Democracy: A Life, Paperback

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

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...

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

DescriptionCanada is ruled by an organized minority of the 1%, a class of corporate owners, managers and bankers who amass wealth by controlling th...

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

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

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

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...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Stanley Vestal"A tall man, with long black hair, smooth face, dark eyes (inclining to turn his head a little to one side, a...

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

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

Reducere. Our current environmental crises -- most notably, climate change -- call on us to upgrade to a new way of life that will sustain us and our world f...

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. Contributor(s): Author: Theodore RooseveltFor a number of years much of my life was spent either in the wilderness or on the borders of the settled...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Reducere. Premier Zhao Ziyang reveals the secret workings of China's government behind the Tiananmen massacre--and why he was deposed for trying to stop it. ...

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 ...

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

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

"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...

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...

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

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

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. 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...

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. 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...

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

Reducere. This book outlines a new form of anarchism, i.e., structural-anarchism, which advocates for a series of micro-revolutions, designed to install an a...

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

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

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

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

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

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. THE INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER "One of the more surprising double-reverse plot twists...in some time." --The New York Times In this "propulsive, p...

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

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 ...

Reducere. In the far future, humankind has made contact with numerous other species: Gowachin, Laclac, Wreaves, Pan Spechi, Taprisiots, and Caleban, and has ...

"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...

Reducere. Images of Rail: Pere Marquette 1225 presents the history of steam locomotive 1225, one of 39 Berkshire Class 2-8-4 s built between 1937 and 1944 fo...

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. Beverly Bell, an activist and award-winning writer, has dedicated her life to working for democracy, women's rights, and economic justice in Haiti ...

DescriptionThe history of the Philippines is a long and complex one but the stories and reflections in Dark Days of Authoritarianism, from remarkab...

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

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...

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

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

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. 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...

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

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

This volume interrogates settled ways of thinking about the seemingly interminable conflict between religious and secular values in our world today...

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. In "Negro President" the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Garry Wills explores a pivotal moment in American history through the lens of Thomas Jeff...

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

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

Friedrich Reck might seem an unlikely rebel against Nazism. Not just a conservative but a rock-ribbed reactionary, he played the part of a landed g...

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...