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O'Dowd offers a new, discourse-functional account of the categories "e;prepositon"e; and "e;particle"e; in English. She explains why certain words have membership in both categories, and solves many intriguing puzzles long associated with the syntax and semantics of these words. Based on linguistic data from a series of actual...

The book theoretically examines the recent and topical debates over democracy and social rights, arguing that there are four fundamental rights that should be constitutionalized; minimum income; housing; healthcare; and education. The theoretical discussion is explored within an analysis of important legal cases....

The Panic of 2007In Slapped by the Invisible Hand, insider Gary Gorton candidly unfurls the banking system that lay at the heart of the recent global financial crisis, providing an unparalleled glimpse, and what will quite possibly be regarded as the definitive take on the economic events that dragged the world into recession....

An Essay in EpistemologySanford Goldberg examines the role that others play in our attempts to acquire        knowledge of the world: through what they say ('testimonial knowledge') or through        their salient silences. He argues that this sort of knowledge poses a challenge to        some cherished "e;individualistic"e; assumptions in...

In August, 1933, dozens of people gathered amid seven large, canvas tents in a        field near Amenia, in upstate New York. Joel Spingarn, president of the board of the        NAACP, had called a conference to revitalize the flagging civil rights organization.          In Amenia, such old lions as the 65 year-old W.E.B. DuBois would mingle with...

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