The Possiblity Of Dreaming On A Night Without Stars

Kaufman, Michael

Literature & Fiction

Penguin Global

Work hard in school, graduate from a top college, establish a high-paying professional career, enjoy the long-lasting reward of happiness. This is the American Dream—and yet basic questions at the heart of this competitive journey remain unanswered. Does competitive success, even rarified entry into the Ivy League and the top one percent of earners in America, deliver on its promise? Does realizing the American Dream deliver a good life? In Redefining Success in America, psychologist and human development scholar Michael Kaufman develops a fundamentally new understanding of how elite undergraduate educations and careers play out in lives, and of what shapes happiness among the prizewinners in America. In so doing, he exposes the myth at the heart of the American Dream. Returning to the legendary Harvard Student Study of undergraduates from the 1960s and interviewing participants almost fifty years later, Kaufman shows that formative experiences in family, school, and community largely shape a future adult’s worldview and well-being by late adolescence, and that fundamental change in adulthood, when it occurs, is shaped by adult family experiences, not by ever-greater competitive success. Published research on general samples shows that these patterns, and the book’s findings generally, are broadly applicable to demographically varied populations in the United States. Leveraging biography-length clinical interviews and quantitative evidence unmatched even by earlier landmark studies of human development, Redefining Success in America redefines the conversation about the nature and origins of happiness, and about how adults develop. This longitudinal study pioneers a new paradigm in happiness research, developmental science, and personality psychology that will appeal to scholars and students in the social sciences, psychotherapy professionals, and serious readers navigating the competitive journey.

Redefining Success in America: A New Theory of Happiness and Human Development

Self-Help

Personal Transformation

University of Chicago Press

This audio lecture includes creation, rights and duties of principal and agent, sub-agents, and contract liability - actual authority: express and implied. It also covers apparent authority, ratification, liabilities of parties, tort liability - respondeat superior, frolic and detour, and intentional torts. Professor Evans also discusses the nature of partnership, formation, partnership by estoppel, in partnership property, relations between partners to third parties, authority of partners, dissolution and termination, and limited partnerships.

Law School Legends Audio on Agency and Partnership (Law School Legends Audio Series)

Evans, Thomas

Business

Gilbert

Learning Civil Procedure provides a broad, student-centered, user-friendly approach to civil procedure that is both simplified and sophisticated. It engages students through presentation of examples and analyses that build mastery of the material before moving on to more involved problems similar to those students will encounter on final examinations, bar examinations, and as lawyers. This new publication, like West's Learning Evidence, makes great use of problems to facilitate dialogue in class and correspondingly uses many fewer case excerpts than does the typical casebook. But it includes the core "canon" of civil procedure opinions as well as sufficient historical background necessary for producing culturally literate lawyers better equipped for actual real world litigation practice. For more information and additional teaching materials, visit the companion site.

Learning Civil Procedure (Learning Series)

Herr, David

Stempel, Jeffrey

Baicker-McKee, Steven

Coleman, Brooke

Rules & Procedures

West Academic Publishing

A book of this grade is solidly good. Very gently read. Spine is sturdy. All pages are intact. Cover is clean. No marks anywhere.

Cracking the Armour: Power, Pain and the Lives of Men

VIKING

Are abortion and birth control permitted in Jewish law? Does Judaism require women to marry? May women be called to the Torah? Why are women excused from certain commandments in the Torah, and are they permitted to fulfill those from which they are exempt? How does Judaism view Torah study for girls? What is the status of women in Jewish religious, civil, and criminal law? In The Woman in Jewish Law and Tradition, Michael Kaufman explores these and other issues in order to dispel the myths and misunderstandings that have distorted the popular conception of women in Judaism and been propagated for generations. 'Much of the misunderstanding concerning the status of women in Judaism,' says Kaufman, 'is undoubtedly rooted in popular misconceptions regarding the gender spheres in Judaism.' Jewish gender spheres refer to the complementary positions men and women are assigned in both the public and private areas of life. Kaufman explains that Judaism has long recognized that the two sexes are fundamentally different in many ways. 'Judaism teaches that the inherent disparities between the dominant inclinations of men and women are part of the grand design of the Creator that people fulfill the task set out for them in the world. Each finds satisfaction in his or her complementary role. This contributes to the harmony of the family unit.' The Torah provides a set of laws and rules governing the relationship of men and women to God and to each other for the proper functioning of the world. In addition to defining the roles of women in marriage and family life, ritual observances, prayer, Torah study, and systems of law, Kaufman provides a look at the extensive impact of women in Jewish history.

The Woman in Jewish Law and Tradition

History

Historical Study & Educational Resources

Jason Aronson, Inc.

Jamaica Under Manley: Dilemmas of Socialism and Democracy

Lawrence Hill Books

Jamaica Under Manley: Dilemmas of Socialism and Democracy (Third World books)

Jamaica under Manley: Dilemmas of socialism and democracy (Third World books)

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

L. Hill

The crucial eight years during which the PNP, under P.M. Michael Manley, tried to reduce Jamaica's dependence on the West, to build a more just society within the framework of a parliamentary system.

Between the Lines

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