The law currently sees bodies as passive material upon which our values are inscribed rather than as an active part of the production of normative values. Rethinking current legal understandings of embodiment, this book proposes that peoples’ experiences of embodiment play an important role in the development of normative values and that the legal system should adopt an embodied understanding of all individuals.Examining perspectives from multiple sub-disciplines, the book develops...

Raised in the heart of Columbus, GA, Samuel’s journey began with humble roots. His unwavering determination and desire to make a difference in his life led him to take actions described in Smarter You Smarter Them. These actions were instrumental with his successes in life, a 22-year career as a distinguished and decorated US Marine Corps officer, father of three, post military career as a Senior Process Engineer in Banking, Vice President of a Nonprofit, Accredited Investor, and countless...

This book is a history of the civil liberties records of American presidents from Woodrow Wilson to Barack Obama. It examines the full range of civil liberties issues: First Amendment rights of freedom of speech, press and assembly; due process; equal protection, including racial justice, women's rights, and lesbian and gay rights; privacy rights, including reproductive freedom; and national security issues. The book argues that presidents have not protected or advanced civil liberties, an...

The first thorough study of the Justice Department’s pattern or practice program, examining how it works and how court-imposed consent decrees implement needed reformsAmerican society grapples with an enduring crisis in policing which is inextricably intertwined with the nation’s deeply rooted racial issues. While there have been great strides in policing over the past five decades, the United States continues to wrestle with serious crime and strained relations be...

In this concise account of why America used atomic bombs against Japan in 1945, J. Samuel Walker analyzes the reasons behind President Truman’s most controversial decision. Delineating what was known and not known by American leaders at the time, Walker evaluates the options available for ending the war with Japan. In this new edition, Walker incorporates a decade of new research — mostly from Japanese archives only recently made available — that provides fresh insight on the strategic con...

J. Samuel Walker recounts the dramatic standoff between a populist Republican president and protesting college students—and what the crisis of higher education under President Nixon can teach us today.College students frustrated with the state of American society and foreign policy under a Republican president, rising up in protest across the country. Sound familiar? With new sources and fresh perspective, esteemed historian J. Samuel Walker studies the campus cris...

Choice Outstanding Academic TitleOn September 11, 2001, author J. Samuel Walker was far from home when he learned of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Stricken by incredulity and anxiety, he found the phone lines jammed when he tried to call his wife, who worked in downtown Washington, DC. At the time and ever since, Walker, like many of his fellow Americans, was and remains troubled by questions about the disaster that occurred on 9...

"Left behind were hundreds of burned-out buildings, whole blocks that looked as though they had been bombed into oblivion." These words, written by the *Washington Post'*s Leonard Downie Jr., do not describe a war zone but rather the nation's capital reeling in the wake of the riots of April 1968. In the devastating aftermath of Martin Luther King's assassination, a community already plagued by poor living conditions, unfair policing, and segregation broke into chaos. These riots brought w...

Since the inception of the Atlantic Coast Conference, intense rivalries, legendary coaches, gifted players, and fervent fans have come to define the league’s basketball history. In ACC Basketball, J. Samuel Walker traces the traditions and the dramatic changes that occurred both on and off the court during the conference’s rise to a preeminent position in college basketball between 1953 and 1972.Walker vividly re-creates the action of nail-biting games and the tensions of ...

In this concise account of why America used atomic bombs against Japan in 1945, J. Samuel Walker analyzes the reasons behind President Truman's most controversial decision. Delineating what was known and not known by American leaders at the time, Walker evaluates the options available for ending the war with Japan. In this new edition, Walker incorporates a decade of new research—mostly from Japanese archives only recently made available—that provides fresh insight on the strategic conside...

the memories of one man who spent his life working for George Vanderbilt and attending All Souls from the first days. This is one of the most informative booklets I have ever seen from the time period. This is a great resource on the life of the church and its people, the village, and George Vanderbilt.

If you want to know the secrets to win the hearth of a woman, this is your book.Dating Secrets is the only playbook you need.Forget all the pick-up schemes that used to work ten years ago… Maybe.Here’s a scientific book, filled with proven, step-by-step, actionable techniques to seduce any woman. How is that possible?Well, that’s just how woman brain works.Samuel D. Walker, world class NLP performer and renowned ladies’ man, put together all his ...