Against Democracy: New Preface, Paperback - Jason Brennan

Contributor(s): Author: Jason BrennanPreface by: Jason BrennanMost people believe democracy is a uniquely just form of government. They believe peo...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jason BrennanMost political debate is superficial. Just turn on cable news. Philosophy is for people who want to understand...

Reducere. DescriptionWinner of the Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award, American Sociological AssociationCo-Winner of the Ralph J. Bunche Award, ...

This final volume in Manuel Castells' trilogy studies the key defining processes taking place in the last decade of the 20th century as an expressi...

"Paints in chilling detail the distance between Martin Luther King's dream and the reality of present-day America."--Anthony Walton, Harper's "Inte...

Publisher: Monkfish Book PublishingAuthor(s): Mark MatousekIllustration(s): NoNumber of pages: 320Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 191 x 228 x 24C...

Since the late 1980s, queer studies and theory have become vital to the intellectual and political life of the United States. This has been due, in...

Al-Fārābī who was conferred the distinguished title of al-Mu'allim al-thānī (The Second Teacher), is here sympathetically portrayed as a deeply rel...

Reducere. In 1967 the world of Milton studies was divided into two armed camps: one proclaiming (in the tradition of Blake and Shelley) that Milton was of th...

Reducere. DescriptionFirst published in 1999, this celebrated history of San Francisco traces the exploitation of both local and distant regions by prominent...

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Gus White grew up on the wrong side of the color line in Jim Crow Tennessee, then became the first black medical student at Stanford and a top surg...

Paul Farmer has battled AIDS in rural Haiti and deadly strains of drug-resistant tuberculosis in the slums of Peru. A physician-anthropologist with...

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Reducere. Historically, Americans have seen libertarians as far outside the mainstream, but with the rise of the Tea Party movement, libertarian principles h...

Reducere. DescriptionThe little-known story of an eighteenth-century Quaker dwarf who fiercely attacked slavery and imagined a new, more humane way of life I...

DescriptionA Times Higher Education Book of the WeekUnder certain conditions, the right small simple actions can produce large and complex "butterf...

Reducere. Generation Priced Out is a call to action on one of the most talked-about issues of our time: how skyrocketing rents and home values are pricing th...

Why you have the right to resist unjust government For centuries, almost everyone has believed that we must allow the government and its representa...

Reducere. Does the scientific "theory" that HIV came to North America from Haiti stem from underlying attitudes of racism and ethnocentrism in the United Sta...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Leslie J. ReaganIllustration(s): 6 illustrations, 7 tablesNumber of pages: 432Publication date:...

This landmark book tracks matters of intimacy to investigate matters of state in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Indonesia, particularl...

Organizing Against Democracy illuminates answers to the question of how far-right parties try to establish roots in democratic societies. Ellinas e...

Reducere. DescriptionImagine giving up everything you own and walking across the country... for 28 years? Meet Peace Pilgrim (1908-1981), who crossed the U.S...

Historian and political thinker Ellen Meiksins Wood argues that theories of "postmodern" fragmentation, "difference, " and con-tingency can barely ...

**THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** John Brennan is one of the hardest-working, most patriotic public servants I've ever seen, and our countr...

Reducere. Against Democracy and Equality was the first book ever published in the English language on the European New Right, and it remains an indispensable...

Proposes a defence of the role of dissent in political lifePublisher: Edinburgh University PressAuthor(s): Stuart SimNumber of pages: 216Publicatio...

In his new preface Bernd Heinrich ranges from Maine to Alaska and north to the Arctic as he summarizes findings from continuing investigations over...

DescriptionA crucial new guide to one of the most urgent political phenomena of our time: the rise of national populism Across the West, there is a...

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Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Jason KingIllustration(s): 13 Halftones, black and white; 13 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of page...

Reducere. The first English-language edition published in 1838 and translated by Henry Reeve, Esq. with Preface and notes by John C. Spencer. This landmark w...

Do you want to go to graduate school? Then you're in good company: nearly 80, 000 students will begin pursuing a PhD this year alone. But while alm...

Reducere. Greta Thunberg. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. Anita Sarkeesian. Emma Gonzalez. When women are vocal about political and social issues, too-often they a...

A classic, radical study of development via US foreign policy from the post-war periodPublisher: Pluto PressAuthor(s): Irene L. GendzierNumber of p...

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