Surveillance in the Time of Insecurity Surveillance in the Time of Insecurity fuses advanced theoretical accounts of state power and neoliberalism with original research from the social settings in which insecurity dynamics play out in the new century. Torin Monahan explores the counterterrorism-themed show 24, Rapture fiction, traffic control centers, security conferences, public housing, and gated communities, and examines how each manifests complex relationships of inequality, insecurity, and surveillance. Alleviating insecurity requires that we confront its mythic dimensions, the politics inherent in new configurations of security provision, and the structural obstacles to achieving equality in societies. The Impact of Behavioral Sciences on Criminal Law A time could soon come when genetic tests and neurological brain scans are introduced as evidence in criminal trials as readily as DNA evidence is today. That's why, in a first-of-its-kind book titled "The Impact of Behavioral Sciences on Criminal Law," Vanderbilt University assistant professor of law and philosophy Nita Farahany brought together experts across multiple disciplines, including geneticists, neuroscientists, philosophers, policymakers and legal scholars, to give cutting edge insight on this controversial and emerging field. The Law Market In this book, Erin O'Hara, Vanderbilt University Law School, and Larry E. Ribstein, University of Illinois, explore a new perspective on law, viewing it as a product for which people and firms can shop, regardless of geographic borders. The authors consider the structure and operation of the market this creates, the economic, legal, and political forces influencing it, and the arguments for and against a robust market for law. Teaching with Classroom Response Systems: Creating Active Learning Environments There is a need in the higher education arena for a book that responds to the need for using technology in a classroom of tech-savvy students. Teaching with Classroom Response Systems: Creating Active Learning Environments is filled with illustrative examples of questions and teaching activities that use classroom response systems from a variety of disciplines (with a discipline index). The book also incorporates results from research on the effectiveness of the technology for teaching. Written for instructional designers and re-designers as well as faculty across disciplines. Judgment Calls: Principle and Politics in Constitutional Law Judgment Calls tackles one of the most important and controversial legal questions in contemporary America: How should judges interpret the Constitution? Enemy of the State: The Trial and Execution of Saddam Hussein In a new book titled "Enemy of the State," Newton and his co-author Michael Scharf give a historic recounting of the Saddam trial with a behind-the-scenes look inside the drama and tragedy surrounding it. Newton also offers a unique legal perspective, explaining the challenges of training and advising Iraqi judges as they integrated existing Iraqi law with previously unknown international war crimes and genocide laws.
Operational Risk Management If you have a nagging feeling that life is getting increasingly hazardous, you may be interested in the new book, "Operational Risk Management," by Mark D. Abkowitz, professor of civil and environmental engineering at Vanderbilt University.The book contains 15 case studies of major disasters, including September 11, Hurricane Katrina and the losses of the Challenger and Columbia space shuttles. It also includes two success stories where major disasters were averted through careful planning, extraordinary communication and teamwork. Time After Time In this book David Wood accepts, without pessimism, the broad postmodern idea of the end of time. Wood exposes the rich, stratified, and non-linear textures of temporal complexity that characterize our world. Investing in College, A Guide for the Perplexed College education is one of the most important investments a family will make. But between the viewbooks, websites, insider gossip, and magazine rankings, students and their worried parents face a dizzying array of options. What do the rankings really mean? Is it wise to choose the most prestigious school a student can get into? What are the payoffs of higher education and, by the way, how do we pay for them? Remapping Reality: Chaos and Creativity in Science and Literature Remapping Reality: Chaos and Creativity in Science and Literature is about intersections among science, philosophy and literature. Author John McCarthy bridges the gap between the traditional "cultures" of science and the humanities by creating an area of interaction that some have called a "third culture." By asking questions about three disciplines rather than about just two, as is customary in research, Remapping Reality breaks new ground in both philosophy and science. Rather than privileging one discipline over another, this study seeks to uncover a common ground for science, ethics, and literary creativity. Tony Blair: 1997-2007; Le Bilan des réforms (An assessment of reforms) The governments of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown created an original cocktail of three quarters néolibérales reforms and antilibérales inspired by the American example, a Scandinavian finger of social democracy and an acute will of experimentation which deeply transformed Great Britain. Controlling the country and his party, New Labor, by a combination of slogans and indicators of performance, a force of conviction and an extraordinary leadership, Tony Blair succeeded in making radical reforms of the State and public services, while maintaining growth and economic stability. Whereas Blair leaves the direction of the country, pushed by his party, his rival, a business of corruption and an increasing unpopularity worsened by the loss of confidence related to the invasion of Iraq, this work proposes an original analysis of the laboratory of New Labour and its effects on the life of the British citizens. Warning: this bureaucratic revolution is diffuse in Europe and France! Debating Immigration Debating Immigration presents 18 original essays, written by some of the world's leading experts and preeminent scholars, that explore the nuances of contemporary immigration and citizenship affecting the United States and Europe. The volume is organized around the following themes: religion and philosophy, law and policy, economics and demographics, race and ethnicity, and cosmopolitanism. Critical questions addressed include: What accounts for the disconnect between public attitudes about immigration and the policies produced by elected officials? Why has the United States not developed a well-articulated public philosophy of immigration? Speechless: The Erosion of Free Expression in the American Workplace Freedom of speech is one of our basic rights as United States citizens, but many Americans in the workforce are faced with the choice between exercising this right and keeping their jobs. While the American people are protected from censorship by the government, there are no laws to protect free speech in the workplace.
Is Pluto a Planet? The way we define planets within our solar system is continually changing as scientists constantly discover new objects in space. Pluto has gained attention recently as it was demoted to "dwarf planet", but scientists have been debating its status since it was discovered in 1930. Is Pluto a Planet? doesn't just answer that question. Instead it guides readers through the history of the solar system. Readers learn what the word "planet" really means and how that meaning has changed as people have continued to make new discoveries in astronomy. David Weintraub gives readers the information they need to understand the science surrounding Pluto and find their own answers. Choices Under Fire: Moral Dimensions of World War II The challenges of evaluating the moral complexities of people’s actions in war – military and civilian – propelled Vanderbilt University historian Michael Bess to write about World War II, a conflict that he said is too often depicted in morally simplistic terms. |
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