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The Right vs. the Right to Die: Lessons from the Terri Schiavo Case and How to Stop It from Happening Again
ISBN: 9780060877347 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The Terri Schiavo case was a key battle in a larger political struggle over abortion, stem-cell research, physician-assisted suicide, gay rights, and the appointment of federal judges. The religious Right chose to make it a national spectacle because they thought they could win. They were wrong. But there are many more battles to come. Jon Eisenberg, who served as one of the lead attorneys on Michael Schiavo's side, exposes the religious Right's strategies and follows the money trail to reveal how they are organized, who is funding the movement, and where we can expect... The Terri Schiavo case was a key battle in a larger political struggle over abortion, stem-cell research, physician-assisted suicide, gay rights, a... |
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64,37 zł |
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Civil Rights and Liberties: Provocative Questions and Evolving Answers
ISBN: 9780131174351 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) For undergraduate courses in Constitutional Law, Civil Rights & Liberties, Introduction to American Government, Introduction to Law and Legal Process, and Judicial Process & Politics. Examining contemporary and perennial constitutional issues in civil liberties and rights, this text engages students in an exploration of how and why U.S. Supreme Court Justices have interpreted the provisions of the U.S. Constitution relating to freedom of expression and religion, and equal protection and privacy.
For undergraduate courses in Constitutional Law, Civil Rights & Liberties, Introduction to American Government, Introduction to Law and Legal Process,...
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416,50 zł |
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A Traveler's Guide to the Civil Rights Movement
ISBN: 9780156026970 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) In 2004, the United States will celebrate the 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education. As our country begins a national retrospective of the civil rights movement, here is the perfect book to help explore the long struggle toward racial equality. Part guidebook, part civil rights primer, A Traveler's Guide to the Civil Rights Movement memorializes the years 1954 to 1965 as well as the vast, underappreciated black history from which our modern civil rights movement began.
More than five million people visit civil rights and black history landmarks each year, from the National... In 2004, the United States will celebrate the 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education. As our country begins a national retrospective of the c...
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81,75 zł |
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Human Rights, Human Wrongs: The Oxford Amnesty Lectures 2001
ISBN: 9780192802194 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This edited collection, based on the 2001 Oxford Amnesty Lectures, focuses on human rights abuses and the way in which these are interpreted. The contributors are Tzvetan Todorov, Michael Ignatieff, Gayatri Spivak, Peter Singer, Gitta Sereny, Geoffrey Bindman, Susan Sontag, and Eva Hoffman, with commentaries on their essays from Niall Fergusson, Timothy Garton Ash, Hermione Lee, and others. The issues explored in the talks include the right of the international community to military intervention in human rights abuses, the ethical and legal difficulties in bringing rights abusers to justice,...
This edited collection, based on the 2001 Oxford Amnesty Lectures, focuses on human rights abuses and the way in which these are interpreted. The cont...
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129,57 zł |
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Revolutionary Sparks: Freedom of Expression in Modern America
ISBN: 9780195054361 / Angielski / Twarda / 592 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The governmental pledge to the American people is found in the First Amendment: "Congress shall make no law...abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press." Written more than two hundred years ago, these words now protect a wide range of expressive activity. A broad-gauged discussion of freedom of expression in America, this book begins by studying the period after the Civil War and Reconstruction when new and unsettling ideas appeared with great regularity on the American scene. So many of these ideas were floating around during this period that the nation's leaders often joined forces...
The governmental pledge to the American people is found in the First Amendment: "Congress shall make no law...abridging the freedom of speech, or of t...
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218,37 zł |
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Persons, Rights, and the Moral Community
ISBN: 9780195064742 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This book provides a complete and convincing account of what rights we do and do not have, who has them, and why. Presenting the foundations of a liberal, individualistic theory of rights, Lomasky explains the place of rights within the overall structure of morality, arguing for the moral importance of individual commitments to and pursuit of "projects." After developing his theory of basic rights, Lomasky demonstrates its implications for a variety of problems and issues, including property rights, the rights of children, and the status of the unborn, defective persons, animals, and even the...
This book provides a complete and convincing account of what rights we do and do not have, who has them, and why. Presenting the foundations of a libe...
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198,64 zł |
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Civil Rights and the Idea of Freedom
ISBN: 9780195065077 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Focusing attention on the political ideas that were influential as well as those that were central to the civil rights movement, this pathbreaking book examines not only written texts but also oral history interviews to establish a rich tradition of freedom that emerged from the movement. He also makes clear that, though liberal notions of freedom involving the absence of restrictions and equal protections were crucial to movement goals, the movement was as much about individual and collective self-transformation and political participation as it was about removal of barriers to social and...
Focusing attention on the political ideas that were influential as well as those that were central to the civil rights movement, this pathbreaking boo...
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425,60 zł |
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Forced Justice: School Desegregation and the Law
ISBN: 9780195090123 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) School desegregation and "forced" busing first brought people to the barricades during the 1960s and 1970s, and the idea continues to spark controversy today whenever it is proposed. A quiet rage smolders in hundreds of public school systems, where court- ordered busing plans have been in place for over twenty years. Intended to remedy the social and educational disadvantages of minorities, desegregation policy has not produced any appreciable educational gains, while its political and social costs have been considerable. Now, on the fortieth anniversary of the Supreme Court's epic decision,...
School desegregation and "forced" busing first brought people to the barricades during the 1960s and 1970s, and the idea continues to spark controvers...
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918,89 zł |
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The Rights Revolution: Rights and Community in Modern America
ISBN: 9780195090253 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) The most dramatic change in American society in the last forty years has been the explosive growth of personal rights, a veritable "rights revolution" that is perceived by both conservatives and liberals as a threat to traditional values and our sense of community. Is it possible that our pursuit of personal rights is driving our country toward moral collapse?
In The Rights Revolution, Samuel Walker answers this question with an emphatic no. The "rights revolution," says Walker, is the embodiment of the American ideals of morality and community. He argues that the critics of personal... The most dramatic change in American society in the last forty years has been the explosive growth of personal rights, a veritable "rights revolution"...
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124,65 zł |
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There's No Such Thing as Free Speech: And It's a Good Thing, Too
ISBN: 9780195093834 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) In an era when much of what passes for debate is merely moral posturing--traditional family values versus the cultural elite, free speech versus censorship--or reflexive name-calling--the terms "liberal" and "politically correct," are used with as much dismissive scorn by the right as "reactionary" and "fascist" are by the left--Stanley Fish would seem an unlikely lightning rod for controversy. A renowned scholar of Milton, head of the English Department of Duke University, Fish has emerged as a brilliantly original critic of the culture at large, praised and pilloried as a vigorous debunker...
In an era when much of what passes for debate is merely moral posturing--traditional family values versus the cultural elite, free speech versus censo...
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117,24 zł |
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Civic Virtues: Rights, Citizenship, and Republican Liberalism
ISBN: 9780195106343 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) "The book is beautifully written, elegantly organised and it achieves with splendid efficiency all of the goals that it sets for itself. I recommend it warmly."--Mind
"Dagger's book makes a very important contribution to our understanding of citizenship through its clear demonstration that state promotion of civic virtue is compatible with individual autonomy."--Political Studies "The book is beautifully written, elegantly organised and it achieves with splendid efficiency all of the goals that it sets for itself. I recommend i...
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201,10 zł |
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Forced Justice: School Desegregation and the Law
ISBN: 9780195111354 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) School desegregation and "forced" busing first brought people to the barricades during the 1960s and 1970s, and the idea continues to spark controversy today whenever it is proposed. A quiet rage smolders in hundreds of public school systems, where court- ordered busing plans have been in place for over twenty years. Intended to remedy the social and educational disadvantages of minorities, desegregation policy has not produced any appreciable educational gains, while its political and social costs have been considerable. Now, on the fortieth anniversary of the Supreme Court's epic decision,...
School desegregation and "forced" busing first brought people to the barricades during the 1960s and 1970s, and the idea continues to spark controvers...
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396,00 zł |
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The Web of Politics: The Internet's Impact on the American Political System
ISBN: 9780195114850 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Is the Internet destined to upset traditional political power in the United States? This book answers with an emphatic "no." Author Richard Davis shows how current political players including candidates, public officials, and the media are adapting to the Internet and assuring that this new medium benefits them in their struggle for power. In doing so he examines the current function of the Internet in democratic politics--educating citizens, conducting electoral campaigns, gauging public opinion, and achieving policy resolution-- and the roles of current political actors in those functions....
Is the Internet destined to upset traditional political power in the United States? This book answers with an emphatic "no." Author Richard Davis show...
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117,24 zł |
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Collision Course: The Strange Convergence of Affirmative Action and Immigration Policy in America
ISBN: 9780195168891 / Angielski / Miękka / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) When the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965 were passed, they were seen as triumphs of liberal reform. Yet today affirmative action is foundering in the great waves of immigration from Asia and Latin America, leading to direct competition for jobs, housing, education, and government preference programs.
In Collision Course, Hugh Davis Graham explains how two such well-intended laws came into conflict with each other when employers, acting under affirmative action plans, hired millions of new immigrants ushered in by the Immigration Act, while... When the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1965 were passed, they were seen as triumphs of liberal reform. Yet to...
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70,38 zł |
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Paradoxes of Freedom: The Romantic Mystique of a Transcendence
ISBN: 9780198121817 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) McFarland's newest book elucidates the philosophical and historical conception of liberty. Centering his argument on the Romantic exaltation of freedom, McFarland identifies freedom, along with love and religion, as one of the three chief transcendences by which humanity orients itself. He reveals, through an examination ranging from Shakespeare and Luther through Nietzsche and Wagner, both the reasons for the supreme valuation of freedom and the nature of the theoretical and practical obstacles that hinder its realization.
McFarland's newest book elucidates the philosophical and historical conception of liberty. Centering his argument on the Romantic exaltation of freedo...
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807,90 zł |
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The Individual in Political Theory and Practice
ISBN: 9780198205494 / Angielski / Twarda / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) In this major study, a team of leading European scholars explores ways in which the concept of the individual developed in various areas of political and social life. The story concerns the changing nature of individual identity, community interest and corporate groups, as they were gradually redefined by common western European experiences of universal Catholicism, feudalism, civic republicanism and absolutism, Reformation and Counter-Reformation, commerce and capitalism. As European societies evolved into increasingly centralized national states, there emerged a range of religious and...
In this major study, a team of leading European scholars explores ways in which the concept of the individual developed in various areas of political ...
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1350,52 zł |
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Social Justice
ISBN: 9780198246213 / Angielski / Miękka / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This book explores the various aspects of social justice-to each according to his rights, to each acording to his desert, and to each according to his need-comparing the writings of Hume, Spencer, and Kropotkin. Miller demonstrates that there are radical differences in outlook on social justice between societies, and that these differences can be explained by reference to features of the social structure.
This book explores the various aspects of social justice-to each according to his rights, to each acording to his desert, and to each according to his...
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186,30 zł |
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A Political Theory of Rights
ISBN: 9780198279631 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) Rights are basic building blocks of the contemporary state, yet their rigorous justification is difficult. This book provides a thorough analysis of this central topic, and challenges the orthodox view that rights are a type of property claim in one's body. Drawing on the tradition of the social contract as well as the wealth of recent work in political theory, Ingram conceives of rights as a type of political claim, and shows how they can be justified in a way particularly suited to the pluralistic nature of contemporary liberal society.
Rights are basic building blocks of the contemporary state, yet their rigorous justification is difficult. This book provides a thorough analysis of t...
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230,70 zł |
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A Measure of Freedom
ISBN: 9780198294535 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This book provides the first systematic account of the nature and importance of our judgements about degrees of freedom. Author Ian Carter analyzes the normative assumptions behind the claim that individuals are entitled to a measure of freedom. He argues for a conception of freedom that not only reflects commonly held intuitions about who is freer than who but is also compatible with a liberal or freedom-based theory of justice.
This book provides the first systematic account of the nature and importance of our judgements about degrees of freedom. Author Ian Carter analyzes th...
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931,22 zł |
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The Legacy of Human-Rights Violations in the Southern Cone: Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay
ISBN: 9780198296157 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych (dostawa przed świętami) This book provides a systematic and comparative study of the way three countries in the Southern Cone of the Americas have confronted the legacy of past human rights violations. It examines their attempts to rebuild human rights through public accountability, compensation, educational policy, constitutional reform, and debates about national history and collective memory.
This book provides a systematic and comparative study of the way three countries in the Southern Cone of the Americas have confronted the legacy of pa...
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894,22 zł |
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