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  • Cultural Sustainabilities

    Music, Media, Language, Advocacy

    Environmental sustainability and human cultural sustainability are inextricably linked. Reversing damaging human impact on the global environment is ultimately a cultural question, and as with politics, the answers are often profoundly local. Cultural Sustainabilities presents twenty-three essays by musicologists and ethnomusicologists, anthropologists, folklorists, ethnographers, documentary ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Free Speech and Intellectual Diversity in Higher Education

    Series series Political Theory for Today
    The essays in Free Speech and Intellectual Diversity in Higher Education reflect diverse perspectives on one of the most pressing issues in higher education--the controversies over freedom of speech and its relation to intellectual diversity. Does the First Amendment apply on campuses and do its principles clarify or obscure the issues surrounding campus speech? What, after all, is the basis for ... Read more

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  • Prejudicial Appearances

    The Logic of American Antidiscrimination Law

    In Prejudicial Appearances noted legal scholar Robert C. Post argues modern American antidiscrimination law should not be conceived as protecting the transcendental dignity of individual persons but instead as transforming social practices that define and sustain potentially oppressive categories like race or gender. Arguing that the prevailing logic of American antidiscrimination law is ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Who Owns America's Past?

    The Smithsonian and the Problem of History

    When preserving our history, what do we choose to value, why, and who decides?Honorable Mention for the National Council on Public History Book Award of the National Council on Public HistoryIn 1994, when the National Air and Space Museum announced plans to display the Enola Gay, the B-29 sent to destroy Hiroshima with an atomic bomb, the ensuing political uproar caught the museum's parent ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Who Owns America's Past?

    The Smithsonian and the Problem of History

    When preserving our history, what do we choose to value, why, and who decides?Honorable Mention for the National Council on Public History Book Award of the National Council on Public HistoryIn 1994, when the National Air and Space Museum announced plans to display the Enola Gay, the B-29 sent to destroy Hiroshima with an atomic bomb, the ensuing political uproar caught the museum's parent ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Citizens Divided

    Campaign Finance Reform and the Constitution

    Series Book 8 - The Tanner Lectures on Human Values
    The Supreme Court’s 5–4 decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, which struck down a federal prohibition on independent corporate campaign expenditures, is one of the most controversial opinions in recent memory. Defenders of the First Amendment greeted the ruling with enthusiasm, while advocates of electoral reform recoiled in disbelief. Robert C. Post offers a new ... Read more

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  • 40 Must-Read Spy Novels

    Classic Tales of Secret Agents, Double Identities, Coded Messages, and International Intrigue

    40 Must-Read Spy Novels surveys the formative terrain of espionage fiction, tracing how secrecy, surveillance, coded loyalties, imperial rivalry, and political intrigue became engines of popular narrative. Spanning adventure romance, detective fiction, invasion scare, international thriller, and psychological suspense, the volume reveals a genre still testing the boundaries between patriotic duty ... Read more

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  • Behind Enemy Lines: 40 Spy Thrillers

    Classic Espionage Tales of Coded Messages, Double Agents, Border Crossings, and Secret Missions

    Behind Enemy Lines: 40 Spy Thrillers surveys the formative decades of espionage fiction, assembling tales of covert passage, coded intelligence, political intrigue, imperial rivalry, and perilous disguise. Its range extends from brisk adventure narratives and detective-inflected puzzles to psychological suspense, melodrama, and romance shadowed by international conflict. Stories of infiltrators, ... Read more

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  • Justice and Empathy

    Toward a Constitutional Ideal

    An impassioned argument for the role of courts as a moral and social agent for change and protecting the vulnerable The Supreme Court long considered its highest mission to be the protection of individual liberty from intrusion by government, but the court shifted its focus to social and economic equality. Constitutional scholar Robert A. Burt explores this shift and its implications, especially ... Read more

    $71.99 CAD

  • Civil Society and Government

    Series series Ethikon Series in Comparative Ethics
    Civil Society and Government brings together an unprecedented array of political, ethical, and religious perspectives to shed light on the complex and much-debated relationship between civil society and the state. Some argue that civil society is a bulwark against government; others see it as an indispensable support for government. Civil society has been portrayed both as a independent of the ... Read more

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