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How to Do Things with History - New Approaches to Ancient Greece - Bok - Inbunden

How to Do Things with History is a collection of essays that explores current and future approaches to the study of ancient Greek cultural history. The essays in this volume demonstrate how particular methodologies for studying ancient Greece can be employed to illuminate a range of different kinds of subject matter.

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How to Do Things with Fictions - Bok av Joshua (Associate Professor of French Landy - Inbunden

How to Do Things with Fictions considers how fictional works, ranging from Chaucer to Beckett, subject readers to a series of exercises meant to fortify their mental capacities.

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How to Do Things with Fictions - Bok av Joshua (Associate Professor of French Landy - Häftad

How to Do Things with Fictions considers how fictional works, ranging from Chaucer to Beckett, subject readers to a series of exercises meant to fortify their mental capacities.

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One Child - Do We Have a Right to More? - Bok av Sarah (Assistant Professor of Philosophy Conly - Inbunden

Sarah Conly argues that at present we do not have the right to have more than one child. We do not need to have more than one to live a good life, and having more than one when we are at risk of depleting our environmental resources is simply too dangerous to others.

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Nation Against Nation - What Happened to the UN Dream and What the US Can Do about It - Bok av Thomas M. Franck - Inbunden

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Do the Geneva Conventions Matter? - Bok - Inbunden

Do the Geneva Conventions Matter? provides a rich, comparative analysis of the laws that govern warfare and a more specific investigation relating to state practice and gives insight into how the Geneva regime has constrained guerrilla warfare and terrorism and the factors that affect protect human rights in wartime.

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Why Good People Do Bad Environmental Things - Bok av Elizabeth R. (Camilla Chandler Frost Professor of Environmental Studies DeSombre - Inbunden

Why do people behave in ways that cause environmental harm? Despite not wanting to create environmental problems, we all do so regularly in the course of living our everyday lives. This book looks at how social structures, incentives, information, habits, attitudes, norms, and the inherent characteristics of environmental resources explain and influence how we behave, and how those causes influence what we can do to change behavior.

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Conscious Will and Responsibility - A Tribute to Benjamin Libet - Bok - Inbunden

We all seem to think that we do the acts we do because we consciously choose to do them. This commonsense view is thrown into dispute by Benjamin Libet's eyebrow-raising experiments, which seem to suggest that conscious will occurs not before but after the start of brain activity that produces physical action.

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Do You Really Need Back Surgery? - A Surgeon's Guide to Neck and Back Pain and How to Choose Your Treatment - Bok av Aaron G. (Medical Director of bot

For the half million people who undergo back surgery each year, and the additional million who are seriously contemplating it, Do You Really Need Back Surgery? is a godsend--an informed, reliable guide to when you should consider surgery and when you should not. Written by an internationally recognized expert in nerve and spinal surgery, this highly readable guide covers everything back patients need to know to make informed decisions about their treatment. Featuring 115 illustrations, the book discusses..

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Why Good People Do Bad Environmental Things - Bok av Elizabeth R. (Camilla Chandler Frost Professor of Environmental Studies DeSombre - Häftad

No one sets out to intentionally cause environmental problems. All things being equal, we are happy to protect environmental resources; in fact, we tend to prefer our air cleaner and our species protected. But despite not wanting to create environmental problems, we all do so regularly in the course of living our everyday lives. Why do we behave in ways that cause environmental harm?It is often easy and inexpensive to behave in ways with bad environmental consequences, but more difficult and costly..

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Do Morals Matter? - Presidents and Foreign Policy from FDR to Trump - Bok av Joseph S. Nye - Inbunden

What is the role of ethics in American foreign policy? The Trump Administration has elevated this from a theoretical question to front-page news. Should ethics even play a role, or should we only focus on defending our material interests? In Do Morals Matter? Joseph S. Nye provides a concise yet penetrating analysis of how modern American presidents have-and have not-incorporated ethics into their foreign policy. Nye examines each presidency during theAmerican era post-1945 and scores them on the..

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What's Luck Got to Do with It? - How Smarter Government Can Rescue the American Dream - Bok av Edward D. (Robert C. Packard Trustee Chair in Law Klein

In What's Luck Got To Do With It? renowned law professor Edward D. Kleinbard argues that government's proper role is addressing the unfairness and injustice of brute luck. Considering government expenditure as social insurance, Kleinbard demonstrates how the path to greater economic growth, and a more equal sharing of that growth, lies in stronger government spending policies.

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How to Fix Copyright - Bok av William (Senior Copyright Counsel Patry - Inbunden

Do copyright laws directly cause people to create works they otherwise wouldn't create? Do those laws directly put substantial amounts of money into authors' pockets? Does culture depend on copyright? Are copyright laws a key driver of competitiveness and of the knowledge economy? These are the key questions William Patry addresses in How to Fix Copyright.

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Mormonism - What Everyone Needs to Know - Bok av Terryl Givens - Inbunden

Mormonism: What Everyone Needs to Know offers readers a brief, authoritative guide to one of the fastest growing faith groups of the twenty-first century in a reader-friendly format, providing answers to questions such as: What circumstances gave rise to the birth of Mormonism? Do you have to believe the Book of Mormon to be a Latter-day Saint? Why do women not hold the priesthood? How wealthy is the church and how much are top leaders paid? Written by abeliever and the premier scholar of the Latter-day..

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Do Great Cases Make Bad Law? - Bok av Jr. Bloom - Häftad

\Great cases like hard cases make bad law\ was Justice Holmes' famous aphorism arguing that the pivotal cases attracting Supreme Court attention make for poor bases upon which to construct a general law. In Do Great Cases Make Bad Law?, Lackland H. Bloom, Jr. tests Justice Holmes' dictum by analyzing in detail the history of the Supreme Court's great cases, from 1803's pivotal Marbury v. Madison to 2012's Patient Protection and Affordable Care Actcase. He explains why the Court found a case compelling,..

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Do Lemmings Commit Suicide? - Beautiful Hypotheses and Ugly Facts - Bok av Dennis (Profesor Chitty - Inbunden

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Do Morals Matter? - Presidents and Foreign Policy from FDR to Trump - Bok av Joseph S. Nye - Häftad

A concise yet penetrating analysis of how modern American presidents haveΓÇöand have notΓÇöincorporated ethics into their foreign policy.Americans constantly make moral judgments about presidents and foreign policy. Unfortunately, many of these assessments are poorly thought through. In Do Morals Matter?, Joseph S. Nye, Jr. provides a concise yet penetrating analysis of the role of ethics in US foreign policy since Franklin Delano Roosevelt''s presidency onward. Nye works through each presidency..

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Why Do You Ask? - The Function of Questions in Institutional Discourse - Bok - Häftad

The act of questioning is the primary speech interaction between an institutional speaker and someone outside the institution. These roles dictate their language practices. \Why Do You Ask?\ is the first collected volume to focus solely on the question/answer process, drawing on a range of methodological approaches like Conversational Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Discursive Psychology, and Sociolinguistics-and using as data not just medical, legal, and educationalenvironments, but also less-studied..

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Do Great Cases Make Bad Law? - Bok av Jr. Bloom - Inbunden

\Great cases like hard cases make bad law\ was Justice Holmes' famous aphorism arguing that the pivotal cases attracting Supreme Court attention make for poor bases upon which to construct a general law. In Do Great Cases Make Bad Law?, Lackland H. Bloom, Jr. tests Justice Holmes' dictum by analyzing in detail the history of the Supreme Court's great cases. He explains why the Court found a case compelling, how the background and historical context affectedthe decision and its place in constitutional..

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What Should We Do? - Bok av Peter (Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and Lincoln Filene Professor of Citizenship & Public Affairs Levine - Inbunden

In What Should We Do?, Peter Levine explores how to organize individuals to act in concert, how to talk and think well about contentious matters, and how to address exclusion. In the broadest available theory of civic engagement and civic life, he analyzes the work of major thinkers, including Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., Jürgen Habermas, and Elinor Ostrom. He also provides many practical examples of successful civic action and principles that are useful for real-world civic action.

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Why Nations Rise - Narratives and the Path to Great Power - Bok av Manjari Chatterjee (Associate Professor of International Relations Miller - Häftad

What are rising powers? Do they challenge the international order? Why do some countries but not others become rising powers? In Why Nations Rise, Manjari Chaterjee Miller answers these questions and shows that some countries rise not just because they develop the military and economic power to do so but because they develop particular narratives about how to become a great power in the style of the great power du jour. These active rising powers accept theprevalent norms of the international order..

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Why Nations Rise - Narratives and the Path to Great Power - Bok av Manjari Chatterjee (Associate Professor of International Relations Miller - Inbunde

What are rising powers? Do they challenge the international order? Why do some countries but not others become rising powers? In Why Nations Rise, Manjari Chaterjee Miller answers these questions and shows that some countries rise not just because they develop the military and economic power to do so but because they develop particular narratives about how to become a great power in the style of the great power du jour. These active rising powers accept theprevalent norms of the international order..

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Drawing the Line - What to Do with the Work of Immoral Artists from Museums to the Movies - Bok av Erich Hatala (Associate Professor of Philosophy and

To an unprecedented extent, in the wake of the #metoo movement and, some say, due to an exaggerated \cancel culture\ that proliferates online, consumers of art-from literature to film to painting-are eager to dismiss the work of immoral artists. But can we ever separate the art from the artist? In Drawing the Line, philosopher Erich Hatala Matthes offers insight into this conundrum by arguing that it doesn't matter whether we can separate the artfrom the artist, because we shouldn't. Taking both..

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Be Very Afraid - The Cultural Response to Terror, Pandemics, Environmental Devastation, Nuclear Annihilation, and Other Threats - Bok av Robert (Gerha

Disputes the view that fear of peril results in denial and argues that a more common response is to do things to overcome our sense of vulnerability even if these things are ineffective.

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'Til Death or Distance Do Us Part - Love and Marriage in African America - Bok av Frances Smith (Charles Howard Chandler Professor in English and Wome

'Til Death or Distance Do Us Part is the first scholarly treatment of love, courtship, sexual morality and marriage in African America from the Revolutionary War to the Civil War. Most people believe that marriages were forbidden and families destroyed during the era of slavery in the United States; however, this book demonstrates that antebellum publications by African Americans for African Americans about themselves do not support these conclusions. Based upon extensive research in early African..