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Licensing Parents

Family, State, and Child Maltreatment

By: Michael McFall,Laurence Thomas

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Licensing Parents

Family, State, and Child Maltreatment

By: Michael McFall,Laurence Thomas

In Licensing Parents, Michael McFall argues that political structures, economics, education, racism, and sexism are secondary in importance to the inequality caused by families, and that the family plays the primary role in a child's acquisition of a sense of justice. He demonstrates that examination of the family is necessary in political philosophy and that informal structures (families) and considerations (character formation) must be taken seriously. McFall advocates a threshold that should be accepted by all political philosophers: children should not be severely abused or neglected because child maltreatment often causes deep and irreparable individual and societal harm. The implications of this threshold are revolutionary, but this is not recognized fully because no philosophical book has systematically considered the ethical or political ramifications of child maltreatment. By exposing a tension between the rights of children and adults, McFall reveals pervasive ageism; parental rights usually trump children's rights, and this is often justified because children are not fully autonomous. Yet parental rights should not always trump children's rights. Ethics and political philosophy are not only about rights, but also about duties_especially when considering potential parents who are unable or unwilling to provide minimally decent nurturance. While contemporary political philosophy focuses on adult rights, McFall examines systems whereby the interests and rights of children and parents are better balanced. This entails exploring when parental rights are defeasible and defending the ethics of licensing parents, whereby some people are precluded from rearing children. He argues that, if a sense of justice is largely developed in childhood, parents directly influence the character of future generations of adults in political society. A completely stable and well-ordered society needs stable and psychologically healthy citizens in addition to just laws, and McFall demonstrates how parental love and healthy families can help achieve this.

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Lexington Books

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0739133535

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9780739133538

The Economic Consequences of Social Unrest: Evidence from Initial Public Offerings

By: Mr. Philip Barrett,Thomas J. Boulton,Terry D. Nixon

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The Economic Consequences of Social Unrest: Evidence from Initial Public Offerings

By: Mr. Philip Barrett,Thomas J. Boulton,Terry D. Nixon

Prior research attributes negative stock market performance following episodes of social unrest to elevated uncertainty. However, social unrest does not solely increase uncertainty, but separately acts to decrease investor sentiment. To determine which effect dominates, we study initial public offering (IPO) underpricing, which responds differently to changes to uncertainty and investor sentiment. Consistent with the notion that social unrest dampens investor sentiment, we find robust evidence that IPO first-day returns are lower during times of greater social unrest. Limits to arbitrage intensify the negative relation between social unrest and underpricing. Notably, strong institutional frameworks mitigate the impact of social unrest on underpricing, suggesting that quality institutions weaken the link between investor sentiment and returns.

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International Monetary Fund

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9798400258978

Entangled Objects

Exchange, Material Culture, and Colonialism in the Pacific

By: Nicholas Thomas

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Entangled Objects

Exchange, Material Culture, and Colonialism in the Pacific

By: Nicholas Thomas

Entangled Objects threatens to dislodge the cornerstone of Western anthropology by rendering permanently problematic the idea of reciprocity. All traffic, and commerce, whether economic or intellectual, between Western anthropologists and the rest of the world, is predicated upon the possibility of establishing reciprocal relations between the West and the indigenous peoples it has colonized for centuries.

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Harvard University Press

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0674044320

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9780674044326

Overland from Canada to British Columbia

By: Thomas McMicking

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Overland from Canada to British Columbia

By: Thomas McMicking

Spurred on by reports of gold in the Cariboo, adventurers from all over the world descended on British Columbia in the mid-1800s. Among them were ambitious easterners who accepted the challenge of the shorter but more arduous overland route across the prairies and the Rockies. One such man determined to find his fortune in the West was Thomas McMicking - destined to lead the largest and best organized group of "Overlanders" into British Columbia. His record of their epic journey is a valuable historical document that possesses the universal appeal of an adventure story. McMicking presents a vivid image of the hardships of the overland route, the dangers, both real and imagined - like the apparently threatening Plains Indians who turned out to be "our best friends" - facts about important officials and settlements, and scientific observations of the physical environment. But this is also a very human document that describes a journey of self-discovery revealing a sensitive man's encounter with a bountiful and beautiful yet hostile and alien land.

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180

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UBC Press

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0774803932

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9780774803939

Seventeenth-Century Europe

State, Conflict and Social Order in Europe 1598-1700

By: Thomas Munck

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Seventeenth-Century Europe

State, Conflict and Social Order in Europe 1598-1700

By: Thomas Munck

This thematically organised text provides a compelling introduction and guide to the key problems and issues of this highly controversial century. Offering a genuinely comparative history, Thomas Munck adeptly balances Eastern and Southern Europe, Scandinavia, and the Ottoman Empire against the better-known history of France, the British Isles and Spain. Seventeenth-Century Europe - gives full prominence to the political context of the period, arguing that the Thirty Years War is vital to understanding the social and political developments of the early modern period - provides detailed coverage of the debates surrounding the 'general crisis', absolutism and the growth of the state, and the implications these had for townspeople, the peasantry and the poor - examines changes in economic orientation within Europe, as well as continuity and change in mental and cultural traditions at different social levels. Now fully revised, this second edition of a well-established and approachable synthesis features important new material on the Ottomans, Christian-Moslem contacts and on the role of women. The text has also been thoroughly updated to take account of recent research. This is a fully-revised edition of a well-established synthesis of the period from the Thirty Years War to the consolidation of absolute monarchy and the landowning society of the ancien régime. Thematically organised, the book covers all of Europe, from Britain and Scandinavia to Spain and Eastern Europe. Important new material has been added on the Ottomans, on Christian-Moslem contacts and on the role of women, and the text has been thoroughly updated to take account of recent research.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0230209726

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9780230209725

Higher Order Logic Theorem Proving and Its Applications

8th International Workshop, Aspen Grove, UT, USA, September 11 - 14, 1995. Proceedings

By: E. Thomas Schubert,Phillip J. Windley,James Alves-Foss

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Higher Order Logic Theorem Proving and Its Applications

8th International Workshop, Aspen Grove, UT, USA, September 11 - 14, 1995. Proceedings

By: E. Thomas Schubert,Phillip J. Windley,James Alves-Foss

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Higher Order Logic Theorem Proving and Its Applications, held in Aspen Grove, Utah, USA in September 1995. The 26 papers selected by the program committee for inclusion in this volume document the advances in the field achieved since the predecessor conference. The papers presented fall into three general categories: representation of formalisms in higher order logic; applications of mechanized higher order logic; and enhancements to the HOL and other theorem proving systems.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540602755

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Introduction to Water Resources and Environmental Issues

By: Karrie Lynn Pennington,Thomas V. Cech

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Introduction to Water Resources and Environmental Issues

By: Karrie Lynn Pennington,Thomas V. Cech

Thoroughly updated and expanded new edition introduces students to the complex world of water resources and environmental issues.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108746845

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City of beasts

How animals shaped Georgian London

By: Thomas Almeroth-Williams

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City of beasts

How animals shaped Georgian London

By: Thomas Almeroth-Williams

This book explores the role of animals – horses, cattle, sheep, pigs and dogs – in shaping Georgian London. Moving away from the philosophical, fictional and humanitarian sources used by previous animal studies, it focuses on evidence of tangible, dung-bespattered interactions between real people and animals, drawn from legal, parish, commercial, newspaper and private records.This approach opens up new perspectives on unfamiliar or misunderstood metropolitan spaces, activities, social types, relationships and cultural developments. Ultimately, the book challenges traditional assumptions about the industrial, agricultural and consumer revolutions, as well as key aspects of the city’s culture, social relations and physical development. It will be stimulating reading for students and professional scholars of urban, social, economic, agricultural, industrial, architectural and environmental history.

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Manchester University Press

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1526126370

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9781526126375

The First and Second Parts of King Edward IV

By Thomas Heywood

By: Thomas Heywood

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The First and Second Parts of King Edward IV

By Thomas Heywood

By: Thomas Heywood

Yet the playwright produced a text which was at once generically complex (the play blurs the distinction between chronicle history and 'domestic' tragedy), brilliantly assured in its dramatic craftsmanship, and politically explosive. The play depicts the streets and houses in which its original spectators lived and worked with a precision unprecedented in English writing. But this vividly realised London is under assault, first from rebels outside its walls, and subsequently (and more seriously) from the predations of two monarchs.

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Manchester University Press

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0719015669

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Licensing Parents

Licensing Parents

The Economic Consequences of Social Unrest: Evidence from Initial Public Offerings

The Economic Consequences of Social Unrest: Evidence from Initial Public Offerings

Entangled Objects

Entangled Objects

Overland from Canada to British Columbia

Overland from Canada to British Columbia

Seventeenth-Century Europe

Seventeenth-Century Europe

Higher Order Logic Theorem Proving and Its Applications

Higher Order Logic Theorem Proving and Its Applications

Introduction to Water Resources and Environmental Issues

Introduction to Water Resources and Environmental Issues

City of beasts

City of beasts

The First and Second Parts of King Edward IV

The First and Second Parts of King Edward IV

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