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Changing How We Choose

The New Science of Morality

By: A. David Redish

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Changing How We Choose

The New Science of Morality

By: A. David Redish

The “new science of morality” that will change how we see each other, how we build our communities, and how we live our lives. In Changing How We Choose, David Redish makes a bold claim: Science has “cracked” the problem of morality. Redish argues that moral questions have a scientific basis and that morality is best viewed as a technology—a set of social and institutional forces that create communities and drive cooperation. This means that some moral structures really are better than others and that the moral technologies we use have real consequences on whether we make our societies better or worse places for the people living within them. Drawing on this new scientific definition of morality and real-world applications, Changing How We Choose is an engaging read with major implications for how we see each other, how we build our communities, and how we live our lives. Many people think of human interactions in terms of conflicts between individual freedom and group cooperation, where it is better for the group if everyone cooperates but better for the individual to cheat. Redish shows that moral codes are technologies that change the game so that cooperating is good for the community and for the individual. Redish, an authority on neuroeconomics and decision-making, points out that the key to moral codes is how they interact with the human decision-making process. Drawing on new insights from behavioral economics, sociology, and neuroscience, he shows that there really is a “new science of morality” and that this new science has implications—not only for how we understand ourselves but also for how we should construct those new moral technologies.

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MIT Press

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0262047365

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Letting Go of the Words

Writing Web Content that Works

By: Janice (Ginny) Redish

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Letting Go of the Words

Writing Web Content that Works

By: Janice (Ginny) Redish

Web site design and development continues to become more sophisticated. An important part of this maturity originates with well-laid-out and well-written content. Ginny Redish is a world-renowned expert on information design and how to produce clear writing in plain language for the web. All of the invaluable information that she shared in the first edition is included with numerous new examples. New information on content strategy for web sites, search engine optimization (SEO), and social media make this once again the only book you need to own to optimize your writing for the web. - New material on content strategy, search engine optimization, and social media - Lots of new and updated examples - More emphasis on new hardware like tablets, iPads, and iPhones

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362

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Elsevier

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012385931X

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The Constitution as Political Structure

By: Martin H. Redish

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The Constitution as Political Structure

By: Martin H. Redish

Over the last forty years modern constitutional scholarship has concentrated on an analysis of rights, while principles of constitutional law concerning the structure of government have been largely down-played. The irony of this interpretive emphasis is that the body of the Constitution contains relatively little dealing directly with rights. Rather, it is primarily a blueprint for the establishment of a complex form of federal-democratic structure. The Constitution as Political Structure emphasizes the central role served by the structural portions of the Constitution. Redish argues that these structural values were designed to provide the framework in which our rights-based system may flourish, and that judicial abandonment of these structural values threatens the very foundations of American political theory. In its exposition of the textual and theoretical rationales for judicial enforcement of the structural values embodied in the Constitution, this book presents a principled alternative to the extremes of judicial abdication articulated by certain scholars and Justices on the one hand, and the result-oriented ideological involvement advocated in some quarters on the other. This work will be of great interest to scholars of law and political science.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195070607

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9780195070606

The Logic of Persecution

Free Expression and the McCarthy Era

By: Martin H. Redish

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The Logic of Persecution

Free Expression and the McCarthy Era

By: Martin H. Redish

This book provides an exploration of the intersection between the McCarthy Era and the theory of free expression, as well as the implications of that intersection for both historical and constitutional inquiry.

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Stanford University Press

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0804755930

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Bimetallism

An Economic and Historical Analysis

By: Angela Redish

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Bimetallism

An Economic and Historical Analysis

By: Angela Redish

A history of Western monetary systems and their preference to the bimetallism before 1800, first published in 2000.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521570913

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Beyond the Cognitive Map

From Place Cells to Episodic Memory

By: A. David Redish

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Beyond the Cognitive Map

From Place Cells to Episodic Memory

By: A. David Redish

There are currently two major theories about the role of the hippocampus, a distinctive structure in the back of the temporal lobe. One says that it stores a cognitive map, the other that it is a key locus for the temporary storage of episodic memories. A. David Redish takes the approach that understanding the role of the hippocampus in space will make it possible to address its role in less easily quantifiable areas such as memory. Basing his investigation on the study of rodent navigation--one of the primary domains for understanding information processing in the brain--he places the hippocampus in its anatomical context as part of a greater functional system. Redish draws on the extensive experimental and theoretical work of the last 100 years to paint a coherent picture of rodent navigation. His presentation encompasses multiple levels of analysis, from single-unit recording results to behavioral tasks to computational modeling. From this foundation, he proposes a novel understanding of the role of the hippocampus in rodents that can shed light on the role of the hippocampus in primates, explaining data from primate studies and human neurology. The book will be of interest not only to neuroscientists and psychologists, but also to researchers in computer science, robotics, artificial intelligence, and artificial life.

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MIT Press

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0262181940

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9780262181945

Judicial Independence and the American Constitution

A Democratic Paradox

By: Martin H. Redish

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Judicial Independence and the American Constitution

A Democratic Paradox

By: Martin H. Redish

The Framers of the American Constitution took special pains to ensure that the governing principles of the republic were insulated from the reach of simple majorities. Only super-majoritarian amendments could modify these fundamental constitutional dictates. The Framers established a judicial branch shielded from direct majoritarian political accountability to protect and enforce these constitutional limits. Paradoxically, only a counter-majoritarian judicial branch could ensure the continued vitality of our representational form of government. This important lesson of the paradox of American democracy has been challenged and often ignored by office holders and legal scholars. Judicial Independence and the American Constitution provocatively defends the centrality of these special protections of judicial independence. Martin H. Redish explains how the nation's system of counter-majoritarian constitutionalism cannot survive absent the vesting of final powers of constitutional interpretation and enforcement in the one branch of government expressly protected by the Constitution from direct political accountability: the judicial branch. He uncovers how the current framework of American constitutional law has been unwisely allowed to threaten or undermine these core precepts of judicial independence.

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Stanford University Press

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1503601846

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Use of Language in Ballot Instructions

Report of Findings

By: Janice Redish

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Use of Language in Ballot Instructions

Report of Findings

By: Janice Redish

In a study of 45 voters in three geographic locations comparing a ballot with traditional language instructions to a ballot with plain language instructions, the authors collected both performance and preference data. The traditional language was language commonly found in actual ballots across the U.S. A detailed explanation of plain language can be found in the full report. For performance data, participants voted on ballots that differed only in the wording and placement of instructions: Ballot A, traditional instructions; Ballot B, plain language instructions. Half of the participants voted in the order Ballot A / Ballot B; the other half in the order Ballot B / Ballot A. For preference data, after voting both ballots, participants commented on 16 pairs of pages. Illus.

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DIANE Publishing

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1437924506

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9781437924503

The Adversary First Amendment

Free Expression and the Foundations of American Democracy

By: Martin H. Redish

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The Adversary First Amendment

Free Expression and the Foundations of American Democracy

By: Martin H. Redish

The Adversary First Amendment presents a unique and controversial rethinking of modern American democratic theory and free speech. Most free speech scholars understand the First Amendment as a vehicle for or protection of democracy itself, relying upon cooperative or collectivist theories of democracy. Martin Redish reconsiders free speech in the context of adversary democracy, arguing that individuals should have the opportunity to affect the outcomes of collective decision-making according to their own values and interests. Adversary democracy recognizes the inevitability of conflict within a democratic society, as well as the need for regulation of that conflict to prevent the onset of tyranny. In doing so, it embraces pluralism, diversity, and the individual growth and development deriving from the promotion of individual interests. Drawing on previous free speech scholarship and case studies of controversial speech, Redish advances a theory of free expression grounded in democratic notions of self-promotion and controlled adversary conflict, making a strong case for its application across such areas as commercial speech, campaign spending, and anonymous speech.

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Stanford University Press

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0804786348

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Commercial Speech as Free Expression

The Case for First Amendment Protection

By: Martin H. Redish

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Commercial Speech as Free Expression

The Case for First Amendment Protection

By: Martin H. Redish

For many years, commercial speech was summarily excluded from First Amendment protection, without reason or logic. Starting in the mid-1970s, the Supreme Court began to extend protection but it remained strictly limited. In recent years, that protection has expanded, but both Court and scholars have refused to consider treating commercial speech as the First Amendment equivalent of traditionally protected expressive categories such as political speech or literature. Commercial Speech as Free Expression stands as the boldest statement yet for extending full First Amendment protection to commercial speech by proposing a new, four-part synthesis of different perspectives on the manner in which free expression fosters and protects expressive values. This book explains the complexities and subtleties of how the equivalency principle would function in real-life situations. The key is to recognize that as a matter of First Amendment value, commercial speech deserves treatment equivalent to that received by traditionally protected speech.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108278744

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The Mind Within the Brain

How We Make Decisions and How Those Decisions Go Wrong

By: A. David Redish

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The Mind Within the Brain

How We Make Decisions and How Those Decisions Go Wrong

By: A. David Redish

With verve and humor in an easily readable style, David Redish brings together cutting edge research in psychology, robotics, economics, neuroscience, and the new fields of neuroeconomics and computational psychiatry, to show how vulnerabilities, or "failure-modes," in the decision-making system can lead to serious dysfunctions, such as irrational behavior, addictions, problem gambling, and PTSD. Ranging widely from the surprising roles of emotion, habit, and narrative in decision-making, to the larger philosophical questions of how mind and brain are related, what makes us human, the nature of morality, free will, and the conundrum of robotics and consciousness, The Mind within the Brain offers fresh insight into one of the most complex aspects of human behavior.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199891885

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Money Talks

Speech, Economic Power, and the Values of Democracy

By: Martin H. Redish

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Money Talks

Speech, Economic Power, and the Values of Democracy

By: Martin H. Redish

Drawing together a number of articles he has written or co-written since 1990 and some original chapters, Redish (law and public policy, Northwestern U.) defends unlimited political contribution, advertising, and other forms by which the rich and powerful stay rich and powerful. Any restriction, he says, threatens First Amendment rights. c. Book News Inc.

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NYU Press

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0814775381

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9780814775387

Letting Go of the Words

Writing Web Content That Works (Interactive Technologies)

By: Janice Redish

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Letting Go of the Words

Writing Web Content That Works (Interactive Technologies)

By: Janice Redish

Web site design and development continues to become more sophisticated. An important part of this maturity originates with well laid out and well written content. Ginny Redish is a world renowned expert on information design and how to produce clear writing in plain language for the web. All of the invaluable information that she shared in the first edition is included with numerous new examples. New information on content strategy for web sites, search engine optimization (SEO), and social media make this once again the only book you need to own to optimize your writing for the web.New material on content strategy, search engine optimization, and social mediaLots of new and updated examplesMore emphasis on new hardware like tablets, iPads, and iPhones

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Changing How We Choose

Changing How We Choose

Letting Go of the Words

Letting Go of the Words

The Constitution as Political Structure

The Constitution as Political Structure

The Logic of Persecution

The Logic of Persecution

Bimetallism

Bimetallism

Beyond the Cognitive Map

Beyond the Cognitive Map

Judicial Independence and the American Constitution

Judicial Independence and the American Constitution

Use of Language in Ballot Instructions

Use of Language in Ballot Instructions

The Adversary First Amendment

The Adversary First Amendment

Commercial Speech as Free Expression

Commercial Speech as Free Expression

The Mind Within the Brain

The Mind Within the Brain

Money Talks

Money Talks

Letting Go of the Words

Letting Go of the Words

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