Defending Humanity

Defending Humanity
Title Defending Humanity PDF eBook
Author George P. Fletcher
Publisher Oxford University Press on Demand
Pages 285
Release 2008-03-18
Genre Law
ISBN 0195183088

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Recoge: Murder among nations -- How to talk about self-defense -- A theory of legitimate defense -- The six elements of legitimate defense -- Excusing international aggression -- Humanitarian intervention -- Preemptive and preventitive wars -- The collective dimension of war.

Reading the Bible from the Margins

Reading the Bible from the Margins
Title Reading the Bible from the Margins PDF eBook
Author Miguel A. De La Torre
Publisher Orbis Books
Pages 244
Release 2002-01-01
Genre Religion
ISBN 1608333418

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This introduction focuses on how issues involving race, class, and gender influence our understanding of the Bible. Describing how "standard" readings of the Bible are not always acceptable to people or groups on the "margins," this book afters valuable new insights into biblical texts today.

Don't Make Me Think

Don't Make Me Think
Title Don't Make Me Think PDF eBook
Author Steve Krug
Publisher Pearson Education
Pages 325
Release 2009-08-05
Genre Computers
ISBN 0321648781

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Five years and more than 100,000 copies after it was first published, it's hard to imagine anyone working in Web design who hasn't read Steve Krug's "instant classic" on Web usability, but people are still discovering it every day. In this second edition, Steve adds three new chapters in the same style as the original: wry and entertaining, yet loaded with insights and practical advice for novice and veteran alike. Don't be surprised if it completely changes the way you think about Web design. Three New Chapters! Usability as common courtesy -- Why people really leave Web sites Web Accessibility, CSS, and you -- Making sites usable and accessible Help! My boss wants me to ______. -- Surviving executive design whims "I thought usability was the enemy of design until I read the first edition of this book. Don't Make Me Think! showed me how to put myself in the position of the person who uses my site. After reading it over a couple of hours and putting its ideas to work for the past five years, I can say it has done more to improve my abilities as a Web designer than any other book. In this second edition, Steve Krug adds essential ammunition for those whose bosses, clients, stakeholders, and marketing managers insist on doing the wrong thing. If you design, write, program, own, or manage Web sites, you must read this book." -- Jeffrey Zeldman, author of Designing with Web Standards

Against Autonomy

Against Autonomy
Title Against Autonomy PDF eBook
Author Sarah Conly
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 215
Release 2013
Genre Education
ISBN 1107024846

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Argues that laws that enforce what is good for the individual's well-being, or hinder what is bad, are morally justified.

Justifying the Margins

Justifying the Margins
Title Justifying the Margins PDF eBook
Author Pierre Joris
Publisher Salt Publishing
Pages 178
Release 2009
Genre Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN

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In this collection of essays, poet, translator, anthologist and critic Pierre Joris extends his "nomad poetics" to a remarkable zigzagging on the margins of twentieth and twenty-first century poetry and poetics. For Justifying the Margins refuses, precisely, to fill out spaces neatly to yield (to) straightened out, pre-set margins, be they cultural, literary, linguistic or political; Joris rather wanders through those spaces, and thereby "justifies" the margins properly speaking. His travel/travails set off with absorbing explorations of writing as such - traversing languages and crossing genres -, and seem to turn this collection into a marvelous group improvisation of texts, which range from journal entries, over lectures, essayistic writing, (auto)biographical notes, translation, obits and interview, to Joris's outstanding and characteristically intense readings. The author, moreover, brilliantly moves across - and vindicates - multiple fringes. Joris's observation with respect to French literature, for instance, namely that "the most interesting and explorative literary writing in French of the last fifty years has not come from Paris, but from the periphery of the old colonial empire," not only leads him to continually resurfacing meditations on North African and Arabic literature, or the rerouted Surrealism of Unica Zürn's anagrams, it also allows him to investigate the margins of English and American poetry, in Douglas Oliver and Ronald Johnson, or even to deftly (re)consider core figures such as Antonin Artaud, Charles Olson and Paul Celan - with, in turn, new offshoots in Jacques Derrida's pipe or Irving Petlin's paintings.A fascinating "travelogue," and a truly valuable read, Justifying the Margins is highly recommended to both the specialist and general reader interested in experimental art, thought, poetry and poetics!

The Good and the Good Book

The Good and the Good Book
Title The Good and the Good Book PDF eBook
Author Samuel Fleischacker
Publisher Oxford University Press, USA
Pages 173
Release 2015
Genre Philosophy
ISBN 0198733070

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Religions that center around a revelation--or a 'good book', which is seen as God's word--are widely regarded as irrational and dangerous, based on outdated science and conducive to illiberal, inhumane moral attitudes. Samuel Fleischacker offers a powerful defense of revealed religion, and reconciles it with science and liberal morality.

The Chicago Manual of Style

The Chicago Manual of Style
Title The Chicago Manual of Style PDF eBook
Author University of Chicago. Press
Publisher
Pages
Release 2003
Genre Authorship
ISBN 9780226104041

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Searchable electronic version of print product with fully hyperlinked cross-references.