Many legal theorists maintain that laws are effective because we internalize them, obeying even when not compelled to do so. In a comprehensive reassessment of the role of force in law, Frederick Schauer disagrees, demonstrating that coercion, more than internalized thinking and behaving, distinguishes law from society s other rules. Reinvigorating ideas from Jeremy Bentham and...(展开全部)

Many legal theorists maintain that laws are effective because we internalize them, obeying even when not compelled to do so. In a comprehensive reassessment of the role of force in law, Frederick Schauer disagrees, demonstrating that coercion, more than internalized thinking and behaving, distinguishes law from society s other rules. Reinvigorating ideas from Jeremy Bentham and...(展开全部)

When precisely did the ideas, symbols and metaphors of patriarchy take hold of Western civilization? When were women, so central to the creation of society, moved on to the sidelines? Where is the evidence to support the notion that male dominance over women is a natural state of things? Gerda Lerner's radical review of Western civilization shows that male dominance over women ...(展开全部)

在线阅读本书 Book Description She's on the glinting edge of East-West confrontation, a beautiful and accomplished scholar who has suddenly become our newest ambassador to an Iron Curtain country, a woman who is about to dramatically change the course of world events -- if she lives. For Mary Ashley has been marked for death by the world's most proficient and mysterious assassin, a...(展开全部)

The bestselling author of The Sign and the Seal reveals the true origins of civilization. Connecting puzzling clues scattered throughout the world, Hancock discovers compelling evidence of a technologically and culturally advanced civilization that was destroyed and obliterated from human memory. Four 8-page photo inserts.

In just over a hundred years—from the death of Muhammad in 632 to the beginning of the Abbasid Caliphate in 750—the followers of the Prophet swept across the whole of the Middle East, North Africa, and Spain. Their armies threatened states as far afield as the Franks in Western Europe and the Tang Empire in China. The conquered territory was larger than the Roman Empire at its ...(展开全部)

作者簡介 羅伯特‧霍伊蘭 ( Robert G. Hoyland ) 羅伯特‧霍伊蘭是位歷史學者，專門研究中東地區中世紀的歷史。他是知名歷史學家派翠西亞‧克隆博士（Patricia Crone）的學生，曾經在英國牛津大學彭布羅克學院取得萊弗爾梅信託基金會的研究學者身分（Leverhulme Fellow）。他目前任教於美國紐約大學古代世界研究所，教授古典時代晚期和伊斯蘭早期的中東歷史。在此之前，他曾經擔任過英國牛津大學東方研究所教授，教授伊斯蘭歷史，也曾在英國蘇格蘭東海岸古鎮聖安德魯斯公立大學（University of St. Andrews）擔任歷史教授，還曾經在加州大學洛杉磯分校（UCLA）教授歷史。 霍伊蘭的研究興趣在於下列幾個重點： 1.有關在現代以前，居住在中東地區的穆斯林、猶太人和基督徒三者之間的關係； 2.在伊斯蘭興起之前和伊斯蘭興起...(展开全部)

In just over a hundred years—from the death of Muhammad in 632 to the beginning of the Abbasid Caliphate in 750—the followers of the Prophet swept across the whole of the Middle East, North Africa, and Spain. Their armies threatened states as far afield as the Franks in Western Europe and the Tang Empire in China. The conquered territory was larger than the Roman Empire at its ...(展开全部)

丹尼斯·彼得森曾获得纽约州立大学博物馆管理专业硕士，并担任博物馆馆长多年。1973年，他到加拿大圣经学院接受了3年的神学培训。此后，他在神学院中教授人类学和旧约研究课程，并开设了一门圣经科学的新课程。