The Promise of Politics, Paperback

The increased use of digital politics by citizens, groups, and governments over the last 25 years carried the promise of transforming the way polit...

Ball's poems of menace and horror promise to make him the Stephen King of verse.Publisher: Coach House BooksAuthor(s): Jonathan BallNumber of pages...

An insightful socio-cultural analysis of the differences in Chinese and Western relationships to the public and the private spheres.

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. Together in one book, the two most important documents in United States history form the enduring legacy of America's Founding Fathers including Th...

Wolitzer has masterfully created an expose of lives lived in partnership and the truth that behind the compromises, dedication and promise inherent...

From Athens to New York, recent mass movements around the world have challenged austerity and authoritarianism with expressions of real democracy. ...

DescriptionIn Surrogate Humanity Neda Atanasoski and Kalindi Vora trace the ways in which robots, artificial intelligence, and other technologies s...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Matt GrossmannAuthor: David A. HopkinsWhy do Republican politicians promise to rein in government, only to face repeated re...

The British system has been radically transformed in recent decades, far more than most of us realise. As acclaimed political scientist and bestsel...

Reducere. "THERE ARE NO PROBLEMS WE CAN'T ADDRESS . . . WHOEVER MAY OCCUPY THE WHITE HOUSE." "I'm not going to limit myself to condemning corruption and call...

Reducere. This succinct yet comprehensive introduction to Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA) is geared toward advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate studen...

The Hours Have Lost Their Clock charts the rise of nostalgia in an era knocked out of time. Nostalgia has broken out across the world. Political le...

City of God, the latest installment in Beverly Swerling's gripping saga of old New York, takes readers to Manhattan's clamorous streets as the nati...

The curses are getting worse. The curse-breaking workshop hasn't exactly turned out how Molly and her friends had hoped. And now something is going...

In this stirring call to arms, the activist, spiritual leader, and New York Times bestselling author of the classic A Return to Love confronts the ...

Reducere. Now available in trade paper with a new introduction - Be the People is an insightful analysis of the forces of deception rapidly reshaping America...

Leading scholars examine China's global strategic plans, from Hong Kong to military power, to economic dominance Over the past few decades, China h...

Reducere. John's apocalyptic revelation tends to be read either as an esoteric mystery or a breathless blueprint for the future. Missing, though, is how Reve...

Reducere. "'Return of the Strong Gods, '...is a thoughtful contribution to American political debate. It is incisively written and full of modern observation...

DescriptionThe inside story of a brilliant campaign, with lessons on how the Democrats can secure victory in the future. Since David Plouffe helped...

Reducere. A powerful polemic on the state of black America that savages the idea of a post-racial society America's great promise of equality has always rung...

Reducere. Imbibing the promise of Jeffersonian egalitarianism, some Americans in the early nineteenth century sought to gain positions of leadership in polit...

Reducere. Campaigning for president in 1980, Ronald Reagan told stories of Cadillac-driving "welfare queens" and "strapping young bucks" buying T-bone steaks...

Reducere. First published in 1978, this book rapidly established itself as a classic of modern Marxism. Cohen's masterful application of advanced philosophic...

Reducere. It has been years since Swenson, a professor in a New England creative writing program, has published a novel. It's been even longer since any of h...

The Phenomenology of Religious Life presents the text of Heidegger's important 1920-21 lectures on religion. The volume consists of the famous lect...

Militant Democracy refers to the defensive policies democracies use to respond to antidemocratic movements. Can defensive efforts that curtail righ...

Reducere. In this signal work of history, Bancroft Prize winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Lizabeth Cohen shows how the pursuit of prosperity after World Wa...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Branden Jacobs-Jenkins"The deftly crafted blend of shocking exaggeration and believability, politeness and fury...makes App...

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau presents himself as progressive on foreign affairs. According to Trudeau, he and his Liberals have brought C...

Reducere. In 1971 Dr. Theodore Kaczynski rejected modern society and moved to a primitive cabin in the woods of Montana. There, he began building bombs, whic...

Reducere. As one of the early Enlightenment philosophers in England, John Locke sought to bring reason and critical intelligence to the discussion of the ori...

A powerful analysis of events that helped galvanise resistance across civil society. The 2017 publication of Betrayal of the Promise, the report th...

Ever since the shocking revelations of the fascist ties of Martin Heidegger and Paul de Man, postmodernism has been haunted by the specter of a com...

Reducere. The risks of global warming are pressing and potentially vast. The difficulty of doing without fossil fuels is daunting, possibly even insurmountab...

Alongside Paulo Freire, Henry A. Giroux is widely considered to be the founding father of critical pedagogy. This classic work represents his best ...

Reducere. When it was first published twenty-five years ago, this classic work of political theory gained notoriety because neither its approach nor its inte...

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Dramatic statements about the promise and peril of artificial intelligence for humanity abound, as an industry of experts claims that AI is poised ...

DescriptionThis book demonstrates for the first time the significance of Jung's work to the humanities, and to those areas where the humanities and...

Reducere. On October 16, 1954, E. H. Crump, the political boss of Memphis and a force in Southern politics for nearly half a century, died at his home in Mem...

Reducere. There are moments when the normal flow of time catches, hesitates, and shifts direction.2020 was one of these moments.Now, at this critical junctur...

How do Christians determine when to obey God even if that means disobeying other people? In this book W. Bradford Littlejohn addresses that questio...

A physician's "remarkable" account of how right-wing backlash policies have mortal consequences (Minneapolis Star Tribune) -- even for the white vo...

Reducere. Rikki Santer's dazzling How to Board a Moving Ship makes the familiar brilliantly strange again. Neighbors are bears in "golden vanilla coats, " ga...

Contributor(s): Author: Nancy LevitAuthor: Robert R. M. VerchickAuthor: Martha MinowFeminist legal theory is one of the most dynamic fields in the ...

Reducere. DescriptionTHE COURAGE TO START OVER Carol Ann "CJ" Jansen has felt adrift ever since she lost her beloved older brother, Kick, to a tragic boating...

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Reducere. His loyalty lasted a lifetime...Surgeon, merchant, vintner, and writer Filippo Mazzei influenced American business, politics, and philosophy. Befri...

Reducere. At a time when a lasting peace between the Palestinians and the Israelis seems virtually unattainable, understanding the roots of their conflict is...

Reducere. Having lost his wife, Isaac Roop left his children with friends and family in Ohio and followed his brother Josiah west to California via ship and ...

Reducere. Year after year a woman sits in her bare living quarters with her bags packed. She is waiting for a phone call from her snakehead, or human smuggle...

DescriptionA groundbreaking debunking of moderate attempts to resolve financial crises In the ruins of the 2007-2008 financial crisis, self-proclai...

DescriptionOur lives today are oppressed by the demand that we live, feel and experience with ever greater intensity. We are enticed to try exotic ...

Reducere. In the 1950s and early 1960s a small fraternity of daring, brilliant men made the first exploratory trips into the upper stratosphere, reaching the...

Reducere. A landmark insider's tour of how social media affects our decision-making and shapes our world in ways both useful and dangerous, with critical ins...

Anna is the daughter of an American couple working in Cairo. Layla is the daughter of the doorman in Anna's apartment building. Together they strik...

Reducere. THE PERFECT BOOK: Liberals are furious about this book A hilarious book about the faults of liberal beliefs in the style of Dr. Seuss OUR QUALITY: ...

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Reducere. María (1867) is a novel by Jorge Isaacs. Partly inspired by his own life, María is a moving story of romance, hope, and tragedy by a leading author...

Award NameChristian Book AwardAward categoryNew AuthorDescriptionAbortion continues to be a hot topic in politics, women's rights, and medical prac...

Reducere. #1 New York Times bestselling author Eric Metaxas delivers an extraordinary book that is part history and part rousing call to arms, steeped in a c...