Yale University Press: 2009 books
by Prof. Jeremy Waldron
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2012
Should judges in United States courts be permitted to cite foreign laws in their rulings? In this book Jeremy Waldron explores some ideas in jurisprudence and legal theory that could underlie the Supreme Court's occasional recourse to foreign law, especially in constitutional cases. He argues that every...
Testcraft
A Teacher`s Guide to Writing and Using Language Test Specifications
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
The creation of language tests is-and should be-a craft that is accessible and doable not only by a few language test experts, but also by many others who are involved in second/foreign language education, say the authors of this clear and timely book. Fred Davidson and Brian Lynch offer language educators...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 1997
Desert Kingdoms to Global Powers
The Rise of the Arab Gulf
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2016
A lively analysis of the Arab Gulf states’ stunning rise to global power over the last half-century and of the daunting challenges they confront today Once just sleepy desert sheikdoms, the Arab Gulf states of Saudi Arabia, Oman, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, and Kuwait now exert unprecedented...
Sustainable Lifestyles and the Quest for Plenitude
Case Studies of the New Economy
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Many of today’s most troubling environmental and economic issues have come to seem insoluble: carbon emissions, overshoot, inequality, joblessness, and a dysfunctional food system. Can we change direction, move away from business as usual, and achieve a more sustainable, empowering, and humane economy?...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
While the British were able to accomplish abolition in the trans-Atlantic world by the end of the nineteenth century, their efforts paradoxically caused a great increase in legal and illegal slave trading in the western Indian Ocean. Bringing together essays from leading authorities in the field of slavery...
Arming Slaves
From Classical Times to the Modern Age
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Arming slaves as soldiers is a counterintuitive idea. Yet throughout history, in many varied societies, slaveholders have entrusted slaves with the use of deadly force. This book is the first to survey the practice broadly across space and time, encompassing the cultures of classical Greece, the early...
Islamism
What it Means for the Middle East and the World
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
A political, social, and cultural battle is currently raging in the Middle East. On one side are the Islamists, those who believe Islam should be the region’s primary identity. In opposition are nationalists, secularists, royal families, military establishments, and others who view Islamism as a...
The Edge of Reason
A Rational Skeptic in an Irrational World
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2016
An urgent defense of reason, the essential method for resolving—or even discussing—divisive issues Reason, long held as the highest human achievement, is under siege. According to Aristotle, the capacity for reason sets us apart from other animals, yet today it has ceased to be a universally admired...
Security First
For a Muscular, Moral Foreign Policy
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Rarely have more profound changes in American foreign policy been called for than today,” begins Amitai Etzioni in the preface to this book. Yet Etzioni’s concern is not to lay blame for past mistakes but to address the future: What can now be done to improve U.S. relations with the rest of the...
by Margaret Willes
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
This magnificently illustrated people’s history celebrates the extraordinary feats of cultivation by the working class in Britain, even if the land they toiled, planted, and loved was not their own. Spanning more than four centuries, from the earliest records of the laboring classes in the country...
by Kathleen M. Dudzinski, Toni Frohoff, Marc Bekoff
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2008
Dolphins have fascinated humans for millennia, giving rise to an abundance of stories and myths about them, yet the actual details of their lives in the sea have remained elusive. In this enthralling book, Kathleen M. Dudzinski and Toni Frohoff take us into the dolphins’ aquatic world to witness firsthand...
by Professor Bas C. van Fraassen
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
What is empiricism and what could it be? Bas C. van Fraassen, one of the world’s foremost contributors to philosophical logic and the philosophy of science, here undertakes a fresh consideration of these questions and offers a program for renewal of the empiricist tradition. The empiricist tradition...
A Restatement of Religion
Swami Vivekananda and the Making of Hindu Nationalism
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013