Democracy: A Life, Paperback

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...

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...

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...

DescriptionCulture Smart Israel marks the nation's 70th year of independence in a concise cultural guide of this diverse, dynamic, and paradoxical ...

Reducere. In 427 B.C., the Ancient Greek city-state of Athens was flourishing. Approximately 80 years earlier, the Athenians had formed the first self-repres...

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. A brilliant, of-the-moment political satire like no other: here is Ian McEwan's Brexit-era take on Kafka's Metamorphosis, centered on a cockroach t...

Reducere. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Following Star Wars: Aftermath and Star Wars: Life Debt, Chuck Wendig delivers the exhilarating conclusion to the New Y...

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. The Constitution is the original Contract with America. Written in the language of the American people, it is the expression of the people's will, ...

DescriptionIn 1939, the Italian writer Giuseppe Jorio (1902 - 1995) enjoyed great success with his debut novel, La Morte di un Uomo (Death of a Man...

Reducere. DescriptionA fascinating compilation of weather forecasts, recipes, jokes, and aphorisms, Poor Richard's Almanack debuted in 1732. This new edition...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Following Star Wars: Aftermath and Star Wars: Life Debt, Chuck Wendig delivers the exhilarating conclusion to the New Y...

More commonly known as The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, Victor Hugo's Romantic novel of dark passions and unrequited love In the vaulted Gothic towers ...

Six bestselling and award-winning authors bring to life a breathtaking epic novel illuminating the hopes, desires, and destinies of princesses and ...

Reducere. This brilliant satire of the women's rights movement in America is the story of the ravishing inspirational speaker Verena Tarrant and the bitter s...

Politics in the Twentieth Century was dominated by a single question: how much of our collective life should be determined by the state, and what s...

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

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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 ...

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...

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

In January 2006, after the Republic of Liberia had been racked by fourteen years of brutal civil conflict, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf--Africa's "Iron La...

Orestes and Other Plays provides new translations of Ion, Orestes, The Phoenician Women and The Suppliant Women, plays that all explore ethical and...

More than twenty years ago, Jon Kabat-Zinn changed the way we thought about awareness in everyday life with his now-classic introduction to mindful...

DescriptionDiscover Ancient Greece and write about it Find out about life in ancient Greece, from Greek culture and language, to philosophers, myth...

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. Shahinul Islam Khalisdar is a grandson of a Muslim League founding member and son of a late Muslim League leader. His book May Allah Bless the USA ...

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

Reducere. What is the meaning of freedom? Angela Y. Davis' life and work have been dedicated to examining this fundamental question and to ending all forms o...

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The global emergencies facing the inhabitants of our planet--climate change, diminishing biodiversity, ocean acidification, overfishing, land degra...

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...

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,...

Reducere. DescriptionThey met on a battlefield and saved each other's lives. It's not the way enemies-to-lovers usually works.Adares comes from a civilizatio...

DescriptionIn a fascinating blend of biography and history, Joseph Tartakovsky tells the epic and unexpected story of our Constitution through the ...

"A Dan Brown read-alike tailor-made for an election year." --Booklist A President is murdered. A First Lady demands answers. And a young Senator wi...

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. Description Chris Hedges is an intellectual bomb thrower. The kinds of insights he provides into the troubled state of our democracy cannot be foun...

Reducere. Drakulic's composite portrait provides a clear-eyed look at European values, and what they really amount to. --The New Yorker An evocative and time...

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...

Before Federer versus Nadal, before Borg versus McEnroe, the greatest tennis match ever played pitted the dominant Don Budge against the seductivel...

DescriptionThis celebration of Black resistance, from protests to art to sermons to joy, offers a blueprint for the fight for freedom and justice -...

Discover a way of eating that revolutionized the meaning of our food choices and sold more than 3 million copies--now in a 50th-anniversary edition...

Reducere. "The war is still raging. And Gene Nichol]'s still fighting." --John Grisham North Carolina has, since 2013, undergone a greater political sea chan...

Reducere. National Bestseller In these coolly observant essays, Joan Didion looks at the American political process and at "that handful of insiders who inve...

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

Reducere. An urgent and witty manifesto, Monopolies Suck "lucidly explains how monopolies threaten democracy, worsen inequality, and imperil the American Dre...

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...

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...

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...

Reducere. "An irreplaceable testimony of the struggle for democracy and tolerance in Latin America." --El Pa sH ctor Abad's Oblivion is a heartbreaking, exqu...

This new paperback edition of Gloria Steinem's classic bestseller -- called "the ultimate self-help book" by the Los Angeles Times -- features a ne...

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

Description"A fascinating look at some fascinating people who show how democracy advances hand in hand with crime in Japan."--Mario Puzo In this un...

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

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Reducere. Some engage in politics; others observe it, but the author of this political memoir is among the few that have had the chance to do both. In these ...

Reducere. In a time of social and ecological crises, people everywhere are looking for solutions. States and capitalism, rather than providing them, only mak...

"Mary Chestnut's Diary" is a vivid first hand narrative of the Civil War. Mary Boykin Chestnut was married to James Chestnut, Jr., an important Con...

Reporter, editor and lecturer Stanley Flink knows the news business. He has worked as a journalist and editor for many years, in many different ven...

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

Description"This book reminds us of what we have in common: the power to create a good life for ourselves and for others, no matter what the world ...

"As so many Americans feel powerless to confront a financial system designed to serve the few, Shuman offers us real choices: tools that align our ...

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