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16 produkter
Rights Talk
The Impoverishment of Political Discourse
Häftad, 1993
200 kr
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Political speech in the United States is undergoing a crisis. Glendon's acclaimed book traces the evolution of the strident language of rights in America and shows how it has captured the nation's devotion to individualism and liberty, but omitted the American traditions of hospitality and care for …
The Forum and the Tower
How Scholars and Politicians Have Imagined the World, from Plato to Eleanor Roosevelt
Inbunden, 2011
383 kr
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The Forum and the Tower tackles a fascinating and perennial topic: the relationship between the academy and the world of politics. For all the talk about the remoteness of ivory tower ideas from 'the real world,' it is the case that ideas do in fact have consequences. In recent US history, the …
Forum and the Tower
How Scholars and Politicians Have Imagined the World, from Plato to Eleanor Roosevelt
E-bok, 2011
184 kr
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As Mary Ann Glendon writes in this fascinating new book, the relationship between politics and the academy has been fraught with tension and regret-and the occasional brilliant success-since Plato himself. In The Forum and the Tower , Glendon examines thinkers who have collaborated with leaders, …
Forum and the Tower
How Scholars and Politicians Have Imagined the World, from Plato to Eleanor Roosevelt
E-bok, 2011
184 kr
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As Mary Ann Glendon writes in this fascinating new book, the relationship between politics and the academy has been fraught with tension and regret-and the occasional brilliant success-since Plato himself. In The Forum and the Tower , Glendon examines thinkers who have collaborated with leaders, …
Transformation of Family Law
State, Law, and Family in the United States and Western Europe
Häftad, 1997
357 kr
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Mary Ann Glendon offers a comparative and historical analysis of rapid and profound changes in the legal system beginning in the 1960s in England, France, West Germany, Sweden, and the United States. The text also brings interpretation and critical thought to bear on the explosion of legislation in …
World Made New
Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
E-bok, 2001
124 kr
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A World Made New tells the dramatic story of the struggle to build, out of the trauma and wreckage of World War II, a document that would ensure it would never happen again. There was an almost religious intensity to the project, championed by Eleanor Roosevelt under the aegis of the newly formed …
Abortion and Divorce in Western Law
Häftad, 1989
415 kr
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What can abortion and divorce laws in other countries teach Americans about these thorny issues? In this incisive new book, noted legal scholar Mary Ann Glendon looks at the experiences of twenty Western nations, including the United States, and shows how they differ, subtly but profoundly, from …
Nation Under Lawyers
How the Crisis in the Legal Profession Is Transforming American Society
Häftad, 1996
425 kr
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Mary Ann Glendon’s A Nation Under Lawyers is a guided tour through the maze of the late-twentieth-century legal world, in which even lawyers themselves can lose their bearings. Glendon depicts the legal profession as a system in turbulence, where a variety of beliefs and ideals are vying for …
Rights Talk
The Impoverishment of Political Discourse
E-bok, 2008
173 kr
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Political speech in the United States is undergoing a crisis. Glendon''s acclaimed book traces the evolution of the strident language of rights in America and shows how it has captured the nation''s devotion to individualism and liberty, but omitted the American traditions of hospitality and care …
Traditions in Turmoil
Häftad, 2006
538 kr
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That ours is a time of intellectual, cultural, moral, and religious turmoil does not need to be argued. What does need to be argued, and what Glendon argues with force and freshness, is that our response to turmoil requires a greater honesty in coming to terms with tradition, and with traditions in …
Religion & Civil Society
The Changing Faces of Religion & Secularity
Häftad, 2014
423 kr
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Religious and secular seem to be opposite concepts and realities. Nevertheless, while starting from religion, the concept of secular as non-religious is understandable, the converse is not true: starting from secular, we cannot arrive at the concept of religion. Since the concept of religion cannot …
En la corte de tres papas
Una jurista y diplomática americana en la última monarquía absoluta de Occidente
E-bok, 2024
121 kr
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Durante veinte siglos la Iglesia católica no solo ha sobrevivido, sino que ha ido configurando buena parte de la historia mundial. En las décadas posteriores al Concilio Vaticano II, tres papas han llevado adelante este legado, esforzándose por liderar a la Iglesia y a su órgano de gobierno (la …
Transformation of Family Law
State, Law, and Family in the United States and Western Europe
Inbunden, 1989
692 kr
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Mary Ann Glendon offers a comparative and historical analysis of rapid and profound changes in the legal system beginning in the 1960s in England, France, West Germany, Sweden, and the United States, while bringing new and insightful interpretation and critical thought to bear on the explosion of …
In the Courts of Three Popes
An American Lawyer and Diplomat in the Last Absolute Monarchy of the West
Inbunden, 2024
315 kr
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A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Inbunden
320 kr
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Fundamental Rights and Conflicts Among Rights
Av Mary Ann Glendon, Pierluca Azarro
Inbunden, 2020
734 kr
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How far have we come putting into practice what was declared in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which this year marks its 70th anniversary? How can the Church respond today to the new challenges threatening these rights, whether relativism, fundamentalism, and persecution or new types of …
