Author: Jane M.E. Roberts Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1477135154 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 189
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Advised to protect their graduate student husbands from stress, three women face confl icts within each marriage amid anti-war protests, drug use, racial unrest and the emerging feminist movement. Told from the women’s perspectives, the story begins in harmony, but turns to discord as: • Meg struggles to balance motherhood with her own academic ambitions, and copes with her husband’s violent mood swings; • Rosemary, daughter of a British coal-miner, copes with her upperclass husband’s verbal abuse; • Terry, an artist familiar with the drugs of the time, married to a former Navy SEAL, balances her anti-war activism against her husband’s Vietnam memories.
Author: Jan Fagerberg Publisher: OUP Oxford ISBN: 0191064599 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 298
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Europe is confronted by an intimidating triple challenge - economic stagnation, climate change, and a governance crisis. This book demonstrates how these three challenges are closely inter-related. A return to economic growth cannot come at the expense of greater risk of irreversible climate change. Instead, what is required is a reconceptualization of what is intended by 'economic development' and a fundamental transformation of the economy to a new 'green' trajectory, based on rapidly diminishing emission of greenhouse gases. This entails a much greater emphasis on innovation in all its forms - not just technological. Innovation policy must be placed at the very heart of industrial policy and indeed of economic policy more broadly. Other parts of the world are also facing varying forms of the triple challenge, and while the governance challenge may not be exactly the same as for Europe and the EU, Europe is uniquely placed to take the lead in addressing the triple challenge. While this may well entail certain costs in the short term, it will undoubtedly bring considerable benefits in the longer term. It should also encourage countries in other parts of the world to follow Europe's lead in this transformation process, thereby ensuring that climate change is kept within manageable bounds. Addressing the triple challenge would thus provide Europe and its citizens with a new sense of purpose, revitalizing the EU and 'the European project' over the decades to come.
Author: Mireille Delmas-Marty Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004478531 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 171
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The author addresses the question of whether globalization of law is possible in a world full of tensions due to an increase in economic inequality and the rise of national and regional differences. She discusses whether it is reasonable or imaginable to have an organized set of norms when the helter-skelter proliferation of norms and the displacement of landmarks create instead the impression of normative disorder. She then explores whether the globalization of law is ethically desirable, when none of our international institutions are currently able to guarantee respect for democratic values. Originally published in French under the title Trois Defis Pour Un Droit Mondial. Published under the Transnational Publishers imprint.
Author: Lloyd Bowen Publisher: Boydell & Brewer ISBN: 1783276096 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 249
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This book offers an analysis of Jacobean duelling and gentry honour culture through the close examination and contextualisation of the most fully documented duel of the early modern era. This was the fatal encounter between a Flintshire gentleman, Edward Morgan, and his Cheshire antagonist, John Egerton, which took place at Highgate on 21 April 1610. John Egerton was killed, but controversy quickly erupted over whether he had died in a fair fight of honour or had been murdered in a shameful conspiracy. The legal investigation into the killing produced a rich body of evidence which reveals in unparalleled detail not only the dynamics of the fight itself, but also the inner workings of a seventeenth-century metropolitan manhunt, the Middlesex coroner's court, a murder trial at King's Bench, and also the murky webs of aristocratic patronage at the Jacobean Court which ultimately allowed Morgan to secure a pardon. Uniquely, a series of dramatic Star Chamber suits have survived that also allow us to investigate the duel's origins. Their close examination, as Lloyd Bowen shows, calls into question the historiographical paradigm which sees early modern duels as matters of the moment and distinct from, as opposed to connected to, the gentry feud. The book throws much new light on questions of gentry honour, the nature and prevalence of early modern elite violence, and the process of judicial investigation in Shakespeare's England.
Author: Peter Morris Publisher: University of Michigan Press ISBN: 9780472068265 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 404
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This detailed history of early baseball in rural Michigan focuses on the evolution of America's pastime from child's game to organized sport and challenges the notion that baseball's development was strictly an East Coast phenomenon
Author: Luce Irigaray Publisher: A&C Black ISBN: 1847060358 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 201
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An important collection of interviews in which Luce Irigaray discusses the full range of her work and ideas with leading academics in the fields of Continental Philosophy, Feminist Theory and Critical Theory.
Author: Ian Warwick Publisher: Sage Publications UK ISBN: 1529675936 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 158
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This book unpicks the strategy, policy and culture that has supported the social mobility success story of one of the UK′s leading schools, the London Academy of Excellence. It distils this into universal concepts and ideas that school leaders, in any context, can consider for their own schools.
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