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The Three and a Half Minute Transaction
University of Chicago Press 2012; US$ 30.00Boilerplate language in contracts tends to stick around long after its origins and purpose have been forgotten. Usually there are no serious repercussions, but sometimes it can cause unexpected problems. Such was the case with the obscure pari passu clause in cross-border sovereign debt contracts, until a novel judicial interpretation rattled international... more...
The Limits of Leviathan
Cambridge University Press 2006; US$ 42.00This book documents the emergence of hard international law in recent years and shows how contract theory provides the analytical tools to understand why this has occurred and what the future of international law enforcement may be. more...
Justice Takes a Recess
Lexington Books 2009; US$ 25.99Justice Takes a Recess examines why and under what circumstances presidents use the recess appointment power to appoint judges to the Federal courts. The authors show that the use of the recess power upsets the carefully calculated separation of powers envisioned by the Framers, shifting power away from one branch of government towards another. more...
Medicine Creek
University of Alabama Press 2002; US$ 29.95This valuable book is an excellent overview of long-term archaeological investigations in the valley that remains at the forefront of studies on the First Americans. In southwest Nebraska, a stretch of Medicine Creek approximately 20 kilometers long holds a remarkable concentration of both late Paleoindian and late prehistoric sites.... more...
Resistance and Theological Ethics
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2004; US$ 36.99Resistance and Theological Ethics collects the edited and updated essays that emerged from the meeting of the Theological Educators for Presbyterian Social Witness in Geneva, Switzerland and southern France in 1999. These writings from educators and ethicists combine to sound a clarion call for the church to stand in resistance to social, economic... more...
The Origin and Prevention of Major Wars
Cambridge University Press 1989; US$ 34.00In this volume a distinguished group of political scientists and historians examine the origins of major wars and discuss the problems in preventing a nuclear war. more...
Cooperation in Economy and Society
AltaMira Press 2010; US$ 89.99This book explores the burgeoning interest in human cooperation among anthropologists, political scientists, economists, evolutionary psychologists, and biologists. Though typically neglected, cooperation is a crucial part of the triangle of allocation, formed with competition and obedience. more...
The Roads to Congress 2010
Lexington Books 2011; US$ 69.99The Roads to Congress 2010 follows the path of seven House and six Senate races from inception to election postmortem. The book provides an array of case studies of important 2010 congressional races which collectively will give college undergraduate students a compelling narrative explanation of America's electoral process and the keys to winning... more...
On New Shores
Lexington Books 2008; US$ 36.99On New Shores focuses on immigrant fathers in North America and provides readers with a richer and more comprehensive approach to how researchers, practitioners, and social policymakers can examine immigrant fathering among ethnic minority families. The chapters focus on the various methodological advances used to explicitly investigate immigrant fathers. more...
The Woodland Southeast
University of Alabama Press 2009; US$ 38.50This collection presents, for the first time, a much-needed synthesis of the major research themes and findings that characterize the Woodland Period in the southeastern United States. The Woodland Period (ca. 1200 B.C. to A.D. 1000) has been the subject of a great deal of archaeological research over the past 25 years. Researchers have learned... more...









