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  • Soul, Self, and Society

    The New Morality and the Modern State

    by Edward L. Rubin ...
    Political and social commentators regularly bemoan the decline of morality in the modern world. They claim that the norms and values that held society together in the past are rapidly eroding, to be replaced by permissiveness and empty hedonism. But as Edward Rubin demonstrates in this powerful account of moral transformations, these prophets of doom are missing the point. Morality is not ... Read more

    $34.39 CAD

  • Minimizing Harm

    A New Crime Policy For Modern America

    by Edward Rubin ...
    This book represents an effort by a number of leading criminologists to articulate a pragmatic crime policy for America—a policy that combines academic insights about crime prevention with the realities of contemporary politics. ... Read more

    $92.06 CAD

  • Beyond Camelot

    Rethinking Politics and Law for the Modern State

    by Edward L. Rubin ...
    This book argues that many of the basic concepts that we use to describe and analyze our governmental system are out of date. Developed in large part during the Middle Ages, they fail to confront the administrative character of modern government.These concepts, which include power, discretion, democracy, legitimacy, law, rights, and property, bear the indelible imprint of this bygone era's ... Read more

    $72.59 CAD

  • Judicial Policy Making, Empirical Data and Scientific Evidence

    Can Courts Manage the Twenty-First Century?

    Edited by Rob van Gestel, Jurgen de Poorter, Edward Rubin ...
    This book examines the uncertainties which arise when courts have to deal with complex empirical data and contested scientific evidence in public interest cases, but lack the necessary knowledge and training to do so. Expert contributors explore the strategies, methods and techniques applied by the courts to inform their decisions, reduce uncertainty and assist proportionality assessments.Moving ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • The Selected Works of Edward W. Said, 1966 - 2006

    by Edward W. Said ...
    **The renowned literary and cultural critic Edward Said was one of our era’s most provocative and important thinkers. This comprehensive collection of his work draws from across his entire four-decade career, including his posthumously published books, making it a definitive one-volume source."Said is a brilliant and unique amalgam of scholar, aesthete, and political activist...[He] challenges and ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Rethinking Legal Scholarship

    A Transatlantic Dialogue

    Edited by Rob van Gestel, Hans-W. Micklitz, Edward L. Rubin ...
    Although American scholars sometimes consider European legal scholarship as old-fashioned and inward-looking and Europeans often perceive American legal scholarship as amateur social science, both traditions share a joint challenge. If legal scholarship becomes too much separated from practice, legal scholars will ultimately make themselves superfluous. If legal scholars, on the other hand, cannot ... Read more

    $62.99 CAD

  • Legal Education in the Digital Age

    Edited by Edward Rubin ...
    During the coming decades, the digital revolution that has transformed so much of our world will transform legal education as well. The digital production and distribution of course materials will powerfully affect both the content and the way materials are used in the classroom and library. This collection of essays by leading legal scholars in various fields explores three aspects of this coming ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Federalism

    Political Identity and Tragic Compromise

    by Malcolm Feeley, Edward Rubin ...
    Federalism is one of the most influential concepts in modern political discourse as well as the focus of immense controversy resulting from the lack of a single coherent definition. Malcolm M. Feeley and Edward Rubin expose the ambiguities of modern federalism, offering a powerful but generous treatise on the modern salience of the term.“Malcolm Feeley and Edward Rubin have published an excellent ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Data Science for Public Policy

    by Jeffrey C. Chen, Edward A. Rubin, Gary J. Cornwall ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    This textbook presents the essential tools and core concepts of data science to public officials, policy analysts, and economists among others in order to further their application in the public sector. An expansion of the quantitative economics frameworks presented in policy and business schools, this book emphasizes the process of asking relevant questions to inform public policy. Its techniques ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Joseph Conrad and the Fiction of Autobiography

    by Edward Said ...
    Edward W. Said locates Joseph Conrad's fear of personal disintegration in his constant re-narration of the past. Using the author's personal letters as a guide to understanding his fiction, Said draws an important parallel between Conrad's view of his own life and the manner and form of his stories. The critic also argues that the author, who set his fiction in exotic locations like East Asia and ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

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  • Pacification

    Social War and the Power of Police

    by Mark Neocleous ...
    This provocative book offers the first sustained critique of the theory and practice of pacificationIn his new book, critical theorist Mark Neocleous engages in a sustained critique of the theory and practice of pacification. Combining philosophical analysis with historical detail, Neocleous analyses the development of pacification as a key concept through which capitalist modernity has been ... Read more

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