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Smith, Sheli O. The 1779 shipwreck Defence: An American revolutionary war privateer. Past Foundation Publication, 2008.

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Lonsdale, Jeremy. The army's grace: The life of Brig-Gen R.M. Poore. Spellmount, 1992.

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Lonsdale, Jeremy. The army's Grace: The life of Brig-Gen R.M. Poore. Spellmount, 1992.

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Fred, Thompson. Reinventing the Pentagon: How the new public management can bring institutional renewal. Jossey-Bass, 1994.

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Guyton-Wilkening, Elizabeth. How to bring a small claims action in Tulsa County. Wilkening Pub., 2000.

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S, Heffernan Daniel T., and Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, Inc. (1982- ), eds. Handling tort claims against governmental & nonprofit entities: Learn how to bring and defend complex claims. Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, 2000.

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Leskinen, Charlotte. An evaluation of the rights of defense during antitrust inspections in the light of the case law of the ECtHR: Would the accession of the European Union to the ECHR bring about a significant change? IE, 2010.

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Case of the Somers' Mutiny: Defence of Alexander Slidell Mackenzie, Commander of the U. S. Brig Somers, Before the Court Martial Held at the Navy Yard, Brooklyn, Issue 9. Creative Media Partners, LLC, 2022.

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MacKenzie, Alexander Slidell. Case of the Somers' Mutiny: Defence of Alexander Slidell Mackenzie, Commander of the U. S. Brig Somers, Before the Court Martial Held at the Navy Yard, Brooklyn, Issue 9. Creative Media Partners, LLC, 2015.

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Irondelle, Bastien, Jean Joana, and Frédéric Mérand. Defense and Security Policy. Edited by Robert Elgie, Emiliano Grossman, and Amy G. Mazur. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199669691.013.28.

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This chapter examines what the international literature tells us about French security and defense policy, but also what the French case teaches us about this literature. French scholarship on security and defense policy has demonstrated three main trends: the legacy of Charles de Gaulle’s vision and policies, a strongly policy-oriented production, and the influence of sociological approaches in French political science more generally. These trends have given the impression that the Fifth Republic’s security and defense was unique among Western democracies. The chapter tries to bring together

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Nijboer, Donald. Luftwaffe Bombers vs British AA Defences. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2025. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781472865793.

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An illustrated study of the British Army’s Anti-Aircraft (AA) Command’s performance against the Luftwaffe during the Battle of Britain and the Blitz. When the Battle of Britain commenced in July 1940, the Luftwaffe committed more than 1,200 medium bombers, 300 Ju 87 Stukas and 760 Bf 109 and Bf 110 fighters to the campaign. The response from British AA Command mustered 359 4.5in. guns, 666 3.7in. guns and 226 3in. guns, as well as 3,538 light and medium AA guns to tackle low-level Luftwaffe raiders, but was under-gunned and overstretched, struggling to provide sufficient weapons for every key

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Singh, Bhubhindar. Reconstructing Japan's Security. Edinburgh University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474446228.001.0001.

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Japan’s post-Cold War security policy displays significant changes compared to the Cold War period. One critical change has been the incorporation of the Japanese military, known as the Self-Defence Force (SDF), as a legitimate and important tool of Japanese post-Cold War security policy practice. It has developed new roles both outside and within the US-Japan alliance to contribute to regional/international security. The question is how the Japanese security policymaking elite has been able to bring about this critical change to the security policy practice in light of the domestic social and

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Martin, James B., ed. African American War Heroes. ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400607868.

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Detailed profiles bring stories of African American heroism in the U.S. armed forces to life, from the American Revolution through the conflict in Afghanistan. African American war heroes remain largely unsung, their courage and valor relegated to the less traveled corners of history. This work seeks out those heroes—soldiers, sailors, flyers, and marines—who earned their nation’s highest medals in defense of freedom and equality. Some of these men and women died on the battlefield. Others returned to civilian life in a segregated country. What they share across time and circumstance is devoti

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Litigating health rights: Can courts bring more justice to health. Human Rights Program, Harvard Law School, 2011.

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Wong, Wilson W. S. Emerging Military Technologies. ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400645068.

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This book examines emerging defense technologies such as directed energy weapons, nanotech devices, and bioscience applications that have the potential to dominate international relations in the future, just as nuclear weapons and space infrastructure-assisted conventional weapons do now. Emerging Military Technologies: A Guide to the Issues examines the potential of the United States to bring new technologies to deployment in the service of America's security and defense. The work also discusses how other international actors may regard the United States' investment in these high-tech capabil

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Ekstrom, Laura W. God, Suffering, and the Value of Free Will. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197556412.001.0001.

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This book focuses on arguments from suffering against the existence of God and on a variety of issues concerning agency and value that they bring out. The central aim is to show the extent and power of arguments from evil. The book provides a close investigation of an under-defended claim at the heart of the major free-will-based responses to such arguments, namely that free will is sufficiently valuable to serve as the good, or to serve prominently among the goods, that provides a God-justifying reason for permitting evil in our world. Offering a fresh examination of traditional theodicies, i

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Lawson, Gary, and Guy I. Seidman. Deference. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190273408.001.0001.

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Deference is perhaps the most important concept and practice in law. It lies at the core of every system of precedent, appellate review, federalism, and separation of powers, all of which center on how one actor should deal with previous decisions. Oddly enough, deference is also one of the most underanalyzed and undertheorized legal concepts and practices, perhaps because its applications are so varied. This book’s goal is to provide a definition of and vocabulary for deference that can be used to describe, explain, and/or criticize deference in all of its manifestations in the law, including

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Goldsmith, Jack, ed. The United States' Defend Forward Cyber Strategy. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197601792.001.0001.

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The United States’ new Defend Forward Strategy constitutes a major change in how the nation with the world’s most powerful cyber arsenal views when and how this arsenal should be deployed. It is a large step in the direction of more aggressive action in cyberspace—albeit for defensive ends. The United States has not attempted to hide this new and more aggressive cyber posture. To the contrary, it has telegraphed the change, probably in order to enhance deterrence. But the telegraphing has taken place at a highly abstract level. Very little is known about precisely what types of operations Defe

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Bissell, Roger E., Chris Matthew Sciabarra, and Edward W. Younkins, eds. Dialectics of Liberty. The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2019. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781978729865.

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This collection of essays explores the ways in which the defense of liberty can be bolstered by use of a dialectical method—that is, a mode of analysis devoted to grasping the full context of philosophical, cultural, and social factors requisite to the sustenance of human freedom. Its strength lies in the variety of disciplines and perspectives represented by contributors who apply explicitly dialectical tools to a classical liberal / libertarian analysis of social and cultural issues. In its conjoining of a dialectical method, typically associated with the socialist left, to a defense of indi

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Loraine, Sievers, and Daws Sam. Ch.7 Decisions and Documents. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780199685295.003.0007.

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This chapter discusses the procedures for coming to a consensus within the Security Council and communicating the decision to the broader public. The term ‘decision’ within this context also carries multiple meanings, and when applied in its narrowest sense is used to denote only those decisions of the Council which are intended to be mandatory or binding, as opposed to recommendations, exhortations, or expressions of opinion. Communications also possesses multiple definitions under the Council, as it is a complex and politically sensitive area of the Security Council's practice. Written commu

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Bhugra, Dinesh, Antonio Ventriglio, and Kamaldeep S. Bhui. Psychotherapy: General principles. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198723196.003.0007.

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Psychotherapy is a process based on different types of schools of thought, with patient and therapist working together through talking therapies to bring about a sustained change. Three types of psychotherapy have been described: supportive, re-educative, and constructive. Each has a specific set of rules and strategies that the therapist must follow. Once again, the explanatory models of patients and their families will influence whether they engage in therapy or not. Those from minority cultural groups may enter therapy with a pre-existing defence, such as seeing the majority population as t

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Borawski, John, and Thomas-Durell Young. NATO After 2000. Praeger, 2001. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400689932.

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Borawski and Young provide a serious analysis of the major issues confronting European-North American relations. They draw detailed attention to the fundamental political and military issues before the Atlantic Alliance. They illustrate that NATO remains essential to Euro-Atlantic security. Only the Atlantic Alliance can bring to bear well-tested military capability under US leadership to promote its members security, interests, and democratic values. However, to remain vital, the Alliance must undertake a serious review of its major purposes: enlargement to the former Warsaw Pact nations, a s

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Horder, Jeremy. Ashworth's Principles of Criminal Law. 10th ed. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/he/9780192897381.001.0001.

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Principles of Criminal Law takes a distinctly different approach to the study of criminal law, while still covering all of the vital topics found on criminal law courses. Uniquely theoretical, it seeks to elucidate the underlying principles and foundations of the criminal law, and aims to engage readers by analysing the law contextually. This tenth edition looks at issues such as the law’s history and criminal law values, alongside criminal conduct, actus reus, causation, and permissions; criminal capacity, mens rea, and fault, excusatory defences; homicide; non-fatal violations; property crim

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Horder, Jeremy. Ashworth's Principles of Criminal Law. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/he/9780198777663.001.0001.

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Principles of Criminal Law takes a distinctly different approach to the study of criminal law, whilst still covering all of the vital topics found on criminal law courses. Uniquely theoretical, it seeks to elucidate the underlying principles and foundations of the criminal law, and aims to engage readers by analysing the law contextually. This ninth edition looks at issues such as the law’s history, criminal law values, alongside criminal conduct, actus reus, causation, and permissions; criminal capacity, mens rea, and fault, excusatory defences; homicide; non-fatal violations; property crimes

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Craig, Paul, and Gráinne de Búrca. 12. Enforcement Actions Against Member States. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/he/9780198714927.003.0012.

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All books in this flagship series contain carefully selected substantial extracts from key cases, legislation, and academic debate, providing able students with a stand-alone resource. A crucial component of the Commission’s task is to monitor Member State compliance and to respond to non-compliance. The Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) provides for various enforcement mechanisms involving judicial proceedings against the Member States, which are brought either by the Commission or - much less frequently - by a Member State. Article 258 TFEU establishes the general enforc

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Watson, Robert P. Rebels at the Gates. Rowman & Littlefield, 2025. https://doi.org/10.5040/9798881844851.

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Rebels at the Gate chronicles an intriguing series of events that nearly changed American history. In the last full year of the Civil War, Washington, DC came within hours of being invaded and Lincoln within inches of being shot. During the summer of 1864, General Ulysses Grant was laying siege to Petersburg (near Richmond), deploying every available Union soldier in an effort to end the bloody war once and for all. His counterpart, General Robert E. Lee and his famed Army of Northern Virginia, were trapped inside Richmond, and recognized that the Confederate capital would fall. Lee knew Grant

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Jost, John T., Christopher M. Federico, and Jamie L. Napier. Political Ideologies and their Social Psychological Functions. Edited by Michael Freeden and Marc Stears. Oxford University Press, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199585977.013.0024.

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Ideology has re-emerged as a vital topic of investigation in social psychology. This chapter proposes that political ideologies possess both a discursive (socially constructed) superstructure and a functional (or motivational) substructure and that ideologies serve social psychological functions that may not be entirely rational but help to explain why individuals are drawn to them. System justification, it argues, is the ‘glue’ that holds the two dimensions of left–right ideology (advocacy vs. resistance to change and rejection vs. acceptance of inequality) together. To vindicate and uphold t

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Machery, Edouard. The Method of Cases. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198807520.003.0002.

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Many areas of philosophy rely on the method of cases: Philosophers consider actual or hypothetical situations (which cases or thought experiments describe) in order to determine what facts hold in these situations and to bring them to bear on philosophical controversies. Surprisingly, however, the characterization of the method of cases is controversial. Chapter 1 defends a particular characterization of the method of cases and identifies some of the roles it plays in contemporary philosophy. Alternative characterizations, which appeal to notions such as metaphysical or epistemological analyti

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Bechtol Jr., Bruce E. North Korean Military Proliferation in the Middle East and Africa. University Press of Kentucky, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5810/kentucky/9780813175881.001.0001.

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This book analyzes what and to whom North Korea provides arms, how it skirts sanctions, and how its activities can be best contained. For many years, North Korean proliferation to both state and nonstate actors has gone largely unnoticed in both policy and academic circles. The book examines how North Korean proliferation presents an international security dilemma that policy makers in many nations should address—and take efforts to contain. It details that, whether it is in the Middle East, Africa, or even as far away as Cuba, North Korea continues to change its tactics, techniques, and proce

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Sarsar, Saliba, and Rekha Datta, eds. Democracy in Crisis around the World. The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, 2020. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781666990751.

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In the twenty-first century, democracies across the globe are in crisis. The strength of basic democratic institutions and core enduring political principles and values are eroding in key regions and countries. Authoritarian regimes are rising and populist leaders are emerging. Democracy in Crisis across the World weaves threads of history and politics in two parts to analyze how long this trend may last and what the future may bring. By first examining the state of democracy in Sub-Saharan Africa, Eastern Europe, Western Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East and North Africa, the second

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Luis Bermúdez, José. Inner Speech, Determinacy, and Thinking Consciously about Thoughts. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198796640.003.0008.

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Frege wrote: “The thought, in itself imperceptible by the senses, gets clothed in the perceptible garb of a sentence, and thereby we are enabled to grasp it.” This chapter defends a version of Frege’s claim, namely, that we can only think about thoughts when they are linguistically formulated. Section 7.1 makes the general argument that intentional ascent (thinking about thinking) requires semantic ascent (thinking about language). Section 7.2 addresses Martínez-Manrique & Vicente’s objection that the need to disambiguate indeterminacy in inner speech makes inner speech redundant as a pote

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Reginbogin, Herbert R., and Ozan Örmeci, eds. Turkish-American Relations in the 21st Century. Lexington Books, 2025. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781978747425.

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Turkish-American relations have been considered a model partnership between a great and middle power during the Cold War due to the positive nature of relations, being advantageous to both sides. While the United States took advantage of Türkiye’s geopolitical position and military strength against the USSR, Türkiye benefited from American economic power and military technology. However, with the end of the Cold War and the emergence of new regional and global developments, a stable framework to clarify and shape Turkish-American relations has not yet been crafted. Additionally, crises such as

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Mundy, Anthony R., and Daniela E. Andrich. Upper urinary tract reconstruction. Edited by Anthony R. Mundy. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199659579.003.0048.

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This chapter addresses the problem of dealing with a ruptured, ligated or transected ureter, or a ureteric defect caused accidentally or intentionally by surgery. Ureteric strictures may occur as a result of tuberculosis or schistosomiasis. Tuberculous strictures may occur at either end of the ureter; schistosomal strictures occur primarily in the distal ureter. Ureteric stones are another cause of stricture formation and these tend to occur at the common sites of impaction of a stone; therefore, particularly just above the pelvic brim and just outside the bladder. It also develops the theme k

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Leitch, Thomas, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Adaptation Studies. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199331000.001.0001.

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This collection of forty original essays reflects on the history of adaptation studies, surveys the current state of the field, and maps out possible futures that mobilize its unparalleled ability to bring together theorists and practitioners in different modes of discourse. Grounding contemporary adaptation studies in a series of formative debates about what adaptation is, whether its orientation should be scientific or aesthetic, and whether it is most usefully approached inductively, through close analyses of specific adaptations, or deductively, through general theories of adaptation, the

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Palmer, Susan J., Dilmurat Mahmut, and Abdulmuqtedir Udun. Uyghur Women Activists in the Diaspora. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350418363.

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This book explores the life stories of ten Uyghur women, all prominent political activists in the international Uyghur advocacy movement. Born and raised in East Turkestan/Xinjiang in the 1970s-90s, each woman departed from China before 2005 and chose to settle in Western countries. Today, they work tirelessly to defend the rights of Uyghurs and Turkic peoples in China, to raise public awareness of the PRC’s campaign of colonization and population reduction, recognized by eight countries today as a genocide. These narratives are based on interviews conducted over Skype or Zoom between 2020 and

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Ziliotti, Elena. Meritocratic Democracy. Oxford University PressOxford, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198896456.001.0001.

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Abstract This book offers a new theory of democracy that advances debates on democracy and political meritocracy by synthesizing the best of contemporary Western democratic theory and Confucian political theory. The general questions that this book poses, and attempts to answer, are: can findings in Western democratic theories be used to address the Confucian meritocrats’ concern for the ability of democracy to produce desirable outcomes? What is the relationship of political leaders with democracy? Can insights from Confucian political theory be used to reconceptualize how political parties i

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Gragl, Paul. Legal Monism. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198796268.001.0001.

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This book defends the theory of legal monism against dualism and pluralism. Whereas dualism holds that different bodies of law such as international and national law are entirely separate and pluralism argues that there are many potentially overlapping and heterarchical bodies of law, monism considers all law to form part of one unitary and hierarchically ordered legal order, be it international, EU, or national law. To this end, this book will use the pure theory of law of the Vienna School of Jurisprudence, which has—since its inception in the first half of the twentieth century—been largely

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Haerens, Margaret. The NFL National Anthem Protests. ABC-CLIO, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400691515.

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This volume provides a concise but authoritative overview of the NFL national anthem protests and the fierce debates they have sparked about patriotism, constitutional rights, military service, police brutality, and social justice. This book in the 21st Century Turning Points series is a one-stop resource for understanding the people and events changing America today. This volume is devoted to the NFL national anthem protests, which have triggered both fierce condemnation and spirited defenses since August 2016, when San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick first refused to stand for t

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Rose, Deondra. Citizenship By Degree. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190650940.001.0001.

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Since the mid-twentieth century, the United States has seen a striking shift in the gender dynamics of higher educational attainment as women have come to earn college degrees at higher rates than men. Women have also made significant strides in terms of socioeconomic status and political engagement. What explains the progress that American women have made since the 1960s? While many point to the feminist movement as the critical turning point, this book makes the case that women’s movement toward first-class citizenship has been shaped not only by important societal changes but also by the ac

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Whitchurch, Joe. Revenge, Punishment and Anger in Ancient Greek Justice. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350451575.

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Anger was the engine of justice in the ancient Greek world. It drove quests for vengeance which resulted in a variety of consequences, often harmful not only for the relevant actors but also for the wider communities in which they lived. From as early as the seventh century BCE, Greek communities had developed more or less formal means of imposing restrictions on this behaviour in the form of courts. However, this did not necessarily mean a less angry or vengeful society so much as one where anger and revenge were subject to public sanction and sometimes put to public use. By the fifth and fou

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Yü, Ying-shih. Chinese History and Culture. Columbia University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.7312/columbia/9780231178587.001.0001.

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The recipient of the Kluge Prize for lifetime achievement in the humanities, Ying-shih Yü is a premier scholar of Chinese studies. Chinese History and Culture volumes 1 and 2 bring his extraordinary oeuvre to English-speaking readers. Spanning two thousand years of social, intellectual, and political change, the essays in these volumes investigate two central questions through all aspects of Chinese life: what core values sustained this ancient civilization through centuries of upheaval, and in what ways did these values survive in modern times? From Yü Ying-shih’s perspective, the Dao, or the

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Marshall, Helen, Kim Wilkins, and Lisa Bennett. Story Thinking and the Real-world Applications of Sci-Fi and Fantasy Writing. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2025. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350359291.

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In the 21st century, the rapid advance of technology and the existential threat of climate breakdown mean the real world increasingly resembles something out of fiction, filled with ambiguity and uncertainty. Such challenges need imaginative, creative solutions. To find them, teams of experts must pool their knowledge, make new connections, and forge paths forward. InStory Thinking, award-winning authors Helen Marshall, Kim Wilkins, and Lisa Bennett show how the principles of science fiction and fantasy writing – which speculate about and imagine different futures, people, and worlds - can enr

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Antony, Louise. Only Natural. Oxford University PressNew York, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190934361.001.0001.

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Abstract This volume brings together sixteen essays by Louise Antony that reflect her distinctive approach to issues at the intersections of feminist theory, epistemology, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of language. Antony proceeds from the Quinean precept that we treat knowledge as a natural phenomenon. This approach offers feminists and other progressive theorists vital tools with which to expose and dismantle ideological conceptions of knowledge, human nature, and objectivity. Naturalism’s focus on the actual (as opposed to hypothetical) circumstances under which human beings acquire kn

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Lopes, Dominic McIver. Being for Beauty. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198827214.001.0001.

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One question that leads us into aesthetics is: why does beauty matter? Or, what do aesthetic goods bring to my life, to make it a life that goes well? Or, how does beauty deserve the place we have evidently made for it in our lives? A theory of aesthetic value states what beauty is so as to equip us to answer this question. According to aesthetic hedonism, aesthetic values are properties of items that stand in constitutive relation to pleasure. Contemporary versions of aesthetic hedonism don’t explain what makes aesthetic values aesthetic, but they do explain what makes them normative, stating

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Schulz, Armin W. Efficient Cognition. The MIT Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/9780262037600.001.0001.

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It is now widely accepted that many organisms (including humans) don’t just react to the world using behavioral reflexes, but also, at times, decide what to do by relying on mental representations. More specifically, the behavior of many organisms is not simply triggered by a perception of the state of their environment, but inferred using higher-level mental states downstream from their perceptual states. What is far less clear is why this is the case: what benefits does representational decision making bring to an organism, and what implications do these benefits have for the exact role that

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Konradi, Amanda. Taking the Stand. Praeger, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216022176.

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Rape is one of the most under-reported crimes in the U.S., and yet it is one of the most vicious, devastating, and violent of all crimes. But getting justice for victims has not always been easy. Often the victim is criminalized, demonized, sexualized, or otherwise attacked for her own part in the rape. But over the years, laws have changed and prosecuting rapists has become more common.Taking the Standdescribes the criminal prosecution of rapists from the perspective of the women who survived their violence and explores if, when, and how the criminal justice process can work for them. Walking

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Almeida, Afonso Chaves de. 1876-1952: Lourenço Chaves de Almeida: Mestre Ferreiro de Arte Vida e Obra. Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.14195/978-989-26-2163-0.

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<p>Lourenço Chaves de Almeida (1876-1952) foi um dos mais célebres artistas do ferro forjado, tendo deixado excelentes obras em Coimbra, «cidade das grades», e por várias outras localidades. Natural de Lamego e descendente de artífices, viria entretanto a radicar-se em Coimbra, no cumprimento do serviço militar. Tendo sido militar de carreira (sargento artífice) e louvado pelo brio com que exerceu as suas funções, foi mobilizado para integrar o Corpo Expedicionário Português, em 1917-1918. Mesmo em campanha, em França, nunca se desligou da arte do ferro, pelo que produziu ali – utilizand

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