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The New Religious Intolerance - Martha C. Nussbaum - Bog - Harvard University Press - Plusbog.dk

Drawing inspiration from philosophy, history, and literature, Martha C. Nussbaum takes us to task for our religious intolerance, identifies the fear behind it, and offers a way past fear toward a more equitable, imaginative, and free society, through the consistent application of universal principles of respect for conscience.

DKK 262.00

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Beyond Test Scores - Jack Schneider - Bog - Harvard University Press - Plusbog.dk

Test scores are the go-to metric of policy makers and anxious parents looking to place their children in the best schools. Yet standardized tests are a poor way to measure school performance. Using the diverse urban school district of Somerville MA as a case study, Jack Schneider’s team developed a new framework to assess educational effectiveness.

DKK 238.00

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Free Speech and Unfree News - Sam Lebovic - Bog - Harvard University Press - Plusbog.dk

Does America have a free press? Many who say yes appeal to First Amendment protections against censorship. Sam Lebovic shows that free speech, on its own, is not sufficient to produce a free press and helps us understand the crises that beset the press amid media consolidation, a secretive national security state, and the daily newspaper’s decline.

DKK 355.00

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Campus Free Speech - Cass R. Sunstein - Bog - Harvard University Press - Plusbog.dk

In this concise, pragmatic guide, Cass Sunstein presents a range of scenarios involving students, professors, and administrators, and demonstrates how to distinguish reasonable restrictions from impermissible infringement on free speech. It is an indispensable resource for understanding the key issues surrounding free-speech debates on campuses.

DKK 210.00

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The Illusion of Free Markets - Bernard E. Harcourt - Bog - Harvard University Press - Plusbog.dk

It is widely believed that the free market is the best mechanism ever invented to efficiently allocate resources in society. This book argues that our faith in 'free markets' has severely distorted American politics and punishment practices.

DKK 285.00

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Why Free Will Is Real - Christian List - Bog - Harvard University Press - Plusbog.dk

Many scientists and scientifically-minded commentators are skeptical that free will exists. In clear, scientifically rigorous terms, Christian List explains that free will is like other real phenomena that emerge from physical processes but are autonomous from them—like an ecosystem or the economy—and are indispensable for explaining our world.

DKK 241.00

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When Free Exercise and Nonestablishment Conflict - Kent Greenawalt - Bog - Harvard University Press - Plusbog.dk

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” The First Amendment aims to separate church and state, but Kent Greenawalt examines many situations in which its two clauses—the Nonestablishment Clause and the Free Exercise Clause—point in opposite directions. How should courts decide?

DKK 340.00

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Free Riding - Richard Tuck - Bog - Harvard University Press - Plusbog.dk

Richard Tuck makes careful distinctions between the prisoner’s dilemma problem, threshold phenomena such as voting, and free riding. He analyzes the notion of negligibility, and shows some of the logical difficulties in the idea—and how the ancient paradox of the sorites illustrates the difficulties.

DKK 583.00

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Free to Lose - John E. Roemer - Bog - Harvard University Press - Plusbog.dk

Roemer challenges the morality of an economic system based on private ownership of the means of production. Unless you start with a certain amount of wealth in such a society, you are only “free to lose.” This book addresses crucial questions of political philosophy and normative economics.

DKK 292.00

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Public Philosophy - Michael J. Sandel - Bog - Harvard University Press - Plusbog.dk

Liberals often worry that inviting moral and religious argument into the public sphere runs the risk of intolerance and coercion. These essays respond to that concern by showing that substantive moral discourse in a pluralist society is not at odds with progressive public purposes.

DKK 257.00

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Free for All? - Joseph P. Newhouse - Bog - Harvard University Press - Plusbog.dk

From 1971 to 1982, researchers at the RAND Corporation devised an experiment to address two key questions in health care financing: how much more medical care will people use if it is provided free of charge? and what are the consequences for their health? This book presents a comprehensive account of the experiment and its findings.

DKK 394.00

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To Free a Family - Sydney Nathans - Bog - Harvard University Press - Plusbog.dk

To Free a Family tells the remarkable story of Mary Walker, who in August 1848 fled her owner for refuge in the North and spent the next seventeen years trying to recover her son and daughter. Her freedom, like that of thousands who escaped from bondage, came at a great price—remorse at parting without a word, fear for her family’s fate.

DKK 254.00

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The Taming of Free Speech - Laura Weinrib - Bog - Harvard University Press - Plusbog.dk

Laura Weinrib shows how a coalition of lawyers and activists made judicial enforcement of the Bill of Rights a defining feature of American democracy. Protection of civil liberties was a calculated bargain between liberals and conservatives to save the courts from New Deal attack and secure free speech for both labor radicals and businesses.

DKK 402.00

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The Irony of Free Speech - Owen Fiss - Bog - Harvard University Press - Plusbog.dk

How free is the speech of someone who can't be heard? Not very--and this, Owen Fiss suggests in this incisive book, is where the First Amendment comes in. He reframes the debate by showing how restrictions on political expenditures, hate speech, and pornography can be defended in terms of the First Amendment, not despite it.

DKK 257.00

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Saving the Neighborhood - Carol M. Rose - Bog - Harvard University Press - Plusbog.dk

Saving the Neighborhood tells the still controversial story of the rise and fall of racially restrictive covenants in America, which bestowed an aura of legitimacy upon the wish of many white neighborhoods to exclude minorities. It offers insight into the ways legal and social norms reinforce one another, to codify and perpetuate intolerance.

DKK 456.00

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Lord Cornwallis Is Dead - Nico Slate - Bog - Harvard University Press - Plusbog.dk

Do democracies bring about greater equality among their citizens? India embraced universal suffrage in 1947 and yet its citizens are far from realizing equality. The U.S. struggles with intolerance and inequality well into the twenty-first century. Nico Slate offers a new look at the struggle for freedom that linked two former British colonies.

DKK 336.00

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Predator upon a Flower - Douglass H. Morse - Bog - Harvard University Press - Plusbog.dk

The crab spider is an ideal species on which to test basic questions of lifetime fitness, but ecologists had previously lacked experimental data needed to comprehensively test individuals making foraging decisions. This book recounts Morse's influential experimental discoveries, moving from individuals to communities to ecosystems.

DKK 825.00

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How Free Is Free? - Leon F. Litwack - Bog - Harvard University Press - Plusbog.dk

From Jim Crow to the early 21st century, struggles over racism persist despite court decisions and legislation. Although a painful history to confront, this book inspires as it probes the enduring story of racial inequality and the ongoing fight for freedom in black America.

DKK 330.00

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Thematic Apperception Test - Henry A. Murray - Bog - Harvard University Press - Plusbog.dk

Successfully used for a number of years by more than four hundred psychologists and psychiatrists, this set of pictures designed to reveal the determinants of psychological conflict is now made available in a standard edition.

DKK 883.00

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Evaluating Welfare and Training Programs - - Bog - Harvard University Press - Plusbog.dk

All welfare and training programmes have been subject to demonstrations designed to test new ideas. This book reviews what we have discovered from past assessments and suggests how welfare and training programmes should be planned for the 1990s.

DKK 793.00

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A Government Ill Executed - Paul C. Light - Bog - Harvard University Press - Plusbog.dk

The federal government is having increasing difficulty faithfully executing the laws, which is what Alexander Hamilton called “the true test” of a good government. This book diagnoses the symptoms, explains their general causes, and proposes ways to improve the effectiveness of the federal government.

DKK 363.00

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Moving Toward Integration - Yana A. Kucheva - Bog - Harvard University Press - Plusbog.dk

Reducing residential segregation has proven to be the best way to reduce racial inequality in employment, earnings, test scores, and longevity. Moving toward Integration explains why racial segregation has been resilient, and how public policy, aligned with demographic trends, can achieve housing integration within a generation.

DKK 360.00

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Rationalizing Epidemics - David S. Jones - Bog - Harvard University Press - Plusbog.dk

Ever since their arrival in North America, European colonists and their descendants have struggled to explain the epidemics that decimated native populations. Jones examines crucial episodes in this history, from Puritan responses to Indian depopulation to programs to test new antibiotics and implement modern medicine on the Navajo reservation.

DKK 326.00

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Power after Carbon - Peter Fox Penner - Bog - Harvard University Press - Plusbog.dk

The electricity sector is facing its toughest test: eliminate carbon emissions while meeting much larger demands for power and adjusting to massive disruptions in its markets, technologies, business models, and policies. Peter Fox-Penner unwinds the industry’s fast-moving challenges and makes realistic recommendations for this essential industry.

DKK 299.00

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Is Capitalism Obsolete? - Giacomo Corneo - Bog - Harvard University Press - Plusbog.dk

Giacomo Corneo presents a refreshingly antidogmatic review of economic systems, in the form of a fictional argument between a daughter indignant about economic injustice and her father, an economics professor. They tour tried and proposed systems in which production and consumption obey noncapitalistic rules and test their economic feasibility.

DKK 332.00

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