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University, Court, and Slave
Pro-Slavery Thought in Southern Colleges and Courts and the Coming of Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2016
University, Court, and Slave reveals long-forgotten connections between pre-Civil War southern universities and slavery. Universities and their faculty owned people-sometimes dozens of people-and profited from their labor while many slaves endured physical abuse on campuses. As Alfred L. Brophy shows,...
Punishment and the Moral Emotions
Essays in Law, Morality, and Religion
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2012
This collection of essays presents Jeffrie G. Murphy's most recent ideas on punishment, forgiveness, and the emotions of resentment, shame, guilt, remorse, love, and jealousy. In Murphy's view, conscious rationales of principle -- such as crime control or giving others what in justice they deserve...
The Press Effect
Politicians, Journalists, and the Stories that Shape the Political World
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2002
Was the 2000 presidential campaign merely a contest between Pinocchio and Dumbo? And did Dumbo miraculously turn into Abraham Lincoln after the events of September 11? In fact, Kathleen Hall Jamieson and Paul Waldman argue in The Press Effect, these stereotypes, while containing some elements of the...
Matty: An American Hero
Christy Mathewson of the New York Giants
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 1994
When all-time pitching great Christy Mathewson died of tuberculosis in 1925 at the age of 45, it touched off a wave of national mourning that remains without precedent for an American athlete. The World Series was underway, and the game the day after Mathewson's death took on the trappings of a state...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2014
Financial sustainability is one of the key challenges confronting Europe's universities today. Despite the fact that universities are at the centre of knowledge creation and development, which itself is seen as one of the main engines of economic growth, public funding of higher education in most...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2005
American democracy is built on its institutions. The Congress, the presidency, and the judiciary, in particular, undergird the rights and responsibilities of every citizen. The free press, for example, protected by the First Amendment, allows for the dissent so necessary in a democracy. How has this...
Press and Speech Under Assault
The Early Supreme Court Justices, the Sedition Act of 1798, and the Campaign against Dissent
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2016
The early Supreme Court justices wrestled with how much press and speech is protected by freedoms of press and speech, before and under the First Amendment, and with whether the Sedition Act of 1798 violated those freedoms. This book discusses the twelve Supreme Court justices before John Marshall,...
by Marion Williams, Sarah Mercer, Stephen Ryan
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
This book explores key areas of educational and social psychology and considers their relevance to language learning and teaching, using activities and questions for reflection. The topics discussed in the book include: • learners’ and teachers’ beliefs about how a language should be learned and...
Bad Boys, Bad Men: Confronting Antisocial Personality Disorder (Sociopathy)
Confronting Antisocial Personality Disorder (Sociopathy)
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2013
A fascinating and sobering look at why some men break all the rules and what makes them behave the way they do Whether called black sheep, sociopaths, con men, or misfits, some men break all the rules. They shirk everyday responsibilities, abuse drugs and alcohol, take up criminal careers , and lash...
Crucible of Science
The Story of the Cori Laboratory
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
"Crucible of Science" is the story of a unique laboratory at Washington University in St. Louis, and of Carl and Gerty Cori, the biochemists who established it. Carl and Gerty met and married at medical school in Prague in the 1920s. After graduation, they immigrated to the U.S. to escape deteriorating...
Consent on Campus
A Manifesto
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
A 2015 survey of twenty-seven elite colleges found that twenty-three percent of respondents reported personal experiences of sexual misconduct on their campuses. That figure has not changed since the 1980s, when people first began collecting data on sexual violence. What has changed is the level of...
The Expansion of Autonomy
Hegel's Pluralistic Philosophy of Action
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
Georg Lukács wrote that "there is autonomy and 'autonomy.' The one is a moment of life itself, the elevation of its richness and contradictory unity; the other is a rigidification, a barren self-seclusion, a self-imposed banishment from the dynamic overall connection." Though Lukács' concern was...
Intricate Ethics
Rights, Responsibilities, and Permissable Harm
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2006
"Reading F.M. Kamm's latest book is like watching a brilliant astronomer map an uncharted galaxy--the meticulousness and the display of mental stamina must inspire awe. There is a kind of beauty in the performance alone. Intricate Ethics is a major event in normative ethical theory by a living master...
Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974
The United States, 1945-1974
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 1996
Beginning in 1945, America rocketed through a quarter-century of extraordinary economic growth, experiencing an amazing boom that soared to unimaginable heights in the 1960s. At one point, in the late 1940s, American workers produced 57 percent of the planet's steel, 62 percent of the oil, 80 percent...