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Merchant of Venice (Book)
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This is a new release of the original 1931 edition.
Title: Black and Gold; or, "the Don the Don " A tale of the
Circassian War.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print
EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United
Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries
holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats:
books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps,
stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14
million books, along with substantial additional collections of
manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The
FICTION & PROSE LITERATURE collection includes books from the
British Library digitised by Microsoft. The collection provides
readers with a perspective of the world from some of the 18th and
19th century's most talented writers. Written for a range of
audiences, these works are a treasure for any curious reader
looking to see the world through the eyes of ages past. Beyond the
main body of works the collection also includes song-books, comedy,
and works of satire. ++++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: ++++ British Library Saunders, W.; 1864. 3
vol.; 8 . 12635.bbb.13.
Title: Black and Gold; or, "the Don the Don " A tale of the
Circassian War.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print
EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the United
Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries
holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats:
books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps,
stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14
million books, along with substantial additional collections of
manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.The
GENERAL HISTORICAL collection includes books from the British
Library digitised by Microsoft. This varied collection includes
material that gives readers a 19th century view of the world.
Topics include health, education, economics, agriculture,
environment, technology, culture, politics, labour and industry,
mining, penal policy, and social order. ++++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: ++++ British Library
Saunders, W.; 1864. 3 vol.; 8 . 12635.bbb.13.
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Free Expression and Democracy takes on the assumption that limits
on free expression will lead to authoritarianism or at least a
weakening of democracy. That hypothesis is tested by an examination
of issues involving expression and their treatment in countries
included on The Economist's list of fully functioning democracies.
Generally speaking, other countries allow prohibitions on hate
speech, limits on third-party spending on elections, and the
protection of children from media influences seen as harmful. Many
ban Holocaust denial and the desecration of national symbols. Yet,
these other countries all remain democratic, and most of those
considered rank more highly than the United States on the democracy
index. This book argues that while there may be other cultural
values that call for more expansive protection of expression, that
protection need not reach the level present in the United States in
order to protect the democratic nature of a country.
This timely and accessible volume takes a fresh approach to a
question of increasing public concern: whether or not the federal
government should regulate media violence. In Violence as
Obscenity, Kevin W. Saunders boldly calls into question the
assumption that violent material is protected by the First
Amendment. Citing a recognized exception to the First Amendment
that allows for the regulation of obscene material, he seeks to
expand the definition of obscenity to include explicit and
offensive depictions of violence. Saunders examines the public
debate on media violence, the arguments of professional and public
interest groups urging governmental action, and the media and the
ACLU's desire for self-regulation. Citing research that links
violence in the media to actual violence, Saunders argues that a
present danger to public safety may be reduced by invoking the
existing law on obscenity. Reviewing the justifications of that
law, he finds that not only is the legal history relied on by the
Supreme Court inadequate to distinguish violence from sex, but also
many of the justifications apply more forcefully to instances of
violence than to sexually explicit material that has been ruled
obscene. Saunders also examines the actions that Congress, states,
and municipalities have taken to regulate media violence as well as
the legal limitations imposed on such regulations by the First
Amendment protections given to speech and the press. In discussing
the current operation of the obscenity exception and confronting
the issue of censorship, he advocates adapting to the regulation of
violent material the doctrine of variable obscenity, which applies
a different standard for material aimed at youth, and the doctrine
of indecency, which allows for federal regulation of broadcast
material. Cogently and passionately argued, Violence as Obscenity
will attract scholars of American constitutional law and mass
communication, and general readers moved by current debates about
media violence, regulation, and censorship.
Free Expression and Democracy takes on the assumption that limits
on free expression will lead to authoritarianism or at least a
weakening of democracy. That hypothesis is tested by an examination
of issues involving expression and their treatment in countries
included on The Economist's list of fully functioning democracies.
Generally speaking, other countries allow prohibitions on hate
speech, limits on third-party spending on elections, and the
protection of children from media influences seen as harmful. Many
ban Holocaust denial and the desecration of national symbols. Yet,
these other countries all remain democratic, and most of those
considered rank more highly than the United States on the democracy
index. This book argues that while there may be other cultural
values that call for more expansive protection of expression, that
protection need not reach the level present in the United States in
order to protect the democratic nature of a country.
Throughout history obscenity has not really been about sex but
about degradation. Sexual depictions have been suppressed when they
were seen as lowering the status of humans, furthering our distance
from the gods or God and moving us toward the animals. In the
current era, when we recognize ourselves and both humans and
animals, sexual depiction has lost some of its sting. Its degrading
role has been replaced by hate speech that distances groups,
whether based on race, ethnicity, gender, or sexual orientation,
not only from God but from humanity to a subhuman level. In this
original study of the relationship between obscenity and hate
speech, First Amendment specialist Kevin W. Saunders traces the
legal trajectory of degradation as it moved from sexual depiction
to hateful speech. Looking closely at hate speech in several
arenas, including racist, homophobic, and sexist speech in the
workplace, classroom, and other real-life scenarios, Saunders
posits that if hate speech is today's conceptual equivalent of
obscenity, then the body of law that dictated obscenity might shed
some much-needed light on what may or may not qualify as punishable
hate speech.
View the Table of Contents.
Read the Introduction.
"Brave and appealing. Saunders deserves attention for
challenging free-expression orthodoxy."
--"American Journalism Review"
"This is an unusually thoughtful and sophisticated book about
what freedom of speech means in the real world. Offers a clear,
sensible, and rule-governed system of free speech for the younger
generation."
--John Garvey, Boston College Law School
The First Amendment is vital to our political system, our
cultural institutions, and our routine social interactions with
others. In this provocative book, Kevin Saunders asserts that
freedom of expression can be very harmful to our children, making
it more likely that they will be the perpetrators or victims of
violence, will grow up as racists, or will use alcohol or
tobacco.
Saving Our Children from the First Amendment examines both the
value and cost of free expression in America, demonstrating how an
unregulated flow of information can be detrimental to youth. While
the great value of the First Amendment is found in its protection
of our most important political freedoms, this is far more
significant for adults, who can fully grasp and benefit from the
freedom of expression, than for children. Constitutional
prohibitions on distributing sexual materials to children, Saunders
proposes, should be expanded to include violent, vulgar, or profane
materials, as well as music that contains hate speech.
Saunders offers an insightful meditation on the problem of
protecting our children from the negative effects of freedom of
expression without curtailing First Amendment rights for
adults.
View the Table of Contents.
Read the Introduction.
"Brave and appealing. Saunders deserves attention for
challenging free-expression orthodoxy."
--"American Journalism Review"
"This is an unusually thoughtful and sophisticated book about
what freedom of speech means in the real world. Offers a clear,
sensible, and rule-governed system of free speech for the younger
generation."
--John Garvey, Boston College Law School
The First Amendment is vital to our political system, our
cultural institutions, and our routine social interactions with
others. In this provocative book, Kevin Saunders asserts that
freedom of expression can be very harmful to our children, making
it more likely that they will be the perpetrators or victims of
violence, will grow up as racists, or will use alcohol or
tobacco.
Saving Our Children from the First Amendment examines both the
value and cost of free expression in America, demonstrating how an
unregulated flow of information can be detrimental to youth. While
the great value of the First Amendment is found in its protection
of our most important political freedoms, this is far more
significant for adults, who can fully grasp and benefit from the
freedom of expression, than for children. Constitutional
prohibitions on distributing sexual materials to children, Saunders
proposes, should be expanded to include violent, vulgar, or profane
materials, as well as music that contains hate speech.
Saunders offers an insightful meditation on the problem of
protecting our children from the negative effects of freedom of
expression without curtailing First Amendment rights for
adults.
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