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Although The Common Law, the seminal work by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., clearly represents the culmination of an intellectual journey, the development of Holmes' thought has not been easily deciphered. Frederic Rogers Kellogg traces Holmes' intellectual path, and asks: why did Holmes write The Common Law? what did he mean by his message that the law has evolved away from moral and toward external standards of liability? how did he arrive at this conclusion? The answers, Dr. Kellogg maintains, are to be found in a series of nine essays that originally appeared in The American Law Review. They show that Holmes was obsessed with elemental questions of pure legal theory and link him closely to the philosophic method of his friend Charles Sanders Peirce. Taken together with Holmes' later work, and viewed in light of American philosophy, these essays establish Holmes as the founder of a distinct approach to jurisprudence and reveal the implications of that approach for Holmes' later contributions to constitutional law. ... Read more

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Chapters: Oliver Lanard Fassig, Michael E. Mann, C. W. Thornthwaite, William Welch Kellogg, Jerry D. Mahlman, Dennis Tirpak, Peter Huybers, Leslie Holdridge, John Nielsen-Gammon, Snowden D. Flora, George Kukla. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 43. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Oliver Lanard Fassig (1860-1936) was an American meteorologist and climatologist who worked for the United States Weather Bureau initially as part of the Signal Corps of the United States War Department and later affiliated with the United States Department of Agriculture. Oliver Lanard Fassig was born at Columbus, Ohio, on April 5, 1860, son of Mathias and Elizabeth (Lanard) Fassig. He attended Ohio State University and received a Bachelor of Science degree in 1882. He then studied at Johns Hopkins University under the guidance of American geologist William Bullock Clark, where in 1899 he received the first PhD in meteorology ever earned in the United States. His doctoral thesis was on the broad pressure relations of distinctive types of March weather over North America. On September 14, 1898, he married Ann Green McCoy, of Annapolis, Maryland. Dr. Fasssig's official meteorological service began on January 12, 1883, when he entered the Signal Corps of the United States War Department in Washington, D.C. In May 1883, he was assigned to Fort Myer in Arlington County, Virginia for instruction, but returned to the Central Office for duty in January 1884. In December 1885, he was sent to New Haven, Connecticut to work as an assistant and study electrical methods at Yale University. In August 1887 he returned to the Central Office in Washington, D.C., where he worked as a bibliographer and librarian from June 1888 to February 1896. In 1889, he published an extensive bibliography titled the Bibliography of Met...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=21388899 ... Read more

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BUSH, THE RESOLUTEWe're staying in Iraq until they all agreeon a Constitution, just like ours, which cannot be;and as long as they shall fight against our occupation,doubtless forever, and die for the freedom of their nation,so long, says Bush, will be our noble war, defendingour wobbling grip on Beltway power and treasonous spending.So, says Bush, loftily, we'll stay as long as necessary.We should rotate our troops to visit home more oftenso there'll be more kids, who'll line up to replenishour troop strength, down the road, for Jeb. ... Read more