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Author : Zhaohua Ji
Release : 2008
Genre : Animals
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 661/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis No! That's Wrong! by : Zhaohua Ji
Download or read book No! That's Wrong! written by Zhaohua Ji. This book was released on 2008. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The wind blows something to Rabbit one day and along with some animal friends, he puzzles over what the item is and what to do with it.
Author : Marie-France Fortin
Release : 2024-07-13
Genre : Law
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 934/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The King Can Do No Wrong by : Marie-France Fortin
Download or read book The King Can Do No Wrong written by Marie-France Fortin. This book was released on 2024-07-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The king can do no wrong' remains one of the most fundamental yet misunderstood tenets of the common law tradition. Confusion over the phrase's historical origins and differing meanings has had serious consequences, making it easier for the state to escape liability for the harm caused to individuals by governmental officials or institutions. In the first dedicated monograph on the topic, Marie France-Fortin traces the historical evolution of 'the king can do no wrong' in constitutional and public law to shed new light on our current understanding of crown liability. The different meanings conveyed by the phrase in the common law world are clarified; the contradictions between them revealed. Adopting a historical constitutional approach, the book delves deep into traditional legal sources to develop an intellectual history of this key legal idea. It explains the mutation from 'the king can do no wrong' to 'the crown can do no wrong' at the end of the nineteenth century, analyzing the resulting departure from core tenets of the constitutional arrangement of the seventeenth century. The study of the evolution of 'the king can do no wrong' in English legal thinking, mirrored in Canada, is complemented by a comparative analysis of the idea in Australia, Ireland, and the United States, where its relationship with the concept of sovereign immunity is scrutinized. Retracing the evolution of the king can do no wrong in legal thinking, this book enhances academics', students', practitioners', and judges' understanding of the law of governmental liability in the common law world.
Author : Jordan Ellenberg
Release : 2015-05-26
Genre : Mathematics
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 535/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis How Not to Be Wrong by : Jordan Ellenberg
Download or read book How Not to Be Wrong written by Jordan Ellenberg. This book was released on 2015-05-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Witty, compelling, and just plain fun to read . . ." —Evelyn Lamb, Scientific American The Freakonomics of math—a math-world superstar unveils the hidden beauty and logic of the world and puts its power in our hands The math we learn in school can seem like a dull set of rules, laid down by the ancients and not to be questioned. In How Not to Be Wrong, Jordan Ellenberg shows us how terribly limiting this view is: Math isn’t confined to abstract incidents that never occur in real life, but rather touches everything we do—the whole world is shot through with it. Math allows us to see the hidden structures underneath the messy and chaotic surface of our world. It’s a science of not being wrong, hammered out by centuries of hard work and argument. Armed with the tools of mathematics, we can see through to the true meaning of information we take for granted: How early should you get to the airport? What does “public opinion” really represent? Why do tall parents have shorter children? Who really won Florida in 2000? And how likely are you, really, to develop cancer? How Not to Be Wrong presents the surprising revelations behind all of these questions and many more, using the mathematician’s method of analyzing life and exposing the hard-won insights of the academic community to the layman—minus the jargon. Ellenberg chases mathematical threads through a vast range of time and space, from the everyday to the cosmic, encountering, among other things, baseball, Reaganomics, daring lottery schemes, Voltaire, the replicability crisis in psychology, Italian Renaissance painting, artificial languages, the development of non-Euclidean geometry, the coming obesity apocalypse, Antonin Scalia’s views on crime and punishment, the psychology of slime molds, what Facebook can and can’t figure out about you, and the existence of God. Ellenberg pulls from history as well as from the latest theoretical developments to provide those not trained in math with the knowledge they need. Math, as Ellenberg says, is “an atomic-powered prosthesis that you attach to your common sense, vastly multiplying its reach and strength.” With the tools of mathematics in hand, you can understand the world in a deeper, more meaningful way. How Not to Be Wrong will show you how.
Author : Robert L. Phillips
Release : 2009-09-29
Genre : Literary Criticism
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 591/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Shelby Foote by : Robert L. Phillips
Download or read book Shelby Foote written by Robert L. Phillips. This book was released on 2009-09-29. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Called the greatest Civil War historian, Shelby Foote began his career as a novelist whose powerful works of fiction rose out of his closeness to life and culture in his native region, the Mississippi Delta country. Later in his career he transformed modern historical prose by his keen sense of the novel. His artistic distance from the elements of regionalism that lie at the heart both of his novels and of his history writing gives his prose great narrative force. This perceptive study fills the genuine need for a sound critical appreciation of Foote the novelist. After he appeared as a sage commentator in the PBS series The Civil War, the popular acclaim that catapulted Shelby Foote the historian to even greater eminence as an American oracle renewed much deserved interest in his novels and in critically rich assessments such as this one.
Author : MARK & JOEL KODISH
Release : 2014-09-22
Genre : Performing Arts
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 276/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis NO, IÕM NOT GAY! Ò(Not that there is anything wrong with it)Ó by : MARK & JOEL KODISH
Download or read book NO, IÕM NOT GAY! Ò(Not that there is anything wrong with it)Ó written by MARK & JOEL KODISH. This book was released on 2014-09-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a biography about a career journey that I took with the intention of becoming an airline pilot, but found out so much more about myself, people, the country, life, working, being a part of a team, travel, adventure and self growth.
