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Body Panic: Gender, Health, and the Selling of Fitness

Body Panic: Gender, Health, and the Selling of Fitness

Shari L. Dworkin

Your body fat index? Increasingly, Americans are being sold on a fitness ideal — not just thin but toned, not just muscular but cut — that is harder and harder to reach. In Body Panic, Shari L. Dworkin and Faye Linda Wachs ask why.
Justice for Hedgehogs

Justice for Hedgehogs

Ronald Dworkin

In Dworkin’s master work, the central thesis is that all areas of value depend on one another. This is one, big thing that the hedgehog knows, in contrast to the fox, who knows many little things.
Ronald Dworkin

Ronald Dworkin

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Introductory volume to Ronald Dworkin, the influential legal and political philosopher.
Ronald Dworkin: Third Edition

Ronald Dworkin: Third Edition

Stephen Guest

Accessibly written for a wide readership, this book captures the complexity and depth of thought of Ronald Dworkin.
Justice in Robes

Justice in Robes

Ronald Dworkin

How should a judge's moral convictions bear on his judgments about what the law is? In these essays, Dworkin charts a variety of dimensions in which law and morals are interwoven.
Things Go Flying

Things Go Flying

Shari Lapeña

Shari Lapeña takes the wit of David Sedaris and the outrageousness of Douglas Coupland to create a dark, hilarious and wildly inventive contemporary comedy about how the past can come back to haunt you.
A Stranger in the House

A Stranger in the House

Shari Lapena

‘So many dizzying twists you'd better not drive after reading’ LINWOOD BARCLAY The electrifying new thriller from Shari Lapena, author of the Sunday Times bestseller, The Couple Next Door. ***** Why would you run scared from a happy ...
Naboparret

Naboparret

Shari Lapena

Hun er væk. Du har aldrig ringet til politiet før. Nu er de i jeres hus. Hvem ved, hvad de kommer til at finde ... Shari Lapenas psykologiske thriller NABOPARRET er blevet en international bestseller. En baby forsvinder sporløst.
Class Struggles

Class Struggles

Dennis L. Dworkin

CONCEPTS, THEORIES P R A C T I C CLASS STRUGGLES DENNIS DWORKIN "Once a master category of historical and social analysis, the concept of class has been in trouble for some time now. In a book remarkable for its focus and ...
Religion without God

Religion without God

Ronald Dworkin

In his last book, Ronald Dworkin addresses timeless questions: What is religion and what is God's place in it?
Law's Empire

Law's Empire

Ronald Dworkin

A renowned legal scholar presents a theory of law based on Anglo-American legal principles and practices, juridical interpretations, legal precedence, and a forcefully argued concept of political and legal integrity 'Ronald Dworkin is ...
Gender, Labour, War and Empire: Essays on Modern Britain

Gender, Labour, War and Empire: Essays on Modern Britain

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See Dennis Dworkin, Cultural Marxism in Postwar Britain: History, the New Left, and the Origins of Cultural Studies (Durham, NC, 1997). Dennis Dworkin, Class Struggles (London, 2007). For a discussion of Davidoff's background and work, ...
The Legacy of Ronald Dworkin

The Legacy of Ronald Dworkin

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This book comprises sixteen papers selected from the 2014 McMaster University Philosophy of Law Conference (lawconf.mcmaster.ca) on the legacy of Ronald Dworkin (lawconf.mcmaster.ca).
Exploring Law's Empire: The Jurisprudence of Ronald Dworkin

Exploring Law's Empire: The Jurisprudence of Ronald Dworkin

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Exploring Law's Empire is a collection of essays examining the work of Ronald Dworkin in the philosophy of law and constitutionalism.
Left History

Left History

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Dennis Dworkin University of Nevada at Reno 1 Cornel West, "In Memorium: The Legacy of Raymond Williams" in C. Pendergast, ed., Cultural Materialism: Essays on Raymond Williams (Minneapolis 1995), ix. 2 Dennis Dworkin, "Cultural ...
Views Beyond the Border Country: Raymond Williams and ...

Views Beyond the Border Country: Raymond Williams and ...

Dennis Dworkin

Raymond Williams and Cultural Politics Dennis Dworkin Leslie Roman ... Cataloging in Publication Data Views beyond the border country : Raymond Williams and cultural politics / edited by Dennis Dworkin and Leslie G. Roman. p. cm.
Shi'i Reformation in Iran: The Life and Theology of Shari’at ...

Shi'i Reformation in Iran: The Life and Theology of Shari’at ...

Ali Rahnema

The Life and Theology of Shari'at Sangelaji Ali Rahnema. First published 2015 by Ashgate Publishing Published 2016 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX144RN 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017, USA ...
Egalitarian Rights Recognition: A Political Theory of Human ...

Egalitarian Rights Recognition: A Political Theory of Human ...

Matt Hann

195; Ari Kohen convincingly argues that Dworkin's efforts to establish a secular sacredness are not successful: Kohen, In Defense of Human Rights, pp. 64–84; see also Ari Kohen, “The Problem of Secular Sacredness: Ronald Dworkin, ...
Yiutjip k'ŏp'ŭl: The couple next door

Yiutjip k'ŏp'ŭl: The couple next door

Shari Lapeña

Anne and Marco Conti seem to have it all -- a loving relationship, a wonderful home, and their beautiful baby, Cora.
The Theory and Practice of Autonomy

The Theory and Practice of Autonomy

Gerald Dworkin

This important new book develops a new concept of autonomy.
A Handbook of Literary Feminisms

A Handbook of Literary Feminisms

Shari Benstock

The first section of the book offers a history of women's contributions to Anglo-American literature over the past 500 years.
Revolution by Judiciary: The Structure of American ...

Revolution by Judiciary: The Structure of American ...

Jed Rubenfeld

It was a No-Application Understanding. This is a powerful argument that challenges current theories of constitutional interpretation from Bork to Dworkin.
The bachelors' bride: a novel

The bachelors' bride: a novel

Stephen Koch

Jason Phillips, a young art history professor, becomes caught up in the exciting world of Mel Dworkin, a charismatic new painter
Happiness Economics

Happiness Economics

Shari Lapeña

Shortlisted for the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour Will Thorne is a stalled poet, married to Judy, a wildly successful celebrity economist.
The Utilitarian response: the contemporary viability of ...

The Utilitarian response: the contemporary viability of ...

Lincoln Allison

This book explores the capacity of utilitarianism to respond to the challenge of theories such as those of Rawls, Nozick and Dworkin, which focus primarily on the individual.

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