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Causal Case Study Methods
Foundations and Guidelines for Comparing, Matching, and Tracing
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
In this comprehensive reconstruction of causal case study methods, Derek Beach, Rasmus Brun Pedersen, and their coauthors delineate the ontological and epistemological differences among these methods, offer suggestions for determining the appropriate methods for a given research project, and explain...
Fairy Tales from Before Fairy Tales
The Medieval Latin Past of Wonderful Lies
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
When did fairy tales begin? What qualifies as a fairy tale? Is a true fairy tale oral or literary? Or is a fairy tale determined not by style but by content? To answer these and other questions, Jan M. Ziolkowski not only provides a comprehensive overview of the theoretical debates about fairy tale...
by Harriet Murav
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2010
Legal scholars and literary critics have shown the significance of storytelling, not only as part of the courtroom procedure, but as part of the very foundation of law. Russia's Legal Fictions examines the relationship between law, narrative and authority in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russia.
The...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2010
While endogenous growth theory has claimed success in modeling various factors of growth and providing an analysis of sustainable economic growth, most of the growth models in published work are for closed economies. The omission of international trade, which is often regarded as the engine of growth,...
Building the Cold War Consensus
The Political Economy of U.S. National Security Policy, 1949-51
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
In 1950, the U.S. military budget more than tripled while plans for a national health care system and other new social welfare programs disappeared from the agenda. At the same time, the official campaign against the influence of radicals in American life reached new heights. Benjamin Fordham suggests...
by David Luban
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2010
Modernism in legal theory is no different from modernism in the arts: both respond to a cultural crisis, a sense that institutions and traditions have lost their validity. Some doubt the importance of the rule of law, others question the objectivity of legal reasoning. We have lost confidence in the...
Narrating Their Lives
Examining English Language Teachers' Professional Identities within the Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
“…a groundbreaking book that will…engage, inform, and connect with present and future teachers and teacher educators.”
---Stephanie Vandrick, Foreword to Narrating Their Lives
The field of TESOL has called attention to the ways that the issues...
The Culture of the Body
Genealogies of Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2011
What is the body? How was it culturally constructed, conceived, and cultivated before and after the advent of rationalism and modern science? This interdisciplinary study elaborates a cultural genealogy of the body and its legacies to modernity by tracing its crucial redefinition from a live anatomical...
Paul Robeson and the Cold War Performance Complex
Race, Madness, Activism
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2012
Actor and singer Paul Robeson's performances in Othello, Show Boat, and The Emperor Jones made him famous, but his midcentury appearances in support of causes ranging from labor and civil rights to antilynching and American warmongering made him notorious. When Robeson announced at the 1949 Paris...
The Pedagogical Contract
The Economies of Teaching and Learning in the Ancient World
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
The Pedagogical Contract explores the relationship between teacher and student and argues for ways of reconceiving pedagogy. It discloses this relationship as one that since antiquity has been regarded as a scene of give-and-take, where the teacher exchanges knowledge for some sort of payment by the...
How Long Have You Been With Us?
Essays on Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
A volume in the Poets on Poetry series, which collects critical works by contemporary poets, gathering together the articles, interviews, and book reviews by which they have articulated the poetics of a new generation.
“Like the myriad companions and comrades that he summons from their exile,...
Sacred Violence
Torture, Terror, and Sovereignty
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2009
In Sacred Violence, the distinguished political and legal theorist Paul W. Kahn investigates the reasons for the resort to violence characteristic of premodern states. In a startling argument, he contends that law will never offer an adequate account of political violence. Instead, we must turn to...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2010
This impressive collection of essays by many renowned scholars was compiled in honor of Richard F. Fenno's contribution to legislative studies. Utilizing various approaches to examine the impact of strategic behavior, rules, and institutions on legislative outcomes, this book produces significant...
Communities and Law
Politics and Cultures of Legal Identities
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2010
Communities and Law looks at minorities, or nonruling communities, and their identity practices under state domination in the midst of globalization. It examines six sociopolitical dimensions of community--nationality, social stratification, gender, religion, ethnicity, and legal consciousness--within...