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  Where the Red Fern Grows

  The Story of Two Dogs and A Boy

  by Wilson Rawls

  First published in 1961, a modern-day classic for children follows the friendship between a boy and his two dogs, Old Dan and Little Ann, as they search out adventure along the dark hills and river bottoms of Cherokee country, hunting for coons. But all they know will soon change...
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  A Theory of Justice

  by John Rawls

  Though the "Revised Edition of A Theory of Justice", published in 1999, is the definitive statement of Rawls's view, so much of the extensive literature on Rawls's theory refers to the first edition. This reissue makes the first edition once again available for scholars and serious students of Rawls's work.
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  Shiloh Trilogy: Book 3

  Saving Shiloh

  by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

  In Saving Shiloh, Phyllis Reynolds Naylor brings to a conclusion the trilogy begun with the Newbery Medal winner Shiloh and its sequel, Shiloh Season.
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  La Justicia Como Equidad (Paidos Estado y Sociedad)

  by John Rawls

  This book originated as lectures for a course on political philosophy that Rawls taught regularly at Harvard in the 1980s. In time the lectures became a restatement of his theory of justice as fairness, revised in light of his more recent papers and his treatise Political Liberalism (1993). As Rawls writes in the preface, the restatement presents "in one place an account of justice as fairness as I now see it,... (more)
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  Justice

  What's the Right Thing to Do?

  by Michael J. Sandel

  What are our obligations to others as people in a free society? Should government tax the rich to help the poor? Is the free market fair? Is it sometimes wrong to tell the truth? Is killing sometimes morally required? Is it possible, or desirable, to legislate morality? Do individual rights and the common good conflict? Michael J. Sandel’s “Justice” course is one of the most popular and influential at Harvard.... (more)
• Concepts in Social & Political PhilosophyRichard E. Flathman

  

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  Concepts in Social & Political Philosophy

  by Richard E. Flathman

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  Realizing Rawls

  by Thomas Winfried Menko Pogge

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  Democracy across Borders: From Ds to Di (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought)

  by James Bohman

  Today democracy is both exalted as the "best means to realize human rights" and seen as weakened because of globalization and delegation of authority beyond the nation-state. In this provocative book, James Bohman argues that democracies face a period of renewal and transformation and that democracy itself needs redefinition according to a new transnational ideal. Democracy, he writes, should be rethought in the... (more)