Author: Joseph Raz
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: action, value, theory, reason, engaging
Number of Pages: 344
Published: 2000-04-13
List price: $135.00
ISBN-10: 0198238290
ISBN-13: 9780198238294

Joseph Raz presents a penetrating exploration of the interdependence of value, reason, and the will. The essays illuminate a wide range of questions concerning fundamental aspects of human thought and action. The book is a summation of many years of original, compelling, and influential work by a major contemporary philosopher.

Author: Joseph Tan
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Keywords: students, professionals, introduction, systems, care, information, health
Number of Pages: 624
Published: 2005-04-25
List price: $90.00
ISBN-10: 0787966185
ISBN-13: 9780787966188

E-Health Care Information Systems is a comprehensive collection written by leading experts from a range of disciplines including medicine, health sciences, engineering, business information systems, general science, and computing technology. This easily followed text provides a theoretical framework with sound methodological approaches and is filled with numerous case examples. Topics include e-health records, e-public information systems, e-network and surveys, general and specific applications of e-health such as e-rehabilitation, e-medicine, e-homecare, e-diagnosis support systems, and e-he

Author: Joseph Hu
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: fabozzi, series, frank, securities, mortgage, backed, basics
Number of Pages: 184
Published: 2001-01
List price: $95.00
ISBN-10: 1883249872
ISBN-13: 9781883249878

The purpose of Basics of Mortgage-Backed Securities is to provide readers with a fundamental understanding of mortgage securities as an integral part of investment in fixed-income securities. The second edition of this MBS classic provides the latest information on the U.S. residential mortgage market, adjustable-rate mortgages and mortgage pass-throughs, relative value analyses and performance characteristics. Dr. James Hu discusses the major changes within the mortgage market that may affect the fundamentals of mortgage securities. Some of these are: the recovery of the REMIC marke

Author: Joseph S. Nye Jr.
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Keywords: world, politics, success, means, power, soft
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2005-04-27
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 1586483064
ISBN-13: 9781586483067

Now in paperback, Joseph Nye’s "indispensable" guide to reshaping America’s role in the world (Publishers Weekly) Joseph Nye coined the term "soft power" to describe a nation’s ability to attract and persuade. Whereas hard power-the ability to coerce-grows out of a country’s military or economic might, soft power arises from the attractiveness of its culture, political ideals, and policies. Hard power remains crucial in a world of states trying to guard their independence and of non-state groups willing to turn to violence. But as a new administration-whether Republi

Author: Joseph Raz
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: law, authority
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 1983-10-20
List price: $110.00
ISBN-10: 0198254938
ISBN-13: 9780198254935

"He is a remarkably skillful interpreter of the positivist legal philosophers and probably the most stimulating current contributor to discussion of the issues they raised."--Thomas Morawetz in Ethics. Joseph Raz examines here the nature of law and its relations to morality, concentrating on the issue of the proper moral attitude of a citizen towards the law of his country. A discussion of the concept of legitimate authority is followed by a detailed explanation and defense of the legal positivist’s approach to law. Within this framework the author examines several areas where legal an

Author: Joseph Raz
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: paperbacks, clarendon, freedom, morality
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 1988-10-20
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 0198248075
ISBN-13: 9780198248071

Ranging over central issues of morals and politics and the nature of freedom and authority, this study examines the role of value-neutrality, rights, equality, and the prevention of harm in the liberal tradition, and relates them to fundamental moral questions such as the relation of values to social forms, the comparability of values, and the significance of personal commitments.

Author: Joseph Bau
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
Keywords: hungry, god
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 1998-06-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1559704314
ISBN-13: 9781559704311

In a heartwarming scene in SCHINDLER’S LIST, viewers the world over witnessed the miracle of two Jews in the Plaszow concentration camp being married clandestinely. The two were Joseph and Rebecca Bau. Available for the first time in English, this is Joseph’s reckoning of a time of horrors, but also of beauty and wonder. 50 drawings by Joseph Bau.