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Showing 1 - 12 of 23 results for “peter j mccormick”
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  • Social Contract and Political Obligation

    A Critique and Reappraisal

    by Peter J. McCormick ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Political Thought and Political Philosophy
    First published in 1987. This study is concerned with the problem of political obligation, the normative question of why one should obey the law, and with social contract thought as an answer to this question. It is entitled a critique, but the critique is not of social contract theory as such, but rather of the "orthodox" treatment of contract that yields so readily to the rough handling and easy ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • The End of the Charter Revolution

    Looking Back from the New Normal

    by Peter J. McCormick ...
    The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms became an entrenched part of the Canadian Constitution on April 17, 1982. The Charter represented a significant change in Canadian constitutional order and carried the courts, and the Supreme Court in particular, decisively into some of the biggest controversies in Canadian politics. Although the impact of the Charter on Canadian law and society was ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

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    Age of Swords (1 of 2) [Dramatized Adaptation]

    The Legends of the First Empire 2

    by Michael J. Sullivan ...
    Narrated by A Full Cast, Terence Aselford, Colleen Delany, Jessica Lauren Ball, Eric Messner, Christopher Walker, Kimberly Gilbert, Nora Achrati, Amanda Forstrom, Thomas Keegan, Yasmin Tuazon, Chris Stinson, Bradley Smith, Richard Rohan, Lise Bruneau, Todd Scofield, Jacob Yeh, Peter Holdway, Scott McCormick, Matthew Schleigh, Nanette Savard, Tia Shearer, Joe Mallon, Zeke Alton, Chris Genebach, Matthew Ward, Michael John Casey, Christopher Scheeren, Michael Glenn, Evan Casey, David Jourdan, Matthew Bassett, Rose Elizabeth Supan, Mort Shelby, Danny Gavigan, Ken Jackson, Jonathan Feuer, Laura C. Harris, Barbara Pinolini ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - Legends of the First Empire

    Unabridged

    7 hours 23 min

    In Age of Myth, fantasy master Michael J. Sullivan launched listeners on an epic journey of magic and adventure, heroism and betrayal, love and loss. Now the thrilling saga continues as the human uprising is threatened by powerful enemies from without—and bitter rivalries from within.Raithe, the God Killer, may have started the rebellion by killing a Fhrey, but long-standing enmities dividing the ... Read more

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  • The Weimar Moment

    Liberalism, Political Theology, and Law

    by Rodrigo Chacón, Robert Gibbs, Udi Greenberg, Jeffrey C. Herf, Michael Hollerich, Gregory Kaplan, Michael McGillen, David Novak, Carl J. Rasmussen, Ulrich Rosenhagen, Klaus Tanner, Azzan Yadin-Israel, Samuel Moyn, Peter C. Caldwell, Michael W. Jennings, Gary Dorrien, Christophe Chalamet, Peter E. Gordon, John P. McCormick, Gabriel R. Ricci ...
    Series series Graven Images
    The Weimar Moment’s evocative assault on closure and political reaction, its offering of democracy against the politics of narrow self-interest cloaked in nationalist appeals to Volk and “community”—or, as would be the case in Nazi Germany, “race”—cannot but appeal to us today. This appeal—its historical grounding and content, its complexities and tensions, its variegated expressions across the ... Read more

    $161.99 USD

  • By the Court

    Anonymous Judgments at the Supreme Court of Canada

    by Peter McCormick, Marc D. Zanoni ...
    Series series Law and Society
    Any court watcher knows that the Supreme Court of Canada delivers some of its major constitutional judgments in a “By the Court” format. The abandonment of the common law tradition of attributing decisions to individual judges in favour of an anonymous and unanimous approach is remarkable given that courts are not known for their openness to change. By the Court is the first major study of these ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Beverley McLachlin

    The Legacy of a Supreme Court Chief Justice

    by Ian Greene, Peter McCormick ...
    As a judge, Beverley McLachlin is known for her unique ability to stand up for the values and beliefs that reflect the best of Canadaand Canadians. As chief justice, she led the way to assisted suicide legislation, greater recognition of aboriginal rights and title, safe injection sites for drug users and many other changes that have had a dramatic impact on Canadian life. Less well known is how ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Gold Metal Waters

    The Animas River and the Gold King Mine Spill

    Edited by Brad T. Clark, Peter McCormick ...
    Gold Metal Waters presents a uniquely inter- and transdisciplinary examination into the August 2015 Gold King Mine spill in Silverton, Colorado, when more than three million gallons of subterranean mine water, carrying 880,000 pounds of heavy metals, spilled into a tributary of the Animas River. The book illuminates the ongoing ecological, economic, political, social, and cultural significance of ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • Building High Integrity Applications with SPARK

    by John W. McCormick, Peter C. Chapin ...
    Software is pervasive in our lives. We are accustomed to dealing with the failures of much of that software - restarting an application is a very familiar solution. Such solutions are unacceptable when the software controls our cars, airplanes and medical devices or manages our private information. These applications must run without error. SPARK provides a means, based on mathematical proof, to ... Read more

    $58.29 USD

  • Weimar Thought

    A Contested Legacy

    Edited by Peter E. Gordon, John P. McCormick ...
    A comprehensive look at the intellectual and cultural innovations of the Weimar periodDuring its short lifespan, the Weimar Republic (1918–33) witnessed an unprecedented flowering of achievements in many areas, including psychology, political theory, physics, philosophy, literary and cultural criticism, and the arts. Leading intellectuals, scholars, and critics—such as Hannah Arendt, Walter ... Read more

    Was $47.59 USD Now $28.09 USD

  • Fish Physiology: Euryhaline Fishes

    Edited by Stephen D. McCormick, Anthony Peter Farrell, Colin Brauner ...
    Series Book 32 - Fish Physiology
    The need for ion and water homeostasis is common to all life. For fish, ion and water homeostasis is an especially important challenge because they live in direct contact with water and because of the large variation in the salt content of natural waters (varying by over 5 orders of magnitude). Most fish are stenohaline and are unable to move between freshwater and seawater. Remarkably, some ... Read more

    $106.19 USD

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    Pyramid Schemes [Dramatized Adaptation]

    Sir Apropos of Nothing 4

    by Peter David ...
    Narrated by Scott McCormick, Rayner Gabriel, John Kielty, Ryan Carlo Dalusung, Nazia Chaudhry, Holly Adams, Dani Stoller, Rob McFadyen, Nick DePinto, Nora Achrati, Chris Davenport ...
    Series series Sir Apropos of Nothing

    Unabridged

    8 hours 25 min

    "He’s back. Despite absolutely no requests at all, Sir Apropos of Nothing—he who was spawned from the violent assault of a tavern wench by a group of drunken knights—has returned.This time his voyages take him to the land of Rogypt, a surprisingly ancient realm where the tragic people known as the Shews labor endlessly in building pyramids for their masters. When Apropos inadvertently interferes ... Read more

    $23.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Alcatraz Versus The Dark Talent [Dramatized Adaptation]

    by Brandon Sanderson ...
    Narrated by A Full Cast, Alejandro Ruiz, Chris Genebach, Marni Penning, Christopher Walker, Eva Wilhelm, David Jourdan, Carolyn Kashner, Terence Aselford, Sakile Lyles, Kimberly Gilbert, Peter Holdway, Scott McCormick, Colleen Delany, Eric Messner, Yasmin Tuazon, Nanna Ingvarsson, Nanette Savard, Richard Rohan, Bradley Smith, Ken Jackson, Michael John Casey, Steve Wannall, Lawrence Redmond, Michael Glenn, Nick DePinto, Zeke Alton ...
    Series series Alcatraz

    Unabridged

    4 hours 41 min

    Alcatraz Smedry has successfully defeated the army of Evil Librarians and saved the kingdom of Mokia. Too bad he managed to break the Smedry Talents in the process. Even worse, his father is trying to enact a scheme that could ruin the world, and his friend, Bastille, is in a coma.To revive her, Alcatraz must infiltrate the Highbrary--known as The Library of Congress to Hushlanders--the seat of ... Read more

    Was $19.99 USD Now $17.99 USD