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Today's lingering inequalities, particularly the "American dilemma" of racism, runs throughout U.S. history. "Equal Protection" provides readers with a historical overview of the controversies over the issue of equality, an understanding of how government-and, particularly, the courts and Congress-has reacted to these controversies, and the role these issues have played in shaping U.S. society.

This volume follows the push for equal treatment regardless of age, gender, disabilities, economic status, or sexual orientation. It focuses on legislation such as the Americans with Disabilities...

A growing body of readers is rediscovering Francis Graham Wilson's tremendous contribution to the study of politics and humane learning. In this volume he offers an extensive assessment of the nature of politics and the search for order in Spanish politics, concentrating on the central figures who defended the Church and communities during the Spanish Civil War. The book argues for the uniqueness of Spain among the other countries of Europe. For Wilson, the most salutary attribute of Spanish politics is found in the assemblage of smaller groupings of the citizenry within the larger society...

Mach die Welt zu deinem Abenteuer und entdecke mit dem Lonely Planet Reiseführer Norwegen

"Wenn man von der Sonne spricht", sagt ein norwegisches Sprichwort, "dann scheint sie". Mit der rundum aktualisierten Relaunchauflage von Lonely Planet "Norwegen", dem Kultreiseführer für Individualreisende, entdecken deutschsprachige Traveller das skandinavische Königreich auf eigene Faust - und bei jedem Wetter. Lonely Planet "Norwegen" bringt reisepraktische Informationen für jedes Budget, plus alles, was man...

The essays in this collection, spanning 1925 to 1970, confirm Aurel Kolnai's place as one of the great conservative theorists of the twentieth century. Kolnai carefully analyzes the leading intellectual positions and thinkers of his day, the dominant social movements, and the prevailing moral influences--psychoanalysis, fascism, and National Socialism. He documents how they run counter to the architecture of civilization.

Kolnai is relatively unknown outside philosophical circles, but Politics, Values, and National Socialism provides an overview of his moral philosophy. In...