Author: Carl Schmitt
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When Germany was defeated in 1945, both the Russians and the Americans undertook mass internments in the territories they occupied. The Americans called their approach automatic arrest. Carl Schmitt, although not belonging in the circles subject to automatic arrest, was held in one of these camps in the years 19456 and then, in March 1947, in the prison of the international tribunal in Nuremberg, as witness and possible defendant. A formal charge was never broughtagainsthim. Schmitts way of coping throughout the years of isolation was to write this book.In Ex Captivitate Salus, or Deliverance from Captivity, Schmitt considers a range of issues relating to history and political theoryas well as recent events, including the Nazi defeat and the newly emerging Cold War. Schmitt often urged his readers to view the book as though it were a series of letters personally directed to each one of them. Hence there is a decidedly personal dimension to the text, as Schmitt expresses his thoughts on his own career trajectory with some pathos, while at the same time emphasising that this is not romantic or heroic prison literature.This reflective work sheds new light on Schmitts thought and personal situation at the beginning of a period of exile from public life that only ended with his death in 1985. It will be of great value to the many students and scholars in political theory and law who continue to study and appreciate this seminal theorist of the twentieth century.ReviewEx Captivitate Salus is Carl Schmittis poetic, apocalyptic, seductive but ultimately unsatisfying attempt at self-exculpation after the Fall of the Third Reich i which, in its early years, Schmitt served so faithfully. John McCormick, The University of ChicagoAbout the Author Carl Schmitt (1888-1985) is widely acknowledged to be one of the most important and influential political theorists of the twentieth century. His many works published in English include The Concept of the Political, Political Theology and On Dictatorship.
Author: Nicholas A. Lesica
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A Conversation about Healthy Eating brings together all the relevant science about healthy eating in one place, and its exactly that - a conversation. This in-depth analysis leads to the simple conclusion that the specifics of what you eat dont actually matter staying lean and healthy simply requires avoiding the over-consumption of processed foods. While that is, of course, easier said than done, science also provides clear recommendations for how you can adapt your environment and lifestyle to make it possible.
Author: Robert Bickel
File Type: pdf
This book provides a uniquely accessible introduction to multilevel modeling, a powerful tool for analyzing relationships between an individual-level dependent variable, such as student reading achievement, and individual-level and contextual explanatory factors, such as gender and neighborhood quality. Helping readers build on the statistical techniques they already know, Robert Bickel emphasizes the parallels with more familiar regression models, shows how to do multilevel modeling using SPSS, and demonstrates how to interpret the results. He discusses the strengths and limitations of multilevel analysis and explains specific circumstances in which it offers (or does not offer) methodological advantages over more traditional techniques. Over 300 dataset examples from research on educational achievement, income attainment, voting behavior, and other timely issues are presented in numbered procedural steps.**
Author: F. A. Hayek
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When we discovered a solid stash of this book, the excitement in our offices was palpable. Hayek wrote it in 1952, several years before Mises wrote his final methodological treatise. It was unavailable for many years, and remains long sought after - rightly so.In fact, Mises adored this book as a wonderful examination of the dramatic change in the way we think of sciences. In particular, the change that occurred in the last 100 years had a huge impact on economics. The problem that Hayek deals with reaches to the core of how economists think about their discipline. There was once such a thing as the human sciences of which economics was part. The goal was to discover and elucidate the exact laws that govern the interaction of people with the material world. It had its own methods and own recommendations. Then something changed. Science became entirely positivistic in its orientation. Economics was changed from a human science into a poor cousin of the natural sciences that applied positivist methods, and to no great end, for human beings do not move about like molecules but rather engage in choices and unpredictable actions. What Hayek does in this treatise is link the change in methodology to a change in politics. The economy and people began to be regarded as a collective entity to be examined as if whole societies should be studied as we study planets or other non-volitional beings. It then began to make mistakes, treating facts as theories and theories as contingent. And thus is the state invited in to treat society as a laboratory. This re-definition of what constitutes science thus had a terrible and even deadly result for human well being and liberty. Science had turned from being a friend of freedom into being employed as its enemy.It is this linkage that makes the book so revealing and ultimately devastating. Hardback, 411 pages.
Author: Dan Bernstein
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Justice in Plain Sightis the story of a hometown newspaper in Riverside, California, that set out to do its job tell readers about shocking crimes in their own backyard. But when judges slammed the courtroom door on the public, including the press, it became impossible to tell the whole story. Pinning its hopes on business lawyerJim Ward, whom Press-Enterprise editor Tim Hays had come to know and trust, the newspaper took two cases to the U.S. Supreme Court in the 1980s. Hays was convinced that the publicincluding the pressneeded to have these rights and needed to bear witness to justice because healing in the aftermath of a horrible crime could not occur without community catharsis.The newspaper won both cases and established First Amendment rights that significantly broadened public access to the judicial system, including the right for the public to witness jury selection and preliminary hearings. Justice in Plain Sightis a unique story that, for the first time, details two improbable journeys to the Supreme Court in which the stakes were as high as they could possibly be (and still are) the publics trust in its own government. **
Author: Ryan Duell
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bYour step-by-step guide to learning Autodesk Revit ArchitecturebThis detailed introduction to Revit Architecture features straightforward explanations and real-world, hands-on tutorials to teach new users the softwares core features and functions.Presented in the context of real-world workflows, and using real-world projects, each chapter contains a discussion of the why and how that is reinforced with a step-by-step tutorial so youll gain practical and applicable experience with the core features of Revit Architecture. The new pedagogical approach emphasizes learning skills to help you prepare for the Revit certification exams.lLearn at your pace with step-by-step exercises, illustrated with full-color screenshots and downloadable Revit tutorial filesllWork with floors, ceilings, walls, and curtain wallsllUse modeling and massing to explore design ideasllUse the Family Editor to create and manage familiesllUnderstand effective... Your step-by-step guide to learning Autodesk Revit ArchitectureThis detailed introduction to Revit Architecture features straightforward explanations and real-world, hands-on tutorials to teach new users the softwares core features and functions.Presented in the context of real-world workflows, and using real-world projects, each chapter contains a discussion of the why and how that is reinforced with a step-by-step tutorial so youll gain practical and applicable experience with the core features of Revit Architecture. The new pedagogical approach emphasizes learning skills to help you prepare for the Revit certification exams.ullLearn at your pace with step-by-step exercises, illustrated with full-color screenshots and downloadable Revit tutorial filesllWork with floors, ceilings, walls, and curtain wallsllUse modeling and massing to explore design ideasllUse the Family Editor to create and manage familiesllUnderstand effective worksharing, BIM workflows, and file managementllUse rendering and visualization techniques to make your design come alivellPrepare for Revit certification examslulWith Autodesk Revit Architecture Essentials, you are only a step away from better, faster building design.**
Author: Heather L. Dichter
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International sporting events, including the Olympic Games and the FIFA World Cup, have experienced profound growth in popularity and significance since the mid-twentieth century. Sports often facilitate diplomacy, revealing common interests across borders and uniting groups of people who are otherwise divided by history, ethnicity, or politics. In many countries, popular athletes have become diplomatic envoys. Sport is an arena in which international conflict and compromise find expression, yet the impact of sports on foreign relations has not been widely studied by scholars. In Diplomatic Games, a team of international scholars examines how the nexus of sport and foreign relations has driven political and cultural change since 1945, demonstrating how governments have used athletic competition to maintain and strengthen alliances, promote policies, and increase national prestige. The contributors investigate topics such as Chinas use of sports to oppose Western imperialism, the ways in which sports helped bring an end to apartheid in South Africa, and the impact of the United States 1980 Olympic boycott on U.S.-Soviet relations. Bringing together innovative scholarship from around the globe, this groundbreaking collection makes a compelling case for the use of sport as a lens through which to view international relations. **
Author: Chambers
File Type: epub
From the deliberately confusing to the downright vague, we all come across language that either seems meaningless or that makes our heads spin. Weasel Words is a demystification of those words and phrases used to bewilder, befuddle and confuse us, from the estate agents bijou to the politicians more sinister waterboarding. Using contemporary examples, this book sets out those words we find confusing, explains what each word actually means and examines why these words are used the way they are.**