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  • - A Bottom-Up Approach to Musical Form
    av Yoel (Head of Department of Music Greenberg
    939,-

    How Sonata Forms proposes a new bottom-up conceptualization of the history of the sonata as an aggregation of distinct elements found throughout the eighteenth century.

  • - The Life of Justice Bushrod Washington
    av Gerard N. (Samuel R. Rosen Professor Magliocca
    459

    Washington's Heir is the first published biography of Bushrod Washington, George Washington's nephew and a Supreme Court Justice for over thirty years. Justice Washington is one of the most underrated Founding Fathers. He was Chief Justice John Marshall's right-hand man in establishing the authority of the Supreme Court and wrote many influential opinions defining the fundamental rights of citizens and the structure of the Constitution. Justice Washington'sremarkable life story and his secret journal shed new light on George Washington, John Marshall, the Constitution, and America's ongoing struggle to overcome its flaws and become a more perfect union.

  • av Liverpool Hope University) Brown, Noel (Senior Lecturer in Film & Senior Lecturer in Film
    2 079

    The Oxford Handbook of Children's Film offers a uniquely comprehensive study of children's cinema from an interdisciplinary, nuanced, global perspective.

  • av Eric (Professor of Music History Saylor
    495

    In Vaughan Williams, author Eric Saylor revisits the life and work of famed British musician Ralph Vaughan Williams, with particular attention to the relationship between his work and his life.

  • - A Comprehensive Legal Assessment
     
    419

    In the 2010s, America's adversaries conducted numerous damaging cyber operations inside the United States: the Office of Personnel Management breach, attacks on banks, persistent intellectual property theft by China, and the Russian intervention in the 2016 election. The US-possessor of the world's most powerful cyber arsenal-responded in 2018 by unveiling a new Defend Forward strategy. This volume, edited by Jack Goldsmith and featuring a cast of leading scholarsin the field, provides an authoritative overview of the origins and operation of Defend Forward, and a comprehensive assessment of its legality.

  • - A Comprehensive Legal Assessment
     
    1 335

    In the 2010s, America's adversaries conducted numerous damaging cyber operations inside the United States: the Office of Personnel Management breach, attacks on banks, persistent intellectual property theft by China, and the Russian intervention in the 2016 election. The US-possessor of the world's most powerful cyber arsenal-responded in 2018 by unveiling a new Defend Forward strategy. This volume, edited by Jack Goldsmith and featuring a cast of leading scholarsin the field, provides an authoritative overview of the origins and operation of Defend Forward, and a comprehensive assessment of its legality.

  • av Daniel (Professor of Religious Studies and History Pals
    1 065

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  • - An Introduction in 11 Takes
    av John (Professor of Music History Haines
    909

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  • - An Introductory Anthology
    av Steven (Professor of Philosophy Cahn
    989,-

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  • - Selected Metaphysical Chapters
     
    1 335

    In The Tattvasamgraha of Santaraksita, Charles Goodman translates chapters from the Tattvasamgraha that deal with fundamental philosophical issues like the existence or nonexistence of God and the soul and the compatibility of beliefs about karma with Buddhism's fundamental claim that there is no self. Goodman's introductory chapters discuss translation choices and explain the arguments and reasoning employed by the Tattvasamgraha'soriginal authors, Santaraksita and Kamalasila.

  • - The Language of Public Apology
    av Professor of English, Southern Oregon University) Battistella & Edwin L. (Professor of English
    389 - 519

    In Sorry About That, Edwin Battistella analyzes the public apologies of presidents, politicians, entertainers, and businessmen, situating the apology within American popular culture.

  • - The Nisei Social World in Los Angeles, 1920-1950
    av Los Angeles) Matsumoto, University of California, Valerie J. (Professor of History & m.fl.
    418,99 - 749

    A study of the ethnocultural youth organizations formed by teenage Nisei girls in the greater Los Angeles area and the endurance of this world of female friendship and comradery from the Jazz Age through internment through the postwar period.

  • - Survivors, Their Children, and the Rise of Holocaust Consciousness
    av Professor of Sociology, Rutgers University) Stein & Arlene (Professor of Sociology
    465,-

    Reluctant Witnesses tells the story of the rise of Holocaust consciousness in the United States from the perspective of survivors and their descendants.

  • - The Pursuit of the Everyday in Contemporary Poetry and Culture
    av Florida State University) Epstein, Andrew (Associate Professor of English & Associate Professor of English
    559 - 1 385

    Attention Equals Life examines why a quest to pay attention to daily life has increasingly become a central feature of both contemporary American poetry and the wider culture of which it is a part.

  • - The Meaning and Psychological Dimensions of Kant's Humanity Formula
    av University of Notre Dame) Audi, Robert (John A. O'Brien Professor of Philosophy & John A. O'Brien Professor of Philosophy
    415 - 925

    This book is a full-scale account of the morally important ideas of treating persons merely as means and treating them as ends. Audi clarifies these independently of Kant, but with implications for understanding him, and presents a theory of conduct that enhances their usefulness both in ethical theory and in practical ethics.

  • - The Politics of Environmental Performance and Selectivity at Multilateral Development Banks
    av University of California-Santa Barbara) Buntaine, International Relations and Environmental Policy, Bren School of Environmental Science, m.fl.
    519 - 1 219,-

    In Giving Aid Effectively, Mark T. Buntaine argues that countries that are members of international organizations have prompted multilateral development banks to give development and environmental aid more effectively by generating better information about performance.

  • - Police Power, Constitutional Change, and the Making of the 1960s
    av University of Virginia, University of Virginia) Goluboff, Risa L. (Dean and Arnold H. Leon Professor of Law, m.fl.
    469 - 559

    In Vagrant Nation, Risa Goluboff has found a way to explain how the interaction between 1960s social movements and the courts fundamentally changed both American law and society writ large. By look at the changing views regarding a minor type of crime-vagrancy-Goluboff shows how the courts were cast directly into the midst of the turmoil sweeping the nation.

  • - Fintech's Impact on Financial Stability
    av Hilary J. (Associate Professor Allen
    1 125,-

    Driverless Finance explores the threats that different fintech innovations pose for our financial system. With in-depth and accessible descriptions of new financial technologies and business models - ranging from distributed ledgers to machine learning, cryptoassets to robo-investing - this book allows readers to think more critically about fintech, and about how the law should respond to it.

  • av James (Chair and Charles H. Stockton Professor of International Maritime Law Kraska
    1 505,-

    Throughout history, seapower has been a function of marine technology. For two millennia, rowed galleys were used to project power at sea, but ever-new military technologies have disrupted international relations and the law of naval warfare. This book focuses on the law of naval warfare and related international law that applies to the spectrum of maritime conflict.

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    1 435

    One of the most fiercely debated issues of this era is what to do about "bad" speech-hate speech, disinformation and propaganda campaigns, and incitement of violence-on the Internet, primarily speech on social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter. In Social Media, Freedom of Speech, and the Future of our Democracy, Lee C. Bollinger and Geoffrey R. Stone have gathered an eminent cast of contributors to explore the various dimensions of this problemin the American context. They stress how difficult it is to develop remedies given that some of these forms of "bad" speech are ordinarily protected by the First Amendment. Bollinger and Stone argue that it is important to remember that the last time we encountered a major new communications technology weestablished a federal agency to provide oversight and to issue regulations to protect and promote "the public interest."

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    1 209

    This book seeks to deepen our understanding of the evolving nexus between cultural heritage and security in the twenty-first century. It offers a collection of chapters that aims to open new horizons for thinking about the relationship between cultural heritage, security, and international law. Coming from a variety of disciplines and perspectives, the chapters examine a complicated set of relationships between, on the one hand, deliberate violence to culturalheritage in times of conflict, and, on the other, basic societal values, legal principles, protection, and security concerns.

  • - Music Piracy and the Remaking of American Copyright in the Twentieth Century
    av Georgia State University) Cummings, Alex Sayf (Assistant Professor of History & Assistant Professor of History
    379 - 585

    Democracy of Sound tells the story of the pirates, radicals, jazzbos, Deadheads, and DJs who challenged the record industry for control of recorded sound throughout the twentieth century. A political and cultural history, it shows how the primacy of "intellectual property" gradually eclipsed an American political tradition that was suspicious of monopolies and favored free competition.

  • - Multiracial Coalitions and Minority Representation in the US House of Representatives
    av Scripps College) Tyson, Vanessa C. (Assistant Professor of Politics & Assistant Professor of Politics
    429

  • av University of Birmingham) Bates, Eliot (Lecturer in Ethnomusicology and Popular Music Studies & Lecturer in Ethnomusicology and Popular Music Studies
    475 - 1 659

    In one of the first ethnographies of contemporary studio music production, author Eliot Bates investigates the emergence of a transnational market for Anatolian minority popular musics in the Turkish music industry. With its unique interdisciplinary approach, Digital Tradition sets a new standard for the study of recorded music.

  • - Penal Reform in America, 1975-2025
    av Michael (Michael Tonry is McKnight Presidential Professor of Criminal Law and Policy Tonry
    689,-

    In lucid and engaging prose, Michael Tonry reveals the historical foundation for the current state of the American criminal justice system, while simultaneously offering a game plan for long overdue reform.

  • - A Religious History of the Mexican-American War
    av John C. (Associate Professor of History Pinheiro
    815

    The term "Manifest Destiny" has traditionally been linked to U.S. westward expansion in the nineteenth century, the desire to spread republican government, and racialist theories like Anglo-Saxonism. Yet few people realize the degree to which "Manifest Destiny" and American republicanism relied on a deeply anti-Catholic civil-religious discourse.

  • - Legal Mobilization in Transformative Times
    av UCLA Law) Cummings, Scott L. (Robert Henigson Professor of Legal Ethics and Professor of Law & Robert Henigson Professor of Legal Ethics and Professor of Law
    435

  • - Forging Green Industries in the New Global Economy
    av Resources, and Environment, Johns Hopkins University SAIS) Nahm, m.fl.
    419 - 1 385

  • av Steffen (Lecturer in Film Studies Hven
    1 205

    Enacting the Worlds of Cinema offers a substantial reconfiguration of the textual roots of modern film narratology. By giving sustained attention to cinema's material-affective modes of communicating its stories and embedding its audience in atmospheric, kinetic, and multisensorial worlds, this book maintains that film narratives are less representations than they are enactments; brought forth through the interactions of the felt body and the filmmaterial.

  • av Marvin Chun
    2 305,-

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