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OUR MONEY, OUR SELVES Redesigning Your Relationship with Money "I'm no good with figures." "I'm bored by talk of money." "I'm embarrassed to ask for the salary I (probably) deserve." "I'm a widow and I don't know anything about my own money." A surprising number of women have a poor relationship with money. They may be afraid of it, refuse to deal with it, give it away unwisely, sacrifice their own needs for others -- or even go in the opposite direction, and spend it wildly. Why is this? According to the authors of this breakthrough book, our families, society, and even financial advisors send women negative messages about money. Some of these messages are blatant: "It's unladylike to get involved with finances." Others are unconscious messages, such as the daughter who observes her mother wearing old clothes, while her brother gets new shoes every time he asks. Filled with interactive exercises, self-quizzes, and a "genogram" to fill out, the book is do-it-yourself therapy that helps women: ** trace how family attitudes have negatively influenced their feelings about money, self-esteem, and value ** understand money as a form of energy that actually has an important spiritual dimension ** redefine the way they think and feel about money. Now, women can create a positive relationship with money and use it as a tool for personal and professional growth. C DIANE EALY, Ph.D. (Tucson, AZ) is one of the world's leading specialists in women's creativity, a motivational presenter, and the author of The Woman's Book of Creativity. KAY LESH, Ph.D. (Tucson, AZ) is a self-esteem specialist, a rehabilitation counselor and the author of Building Self-Esteem. Both are frequent conductors of workshops on the topics of self-esteem, creativity, personal growth, and a variety of women's issues.
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It's like spring cleaning your home after 30 years........1999-03-19
I have gotten more insight and more deep revelations with this book than any other. I've read Think and Grow Rich, The Richest Man in Babylon, Money 101, The Meaning of Money, Money and Spirituality, and of course 9 Steps to Financial Freedom and none have even approached digging out the deep root of self sabotoge than this book. 9 Steps has been great for the practical stuff. But OurMoney Ourselves unearths the hidden insects, bulbs and weedy roots that hinder a bountiful harvest. A must companion volume to 9 Steps to Financial Freedom and A Courage to be Rich (both by Suze Ohrman). If you can only get one, start with this book. It will prepare the soil for the seeds of 9 Steps to take root.
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The Co-operation Phenomenon - Prospects for Small Firms and the Small Economies
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Perestroika and the Rule of Law: Soviet and Anglo-American Perspectives
William Elliott Butler
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The key to Gorbachev's reforms is the creation of a state in which the rule of law is sovereign. In this book Soviet and British and American jurists discuss the nature and role of the law in society, and assess the possibilities and difficulties of establishing a legal system based on the values and principles of Western democracies in the USSR.
Among the topics covered are the role of a constitution, the status of political parties, the importance of glasnost, the question of individual rights and the meaning of pluralism.
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It is well known that the scope of individual rights has expanded dramatically in the United States over the last half-century. Less well known is that other countries have experienced "rights revolutions" as well. Charles R. Epp argues that, far from being the fruit of an activist judiciary, the ascendancy of civil rights and liberties has rested on the democratization of access to the courts—the influence of advocacy groups, the establishment of governmental enforcement agencies, the growth of financial and legal resources for ordinary citizens, and the strategic planning of grass roots organizations. In other words, the shift in the rights of individuals is best understood as a "bottom up," rather than a "top down," phenomenon.
The Rights Revolution is the first comprehensive and comparative analysis of the growth of civil rights, examining the high courts of the United States, Britain, Canada, and India within their specific constitutional and cultural contexts. It brilliantly revises our understanding of the relationship between courts and social change.
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The Rights Revolution.......2007-04-12
I found this book very helpful in understanding the history of women's rights for a project I'm working on.
Compelling reexamination of rights revolutions.......2005-01-05
Charles Epp has done something interesting by providing what should have been a self-evident explanation for rights revolution meant to supplement the standard explanations. Conventional wisdom has it that rights revolutions are created either by one or a combination of any of the following: a general rights consciousness in society, a constitutionally entrenched bill of rights, or liberal judges interested in pushing the rights agenda forward. Epp argues that none of these explanations alone sufficiently explain why rights revolutions occur. Instead he argues that a rights revolution depends upon a support structure in civil society able to fund and organize strategic rights litigation. Epp develops this theory by examining the limitations of conventional explanations for the US rights revolution, which began around 1917. After revealing these limitations, Epp examines the creation of the support structure and demonstrates how this more adequately explains the developing rights revolution. Prior to the development of rights oriented groups, the only persons or groups that were able to sustain strategic litigation were businesses. But, beginning in the early 20th century, rights groups developed sufficient funding and organizational capabilities necessary to allow sustained rights litigation. The judicial rights agenda, Epp demonstrates, is directly responsive to these types of litigation strategies.
After developing his theory in the US context, Epp tests it through examination of three countries: India, Britain, and Canada. In India we see a country that should, under conventional theories, have experienced a radical rights revolution. Yet, as a result of the weak support structure, no sustained rights agenda emerged. The British example is interesting in that conventional explanations suggest no rights agenda should have emerged, but a limited rights revolution has emerged as a result of the development of specialized rights litigation groups. Epp's examination of Canada debunks the myth that the rights revolution resulted solely from adoption of the Charter in 1982.
I said above such an explanation should have been self-evident because the seminal cases defining and creating rights have to start with litigation choices. Yet academic studies have routinely ignored the litigation side of things and focused on courts. This is probably a result of the focus in constitutional studies upon the cases and their results rather than the litigation process that brought the cases up in the first place. Epp's study supplements the conventional explanations for rights revolution and provides a fuller picture than the typical claim that activist judges alone cause such revolutions.
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Party Funding And Campaign Financing in International Perspective (Columbia-London Law)
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This volume deals with questions of political party funding and campaign financing, issues which arouse controversy in many parts of the world. How are the central actors in the political arena supposed to gather the funds necessary to operate effectively on behalf of their chosen political ends? And, how may they spend money in furtherance of their political objectives? The aim of this volume, the first in a new series of Columbia University/London University collaborative projects, is to explore these issues in the specific context of a number of national settings.The studies presented here show that financing questions cannot be addressed independent of the constitutional conventions of the country, the nature of the political parties in the country, and the means of access to publication and the media in any given nation. The national studies in this volume reveal a rich diversity in the approach to regulation in Australia, Canada, the European Union, Japan, New Zealand, Quebec, the United Kingdom and the United States. The topicality of the issues considered is reflected in the fact that since the book was first mooted there have been major decisions of the US Supreme Court and the Supreme Court of Canada, as well as an investigation and report by the Electoral Commission in the United Kingdom, all of which have a direct bearing on the legal and policy issues discussed in this book.
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Party Autonomy: Constitutional and International Law Limits in Comparative Perspective
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This volume treats, through comparative law, the question of the restrictions on private autonomy that increasingly flow from international treaties and national constitutions. While limitations on private autonomy traditionally found their basis in various doctrines in the relevant private law field (such as contracts, property or trusts and estates), it is "higher" law - notably constitutional and international law - that more and more often prescribe those limitations. This particular interface between "private" and "public" law has seldom been explored, least of all comparatively.
Unsurprisingly, in a matter as new and evolving as this one, sharp differences emerge among states in the extent to which constitutional and international norms play an identifiable role in the resolution of disputes over the free assertion and disposition of private law rights. Some, but not all states have experienced remarkable developments in the recognition of either constitutional or international norms - and occasionally both - in this regard. Some make a concerted effort to integrate these limitations (notwithstanding their constitutional or international law origins) into the doctrinal fabric of private law (again be it contracts, property or trusts and estates). Others permit constitutional and international treaty norms to perform this function in a more autonomous and clearly identifiable way, which may have the effect, depending on the country, of heightening or lessening the legal force of these restrictions compared to those derived from private law proper.
Finally, states diverge even more when it comes to determining the modalities by which international and constitutional restrictions on party autonomy are to be enforced. In addition to the ordinary array of private law remedies that a legal system has developed for the assertion of claims within the private law field, some states have established special enforcement mechanisms designed to reflect the special character and status of those autonomy-limiting claims that find their origins in national constitutions or in international treaties to which the state in question may be a party.
The subject of Party Autonomy: Constitutional and International Limits in Comparative Perspective was among the topics addressed at the latest (XVIth) international congress of comparative law, held in Brisbane, Australia, in July 2002. National reports from 12 countries were presented, as was a synthetic report by the general reporter of the congress for this topic. These general and national reports comprise the body of this new volume.
Chapter Authors: John Trone, Australia -T C Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland Philippe Vincent, Belgium -Assistant Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of Liege Véra Jacob de Fradera, Brazil -Professor at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil. Frédérique Sabourin, Canada -Attorney, Department of Justice, Québec, Director of Legal Affairs Michel Grimaldi, France -Professor, University at Panthéon-Assas (Paris II) Francois Barrière, Doctor of Law Dr. Georg Nolte, Germany -Professor of Law, University of Goettingen Prof. Dr. László Bodnar, Hungary - Professor and Vice Dean, Faculty of Law Jozsef Attila University, Budapest Mariko Kawano, Japan -Associate Professor of International Law, Institute of Social Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Japan Martijn van Empel, Netherlands -Professor at LUISS Guido Carli University, Rome, Partner, at Stibbe Amsterdam. Marianne de Jong, Netherlands -Ph.D Research Associate, Amsterdam Center for International Law Anna Wyrozumska, Poland -Professor of Public International Law, Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Lodz, Poland. Max du Plessis, South Africa -Senior Lecturer, Howard College School of Law, University of Natal; Advocate of the High Court of South Africa. Jolyon Ford, Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of Sydney Paul B. Stephan, United States -Lewi
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There's more math in the Constitution than most people realize, from legislative majorities to congressional apportionment to what Michael Meyerson calls "the ugliest number in the Constitution"--the Founders' treatment of each slave as "three-fifths" of a person for the purposes of representation and taxation. Political Numeracy is a delightfully offbeat book, bursting with ideas that will appeal to the sort of person who had trouble deciding whether to major in math or political science: "Our federalist system can be seen as a kind of fractal structure," observes the author at one point. Meyerson, a law professor at the University of Baltimore, writes accessibly; it does not require a prior knowledge of fractals to follow his prose. Indeed, he even appreciates the severe limits of math: "It is utterly incapable of making the sorts of judgments and interpretations that lie at the heart of the Constitution." At the same time, he uses math to illuminate our understanding of that document. His discussion of the electoral college, for instance, shows why the result of the 2000 presidential election, in which the winning candidate won fewer popular votes than his opponent, should not be considered anti-majoritarian. Political Numeracy will appeal to fans of The Armchair Economist by Steven E. Landsburg and other readers who like to look at old topics from new perspectives. --John Miller
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From the impossibility of a perfectly democratic vote to a clarifying model for affirmative action debates, constitutional law professor and math enthusiast Michael Meyerson "provides an engaging and unusual perspective on the no-man's land between mathematics and the law" (John Allen Paulos).
In thoroughly accessible and entertaining terms, Meyerson shows how the principle of probability influenced the outcomes of the O. J. Simpson trials; makes a convincing case for the mathematical virtues of the electoral college; uses game theory to explain the federal government's shifting balance of power; relates the concept of infinity to the heated abortion debate; and uses topology and chaos theory to explain how our Constitution has successfully survived social and political change. B/w illustrations, charts.
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Approachable, engaging and enlightening.......2005-11-14
It's a great way for even a non-math person to understand how math really does underpin most of reality, including our political system. The book is difficult to describe without reading it, but is a great read for anyone interested in politics or even history. The author's extensive use of historical documentation and quotations is also extremely cool--clearly a ton of research went into this book.
Rather obvious.......2003-07-14
Meyerson tries in this book to bring some of the ideas of mathematics into the law. Not just many, but most, legal issues would benefit from this infusion (some simple probabilistic reasoning would bring clarity to a lot of shrill debates, especially those surrounding malpractice insurance and the medical field), but he doesn't seem up to the task. His grasp of the mathematics is competent, but his comparisons to policy don't really use the mathematics at his disposal. I'm thinking in particular of his chapter on topology and his chapter on Euclidean and non-Euclidean geometries. In the former case, he makes some obvious comments about "stretching and adapting" the constitution while maintaining its initial structure. True, this is part of what topology is about, but to bring it up hardly illustrates anything novel about the constitution. In the latter case, his only political conclusions are that we need to recognize the fallibility of initial axioms. In both of these cases, he hasn't really showed us what is mathematical about politics but that mathematics and politics both share broad characteristics such as a concern with change, conflict, clear reasoning, etc. But this can be said about almost every academic discpline. I think that any bright HS student could throw together some similarly superficial comparisons between biology and politics or physics and politics or sports and politics.
Of course, I very much enjoyed his chapter on self-referential problems with the constitution, because I thought it was funny and interesting. However, the interesting part was not the application of mathematics in politics but the discussion of odd situations that can arise in politics. (He correctly argues that Godel's result yields no substantial conclusions for politics. Then why talk about it in a book on politics? Its only value is as a metaphor, and a weak one at that.)
On a side note, I know this isn't a forum, but the pedant in me must correct the previous reviewer. If we define a function, f(x)=(x^2-1)/(x-1), then f(x) is defined only when x is not equal to 1. In that case f(1) is undefined (because f(1)=0/0), and it makes no sense to cancel the common factors (x-1). Or to put it another way, this cancellation is only valid when x is not equal to 1. Otherwise, we would be cancelling a factor zero from the numerator and denominator (and no number except 0 has 0 as a factor). To put it yet another way, suppose we want to say that f(x) is equivalent to (x+1), as the previous reviewer does. If we do this, we must remember that we reached this result only by assuming we could cancel (x-1) from the numerator and denominator. Again this cancellation is only valid when x is not 1. Therefore, f(x)=(x+1) only when x is not equal to 1. Sorry, but I couldn't stand the thought of someone out there being misled on this point.
The Delights and Limits of a Whirlwind Tour.......2003-03-23
The exploration of a dozen or so mathematical topics in Meyerson's Political Numeracy leaves one with feelings much like having toured for the first time ten European cities in two weeks: the new sites are a delight to behold, but the day-to-day context (here the relationship between mathematical concepts and Constitutional ones) slips away as your tour guide quickly repacks for the next leg of the journey.
The speed of Mr. Meyerson's survey may account for two mathematical lapses. First, there is the awkward statement that "Bush received more than 150,000 fewer popular votes than Al Gore." (pp. 54-55) Although published in 2002, this statement seems frozen in the first half of November 2000, before Gore's popular vote plurality over Bush was finalized at 537,000 votes.
Second, in discussing the theory of limits, the book recounts an interesting experience of David Berlinski, recalled in his book, A Tour of the Calculus, in which a function, (x squared -1) divided by (x-1), gets closer and closer to its limit (where x=1), but never reaches that limit because the resulting fraction, zero divided by zero, is impossible, leaving a limit that is as unattainable as God. (pp. 209-210) This is an evocative story, but it fails to disclose an identity of factors that turn what seems a quadratic function into a simple, linear one that, contrary to Berlinski, has no limit. As (x squared - 1) is the product of (x+1) and (x-1), then the function described by Berlinski and by Meyerson is actually equivalent to (x+1), once identical factors (x-1) in both parts of the fraction are eliminated. Viewed in that way, this function involves no division and has no limit. A simple alteration, e.g. (x squared -2) divided by (x-1), could have conveyed the same story without relying on a function whose simplification would remove any limits.
One additional mathematical topic worthy of a future edition: the theory of statistical sampling, in the context of the debates over the relative accuracy of direct counts and sampling for purposes of the Census required every ten years by the Constitution.
Great Book.......2002-08-30
I found myself talking about mathematical concepts and social issues with my mother after reading this book. It was so accessible and well-written that she and I had a great conversation about the concept of "infinity" and the abortion debate. Go figure. The book is creatively conceived, engaging, and passionately even-handed. Its a must read for anyone wanting an enlightening overview of our system of government, brought to life and made real by using some of the great historical and current social debates as a framework. Hard to describe. You must read it to understand. Great book.
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The challenges faced by privacy laws in changing technological, commercial and social environments are considered in this broad-ranging examination of privacy law. The book encompasses three overlapping areas of analysis: privacy protection under the general law; legislative measures for data protection in digital communications networks; and the influence of transnational agreements and other pressures toward harmonised privacy standards. Leading, internationally-recognised authors discuss developments across these three areas in the UK, Europe, the US, APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation), Australia and New Zealand. Chapters draw on doctrinal and historical analysis of case law, theoretical approaches to both freedom of speech and privacy, and the interaction of law and communications technologies in order to examine present and future challenges to law's engagement with privacy.
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Gender, Culture And Human Rights: Reclaiming Universalism (Human Rights Law in Perspective)
Siobhan Mullally
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In recent years, feminist theory has increasingly defined itself in opposition to universalism and to discourses of human rights. Rejecting the troubled legacies of Enlightenment thinking, feminists have questioned the very premises upon which the international human rights movement is based. Rather than abandoning human rights discourse, however, this book argues that feminism should reclaim the universal and reconstruct the theory and practice of human rights. Discourse ethics and its post-metaphysical defence of universalism is offered as a key to this process of reconstruction. The implications of discourse ethics and the possibility of reclaiming universalism are explored in the context of the reservations debate in international human rights law and further examined in debates on women's human rights arising in Ireland, India and Pakistan. Each of these states shares a common constitutional heritage and, in each, religious-cultural claims, intertwined with processes of nation-building, have constrained the pursuit of gender equality. Ultimately, this book argues in favour of a dual-track approach to cultural conflicts, combining legal regulation with an ongoing moral-political dialogue on the scope and content of human rights.
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Human Rights in India: Historical, Social, and Political Perspectives (Law in India)
C. J. Nirmal
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The essays in this volume tackle the complex issue of human rights from many different perspectives, and cover such diverse issues as the rights of tribal peoples, prisoners and refugees, the constitutional context of human rights ,human rights in education, feminist perspectives, the role of
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Stefano Giubboni presents, from a labor law perspective, a case study of the changes the European Community/European Union has undergone from its origins to the present day and on the ways these changes have affected the regulation of European Welfare States at national level. Drawing on the idea of 'embedded liberalism', Giubboni analyzes the infiltration of EC competition and market law into national systems of labor and social security law, and provides a normative framework for conceptualizing the transformation of regulatory techniques implemented at the EU level.
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Harry Ferguson Inventor and Pioneer
Colin Fraser
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