"This book is primarily intended to help law students learn how to make normative arguments about what the law should be when the legal rules are unclear or outdated. This book categorizes the arguments that lawyers use in debates about ambiguous or contested legal questions. It also explains how judges justify their decisions about what the law should be when the case involves competing values and there are plausible arguments on both sides. The goal is to provide law students a toolkit to help them engage in reasoned arguments about what the law should be"--
"Persuasion is the last novel fully completed by Jane Austen.
Commentary alongside the text explains difficult allusions, while the Introduction explicates the novel’s central conflicts as well as its relationship to Austen’s other works and to those of her contemporaries.
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Jane Austen's last complete novel is now available in a revised Norton Critical Edition. The volume emphasizes new trends in critical discourse, which have enormous importance for our understanding of Austen's achievement.
This edition places the novel in its historical setting, the few months between Napoleon's escape from Elba and the battle of Waterloo, and it relates its elegiac mood to the later moment when Jane Austen was writing: the period of ...
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Persuasion
A fresh, funny and accessible retelling of Jane Austen's classic story.
Jane Austen es heredera de los logros de la novela inglesa del siglo XVIII, pero al mismo tiempo crea un estilo nuevo de novela más breve, concentrada e intensa, y...
Contains a collection of short satirical works, including "The Red Bow," in which a town is consumed by pet-killing hysteria, and "Bohemians," in which two Eastern European widows attempt to fit into suburban America.