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  • The Property-Contract Interface

    Historical and Theoretical Perspectives

    by James Penner, Irina Sakharova, Henry E. Smith, Zhong Xing Tan ...
    Series series Oxford Private Law Theory
    This collection of essays brings together leading experts with emerging scholars from different common law jurisdictions to deal with foundational questions about the relationship between property and contract. The volume is structured in five parts: forms of property; contract and conveyance; institutions; structure of private law; and theories of contract. Some essays focus in on specific ... Read more

    $186.99 CAD

  • Philosophical Foundations of Property Law

    Edited by James Penner, Henry Smith ...
    Series series Philosophical Foundations of Law
    Property has long played a central role in political and moral philosophy. Philosophers dealing with property have tended to follow the consensus that property has no special content but is a protean construct - a mere placeholder for theories aimed at questions of distributive justice and efficiency. Until recently there has been a relative absence of serious philosophical attention paid to the ... Read more

    $143.99 CAD

  • New Essays on the Nature of Legal Reasoning

    Edited by Dr Mark McBride, Professor James Penner ...
    Series series Law and Practical Reason
    This is the first book to bring together distinguished jurisprudential theorists, as well as up-and-coming scholars, to critically assess the nature of legal reasoning.The volume is divided into 3 parts:The first part, General Jurisprudence and Legal Reasoning, addresses issues at the intersection of general jurisprudence - those pertaining to the nature of law itself - and legal reasoning.The ... Read more

    $63.99 CAD

  • Property Theory

    Legal and Political Perspectives

    Edited by James Penner, Michael Otsuka ...
    Property, or property rights, remains one of the most central elements in moral, legal, and political thought. It figures centrally in the work of figures as various as Grotius, Locke, Hume, Smith, Hegel and Kant. This collection of essays brings fresh perspective on property theory, from both legal and political theoretical perspectives, and is essential reading for anyone interested in the ... Read more

    $46.99 CAD

  • Timothy Leary: The Harvard Years

    Early Writings on LSD and Psilocybin with Richard Alpert, Huston Smith, Ralph Metzner, and others

    Edited by James Penner ...
    The first collection of Leary’s writings devoted entirely to the research phase of his career, 1960 to 1965• Presents Leary’s early scientific articles and scholarly essays, including those on the Harvard Psilocybin Project, the Concord Prison Project, and the Good Friday Experiment• With an editor’s introduction that examines the Harvard Drug Scandal in detail as well as a critical preface for ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Equity, Trusts and Commerce

    Edited by Professor James Penner, Professor Paul S Davies ...
    Series series Hart Studies in Private Law
    This collection of essays, written by leading commentators from across the common law world, examines a range of topics concerning Equity and Trusts in the commercial context. The essays investigate the way in which doctrines derived from the equitable jurisdiction interact with and shape various areas of the law, including company law, commercial law and agency law. Subjects considered include ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

  • Playing Offstage

    The Theater as a Presence or Factor in the Real World

    by Gigi Argyropoulou, S. P. Cerasano, Lance Duerfahrd, Joe Falocco, Uli Jäckle, Gina MacKenzie, Daniel T. O'Hara, James Penner, Brian Rhinehart, Elizabeth Sakellaridou, Horacio Sierra, Avra Sidiropoulou, Natascha Siouzouli ...
    Series series Transforming Literary Studies
    Fourteen scholars who work on campus or in the theater address this issue of what it means to play offstage. With their individual definition of what “offstage” could mean, the results were, predictably, varied. They employed a variety of critical approaches to the question of what happens when the play moves into the audience or beyond the physical playhouse itself? What are the social, cultural, ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • Consuming Youth

    Navigating youth from being consumers to being consumed

    by John Berard, James Penner, Rick Bartlett ...
    Today’s relentless, consumer culture—dominated by popular media’s emphasis on bigger, better, and more, and catering to teenagers every want and desire—is leaving our youth adrift in a sea of conflicting messages. Messages that every youth worker must be able to decode and redirect away from the material world towards helping young people become who God created them to be: givers instead of ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Smart Power Anniversary Edition

    Climate Change, the Smart Grid, and the Future of Electric Utilities

    by Peter Fox-Penner ...
    Few industries in the U.S. are as stuck in the past as our utilities are. In the face of growing challenges from climate change and the need for energy security, a system and a business model that each took more than a century to evolve must now be extensively retooled in the span of a few decades. Despite the need, many of the technologies and institutions needed are still being designed or ... Read more

    $47.29 CAD

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  • Philosophy of Law

    by Andrei Marmor ...
    Series series Princeton Foundations of Contemporary Philosophy
    In Philosophy of Law, Andrei Marmor provides a comprehensive analysis of contemporary debates about the fundamental nature of law--an issue that has been at the heart of legal philosophy for centuries. What the law is seems to be a matter of fact, but this fact has normative significance: it tells people what they ought to do. Is the normative content of a law entirely determined by the facts that ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Shorting the Grid

    The Hidden Fragility of Our Electric Grid

    by Meredith Angwin ...
    When rolling blackouts come to the electric grid, they will be old news to the grid insiders.Only the electricity customers will be surprised.Grid insiders know how fragile the grid is becoming. Unfortunately, they have no incentive to solve the problems because near-misses increase their profits.Meredith Angwin describes how closed meetings, arcane auction rules, and five-minute planning horizons ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Taming the Sun

    Innovations to Harness Solar Energy and Power the Planet

    by Varun Sivaram ...
    How solar could spark a clean-energy transition through transformative innovation—creative financing, revolutionary technologies, and flexible energy systems.Solar energy, once a niche application for a limited market, has become the cheapest and fastest-growing power source on earth. What's more, its potential is nearly limitless—every hour the sun beams down more energy than the world uses in a ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD

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