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  • - Race and the American Legal Process. The Colonial Period
    von A. Leon Higginbotham
    36,00 €

  • - The Fate of Reading in a Digital World
    von DC) Baron, American University in Washington, Naomi S. (Professor of Linguistics Emerita & usw.
    33,00 €

    In Words Onscreen, Naomi Baron offers a fascinating and timely look at how technology affects the way we read.

  • - Political Theory for the Real World
    von University of Pittsburgh) Goodhart, Michael (Associate Professor of Political Science & Associate Professor of Political Science
    45,00 €

  • von Boston University) Klawans, Jonathan (Associate Professor of Religion & Associate Professor of Religion
    49,00 €

  • - Predistribution and Property-Owning Democracy
    von Professor of Ethics, University of York) Thomas & Alan (Professor of Ethics
    51,00 €

    This first book length study of property-owning democracy argues that a society in which capital is universally accessible to all citizens uniquely meets the demands of justice. It defends a renovated form of capitalism in which the free market is no longer a threat to social democratic values, but is potentially convergent with them.

  • - A Geography of Gilded Age American Literature
    von Mark (Lecturer, Lecturer, Faculty of Arts & usw.
    46,00 €

    Rural Fictions, Urban Realities examines late nineteenth-century American literature to reveal the increasingly intricate and sometimes problematic connections between urban and rural life.

  • - Performing Race in an American Musical
    von Washington University in St. Louis) Decker, Todd (Associate Professor and Head of Musicology & Associate Professor and Head of Musicology
    46,00 €

    Show Boat: Performing Race in an American Musical draws on exhaustive archival research to tell the story of how Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein II, and a host of directors, choreographers, producers, and performers - among them Paul Robeson - made and remade the most important musical in Broadway history.

  • - A Global Perspective on the Right to Be Left Alone
    von Ronald J., and Professor of Law, University of Alabama School of Law) Krotoszynski, usw.
    45,00 €

    Privacy Revisited articulates the legal meanings of privacy and dignity through the lens of comparative law, and argues that the concept of privacy requires a more systematic approach if it is to be useful in framing and protecting certain fundamental autonomy interests.

  • - Authenticity and Compromise in Langston Hughes
    von Professor of English, Loyola University) Chinitz & David E. (Professor of English
    48,00 €

    Which Sin To Bear? mines Langston Hughes's creative work, newspaper columns, letters, and unpublished papers to reveal a writer who faced a daunting array of dicey questions and intimidating obstacles, and whose triumphs and occasional missteps are a fascinating and telling part of his legacy.

  • - The Efficiency of International Organizations in Crisis Response
    von University Of California, Irvine) Hardt, Heidi (Assistant Professor of Political Science & usw.
    45,00 €

    Given the dire consequences of delays in crisis response, this book explains why some international organizations take longer than others to answer calls for intervention. It builds on interviews with AU, EU, OAS and OSCE decision-makers to reveal the institutional sources of efficiency.

  • - Reconstructing Medical Ethics at the End of Life
    von DR, NIH Clinical Bioethics) Miller, Franklin G. (Dr, usw.
    50,00 €

    In Death, Dying, and Organ Transplantation: Reconstructing Medical Ethics at the End of Life, Miller and Truog challenge fundamental doctrines of established medical ethics. They argue systematically that physicians legitimately cause the death of patients in the routine practices of withdrawing life support and vital organ donation.

  • von CBE, President, International Legal Advocacy Forum) Zawati, usw.
    64,00 €

  • von New York Law School) Teitel, Ruti G. (Ernst C. Steifel Professor Comparative Law & Ernst C. Steifel Professor Comparative Law
    55,00 €

  • - Presidential Power
    von Scholar in Residence, Constitution Project) Fisher & Dr. Louis (Scholar in Residence
    68,00 €

    The Law of the Executive Branch: Presidential Power places the law of the executive branch firmly in the context of constitutional language, framers' intent, and more than two centuries of practice. Each provision of the US Constitution is analyzed to reveal its contemporary meaning and in concert with the application of presidential power.

  • - Biblical Interpretation and Anglo-Protestant Culture on the Edge of the Enlightenment
    von Trinity Evangelical Divinity School) Sweeney, Chair of the Department, Professor of Church History and the History of Christian Thought & usw.
    45,00 €

    Scholars have long recognized that Jonathan Edwards loved the Bible. But preoccupation with his role in Western "public" life and letters has resulted in a failure to see the significance of his biblical exegesis. Douglas A. Sweeney offers the first comprehensive history of Edwards' interpretation of the Bible.

  • - Judaism, Christianity, and the Interpretation of Scripture
    von Assistant Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) Lambert & David A. (Assistant Professor
    43,00 €

    How Repentance Became Biblical explores the rise of repentance as a concept within early forms of Judaism and Christianity and how it has informed the interpretation of the Hebrew Bible, or Old Testament. It develops alternative accounts for many of the ancient phenomena identified as penitential.

  • - The Forgotten History of a Global Movement
    von University Of Notre Dame, IN) Lehner, Ulrich L. (William K. Warren Professor of Theology & usw.
    35,00 €

    The most cherished values of modernity are unthinkable without the eighteenth-century Enlightenment. Equal rights, the end of discrimination, the growth of democracy, and the idea of perpetual progress stem from thinkers who lived two hundred and fifty years ago, but whose ideas are as attractive as ever.

  • - Unifying the Philosophy and Psychology of Well-Being
    von Michael (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy & Florida State University) Bishop
    45,00 €

    Science and philosophy study well-being with different but complementary methods. Marry these methods and a new picture emerges: To have well-being is to be "stuck" in a positive cycle of emotions, attitudes, traits and success. This book unites the scientific and philosophical worldviews into a powerful new theory of well-being.

  • - A Tale of History, Social Science, and Law
    von Rutgers University School of Law) Ball, Carlos A. (Professor of Law, Judge Frederick Lacey Scholar & usw.
    40,00 €

    Same-Sex Marriage and Children is the first book to bring together historical, social science, and legal considerations to comprehensively respond to the objections to same-sex marriage that are based on the need to promote so-called "responsible procreation" and child welfare.

  • - Ottoman Past, Turkish Present, and Collective Violence against the Armenians, 1789-2009
    von Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies, University of Michigan) Muge Gocek & Fatma (Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies
    65,00 €

  • von Stanford Law School) Martinez, Jenny S. (Professor of Law & Professor of Law
    45,00 €

    Jenny Martinez shows in this groundbreaking volume that the international human rights movement has its roots in one of the nineteenth century's central moral causes: the movement to ban the international slave trade. Martinez focuses in particular on the international admiralty courts, which tried the crews of captured slave ships.

  • - An International Comparative Analysis
    von Willamette University School of Law) Symeonides, and Dean Emeritus, Alex L. Parks Distinguished Professor of Law & usw.
    64,00 €

  • - Religious Architecture in Postwar America
    von Wichita State University) Price, Associate Professor and Director, Jay M. (Associate Professor and Director & usw.
    53,00 €

  • - Philosophy, Theology, and Practical Ethics
    von University of Oxford) Linzey, Andrew (Director of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics, and a Member of the Faculty of Theology & usw.
    43,00 €

    In this superbly argued and deeply engaging book, Andrew Linzey not only shows that animals can and do suffer but also that many of the justifications for inflicting animal suffering in fact provide grounds for protecting them.

  • - How We Make Decisions and How those Decisions Go Wrong
    von University of Minnesota) Redish, A. David (Distinguished McKnight University Professor & Distinguished McKnight University Professor
    38,98 €

    In The Mind within the Brain, David Redish brings together cutting edge research in psychology, robotics, economics, neuroscience, and the new fields of neuroeconomics and computational psychiatry, to offer a unified theory of human decision-making.

  • - Style, Genre, and Meaning in Telemann's Instrumental Works
    von Temple University) Zohn, Steven (Laura H. Carnell Professor of Music History & Laura H. Carnell Professor of Music History
    68,00 €

    This first full-length study of Telemann's concertos, sonatas, and suites focuses on his imaginative mixing of styles and genres. Special attention is also devoted to the extra musical meanings and humor of his programmatic overture-suites, his unprecedented self-publishing enterprise, and the social resonances of his Polish-style works.

  • von Director, University of Pennsylvania Law School) Bibas, Stephanos (Professor of Law and Criminology, usw.
    51,00 €

    The Machinery of Criminal Justice explores the transformation of the criminal justice system and considers how criminal justice could better accommodate lay participation, values, and relationships.

  • - The Power of Place in the Early Islamic World
    von Trinity College) Antrim, Zayde (Charles A. Dana Research Associate Professor of History and International Studies & Charles A. Dana Research Associate Professor of History and International Studies
    46,00 €

    Routes and Realms explores the ways in which Muslims expressed attachment to land in formal texts from the ninth through the eleventh centuries. These texts reveal that territories were imagined specifically as homes, cities, and regions and acted as powerful categories of belonging in the early Islamic world.

  • - A Life in the Cold War
    von American University, USA) Beisner & Robert (Professor of History Emeritus
    35,00 €

    A vibrant, definitive biography of Dean Acheson, the foreign policy giant who helped shape the postwar world.

  • - Five Physicists Who Changed the Twentieth Century
    von Professor, Budapest University of Technology and Economics) Hargittai, Institute of General and Analytical Chemistry & usw.
    33,00 €

    Tells the story of five little-known Hungarian physicists who transformed 20th century science. They emigrated to the United States from Hungary in the 1930's, and were important contributors to such important experiments as the Manhattan Project.

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