Thinking about Democracy

Democracy in America, published in 1835 and 1840, challenged conventional thinking about democracy when it first appeared and is still cited today ...

Democracy When the People Are Thinking contributes both to political theory and to the empirical study of public opinion and participation. It shou...

Offers liberal society a way of thinking about and of practicing democracy. This title argues that an excess of liberalism has undermined our democ...

Presents an argument about the future of politics and addresses the fundamental aspects of democracy. Arguing that liberal 'third way thinking' ign...

Reducere. What does a truly democratic experience of political action look like today? In this provocative new work, Adriana Cavarero weighs in on contempora...

A disturbing in-depth expos of the antidemocratic practices of despotic governments now sweeping the world.One day they'll be like us. That was onc...

The New York Times best-seller that shows how market pricing screwed up the economy and argues for a new way of thinking about what things are real...

DescriptionDemocracy is easy to talk about but hard to define in other than broad generalizations; its history is a long, complex, and contested su...

DescriptionThis book offers a structured, deductive approach to Austrian investing, beginning with an analysis of the current investing paradigm. T...

Reassesses American elitisms of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century Arguing that Henry Adams, Henry James and Edith Wharton articulated...

This book is concerned with the place of communication in the troubled relations between the police and young people. Ian Loader presents a forcefu...

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

DescriptionThis thoroughly updated edition of Global Security in the Twenty-First Century offers a balanced introduction to contemporary security d...

Reducere. Democracy for Realists assails the romantic folk-theory at the heart of contemporary thinking about democratic politics and government, and offers ...

'Read this if you want to understand how to shape our technological future and reinvigorate democracy along the way.' - Reed Hastings, co-founder a...

In A Very Short Introduction to Politics, Kenneth Minogue begins with a discussion of issues arising from a historical account of politics, and goe...

DescriptionAchille Mbembe is one of the world's most profound critics of colonialism and its consequences, a major figure in the emergence of a new...

Reducere. Trumpspeak is a witty, no-holds-barred assessment of Trump's mastery - or otherwise - of English and a thoughtful consideration of the ethical issu...

Reducere. In his widely acclaimed book Time to Start Thinking, Financial Times chief US columnist and commentator Edward Luce charted the course of America's...

Racism, extremism, anti-democratic sentiment - our increasingly polarized world is dominated by a type of thinking that doubts others' positions bu...

Reducere. Understanding Behaviorism is a classic textbook that explains the basis of behavior analysis and its application to human problems in a scholarly b...

In this short and powerful book, celebrated philosopher Martha Nussbaum makes a passionate case for the importance of the liberal arts at all level...

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

Reducere. In this audacious recasting of the American Revolution, distinguished historian Gary Nash offers a profound new way of thinking about the struggle ...

Reducere. DescriptionChris Hedges's profound and unsettling examination of America in crisis is "an exceedingly...provocative book, certain to arouse controv...

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

At one of the most chaotic periods in American history, in a time of national distrust and despair, one tanned TV host holds the key to the future....

Reducere. The Other Black Church: Alternative Christian Movements and the Struggle for Black Freedom examines the movements led by Father Divine, Charles Mas...

Reducere. A forward-thinking manifesto from three Stanford professors--experts who have worked at ground zero of the tech revolution for decades--which revea...

Reducere. American democracy is at risk. Fueled by partisan news and emotion-stoking social media, Americans are becoming less and less able to think rationa...

Reducere. American democracy is at risk. Fueled by partisan news and emotion-stoking social media, Americans are becoming less and less able to think rationa...