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Defaming the Dead
Do the dead have rights? In a persuasive argument, Don Herzog makes the case that the deceased’s interests should be protected This is a delightfully deceptive works that start out with a simple, seemingly...
Subtle Insights Concerning Knowledge and Practice
Surprisingly modern essays on the unity of all monotheistic regimens by a medieval philosopher Written in the mid-thirteenth century for the newly appointed governor of Isfahan, this compact treatise and...
Democracy by Decree
What Happens When Courts Run Government
Schools, welfare agencies, and a wide variety of other state and local institutions of vital importance to citizens are actually controlled by attorneys and judges rather than governors and mayors. In this valuable book, Ross Sandler...
Shadows of Reality
The Fourth Dimension in Relativity, Cubism, and Modern Thought
A pioneering artist continues his visionary inquiry into hyperspace In this insightful book, which is a revisionist math history as well as a revisionist art history, Tony Robbin, well known for his...
Green Intelligence
Creating Environments That Protect Human Health
An environmental expert offers sound advice on the world’s growing chemical dangers We live in a world awash in manmade chemicals, from the pesticides on our front lawns to the diesel exhaust in the air...
The Politics of Food Supply
U.S. Agricultural Policy in the World Economy
This book deals with an important and timely issue: the political and economic forces that have shaped agricultural policies in the United States during the past eighty years. It explores the complex interactions of class,...
Constructing Private Governance
The Rise and Evolution of Forest, Coffee, and Fisheries Certification
An exploration of product certification programs and the factors that explain their varied success in becoming global governors equipped to tackle environmental and social problems effectively Consumers now...
Naturalists at Sea
Scientific Travellers from Dampier to Darwin
Tales of the intrepid early naturalists who set sail on dangerous voyages of discovery in the vast, unknown Pacific On the great Pacific discovery expeditions of the “long eighteenth century,” naturalists...
The Green State in Africa
A provocative reassessment of the relationship between states and environmental politics in Africa From climate-related risks such as crop failure and famine to longer-term concerns about sustainable...
Islam, Science, and the Challenge of History
An acclaimed scholar provides the most comprehensive examination available of the Islamic scientific tradition and its relationship to religion and philosophy In this wide-ranging and masterful work,...