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  • Fairness and Freedom: A History of Two Open Societies: New Zealand and the United States by David Hackett Fischer
    Description : Fairness and Freedom compares the history of two open societies--New Zealand and the United States--with much in common. Both have democratic polities, mixed-enterprise economies, individuated societies, pluralist cultures, and a deep concern for human rights and the rule of law. But all ...more..
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  • Justice as Fairness: A Restatement by John Rawls
    Description : This book originated as lectures for a course on political philosophy that Rawls taught regularly at Harvard in the 1980s. In time the lectures became a restatement of his theory of justice as fairness, revised in light of his more recent papers and his treatise Political Liberalism (1993...more..
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  • Grace and Grit: My Fight for Equal Pay and Fairness at Goodyear and Beyond by Lilly Ledbetter
    Description : The inspiring story of the woman at the center of the historic discrimination case that inspired the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act--her fight for equal rights in the workplace, and how her determination became a victory for the nationLilly Ledbetter always knew that she was...more..
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  • Burnout: Resting in God's Fairness (Gospel for Real Life) by Brad Hambrick
    Description : Burnout occurs when the things that once gave us life and energy become discouraging and draining instead, sacrificing our pleasures and accomplishments to the continual onslaught of next. While a common danger for Christians who dedicate their efforts to God s kingdom, burnout eventually makes us c...more..
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  • Free Market Fairness by John Tomasi
    Description : Can libertarians care about social justice? In Free Market Fairness, John Tomasi argues that they can and should. Drawing simultaneously on moral insights from defenders of economic liberty such as F. A. Hayek and advocates of social justice such as John Rawls, Tomasi presents a new theory...more..
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  • Still Failing at Fairness: How Gender Bias Cheats Girls and Boys in School and What We Can Do About It by David Sadker
    Description : Despite decades of effort to create fair classrooms and schools, gender bias is alive and well, and in some ways growing. School practices continue to send boys and girls down different life paths, too often treating them not as different genders but as different species. Teachers and parents often ...more..
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  • Teaching Transformed: Achieving Excellence, Fairness, Inclusion, And Harmony (Renewing American Schools) by Roland Tharp
    Description : All school reformers are trying for better schooling; but all are not marching to the same drum. Four goals-- Excellence, Fairness, Inclusion and Harmony-- are emphasized by different groups. Are the four goals competing ideas of the good, so that national political debates must result in prior...more..
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  • Fairness in Access to Higher Education in a Global Perspective: Reconciling Excellence, Efficiency, and Justice by
    Description : The purpose of this volume is to help jump-start an urgently needed conversation about fairness and justice in access to higher education to counteract the ubiquitous mantras of neoliberal globalization and managerialism. The book seeks to carve out a strong moral and normative basis for opposing ma...more..
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  • Against Fairness by Stephen T. Asma
    Description : From the school yard to the workplace, there’s no charge more damning than “You’re being unfair!” Born out of democracy and raised in open markets, fairness has become our de facto modern creed. The very symbol of American ethics—Lady Justice—wears a blindfold as she weighs t...more..
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  • The Ajax Dilemma: Justice, Fairness, and Rewards by Paul Woodruff
    Description : We live in a world where CEOs give themselves million dollar bonuses even as their companies go bankrupt and ordinary workers are laid off; where athletes make millions while teachers struggle to survive; a world, in short, where rewards are often unfairly meted out. In The Ajax Dilemma...more..
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