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  • Contemporary Debates in Applied Ethics

    Edited by Andrew I. Cohen, Christopher Heath Wellman ...
    Series series Contemporary Debates in Philosophy
    Now in an updated edition with fresh perspectives on high-profile ethical issues such as torture and same-sex marriage, this collection pairs cogently argued essays by leading philosophers with opposing views on fault-line public concerns.Revised and updated new edition with six new pairs of essays on prominent contemporary issues including torture and same-sex marriage, and a survey of theories ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

  • Rights and Resistance

    Interpersonal and Political Implications of Our Rights

    by Christopher Heath Wellman ...
    Rights and Resistance features ten essays by Christopher Heath Wellman on our moral rights, and the measures we may take to protect them. In addition to offering original accounts of various rights, in these essays Wellman considers how we may permissibly enforce our moral claims against others on both the individual and political levels. Virtually everyone agrees that we may defend our rights ... Read more

    $106.99 CAD

  • Rights Forfeiture and Punishment

    by Christopher Heath Wellman ...
    Given that persons typically have a right not to be subjected to the hard treatment of punishment, it would seem natural to conclude that the permissibility of punishment is centrally a question of rights. Despite this, the vast majority of theorists working on punishment focus instead on important aims, such as achieving retributive justice, deterring crime, restoring victims, or expressing ... Read more

    $74.99 CAD

  • Secession as an International Phenomenon

    From America's Civil War to Contemporary Separatist Movements

    by Alan M. Wachman, Aleksandar Pavkovic, Andrés Reséndez, Bruno Coppieters, Charles B. Dew, Christopher Wellman, David Armitage, Frank Towers, Margaret Moore, Paul Kubicek, Paul Quigley, Peter Radan, Peter Sluglett, Raphael Chijioke Njoku, Robert Bonner, Stefan Zahlmann, Susan-Mary Grant, Terry Rugeley ...
    About half of today’s nation-states originated as some kind of breakaway state. The end of the Cold War witnessed a resurgence of separatist activity affecting nearly every part of the globe and stimulated a new generation of scholars to consider separatism and secession.As the 150th anniversary of the American Civil War approaches, this collection of essays allows us to view within a broader ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • A Liberal Theory of International Justice

    by Andrew Altman, Christopher Heath Wellman ...
    A Liberal Theory of International Justice advances a novel theory of international justice that combines the orthodox liberal notion that the lives of individuals are what ultimately matter morally with the putatively antiliberal idea of an irreducibly collective right of self-governance. The individual and her rights are placed at center stage insofar as political states are judged legitimate if ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

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    A Philosophical Examination

    by Alex Brown ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
    Hate speech law can be found throughout the world. But it is also the subject of numerous principled arguments, both for and against. These principles invoke a host of morally relevant features (e.g., liberty, health, autonomy, security, non-subordination, the absence of oppression, human dignity, the discovery of truth, the acquisition of knowledge, self-realization, human excellence, civic ... Read more

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  • Political Philosophy

    A Beginners' Guide for Students and Politicians

    by Adam Swift ...
    Politicians invoke grand ideas: social justice, democracy, liberty, equality, community. But what do these ideas really mean? How can politicians across the political spectrum appeal to the same values?This new edition of Adam Swift's highly readable introduction to political philosophy answers these important questions, and includes new material on global justice, feminism, and method in ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • How Judges Think

    by Richard A. Posner ...
    A distinguished and experienced appellate court judge, Posner offers in this new book a unique and, to orthodox legal thinkers, a startling perspective on how judges and justices decide cases. ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Black Rednecks & White Liberals

    by Thomas Sowell ...
    This explosive new book challenges many of the long-prevailing assumptions about blacks, about Jews, about Germans, about slavery, and about education. Plainly written, powerfully reasoned, and backed with a startling array of documented facts, Black Rednecks and White Liberals takes on not only the trendy intellectuals of our times but also such historic interpreters of American life as Alexis de ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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  • Legalizing Misandry

    From Public Shame to Systemic Discrimination against Men

    by Paul Nathanson, Katherine Young ...
    Paul Nathanson and Katherine Young believe that this reveals a shift in the United States and Canada to a worldview based on ideological feminism, which presents all issues from the point of view of women and, in the process, explicitly or implicitly attacks men as a class. They argue that ideological feminism is silently reshaping law, public policy, education, and journalism. ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • On Power

    by Mark R. Levin ...
    #1 New York Times BestsellerThe eight-time #1 New York Times bestselling author, radio host, and Fox News star Mark R. Levin delivers a profound analysis of the philosophy and structure of powerand the critical impact of liberty on our collective future.Throughout history, from ancient civilizations to modern Western republics, power has been used to both oppress and liberate. To reward and ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

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  • America

    Imagine a World without Her

    by Dinesh D'Souza ...
    #1 New York Times BestsellerIs America a source of pride, as Americans have long held, or shame, as Progressives allege? Beneath an innocent exterior, are our lives complicit in a national project of theft, expropriation, oppression, and murder, or is America still the hope of the world?Dinesh D'Souza says these questions are no mere academic exercise. It is the Progressive view that is taught in ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD