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Sensible Finance for a Dynamic EconomyOur prosperity requires the enterprise of innumerable individuals and businesses who exercise their imagination and judgment-and bear responsibility for outcomes. And widespread enterprise is fostered through dialogue and relationships, not merely prices in anonymous markets. Yet modern finance blatantly...

Four Dimensionalism defends the thesis that the material world is composed of temporal as well as spatial parts. Along the way many topics concerning the metaphysics of time and identity over time are addressed. These include the status of past and future objects, the nature of motion and change, the existence of composite objects, and examples...

In this book, William J. Talbott examines the meaning of moral progress, claiming        that improvements to our moral or legal practices are changes that, when evaluated        as a practice, contribute to equitably promoting well-being. Talbott completes the        project begun in his 2005 book of identifying the human rights that should...

Legacies of America's Educational LandmarkIn In Brown's Wake, Martha Minow examines the way that Brown continues to reverberate over a wide-spectrum of equality issues in public and school choice programs. She argues that the terms placed on such initiatives carry serious consequences for both the character of American education and civil society...

One of the great novels of London life and labour in the 1890s, Esther Waters is the story of a single mother struggling against prejudice and injustice. It vividly brings to life a world of horse racing, gambling, and public houses and was groundbreaking in its approach. This is the only available edition of this powerful novel....

How American Protestants Fought for Freedom at the MoviesIn Reforming Hollywood, William Romanowski tells the long and complex story of the        relationship between Protestants of all stripes--from Episcopalians to        evangelicals--and the American film industry. Drawing on personal interviews and        previously unexamined primary...