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The therapeutic state : Justifying government at century's end.
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ISBN: 081475791X 9780814757918 Year: 1998 Publisher: New York (N.Y.) New York University press


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Legal accents, legal borrowing
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ISBN: 1400830796 1283057972 9786613057976 9781400830794 9780691129525 0691129525 9781283057974 6613057975 0691150141 Year: 2009 Publisher: Princeton Princeton University Press

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A wide variety of problem-solving courts have been developed in the United States over the past two decades and are now being adopted in countries around the world. These innovative courts--including drug courts, community courts, domestic violence courts, and mental health courts--do not simply adjudicate offenders. Rather, they attempt to solve the problems underlying such criminal behaviors as petty theft, prostitution, and drug offenses. Legal Accents, Legal Borrowing is a study of the international problem-solving court movement and the first comparative analysis of the development of these courts in the United States and the other countries where the movement is most advanced: England, Scotland, Ireland, Canada, and Australia. Looking at the various ways in which problem-solving courts have been taken up in these countries, James Nolan finds that while importers often see themselves as adapting the American courts to suit local conditions, they may actually be taking in more aspects of American law and culture than they realize or desire. In the countries that adopt them, problem-solving courts may in fact fundamentally challenge traditional ideas about justice. Based on ethnographic research in all six countries, the book examines these cases of legal borrowing for what they reveal about legal and cultural differences, the inextricable tie between law and culture, the processes of globalization, the unique but contested global role of the United States, and the changing face of law and justice around the world.


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What they saw in America : Alexis de Tocqueville, Max Weber, G.K. Chesterton, and Sayyid Qutb
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ISBN: 1316685217 1316551067 131668332X 1107146615 1316601595 Year: 2016 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Grounded in the stories of their actual visits, What They Saw in America takes the reader through the journeys of four distinguished, yet very different foreign visitors - Alexis de Tocqueville, Max Weber, G. K. Chesterton and Sayyid Qutb - who travelled to the United States between 1830 and 1950. The comparative insights of these important outside observers (from both European and Middle Eastern countries) encourage sober reflection on a number of features of American culture that have persisted over time - individualism and conformism, the unique relationship between religion and capitalism, indifference toward nature, voluntarism, attitudes toward race, and imperialistic tendencies. Listening to these travellers' views, both the ambivalent and even the more unequivocal, can help Americans better understand themselves, more fully empathize with the values of other cultures, and more deeply comprehend how the United States is perceived from the outside.

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National characteristics, American --- History. --- Tocqueville, Alexis de, --- Weber, Max, --- Chesterton, G. K. --- Quṭb, Sayyid, --- Quṭb, Saiyid, --- Kotb, Sayed, --- Qutb, Sayyed, --- Kutub, Seyyid, --- Qutb, Syed, --- Shādhilī, Sayyid Quṭb Ibrāhīm Ḥusayn, --- Qutb, Sayed, --- Qudub, Sayid, --- Sayid Qudub, --- Qotb, Sayed, --- Kutb, Sayyid, --- Qutub, Said, --- Qotb, Seyyed, --- Qut̤b, Muḥammad, --- Muḥammad Qut̤b, --- Qutb, Mohammad, --- Mohammad Qutb, --- سيد قطب --- قطب، سيد --- قطب، سيد، --- Sayyed Qotob, --- Qotob, Sayyed, --- Sayyid Quṭb, --- Qutub, Săyyid, --- Qutup, Săyyid, --- Chesterton, G.K. --- Chesterton, Keith --- Chesterton, K. --- Chesterton, Gilbert Keith --- Chesterton, Gilbert K. --- Chesterton, Gilbert --- G. K. C. --- Честертон, Гилберт Кийт --- ウェーバー, マックス --- Tocqueville, Alexis Charles Henri Maurice Clérel de, --- Tokvilʹ, Alekseĭ de, --- De Tokvilʹ, Alekseĭ, --- Tokvilʹ, Aleksis de, --- De Tocqueville, Alexis, --- Tokuviru, Alexis, de, --- Toqueville, Alexis de, --- טוקוויל, אלכסיס דה --- توكڤيل، ألكسي دو، --- Tūkvīl, Āliksī dū, --- توکويل، آلکسى دو --- Clérel, Alexis Henri Charles de, --- Political and social views. --- Weber, Max --- Ma-kʻo-ssu Wei-po, --- Makesi Weibo, --- Pebŏ, --- Pebŏ, Maksŭ, --- Vēbā, Makkusu, --- Veber, Maks, --- Vemper, Max, --- Webŏ, Maksŭ, --- Wei-po, Ma-kʻo-ssu, --- Weibo, --- Weibo, Makesi, --- ובר, מאקס, --- ובר, מאכס --- ובר, מקס --- 韦伯, --- Quṭb, Sayyid


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Atomic doctors : conscience and complicity at the dawn of the nuclear age
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ISBN: 0674249429 0674249445 Year: 2020 Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,

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An unflinching examination of the moral and professional dilemmas faced by physicians who took part in the Manhattan Project.After his father died, James L. Nolan, Jr., took possession of a box of private family materials. To his surprise, the small secret archive contained a treasure trove of information about his grandfather’s role as a doctor in the Manhattan Project. Dr. Nolan, it turned out, had been a significant figure. A talented ob-gyn radiologist, he cared for the scientists on the project, organized safety and evacuation plans for the Trinity test at Alamogordo, escorted the “Little Boy” bomb from Los Alamos to the Pacific Islands, and was one of the first Americans to enter the irradiated ruins of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.Participation on the project challenged Dr. Nolan’s instincts as a healer. He and his medical colleagues were often conflicted, torn between their duty and desire to win the war and their oaths to protect life. Atomic Doctors follows these physicians as they sought to maximize the health and safety of those exposed to nuclear radiation, all the while serving leaders determined to minimize delays and maintain secrecy. Called upon both to guard against the harmful effects of radiation and to downplay its hazards, doctors struggled with the ethics of ending the deadliest of all wars using the most lethal of all weapons. Their work became a very human drama of ideals, co-optation, and complicity.A vital and vivid account of a largely unknown chapter in atomic history, Atomic Doctors is a profound meditation on the moral dilemmas that ordinary people face in extraordinary times.


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Reinventing justice : the American drug court movement
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ISBN: 1282087495 9786612087493 1400824761 Year: 2003 Publisher: Princeton, New Jersey ; Oxford, England : Princeton University Press,

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The findings reported in this book are based upon ethnographic observations of drug courts throughout the United States and provide a glimpse into the unique character of the American drug court model, considering the qualities and consequences of this form of criminal adjudication.

Reinventing justice : The American drug court movement.
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ISBN: 9780691114750 0691114757 Year: 2003 Publisher: Princeton (N.J.) Princeton university press

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Reinventing Justice
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ISBN: 9781400824762 Year: 2021 Publisher: Princeton, NJ

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What they saw in America
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ISBN: 9781316551066 9781107146617 9781316601594 Year: 2016 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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The therapeutic state : justifying government at century's end
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ISBN: 0814757901 Year: 1998 Publisher: New York : New York University Press,

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Discovery of the last art treasures of California's first mission
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ISBN: 0913928203 Year: 1978 Publisher: [La Jolla, Cal.] Copley Books

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