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Fischer Black was a remarkable social scientist, one whose contributions range from the lofty perch of highbrow theory to the trenches of practical application. The papers represented in this work span the same range, the contributions of a remarkable array of financial economists who embody in different ways Fischer's ideal of insight from...

Historical studies of white racial thought focus exclusively on white ideas about the "e;Negroes"e;. Bay's study is the first to examine the reverse -- black ideas about whites, and, consequently, black understandings of race and racial categories. Bay examines African-American ideas about white racial character and destiny in the...

The Struggle for Global JusticeThis book explores international law as a social construct by analysing its social foundations and by re-conceptualizing the way in which it is commonly understood. It asks what law is and how it works in society, and shows why it is worth to struggle for new and better-working rules in the international legal order....

Religion of the Gods seeks to explain an enigmatic and paradoxical image common to many of the world religions, both polytheistic and monotheistic - that of the god who worships. Offering the first comprehensive study and a new explanation of this fascinating religious phenomenon, this book will be of great interest both to comparativists and to...

The majority of patients in need of organ transplants do not survive long enough for a suitable human organ to become available. Xenotransplantation, the transplant of animal organs into humans, has attracted substantial media attention. If, as appears likely, it proves possible to "e;humanize"e; animal organs and evade the problems of...

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