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The Right to Privacy (Hardcover)
Samuel D. Warren, Louis D. Brandeis; Foreword by Steven Alan Childress
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(Illustrated: Contains extensive images and photographs, with
scholarly explanations, including Holmes's handwritten notes in the
margins of his book and the original admission ticket to his 1880
lectures.) Modern, accurate, and legible edition of the classic
work by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., analyzing the concept of rules
and the development of common law in the United States and England
over ten centuries. Presented in a clear and affordable format, yet
with original pagination embedded to allow accurate citation or
uniform references for classroom use. Includes photographs and rare
images, Holmes's original Index, Preface and detailed Contents
(features missing in many prior editions), and readable typeface.
Holmes wrote this work from his famous 1880 series of lectures in
Boston on the life of the law, the use of history, and the basics
of torts, contracts, crime, and property law. Law, he wrote, is a
response to the felt necessities of the time. And in the process he
wrote a book that is considered timeless. This modern edition of
the classic book features an explanatory introduction and
biographical summary by Steven Alan Childress, J.D., Ph.D., a
senior law professor at Tulane University.
"The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life" is the classic and
unabridged work on the sociology of religion by one of the founders
of the modern science of sociology-now presented in a quality
centennial edition. Look for the "modern" edition published by
"Quid Pro," showing a "red" cover.] Emile Durkheim examines
religion as a social phenomenon, across time and geographic
boundaries. Some of the most elemental forms of social organization
are analyzed, along with their religious beliefs and practices, to
determine what is fundamental and shared by societies about
religion and faith.
By examining some of the most basic forms of religion,
particularly in aboriginal Australia and native America, and using
a creative sociological and anthropological approach, Durkheim
discovered the core of what separates religion from ritual,
mysticism, science, and mere magic-what makes the soul more than a
spirit. He lays bare the notion that the "primitive" rite, or any
religion, is mainly about fear.
Part of the "Classics of the Social Sciences" Series from Quid
Pro Books, this contemporary republication includes embedded page
numbers from the standard print editions, for continuity of
citations across print platforms and Quid Pro's eBook edition (also
with the red cover). Standard pagination is a very useful feature
for research, classwork, and group assignments.
This work is simply part of the canon of its field (both in
cultural anthropology and in the sociology of religion), and is
presented by Quid Pro in contemporary paperback and eBook formats.
It includes 2012 Notes of the Series Editor, Steven Alan Childress,
Ph.D., J.D., a senior professor of law at Tulane University.
A new take on Holmes' classic study of law and judicial development
of rules. "The life of the law has not been logic: it has been
experience." Annotated throughout with simple clarifications --
decoding and demystifying it for the first time - to make it
accessible to a new generation of readers. Features a 2010 Foreword
and extensive notes by Steven Alan Childress, J.D., Ph.D., a senior
law professor at Tulane. Includes correct footnote numbers and
original page numbers for citing. Contains rare photographs and
insightful biographical section as well. As lamented by Holmes'
premier biographer in 2006, The Common Law "is very likely the
best-known book ever written about American law. But it is a
difficult, sometimes obscure book, which today's lawyers and law
students find largely inaccessible." No longer. With insertions and
simple definitions of the original's language and concepts, this
version makes it live for college students (able to "get it," at
last, with legal terms explained), plus historians, law students,
lawyers, and anyone wanting to understand his great book. No
previous edition of this classic work has offered annotations or
explanatory inserts. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. compiled his master
work in 1881 from lectures on the origins, reasoning, and import of
the common law. It jump-started legal Realism and established law
as a pragmatic way to solve problems and make policy, not just a
bucket of rules. It has stood the test of time as one of the most
important and influential studies of law. This book is interesting
for a vast audience, including historians, students, and political
scientists. It is also a recommended read before law school or in
the 1L year. High quality hardcover edition from Quid Pro's Legal
Legends Series. Holmes (1841-1935) was a legendary Justice of the
U.S. Supreme Court. Before that, he was an influential legal
scholar who brought pragmatism to a new age of legal thought.
Woodrow Wilson's classic 1885 study of U.S. government and its
management through Congress, committees, and cabinet-members,
including a comparison to strong parliamentary systems in France
and, especially, England. Features new Foreword by Steven Alan
Childress, J.D., Ph.D., a law professor at Tulane, as well as the
detailed introductory analysis that Walter Lippmann wrote for later
editions. 'Congressional Government' was originally Wilson's
dissertation written for the Ph.D. degree, and his first book. In
it, he analyzes the difficulties arising from the separation of the
legislative and executive powers in the U.S. Constitution, during
an era in which - as seen clearly on hindsight - the country was
experiencing an atypical series of weak executives. Many of the
observations proved ironic in light of his own later presidency.
The book is considered to be an excellent work of political and
constitutional scholarship. It is still widely read today and
assigned in courses on politics and history. Wilson was destined to
be professor and president of Princeton, Governor of New Jersey,
President of the U.S., and the 1919 Nobel Peace Prize recipient. On
proposing changes to the system of government: "The Constitution is
not honored by blind worship." On the Vice-President: "His chief
dignity, next to presiding over the Senate, lies in the
circumstance that he is awaiting the death or disability of the
President. And the chief embarrassment in discussing his office is,
that in explaining how little there is to be said about it one has
evidently said all there is to say."
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