The Idea of Justice, Paperback - Amartya Sen

Social justice: an ideal, forever beyond our grasp; or one of many practical possibilities? More than a matter of intellectual discourse, the idea ...

Reducere. In sixteen linked essays, Nobel Prize--winning economist Amartya Sen discusses India's intellectual and political heritage and how its argumentativ...

Reducere. In this sweeping philosophical work, Amartya Sen proposes that the murderous violence that has riven our society is driven as much by confusion as ...

Publisher: Polity PressAuthor(s): Lawrence HamiltonNumber of pages: 240Collection: Key Contemporary ThinkersPublication date: 2019Dimensions: 154 x...

Particular attention was paid to the theory of political marketing, with conceptual definitions developed to better facilitate communication betwee...

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This title is a synthesis of the thought of economist Amartya Sen, who views economic development as a means to extending freedoms rather than an e...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Amartya K. SenAuthor: Russell Sage FoundationIn this deft analysis, Amartya Sen argues that the dictum all men are created ...

Rationality and freedom are among the most profound and contentious concepts in philosophy and the social sciences. In two volumes on rationality, ...

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The Idea of Spatial Form contains the classic essay that introduced the concept of "spatial form" into literary discussion in 1945, and has since b...

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Reducere. Death and the Idea of Mexico is the first social, cultural, and political history of death in a nation that has made death its tutelary sign. Exami...

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Reducere. One of Newman's best and most accessible books, The Idea of a University stands among the central texts of the Oxford Movement and remains a crucia...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Sonya (University of Roehampton, UK) NevinIllustration(s): 11 bw illusNumber of pages: 256Publicatio...

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Publisher: William B Eerdmans Publishing CoAuthor(s): Wolfhart PannenbergIllustration(s): black & white illustrationsTranslator: Philip ClaytonNumb...

Reducere. Highlander serves as a catalyst for grassroots organizing and movement building in Appalachia and the South. We work with people fighting for justi...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdNumber of pages: 634Collection: The Library of Essays on JusticePublication date: 2017Dimensions: 169 x 245 x 40Cove...

DescriptionIn sixteenth-century Northern Europe, during a time of increasing religious and political conflict, Flemish painter Pieter Bruegel explo...

Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, IncAuthor(s): Robert BernasconiNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2000Dimensions: 211 x 134 x 12Cover type: Pa...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Grace LaveryIllustration(s): 14 b/w illus.Number of pages: 240Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 155...

Reducere. Habermas and earlier members of the Frankfurt School have presented critical theory as a radically new form of knowledge. It is differentiated from...

Reducere. "The Idea of a Human Rights Museum" is the first book to examine the formation of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights and to situate the museum wi...

The idea of civilization recurs frequently in reflections on international politics. However, International Relations academic writings on civiliza...

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Dauntless journalist Julie K. Brown recounts her uncompromising and risky investigation of Jeffrey Epstein's underage sex trafficking operation, an...

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Examining three turning points that shaped exceptionalism in both Americas - the late colonial and early Republican period, expansion into the fron...

DescriptionThe idea of socialism has given normative grounding and orientation to the outrage over capitalism for more than 150 years, and yet toda...

Reducere. Religious intolerance, so terrible and deadly in its recent manifestations, is nothing new. In fact, until after the eighteenth century, Christiani...

... this is a remarkable book. It will occupy a significant place in the critical literature of African Studies." --International Journal of Africa...

Reducere. "The Idea of a University is an] eloquent defense of a liberal education which is perhaps the most timeless of all Newman's] books and certainly th...

The autobiography of the Somerset and England cricketer Fred Rumsey, a charismatic fast bowler who founded the Professional Cricketers' Association.

Great Economic Thinkers presents an accessible introduction to the lives and works of thirteen of the most influential economists of modern times: ...

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Reducere. Historian Arthur Herman traces the roots of declinism and shows how major thinkers, past and present, have contributed to its development as a cohe...

Reducere. This revised edition of a classic text provides a concise case for the role of the Christian college and its distinctive mission and contribution. ...

DescriptionAncient and medieval labyrinths embody paradox, according to Penelope Reed Doob. Their structure allows a double perspective--the baffli...

This Element examines progress in research and practice in forensic authorship analysis. It describes the existing research base and examines what ...

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Reducere. In Film Blackness Michael Boyce Gillespie shifts the ways we think about black film, treating it not as a category, a genre, or strictly a represen...

What common culture is, what it offers, and how to generate it.Publisher: John Hunt PublishingAuthor(s): Brian GrahamNumber of pages: 192Publicatio...

Theories of social justice are necessarily abstract, reaching beyond the particular and the immediate to the general and the timeless. Yet such the...

Rawls' 1971 text links the idea of social justice to a basic sense of fairness that recognizes human rights and freedoms. Controversially, though, ...

In her classic way, Kerr spins a tale of beginnings and ends, of love and heartbreak, as the spiral narrative winds round upon itself in this final...

Reducere. Christy AwardsTwo racially charged cases. Two attorneys searching for the truth. But only one will stay alive long enough to find it. 1964 Justice,...

Reducere. This trial should be a slam-dunk. A faceless powerbroker has other ideas...Small-town prosecutor Mara Brent must be tough as nails to succeed in he...