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"Are corporations people? The U.S. Supreme Court launched a heated debate when it ruled in Citizens United that corporations can claim the same free speech rights as humans. Should corporations be able to claim rights of free speech, religious conscience, and due process? Kent Greenfield provides an answer: Sometimes. With an analysis sure to challenge the assumptions of both progressives and conservatives, Greenfield explores corporations' claims to constitutional rights and the foundational conflicts about their obligations in society. He argues that a blanket opposition to corporate personhood is misguided, since it is consistent with both the purpose of corporations and the Constitution itself that corporations can claim rights at least some of the time. The problem with Citizens United is not that corporations have a right to speak, but for whom they speak. The solution is not to end corporate personhood but to require corporations to act more like citizens"--Book jacket

The first book-length biography of Richard Oakes, a Red Power activist of the 1960s who was a leader in the Alcatraz takeover and the Red Power Indigenous rights movement A revealing portrait of Richard Oakes, the brilliant, charismatic Native American leader who was instrumental in the takeovers of Alcatraz, Fort Lawton, and Pit River and whose assassination in 1972 galvanized the Trail of Broken Treaties march on Washington, DC. The life of this pivotal Akwesasne Mohawk activist is explored in an important new biography based on extensive archival research and key interviews with activists and family members. Historian Kent Blansett offers a transformative and new perspective on the Red Power movement of the turbulent 1960s and the dynamic figure who helped to organize and champion it, telling the full story of Oakes's life, his fight for Native American self-determination, and his tragic, untimely death. This invaluable history chronicles the mid-twentieth century rise of Intertribalism, Indian Cities, and a national political awakening that continues to shape Indigenous politics and activism to this day. TEST

In 'War Pictures', Puckett looks at how Britain imagined, saw, and sought to represent its war during wartime. How did the material and conceptual pressures of total war affect what it meant to see or to make art? How did culture and, in particular, cinema function as propaganda, as criticism, as a form of self-analysis, as a reflection on war and the kinds of violence it tends to unleash? How did British filmmakers, writers, critics, and politicians understand the nature and consequence of total war as it related to ideas about freedom and security, the idea of national character, and the daunting persistence of human violence?

'War Pictures' is also about violence, aesthetics, and conceptual difficulties of war in general; in other words, beginning with a close and critical analysis of a particular cultural scene, the author makes strong and important claims about where the historiography of war, the philosophy of violence, and aesthetics come importantly together.

"Congress shall make no law reflecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." The First Amendment aims to separate church and state, but Kent Greenawalt examines many situations in which its two clauses - the Nonestablishment Clause and the Free Exercise Clause - point in opposite directions. How should courts decide?

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction: "Hard is the Fortune -- 1: A Tea Party and a Turning Point -- 2: Beginning with Eve -- 3: The Age of Reform -- 4: The Convention Takes Shape -- 5: Two Days That Changed the World -- 6: The Movement Gathers Force -- 7: The Long Road to Suffrage -- 8: Women's Suggrage and Beyond -- Chapter Notes -- Glossary -- Further Reading -- Index -- Back Cover

Participating in the coming kingdom -- Attention: awakening to justice -- Confession: the posture for engaging -- Respect: the golden rule for helping -- Partnering: with not for -- Truthing: hard thinking and feet on the ground -- Practicing faithfully even when we're overwhelmed.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1: A Demand for Freedom -- 2: The Judge's Daughter -- 3: Laying the Foundation -- 4: A Struggle in Deep Waters -- 5: Decisions and Divisions -- 6: "Wandering, Wandering -- 7: Stately Mrs. Stanton -- 8: "Failure is Impossible! -- Chapter Notes -- Glossary -- Further Reading -- Index -- Back Cover.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part One: Government Use of Religious Practices, Communications, and Symbols -- 1. Government Engagement in Religious Practices and Messages -- 2. Religion and Clerics in Constraining Government Institutions: The Military and Prisons -- Part Two: Forms of Government Aid to Religious Institutions and Individuals: Financial Support and Exemptions -- 3. Financial Support -- 4. Exemptions and Other Favored Treatment -- Part Three: Discourse Regarding Religion within Public Schools -- 5. Teaching about Religion -- 6. Teaching or Not Because of Religion -- 7. Individual Communication by Students and Their Teachers -- Part Four: Considerations and Questions That Cross the Range -- 8. Religious Beliefs and Endeavors Distinguished from Nonreligious Ones -- Part Five: Religious Convictions, Public Reasons, and Political Choices -- 9. Basic Approaches and Intrinsic Limits -- 10. Relevance of a Person's Position, Bases versus Articulation, and Specific Issues -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index

1. Introduction -- 2. The social construction of climate change -- 3. Individualization of responsibility and the politics of behaviour change -- 4. Rise of the grassroots -- 5. People like me : the role of agency in voluntary climate change action -- 6. Social transitions from the local to the global -- 7. Future pathways for community action on climate change.

Constituting a collection of essays written over the last five decades about a wide range of topics, Kent Greenawalt's From the Bottom Up addresses vital ties between the law and political and moral philosophy. Its overarching theme is that in all these domains, when people and judges face different, debatable issues, the wisest approach needs to focus on particular contexts; not simply broad, abstract generalization.

Front Cover -- Quality Management in Plastics Processing: Strategies, targets, techniques and tools -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Introduction to quality management -- 1.1 Where we are going -- 1.2 The drivers for quality management -- 1.3 What is quality? -- 1.4 A short history of quality management -- 1.5 Quality management and not simply quality control -- 1.6 The importance of quality costs -- 1.7 Performance indicators -- 1.8 Quality management - where are you now? -- 1.9 Financial management - where are you now? -- 1.10 Technical management - where are you now?