Democracy: A Life, Paperback

Reducere. Ancient Greece first coined the concept of "democracy, " yet almost every major ancient Greek thinker-from Plato and Aristotle onwards- was ambival...

Reducere. Whitman's genius, passions, poetry, and androgynous sensibility entwined to create an exuberant life amid the turbulent American mid-nineteenth cen...

Explores the vulnerabilities of Israeli democracy and the obstacles to forming a sustainable national consciousness. The author merges narratives a...

Our democracy is founded upon the ideal of giving equal access to human potentialities of life, liberty, and happiness to all its citizens. Today, ...

Reducere. How the new conspiracists are undermining democracy--and what can be done about itConspiracy theories are as old as politics. But conspiracists tod...

A collection of short interludes, think pieces, and critical essays on landscape, utopia, philosophy, culture, and food, all written in a highly or...

Reducere. Most people would agree that democracy throughout the world is in deep trouble. From the polarizing politics of the United States to the endless re...

Does oil wealth lead to political poverty? It often looks that way, but Carbon Democracy tells a more complex story. In this magisterial study, Tim...

In the contemporary world of neoliberalism, efficiency is treated as the vehicle of political and economic health. State bureaucracy, but not corpo...

An award-winning historian argues that America's obsession with security imperils our democracy in this "compelling" portrait of cultural anxiety (...

On April 2, 1917, Woodrow Wilson thrust the United States into World War I by declaring, "The world must be made safe for democracy." For the 380, ...

Reducere. What is the place of faith in public life in the UK?

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Natan SharanskyWith: Ron DermerNatan Sharansky believes that the truest expression of democracy is the ability to stand in ...

DescriptionKenya is the most digitally advanced country in sub-Saharan Africa, where Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp, and other online platforms are pa...

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

Reducere. Originally published in 2000, The Right to Vote was widely hailed as a magisterial account of the evolution of suffrage from the American Revolutio...

Reducere. The 2015 winner of the Brown Democracy Medal, Joan C. Tronto, argues in Who Cares? that we need to rethink American democracy, as well as our own f...

News Literacy and Democracy invites readers to go beyond surface-level fact checking and to examine the structures, institutions, practices, and ro...

DescriptionIn the space of one election cycle, authoritarian governments, moneyed elites and fringe hackers figured out how to game elections, bypa...

Reducere. We need young people to be civically engaged in order to define and address public problems. Their participation is important for democracy, for in...

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 ...

Provides observations on a range of subjects such as: how not to buy plants, the elicit pleasures of bargain-hunting, the misery of writer's block,...

Our Values gives readers their first taste of some of the most important values in today's world. Here children can explore what it means to be par...

Reducere. A helpful Scottish innkeeper reveals his secret to turning a bowl of porridge into an epic start to the day. It's also the secret to making life a ...

Our Choice: Democracy or Corporate Rule A handful of corporations and financial institutions command an ever-greater concentration of economic and ...

From the bestselling, trusted team behind the Dino Tales: Life Guides for Families series (1.5 million copies sold life to date!) comes this introd...

Reducere. *Includes pictures *Includes Tito's own quotes about his life and career *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading *Include...

Reducere. *Includes pictures *Includes Tito's own quotes about his life and career *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading *Include...

Reducere. America is at a crossroads. In the great experiment of democracy, a defining moment has arrived, a time of reckoning: What does it mean to be an Am...

Hope for American democracy in an era of deep divisions In Healing the Heart of Democracy, Parker J. Palmer quickens our instinct to seek the commo...

Reducere. "The world is at a loss for a way out. Parliamentarism and democracy are on the decline. Salvation is being sought in Fascism and other forms of "s...

The world is in a mess. For more than a billion people, everyday life is played out against the backdrop of civil wars, military coups and failing ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Carrie Newcomer"A Permeable Life: Poems & Essays is Carrie Newcomer's first book, and it's a cause for celebration. For ove...

Reducere. Eminent educational philosopher Nel Noddings draws on John Dewey's foundational work to reimagine education's aims and curriculum for the 21st cent...

The pragmatic demands of American life have made higher education's sustained study of ancient Greece and Rome an irrelevant luxury - and this desp...

DescriptionA critical introduction to J rgen Habermas' political thought and his theory of power J rgen Habermas has come to be viewed as the unoff...

In the cataclysmic decade that is the focus of this book, Nigeria was subject to several near-death experiences. These began when the country nearl...

Reducere. We seek the establishment of a democracy of individual participation governed by two central aims: that the individual share in those social decisi...

Why there is no such thing as a free audience in today's attention economyThe internet was supposed to fragment audiences and make media monopolies...

Reducere. Our understanding of how the world works was fundamentally altered when the mechanical model of closed, linear systems was replaced with cybernetic...

Reducere. In The Birth of Politics, Melissa Lane introduces the reader to the foundations of Western political thought, from the Greeks, who invented democra...

Reducere. Britain in the near future. A campaign to cut carbon emissions to zero is beginning to bite. Power cuts have become a regular feature of life and s...

Reducere. Big Corporations and their super wealthy owners have bought many politicians through campaign donations and lobbying. These politicians vote to ben...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: Kenneth S. RobsonForeword by: David HalberstamWith a foreword by David Halberstam. He spoke out against player trading. He ...

Reducere. National Book AwardsAvailable in paperback for the first time, these three volumes represent the definitive biography of Andrew Jackson. Volume One...

A Pedagogy of Equality in a Time of Unrest addresses education and teaching as fundamental democratic forms of equality. It offers an alternative r...

Reducere. America is at war with itself over the right to vote, or, more precisely, over the question of who gets to exercise that right and under what circu...

Ambrose Bierce's satirical flair is most prevalent in his tall tales and similar sketches, where all manner of human foibles are lampooned: the exc...

Reducere. Christopher Bernard, "one of our] best-kept lyric secrets" (Ivan Arguelles), offers a magnificent new collection of poems to help inspire us throug...

Why technology is not an end in itself, and how cities can be "smart enough, " using technology to promote democracy and equity.Smart cities, where...

Reducere. When President Roosevelt called for the country to be the great ``Arsenal of Democracy, `` Detroit helped turn the tide against fascism with its in...

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. Ever since I read Lynn Ungar's "Camas Lilies"-a poem that has touched the lives of thousands of people-I've hoped she would publish a collection of...

Named a Best Book of the Year by The Guardian, The Millions, and The Sydney Morning Herald This Life offers a profoundly inspiring basis for transf...

Publisher: William B Eerdmans Publishing CoAuthor(s): Luke BrethertonNumber of pages: 480Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 153 x 224 x 38Cover type...

Reducere. The Cambridge Companion to Greek Political Thought offers a guide to understanding the central texts and problems in ancient Greek political though...

Drawing up alternate ways to "make a living" beyond capitalism To live in this world is to be conditioned by capital. Once paired with Western demo...

Reducere. Syndicated television and radio host. Serial liar. Pioneering journalist. Convicted criminal. Close ally of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. Pu...

Reducere. Discover why the author of this book was given the title "The Prophet of Management"!Mary Parker Follett introduced her revolutionary ideas on indu...

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

Reducere. The surprising life of Chief Justice John Marshall, who turned the Supreme Court into a bulwark against presidential and congressional tyranny and ...

Reducere. Thomas Jefferson designed his own tombstone, describing himself simply as "Author of the Declaration of Independence and of the Virginia Statute fo...

Karl Polanyi (1886-1964) was one of the twentieth century's most original interpreters of the market economy. His penetrating analysis of globaliza...

Reducere. "In hunting, the finding and killing of the game is after all but a part of the whole. Thefree, self-reliant, adventurous life, with its rugged and...

Reducere. When Ohkwa'ri overhears a group of older boys planning a raid on a neighboring village, he immediately tells his Mohawk elders. He has done the rig...

Reducere. When governments collapse, human philosophies fail and your life is crashing down around you, Rediscovering the Kingdom will become your guide thro...

Reducere. DescriptionWe live in the grip of a great illusion about politics, Pierre Manent argues in A World beyond Politics? It's the illusion that we would...

Reducere. In Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries, bestselling author Naomi Wolf illustrates the changes that can take place when ordinar...

DescriptionSet against the turbulent years of 19th Century India, Europe, and America, these are the true adventures of the beautiful and cunning I...

This popular introduction by a well-known Islamic scholar has been updated and expanded, offering a balanced portrayal of the Qur'an and its place ...