Lochner v. New York (1905), which pitted a conservative activist judiciary against a reform-minded legislature, remains one of the most important and most frequently cited cases in Supreme Court history. In this concise and readable guide, Paul Kens shows us why the case remains such an important marker in the ideological battles between the free market and the regulatory state.The Supreme Court’s decision declared unconstitutional a New York State law limiting bakery work...

A view of the major legal challenges of post–Civil War America as seen from the highest court in the land.In The Supreme Court under Morrison R. Waite, 1874–1888, Paul Kens provides a history of the Court during a time that began in the shadow of the Civil War and ended with America on the verge of establishing itself as an industrial world power. Morrison R. Waite (1816–1888) led the Court through a period that experienced great racial violence and sectio...

The 1803 purchase of the Louisiana Territory was a watershed event for the fledgling United States. Adding some 829,000 square miles of territory, the Louisiana Purchase set a striking precedent of Presidential power and brought to the surface profound legal and constitutional questions. As the nation continued to expand westward and into the Pacific and Caribbean, critical social, political and constitutional questions arose that greatly tested American resolve and reshaped the nation's f...

Kunstkritikeren Paul var ellers en af de gode. Det er han ikke længere. Tidsånden har vendt sig imod ham. Men Paul har ikke tænkt sig at gå ned uden kamp.Paul er en midaldrende, hvid kunstkritiker med rigelig kult l kapital. Da han skal anmelde en kvindelig danskkoreansk kunstner, hvis værker han virkelig ikke bryder sig om, starter et vanvidsridt, han på ingen måde har forudset. Offentligheden vender sig mod ham, og Paul denne frihedens mand! kæmper indædt imod. Han kan oprigtigt i...

Get into the nitty gritty of Excel, the all-important spreadsheet toolMicrosoft 365 Excel All-in-One For Dummies offers an all-new way to tackle data in Excel. Start with the basics of inputting, formatting, and organizing data and work your way to pro techniques that help with any career field or reason for using the app. Gain the skills to apply advanced formulas and functions, create stunning data visualizations, build dashboards and reports, and automa...

„Fish!™“ verrät das Erfolgsgeheimnis des weltberühmten Pike Place Fischmarkts in Seattle. Die Geschichte zeigt, wie unglaublich wichtig es ist, eine positive Lebenseinstellung zu haben. Das Autorenteam gibt dem Leser vier schlichte Handlungsmaximen mit auf den Weg, die seine Arbeits- und Lebenseinstellung revolutionieren werden. Denn wer beschließt, alles, was er ohnehin tun muss, mit Freude zu tun, motiviert sich selbst und kann ein ganzes Team erfolgreich zu Spitzenleistungen bringen.

Das unverzichtbare Nachschlagewerk für Excel-WissenDieses Buch lässt keine Excel-Wünsche offen! Es zeigt Ihnen verständlich, grundlegend und umfassend, wie Excel funktioniert und welche Möglichkeiten Excel für Sie bereithält. Es bietet Neulingen einen leichten Einstieg, und geübten Excel-Nutzern dient es als ein praktisches Nachschlagewerk. Von der ersten Tabelle und Formel über Datenanalyse und Visualisierung bis hin zum Arbeiten mit Makros und Pivot-Tabellen erha...

Argues that a new set of transnational social welfare arrangements has emerged that challenge traditional social welfare provision based on national citizenship and residence. The idea that social rights are something we are eligible for based on where we live or where we are citizens is out-of-date. In Transnational Social Protection, Peggy Levitt, Erica Dobbs, Ken Chih-Yan Sun, and Ruxandra Paul consider what happens to social welfare when more and more people ...

Karla Homolka attracted worldwide outrage in the early nineties. The Canadian Barbie-lookalike had, with her boyfriend Paul Bernardo, participated in the 1991 and 1992 rape and murder of two teenage girls, Leslie Mahaffy and Kristen French, and the rape and killing of her sister Tammy. Following a plea-bargain, she received a reduced sentence for manslaughter, even though videos showed her playing an active role in the pair's crimes.The Murder Files is a series of individual titles...

Ken Block is a co-founder of DC Shoes and a competitive rally racer for the Hoonigan Racing Division. He is well-known for his daring driving feats as well as his "Gymkhana" series of popular YouTube videos, which have received millions of views. Block has participated in several rally racing championships all around the world and has achieved great success thanks to his driving prowess. Block is a successful entrepreneur and business owner in addition to his career as a rally racer. He co...

In this highly provocative book, two Harvard Business School professors synthesize 200 years of thought from the biological and social sciences to formulate a new theory of human nature. Comparable to Daniel Goleman's Emotional Intelligence, Lawrence and Nohria's work examines the four drives that influence the choices people make. These innate and often conflicting drives are the drive to acquire, the drive to bond, the drive to learn and the drive to defend. The authors have studied the ...

Few books have attempted to contextualize the importance of video game play with a critical social, cultural and political perspective that raises the question of the significance of work, pleasure, fantasy and play in the modern world. The study of why video game play is "fun" has often been relegated to psychology, or the disciplines of cultural anthropology, literary and media studies, communications and other assorted humanistic and social science disciplines. In Utopic Dreams and ...