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Democracy and justice are often mutually antagonistic ideas, but this work demonstrates how and why they should be pursued together. Justice must be sought democratically if it is to garner legitimacy, and democracy must be justice-promoting if it is to sustain allegiance over time.

'The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms' has long been considered by many who knew it in the original German as the greatest of Ernst Cassirer's works. Into it he poured all the resources of his vast learning about language and myth, religion, art and science-the various creative symbolizing activities and constructions through which man has expressed himself and given intelligible objective form to his experience.

Offers an interpretation of the origins of Russian Marxism, placing it within the fold of the Western European socialist movement. Donald argues that the German, Karl Kautsky, was a primary influence on Lenin and the Russian Social Democratic Party.

Many children live in communities where violence, fear and despair are commonplace. This work describes how one city developed a collaborative effort between law-enforcement and mental health professionals in order to help these children and their families.

Describes how federal judges sentence white-collar criminals, exploring such topics as the information available to judges and how they work with it, the principles of harm, blameworthiness and consequence that affect judges' decisions and the problems of providing a system of consistent sentences.

This account of the origins of modern molecular biology, the lives of pioneering scientists in the field of nucleic acid research, and the discovery of DNA, is aimed not only at scientists, but also at students and general readers with an interest in science.

Drawing on sources such as diaries, advice manuals and autobiographies, this work shows how travelling salesmen from the early-18th century to the 1920s shaped the customs of life on the road and helped to develop the modern consumer culture in the United States.

Written by a psychiatrist-psychoanalyst who is also a Jesuit, this book looks behind the events, accounts and documents of Ignatius of Loyola's life and religious experience in order to enter and understand his inner world.