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

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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'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 - 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..

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

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

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 Do We Mean When We Talk about Meaning? - Bok av Steven (Distinguished Professor of Literature Emeritus Cassedy - Inbunden

What Do We Mean When We Talk about Meaning? - Bok av Steven (Distinguished Professor of Literature Emeritus Cassedy - Inbunden

In What Do We Mean When We Talk About Meaning?, Steven Cassedy tells the story of \meaning.\ The word began by denoting \signifying\ and \intending,\ but came to acquire a broad array of sub-definitions. The book begins with the early Christian thinkers who believed meaning could be \read\ from the world as if it were holy scripture, then moves into the philosophers who adapted this notion and eventually theromantic-era Germans that coined \the meaning of life,\ a phrase that later traveled..

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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

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.

SEK 470.00
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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

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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Creationism USA - Bridging the Impasse on Teaching Evolution - Bok av Adam (Professor of Education and History Laats - Inbunden

Creationism USA - Bridging the Impasse on Teaching Evolution - Bok av Adam (Professor of Education and History Laats - Inbunden

Who are America''s creationists? What do they want? Do they truly believe Jesus rode around on dinosaurs, as sometimes depicted? Creationism USA reveals how common misconceptions about creationism have led Americans into a century of unnecessary culture-war histrionics about evolution education and creationism. Adam Laats argues that Americans do not have deep, fundamental disagreements about evolution - not about the actual science behind it and not in waysthat truly matter to public policy. Laats..

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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

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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The Rule of Empires - Those Who Built Them, Those Who Endured Them, and Why They Always Fall - Bok av Timothy (Professor Parsons - Inbunden

The Rule of Empires - Those Who Built Them, Those Who Endured Them, and Why They Always Fall - Bok av Timothy (Professor Parsons - Inbunden

Why do empires rise and why do they fall? To answer this question, Timothy Parsons casts his gaze across seven historical moments - from ancient Rome to Muslim Spain, from Britain's \new\ imperialism in Kenya, to the Third Reich. From these very different examples, he draws out common features about empires' evolutions, their self-justifying myths, and the reasons for their inevitable decline.

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Mismatched Women - The Siren's Song Through the Machine - Bok av Jennifer (Assistant Professor Fleeger - Häftad

Mismatched Women - The Siren's Song Through the Machine - Bok av Jennifer (Assistant Professor Fleeger - Häftad

This book tells the history of sound machines through singers whose bodies and voices do not match. Jennifer Fleeger explores this phenomenon, moving from the fictional Trilby to the real-life Youtube star Susan Boyle, and demonstrating along the way that singers with voices that do not match their bodies are essential to the success of technologies for preserving and sharing music.

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Debating Democracy - Do We Need More or Less? - Bok av Jason (Flanagan Family Professor of Strategy Brennan - Häftad

Debating Democracy - Do We Need More or Less? - Bok av Jason (Flanagan Family Professor of Strategy Brennan - Häftad

In this accessible book, leading scholars Jason Brennan and Hélène Landemore ask, what good is democracy and is there any better alternative? Brennan argues that democracy suffers from built-in systematic flaws. There is no way to fix these flaws-we can only contain them, or jettison democracy for a better system of representative government. Landemore argues that our problem is that we have not been using real democracy. Real democracy-in which citizensexercise more genuine power-can overcome..

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Does the Constitution Follow the Flag? - The Evolution of Territoriality in American Law - Bok av Kal (Professor Raustiala - Häftad

Does the Constitution Follow the Flag? - The Evolution of Territoriality in American Law - Bok av Kal (Professor Raustiala - Häftad

The Bush Administration has notoriously argued that detainees at Guantanamo do not enjoy constitutional rights because they are held outside American borders. But where do rules about territorial legal limits such as this one come from? Why does geography make a difference for what legal rules apply? Most people intuitively understand that location affects constitutional rights, but the legal and political basis for territorial jurisdiction is poorly understood. Inthis novel and accessible treatment..

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