Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: brian barry

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  • HOW JUDGES JUDGE
    BRIAN M. BARRY
    A judge’s role is to make decisions. This book is about how judges undertake this task. It is about forces on the judicial role and their consequences, about empirical research from a variety of academic disciplines that observes and verifies how factors can affect how judges judge. On the one hand, judges decide by interpreting and applying the law, but much more affects judic...

    $980.00

  • KAIKHOSRU SORABJI'S LETTERS TO PHILIP HESELTINE (PETER WARLOCK)
    BRIAN INGLIS / BARRY SMITH
    Two extraordinary personalities, and one remarkable friendship, are reflected in the unique corpus of letters from Anglo-Parsi composer-critic Kaikhosru Sorabji (1892-1988) to Philip Heseltine (Peter Warlock) (1894-1930): a fascinating primary source for the period 1913-1922 available in a complete scholarly edition for the first time. The volume also provides a new contextual,...

    $1,240.00

  • THE FICTION OF EVIL
    PETER BRIAN BARRY
    What makes someone an evil person? How are evil people different from merely bad people? Do evil people really exist? Can we make sense of evil people if we mythologize them? Do evil people take pleasure in the suffering of others? Can evil people be redeemed? Peter Brian Barry answers these questions by examining a wide range of works from renowned authors, including works of ...

    $1,420.00

  • SCIENCE AND FOOTBALL VII
    NUNOME, HIROYUKI / DRUST, BARRY / DAWSON, BRIAN
    Science and Football VII showcases the very latest scientific research into the variety of sports known as ‘football’. These include soccer, the national codes (American football, Australian rules football and Gaelic football), and the rugby codes (union and league). Bridging the gap between theory and practice, this book is by far the most comprehensive collection of current r...

    $1,260.00

  • EVIL AND MORAL PSYCHOLOGY
    PETER BRIAN BARRY
    This book examines what makes someone an evil person and how evil people are different from merely bad people. Rather than focusing on the "problem of evil" that occupies philosophers of religion, Barry looks instead to moral psychology—the intersection of ethics and psychology. He provides both a philosophical account of what evil people are like and considers the implications...

    $1,600.00

  • POLITICAL ARGUMENT (ROUTLEDGE REVIVALS)
    BRIAN BARRY
    Since its publication in 1965, Brian Barry's seminal work has occupied an important role in the revival of Anglo-American political philosophy. A number of ideas and terms in it have become part of the standard vocabulary, such as the distinction between "ideal-regarding" and "want-regarding" principles and the division of principles into aggregative and distributive. The book ...

    $1,560.00

  • COMMUNITY INFORMATICS
    EAGLE, DAVE / HAGUE, BARRY / KEEBLE, LEIGH / LOADER, BRIAN D.
    Community groups, social support networks, voluntary agencies and government organisations are all actively exploring the potential of the new information and communication technologies to bring about democratic development and renewal. A rich variety of social experiments in what has become known as Community Informatics is now beginning to provide useful research findings and...

    $640.00

  • DIGITAL DEMOCRACY
    HAGUE, BARRY N. / LOADER, BRIAN D
    Digital Democracy considers how technological developments might combine with underlying social, economic and political conditions to produce new vehicles for democratic practice. The growth of new Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) such as the Internet, alongside growing concerns about the failure of advanced societies to live up to the democratic idea, has prod...

    $1,760.00