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Each of us is, to a certain extent, dangerous to his or her own health, but how far do we want the government to curb our freedom to be "foolish" In a look at such highly charged health issues as smoking, alcohol, road safety, and AIDS, Howard Leichter analyzes the efforts of the United States and Great Britain to confront the seemingly constant t

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Presents insights from developments in commercial policy theory to show how the pursuit of social and environmental agendas can be creatively reconciled with the pursuit of free trade. This book argues that free trade, by raising living standards, can serve these agendas far better than can a descent into trade sanctions and restrictions.

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To make sense of free verse" in theory or in practice, the whole study of prosody--the function of rhythm in poetry--must be revised and rethought. Stating this as the issue that poets and critics have faced in the past century, Charles Hartman takes up the challenge and develops a theory of prosody that includes the most characteristic forms of tw

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Presented here is a condensed translation of Alexander Rustow's three-volume Ortsbestimmung der Gegenwart. This monumental work was widely acclaimed by critics throughout Europe as a major contribution to both historical and sociological scholarship. Recognized as one of the foremost exponents of neoliberal thought, and thus as one of the intellect

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Dealing with a diverse set of problems in practical and theoretical ethics, this title features fourteen essays that deal with the field of legal philosophy. It concludes with two essays dealing with concepts used in appraising the whole of a person's life: absurdity and self-fulfillment, and their interplay.

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Explores the individual and civic values of associational freedom in a liberal democracy, as well as the moral and constitutional limits of claims to associational freedom. Beginning with an introductory essay on freedom of association, this book includes essays on individual rights of association and civic values of association.

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Each of the fourteen essays in this volume is directed to some aspect of these two questions: What are the peculiarities of the concepts that we use to describe and to criticize the mental states and performances of human beings What are the peculiarities of the knowledge that we may possess of our own mental states and attitudes and of the mental

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"Extended version of the De Carle lectures delivered at the University of Otago at Dunedin, New Zealand, in July and August 1964."--Preface to the second edition.

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Evaluating changes in liberal political theory and jurisprudence, particularly American liberalism after WWII, this book argues that the expansion of rights for adults has come at a high and generally unnoticed cost. It documents the indifference of liberal theorists and jurists to what were long deemed core elements of children's welfare.

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As the United States moved from Victorian values to those of modern consumerism, the religious component of Freemasonry was increasingly displaced by a secular ideology of service (like that of business and professional clubs), and the Freemasons' psychology of asylum from the competitive world gave way to the aim of good fellowship" within it. Thi

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Freemasonry prescribed for its members a supra-religious, supra-national philosophic universalism. Dorothy Ann Lipson examines its reception and adaptation in America, where its rapid spread was one index of increasing local diversity and cultural change. After tracing the English origins of Masonry, the author focuses on its development in post-R

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A comparison of major shifts in volume of freight traffic in the Soviet Union and in the United States. Originally published in 1962. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve t

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Modern France is often referred to as the "sick man of Europe." With attention focused on the all-pervasive role of the state, Mr. Baum makes a revealing diagnosis. He provides a full view into the structure and performance of the French economy, dealing first with government efforts to solve certain general problems: reconstruction of the economic

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The recipient of the Jay Leyda Prize in Cinema Studies from the US Anthology Film Archives, this two-volume work explores the emergence of French film theory before the essays of Andre Bazin. The anthology contains selections from 150 texts, many published in English for the first time.