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Lilla LoCurto

This volume accompanies an exhibition of 18 of these images. Helaine Posner is an independent curator living in New York.
Kiki Smith

Kiki Smith

Helaine Posner

Offers a look at the work and life of the American artist who uses such materials as glass, metal, wood, paper, ink, paint, and wax in her work
Overcoming Law

Overcoming Law

Richard A. Posner

Throughout, the book is unified by Posner's distinctive stance, which is pragmatist in philosophy, economic in methodology, and liberal (in the sense of John Stuart Mill's liberalism) in politics.
Antitrust Law, Second Edition

Antitrust Law, Second Edition

Richard A. Posner

In this thoroughly revised edition, Posner explains the economic approach to new generations of lawyers and students.
Law, Pragmatism, and Democracy

Law, Pragmatism, and Democracy

Richard A. Posner

Richard Posner argues for a conception of the liberal state based on pragmatic theories of government.
The Index Card: Why Personal Finance Doesn't Have to Be ...

The Index Card: Why Personal Finance Doesn't Have to Be ...

Helaine Olen

Helaine Olen is the author of Pound Foolish, writes The Bills column for Slate, and is a regular columnist for Inc. magazine. She has appeared on numerous media outlets, including The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and Frontline. Business ...
Aging and Old Age

Aging and Old Age

Richard A. Posner

Observing that people change both physically and cognitively as they age, Posner suggests that each of us has, in succession, two separate selves - younger and older - with different abilities, interests, and behaviors, an insight that ...
How Judges Think

How Judges Think

Richard A. Posner

A distinguished and experienced appellate court judge, Posner offers in this new book a unique and, to orthodox legal thinkers, a startling perspective on how judges and justices decide cases.
How Judges Think

How Judges Think

Richard A. Posner

C.K.Rowland and RobertA. Carp, Politicsand Judgment in Federal District Courts 165 (1996). 12. SeeRichard A. Posner, “Cognitive Theory as the Ground ofPolitical Theoryin Plato, Popper, Dewey, andHayek,” in Cognition and Economics ...
No Hormones, No Fear: A Natural Journey Through Menopause

No Hormones, No Fear: A Natural Journey Through Menopause

Trisha Posner

No Hormones, No Fear is the story of Posner’s search for an alternative to the AMA’s sanctioned regimen of hormone replacement therapy.
Sex and Reason

Sex and Reason

Richard A. POSNER

Richard A. Posner is Circuit Judge, the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, and a senior lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School.
Terror in the Balance: Security, Liberty, and the Courts

Terror in the Balance: Security, Liberty, and the Courts

Eric A. Posner

In Terror in the Balance, Posner and Vermeule take on civil libertarians of both the left and the right, arguing that the government should be given wide latitude to adjust policy and liberties in the times of emergency.
Killing JFK: 50 Years, 50 Lies: --From the Warren Commission ...

Killing JFK: 50 Years, 50 Lies: --From the Warren Commission ...

Dr. Lance Moore

Ms. Lee, at 87, is suing her literary agent, Samuel Pinkus, who was in partnership with Posner, for trying to steal the copyright (and ... Her lawsuit asserts that Pinkus and Posner created a company in 2011 called Philologus Procurator Inc.,  ...
Frontiers of Legal Theory

Frontiers of Legal Theory

Richard A. Posner

The most exciting development in legal thinking since World War II has been the growth of interdisciplinary legal studies. Judge Richard Posner has been a leader in this movement, and his new book explores its rapidly expanding frontier.
The Executive Unbound: After the Madisonian Republic

The Executive Unbound: After the Madisonian Republic

Eric A. Posner

The answer, according to legal scholars Eric Posner and Adrian Vermeule, is nothing. In The Executive Unbound, they provide a bracing challenge to conventional wisdom, arguing that a strong presidency is inevitable in the modern world.
Cardozo: A Study in Reputation

Cardozo: A Study in Reputation

Richard A. Posner

How are reputations forged? Why do some reputations endure, while others crumble? And how can we know whether a reputation is fairly deserved? In this ambitious book, Richard Posner confronts these questions in the case of Benjamin Cardozo.
Masterpieces of Classic Greek Drama

Masterpieces of Classic Greek Drama

Helaine L. Smith

... S. Severson Masterpieces of Modern British and Irish Drama Sanford Stemlicht Masterpieces of ZOth-Century American Drama Susan C. W Abbotson MASTERPIECES OF CLASSIC GREEK DRAMA Helaine L. Smith Greenwood Introduces.
Teaching Particulars: Literary Conversations in Grades 6-12

Teaching Particulars: Literary Conversations in Grades 6-12

Helaine L. Smith

It’s never too late to be startled into delight by the power of language, and that is the experience offered on every page of this book.
Pound Foolish: Exposing the Dark Side of the Personal ...

Pound Foolish: Exposing the Dark Side of the Personal ...

Helaine Olen

Not only is there little evidence this is true, the entire movement is largely funded and promoted by the financial services sector.
School and Community

School and Community

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... N-26; D-17; J-15; F-19; M-26; A-23; May-17 SHAW, HELAINE L., D-14 Shelton, Hazel L., May-16 SMITH, FLORENCE, F-18 Some Former Teachers, A-15 Sources in Anthropology, F-ll South-Central Missouri Teachers Association Program, ...
The Big Green Book of the Big Blue Sea

The Big Green Book of the Big Blue Sea

Helaine Becker

Looks at the ocean and the dramatic ecological changes that it is going through, while offering activities that demonstrate scientific principles related to the issues raised in the text.
Homer and the Homeric Hymns: Mythology for Reading and ...

Homer and the Homeric Hymns: Mythology for Reading and ...

Helaine L. Smith

With full introduction, background material, analytical and creative writing suggestions, sample essays, glossaries, and complete indexes, this book is a teaching jewel.
Town of Shadows (paperback)

Town of Shadows (paperback)

Lindsay Stern

Thank you to my teachers and professors, especially Alexander George, Daniel Hall, Jee Leong Koh, Joseph Reiser and Helaine Smith, who have taught me how and why to think. Thank you to Laura Goode, Paul Griffin, Thomas Hummel,  ...
Gallatin National Forest (N.F.), Land Exchanges: ...

Gallatin National Forest (N.F.), Land Exchanges: ...

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Details of the geologlcal history of the region have been or are being completed in open-file theses investigated by graduate students at Montana State University : Helaine Walsh, Alan Kehew, and Clifford Montague . Impact on Vegetation ...
The Index Card: Why Personal Finance Doesn't Have to Be ...

The Index Card: Why Personal Finance Doesn't Have to Be ...

Helaine Olen

The post went viral. Now Pollack teams up with Olen to explain why the ten simple rules of the index card outperform more complicated financial strategies.

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