Michael J Perry: 16 books

Book cover of The Idea of Human Rights

The Idea of Human Rights

Four Inquiries

by Michael J. Perry
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 1998

Inspired by a 1988 trip to El Salvador, Michael J. Perry's new book is a personal and scholarly exploration of the idea of human rights. Perry is one of our nation's leading authorities on the relation of morality, including religious morality, to politics and law. He seeks, in this book, to disentangle...
Book cover of A Global Political Morality

A Global Political Morality

Human Rights, Democracy, and Constitutionalism

by Michael J. Perry
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017

In A Global Political Morality, Michael J. Perry addresses several related questions in human rights theory, political theory and constitutional theory. He begins by explaining what the term 'human right' means and then elaborates and defends the morality of human rights, which is the first truly...
Book cover of Human Rights in the Constitutional Law of the United States
by Michael J. Perry
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2013

In the period since the end of the Second World War, there has emerged what never before existed: a truly global morality. Some of that morality - the morality of human rights - has become entrenched in the constitutional law of the United States. This book explicates the morality of human rights...
Book cover of The Political Morality of Liberal Democracy
by Michael J. Perry
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2009

In this important new work in political and constitutional theory, Michael J. Perry elaborates and defends an account of the political morality of liberal democracy: the moral convictions and commitments that in a liberal democracy should govern decisions about what laws to enact and what policies...
Book cover of Great War Modernism

Great War Modernism

Artistic Response in the Context of War, 1914-1918

by Graeme Stout, Gregory M. Dandeles, Michael J. K. Walsh
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015

New Modernist Studies, while reviving and revitalizing modernist studies through lively, scholarly debate about historicity, aesthetics, politics, and genres, is struggling with important questions concerning the delineation that makes discussion fruitful and possible. This volume aims to explore...
Book cover of It Happened in a Flash: An Anthology of 64 Bite-Sized Stories
by Katharina Gerlach, Ava Fairhall, K.V. Moffet
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2018

Solve a mermaid's problem… Step off the edge of a roof… Dig up a grave at midnight… Take advice from a fortune cookie… Visit the last library… Meet a bridge troll… And more… In one instant, like a bolt of lightning, a single impossible event changes a person's life. And like the...
Book cover of Aliens, Battleships and Colonization

Aliens, Battleships and Colonization

11 Sci-fi Books Bundled Together

by Robert Jeschonek, Rebecca S. W. Bates, Kristine Kathryn Rusch
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2017

People have long desired to know more about the galaxy we live in and those far beyond. In this collection, you will discover what life in outer space may actually be like… if we lived in a supernatural, science fiction reality. In this bundle you will go on missions on spaceships, converse with...
Book cover of Cosmic Clashes
by Dean Wesley Smith, Sabrina Chase, J. D. Brink
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2018

It's time to take flight and fight the good fight on the final frontier! The excitement never ends as you launch into a starry realm of intergalactic battles, adventures through space, and ultimate rewards for high-tech genius and bravado. Leap between universes and soar through the stars, led by...
Book cover of Hellhole

Hellhole

An Anthology of Subterranean Terror

by Jonathan Maberry, Rena Mason, Michael McBride
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2018

A descent into terror. Legends tell of a hollow earth, a world beneath our own. A world filled with wonders... and danger. But what if the legends are true? Delve into dark worlds in HELLHOLE, where death lurks around every corner, and come face to face with creatures from your worst...
Book cover of Shadows & Reflections

Shadows & Reflections

A Roger Zelazny Tribute Anthology

by Roger Zelazny, Shannon Zelazny, Steven Brust
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017

Shadows and Reflections is the Roger Zelazny tribute anthology you’ve been waiting for. Here are stories that are not just inspired by Roger Zelazny, but stories set in universes created by Roger Zelazny. Finding Shadows and Reflections is like discovering a new Zelazny collection full of old friends...
Book cover of Teaching Peace

Teaching Peace

Nonviolence and the Liberal Arts

by Denny J. Weaver, Gerald Biesecker-Mast, Glen H. Stassen
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2003

This book opens a new frontier in understanding nonviolence. Discussions of peace and nonviolence usually focus on either moral theory or practical dimensions of applying nonviolence in conflict situations. Teaching Peace carries the discussion of nonviolence beyond ethics and into the rest of the...
Book cover of In Principle, In Practice

In Principle, In Practice

Museums as Learning Institutions

by Sue Allen, David Anderson, Tamsin Astor-Jack
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2007

The science museum field has made tremendous advances in understanding museum learning, but little has been done to consolidate and synethesize these findings to encourage widespread improvements in practice. By clearly presenting the most current knowledge of museum learning, In Principle, In Practice...
Book cover of Ethics of Spying

Ethics of Spying

A Reader for the Intelligence Professional

by Joel H. Rosenthal, J E. Drexel Godfrey, R V. Jones
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2005

Intelligence professionals are employees of the government working in a business that some would consider unethical_the business of spying. This book looks at the dilemmas that exist when one is asked to perform a civil service that is in conflict with what that individual believes to be 'ethical.'...
Book cover of It Happened in South Carolina
by Lee Davis Perry, J. Michael Mclaughlin
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2011

True Tales from the Palmetto State’s Past—from the ghostly Gray Man to the return of the H. L. Hunley Much has happened in South Carolina throughout its checkered history, and the myriad of significant events and fascinating repercussions surrounding them have been described by writers...
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