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Women and Human Development: The Capabilities Approach

Women and Human Development: The Capabilities Approach

Martha C. Nussbaum

Martha Nussbaum proposes a kind of feminism that is genuinely international.
Political Emotions

Political Emotions

Martha C. Nussbaum

Martha Nussbaum asks: How can we sustain a decent society that aspires to justice and inspires sacrifice for the common good?
Cultivating Humanity

Cultivating Humanity

Martha C. Nussbaum

Philosopher and classicist Martha C. Nussbaum takes up the challenge of conservative critics of academe to argue persuasively that sustained reform in the aim and content of liberal education is the most vital and invigorating force in ...
Anger and Forgiveness: Resentment, Generosity, Justice

Anger and Forgiveness: Resentment, Generosity, Justice

Martha C. Nussbaum

In this wide-ranging book, Martha C. Nussbaum, one of our leading public intellectuals, argues that anger is conceptually confused and normatively pernicious.
From Disgust to Humanity: Sexual Orientation and ...

From Disgust to Humanity: Sexual Orientation and ...

Martha C. Nussbaum

In From Disgust to Humanity, Nussbaum aims her considerable intellectual firepower at the bulwark of opposition to gay equality: the politics of disgust.
Nussbaum and Law

Nussbaum and Law

Robin West

... Bridget Crawford, Mathilde Cohen, Matthew Collibee, Marc DeGirolami, Elizabeth Emens, Katherine Franke, Cary Franklin, Elizabeth Glazer, Janet Halley, Clare Huntington, Arthur Leonard, Andrew Lund, Linda McClain, Martha Nussbaum, ...
Upheavals of Thought: The Intelligence of Emotions

Upheavals of Thought: The Intelligence of Emotions

Martha C. Nussbaum

A philosophical examination of the emotions as highly discriminating responses to what is of value.
Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities

Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities

Martha C. Nussbaum

Translated into over twenty languages, Not for Profit draws on the stories of troubling—and hopeful—global educational developments.
Creating Capabilities

Creating Capabilities

Martha C. Nussbaum

Argues that a country's development should not be measured by its gross domestic product, but rather by whether most of its people have access to basic education, health care and other opportunities available in more advanced countries.
Sex and Social Justice

Sex and Social Justice

Martha C. Nussbaum

Brought together for this timely collection, these essays, extensively revised where previously published, offer incisive political reflections by one of our most important living philosophers.
The Limits of the Human: Fictions of Anomaly, Race and ...

The Limits of the Human: Fictions of Anomaly, Race and ...

Felicity Nussbaum

In this book, Nussbaum examines literary and cultural representations of human difference in eighteenth-century English literature.
The Return of Feminist Liberalism

The Return of Feminist Liberalism

Ruth Abbey

This book examines the positions of three contemporary feminists - Martha Nussbaum, Susan Moller Okin and Jean Hampton - who, notwithstanding decades of feminist critique, are unwilling to give up on liberalism.
Journal of Nonlinear and Convex Analysis

Journal of Nonlinear and Convex Analysis

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[6] B. Lemmens, R. D. Nussbaum, and S. M. Verduyn Lunel, Lower and upper bounds for w-limit sets of nonexpansive maps. Indag ... [14] R. D. Nussbaum and M. Scheutzow, Admissible arrays and 362 BAS LEMMENS AND ONNO VAN GAANS.
Frontiers of Justice: Disability, Nationality, Species ...

Frontiers of Justice: Disability, Nationality, Species ...

Martha C. NUSSBAUM

Theories of social justice, addressing the world and its problems, must respond to the real and changing dilemmas of the day. A brilliant work of practical philosophy, Frontiers of Justice is dedicated to this proposition.
Inter Views in Performance Philosophy: Crossings and ...

Inter Views in Performance Philosophy: Crossings and ...

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(Alison Stone, Moya Lloyd, Lisa Disch, Fiona Webster, Lois McNay, Martha Nussbaum, Penelope Deutscher), just that none approach her as a theorist of subversion. See Alison Stone, “Towards a genealogical feminism: A reading of Judith ...
The Music Between Us: Is Music a Universal Language?

The Music Between Us: Is Music a Universal Language?

Kathleen Marie Higgins

... James Averill, Martha Nussbaum, Kimasi Browne, Eric Charry, Ya-Hui Cheng, Julia Ching, Meribeth Clark, Amber CliffordNapoleone, Kathleen Costello, Steven Feld, Marilyn Fischer, Danielle FoslerLussier, Nico Frijda, Acknowledgments.
Pictorial Narrative in the Nazi Period: Felix Nussbaum, ...

Pictorial Narrative in the Nazi Period: Felix Nussbaum, ...

Deborah Schultz

This book investigates creative responses to the Nazi period in the work of three artists, Felix Nussbaum, Charlotte Salomon and Arnold Daghani, focusing on their use of pictorial narrative.
Martha Stewart: A Biography

Martha Stewart: A Biography

Joann F. Price

In her Newsweek article, Laura Shapiro described Martha as “the Barbara Cartland (well-known British romance author) of food, and she has a succinct explanation for her phenomenal success—“My ideas are good,” she (Martha) states.
Martha: the life and work of Martha Graham

Martha: the life and work of Martha Graham

Agnes De Mille

The author, a celebrated choreographer and a friend of Martha Graham for more than sixty years, traces Graham's life and career and discusses her training as a student, her early successes, and her development of a new language of dance
Martha Graham: une fleur de serre exotique

Martha Graham: une fleur de serre exotique

Claudie Servian

201 Martha Graham, in Alice Helpern, op., cit., p. 9. « I wanted significant movement, I did not want it to be beautiful or fluid. I wanted it to be fraught with inner meaning, with excitement and surge. » 202 Id., Ibid., p.215. 203 Martha Graham ...
The American descendants of Henry Luce, 1640 to 1978

The American descendants of Henry Luce, 1640 to 1978

Martha Fletcher McCourt

MARTHA'S VINEYARD-16<*0-1978" by Martha Fletcher McCourt, has been donated free of charge to the fDllouing libraries and historical societies: 1. The GENERAL SOCIETY OF MAYFLOWER DESCENDANTS— sent to the Historian ...
Ballet for Martha: Making Appalachian Spring

Ballet for Martha: Making Appalachian Spring

Jan Greenberg

A picture book about the making of Martha Graham's Appalachian Spring, her most famous dance performance Martha Graham : trailblazing choreographer Aaron Copland : distinguished American composer Isamu Noguchi : artist, sculptor, craftsman ...
Dying to Belong: Gangster Movies in Hollywood and Hong Kong

Dying to Belong: Gangster Movies in Hollywood and Hong Kong

Martha Nochimson

2007 by Martha P. Nochimson blackwell publishing 350 Main Street, Malden, MA 02148-5020, USA 9600 Garsington Road, Oxford OX4 2DQ, UK 550 Swanston Street, Carlton, Victoria 3053, Australia The right of Martha P. Nochimson to be ...
Adolescence: Talks and Papers by Donald Meltzer and Martha ...

Adolescence: Talks and Papers by Donald Meltzer and Martha ...

Martha Harris

This volume contains a representative selection of talks and writings by Martha Harris and Donald Meltzer on the key developmental phase of adolescence, from their teachings both separately and together over many years.
Martha Ann's Quilt for Queen Victoria

Martha Ann's Quilt for Queen Victoria

Kyra E. Hicks

Martha Ann's Quilt for Queen Victoria is the true story of Martha Ann Ricks, an ex-slave who spent fifty years saving spare coins to fulfill her dream of meeting the Queen of England.
Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine

Daughters of the American Revolution Magazine

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Martha Fletcher McCourt. Vol I. The American Descendants of Rev. John Smith of Martha's Vineyard- Those who Went West. 1976. Vol. II. Martha Fletcher McCourt. Tillamook History a Sequel to Tillamook Memories. Lila V. Cooper Boge. 1975 ...
Color Atlas and Synopsis of Womens Cardiovascular Health

Color Atlas and Synopsis of Womens Cardiovascular Health

Martha Gulati

... .1 5 Nkechinyere Ijioma, MBBS, and Martha Gulati, MD, MS, FACC, FAHA 1 Heart Disease in Women . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6 Kavita Sharma, MD, and Martha Gulati, MD, MS, FACC, FAHA 2 Risk Factors for Cardiovascular Disease ...
Institutions and the Right to Vote in America

Institutions and the Right to Vote in America

Martha E. Kropf

Kimball, David C. and Martha Kropf. Forthcoming. “Voter Competence with Cumulative Voting.” Social Science Quarterly. Kimball, David C., Martha Kropf and Lindsay Battles. 2006. “Helping America Vote? Election Administration, Partisanship ...
Lazarus, Mary and Martha: Social-scientific Approaches to ...

Lazarus, Mary and Martha: Social-scientific Approaches to ...

Philip Francis Esler

Lazarus, Martha, and Mary: reframing the discussion -- Social identity and prototypes: a social-scientific model for historical and theological application -- Johannine processing of the past in relation to Lazarus, Martha, and Mary -- ...
Discovering Martha

Discovering Martha

Joanne Rocklin

Does the mysterious purple guitar possess magic or does learning to play it merely motivate Martha, a sixth-grader going through an awkward stage, to change her life a little?

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