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This is a this is a lively account of ambition, and the forces driving and constraining it. It explores the toxic aspect of preoccupations with recognition, power and money, and how society, families and schools can help shape positive ambition. The book also It also explores the influence of gender, race, class, and national origin, and prods individuals to think more deeply about the forces driving their ambitions and whether those ambitions...

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As Deborah L. Rhode explains in this wide-ranging work, the American public has long insisted on the central importance of character, but has failed to adequately nurture and sustain it in families, schools, law, and politics. All too often, our understandings of character are out of step with psychological research and fundamental values.

A broad, comprehensive foray into the debate about the legal crisis, written by one of the most respected and authoritative scholars of the legal profession.

In Women and Leadership, the eminent legal scholar Deborah L. Rhode focuses on women's underrepresentation in leadership roles and asks why it persists and what we can do about it. Although organizations generally stand to gain from increasing gender equity in leadership, women's underrepresentation is persistent and pervasive. Rhode explores the reasons, including women's family roles, unconscious gender bias, and exclusion from professional ...

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Why do we look to lawyers to lead, and why do so many of them prove to be so untrustworthy and unprepared? In Lawyers as Leaders, eminent law professor Deborah Rhode not only answers these questions but crafts an essential manual for attorneys who need to develop better leadership skills.

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Combining rigorous analysis of the professional rules of lawyer conduct with extensive interdisciplinary materials on the legal profession and ethics, this casebook offers a unique perspective on the professional challenges facing contemporary lawyers' and their opportunity to promote the public good. The book offers a comprehensive and critical examination of the role of lawyers as client representatives and democratic citizens.

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Written by America's leading expert on legal ethics, "Access to Justice" vividly chronicles the wide gap between the lofty aspirations and harsh realities of American justice.

Lawyers' ethics have been condemned for centuries, but they received little scholarly scrutiny until the last few decades. Ethics in Practice brings together leading experts in the emerging field of legal ethics to discuss the central dilemmas of practicing law. This collection cuts across conventional disciplinary boundaries to address the roles, responsibilities, and regulation of contemporary lawyers. Contributors address common concerns fr...

First comprehensive account of cheating in everyday life across multiple contexts~Covers cheating in the realms of sports, organizations, taxes, academia, copyright infringement, marriage, and insurance and mortgages~Covers instances of cheating recently in the news, including the Wells Fargo suit about fraudulent accounts and plagiarism accusations after Melania Trump's convention speech

In this penetrating new book, Deborah L. Rhode goes beyond the commonplace attacks on lawyers to provide the first systematic study of the structural problems confronting the legal profession.

It hurts to be beautiful has been a cliché for centuries. What has been far less appreciated is how much it hurts not to be beautiful. The Beauty Bias explores our cultural preoccupation with attractiveness, the costs it imposes, and the responses it demands. Beauty may be only skin deep, but the damages associated with its absence go much deeper. Unattractive individuals are less likely to be hired and promoted, and are assumed less likely ...

What Women Want comprehensively analyzes the challenges the feminist movement faces today and puts forward a new policy agenda for women.