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Supreme Hubris

Author : Aaron Tang
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300264038
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Supreme Hubris written by Aaron Tang and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2023-01-01 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to repair the dysfunction at the Supreme Court in a way that cuts across partisan ideologies The Supreme Court, once the most respected institution in American government, is now routinely criticized for rendering decisions based on the individual justices' partisan leanings rather than on a faithful reading of the law. For legal scholar Aaron Tang, however, partisanship is not the Court's root problem. Overconfidence is. Conservative and liberal justices alike have adopted a tone of uncompromising certainty in their ability to solve society's problems with just the right lawyerly arguments. The result is a Court that lurches stridently from one case to the next, delegitimizing opposing views and undermining public confidence in itself. To restore the Court's legitimacy, Tang proposes a different approach to hard cases: one in which the Court acknowledges the arguments and interests on both sides and rules in the way that will do the least harm possible. Examining a surprising number of popular opinions where the Court has applied this approach--ranging from LGBTQ rights to immigration to juvenile justice--Tang shows how the least harm principle can provide a promising and legally grounded framework for the difficult cases that divide our nation.

Supreme Hubris

Author : Aaron Tang
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 030027470X
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Supreme Hubris written by Aaron Tang and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2023-08-01 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to repair the dysfunction at the Supreme Court in a way that cuts across partisan ideologies The Supreme Court, once the most respected institution in American government, is now routinely criticized for rendering decisions based on the individual justices’ partisan leanings rather than on a faithful reading of the law. For legal scholar Aaron Tang, however, partisanship is not the Court’s root problem. Overconfidence is. Conservative and liberal justices alike have adopted a tone of uncompromising certainty in their ability to solve society’s problems with just the right lawyerly arguments. The result is a Court that lurches stridently from one case to the next, delegitimizing opposing views and undermining public confidence in itself. To restore the Court’s legitimacy, Tang proposes a different approach to hard cases: one in which the Court acknowledges the arguments and interests on both sides and rules in the way that will do the least harm possible. Examining a surprising number of popular opinions where the Court has applied this approach—ranging from LGBTQ rights to immigration to juvenile justice—Tang shows how the least harm principle can provide a promising and legally grounded framework for the difficult cases that divide our nation.

My Own Words

Author : Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 150114524X
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book My Own Words written by Ruth Bader Ginsburg and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The first book from Ruth Bader Ginsburg since becoming a Supreme Court Justice in 1993--a ... collection of writings and speeches from the woman who has had [an] ... influence on law, women's rights, and popular culture"--

The United States as Global Liberal Hegemon

Author : Edward Goldberg
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031556925
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book The United States as Global Liberal Hegemon written by Edward Goldberg and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Barbarism to Decadence

Author : Abudu Rasheed Oki
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 166321915X
Total Pages : 808 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (632 download)

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Download or read book Barbarism to Decadence written by Abudu Rasheed Oki and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2021-08-06 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since independence in 1960, Nigeria’s successor leaderships and the private sector manifestly failed to dispense good governance and corporate social responsibility. Both sectors, tacitly aided by foreign institutions and corporations have perverted the ends of government and justice. Ergo, in Barbarism to Decadence, Abudu Rasheed “Richard” Oki offers an encompassing but cursory evaluation of each successor corrupting maladministration, participatory industry roles, and systemic debaucheries, along with the vast derivative adverse impacts on the citizenry. Through research, eyewitness accounts, personal experience, etc., the book presents an assessment of the devastating decades of adventitious effects of otherworldly corruption on the nation, and a look at the overall septic effects of the vice on the rest of other black African nations. Ab initio, it delves in on characteristic fractious leaderships; past immiserating military decades; compromised judiciary/law enforcement; fraudulent elections; decrepit power supply and infrastructure; human health and educational fetidness, duplicitous and complicit local and international media; natural resource curse and colossal environmental pollution; modern-day religious chicanery and radicalized Islamic terrorism; elites’ otherworldly and authoritative brigandage; and ever-present suffocating misfeasance and malfeasance in the private sector. There are also the overall, undermining roles from overseas nations, institutions, and corporations; and, sui generis, China’s hegemonic role. These are part of vast interrelated factors that hermetically immure and immolate her lumpen masses in the bonds of anomie. That correlative societal demise is portrayed in marasmus and spectral looks, along with mass spiritual and mental atrophies. Yet her affluent minority and foreign expropriation of its raw wealth and assets remain at exhilarating boil. The grim hard facts and figures indicate that Nigeria absolutely needs to be set on the right path for the long-term needs of her marred population. Meanwhile, the masses intrinsically remain restive with brutish thoughts, here and there. To wit, the crystallization of that armed mass revolutionary mettle should never be discounted in her future. So, the book provides crosscurrents, and propounds on ways to sustainably adjust her venal course mainstream. Pithily, it seeks to provide a clarion call to jettison present, and block future, serially rogue leaderships for the summum bonum.

The Morgens' Lair

Author : John Bentley
Publisher : Next Chapter
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (661 download)

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Download or read book The Morgens' Lair written by John Bentley and published by Next Chapter. This book was released on 2023-02-27 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cornwall, 2018. David Johnson has just finished university. He decides to apply for a job and moves to Rennes, in Brittany, France, with his partner Madeleine. Fascinated by and drawn into the local folklore and mythology, his life soon takes a dramatic turn. Audierne, 940. In a small Brittany fishing port, young fisherman Felis is determined to enable his recently deceased mother's ascent to heaven. He sits against a menhir - a standing stone - and makes a connection with something beyond our time and place. The past and the present meet in the ancient sunken city of Ys, off the Brittany coast. But can young Felis and David destroy the king's evil daughter, Dahut, and expose the deviant Father Félix... and who exactly is the mysterious Maiden? A riveting historical adventure, John Bentley's 'The Morgens' Lair' will transport you through the centuries, to an era and place very different from ours today.

Who's 50

Author : Graeme Burk
Publisher : ECW/ORIM
ISBN 13 : 1770904751
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book Who's 50 written by Graeme Burk and published by ECW/ORIM. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Like being thrown the keys to the TARDIS with a temporal map to visit all those not-to-be-missed adventures in time and space” (Phil Ford, Doctor Who writer). Ever since its premiere on November 23, 1963, Doctor Who has been a television phenomenon. This companion guide presents the top fifty stories from the show’s first fifty years—examining every corner of the imaginative, humorous, and sometimes scary universe that has made Doctor Who an iconic part of popular culture. This must-have reference also includes behind the scenes details, goofs, trivia, connections to Doctor Who lore, and much more.

Acceptable Loss

Author : Anne Perry
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0345510615
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (455 download)

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Download or read book Acceptable Loss written by Anne Perry and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2012-08-21 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anne Perry’s seventeenth William Monk novel, now in paperback, is a mesmerizing masterpiece of innocence and evil on London’s docks, a welcome addition to this successful and beloved series. NATIONAL BESTSELLER On a London riverbank, when the body of small-time crook Mickey Parfitt washes up with the tide, no one grieves. But William Monk, commander of the River Police, is puzzled by the murder weapon: an elegant scarf whose original owner was obviously a man of substance. Dockside informers lead Monk to a floating palace of corruption on the Thames managed by Parfitt, where a band of half-starved boys is held captive for men willing to pay a high price for midnight pleasures. Though Monk and his fearless wife, Hester, would gladly reward Parfitt’s killer, duty leads them in another direction—to an unresolved crime, to a deadly confrontation with some of the empire’s most respected men, and ultimately to a courtroom showdown with Monk’s old friend, Oliver Rathbone, in a trial of nearly unbearable tension and suspense. “Masterful storytelling . . . [the] best in the series to date.”—The Star-Ledger

In the Shadow of a Dream

Author : Sharad Keskar
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1477215336
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (772 download)

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Download or read book In the Shadow of a Dream written by Sharad Keskar and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-08-02 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: India 1940: An army nurse gives birth to the son of a British soldier killed in Burma. The child, left on the steps of a Hindu temple, is rescued by an old woman, who names him Bal and believes he is Lord Vishnu's gift to her, but she dies, and the unwanted orphan falls to the care of a low-caste Bhil woman. Apprenticed to a herdsman, Bal and two older boys dream of a better life. They escape to Bombay, where he comes to the notice of Parsee philanthropist, Sam Dastoor, who adopts him. Bal, now Dusty, avoids an Englishman claiming to be his uncle, and opts for an army career. As a cadet, his unfortunate infatuation for a married woman hardens him. Then, on a holiday, he sees Emma and is so haunted by her beauty that, years later, when he meets her double, Kitty, he dares to woo her. Kitty recruits his help in situations within the shadow of The Lotus and the Rose. Later, they establish a school in South India, but Kitty, unable to settle down, returns to England alone. Learning she is the mother of his child, he overcomes his reluctance to cross the "blackwaters".

Vexed

Author : James Mumford
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 147296635X
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (729 download)

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Download or read book Vexed written by James Mumford and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-03-05 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across the democratic West, politics has become deeply polarised and profoundly personal. Challenge someone's political views and increasingly you challenge their very being. And yet, do our political tribes even make sense? Look carefully, and on the most important ethical issues of the age – assisted dying, social welfare, sexual liberation, abortion, gun control, the environment, technology, justice – the instinctive positions of both the Left and the Right are riven with contradictions. In this refreshing and eye-opening book, James Mumford, a public thinker and independent commentator, questions the basic assumptions of our political groups. His challenge is simple: 'Why should believing strongly about one topic mean the automatic adoption of so many others?' Vexed is an essential and provocative account that will appeal to anyone of independent thought, and a welcome call for new reflection on the moral issues most relevant to our modern way of life.

Honeybath's Haven

Author : Michael Innes
Publisher : House of Stratus
ISBN 13 : 075511812X
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (551 download)

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Download or read book Honeybath's Haven written by Michael Innes and published by House of Stratus. This book was released on 2010-02-26 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When portrait-painter and occasional detective, Charles Honeybath, pays a visit to his old friend Edwin Lightfoot, there are a few surprises in store. Edwin's irksome wife is packing her bags, while Edwin is indulging in an eccentric game of pretence - acting the part of a long-dead petty criminal named Flannel Foot.

Creation, Character, and Wisdom

Author : Dave L. Bland
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1498237304
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (982 download)

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Download or read book Creation, Character, and Wisdom written by Dave L. Bland and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2016-05-31 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the traditional Christian engagement with environmental ethics too often begins and ends with Genesis, this project joins numerous recent efforts by biblical scholars to identify new foundations on which Christians can make ethical choices about creation. Wisdom literature, a largely untapped resource, offers a unique point of entry for environmental ethics. Despite their marginalization in ethical debates on the environment, the biblical sages have a great deal to say about the inseparability of God's creation and righteous living--observations that must then be brought into conversation with a host of contemporary disciplines. As the crisis of environmental degradation permeates the lived experience of more and more Christians, it is increasingly critical to have solid and biblically defensible foundations from which to make moral choices about the environmental behavior of individuals, corporations, and nations.

Hannah Arendt and the Law

Author : Marco Goldoni
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1847319319
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (473 download)

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Download or read book Hannah Arendt and the Law written by Marco Goldoni and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-04-20 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book fills a major gap in the ever-increasing secondary literature on Hannah Arendt's political thought by providing a dedicated and coherent treatment of the many, various and interesting things which Arendt had to say about law. Often obscured by more pressing or more controversial aspects of her work, Arendt nonetheless had interesting insights into Greek and Roman concepts of law, human rights, constitutional design, legislation, sovereignty, international tribunals, judicial review and much more. This book retrieves these aspects of her legal philosophy for the attention of both Arendt scholars and lawyers alike. The book brings together lawyers as well as Arendt scholars drawn from a range of disciplines (philosophy, political science, international relations), who have engaged in an internal debate the dynamism of which is captured in print. Following the editors' introduction, the book is split into four Parts: Part I explores the concept of law in Arendt's thought; Part II explores legal aspects of Arendt's constitutional thought: first locating Arendt in the wider tradition of republican constitutionalism, before turning attention to the role of courts and the role of parliament in her constitutional design. In Part III Arendt's thought on international law is explored from a variety of perspectives, covering international institutions and international criminal law, as well as the theoretical foundations of international law. Part IV debates the foundations, content and meaning of Arendt's famous and influential claim that the 'right to have rights' is the one true human right.

Sustainable Fish Farming

Author : Helge Reinertsen
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 9789054105671
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (56 download)

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Download or read book Sustainable Fish Farming written by Helge Reinertsen and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1995-06-01 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aim of the symposium on which this text is based was to discuss the current practices of the fish-farming industry and search for sustainable directions for future development. Topics covered include: resources for fish food in aquaculture; genetics; and environment and aquaculture interaction.

Horizon Chasers

Author : Gerry Max
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786426713
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Horizon Chasers written by Gerry Max and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2007-02-21 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Halliburton was the quintessential world traveler of the early 20th century. In 1930, his celebrity equaled that of Charles Lindbergh and Amelia Earhart. Halliburton called himself a "horizon chaser" and recommended that one should see the world before committing to a routine. Not only did he live up to his ideal, but he was eager to write about his adventures. A prolific partnership with gifted editor and ghost writer Paul Mooney produced excellent work, and theirs became a close personal relationship. Sadly, Halliburton and Mooney disappeared at sea on March 24, 1939, along with the entire crew of Halliburton's Chinese junk Sea Dragon, as they attempted to cross the Pacific from Hong Kong to the San Francisco World's Fair. This biography records the life and adventures of Halliburton and Mooney, focusing--as no other Halliburton biography has--on the productive literary collaboration between the two. Drawing on the recollections of people who knew them both, the work discusses their backgrounds, the early years of their acquaintance, and their possible romantic relationship. Finally, their fateful journey to Hong Kong and the ill-advised voyage of the Sea Dragon is described in detail. A good deal of first-hand evidence is provided by William Alexander, Paul Mooney's best friend and designer of Halliburton's Laguna Beach house. Appendices contain seven poems by Mooney and facsimile letters, including one of praise written by Richard Halliburton to William Alexander. Never-before-published photographs are also included.

A Man for All Oceans

Author : Stan Grayson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1684751349
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (847 download)

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Download or read book A Man for All Oceans written by Stan Grayson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-05-16 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In June 1898, three years and two months after departing Boston in his aged oyster sloop Spray, Captain Joshua Slocum made land fall in New England and became the first person ever to sail alone around the world. The voyage capped a lifetime of adventure for the indomitable Slocum, who had advanced from seaman to captain during the challenging final years of commercial sail, surviving hurricanes, mutinies, shipwreck, and the death at sea of his beloved first wife, Virginia. Sailing Alone Around the World, Slocum's book about his circumnavigation, is a seafaring classic, unmatched for adventure and literary verve, and has never been out of print since its publication in 1900. Yet despite several biographies over the decades, Slocum the man has remained unknowable to his legions of admirers, the facts of his life and career as elusive as a ship on a fogbound sea. Here is the real story of Slocum's Nova Scotia childhood, his seafaring career, and how he became an American citizen. Grayson gives ample evidence of Slocum's uncanny genius as a navigator while also noting the occasional role that good luck played in his voyages, including his odyssey from Brazil to the United States in the self-designed and built 35-foot Liberdade. And Grayson brings a sailor's perspective to Slocum's solo circumnavigation and mysterious disappearance at sea. A fascinating appendix compares Sailing Alone Around the World with Thoreau's Walden and shows that Slocum's simple lifestyle and self-sufficiency prefigured today's emphases on the environment and living responsibly. Previously unpublished photographs bring Slocum's world to life, and detailed maps trace the adventures of a sailor who knew the world like the back of his hand. This biography reads like an adventure narrative and will serve as the standard work on Joshua Slocum for years to come.

Literary Criticism

Author : Gary Day
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748628525
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Literary Criticism written by Gary Day and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2008-07-04 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A THE Book of the Week. Did you know that Aristotle thought the best tragedies were those which ended happily? Or that the first mention of the motor car in literature may have been in 1791 in James Boswell's Life of Johnson? Or that it was not unknown in the nineteenth century for book reviews to be 30,000 words long?These are just a few of the fascinating facts to be found in this absorbing history of literary criticism. From the Ancient Greek period to the present day, we learn about critics' lives, the times in which they lived and how the same problems of interpretation and valuation persist through the ages. In this lively and engaging book, Gary Day questions whether the 'theory wars' of recent years have lost sight of the actual literature, and makes surprising connections between criticism and a range of subjects, including the rise of money.General readers will appreciate this informative, intriguing and often provocative