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Marco Chateau
THE SHADOWS OF THE ECCLESIA: The broken oath of a philosopher hoplite
When democracy falters: a historical game book set in ancient Athens. Athens, 429 BC. In the midst of the Peloponnesian War, the first democracy in history is weakened by fear, urgency and civic weariness. Behind the apparent functioning of the institutions, a discreet power is organising itself, co...
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Amy Goodman
The Silenced Majority: Stories of Uprisings, Occupations, Resistance, and Hope
In their new book, Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan provide a vivid record of the events, conflicts, and social movements shaping our society today. They give voice to ordinary people standing up to corporate and government power across the country and around the world. Their writing and daily work at...
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Stephen V. Tracy
Pericles: A Sourcebook and Reader
Pericles, Greece's greatest statesman and the leader of its Golden Age, created the Parthenon and championed democracy in Athens and beyond. Centuries of praise have endowed him with the powers of a demigod, but what did his friends, associates, and fellow citizens think of him? In Pericles: A Sour...
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Daniel Tudor
Korea: The Impossible Country: South Korea's Amazing Rise from the Ashes: The Inside Story of an Economic, Political and Cultural Phenomenon
"Daniel Tudor covers all the important issues, yet does not simply tell the more familiar stories, but looks deeper and wider to give the full story of Korea today." —Martin Uden, Former British Ambassador to South Korea In just fifty years, South Korea has transformed itself from a failed stat...
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Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the
The January 6th Report
**THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** NOTE: The January 6th Report appendices on pages 693–716 can be accessed via the QR code below, along with the hyperlinks from the chapter endnotes and witness testimony transcripts. Celadon Books and The New Yorker present the report by the S...
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John Stuart Mill
The Subjection of Women
The Subjection of Women by John Stuart Mill is a seminal work of classic political philosophy. Published in 1869, it is one of the earliest and most influential works on feminism and the struggle for gender equality. Mill argues that the subjugation of women is a violation of their basic human ri...
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John Naisbitt
China's Megatrends: The 8 Pillars of a New Society
A groundbreaking look at a new social-political model on the rise John and Doris Naisbitt, longtime China observers, provide an in-depth study of the fundamental changes in China's social, political, and economic life, and their impact on the West. With extraordinary access, and using the same tec...
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Donatella della Porta
The Oxford Handbook of Social Movements
The Oxford Handbook of Social Movements is an innovative volume that presents a comprehensive exploration of social movement studies, mapping the field and expanding it to examine the recent developments in cognate areas of studies, within and beyond sociology and political science. This volume b...
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Jennet Kirkpatrick
Uncivil Disobedience: Studies in Violence and Democratic Politics
Uncivil Disobedience examines the roles violence and terrorism have played in the exercise of democratic ideals in America. Jennet Kirkpatrick explores how crowds, rallying behind the principle of popular sovereignty and desiring to make law conform to justice, can disdain law and engage in violenc...
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Gianpaolo Baiocchi
Civic Imagination: Making a Difference in American Political Life
The Civic Imagination provides a rich empirical description of civic life and a broader discussion of the future of democracy in contemporary America. Over the course of a year, five researchers observed and participated in 7 civic organisations in a mid-sized US city. They draw on this ethnographic...
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Billy Corriher
Usurpers: How voters stopped the GOP takeover of North Carolina's courts
This book can give you hope for American democracy. Usurpers “documents an important era in North Carolina history and leaves us with a little hope for the future, a little inspiration,” said commentator Rob Schofield of NC Policy Watch. “I love it!” said Western Carolina University Profes...
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Walter Berns
Essays on the Scientific Study of Politics (Classic Reprint)
Unlock the hidden limits of political science Discover how a bold new approach challenges traditional liberal democracy and the study of political life. This collection argues for a grounded, empirical look at how groups, values, and actions drive real politics. The essays examine how modern polit...
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Davide Panagia
The Political Life of Sensation
The taste of chocolate, the noise of a crowd, the visual impressions of filmic images—such sensory perceptions are rarely if ever discussed in relation to democratic theory. In response, Davide Panagia argues that by overlooking sensation political theorists ignore a crucial dimension of political...
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Ian Buruma
Inventing Japan, 1853-1964 (Modern Library Chronicles)
In a single short book as elegant as it is wise, Ian Buruma makes sense of the most fateful span of Japan’s history, the period that saw as dramatic a transformation as any country has ever known. In the course of little more than a hundred years from the day Commodore Matthew Perry arrived in his...
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Kristen Ghodsee
Red Hangover: Legacies of Twentieth-Century Communism
In Red Hangover Kristen Ghodsee examines the legacies of twentieth-century communism twenty-five years after the Berlin Wall fell. Ghodsee's essays and short stories reflect on the lived experience of postsocialism and how many ordinary men and women across Eastern Europe suffered from the massive...
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Antonio Scurati
M: Son of the Century: A Novel
Now a major TV series from acclaimed filmmaker Joe Wright, starring Luca Marinelli — streaming on MUBI. “This relentless chronicle of authoritarianism emboldened and empowered offers a painful and valuable reminder that democracy is fragile, never to be taken for granted and always in need of co...
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Jon Steinman
Grocery Story: The Promise of Food Co-ops in the Age of Grocery Giants
Hungry for change? Put the power of food co-ops on your plate and grow your local food economy. Food has become ground-zero in our efforts to increase awareness of how our choices impact the world. Yet while we have begun to transform our communities and dinner plates, the most authoritative strand...
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Luis Munoz
The Case for Biblical Antichrist, Global Government, and the Man Chosen to Save America
The godfather of the global mafia (Rockefeller) indicated that he and other globalists are relying on "the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order." Moreover, the renowned globalist and Obama's advisor Strobe Talbott said, "In the next century (21st), nations as we know it...
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Kojin Karatani
Isonomia and the Origins of Philosophy
In Isonomia and the Origins of Philosophy —published originally in Japanese and now available in four languages—Kōjin Karatani questions the idealization of ancient Athens as the source of philosophy and democracy by placing the origins instead in Ionia, a set of Greek colonies located in pres...
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Arthur Meier Schlesinger
War And The American Presidency
The Bush Doctrine in foreign policy and what it means for American democracy. The gravest decision in a democracy is the one to go to war. In a book that brings a magisterial command of history to the most urgent of contemporary questions, two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Arthur M. Schlesi...
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