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Awakening Philosophy: The Loss of Truth
by Robert Elliott AllinsonIn this original book, Robert Elliott Allinson asserts that philosophers have been lulled into a dogmatic sleep by Immanuel Kant, the slayer of metaphysics, who has convinced them (and the rest of humanity) that we can never know Reality. Allinson awakens global philosophers from their sceptical slumbers by diagnosing the reason why they have abdicated their traditional calling as leaders of inquiry into truth and wisdom.
Awakening Warrior: Revolution in the Ethics of Warfare (SUNY series, Ethics and the Military Profession)
by Timothy L. Challans2007 CHOICE Outstanding Academic TitleAwakening Warrior argues for a revolution in the ethics of warfare for the American War Machine—those political and military institutions that engage the world with physical force. Timothy L. Challans focuses on the systemic, institutional level of morality rather than bemoaning the moral shortcomings of individuals. He asks: What are the limits of individual moral agency? What kind of responsibility do individuals have when considering institutional moral error? How is it that neutral or benign moral actions performed by individuals can have such catastrophic morally negative effects from a systemic perspective? Drawing upon and extending the ethical theories of Kant, Dewey, and Rawls, Challans makes the case for an original set of moral principles to guide ethical action on the battlefield."…[Challans's] call for reformation combined with a demand for a new set of moral principles to govern the ethical behavior on the battlefield is certain to garner the attention and ire of many readers and military leaders." — Parameters"This is an important book that needs to be read and taken seriously. If it is, it could be as revolutionary as its subtitle suggests." — CHOICE
Awakening to Race: Individualism and Social Consciousness in America
by Jack TurnerThe election of America's first black president has led many to believe that race is no longer a real obstacle to success and that remaining racial inequality stems largely from the failure of minority groups to take personal responsibility for seeking out opportunities. Often this argument is made in the name of the long tradition of self-reliance and American individualism. In Awakening to Race, Jack Turner upends this view, arguing that it expresses not a deep commitment to the values of individualism, but a narrow understanding of them. Drawing on the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Frederick Douglass, Ralph Ellison, and James Baldwin, Turner offers an original reconstruction of democratic individualism in American thought. All these thinkers, he shows, held that personal responsibility entails a refusal to be complicit in injustice and a duty to combat the conditions and structures that support it. At a time when individualism is invoked as a reason for inaction, Turner makes the individualist tradition the basis of a bold and impassioned case for race consciousness-consciousness of the ways that race continues to constrain opportunity in America. Turner's "new individualism" becomes the grounds for concerted public action against racial injustice.
Awakening: #MeToo and the Global Fight for Women's Rights
by Meighan Stone Rachel B. VogelsteinForeword by Tarana Burke. Awakening chronicles the remarkable global impact of the #MeToo movement. Since 2017, millions have joined the global movement known as #MeToo, catalyzing an unprecedented wave of women&’s activism powered by technology that reaches across borders, races, religions, and economic divides. Today, women in more than 100 countries are using the hashtag to fight the violence and discrimination they face—and winning. What started as an online campaign against sexual harassment has triggered the most widespread cultural reckoning on women&’s rights in history, with global implications for women&’s participation in the economy, politics, and across social and cultural life. Awakening is the first book to capture the global impact of this breakthrough movement. Bringing together political analysis and inspiring personal stories from women in seven countries—Brazil, China, Egypt, Nigeria, Pakistan, Sweden, and Tunisia—Awakening takes readers to the front lines of a networked movement that&’s fundamentally shifting how women organize for their own equality.
Award-winning Case Studies 2015: A Special Issue of Building Sustainable Legacies
Breaking with academic tradition, this journal offers a unique selection of articles that are written by looking at the future challenges first and then translating these into present times. The right-aligned layout is a material way of reminding us of the fact that “no problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it” (A. Einstein). The journal provides hands-on, pragmatic and user-friendly research, suggestions and case studies as a resource for organisations that are committed to implementing sustainability. It is high time to build bridges between business and academia, with the clear purpose of helping business become truly sustainable. There are four dimensions to the journal: 1. Understand sustainability challenges 2. Specific dimensions of business sustainability 3. Exciting new solutions to implement 4. Case studies of leading business examples. In addition, produced is a special issue annually dedicated to an important theme. This is a special Issue of Building Sustainable Legacies.
Awe for the Tiger, Love for the Lamb: A Chronicle of Sensibility to Animals
by Rod PreeceFirst Published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Axial Shift: City Subsidiarity and the World System in the 21st Century
by Benjamen GussenThis book uses historical analysis, constitutional economics, and complexity theory to furnish an account of city subsidiarity as a legal, ethical, political, and economic principle. The book contemplates subsidiarity as a constitutional principle, where cities would benefit from much wider local autonomy. Constitutional economics suggests an optimal limit to jurisdictional footprints (territories). This entails preference for political orders where sovereignty is shared between different cities rather states where capital cities dominate. The introduction of city subsidiarity as a constitutional principle holds the key to economic prosperity in a globalizing world. Moreover, insights from complexity theory suggest subsidiarity is the only effective response to the ‘problem of scale.’ It is a fitness trait that prevents highly complex systems from collapsing. The nation-state is a highly complex system within which cities function as ‘attractors.’ The collapse of such systems would ensue if there were strong coupling between attractors. Such coupling obtains under legal monism. Only subsidiarity can make the eventuality of collapse improbable. The emergent and self-organizing properties of subsidiarity entail a shift in policy emphasis towards cities with a wide margin of autonomy.
Axiological Pluralism: Jurisdiction, Law-Making and Pluralisms (Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice #92)
by Lucia Busatta Carlo CasonatoThis book analyses the features and functionality of the relationship between the law, individual or collective values and medical-scientific evidence when they have to be interpreted by judges, courts and para-jurisdictional bodies. The various degrees to which scientific data and moral values have been integrated into the legal discourse reveal the need for a systematic review of the options and solutions that judges have elaborated on. In turn, the book presents a systematic approach, based on a proposed pattern for classifying these various degrees, together with an in-depth analysis of the multi-layered role of jurisdictions and the means available to them for properly handling new legal demands arising in plural societies.The book outlines a model that makes it possible to focus on and address these issues in a sustainable manner, that is, to respond to individual requests and technological advances in the field of biolaw by consistently and effectively applying suitable legal instruments and jurisdictional interpretation.
Ayn Rand's Normative Ethics
by Tara SmithAyn Rand is well known for advocating egoism, but the substance of that instruction is rarely understood. Far from representing the rejection of morality, selfishness, in Rand's view, actually demands the practice of a systematic code of ethics. This book explains the fundamental virtues that Rand considers vital for a person to achieve his objective well-being: rationality, honesty, independence, justice, integrity, productiveness, and pride. Tracing Rand's account of the harmony of human beings' rational interests, Smith examines what each of these virtues consists of, why it is a virtue, and what it demands of a person in practice. Along the way she addresses the status of several conventional virtues within Rand's theory, considering traits such as kindness, charity, generosity, temperance, courage, forgiveness, and humility. Ayn Rand's Normative Ethics thus offers an in-depth exploration of several specific virtues and an illuminating integration of these with the broader theory of egoism.
B Corp Entrepreneurs: Analysing the Motivations and Values behind Running a Social Business
by Ingo Winkler Florentine Mariele RothHighlighting the motivations of B Corp entrepreneurs in Chile, this book explores the phenomenon behind for-profit organisations that are committed to social and ecological sustainability as well as human welfare. By examining the personal and social drivers of businesses which are not solely focused on profit-making, the authors reveal a dual orientation that is an important factor in the creation of hybrid organisations. Offering an in-depth study of B Corp entrepreneurs in Chile, the largest B Corp community outside of North America, this pioneering book challenges dominant assumptions that there is only one ideal type of entrepreneur and argues that the values of the purely profit-driven and purely social-driven do in fact intersect. An enlightening read for researchers of social business and sustainability, this book analyses perceptions towards success, and the desire to solve environmental problems, underlining a fundamental aspect of the entrepreneur’s personal value structure.
BARBRI Comprehensive Review Virginia
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BGB Allgemeiner Teil (Springer-Lehrbuch)
by Burkhard Boemke Bernhard UlriciDas Lehrbuch behandelt den Allgemeinen Teil des Bürgerlichen Rechts, der die Grundlage für praktisch alle anderen Bereiche des Zivilrechts bildet. Insbesondere die allgemeine Rechtsgeschäftslehre muss auch im Schuld-, Sachen-, Familien- und Erbrecht beherrscht werden. Sie ist dementsprechend unverzichtbarer Bestandteil jeder juristischen Ausbildung. Wer hier auf Lücke setzt, wird auch in anderen Gebieten des Bürgerlichen Rechts verloren sein. Erfahrungsgemäß ist der Allgemeine Teil des BGB Gegenstand der Anfangssemester des juristischen Studiums. Der für Studenten noch ungewohnte Umgang mit Gesetzen und ihren Formulierungen sowie die Unsicherheiten im Gutachtenaufbau treffen auf einen hohen Abstraktionsgrad der einschlägigen Normen. Dem Studenten hier eine verständliche Anleitung zu bieten, ist Anliegen des Lehrbuchs. Dieses ist an den Bedürfnissen des Anfängers ebenso wie an denen des Examenskandidaten ausgerichtet und hilft durch Klausurfälle mit Lösungsskizzen zu Schwerpunkten der Rechtsgeschäftslehre sowie begleitend angebotenen Lernmittel (elektronische Mind-maps), den richtigen Grundstein zu legen.
BGB Allgemeiner Teil für Dummies (Für Dummies)
by André NiedostadekNicht von ungefähr finden Sie den Allgemeinen Teil im ersten Buch des BGB. Er bildet die Basis für das gesamte Bürgerliche Gesetzbuch und damit zugleich ein Fundament Ihres Studiums. Konkret, kompakt und kurzweilig macht André Niedostadek Sie mit den studien- und prüfungsrelevanten Inhalten dieses Teils des BGB vertraut - egal ob für den Einstieg oder zur Wiederholung. Übersichtliche Schaubilder und Schemata, Prüfungshinweise und Fälle mit Lösungen bereiten Sie perfekt auf Ihre Klausur vor.
BGB für Dummies (Für Dummies)
by André NiedostadekGanz gleich ob Sie Betriebswirtschaftslehre, Jura oder Verwaltungswissenschaften studieren - um das BGB werden Sie kaum herumkommen. Mit diesem Buch hilft Ihnen André Niedostadek, sich das Bürgerliche Gesetzbuch systematisch zu erarbeiten. Er erklärt Ihnen so leicht verständlich wie möglich, wie das BGB aufgebaut ist, wie Sie bei einer Fallbearbeitung vorgehen sollten und natürlich auch, was es zu den einzelnen Gesetzen zu wissen gibt. Mit Übungsfällen können Sie Ihr Wissen festigen und überprüfen. So gerüstet, müssen Sie die nächste Klausur nicht fürchten.
BGB für Dummies (Für Dummies)
by André NiedostadekGanz gleich ob Sie zum Beispiel Jura oder BWL, Sozial- oder Verwaltungswissenschaften studieren - um das BGB werden Sie kaum herumkommen. Mit diesem Buch hilft Ihnen André Niedostadek, sich das Bürgerliche Gesetzbuch von Grund auf systematisch zu erarbeiten. Er erklärt Ihnen leicht verständlich, wie das BGB aufgebaut ist, wie Sie bei einer Fallbearbeitung vorgehen sollten und natürlich auch, was es zu den einzelnen Gesetzen zu wissen gibt. Mit Übungsfällen können Sie Ihr Wissen festigen und überprüfen. So gerüstet, müssen Sie die nächste Klausur nicht fürchten.
BWL für Juristen: Eine praxisnahe Einführung in die betriebswirtschaftlichen Grundlagen
by Matthias Pletke Jürgen Petzold Andreas DaumZunehmend werden Juristen mit betriebswirtschaftlichen Fragestellungen konfrontiert und müssen über das entsprechende Fachwissen verfügen. Ziel dieses Buches ist es, die betriebswirtschaftlichen Grundlagen einfach und praxisnah zu vermitteln, wobei die speziellen Interessen von Juristen im Mittelpunkt stehen. ,,Der Wert dieses Buches kann nicht deutlich genug hervorgehoben werden. FürStudenten und Referendare sollte es zur unerlässlichen Pflichtlektüre gehören. " JuS - Juristische Schulung
Babies of Technology: Assisted Reproduction and the Rights of the Child
by Mary Ann Mason Tom EkmanMillions of children have been born in the United States with the help of cutting-edge reproductive technologies, much to the delight of their parents. But alarmingly, scarce attention has been paid to the lax regulations that have made the U.S. a major fertility tourism destination. And without clear protections, the unique rights and needs of the children of assisted reproduction are often ignored. This book is the first to consider the voice of the child in discussions about regulating the fertility industry. The controversies are many. Donor anonymity is preventing millions of children from knowing their genetic origins. Fertility clinics are marketing genetically enhanced babies. Career women are saving their eggs for later in life. And Third World women are renting their wombs to the rich. Meanwhile, the unregulated fertility market charges forward as a multi-billion-dollar industry. This deeply-considered book offers answers to the urgent question: Who will protect our babies of technology?
Baby Jails: The Fight to End the Incarceration of Refugee Children in America
by Philip G. Schrag"I worked in a trailer that ICE had set aside for conversations between the women and the attorneys. While we talked, their children, most of whom seemed to be between three and eight years old, played with a few toys on the floor. It was hard for me to get my head around the idea of a jail full of toddlers, but there they were." For decades, advocates for refugee children and families have fought to end the U.S. government’s practice of jailing children and families for months, or even years, until overburdened immigration courts could rule on their claims for asylum. Baby Jails is the history of that legal and political struggle. Philip G. Schrag, the director of Georgetown University’s asylum law clinic, takes readers through thirty years of conflict over which refugee advocates resisted the detention of migrant children. The saga began during the Reagan administration when 15-year-old Jenny Lisette Flores languished in a Los Angeles motel that the government had turned into a makeshift jail by draining the swimming pool, barring the windows, and surrounding the building with barbed wire. What became known as the Flores Settlement Agreement was still at issue years later, when the Trump administration resorted to the forced separation of families after the courts would not allow long-term jailing of the children. Schrag provides recommendations for the reform of a system that has brought anguish and trauma to thousands of parents and children. Provocative and timely, Baby Jails exposes the ongoing struggle between the U.S. government and immigrant advocates over the duration and conditions of confinement of children who seek safety in America.
Baby Markets: Money and the New Politics of Creating Families
by Michele GoodwinCreating families can no longer be described by heterosexual reproduction in the intimacy of a couple's home and the privacy of their bedroom. To the contrary, babies can be brought into families through complex matrixes involving lawyers, coordinators, surrogates, 'brokers', donors, sellers, endocrinologists, and without any traditional forms of intimacy. In direct response to the need and desire to parent, men, women, and couples - gay and straight - have turned to viable, alternative means: baby markets. This book examines the ways in which Westerners create families through private, market processes. From homosexual couples skirting Mother Nature by going to the assisted reproductive realm and buying the sperm or ova that will complete the reproductive process, to Americans travelling abroad to acquire children in China, Korea, or Ethiopia, market dynamics influence how babies and toddlers come into Western families. Michele Goodwin and a group of contributing experts explore how financial interests, aesthetic preferences, pop culture, children's needs, race, class, sex, religion, and social customs influences the law and economics of baby markets.
Backlash Against the Ada
by Edited by Linda Hamilton KriegerFor civil rights lawyers who toiled through the 1980s in the increasingly barren fields of race and sex discrimination law, the approval of the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990 by a nearly unanimous U. S. House and Senate and a Republican President seemed almost fantastic. Within five years of the Act's effective date, however, observers were warning of an unfolding assault on the ADA by federal judges, the media, and other national opinion-makers. A year after the Supreme Court issued a trio of decisions in the summer of 1999 sharply limiting the ADA's reach, another decision invalidated an entire title of the act as it applied to the states. By this time, disability activists and disability rights lawyers were speaking openly of a backlash against the ADA. What happened, why did it happen, and what can we learn from the patterns of public, media, and judicial response to the ADA that emerged in the 1990s? In this book, a distinguished group of disability activists, disability rights lawyers, social scientists and humanities scholars grapple with these questions. Taken together, these essays construct and illustrate a new and powerful theoretical model of sociolegal change and retrenchment that can inform both the conceptual and theoretical work of scholars and the day-to-day practice of social justice activists. Contributors include Lennard J. Davis, Matthew Diller, Harlan Hahn, Linda Hamilton Krieger, Vicki A. Laden, Stephen L. Percy, Marta Russell, and Gregory Schwartz. Backlash Against the ADA will interest disability rights activists, lawyers, law students and legal scholars interested in social justice and social change movements, and students and scholars in disability studies, political science, media studies, American studies, social movement theory, and legal history. Linda Hamilton Krieger is Professor of Law, University of California School of Law, Berkeley.
Backstage Practices of Transnational Law (Routledge Research in International Law)
by Lianne J.M. Boer Sofia StolkThis book explores the ‘backstage’ of transnational legal practice by illuminating the routines and habits that are crucial to the field, yet rarely studied. Through innovative discussion of practices often considered trivial, the book encourages readers to conceptualise the ‘backstage’ as emblematic of transnational legal practice. Expanding the focus of transnational legal scholarship, the book explores the seemingly mundane procedures which are often taken for granted, despite being widely recognized as part of what it means to ‘do transnational law’. Adopting various methodologies and approaches, each chapter focuses on one specific practice: for example, mooting exercises for law students, international travel, transnational time, the social media activities of lawyers and legal scholars, and the networking at the ICC’s annual Assembly of States Parties. In and of themselves, these chapters each provide unique insights into what happens before the curtain rises and after it falls on the familiar ‘outputs’ of transnational law. It does more, however, than provide a range of different practices: it takes the next step in theorizing on the importance of the marginal and the everyday for what we ‘know’ to be ‘the law’ and what the international legal field looks like. Furthermore, by interrogating undiscussed academic practices, it provides students with a candid view on the perils and promises of transnational legal scholarship, inviting them to join the discussion and to practice their discipline in a more reflexive way. Written in an accessible format, containing a readable collection of personal and recognizable accounts of transnational legal practice, the book provides an everyday insight into transnational law. It will therefore appeal to international legal scholars, alongside any reader with an interest in transnational law.
Bacteria to AI: Human Futures with our Nonhuman Symbionts
by N. Katherine HaylesA new theory of mind that includes nonhuman and artificial intelligences. The much-lauded superiority of human intelligence has not prevented us from driving the planet into ecological disaster. For N. Katherine Hayles, the climate crisis demands that we rethink basic assumptions about human and nonhuman intelligences. In Bacteria to AI, Hayles develops a new theory of mind—what she calls an integrated cognitive framework (ICF)—that includes the meaning-making practices of lifeforms from bacteria to plants, animals, humans, and some forms of artificial intelligence. Through a sweeping survey of evolutionary biology, computer science, and contemporary literature, Hayles insists that another way of life, with ICF at its core, is not only possible but necessary to safeguard our planet’s future
Bad
by Jean FerrisIn an attempt to please her friends, sixteen-year-old Dallas goes along with their plan to rob a convenience store and when her father refuses to allow her to come home, she is sentenced to six months in the Girls' Rehabilitation Center.
Bad Acts and Guilty Minds: Conundrums of the Criminal Law
by Leo KatzLeo Katz seeks to understand the basic rules and concepts underlying the moral, linguistic, and psychological puzzles that plague the criminal law. This book revives the mind, it challenges superficial analyses.
Bad Acts and Guilty Minds: Conundrums of the Criminal Law (Studies in Crime and Justice)
by Leo KatzWith wit and intelligence, Leo Katz seeks to understand the basic rules and concepts underlying the moral, linguistic, and psychological puzzles that plague the criminal law. "Bad Acts and Guilty Minds . . . revives the mind, it challenges superficial analyses, it reminds us that underlying the vast body of statutory and case law, there is a rationale founded in basic notions of fairness and reason. . . . It will help lawyers to better serve their clients and the society that permits attorneys to hang out their shingles."—Edward N. Costikyan, New York Times Book Review