Democracy: A Life, Hardcover

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DescriptionClassical Athens perfected direct democracy. The plays of this ancient Greek state are still staged today. These achievements are rightl...

DescriptionThe 2020 presidential election will determine the very survival of American democracy. To restore popular faith in government--and win t...

Present-day challenges to liberal democracy call on leaders to make growth more inclusive, address fraught social and cultural issues frankly, and ...

Part memoir, part call to action, this young readers' edition dives into the inspiring life of the late U.S. Representative Elijah Cummings--from c...

Reducere. America is the greatest democracy in the world . . . isn't it? Author Elizabeth Rusch examines some of the more problematic aspects of our governme...

DescriptionIn Christ and the Common Life Luke Bretherton provides an introduction to historical and contemporary theological reflection on politics...

Reducere. The book is an affirmation of education and an espousal of cooperative democracy as a way of life for the new Africa. It contains as well a report ...

A sweeping account of imprisonment--in time, in language, and in a divided country--from Korea's most acclaimed novelist In 1993, writer and democr...

Reducere. Honeybees make decisions collectively--and democratically. Every year, faced with the life-or-death problem of choosing and traveling to a new home...

Paperback edition of the book which sets out presidential hopeful Barack Obama's political vision for the future of America. With intimacy and self...

After the dissolution of the PKK (Kurdistan Workers' Party) in 2002, internal discussions ran high, and fear and uncertainty about the future of th...

The I Know This to Be True series is a collection of extraordinary figures from diverse backgrounds answering the same questions, as well as sharin...

Reducere. While the later work of the great Modernist poet Marianne Moore was hugely popular during her final two decades, since her death critics have conde...

100% of Last Week Tonight's proceeds will be donated to The Trevor Project and AIDS United. HBO's Emmy-winning Last Week Tonight with John Oliver p...

Reducere. The definitive biography of a larger-than-life president who defied norms, divided a nation, and changed Washington forever Andrew Jackson, his int...

The 233-year story of how the American people have taken an imperfect constitution--the product of compromises and an artifact of its time--and mad...

Reducere. "If you read only one book about democracy, The Turnaway Study should be it. Why? Because without the power to make decisions about our own bodies,...

Reducere. This biography of Alcibiades, the charismatic Athenian statesman and general (c. 450-404 BC) who achieved both renown and infamy during the Pelopon...

Reducere. Algorithmic Culture: How Big Data and Artificial Intelligence are Transforming Everyday Life explores the complex ways in which algorithms and big ...

DescriptionAn in-depth political, legal, and philosophical study into the implications of wealth inequality in modern societies.Wealth, and specifi...

A deeply reported biography of the scandal-plagued Israeli Prime Minister, showing that we cannot understand Israel--its history, present, and futu...

At one of the most chaotic periods in American history, in a time of national distrust and despair, one tanned TV host holds the key to the future....

Reducere. In this searing memoir, Congressman Jamie Raskin tells the story of the forty-five days at the start of 2021 that permanently changed his life--and...

Reducere. Iran thundered onto the world stage in 1979 with an Islamic revolution that shook the world. Today that revolution has gone astray, a popular democ...

Reducere. The towering figure who remade American politics the champion of the ordinary citizen and the scourge of entrenched privilege The Founding Fathers ...

Reducere. Similar to Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle explores another facet of good living by outlining the best governing practices that benefit the majority,...

A compelling argument that the Internet of things threatens human rights and security and that suggests policy prescriptions to protect our future ...

Reducere. Born of Mohawk and Cayuga descent, musical icon Robbie Robertson learned the story of Hiawatha and his spiritual guide, the Peacemaker, as part of ...

Reducere. In Third Wave Capitalism, John Ehrenreich documents the emergence of a new stage in the history of American capitalism. Just as the industrial capi...

A provocative case for integration as the single most radical, discomfiting idea in America, yet the only enduring solution to the racism that thre...

Reducere. From the New York Times's Global Economics Correspondent, a masterwork of explanatory journalism that exposes how billionaires' systematic plunder ...

Plato, the great philosopher of Athens, was born in 427 BCE. In early manhood an admirer of Socrates, he later founded the famous school of philoso...

In their history of Cornell since 1940, Glenn C. Altschuler and Isaac Kramnick examine the institution in the context of the emergence of the moder...

Reducere. George Washington is remembered for leading the Continental Army to victory, presiding over the Constitution, and forging a new nation, but few kno...

Reducere. The Holocaust has long seemed incomprehensible, a monumental crime that beggars our powers of description and explanation. Historians have probed t...

Reducere. Now a #1 National Bestseller A journalist who's been attacked by Antifa writes a deeply researched and reported account of the group's history and ...

Reducere. Emma the MEDEVAC Pilot is an early readers' picture book that shows the love between a father and his daughter and however wide the physical distan...

Reducere. From early childhood, we are taught to pledge allegiance to the American flag. The flag, with its undulating movements of stars and stripes, is a s...

Reducere. Baltimore Congressman Elijah Cummings was known for saying "We're better than this." He said it in Baltimore, a city on the verge of explosion over...

As the 2000 decision by the Supreme Court to effectively deliver the presidency to George W. Bush recedes in time, its real meaning comes into focu...

In the mountain of books that have been written about the Third Reich, surprisingly little has been said about the role played by the German nobili...

Reducere. Commissioned by the Third Reich, Sword of the Spirit, is a collection of aphorisms by the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. The sole purpose ...