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With over sixty cases as support, this text presents the philosophy of law as a perpetual series of debates with overlapping lines and cross connections. Using law as a focus to bring into relief many social and political issues of pressing importance in contemporary society, this book encourages readers to think critically and philosophically.

Classic Readings and Cases in the Philosophy of Law centers on five major questions:

What is law?
What, if any, connection must there be between law and morality?
When should law be used to restrict the liberty of individuals?
To...

This volume recounts the experiences of female missionaries who worked in Uganda in and after 1895. It examines the personal stories of those women who were faced with a stubbornly masculine administration representative of a wider masculine administrative network in Westminster and other outposts of the British Empire. Encounters with Ugandan women and men of a range of ethnicities, the gender relations in those societies and relations between the British Protectorate administration and Ugandan Christina women are all explored in detail. The analysis is offset by the author s experience...

A wild ride from beginning to end, Owen Dimock's taut thriller follows Serge Khobot as he slowly awakens to what really matters in life-even as he's fighting to survive as one of Stalin's deadliest henchmen in a post-World War II world.

A senior inspector of the Soviet secret police, or NKGB, Serge is used to being on his own-in fact, it's the way he prefers it. But a trip to Paris to learn the inner workings of the embassy, under the guise of assassinating a British mole, proves unexpectedly fortuitous. There he meets Julia, an interpreter for the embassy, who unwittingly helps Serge...

A poignant collection of 150 photographs, "Camera Man's Journey" takes us to a place at once familiar and foreign. Set in the South early in the twentieth century, these photographs bridge a distance not only of time but also of contrasting attitudes and customs.

The images show African Americans in or around Columbia, Beaufort, and Hilton Head, South Carolina. Some photographs were taken in surroundings where blacks might associate with whites--out of necessity and according to strict custom. Most of the images, however, are set in "colored sections" or other remote areas of town and...