Cohen: 1795 books
Civil–Military Relations in Israel
Essays in Honor of Stuart A. Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
This book, a collection of essays in honor of Stuart Cohen, examines a variety of issues in civil-military relations (CMR) in Israel and abroad. Beyond honoring Cohen’s work, this collection makes a substantial contribution to the field for a number of reasons. First, it brings together prominent...
East Asia at the Center
Four Thousand Years of Engagement with the World
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2000
A common misconception holds that Marco Polo "opened up" a closed and recalcitrant "Orient" to the West. However, this sweeping history covering 4,000 years of international relations from the perspective of China, Japan, Korea, and Southeast Asia shows that the region's extensive...
Fashioning Masculinity
National Identity and Language in the Eighteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2002
The fashioning of English gentlemen in the eighteenth century was modelled on French practices of sociability and conversation. Michele Cohen shows how at the same time, the English constructed their cultural relations with the French as relations of seduction and desire. She argues that this produced...
by Nancy Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2003
Tracing the transformation of liberal political ideology from the end of the Civil War to the early twentieth century, Nancy Cohen offers a new interpretation of the origins and character of modern liberalism. She argues that the values and programs associated with modern liberalism were formulated...
Maimonides and the Merchants
Jewish Law and Society in the Medieval Islamic World
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2017
The advent of Islam in the seventh century brought profound economic changes to the Jews living in the Middle East, and Talmudic law, compiled in and for an agrarian society, was ill equipped to address an increasingly mercantile world. In response, and over the course of the seventh through eleventh...
Regulating Intimacy
A New Legal Paradigm
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
The regulation of intimate relationships has been a key battleground in the culture wars of the past three decades. In this bold and innovative book, Jean Cohen presents a new approach to regulating intimacy that promises to defuse the tensions that have long sparked conflict among legislators, jurists,...
by Andrew Jason Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
In this engaging and comprehensive introduction to the topic of toleration, Andrew Jason Cohen seeks to answer fundamental questions, such as: What is toleration? What should be tolerated? Why is toleration important?
Beginning with some key insights into what we mean by toleration, Cohen goes...
Harmful Thoughts
Essays on Law, Self, and Morality
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
In these writings by one of our most creative legal philosophers, Meir Dan-Cohen explores the nature of the self and its response to legal commands and mounts a challenge to some prevailing tenets of legal theory and the neighboring moral, political, and economic thought. The result is an insider's...
Future Medicine
Ethical Dilemmas, Regulatory Challenges, and Therapeutic Pathways to Health Care and Healing in Human Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2009
Future Medicine is an investigation into the clinical, legal, ethical, and regulatory changes occurring in our health care system as a result of the developing field of Complimentary and Alternative Medicine (CAM). Here Michael H. Cohen describes the likely evolution of the legal system and the health...
Train Go Sorry
Inside a Deaf World
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 1994
A “remarkable and insightful” look inside a New York City school for the deaf, blending memoir and history (The New York Times Book Review).
Leah Hager Cohen is part of the hearing world, but grew up among the deaf community. Her Russian-born grandfather had been deaf—a fact hidden by...
Seeing Ezra
A Mother's Story of Autism, Unconditional Love, and the Meaning of Normal
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
Seeing Ezra is the soulful, beautifully written memoir of a mother’s fierce love for her autistic son, and a poignant examination of what it means to be normal.” When Kerry Cohen’s son Ezra turns one, a babysitter suggests he may be different,” setting her family on a path in which autism...
Inside Appellate Courts
The Impact of Court Organization on Judicial Decision Making in the United States Courts of Appeals
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2009
Inside Appellate Courts is a comprehensive study of how the organization of a court affects the decisions of appellate judges. Drawing on interviews with more than seventy federal appellate judges and law clerks, Jonathan M. Cohen challenges the assumption that increasing caseloads and bureaucratization...
Enduring Bonds
Inequality, Marriage, Parenting, and Everything Else That Makes Families Great and Terrible
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
In Enduring Bonds, Philip N. Cohen, renowned sociologist and blogger of the wildly popular and insightful Family Inequality, examines the complex landscape of today's diverse families. Through his interpretive lens and lively discussions, Cohen encourages us to alter our point of view on families,...
by Marjorie Griffin Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1988
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1988
Cohen focuses on the productive relations in the family and the significance of women’s labour to the process of capital accumulation in both the capitalist sphere and independent commodity production.
In this study Marjorie Griffin Cohen argues that in research into Ontario’s economic...