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Whittling Woodland Animals introduces the simple art of whittling
with 15 wilderness creatures to create from scratch. The relaxing
and rewarding craft of whittling is synonymous with a woodland
setting, which provides the ideal subject matter for this new book
from seasoned woodcarver, Peter Benson. Intricately carved and
infused with character, this collection of 15 whittled woodland
creatures makes a perfect beginner's guide to the hobby. Making
delightful gifts and trinkets for nature lovers, you'll want to
carve every single animal in the book. The main tools and
techniques are clearly explained, how to carve safely and clear
step-by-step instructions for each animal. A handy
campfire-friendly size, simply grab your whittling kit and head out
into the woods to while away the hours.
When the stresses of modern life get too much, what could be better
than gathering a few simple tools, heading into the woods and
literally whittling away a few hours? The gentle art of whittling
is a relaxing and absorbing hobby that can be enjoyed almost
anywhere from round the campfire to in a cozy armchair at home. All
you need is a good pocket knife, a piece of wood and your
imagination. Projects can range from the delightfully simple to
impressively intricate--it's up to you. Woodland Whittling guides
you through the basics explaining what equipment you need, how to
hold the knife, and what timber to use. The projects are then all
described in detail with clear step-by-step photographs. Projects
include: letter opener, thumb stick, ring tree and egg cup.
Although the law of contract is largely settled, there appears to
be no widely-accepted comprehensive theory of its main principles
and doctrines or of its normative basis. Contract law theory raises
issues concerning the relation between law and morality, the role
and the importance of rights, the connection between justice and
economics, and the distinction between private and public law. This
collection of six full-length essays, written by some of the most
eminent scholars in the field, explores the general theory of
contract law from a variety of theoretical perspectives. The volume
addresses a wide range of issues, both methodological and
substantive, in the theory and practice of contract law. While the
essays build upon past theoretical contributions, they also attempt
to take contract theory further and suggest promising ways to
develop theory of contract law.
This one-of-a-kind literary and conceptual experiment does
anthropology differently—in all the wrong ways. No field trips.
No other cultures. This is a personal journey within anthropology
itself, and a kind of love story. A critical, candid, hilarious
take on the culture of academia and, ultimately, contemporary
society.  Stuck Moving follows a professor affected
by bipolar disorder, drug addiction, and a stalled career who
searches for meaning and purpose within a sanctimonious discipline
and a society in shambles. It takes aim at the ableist conceit that
anthropologists are outside observers studying a messy world. The
lens of analysis is reversed to expose the backstage of academic
work and life, and the unbecoming self behind scholarship. Blending
cultural studies, psychoanalysis, comedy, screenwriting, music
lyrics, and poetry, Stuck Moving abandons anthropology’s rigid
genre conventions, suffocating solemnity, and enduring colonial
model of extractive knowledge production. By satirizing the
discipline’s function as a culture resource for global health and
the neoliberal university, this book unsettles anthropology’s
hopeful claims about its own role in social change.
"Broccoli and Desire tells the story of globalization from the
ground up, focusing on the lives of ordinary people--the producers
and consumers of a vegetable that many often take for granted. The
authors, perceptive, boots-on-the-ground ethnographers, look beyond
the usual neoliberal models to show how the local is transformed by
global economic forces. Fischer and Benson have produced an
excellent text that will be used for a wide range of
courses."--James L. Watson, Harvard University, Editor of Golden
Arches East: McDonald's in East Asia (Stanford University Press,
1997)
"For once, here is a well-researched book with an arresting title
that actually delivers what it promises: fresh, new,
outside-the-box thinking on a region that has been well studied. In
Broccoli and Desire, Fischer and Benson use the deceptively simple
question, how the Maya want, as a tool to break down globalization
and other political-economy issues. In seeking to show why growing
broccoli for export is both dangerous and compelling for Maya
farmers, the authors have given us a compelling product--a
ground-breaking study that is engagingly written and innovative in
its conception."--Matthew Restall, Pennsylvania State University
"Tobacco Capitalism" tells the story of the people who live and
work on U.S. tobacco farms at a time when the global tobacco
industry is undergoing profound changes. Against the backdrop of
the antitobacco movement, the globalization and industrialization
of agriculture, and intense debates over immigration, Peter Benson
draws on years of field research to examine the moral and financial
struggles of growers, the difficult conditions that affect Mexican
migrant workers, and the complex politics of citizenship and
economic decline in communities dependent on this most harmful
commodity.
Benson tracks the development of tobacco farming since the
plantation slavery period and the formation of a powerful tobacco
industry presence in North Carolina. In recent decades, tobacco
companies that sent farms into crisis by aggressively switching to
cheaper foreign leaf have coached growers to blame the state,
public health, and aggrieved racial minorities for financial
hardship and feelings of vilification. Economic globalization has
exacerbated social and racial tensions in North Carolina, but the
corporations that benefit have rarely been considered a key cause
of harm and instability, and have now adopted social-responsibility
platforms to elide liability for smoking disease. Parsing the
nuances of history, power, and politics in rural America, Benson
explores the cultural and ethical ambiguities of tobacco farming
and offers concrete recommendations for the tobacco-control
movement in the United States and worldwide.
"One of the most important contributions to the field of contract
theory-if not the most important-in the past 25 years." -Stephen A.
Smith, McGill University Can we account for contract law on a moral
basis that is acceptable from the standpoint of liberal justice? To
answer this question, Peter Benson develops a theory of contract
that is completely independent of-and arguably superior
to-long-dominant views, which take contract law to be justified on
the basis of economics or promissory morality. Through a detailed
analysis of contract principles and doctrines, Benson brings out
the specific normative conception underpinning the whole of
contract law. Contract, he argues, is best explained as a transfer
of rights, which is complete at the moment of agreement and is
governed by a definite conception of justice-justice in
transactions. Benson's analysis provides what John Rawls called a
public basis of justification, which is as essential to the liberal
legitimacy of contract as to any other form of coercive law. The
argument of Justice in Transactions is expressly complementary to
Rawls's, presenting an original justification designed specifically
for transactions, as distinguished from the background institutions
to which Rawls's own theory applies. The result is a field-defining
work offering a comprehensive theory of contract law. Benson shows
that contract law is both justified in its own right and fully
congruent with other domains-moral, economic, and political-of
liberal society.
Immediately upon his death in 1963 at the age of thirty, Piero
Manzoni s reputation as a provocateur and wild child preceded him,
with his most subversive work, Artist s Shit, 1961, elevating him
to cult status. But what actually came before, and lay behind those
thirty grams of pure artistic output? Flaminio Gualdoni sets out to
explore exactly that in this biography that traces the guiding
themes of Manzoni s works, lending order to a jumble of hitherto
fragmented materials and setting aside any apocryphal hypotheses.
Although the law of contract is largely settled, there is at present no widely-accepted comprehensive theory of its main principles and doctrines or of its normative basis. This collection of six full-length and original essays, written by some of the most eminent scholars in the field, explores the general theory of contract law from a variety of theoretical perspectives. While the essays build on past theoretical contributions, they also attempt to take contract theory further and suggest new and promising ways to develop theory of contract law.
This one-of-a-kind literary and conceptual experiment does
anthropology differently—in all the wrong ways. No field trips.
No other cultures. This is a personal journey within anthropology
itself, and a kind of love story. A critical, candid, hilarious
take on the culture of academia and, ultimately, contemporary
society.  Stuck Moving follows a professor affected
by bipolar disorder, drug addiction, and a stalled career who
searches for meaning and purpose within a sanctimonious discipline
and a society in shambles. It takes aim at the ableist conceit that
anthropologists are outside observers studying a messy world. The
lens of analysis is reversed to expose the backstage of academic
work and life, and the unbecoming self behind scholarship. Blending
cultural studies, psychoanalysis, comedy, screenwriting, music
lyrics, and poetry, Stuck Moving abandons anthropology’s rigid
genre conventions, suffocating solemnity, and enduring colonial
model of extractive knowledge production. By satirizing the
discipline’s function as a culture resource for global health and
the neoliberal university, this book unsettles anthropology’s
hopeful claims about its own role in social change.
This is the first biography of the controversial and misunderstood
African boxer, now in paper. Battling Siki (1887-1925) was once one
of the four or five most recognizable black men in the world and
was written about by a host of great writers, including George
Bernard Shaw, Ring Lardner, Damon Runyon, Janet Flanner, and Ernest
Hemingway. Peter Benson's lively biography of the first African to
win a world championship in boxing delves into the complex world of
sports, race, colonialism, and the cult of personality in the early
twentieth century.
The Making of the Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926 includes
over 20,000 analytical, theoretical and practical works on American
and British Law. It includes the writings of major legal theorists,
including Sir Edward Coke, Sir William Blackstone, James Fitzjames
Stephen, Frederic William Maitland, John Marshall, Joseph Story,
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. and Roscoe Pound, among others. Legal
Treatises includes casebooks, local practice manuals, form books,
works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, speeches and other works
of the most influential writers of their time. It is of great value
to researchers of domestic and international law, government and
politics, legal history, business and economics, criminology and
much more.++++The below data was compiled from various
identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title.
This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure
edition identification: ++++Harvard Law School
Libraryocm32156212Includes index.London: W. Maxwell & Son,
1875. xxxii, 458 p.; 22 cm.
On his nineteenth birthday in an English seaside town, Duncan
Blaine gets a clue to the whereabouts of his mother, Diana, who,
nine years earlier, left him to be raised by relatives when a
tragic accident took the life of her husband. When he meets her
Duncan is also introduced to the new man in her life, a cardiac
surgeon with whom she intends to live in Canada. Distraught at the
prospect of yet another separation, Duncan attempts to reconcile
with his mother while conducting a passionate affair with an
employee of the inn where he is staying. A compelling coming-of-age
tale, in which Benson employs surfing as a metaphor, adding
graceful comic details and a series of charming secondary
characters, Riptide is an intense, even transcendent examination of
a young man's struggle to establish his identity while facing the
loss of both parents.
The Making of the Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926 includes
over 20,000 analytical, theoretical and practical works on American
and British Law. It includes the writings of major legal theorists,
including Sir Edward Coke, Sir William Blackstone, James Fitzjames
Stephen, Frederic William Maitland, John Marshall, Joseph Story,
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. and Roscoe Pound, among others. Legal
Treatises includes casebooks, local practice manuals, form books,
works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, speeches and other works
of the most influential writers of their time. It is of great value
to researchers of domestic and international law, government and
politics, legal history, business and economics, criminology and
much more.++++The below data was compiled from various
identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title.
This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure
edition identification: ++++Harvard Law School
LibraryCTRG96-B758Includes index.London: Sweet and Maxwell;
Toronto: Carswell, 1912. clx, 724 p.; 22 cm
The Making of the Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926 includes
over 20,000 analytical, theoretical and practical works on American
and British Law. It includes the writings of major legal theorists,
including Sir Edward Coke, Sir William Blackstone, James Fitzjames
Stephen, Frederic William Maitland, John Marshall, Joseph Story,
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. and Roscoe Pound, among others. Legal
Treatises includes casebooks, local practice manuals, form books,
works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, speeches and other works
of the most influential writers of their time. It is of great value
to researchers of domestic and international law, government and
politics, legal history, business and economics, criminology and
much more.++++The below data was compiled from various
identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title.
This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure
edition identification: ++++Harvard Law School
Libraryocm31941997London: W. Maxwell, 1883. li, 688 p.; 22 cm.
The Making of the Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926 includes
over 20,000 analytical, theoretical and practical works on American
and British Law. It includes the writings of major legal theorists,
including Sir Edward Coke, Sir William Blackstone, James Fitzjames
Stephen, Frederic William Maitland, John Marshall, Joseph Story,
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. and Roscoe Pound, among others. Legal
Treatises includes casebooks, local practice manuals, form books,
works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, speeches and other works
of the most influential writers of their time. It is of great value
to researchers of domestic and international law, government and
politics, legal history, business and economics, criminology and
much more.++++The below data was compiled from various
identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title.
This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure
edition identification: ++++Harvard Law School
LibraryCTRG96-B738Includes index.London: Sweet & Maxwell;
Toronto: Carswell, 1920. clxxi, 790 p.; 26 cm
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