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  • Critical Legal Studies

    A Liberal Critique

    by Andrew Altman ...
    Series series Studies in Moral, Political, and Legal Philosophy
    Scholars in the "Critical Legal Studies" movement have challenged some of the most cherished ideals of modern Western legal and political thought. CLS thinkers claim that the rule of law is a myth and that its defense by liberal thinkers is riddled with inconsistencies. This first book-length liberal reply to CLS systematically examines the philosophical underpinnings of the CLS movement and ... Read more

    $47.59 USD

  • Debating Pornography

    by Andrew Altman, Lori Watson ...
    Series series Debating Ethics
    Since the sexual revolution of the 1960s, debates over pornography have raged, and the explosive spread in recent years of sexually explicit images across the Internet has only added more urgency to these disagreements. Politicians, judges, clergy, citizen activists, and academics have weighed in on the issues for decades, complicating notions about what precisely is at stake, and who stands to ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • A Liberal Theory of International Justice

    by Andrew Altman, Christopher Heath Wellman ...
    A Liberal Theory of International Justice advances a novel theory of international justice that combines the orthodox liberal notion that the lives of individuals are what ultimately matter morally with the putatively antiliberal idea of an irreducibly collective right of self-governance. The individual and her rights are placed at center stage insofar as political states are judged legitimate if ... Read more

    $38.69 USD

  • Regenerating Urban Land

    A Practitioner's Guide to Leveraging Private Investment

    by Rana Amirtahmasebi, Mariana Orloff, Sameh Wahba, Andrew Altman ...
    Series series Urban Development
    Regenerating Urban Land draws on the experience of eight case studies from around the world. The case studies outline various policy and financial instruments to attract private sector investment in urban regeneration of underutilized and unutilized areas and the requisite infrastructure improvements. In particular, each case study details the project cycle, from the scoping phase and ... Read more

    $29.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Targeted Killings

    Law and Morality in an Asymmetrical World

    Edited by Claire Finkelstein, Jens David Ohlin, Andrew Altman ...
    Series series Ethics, National Security, and the Rule of Law
    The war on terror is remaking conventional warfare. The protracted battle against a non-state organization, the demise of the confinement of hostilities to an identifiable battlefield, the extensive involvement of civilian combatants, and the development of new and more precise military technologies have all conspired to require a rethinking of the law and morality of war. Just war theory, as ... Read more

    $76.49 USD

  • Targeted Killings

    Law and Morality in an Asymmetrical World

    Edited by Claire Finkelstein, Jens David Ohlin, Andrew Altman ...
    Series series Ethics, National Security, and the Rule of Law
    The war on terror is remaking conventional warfare. The protracted battle against a non-state organization, the demise of the confinement of hostilities to an identifiable battlefield, the extensive involvement of civilian combatants, and the development of new and more precise military technologies have all conspired to require a rethinking of the law and morality of war. Just war theory, as ... Read more

    $76.49 USD

  • Spontaneous Animal Models of Human Disease

    Edited by Edwin J. Andrews, Billy C. Ward, Norman H. Altman ...
    Series Book 2 - American College of Laboratory Animal Medicine
    This two-volume work gathers together the diverse information presently available on spontaneous animal models of human disease. In addition to providing a comprehensive review of existing models, the book presents many previous unpublished new models.The scope of this work is limited to spontaneous models. Neoplasia, infectious diseases including parasitism, and nutritionally induced or other ... Read more

    $65.69 USD

  • Maker Pro

    Essays on Making a Living as a Maker

    by John Baichtal, Wendy Jehanara Tremayne, Andrew 'bunnie' Huang, Sophi Kravitz, Mitch Altman, Jimmy DiResta, Eri Gentry, Tito Jankowski, Alex Dyba, Michael Krumpus, Susan Solarz, Rob Klingberg, Joe Meno, David Gauntlett, Mike Hord, Adam Wolf ...
    Maker Pro is a book of essays by more than a dozen prominent and up-and-coming professional makers (Maker Pros). Each essay includes advice and stories on topics such as starting a kit-making business, taking a hardware project open-source, and plenty of encouragement to "quit your day job." This book is a reference for anyone who dreams of turning a hobby into a small business, and features ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

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  • Justice for Hedgehogs

    by Ronald Dworkin ...
    In Dworkin’s master work, the central thesis is that all areas of value depend on one another. This is one, big thing that the hedgehog knows, in contrast to the fox, who knows many little things. Dworkin’s understanding of the relationship—between ethics, morality, and political morality—is significantly revised and also greatly elaborated. He argues that “dignity” is the essential core of living ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

  • Philosophy of Law

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Raymond Wacks ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The concept of law lies at the heart of our social and political life. Legal philosophy, or jurisprudence, explores the notion of law and its role in society, illuminating its meaning and its relation to the universal questions of justice, rights, and morality. In this Very Short Introduction Raymond Wacks analyses the nature and purpose of the legal system, and the practice by courts, lawyers, ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Philosophy of Law: A Very Short Introduction

    by Raymond Wacks ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The concept of law lies at the heart of our social and political life, shaping the character of our community and underlying issues from racism and abortion to human rights and international war. But what actually is law? A set of naturally occurring moral principles, or simply rules agreed by a particular society? What is a 'right' and what rights should people actually have? Is law really colour ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Liberalism and the Limits of Justice

    by Michael J. Sandel ...
    A liberal society seeks not to impose a single way of life, but to leave its citizens as free as possible to choose their own values and ends. It therefore must govern by principles of justice that do not presuppose any particular vision of the good life. But can any such principles be found? And if not, what are the consequences for justice as a moral and political ideal? These are the questions ... Read more

    $63.99 USD