Politics & Social Sciences
epub |eng | | Author:Andrew Koppelman

* * * All liberals, libertarians and Rawlsians alike, think that we each have the right to direct our own lives, and that we have a duty to respect one ...
( Category: Libertarianism June 13,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:Tony McKenna;

Chapter 5 Literary Theory and the loss of the historical totality Literary Theory is almost as old as ancient Greek philosophy itself and goes back to Aristotle at least where, ...
( Category: Criticism June 13,2023 )
epub |eng | 2018-09-10 | Author:Marie Keen Shaw & Hali R. Keeler [Shaw, Marie Keen & Keeler, Hali R.]

Textbox 7.3: Steps in Planning the Annual Library Budget Keep notes, including a “wish list” during the year in preparation. Six to nine months prior to formal budget adoption, begin ...
( Category: Library & Information Science June 13,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:Judith Dellheim

Polanyi does not dismiss the fact that bankers had no objection to any number of minor, short or localised wars, but their business would be impaired if a general war ...
( Category: Politics & Government June 13,2023 )
epub |eng | 2022-06-15 | Author:Pierre Pellegrin & Anthony Preus

A General Theory of Homoiomeries? When one reads the passage, cited at the beginning of this chapter, from book 4 of the Meteorologica (4.10, 388a13), one gets the impression, as ...
( Category: Politics & Social Sciences June 13,2023 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2022-06-15 | Author:John J. Stuhr

* * * 1 In distinguishing plural meanings and dimensions of human well-being, John Stuhr affirms this point in “Flourishing: Toward Clearer Ideas and Habits of Genius”: “Any practically relevant ...
( Category: Political June 13,2023 )
epub |eng | 2023-05-23 | Author:Chun Han Wong;

FIGHTING WORDS THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC WAS BARELY a month old when its premier and foreign minister, Zhou Enlai, assembled the bulk of his newly constituted diplomatic corps to celebrate the ...
( Category: Asian June 13,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:Cara Page & Erica Woodland [Page, Cara & Woodland, Erica]

Transformative Justice Transformative justice (TJ) is an abolitionist framework that seeks to address harm, violence, and abuse without relying on interventions based on carceral strategies—punishment, retaliation, policing, surveillance, and prisons. ...
( Category: Social Sciences June 13,2023 )
epub |eng | 2020-08-30 | Author:LaFleur Stephens-Dougan; [Stephens-Dougan, LaFleur]

In a rejoinder to this critique, New York magazine writer Jonathan Chait defended Obama against Coates’s criticism on the grounds that Obama had a very different perspective from Paul Ryan, ...
( Category: Elections June 13,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:David Cortright;

Resisters Unlike GIs of the Vietnam era, soldiers opposed to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan did not publish underground newspapers. They expressed their grievances in blogs and emails. In ...
( Category: Social Theory June 13,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:Bacevich, Andrew J.;

The Real Threat Note, however, the parallel narrative that has unfolded alongside those post-9/11 wars. Taken seriously, that narrative exposes the utter irrelevance of the national security state as currently ...
( Category: Military Policy June 13,2023 )
epub |eng | 2022-07-07 | Author:Donghyun Danny Choi;Mathias Poertner;Nicholas Sambanis;

Attitudes Toward Gender Equality Among Muslims Cross-country evidence from surveys of public opinion suggests that there is a gap between the cultural values reflected in majority opinion in Middle Eastern ...
( Category: Immigration June 13,2023 )
epub |eng | | Author:Héctor Tobar

* * * One of the qualities of being “Latino” is that you eventually come to feel the tortured and strange history of the “Latino” past at work inside you, ...
( Category: Social Sciences June 13,2023 )
epub |eng | 2023-06-15 | Author:Debra Javeline;

The Elusiveness of Blame Some aggrieved individuals, including victims of violence, fight a losing battle in their struggle to assign blame. They face obstacles from blame-avoiding institutions that cloud responsibility ...
( Category: Relations June 13,2023 )
epub |eng | 2022-06-15 | Author:Katy Jones

WHAT NEEDS TO CHANGE? Active labour market policies for lone parents and disabled people have been designed around the assumption that behavioural and attitudinal barriers are the central drivers of ...
( Category: Politics & Social Sciences June 13,2023 )