Richard Landes: 2 books
Heaven on Earth
The Varieties of the Millennial Experience
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2011
Millennialists through the ages have looked forward to the apocalyptic moment that will radically transform society into heaven on earth. They have delivered withering critiques of their own civilizations and promised both the impending annihilation of the forces of evil and the advent of a perfect...
The Behavior of Federal Judges
a theoretical and empirical study of rational choice
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2013
Federal judges are not just robots or politicians in robes, yet their behavior is not well understood, even among themselves. Using statistical methods, a political scientist, an economist, and a judge construct a unified theory of judicial decision-making to dispel the mystery of how decisions from district courts to the Supreme Court are made.