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  • The Law Is a White Dog

    How Legal Rituals Make and Unmake Persons

    by Colin Dayan ...
    A fascinating account of how the law determines or dismantles identity and personhoodAbused dogs, prisoners tortured in Guantánamo and supermax facilities, or slaves killed by the state—all are deprived of personhood through legal acts. Such deprivations have recurred throughout history, and the law sustains these terrors and banishments even as it upholds the civil order. Examining such troubling ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • With Dogs at the Edge of Life

    by Colin Dayan ...
    In this original and provocative book, Colin Dayan tackles head-on the inexhaustible world, at once tender and fierce, of dogs and humans. We follow the tracks of dogs in the bayous of Louisiana, the streets of Istanbul, and the humane societies of the United States, and in the memories and myths of the humans who love them. Dayan reorients our ethical and political assumptions through a trans ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • The Story of Cruel and Unusual

    by Colin Dayan ...
    Series series Boston Review Books
    A searing indictment of the American penal system that finds the roots of the recent prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo in the steady dismantling of the Eighth Amendment's prohibition of "cruel and unusual" punishment.The revelations of prisoner abuse and torture at Abu Ghraib and more recently at Guantánamo were shocking to most Americans. And those who condemned the treatment of ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

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    by Karl N. Llewellyn ...
    Written generations years ago, but highly relevant today, 'The Bramble Bush' remains one of the books most recommended for students to read when considering law school, just before beginning its study, or early in the first semester. Its first edition began as a collection from a series of introductory lectures given by legal legend Karl Llewellyn to new law students at Columbia University. It ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Beyond Words

    What Animals Think and Feel

    by Carl Safina ...
    The New York Times BestsellerOrion Book Award WinnerLannan Literary Award Winner“Dr. Safina is a terrific writer, majestic and puckish in equal measure, with a contagious enthusiasm...Dr. Safina draws out haunting resonances between animal lives and our own... " —Gregory Cowles, The New York Times"I wanted to know what they were experiencing, and why to us they fe... ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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  • Justicia E Internet, una Filosofia del Derecho para el Mundo Virtual

    by Anna Mancini ...
    Nuestro derecho y su filosofía fueron concebidos para un mundo económico material signado por el reparto de la escasez y por la división en territorios. El enfoque positivo del derecho no se puede concebir sin el criterio territorial. Por ejemplo, siendo el criterio territorial su piedra angular, basta quitarle el concepto de territorio para que se derrumbe la Teoría pura del derecho de KELSEN. ... Read more

    $14.08 CAD

  • The Case of the Speluncean Explorers

    Nine New Opinions

    by Peter Suber ...
    The Case of Speluncean Explorers: Nine New Opinions includes a reprint of Lon Fuller's classic article and a much-needed revision of and addition to the five opening s originally expressed in the case by five Supreme Court Judges ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • The Animal Manifesto

    Six Reasons for Expanding Our Compassion Footprint

    by Marc Bekoff ...
    In this inspirational call to action, Marc Bekoff, the world’s leading expert on animal emotions, gently shows that improving our treatment of animals is a matter of rethinking our many daily decisions and “expanding our compassion footprint.” He demonstrates that animals experience a rich range of emotions, including empathy and compassion, and that they clearly know right from wrong. Driven by ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Christine's Ark

    by John Little, Christine Townend ...
    The extraordinary story of Christine Townend and an Indian animal shelterChristine Townend is an extraordinary person, who has dedicated her life to helping the most vulnerable creatures in our society – the animals that we rely on for food, labour or just companionship.In the 1970s she founded Animal Liberation in an attempt to prevent cruel farming practices. It made her a highly controversial ... Read more

    $8.17 CAD

  • The Constitution of Risk

    by Adrian Vermeule ...
    The Constitution of Risk is the first book to combine constitutional theory with the theory of risk regulation. It argues that constitutional rulemaking is best understood as a means of managing political risks. Constitutional law structures and regulates the risks that arise in and from political life, such as an executive coup or military putsch, political abuse of ideological or ethnic ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Fairness and Justice in Natural Resource Politics

    Edited by Melanie Pichler, Cornelia Staritz, Karin Küblböck, Christina Plank, Werner Raza, Fernando Ruiz Peyré ...
    Series series Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies
    As demand for natural resources increases due to the rise in world population and living standards, conflicts over their access and control are becoming more prevalent. This book critically assesses different approaches to and conceptualizations of resource fairness and justice and applies them to the analysis of resource conflicts.Approaches addressed include cosmopolitan liberalism, political ... Read more

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  • Equality and Opportunity

    by Shlomi Segall ...
    Egalitarians have traditionally been suspicious of equality of opportunity. But the past twenty five years or so have seen a sea-change in egalitarian thinking about that concept. 'Luck egalitarians' such as G. A. Cohen, Richard Arneson, and John Roemer have paved a new way of thinking about equality of opportunity, and infused it with radical egalitarian content. In this book, Shlomi Segall ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD