Democracy: A Life, Paperback

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

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. During the rise of fascism in the early twentieth century, American philosopher and educational reformer John Dewey argued that the greatest threat...

Reducere. Bordering all but two of South America's other nations and by far Latin America's largest country, Brazil differs linguistically, historically, and...

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...

DescriptionA cultural history of the modern lifestyle viewed through film and multimedia experiments of midcentury designers Charles and Ray Eames ...

Reducere. Time magazine called Mortimer J. Adler a "philosopher for everyman." In this guide to considering the big questions, Adler addresses the topics all...

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

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

A Theory of Dramaturgy is the first text of its kind to define concepts and combine arguments into a coherent dramaturgical theory supported by an ...

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

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. This popular text features a rigorous yet practical approach to the difficult dilemmas that so often arise in school administration. Using case stu...

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

Reducere. Born in a time of anxiety, Words and Worlds examines some of the disquieting challenges that societies now face. Through an inquiry into a politica...

Reducere. Every once in a while, with the passage of time, a classic book takes on even greater relevance. The first edition of Democratic Schools was praise...

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

In Politics, Money, and Persuasion, distinguished philosopher John Russon offers a new framework for interpreting Plato's The Republic. For Russon,...

Reducere. Law as a profession was not Dikgang Moseneke's first choice. As a small boy he told his aunt that he wanted to be a traffic officer, but life had o...

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...

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

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...

DescriptionData and algorithms are changing our life. The awareness of importance and pervasiveness of the digital revolution is the primary elemen...

Bernard Williams is remembered as one of the most brilliant and original philosophers of the past fifty years. Widely respected as a moral philosop...

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...

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 ...

Reducere. First published in 1962, Negroes with Guns is the story of a southern black community's struggle to arm itself in self-defense against the Ku Klux ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: David W. BlightEditor: Jim DownsThis collection of eleven original essays interrogates the concept of freedom and recenters...

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

A vivid and fast-paced history, Gary May's Bending toward Justice offers a dramatic account of the birth and precarious life of the 1965 Voting Rig...

Reducere. When humanism was first receiving widespread public attention in the West, through such publications as The Humanist Manifesto in 1933, unbeknownst...

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...

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

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

Reducere. Myanmar - shrouded in mystery, misunderstood and isolated for half a century.After a whirlwind romance in Bangladesh, Australian journalist Jessica...

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

Despite playing a decisive role in shaping the past two hundred years of American and European politics, liberalism is no longer the dominant force...

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

Reducere. The Unknown Cultural Revolution challenges the established narrative of China's Cultural Revolution, which assumes that this period of great social...

Reducere. Six-time New York Times bestselling author and former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright--one of the world's most admired and tireless public se...

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...

In addition to being one of the greatest technical philosophers of the twentieth century, John Dewey (1859-1952) was an educational innovator, a Pr...

DescriptionWhat you believe about politics matters. The decades since the Cold War, with new alignments of post-9/11 global politics and the chaos ...

In this book Saint Germain explains that his actual vision for what is possible in his Golden Age is so far beyond what we see manifest today that ...

Fully updated and expanded, the second edition of this still compact text on British politics expertly analyses the major changes in British politi...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Talal AsadOpening with the provocative query "what might an anthropology of the secular look like?" this book explores the ...

DescriptionBorn to Slovenian peasants, Louis Adamic commanded crowds, met with FDR and Truman, and built a prolific career as an author and journal...

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. DescriptionDrawing on freshly discovered material--including correspondence previously unavailable outside academia--the talented writer and journa...

This book is for experienced spiritual students who understand that we who are in embodiment must decide what we allow on earth. And it is high tim...

Reducere. This book continues and revises the ideas of justice as fairness that John Rawls presented in A Theory of Justice but changes its philosophical int...

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

Reducere. "The Money Power" contains two classic books on geopolitics, "Pawns in the Game" and "Empire of the City, " which present the thesis that the wars ...

Reducere. Emperor Haile Selassie was an iconic figure of the twentieth century, a progressive monarch who ruled Ethiopia from 1916 to 1974. This book, writte...

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

Reducere. Mirsad Had&382;kadi&263; never planned for a life in politics. Yet, in 2018, he decided to run for the Bosniak presidential council seat in Bosnia ...

Millions of people see themselves as spiritual, but not religious and they have very specific needs that most societies either ignore or even put d...

Reducere. American-style democracy and capitalism come to the sleepy village of Tobiki in this uplifting comedy of cultural conflict set on Okinawa at the en...

Reducere. According to republican theory, we are free persons to the extent that we are protected and secured in the same fundamental choices, on the same pu...

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

Reducere. 2014 Lannan Foundation Cultural Freedom Notable Book Award In Goliath, New York Times bestselling author Max Blumenthal takes us on a journey throu...

Reducere. A sustained engagement with Theodor Adorno, Jazz As Critique looks to jazz for ways of understanding the inadequacies of contemporary life. Adorno'...

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

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

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

Reducere. Lacemaker Vivienne Rivard never imagined her craft could threaten her life. Yet in revolutionary France, it is a death sentence when the nobility, ...

Reducere. Making a New American Constitution explores the grave flaws in the United States Constitution that obstruct reforms urgently needed for national un...

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