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Gender Power, Leadership, and Governance by Georgia Duerst-Lahti (Paperback - Univ of Michigan Pr)
 

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Gender Power, Leadership, and Governance by Georgia Duerst-Lahti (Paperback - Univ of Michigan Pr)
Gender Power, Leadership, and Governance traverses U.S. politics as it develops the concept of gender power and questions why the ideological dimensions of masculinity - masculinism - have seldom been recognized. It finds gender power in startling places and offers revealing insights about the pervasive and reinforcing effects of masculinism. The book is organized around the idea that gender is an analytic category distinctive from sex, a property of institutions, and has symbolic meaning. While this idea has been explored in other disciplines, the application of it to the field of political science yields theoretically rich understandings of power and leadership and new perspectives on the stubborn obstacles women confront. The book crosses subfields of study in political science by mixing theory with empirical research, including cases from legislative, executive, and electoral politics. Policy, bureaucracy, symbolic politics, and institutional structures all come under scrutiny. It will be of interest to scholars of political science and women's studies, students and theorists of leadership or management, and anyone who wishes to explore the complex relationship between gender and politics.

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Offender Rehabilitation and Treatment by James McGuire (Paperback - Illustrated)
 

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Offender Rehabilitation and Treatment by James McGuire (Paperback - Illustrated)
Criminal behaviour continues to be a matter of major public concern. How society should respond to it and what should be done with those who repeatedly offend remain hotly disputed topics of conversation.

Offender Rehabilitation and Treatment draws together internationally renowned experts from the United Kingdom, Europe, North America and Australia. Chapters summarise some of the most recent and exciting developments in this field and offer a systematic, knowledge-based approach to the effective reduction of criminal behaviour.

  • Offers coverage of a wide range of key topics in this area
  • Links theory, research and practice in a coherent and accessible style
  • International focus with examples and authors from a number of countries

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The Shadow University by Alan Charles Kors (Paperback - Perennial)
 

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The Shadow University by Alan Charles Kors (Paperback - Perennial)
An eye-opening and lively expose by two staunch libertarians on how political correctness has transformed American campuses repressive environments.

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Physician Assisted Suicide by M. Pabst Battin (Hardcover - Routledge)
 

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Physician Assisted Suicide by M. Pabst Battin (Hardcover - Routledge)

In its two recent cases about the hotly debated issue of physician assisted suicide, the United States Supreme Court concluded its majority opinion with the declaration that, "Americans are engaged in an earnest and profound debate about the morality, legality, and practicality of physician-assisted suicide. . . . Our holding permits this debate to continue, as it should in a democratic society." A consequence of the Supreme Court's decision is to return discussion to the states, to deal with this heated issue either legislatively or by citizen referendum. Physician Assisted Suicide: Expanding the Debate is a cross-disciplinary collection of essays that advances such reflection and discussion during the politically turbulent period to come.

The question of physician assisted suicide is not a simple matter. By offering views from a range of disciplines, including bioethics, law, medicine, and religion this book draws attention to the variety of questions to be addressed, for example:
* Shouldassistance in suicide be confined to the terminally ill--or should any rational person be able to ask for a doctor's help in ending life?
*Is physician-assisted suicide about avoiding suffering, or is it about control of the decision to end one's life?
* Would doctors' killing patients betray their public trust, or would providing aid-in-dying allow patients greater security in knowing their doctors would help them as they wish at the end?
* Is controlling one's own dying analogous to controlling one's fertility, a matter of particular importance to feminists?
* Are people with disabilities especially susceptible to coercion--or is portraying them as weak and vulnerable another form of stereotyping?
* What about Catholic, Protestant, and Jewish views of physician-assisted suicide?
*What about rights and duties, both of physicians and patients?

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Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts (Paperback - Reprint)
 

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Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts (Paperback - Reprint)
Having escaped an Australian maximum security prison, a disillusioned man loses himself in the slums of Bombay, where he works for a drug mafia kingpin, smuggles arms for a crime lord, forges bonds with fellow exiles, and finds love with an elusive woman. A first novel. Reprint.

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7th Heaven by James Patterson (Hardcover - Little Brown & Co)
 

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7th Heaven by James Patterson (Hardcover - Little Brown & Co)
Investigating the arson deaths of a wealthy couple, San Francisco detective Lindsay Boxer and Assistant DA Yuki Castellano find the case further complicated by the disappearance of a former governor's son, internal pressure, and the media. 1,250,000 first printing.

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