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  • The Constitution of Interests

    Beyond the Politics of Rights

    by John Brigham ...
    Many of America's most important social and political movements--abolition, women's suffragette, civil rights, women's liberation, gay and lesbian rights--have organized in the shadow of the law. All are based in their theoretical opposition to the law. Yet at the same time, they are dependent on the laws that prohibit them. Law is thus formed as much through the dynamic tensions that govern how ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Material Law

    A Jurisprudence of What's Real

    by John Brigham ...
    Law is part of the process by which people construct their views of the world. In Material Law, distinguished scholar John Brigham focuses on the places where law and material life intersect, and how law creates and alters our social reality. Brigham looks at an eclectic group of bodies and things—from maps and territories and trends in courthouse architecture to a woman's womb and a judge's body— ... Read more

    $67.99 CAD

  • Street-Level Sovereignty

    The Intersection of Space and Law

    by Nadirsyah Hosen, Margaret Mott, Aaron Lorenz, Andrea Pavoni, Andrés Fabián Henao Castro, Patrícia Branco, Allen Linken, Marilyn Brown, Jan M. Broekman, Richard Mohr, Sarah Marusek0, John Brigham2 ...
    Street-Level Sovereignty: The Intersection of Space and Law is a collection of scholarship that considers the experience of law that is subject to social interpretation for its meaning and importance within the constitutive legal framework of race, deviance, property, and the communal investiture in health and happiness. This book examines the intersection of spatiality and law, through the ... Read more

    $136.99 CAD

  • Predictive Health

    How We Can Reinvent Medicine to Extend Our Best Years

    by Kenneth L. Brigham, Michael ME Johns ...
    Our health care system is crippled by desperate efforts to prevent the inevitable. A third of the national Medicare budget -- nearly 175 billion -- is spent on the final year of life, and a third of that amount on the final month, often on expensive (and futile) treatments. Such efforts betray a fundamental flaw in how we think about healthcare: we squander resources on hopeless situations, ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • The Church in the Modern World

    Fifty Years after Gaudium et Spes

    by Michael Duffy, Carol Graham, Lois Lorentzen, Todd Sayre, Erin Brigham, John Coleman, James Hanvey, Peter Henriot, Thomas Massaro, Keally McBride0, Frank Turner1, Dr. Kristin Heyer2 ...
    The Church in the Modern World: Fifty Years after Gaudium et Spes commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the Second Vatican Council’s Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World. Featuring scholars from the Joan and Ralph Lane Center for Catholic Studies and Social Thought, this book offers a future-orientated analysis by highlighting contemporary social issues through the lens of ... Read more

    $142.99 CAD

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    Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition

    by Glen Sean Coulthard ...
    Series series Indigenous Americas
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  • The House That Race Built

    Original Essays by Toni Morrison, Angela Y. Davis, Cornel West, and Others on Black Americans and Politics in America Today

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    In these essays, brought together by the scholar Wahneema Lubiano, some of today's most respected intellectuals share their ideas on race, power, gender, and society.The authors, including Cornel West, Angela Y. Davis, and Toni Morrison, argue that we have reached a crisis of democracy represented by an ominous shift toward a renewed white nationalism in which racism is operating in coded, quasi ... Read more

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  • What is Gender History?

    by Sonya O. Rose ...
    Series series What is History?
    This book provides a short and accessible introduction to the field of gender history, one that has vastly expanded in scope and substance since the mid 1970s. Paying close attention to both classic texts in the field and the latest literature, the author examines the origins and development of the field and elucidates current debates and controversies. She highlights the significance of race, ... Read more

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  • Legalizing Misandry

    From Public Shame to Systemic Discrimination against Men

    by Paul Nathanson, Katherine K. 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

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  • The Idea of Human Rights

    by Charles R. Beitz ...
    The international doctrine of human rights is one of the most ambitious parts of the settlement of World War II. Since then, the language of human rights has become the common language of social criticism in global political life. This book is a theoretical examination of the central idea of that language, the idea of a human right. In contrast to more conventional philosophical studies, the ... Read more

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  • Aberrations in Black

    Toward a Queer of Color Critique

    by Roderick A. Ferguson ...
    Series series Critical American Studies
    A hard-hitting look at the regulation of sexual difference and its role in circumscribing African American cultureThe sociology of race relations in America typically describes an intersection of poverty, race, and economic discrimination. But what is missing from the picture—sexual difference—can be as instructive as what is present. In this ambitious work, Roderick A. Ferguson reveals how the ... Read more

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  • White Reconstruction

    Domestic Warfare and the Logics of Genocide

    by Dylan Rodriguez ...
    A "compelling study" of how the idea of white supremacy persists long after the Civil Rights Act—"as thoughtful as it is fierce" (David Roediger, author of The Sinking Middle Class: A Political History).We are in the fray of another signature moment in the long history of the United States as a project of anti Black and racial–colonial violence. Long before November 2016, white nationalism, white ... Read more

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