Blessed Are the Organized: Grassroots Democracy in America, Paperback - Jeffrey Stout

Reducere. In an America where the rich and fortunate have free rein to do as they please, can the ideal of liberty and justice for all be anything but an emp...

Reducere. The complete edition based on the revised and corrected text of the 1961 French editionOriginally penned in the mid-eighteenth century by Frenchman...

Democracy in America, published in 1835 and 1840, challenged conventional thinking about democracy when it first appeared and is still cited today ...

Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co, IncAuthor(s): Alexis de TocquevilleTranslator: Stephen D. GrantNumber of pages: 368Publication date: 2000Dimensio...

In the early 19th century, a French sociologist and political scientist undertook a seven-month journey throughout the newly formed United States. ...

A fascinating ethnography of the democratic organisation of shack settlements in South AfricaIllustrations: 1 Figures; 22 Halftones, black and white

Reducere. DescriptionThe author's "central metaphor, the naked public square, refers to thepublic forum in American life, which is perceived as naked or empt...

Reducere. Edgar Allan Poe AwardsDetective Emmanuel Cooper returns to solve a darkly romantic mystery in this rich and complex novel by Malla Nunn, author of ...

Publisher: AbramsAuthor(s): Chas SmithNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 147 x 216 x 31Cover type: HardbackRedescopera farmecul ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Sarah-Kate LynchSet on a small Irish dairy farm, this tender and funny debut novel follows two lost souls as they try to ca...

Reducere. For the English, it was the end of the world as they knew it. For the Amish, it was Tuesday.Jedediah Wenger lost his family to an Englishe drunk dr...

By exploring the little-known world of informal grassroots political action in Japan, Tessa Morris-Suzuki sheds light on a range of fascinating twe...

In the tenth book in the multimillion-selling Killing series, Bill O'Reilly and Martin Dugard take on their most controversial subject yet: The Mob...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: Jeffrey A. EngelEditor: Mark Atwood LawrenceEditor: Andrew PrestonHow should America wield its enormous power beyond its bo...

In what remains after more than a century the greatest study of American political life, Tocqueville describes American society and accounts for it...

DescriptionFrom the famous strike of 1892, through the century-long fight for a union and union democracy, Homestead Steel Mill--the Final Ten Year...

"This is a truly illuminating and necessary book. Jeffrey Isaac lucidly explores the moral and political dilemmas of this turbulent fin-de-siecle, ...

Reducere. Blessed are the stressed, grouchy, and grumpy--for they too can learn the secrets of a happy heart! Best-selling author Sr. Mary Lea Hill helps you...

Reducere. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail" is arguably the most important written document of the civil rights protest era and a widely...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

The gripping second instalment of Anne Holt's bestselling Hanne Wilhelmsen series: the detective hunts down a serial rapist - but can she find him ...

Offers an uncommon and intimate account of the lives of two conscientious objectors. In 2013 Suzanne Kesler Rumsey discovered hundreds of letters e...

Most Americans admire the determination and drive of artists, athletes, and CEOs, but they seem to despise similar ambition in their elected offici...

Reducere. "Goodnight, Little ChildrenSleep Tight, Little ChildrenClose Your Eyes, Little ChildrenYou Are Blessed...And So Very Loved."Magical childhood memor...

A chilling true crime book that chronicles the wave of abductions that terrorized the U.S. during the Great Depression, including the most infamous...

Reducere. Organized crime was born in the back of a fruit store in Marion. Before America saw headlines about the Capone Mob, the Purple Gang and Murder Inc....

This collection of essays is an invaluable companion for scholars, students, and general readers who want to better understand Alexis de Tocquevill...

Transnational Organized Crime in Latin America and the Caribbean: From Evolving Threats and Responses to Integrated, Adaptive Solutions provides a ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. 2018 B.R.A.G. Medallion Honoree2018 Discovered Diamond2017 Wishing Shelf Book Awards FinalistSouth Boston-native Ned Tobin has all the luck. Alive ...

Reducere. One of early-twentieth-century America's most fertile grounds for political radicalism, the Pacific Northwest produced some of the most dedicated a...

Reducere. With a government plagued by systemic ills and deep ideological divides, democracy, as we know it, is in jeopardy. Yet, ironically, voter apathy re...

This comprehensive review of US drug-control policies toward Latin America and the Caribbean, assesses the impact of those policies on democracy an...

The world's most famous travelling reporter heads for America. Gangsters, Cowboys, Indians and the Big Apple await Tintin when he travels across th...

Publisher: Royal Irish AcademyNumber of pages: 344Collection: Irish Lives - Dictionary of Irish BiographyPublication date: 2021Dimensions: 130 x 18...

Reducere. DescriptionThis work focuses on the milieu of three religiously based apocalyptic movements, their radical doctrine and rejection of mainstream Ame...

Today's global economy was largely established by political events and decisions in the 1980s and 90s, when scores of nations opened up their econo...

Reducere. "A thrilling account that puts the 1932 Lindbergh baby kidnapping case, billed as "the crime of the century, " in the context of the thousands of o...

We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For: The Promise of Civic Renewal in America - Peter Levine

Description"Sharp, snarky and slick, Visaggio gives us a clever rewind to an unfolding mystery set in the early 80s." -- CHUCK WENDIG It's 1983, an...

Reducere. If you know anything at all about mixed martial arts and the UFC, then you know the name Matt Hughes. With devastating slams and ground-and-pound -...

A brilliantly written and groundbreaking book about Dylan's music - now the recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2016 - and its musical, pol...

Britain's best-loved comic genius Stephen Fry turns his celebrated wit and insight to unearthing the real America as he travels across the continen...

Man Booker Prize FinalistNational Book Award FinalistTwo-time Booker Prize-winner Peter Carey's latest feat of imagination is an irrepressible, aud...