processes of a socio-political system. Hence, the book provides both wise counsel and warnings of the role of public/civic space in affirming our sense of a just or unjust society.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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140947125X

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9781409471257

Going to Market

Women, Trade and Social Relations in Early Modern English Towns, c. 1550-1650

By: Professor David Pennington

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Going to Market

Women, Trade and Social Relations in Early Modern English Towns, c. 1550-1650

By: Professor David Pennington

Going to Market rethinks women’s contributions to the early modern commercial economy. A number of previous studies have focused on whether or not the early modern period closed occupational opportunities for women. By attending to women’s everyday business practices, and not merely to their position on the occupational ladder, this book shows that they could take advantage of new commercial opportunities and exercise a surprising degree of economic agency. Through an investigation of a broad range of primary sources - including popular literature, criminal records, and civil litigation depositions - the study reconstructs how women did business and negotiated with male householders, authorities, customers, and competitors.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1472443705

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9781472443700

Intertextual Masculinity in French Renaissance Literature

Rabelais, Brantôme, and the Cent nouvelles nouvelles

By: Professor David P. LaGuardia

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Intertextual Masculinity in French Renaissance Literature

Rabelais, Brantôme, and the Cent nouvelles nouvelles

By: Professor David P. LaGuardia

Intertextual Masculinity in French Renaissance Literature is an in-depth analysis of normative masculinity in a specific corpus from pre-modern Europe: narrative literature devoted to the subject of adultery and cuckoldry. The text begins with a set of general questions that serve as a conceptual framework for the literary analyses that follow: why were early modern readers so fascinated by the figure of the cuckold? What was his relation to the real world of sexual behavior and gender relations? What effect did he have on the construction of actual masculinities? To respond to these questions, David LaGuardia develops a theoretical approach that is based both on modern critical theory and on close readings of records and documents from the period. Reading early modern legal texts, penance manuals, criminal registers, and exempla collections in relation to the Cent nouvelles nouvelles, Rabelais's Tiers Livre, and Brantôme's Dames galantes, LaGuardia formulates a definition of masculinity in this historical context as a set of intertextual practices that men used to relay and to reinforce their gender identities. By examining legal and literary artifacts from this particular period and culture, this study highlights the extent to which this supposedly normative masculinity was historically contingent and materially conditioned by generic practices.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409475093

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9781409475095

Recognition Versus Self-Determination

Dilemmas of Emancipatory Politics

By: Associate Professor of Political Science Avigail Eisenberg,Avigail Eisenberg,Jeremy H. A. Webber,Andrée Boisselle,Glen Coulthard

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Recognition Versus Self-Determination

Dilemmas of Emancipatory Politics

By: Associate Professor of Political Science Avigail Eisenberg,Avigail Eisenberg,Jeremy H. A. Webber,Andrée Boisselle,Glen Coulthard

The political concept of recognition has introduced new ways of thinking about the relationship between minorities and justice in plural societies. But is a politics informed by recognition valuable to minorities today? Contributors to this volume examine the successes and failures of struggles for recognition and self-determination in relation to claims of religious groups, cultural minorities, and indigenous peoples on territories associated with Canada, the United States, Europe, Latin America, India, New Zealand, and Australia. They point to a distinctive set of challenges posed by a politics of recognition and self-determination to peoples seeking emancipation from unjust relations.

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UBC Press

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0774827432

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9780774827430

The Dynamics of Law and Morality

A Pluralist Account of Legal Interactionism

By: Professor Wibren van der Burg

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The Dynamics of Law and Morality

A Pluralist Account of Legal Interactionism

By: Professor Wibren van der Burg

This investigation of the dynamic intertwinement of law and morality argues that theoretical pluralism is better explained once law is accepted as an essentially ambiguous concept. The book develops a robust theory of law that increases our grasp on global legal pluralism and the dynamics of law and also emphasises the theory of legal interactionism. This helps us to understand apparent anomalies of modern law and does justice to the valuable core of truth in natural law and legal positivism.

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1472430409

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9781472430403

Women and Politics

Paths to Power and Political Influence

By: Julie Dolan, Professor,Melissa M. Deckman, Professor,Michele L. Swers, Professor

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Women and Politics

Paths to Power and Political Influence

By: Julie Dolan, Professor,Melissa M. Deckman, Professor,Michele L. Swers, Professor

This book examines the role of women in politics from the early women’s movement to the female politicians in power today. Engaging profiles of the key players who have shaped our political system are interwoven with an analysis of the most recent election data to provide a comprehensive and unbiased introduction to the study of women and politics.

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1538122316

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Legisprudence

Practical Reason in Legislation

By: Professor Luc J Wintgens

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Legisprudence

Practical Reason in Legislation

By: Professor Luc J Wintgens

This book establishes legisprudence, in contrast to jurisprudence, as a legal theory of rational law-making. It suggests that by rejecting the common wisdom about the nature of political law-making, legislation could be improved and streamlined. Using the methods, theoretical insights and tools of current legal theory and philosophy of law in a new way, the book suggests the creation of law by legislators rather than government. Raising new questions and problems of the validity of norms, the book opens a new perspective on legitimacy of norms, their meaning and the structure of the legal system. In distinguishing legitimacy and legitimation of law, the book ventures into the philosophical roots of legal theory and suggests the articulation of a new conception of sovereignty. In shifting the emphasis to the position of the legislator and legislation, this book opens a number of new insights into the relationship between legislative problems and legal theory. Its main claim is that legislation should be justified by the legislator.

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1409497941

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Americans in a World at War

Intimate Histories from the Crash of Pan Am's Yankee Clipper

By: Brooke L. Blower

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Americans in a World at War

Intimate Histories from the Crash of Pan Am's Yankee Clipper

By: Brooke L. Blower

On February 21, 1943, Pan American Airways' celebrated seaplane, the Yankee Clipper, took off from New York's Marine Air Terminal and island-hopped its way across the Atlantic Ocean. Arriving at Lisbon the following evening, it crashed in the Tagus River, killing twenty-four of its thirty-nine passengers and crew. Americans in a World at War traces the backstories of seven worldly Americans aboard that plane, their personal histories, their politics, and the paths that led them toward war. Combat soldiers made up only a small fraction of the millions of Americans, both in and out of uniform, who scattered across six continents during the Second World War. This book uncovers a surprising history of American noncombatants abroad in the years leading into the twentieth century's most consequential conflict. Long before GIs began storming beaches and liberating towns, Americans had forged extensive political, economic, and personal ties to other parts of the world. These deep and sometimes contradictory engagements, which preceded the bombing of Pearl Harbor, would shape and in turn be transformed by the US war effort. As the Yankee Clipper's passengers' travels take them from Ukraine, France, Spain, Panama, Cuba, and the Philippines to Java, India, Australia, Britain, Egypt, the Soviet Union, and the Belgian Congo, among other hot spots, their movements defy simple boundaries between home front and war front and upend conventional American narratives about World War II"--

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0199322007

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Life Before Birth : The Moral and Legal Status of Embryos and Fetuses

The Moral and Legal Status of Embryos and Fetuses

By: Albany Bonnie Steinbock Associate Professor of Philosophy & Public Policy State University of New York

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Life Before Birth : The Moral and Legal Status of Embryos and Fetuses

The Moral and Legal Status of Embryos and Fetuses

By: Albany Bonnie Steinbock Associate Professor of Philosophy & Public Policy State University of New York

Hardly a day passes without newspaper coverage of some new development regarding prenatal life. The abortion debate continues to rage, but other examples abound: forced Caesareans; prosecutions of women for drug use during pregnancy; fetal protection policies; the use of fetal tissue for transplantation; embryo research; and the disposition of frozen embryos. All of these issues raise the question of the moral status of the unborn: are embryos and fetuses part of the pregnant woman or are they persons? Are they sources of tissue, research tools, or are they pre-born children? Different conceptions of the unborn prevail in different contexts, giving rise to the charge of inconsistency. For example, women have been criminally charged with abusing their fetuses by using drugs during pregnancy, even though abortion--which pro-lifers call the ultimate child abuse--is legal. The legalization of abortion itself was based in part on the unborn's never having been recognized in law as a full legal person. Yet fetuses have been considered as persons for the purposes of insurance coverage, wrongful death suits, and vehicular homicide. This book provides a framework for thinking clearly and coherently about the unborn. The first chapter elaborates the book's basic idea, that all and only beings who have interests have moral standing, and only beings who possess conscious awareness have interests. This thesis, which is called "the interest view," raises issues of considerable philosophical complexity, but is presented in language non-philosophers will be able to understand. Subsequent chapters apply the interest view, and explore the moral and legal aspects of a wide range of issues, including abortion, the legal status of the fetus outside abortion, maternal-fetal conflict, fetal research, and the use and disposition of extracorporeal embryos resulting from the new reproductive technologies. The philosophical discussion is enlivened by examples and actual cases which immediately catch, and sustain, the reader's interest. Written in a lively style, Life Before Birth: The Moral and Legal Status of Embryos and Fetuses is a timely and important work that enables us to resolve contradictions in our current thinking about the unborn, and to approach new issues in a clear and rational manner.

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0199759685

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William Maginn and the British Press

A Critical Biography

By: Professor David E Latané

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William Maginn and the British Press

A Critical Biography

By: Professor David E Latané

The first scholarly treatment of the life of William Maginn (1794-1842), David Latané’s meticulously researched biography follows Maginn’s life from his early days in Ireland through his career in Paris and London as political journalist and writer and finally to his sad decline and incarceration in debtor’s prison. A founding editor of the daily Standard (1827), Maginn was a prodigal author and editor. He was an early and influential contributor to Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, and a writer from the Tory side for The Age, New Times, English Gentleman, Representative, John Bull, and many other papers. In 1830, he launched Fraser’s Magazine for Town and Country, the early venue for such Victorians as Thackeray and Carlyle, and he was intimately involved with the poet 'L.E.L.' In 1837, he wrote the prologue for the first issue of Bentley’s Miscellany, edited by Dickens. Through painstaking archival research into Maginn’s surviving letters and manuscripts, as well as those of his associates, Latané restores Maginn to his proper place in the history of nineteenth-century print culture. His book is essential reading for nineteenth-century scholars, historians of the book and periodical, and anyone interested in questions of authorship in the period.

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1472403428

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Critical Gaming: Interactive History and Virtual Heritage

By: Professor Erik Champion

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Critical Gaming: Interactive History and Virtual Heritage

By: Professor Erik Champion

The inter-relationship between digital humanities and digital games is surprisingly seldom investigated. This book explains how games and virtual environments can be used in teaching and research to critique issues and topics in virtual heritage and interactive history. Individual chapters highlight the importance of visualisation, rituals, role-playing, alternatives to violent gameplay, interactive narrative, biofeedback and critical thinking.

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1472422902

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Richard Rorty

The Making of an American Philosopher

By: Neil Gross,Professor of Sociology Neil Gross

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Richard Rorty

The Making of an American Philosopher

By: Neil Gross,Professor of Sociology Neil Gross

On his death in 2007, Richard Rorty was heralded by the New York Times as one of the world's most influential contemporary thinkers. Controversial on the left and the right for his critiques of objectivity and political radicalism, Rorty experienced a renown denied to all but a handful of living philosophers. In this masterly biography, Neil...

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145960623X

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Man-Made Problems that Changed the World : From Nuclear Bombs to 9/11 | Science Book for Kids Junior Scholars Edition | Children's Science & Nature Books

By: Baby Professor

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Man-Made Problems that Changed the World : From Nuclear Bombs to 9/11 | Science Book for Kids Junior Scholars Edition | Children's Science & Nature Books

By: Baby Professor

Think of this ebook as an eye opener that discusses the huge problems that man caused. Information on the destruction caused by nuclear bombs and terrorist attacks will be discussed both in theory and in actual examples. This might be a difficult book to read (because of the extent of damage) but it sure includes useful information. Grab a copy today.

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1541965256

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English Jesuit Education

Expulsion, Suppression, Survival and Restoration, 1762-1803

By: Professor Maurice Whitehead

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English Jesuit Education

Expulsion, Suppression, Survival and Restoration, 1762-1803

By: Professor Maurice Whitehead

Analysing a period of 'hidden history', this book tracks the fate of the English Jesuits and their educational work through three major international crises of the eighteenth century: · the Lavalette affair, a major financial scandal, not of their making, which annihilated the Society of Jesus in France and led to the forced flight of exiled English Jesuits and their students from France to the Austrian Netherlands in 1762; · the universal suppression of the Jesuit order in 1773 and the English Jesuits' remarkable survival of that event, following a second forced flight to the safety of the Principality of Liège; · the French Revolution and their narrow escape from annihilation in Liège in 1794, resulting in a third forced flight with their students, this time to England. Despite repeated crises, huge adversity and multiple losses of personnel, property and educational goods, including significant libraries, the suppressed English Jesuits reconfigured themselves. Modernising their curriculum, they influenced the development of Jesuit education not only in the United Kingdom, but also in the nascent United States of America: in 1789, their influence contributed to the founding of Georgetown Academy, which later developed into the present-day Georgetown University in Washington, DC. English Jesuit Education is a unique story of educational survival and development against seemingly impossible odds, drawing on hitherto largely unexplored material in a wide range of archives.

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1472400453

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Palmerston

A Biography

By: David Brown,Professor of Modern History David Brown

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Palmerston

A Biography

By: David Brown,Professor of Modern History David Brown

A grand and fascinating figure in Victorian politics, the charismatic Lord Palmerston (1784-1865) served as foreign secretary for fifteen years and prime minister for nine, engaged in struggles with everyone from the Duke of Wellington to Lord John Russell to Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, engineered the defeat of the Russians in the Crimean War, and played a major role in the development of liberalism and the Liberal Party. This comprehensive biography, informed by unprecedented research in the statesman's personal archives, gives full weight not only to Palmerston's foreign policy achievements, but also to his domestic political activity, political thought, life as a landlord, and private life and affairs. Through the lens of the milieu of his times, the book pinpoints for the first time the nature and extent of Palmerston's contributions to the making of modern Britain.

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Yale University Press

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0300168446

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9780300168440

Essential Bible Study Tools for Ministry

By: Professor David R. Bauer

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Essential Bible Study Tools for Ministry

By: Professor David R. Bauer

This up-to-date, highly selective bibliography is designed to acquaint students and ministers with major works, significant publishers and prominent scholars in biblical studies. It is the perfect guide for beginning a research project or building a ministerial library. References are included based on the following considerations: (1) usefulness for the theological interpretation of the Bible within the context of the faith of the church; (2) significance in the history of interpretation; and (3) representation of evangelical and especially evangelical Wesleyan scholarship.

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1426758286

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