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  • The Law and Religious Market Theory

    China, Taiwan and Hong Kong

    by Jianlin Chen ...
    With comparative case studies from China, Taiwan and Hong Kong, Jianlin Chen's new work offers a fresh, descriptive and normative perspective on law and religion. This presentation of the original law and religious market theory employs an interdisciplinary approach that sheds light on this subject for scholars in legal and sociological disciplines. It sets out the precise nature of religious ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Jet Transport Technique

    Theory and Application

    by Jianping Yuan, Jianlin Chen, Chen Gao, Chuan Ma, Josep J. Masdemont, Gerard Gómez ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book focuses on the Jet Transport (JT) technique and gives a systematic introduction on its theory development, algorithm implementation, and in particular, the applications in the field of astronautics including uncertainty propagation, filtering, as well as guidance and control. It features on the combination of mathematical theory and engineering applications, making the technique to be ... Read more

    $161.09 USD

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  • Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice

    by Jack Donnelly ...
    In the third edition of his classic work, revised extensively and updated to include recent developments on the international scene, Jack Donnelly explains and defends a richly interdisciplinary account of human rights as universal rights. He shows that any conception of human rights-and the idea of human rights itself-is historically specific and contingent. Since publication of the first edition ... Read more

    $11.49 USD

  • Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry

    by Michael Ignatieff, Kwame Anthony Appiah, David A. Hollinger, Diane F. Orentlicher, Thomas W. Laqueur ...
    Series series The University Center for Human Values Series
    Michael Ignatieff draws on his extensive experience as a writer and commentator on world affairs to present a penetrating account of the successes, failures, and prospects of the human rights revolution. Since the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, this revolution has brought the world moral progress and broken the nation-state's monopoly on the conduct of ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Are Women Human?

    And Other International Dialogues

    by Catharine A. MacKinnon ...
    More than half a century after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights defined what a human being is and is entitled to, Catharine MacKinnon asks: Are women human yet? If women were regarded as human, would they be sold into sexual slavery worldwide; veiled, silenced, and imprisoned in homes; bred, and worked as menials for little or no pay; stoned for sex outside marriage or burned within it; ... Read more

    $27.09 USD

  • One Nation, Two Cultures

    A Searching Examination of American Society in the Aftermath of Our Cultural Rev olution

    by Gertrude Himmelfarb ...
    In One Nation, Two Cultures, one of today's most respected and articulate cultural critics gives us a penetrating examination of the gulf between the two sides of American society -- a divide that cuts across class, racial, ethnic, political, and sexual lines. While one side originated in the traditional idea of republican virtue, the other emerged from the counterculture of the late 1960s and has ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • A Confucian Constitutional Order

    How China's Ancient Past Can Shape Its Political Future

    by Jiang Qing ...
    Translated by Edmund Ryden ...
    Series series The Princeton-China Series
    What a Confucian constitutional government might look like in China's political futureAs China continues to transform itself, many assume that the nation will eventually move beyond communism and adopt a Western-style democracy. But could China develop a unique form of government based on its own distinct traditions? Jiang Qing—China's most original, provocative, and controversial Confucian ... Read more

    $41.79 USD

  • Legal Orientalism

    China, the United States, and Modern Law

    by Teemu Ruskola ...
    Since the Cold War ended, China has become a global symbol of disregard for human rights, while the United States has positioned itself as the world’s chief exporter of the rule of law. How did lawlessness become an axiom about Chineseness rather than a fact needing to be verified empirically, and how did the United States assume the mantle of law’s universal appeal? In a series of wide-ranging ... Read more

    $47.69 USD

  • Religion and Human Rights

    An Introduction

    Edited by John Witte, Jr., M. Christian Green ...
    The relationship between religion and human rights is both complex and inextricable. While most of the world's religions have supported violence, repression, and prejudice, each has also played a crucial role in the modern struggle for universal human rights. Most importantly, religions provide the essential sources and scales of dignity and responsibility, shame and respect, restraint and regret, ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • Gender in History

    Global Perspectives

    by Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks ...
    GENDER IN HISTORYPraise for the first edition:“Wiesner-Hanks ... accomplishes a near-impossible feat - a review of what is known about the construction of gender and the character of women’s lives in all known cultures over the course of human history …. Theoretically sophisticated and doing justice to the historical and cross-cultural record, yet assimilable by students.”Choice<stro... ... Read more

    $34.00 USD

  • Citizenship and Its Discontents

    An Indian History

    by Niraja Gopal Jayal ...
    Breaking new ground in scholarship, Niraja Jayal writes the first history of citizenship in the largest democracy in the world—India. Unlike the mature democracies of the west, India began as a true republic of equals with a complex architecture of citizenship rights that was sensitive to the many hierarchies of Indian society. In this provocative biography of the defining aspiration of modern ... Read more

    $38.69 USD

  • Confucian Perfectionism

    A Political Philosophy for Modern Times

    by Joseph Chan ...
    Series series The Princeton-China Series
    "This splendid book makes a powerful case that Confucianism has much to contribute to contemporary political thought and practice the world over." —Stephen C. Angle, Wesleyan UniversitySince the very beginning, Confucianism has been troubled by a serious gap between its political ideals and the reality of societal circumstances. Contemporary Confucians must develop a viable method of governance ... Read more

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