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The Collective-Action Constitution discusses how the U.S. Constitution is based on the principles of collective action among states, and how this understanding can provide guidance on addressing the sobering problems facing America today.

This pack contains at a discounted price volumes I and II of D. S. Levene's Livy: The Fragments and Periochae. The first volume contains the fragments, citations, and testimonia. The second volume contains Books 1-45 of the Periochae. Both texts are presented with an introduction, facing-page translation, and commentaries.

In this monumental new work, Frank Griffel argues that what he calls the "post-classical" period of Islamic philosophy has been unjustly maligned and neglected by previous generations of scholars. The Formation of Post-Classical Philosophy in Islam is a comprehensive study of the far-reaching changes that led to a re-shaping of the philosophical discourse in Islam during the twelfth century, when Muslim thinkers began to produce books in a new genre of philosophical literature they called "¿ikma."

Evangelical women have been national leaders in the New Christian Right since its ascendancy in the 1970s. This book focuses on four women - Marabel Morgan, Anita Bryant, Beverly LaHaye, and Tammy Faye Bakker - and traces their legacies in the twenty-first century careers of Sarah Palin and Michele Bachmann.

'Open it up, this catalogue of memory in black-and-white, where the mind may wander ...'Take the passage through the cellar door, as the pages of this anthology lead you down dark steps into a room lit up with ideas, words and wonder. Skip across continents, see colour anew, dress in the costumes of loved ones or fall through the earth into a world below.The University of Sydney's Master of Publishing students bring you a selection of creative works from our finest emerging writers.

The year was 1945. The place was San Francisco. The topic was the world.Ashley Hogan tells the story of a moment in human history when Australia became known for its courage and liberalism. At the conference that founded the United Nations, Australia spoke to the Great Powers on behalf of the other nations of the world with a voice that commanded universal respect. That voice belonged to Dr Herbert Vere Evatt.Three years later, Doc Evatt's commitment to an international order that included all nations was rewarded by his election as President of the General Assembly. His belief that lasting peace could not be secured without economic and social justice flowered into the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.Moving in the Open Daylight is a short book about a big story. For a world that has once again become rent by inequality and war, it is an important and inspiring story.

Tobias Smollett After 300 Years offers a collection of essays on one of the great literary figures of the eighteenth century: the Scottish writer, Tobias Smollett (1721-1771). Drawing together the work of an international group of scholars, with a variety of critical approaches, the book examines aspects of Smollett's life, writing and reputation on the three-hundredth anniversary of his birth.

Faking It analyzes Victorian novels containing supposedly authentic transcriptions of letters, diary entries, memoirs, travelogues, witness testimonies, newspaper clippings, and other documentary evidence that purportedly verify a narrative's claims of truth. Stockstill argues for a reexamination of the documentary novel's affordances and even flexibility despite the form's inherent constraints.

Amid a recent surge in arguments that the global economy has begun to "de-globalize," a question has emerged: will globalization survive? In One From the Many: The Global Economy Since 1850, Christopher M. Meissner argues that based on the long-run of history, globalization will not be easily vanquished. However, globalization can only survive if humanity continues to recognize its common interests and the amazing untapped potential of further integration. At the same time, the potential adverse effects of greater integration must be acknowledged, mitigated, and minimized.

This book examines how Samuel Johnson was assimilated by later writers, ranging from James Boswell to Samuel Beckett. It is as much about these writers as Johnson himself, showing how they found their own space, in part, through their response to Johnson, which helped shape their writing and view of contemporary literature.

Ethical Crossroads in Literary Modernism is the first book length study to use an expansive and cutting-edge definition of modernist ethics and acts as both the definitive introduction to the topic and offers a series of original and ground-breaking essays.