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  • The Myth of the Litigious Society

    Why We Don't Sue

    de David M. Engel ...
    Why do Americans seem to sue at the slightest provocation? The answer may surprise you: we don't! For every "Whiplash Charlie" who sees a car accident as a chance to make millions, for every McDonald's customer to pursue a claim over a too-hot cup of coffee, many more Americans suffer injuries but make no claims against those responsible or their insurance companies. The question is not why ... Leer más

    $15.19 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Research Handbook on Civil Justice

    Edición de Anne Bloom, David M. Engel, Richard L. Jolly ...
    Series series Research Handbooks in Law and Society series
    This comprehensive Research Handbook surveys the landscape of civil justice through a global and interdisciplinary lens. World-leading experts provide insight on law's shortcomings, the gap between aspiration and achievement, and the unmet needs of those who have been failed by the legal system as well as a hopeful vision for attaining justice.Chapters illustrate that the civil justice system is ... Leer más

    $58.99 USD

  • The Asian Law and Society Reader

    de Lynette J. Chua, David M. Engel, Sida Liu ...
    The first reader on Asian law and society scholarship, this book features reading selections from a wide range of Asian countries – East, South, Southeast and Central Asia – along with original commentaries by the three editors on the theoretical debates and research methods pertinent to the discipline. Organized by themes and topical areas, the reader enables scholars and students to break out of ... Leer más

    $36.99 USD

  • Fault Lines

    Tort Law as Cultural Practice

    Edición de David M. Engel, Michael McCann ...
    Series series The Cultural Lives of Law
    Tort law, a fundamental building block of every legal system, features prominently in mass culture and political debates. As this pioneering anthology reveals, tort law is not simply a collection of legal rules and procedures, but a set of cultural responses to the broader problems of risk, injury, assignment of responsibility, compensation, valuation, and obligation.Examining tort law as a ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD

  • Rights of Inclusion

    Law and Identity in the Life Stories of Americans with Disabilities

    de David M. Engel, Frank W. Munger ...
    Series series Chicago Series in Law and Society
    Rights of Inclusion provides an innovative, accessible perspective on how civil rights legislation affects the lives of ordinary Americans. Based on eye-opening and deeply moving interviews with intended beneficiaries of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), David M. Engel and Frank W. Munger argue for a radically new understanding of rights-one that focuses on their role in everyday lives ... Leer más

    $23.79 USD

  • Injury and Injustice

    The Cultural Politics of Harm and Redress

    Edición de Anne Bloom, David M. Engel, Michael McCann ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Law and Society
    This book addresses some of the most difficult and important debates over injury and law now taking place in societies around the world. The essays tackle the inescapable experience of injury and its implications for social inequality in different cultural settings. Topics include the tension between physical and reputational injuries, the construction of human injuries versus injuries to non ... Leer más

    $43.99 USD

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    Moving Beyond Traditional Classrooms and "Tougher Standards"

    de Alfie Kohn ...
    In this provocative and well-researched book, Alfie Kohn builds a powerful argument against “teaching to the test” in favor of more child-centered curriculums to raise lifelong learners.Drawing on stories from real classrooms and extensive research, Kohn shows parents, educators, and others how schools can help students explore ideas rather than just fill them with forgettable facts and prepare ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • Citizenship and Its Discontents

    An Indian History

    de Niraja Gopal Jayal ...
    Breaking new ground in scholarship, Niraja Jayal writes the first history of citizenship in the largest democracy in the world—India. Unlike the mature democracies of the west, India began as a true republic of equals with a complex architecture of citizenship rights that was sensitive to the many hierarchies of Indian society. In this provocative biography of the defining aspiration of modern ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD

  • Handbook of Asian Education

    A Cultural Perspective

    Edición de Yong Zhao, Jing Lei, Guofang Li, Ming Fang He, Kaori Okano, Nagwa Megahed, David Gamage, Hema Ramanathan ...
    Comprehensive and authoritative, this Handbook provides a nuanced description and analysis of educational systems, practices, and policies in Asian countries and explains and interprets these practices from cultural, social, historical, and economic perspectives.Using a culture-based framework, the volume is organized in five sections, each devoted to educational practices in one civilization in ... Leer más

    $179.99 USD

  • Soul Searching

    Why Psychotherapy Must Promote Moral Responsibility

    de William J. Doherty ...
    Paul, a divorced father, wants to back out of his child care arrangement and spend less time with his children. Nathan has been lying to his wife about a serious medical condition. Marsha, recently separated from her husband, cannot resist telling her children negative things about their father. What is the role of therapy in these situations? Trained to strive for neutrality and to focus strictly ... Leer más

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  • Conflicted Democracies and Gendered Violence

    Internal Conflict and Social Upheaval in India

    Edición de Angana P. Chatterji, Shashi Buluswar, Mallika Kaur ...
    Conflicted Democracies and Gendered Violence elucidates the centrality of political and foundational violence in the governance of conflicted democracies in the postcolony, calling attention to the urgent need for transformation. Spectacular and quotidian gendered and sexualized violence by states and collectives holds in place fraught and unjust histories and relations between elites and ... Leer más

    $29.99 USD

  • Claiming Disability

    Knowledge and Identity

    de Simi Linton ...
    Series series Cultural Front
    From public transportation and education to adequate access to buildings, the social impact of disability has been felt everywhere since the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990. And a remarkable groundswell of activism and critical literature has followed in this wake.Claiming Disability is the first comprehensive examination of Disability Studies as a field of inquiry. ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD