Democracy

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Cornelius Castoriadis
Figures of the Thinkable (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)
In this posthumous collection of writings, Cornelius Castoriadis (1922-1997) pursues his incisive analysis of modern society, the philosophical basis of our ability to change it, and the points of intersection between his many approaches to this theme. His main philosophical postulate, that the huma...
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Miles Kensington
The Rise of Athens History for Kids: The Golden Age of a Powerful Greek City-State (Book for Curious Kids)
Yo, check it! So, like, this book is all about flipping the script on how we see history, ya know? It’s called The Rise of Athens: Birth of Democracy, and it’s not just some boring old textbook. We’re talking about taking history and giving it some serious color – like, imagine it went from ...
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Warren Magnusson
Local Self-Government and the Right to the City (Volume 1) (McGill-Queen's Studies in Urban Governance)
Despite decades of talk about globalization, democracy still depends on local self-government. In Local Self-Government and the Right to the City, Warren Magnusson argues that it is the principle behind claims to personal autonomy, community control, and national self-determination, and holds the pr...
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Albert Camus
Camus at Combat: Writing 1944-1947
Paris is firing all its ammunition into the August night. Against a vast backdrop of water and stone, on both sides of a river awash with history, freedom's barricades are once again being erected. Once again justice must be redeemed with men's blood. Albert Camus (1913–1960) wrote these words i...
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Adrian Kerr
Murder at the Agora (Athenian Mystery)
Murder at the Agora (An Athenian Mystery, Book 1) Special Price until September 7, 2025 Athens, 451 BC. The city is alive with debate, ambition, and the fragile promise of democracy. But when a gifted young orator collapses and dies in the midst of a public speech, the dream of freedom is stained ...
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Wilson Carey McWilliams
The Idea of Fraternity in America
“A complex, intellectually jarring, and valuable book, one which reveals how early America became her true self as we now know her.” ― Kirkus Reviews The United States is currently experiencing a crisis of citizenship and democracy. For many of us, there is a sense of forlornness caused by los...
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Roberto Mangabeira Unger
What Should Legal Analysis Become?
Roberto Mangabeira Unger brings together his work in legal and social theory. He argues for the reconstruction of legal analysis as a discipline of institutional imagination. He shows how a changed practice of legal analysis can help us re-imagine and reshape the dominant institutions of representat...
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Ronald W. Walters
Democratic Destiny and the District of Columbia: Federal Politics and Public Policy
This book contributes substantially to urban affairs and public policy literature by presenting an introduction to the complex politics and public policy issues of Washington, D.C. The uniqueness of the city, as elaborated in this volume, provides background for understanding the non-traditional con...
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Niloufer A. Siddiqui
Under the Gun
Political parties are integral to democracy and yet they frequently engage in anti-democratic, violent behaviour. Parties can employ violence directly, outsource violence to gangs and militias, or form electoral alliances with non-state armed actors. When do parties engage in, or facilitate, violenc...
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Katherine Connelly
Sylvia Pankhurst: Suffragette, Socialist and Scourge of Empire: Suffragette, Socialist and Scourge of Empire (Revolutionary Lives)
From militant suffragette at the beginning of the twentieth century to campaigner against colonialism in Africa after the Second World War, Sylvia Pankhurst dedicated her life to fighting oppression and injustice. In this vivid biography Katherine Connelly examines Pankhurst’s role at the forefr...
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Leonard
John Dewey's Human Nature and Conduct
This handbook introduces Human Nature and Conduct, John Dewey's groundbreaking book about moral psychology and moral philosophy, to a new generation. In his classic work, Dewey redefined impulse, habit, and intelligence: not as isolated individual traits, but as socially conditioned factors shaping ...
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George E. Danis
Go Far, Give Back, Live Greek: A Memoir
2025 Nautilus Book Award Finalist in Memoir (Career) Go Far, Give Back, Live Greek is the odyssey of one man’s journey from his childhood village on a Greek island, struggling to survive wartime occupation, to becoming a highly successful businessman, political advisor, fundraiser, and recipient ...
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Duy Lap Nguyen
The unimagined community: Imperialism and culture in South Vietnam (Cultural History of Modern War)
The unimagined community proposes a reexamination of the Vietnam War from a perspective that has been largely excluded from historical accounts of the conflict, that of the South Vietnamese. Challenging the conventional view that the war was a struggle between the Vietnamese people and US imperialis...
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Howard Zinn
The Historic Unfulfilled Promise (City Lights Open Media)
Howard Zinn's views on social movements, freedom, history, democracy and our own human potential are educational and transformative. In few places is his voice more clear and accessible than in the dozens of articles he penned for The Progressive magazine from 1980 to 2009, offered together here i...
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Steven Brill
Tailspin: The People and Forces Behind America's Fifty-Year Fall--and Those Fighting to Reverse It
In this revelatory narrative covering the years 1967 to 2017, Steven Brill gives us a stunningly cogent picture of the broken system at the heart of our society. He shows us how, over the last half century, America’s core values—meritocracy, innovation, due process, free speech, and even democra...
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Noëlle McAfee
Fear of Breakdown: Politics and Psychoanalysis (New Directions in Critical Theory, 65)
What is behind the upsurge of virulent nationalism and intransigent politics across the globe today? In Fear of Breakdown , Noëlle McAfee uses psychoanalytic theory to explore the subterranean anxieties behind current crises and the ways in which democratic practices can help work through seemingl...
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Kent Puckett
The Electoral Imagination: Literature, Legitimacy, and Other Rigged Systems
What happens when we vote? What are we counting when we count ballots? Who decides what an election should look like and what it should mean? And why do so many people believe that some or all elections are rigged? Moving between intellectual history, literary criticism, and political theory, The El...
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Arthur I. Blaustein
Make a Difference: America's Guide to Volunteering and Community Service
Do you want to become a volunteer but feel overwhelmed by the sheer volume of organizations to choose from? Look no further than this revised edition of the bestselling book Make a Difference ! Complied and written by Arthur Blaustein, adjunct professor of social and urban policy at the University...
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Pauline A Walker
The Governor shapiro’s story: Examining the Attack, Its Aftermath, and the Call for Legal and Societal Reform
On April 13, 2025, the Pennsylvania Governor’s Residence became the site of an unprecedented attack that shook the state, the nation, and the very foundation of democracy itself. Cody Allen Balmer’s violent assault on Governor Josh Shapiro’s home was not just an act of terror—it was a chilli...
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Nic Cheeseman
How to Rig an Election
An engrossing guide to fraudulent elections around the world—fully updated to mark the biggest election year in history in 2024, as over four billion people cast their votes   Contrary to popular belief, authoritarian leaders who hold elections are generally able to remain in power for longer....
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