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    • Just financial markets? : finance in a just society 

      Herzog, Lisa (Oxford University Press, 2017)
      Well-functioning financial markets are crucial for the economic well-being and the justice of contemporary societies. The Great Financial Crisis has shown that a perspective that naively trusts in the self-regulating powers ...
    • Justice and Equality in Education: A Capability Perspective on Disability and Special Educational Needs 

      Terzi, Lorella (Continuum International Publishing Group, 2010)
      Educational equality is a fundamental principle of social justice. Yet despite the centrality of social justice and its extensive analysis in the theory and research of education, the concept of equality is conversely ...
    • Justice and natural resources : an egalitarian theory 

      Armstrong, Chris (Oxford University Press, 2017)
      Our world is increasingly marked by climate change, environmental degradation, and conflict over precious resources such as oil, water, and land. In each case, access to valuable resources is at stake. We require a normative ...
    • Justice for Hedgehogs 

      Dworkin, Ronald (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011)
      The fox knows many things, the Greeks said, but the hedgehog knows one big thing. In his most comprehensive work Ronald Dworkin argues that value in all its forms is one big thing: that what truth is, life means, morality ...
    • Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? 

      Sandel, Michael J. (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010)
      For Michael Sandel, justice is not a spectator sport, The Nation's reviewer of Justice remarked. In his acclaimed book based on his legendary Harvard course Sandel offers a rare education in thinking through the complicated ...
    • Juvenile Delinquency (3 ed.) 

      Bartollas, Clemens; Schmalleger, Frank (Pearson, 2017)
      Juvenile Delinquency provides an affordable, thought-provoking look at the criminal justice system that uses clear writing and eye-catching visuals to get your students straight to the important concepts. The emphasis is ...
    • K-pop: popular music, cultural amnesia, and economic innovation in South Korea 

      Lie, John (University of California Press, 2015)
      K-Pop: Popular Music, Cultural Amnesia, and Economic Innovation in South Korea seeks at once to describe and explain the emergence of export-oriented South Korean popular music and to make sense of larger South Korean ...
    • A Kaizen Approach to Food Safety: Quality Management in the Value Chain from Wheat to Bread 

      Hill, Victoria (Springer, 2014)
      This book provides a Management Science approach to quality management in food production. Aspects of food quality, product conformance and reliability/food safety are examined, starting with wheat and ending with its value ...
    • Karl Popper 

      Parvin, Philip; Meadowcroft, John (Continuum International Publishing Group, 2010)
      Karl Popper was one of the most important and controversial thinkers of the twentieth century. Today he is best known for his contributions to the philosophy of science and the history of ideas. In the former Popper argued ...
    • Kazak Intermediaries and Russian Rule on the Steppe, 1731-1917 

      Campbell, Ian W. (Cornell University Press, 2017)
      In «Knowledge and the Ends of Empire», Ian W. Campbell investigates the connections between knowledge production and policy formation on the Kazak steppes of the Russian Empire. Hoping to better govern the region, tsarist ...
    • The Keats Brothers: The Life of John and George 

      Gigante, Denise (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2011)
      John and George Keats—Man of Genius and Man of Power, to use John’s words—embodied sibling forms of the phenomenon we call Romanticism. George’s 1818 move to the western frontier of the United States, an imaginative leap ...
    • Keep Talking Russian: A Teach Yourself Audio Program 

      Farmer, Rachel (McGraw-Hill Education, 2014)
      Through 10 common scenarios plus culture and travel advice, you will gain advance skills for more understanding and further conversations in Russian in just 10 days Keep Talking in Russian is your adventure further into ...
    • Ketogenic diet and metabolic therapies : expanded roles in health and disease 

      Masino, Susan (Oxford University Press, 2017)
      Ketogenic diets have been used to successfully treat epilepsy and stop seizures for nearly a century. When more traditional therapies, such as pharmacology, reach their limitations for treatment, the metabolic approach ...
    • Key Concepts in Measurement 

      Perron, Brian E.; Gillespie, David F. (Oxford University Press, 2015)
      Measurement refers generally to the process of assigning a numeric value to, or ordering characteristics or traits of, entities under study. Measurement is necessary for building and testing theory, specifying problems, ...
    • Key Terms in Discourse Analysis 

      Baker, Paul; Ellece, Sibonile (Continuum International Publishing Group, 2011)
      Rather than always inventing examples to illustrate points, we have tried to take them from real life uses of language. To achieve this, we have used corpora – large collections of naturally occurring texts that have been ...
    • Key Terms in Philosophy of Religion 

      Arragon, Raymond J. Van (Continuum International Publishing Group, 2010)
      This book is organized as follows. The first chapter provides an introduction to our subject by briefly exploring the nature of religion, the relation of philosophy to religion (of reason to faith), the main topics in ...
    • Key Terms in Second Language Acquisition (Key Terms series) 

      Patten, Bill Van; Benati, Alessandro G. (Continuum International Publishing Group, 2010)
      Key Terms in Second Language Acquisition includes definitions of key terms within second language acquisition, and also provides accessible summaries of the key issues within this complex area of study. The final section ...
    • Keynes : useful economics for the world economy 

      Keynes, John Maynard; Temin, Peter; Vines, David (MIT Press, 2014)
      As the global economic crisis continues to cause damage, some policy makers have called for a more Keynesian approach to current economic problems. In this book, the economists Peter Temin and David Vines provide an ...
    • Keys to the City: How Economics, Institutions, Social Interaction, and Politics Shape Development 

      Storper, Michael (Princeton University Press, 2013)
      Why do some cities grow economically while others decline? Why do some show sustained economic performance while others cycle up and down? In Keys to the City, Michael Storper, one of the world's leading economic geographers, ...
    • King of Kings 

      Chick, Jack (Chick Publications, 2013)
      The Bible in Pictures. This full color comic teaches many major Bible stories, from Genesis to Revelation. And along with each story, scripture references show readers where they can find that story in their Bible. Many ...