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The Solicitor General and the United States Supreme Court

Executive Branch Influence and Judicial Decisions

By: Ryan C. Black,Ryan J. Owens

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The Solicitor General and the United States Supreme Court

Executive Branch Influence and Judicial Decisions

By: Ryan C. Black,Ryan J. Owens

This book examines whether and how the Office of the Solicitor General influences the United States Supreme Court. Combining archival data with recent innovations in the areas of matching and causal inference, the book finds that the Solicitor General influences every aspect of the Court's decision making process.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107015294

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9781107015296

The Conscientious Justice

How Supreme Court Justices' Personalities Influence the Law, the High Court, and the Constitution

By: Ryan C. Black,Ryan J. Owens,Justin Wedeking,Patrick C. Wohlfarth

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The Conscientious Justice

How Supreme Court Justices' Personalities Influence the Law, the High Court, and the Constitution

By: Ryan C. Black,Ryan J. Owens,Justin Wedeking,Patrick C. Wohlfarth

Reveals how Supreme Court justices' personalities, particularly conscientiousness, influence the Law, the High Court, and the Constitution.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107168716

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Calls and Responses

The American Novel of Slavery Since Gone with the Wind

By: Tim A. Ryan

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Calls and Responses

The American Novel of Slavery Since Gone with the Wind

By: Tim A. Ryan

In this comprehensive, groundbreaking study, Tim A. Ryan explores how American novelists since World War I have imagined the institution of slavery and the experience of those involved in it. Complicating the common assumption that authentic black-authored fiction about slavery is starkly opposed to the traditional, racist fiction (and history) created by whites, Ryan suggests that discourses about American slavery are -- and have always been -- defined by connections rather than disjunctions. Ryan contends that African American writers didn't merely reject and move beyond traditional portrayals of the black past but rather actively engaged in a dynamic dialogue with white-authored versions of slavery and existing historiographical debates. The result is an ongoing cultural conversation that transcends both racial and disciplinary boundaries and is akin to the call-and-response style of African American gospel music. Ryan addresses in detail more than a dozen major American novels of slavery, from the first significant modern fiction about the institution -- Margaret Mitchell's Gone with the Wind and Arna Bontemps's Black Thunder (both published in 1936) -- to recent noteworthy novels on the topic -- Edward P. Jones's The Known World and Valerie Martin's Property (both published in 2003). His insistence upon the necessity of interpreting novels about the past directly in relation to specific historical scholarship makes Calls and Responses especially compelling. He reads Toni Morrison's Beloved not in opposition to a monolithic orthodoxy about slavery but in relation to specific arguments of controversial historian Stanley Elkins. Similarly, he analyzes William Styron's The Confessions of Nat Turner in terms of its rhetorical echoes of Frederick Douglass's famous autobiographical narrative. Ryan shows throughout Calls and Responses how a variety of novelists -- including Alex Haley, Octavia Butler, Ishmael Reed, Margaret Walker, and Frances Gaither -- engage in a dynamic debate with each other and with such historians as Herbert Aptheker, Charles Joyner, Eugene and Elizabeth Genovese, and many others. A substantially new account of the development of American slavery fiction in the last century, Calls and Responses goes beyond merely exalting the expression of black voices and experiences and actually reconfigures the existing view of the American novel of slavery.

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273

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LSU Press

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0807134309

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9780807134306

Oral Arguments and Coalition Formation on the U.S. Supreme Court

A Deliberate Dialogue

By: Ryan C. Black,Timothy Russell Johnson,Justin Wedeking

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Oral Arguments and Coalition Formation on the U.S. Supreme Court

A Deliberate Dialogue

By: Ryan C. Black,Timothy Russell Johnson,Justin Wedeking

Oral arguments are a key aspect of the Supreme Court's decision-making process

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154

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University of Michigan Press

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0472118463

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9780472118465

Hot Damn & Hell Yeah

Recipes for Hungry Banditos, 10th Anniversary Expanded Edition

By: Ryan Splint

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Hot Damn & Hell Yeah

Recipes for Hungry Banditos, 10th Anniversary Expanded Edition

By: Ryan Splint

Hot Damn & Hell Yeah is a cookbook opting for a casual, layperson's terms approach to vegan cooking by ensuring the recipes are straightforward and the majority of ingredients are familiar and easy enough to find in the standard grocery store. The priority is placed on taste and providing delicious vegan incarnations of typical Southwestern (and a little Southern) food rather than prioritizing health and nutrition value at the expense of flavor. Hot Damn favors a light-hearted, thematic design and layout, opting for custom illustrations of skeletal characters in the old southwest over stock-standard recipe and photo layouts.

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129

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Microcosm Publishing

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1621060152

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9781621060154

US Supreme Court Opinions and their Audiences

By: Ryan C. Black,Ryan J. Owens,Justin Wedeking,Patrick C. Wohlfarth

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US Supreme Court Opinions and their Audiences

By: Ryan C. Black,Ryan J. Owens,Justin Wedeking,Patrick C. Wohlfarth

This book is the first study specifically to investigate the extent to which US Supreme Court justices alter the clarity of their opinions based on expected reactions from their audiences. The authors examine this dynamic by creating a unique measure of opinion clarity and then testing whether the Court writes clearer opinions when it faces ideologically hostile and ideologically scattered lower federal courts; when it decides cases involving poorly performing federal agencies; when it decides cases involving states with less professionalized legislatures and governors; and when it rules against public opinion. The data shows the Court writes clearer opinions in every one of these contexts, and demonstrates that actors are more likely to comply with clearer Court opinions.

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Cambridge University Press

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1316682056

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9781316682050

The Solicitor General and the United States Supreme Court

Executive Branch Influence and Judicial Decisions

By: Ryan C. Black,Ryan J. Owens

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Executive Branch Influence and Judicial Decisions

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Human Adaptation in the Asian Palaeolithic

Hominin Dispersal and Behaviour During the Late Quaternary

By: Ryan J. Rabett

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Human Adaptation in the Asian Palaeolithic

Hominin Dispersal and Behaviour During the Late Quaternary

By: Ryan J. Rabett

This book examines the first human colonization of Asia and particularly the tropical environments of Southeast Asia during the Upper Pleistocene. In studying the unique character of the Asian archaeological record, it reassesses long-accepted propositions about the development of human 'modernity.' Ryan J. Rabett reveals an evolutionary relationship between colonization, the challenges encountered during this process - especially in relation to climatic and environmental change - and the forms of behaviour that emerged. This book argues that human modernity is not something achieved in the remote past in one part of the world, but rather is a diverse, flexible, responsive, and ongoing process of adaptation.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107018293

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Supernatural Fiction in Early Modern Drama and Culture

By: Ryan Curtis Friesen

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Supernatural Fiction in Early Modern Drama and Culture

By: Ryan Curtis Friesen

Brings together authors of fiction with philosophers and academics in Early Modern England and compares their ways of describing and understanding the world; Explores popular culture as well as the culture of the learned and elite; Examines the intellectual consequences of the Reformation and compares the spiritual and doctrinal practices of the occult to those of orthodoxy. Magic and the supernatural are common themes in the philosophy and fiction of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Supernatural Fiction in Early Modern Drama and Culture explores varieties of scepticism and belief exhibited by a selection of philosophers and playwrights, including Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, Giordano Bruno, John Dee, Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, and Thomas Middleton, explicating how each author defines the supernatural, whether he assumes magic to operate in the world, and how he uses occult principles to explain what can be known and what is ethical. Beliefs and claims concerning impossible phenomena and superhuman agency require literary historians to determine whether an occult system of magical operation is being described in a given text. Each chapter in this volume evaluates whether a chosen early modern author is endorsing magic as efficacious or divinely sanctioned, or criticizing it for being fraudulent or unholy. By examining works of fiction, it is possible to explore fantastic settings which were not intended to be synonymous with the early modern audiences everyday experience, settings where magic exists and operates according to the playwrights designs. This book also sets out to determine what historical sources provided given authors with knowledge of the occult and speculates on how aware an audience would have been of academic, classical, or popular contexts surrounding the text at hand.

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261

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Liverpool University Press

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1837641587

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Black Rose

By: Jenna Ryan

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Black Rose

By: Jenna Ryan

New Orleans nightclub owner Mia LeMay’s protected Creole world shatters when she witnesses a murder and she’s forced to put her life in the hands of a man she’s never met. A man whose golden eyes hide as many dark, dangerous secrets as the killer who wants her dead. Guilt twists like a knife in Agent Rick Ryder’s gut. He has a personal stake in keeping the black-haired beauty safe, and once his superiors figure out the stunt he pulled to make sure he’s the one protecting her, his life will be worth about as much as hers if he fails. Deep in the Louisiana mangroves, the steamy bayou has nothing on the heat of desire surrounding them. But danger lurks in the shadows. Things that slither. Things that bite. And an evil determined to make sure Mia doesn’t live to see the light of another dawn... Each book in The Shadow Sisters Series is a standalone story that can be enjoyed in any order. Book #1: Black Rose Book #2: Blood Orchid Book #3: Scarlet Bells Book #4: Dark Lily

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Entangled: Ignite

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164063293X

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9781640632936

The Conscientious Justice

How Supreme Court Justices' Personalities Influence the Law, the High Court, and the Constitution

By: Ryan C. Black,Ryan J. Owens,Justin Wedeking,Patrick C. Wohlfarth

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The Conscientious Justice

How Supreme Court Justices' Personalities Influence the Law, the High Court, and the Constitution

By: Ryan C. Black,Ryan J. Owens,Justin Wedeking,Patrick C. Wohlfarth

Reveals how Supreme Court justices' personalities, particularly conscientiousness, influence the Law, the High Court, and the Constitution.

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US Supreme Court Opinions and their Audiences

By: Ryan C. Black,Ryan J. Owens,Justin Wedeking,Patrick C. Wohlfarth

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US Supreme Court Opinions and their Audiences

By: Ryan C. Black,Ryan J. Owens,Justin Wedeking,Patrick C. Wohlfarth

An investigation of how US Supreme Court justices alter the clarity of their opinions based on expected reactions from their audiences.

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Book's by Ryan C. Black

The Solicitor General and the United States Supreme Court

The Solicitor General and the United States Supreme Court

The Conscientious Justice

The Conscientious Justice

Calls and Responses

Calls and Responses

Oral Arguments and Coalition Formation on the U.S. Supreme Court

Oral Arguments and Coalition Formation on the U.S. Supreme Court

Hot Damn & Hell Yeah

Hot Damn & Hell Yeah

US Supreme Court Opinions and their Audiences

US Supreme Court Opinions and their Audiences

The Solicitor General and the United States Supreme Court

The Solicitor General and the United States Supreme Court

Human Adaptation in the Asian Palaeolithic

Human Adaptation in the Asian Palaeolithic

Supernatural Fiction in Early Modern Drama and Culture

Supernatural Fiction in Early Modern Drama and Culture

Black Rose

Black Rose

The Conscientious Justice

The Conscientious Justice

US Supreme Court Opinions and their Audiences

US Supreme Court Opinions and their Audiences

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