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  • Churchill and Malta

    by Douglas Austin ...
    This is the compelling story of the special relationship between Winston Churchill and the people of Malta. During six visits over a period of forty years he came to understand and support the aspirations of the Maltese people and in the Second World War the bonds linking them were tempered in fire and destruction. In those dark days Churchill's determination to defend the island and his faith in ... Read more

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  • Churchill and Malta's War 1939-1943

    by Douglas Austin ...
    During the first four years of the Second World War, Churchill and his military advisers were constantly concerned with the defence and sustenance of Malta. From 11 June 1940, the island, only sixty miles from Italian and German airfields in Sicily, suffered intense and prolonged air attack, but Churchill refused to consider the abandonment of the island. He gave orders that every effort be made ... Read more

    $10.89 CAD

  • Malta and British Strategic Policy, 1925-43

    by Douglas Austin ...
    Series series Military History and Policy
    A major reassessment of a key aspect of British strategy and defence policy in the first half of the twentieth century.The main contribution of this new study is an investigation of the role of Malta in British military strategy, as planned and as it actually developed, in the period between the mid 1920s and the end of the war in North Africa in May 1943. It demonstrates that the now widely ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Wicked Problems

    The Ethics of Action for Peace, Rights, and Justice

    Edited by Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick, Douglas Irvin-Erickson, Ernesto Verdeja ...
    The ethics of changemaking and peacebuilding may appear straightforward: advance dignity, promote well-being, minimize suffering. Sounds simple, right? Actually acting ethically when it really matters is rarely straightforward. If someone engaged in change-oriented work sets out to "do good," how should we prioritize and evaluate whose good counts? And, how ought we act once we have decided whose ... Read more

    $28.79 CAD

  • Guns in Law

    Edited by Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, Martha Merrill Umphrey ...
    Series series The Amherst Series In Law, Jurisprudence, And Social Thought
    Weapons have been a source of political and legal debate for centuries. Aristotle considered the possession of arms a fundamental source of political power and wrote that tyrants “mistrust the people and deprive them of their arms.” Today ownership of weapons—whether handguns or military-grade assault weapons—poses more acute legal problems than ever before. In this volume, the editors' ... Read more

    $24.19 CAD

  • Permission To Win

    by Douglas V Austin ...
    The challenge for any advertising, creative or communications agency has always been gaining new business. My approach has been honed and adopted as agency business and client engagement has evolved over the years.Permission to Win is the posture I promote to identify and attract your most viable prospects. Having a growth plan and strategic approach to gain the right new clients is something we ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD

  • Law's Infamy

    Understanding the Canon of Bad Law

    Edited by Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, Martha M. Umphrey ...
    An analysis of how problematic laws ought to be framed and consideredFrom the murder of George Floyd to the systematic dismantling of voting rights, our laws and their implementation are actively shaping the course of our nation. But however abhorrent a legal decision might be—whether Dred Scott v. Sanford or Plessy v. Ferguson—the stories we tell of the law’s failures refer to their injustice and ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD

  • Law and Mourning

    Edited by Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, Martha Merrill Umphrey ...
    Series series The Amherst Series In Law, Jurisprudence, And Social Thought
    Law and Mourning brings together a distinguished group of scholars to explore the many and complex ways that law both regulates and gives meaning to our experience of loss. The essays in this volume illuminate how law helps us to absorb and contend with loss and its reverberations, channeling the powerful emotions associated with death and protecting those vulnerable to them. At the same time, law ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD

  • Law and Performance

    Edited by Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, Martha Merrill Umphrey ...
    Series series The Amherst Series In Law, Jurisprudence, And Social Thought
    Drawing on the rich field of performance studies, this volume, the most recent contribution to the distinguished Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought, offers fresh insights and a provocative mix of multidisciplinary topics and methodologies to explore the theatricality and performativity of law as more than a metaphor.In considering law through the lens of performance studies, ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD

  • The Place of Law

    Edited by Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, Martha Umphrey ...
    Series series The Amherst Series In Law, Jurisprudence, And Social Thought
    It has long been standard practice in legal studies to identify the place of law within the social order. And yet, as The Place of Law suggests, the meaning of the concept of "the place of law" is not self-evident.This book helps us see how the law defines territory and attempts to keep things in place; it shows how law can be, and is, used to create particular kinds of places -- differentiating, ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD

  • The Secrets of Law

    Edited by Austin Sarat, Lawence Douglas, Martha Merrill Umphrey ...
    Series series The Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought
    The Secrets of Law explores the ways law both traffics in and regulates secrecy. Taking a close look at the opacity built into legal and governance processes, it explores the ways law produces zones of secrecy, the relation between secrecy and justice, and how we understand the inscrutability of law's processes.The first half of the work examines the role of secrecy in contemporary political and ... Read more

    $87.99 CAD

  • Law and War

    Edited by Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, Martha Merrill Umphrey ...
    Series series The Amherst Series in Law, Jurisprudence, and Social Thought
    Law and War explores the cultural, historical, spatial, and theoretical dimensions of the relationship between law and war—a connection that has long vexed the jurisprudential imagination. Historically the term "war crime" struck some as redundant and others as oxymoronic: redundant because war itself is criminal; oxymoronic because war submits to no law. More recently, the remarkable trend toward ... Read more

    $98.99 CAD