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Uwe Wittstock
February 1933: The Winter of Literature
It all happened in a flash. February 1933 was the month in which the fate of German writers, as for so many others, was decided. In a tensely spun narrative, Uwe Wittstock tells the story of a demise which was predicted by some but also scarcely thought possible. He reveals how, in a matter of weeks...
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Vincent Gabrielsen
Financing the Athenian Fleet: Public Taxation and Social Relations
To meet the enormous expenses of maintaining its powerful navy, democratic Athens gave wealthy citizens responsibility for financing and commanding the fleet. Known as trierarchs —literally, ship commanders—they bore the expenses of maintaining and repairing the ships, as well as recruiting and...
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Howard Richards
The Dilemmas of Social Democracies: Overcoming Obstacles to a More Just World
The Dilemmas of Social Democracies seeks to advance the eradication of poverty and the ethical construction of social democracy and sustainable peace. Howard Richards and Joanna Swanger argue that the reason that capitalism resists transformation and that social democracy is so hard to achieve is be...
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Inga Atladóttir
Active Worlds, Possible Worlds: Moral Attention and the Renewal of Education After Collapse
In 2008, Iceland’s banking collapse shattered more than an economy. Savings disappeared, trust eroded, and a small nation famed for resilience was forced to confront uncomfortable truths about power, responsibility, and the stories it told itself. Out of this rupture emerged a rare collective insi...
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Marjorie A. Beale
The Modernist Enterprise: French Elites and the Threat of Modernity, 1900-1940
For the tradition-bound French elites of pre-World War I and the interwar period, modernity presented itself as a series of questions about France’s place in a newly competitive industrial world and about their positions as the leaders and managers of a mass society. What was the optimal form of g...
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Jim A Diers
Neighbor Power: Building Community the Seattle Way
Building on the lessons of early labor leaders, civil rights volunteers, and political activists, Jim Diers has developed his own models and successful strategies for community development. Neighbor Power chronicles his involvement with Seattle’s communities. This book not only gives hope that p...
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Phil Tinline
The Death of Consensus: 100 Years of British Political Nightmares
Over Britain's first century of mass democracy, politics lurched from crisis to crisis. How does this history of broken consensus and political agony illuminate our current age of upheaval? Historians usually focus on the dawn of a new consensus--postwar Keynesianism, or Thatcherite neoliberalism. ...
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Anne E. E. Brodsky
With All Our Strength
With All Our Strength is the inside story of this women-led underground organization and their fight for the rights of Afghan women. Anne Brodsky, the first writer given in-depth access to visit and interview their members and operations in Afghanistan and Pakistan, shines light on the gruesome, of...
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Euripides
Ten Plays by Euripides
The first playwright of democracy, Euripides wrote with enduring insight and biting satire about social and political problems of Athenian life.  In contrast to his contemporaries, he brought an exciting--and, to the Greeks, a stunning--realism to the "pure and noble form" of tragedy.  For the f...
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Toyin Falola
Understanding Modern Nigeria
Since its independence from Britain in 1960, Nigeria has emerged as Africa's second largest economy and one of the biggest producers of oil in the world. Despite its economic success, however, there are deep divisions among its two hundred and fifty ethnic groups. Centered around three of the domina...
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Frank Fischer
Citizens, Experts, and the Environment: The Politics of Local Knowledge
The tension between professional expertise and democratic governance has become increasingly significant in Western politics. Environmental politics in particular is a hotbed for citizens who actively challenge the imposition of expert theories that ignore forms of local knowledge that can help to r...
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Anthony T. Kronman
The Assault on American Excellence
“I want to call it a cry of the heart, but it’s more like a cry of the brain, a calm and erudite one.” — Peggy Noonan, The Wall Street Journal The former dean of Yale Law School argues that the feverish egalitarianism gripping college campuses today is a threat to our democracy. Coll...
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Henry A. Giroux
Zombie Politics and Culture in the Age of Casino Capitalism: Second Edition (Popular Culture and Everyday Life)
In the second edition of Zombie Politics and Culture in the Age of Casino Capitalism , Henry A. Giroux uses the metaphor of the zombie to highlight how America has embraced a machinery of social and civil death that chills any vestige of a robust democracy. He charts the various ways in which the p...
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Chuck Collins
Burned by Billionaires: How Concentrated Wealth and Power Are Ruining Our Lives and Planet
A scathing exposé of the hidden impact of America’s ultra wealthy on our social, economic, political, and ecological landscape—as well as a path toward a more equitable future “The three hundred largest yachts in the world emit as much carbon dioxide as the ten million inhabitants of Burundi...
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Molly Farneth
Hegel's Social Ethics: Religion, Conflict, and Rituals of Reconciliation
Hegel’s Social Ethics offers a fresh and accessible interpretation of G. W. F. Hegel’s most famous book, the Phenomenology of Spirit . Drawing on important recent work on the social dimensions of Hegel’s theory of knowledge, Molly Farneth shows how his account of how we know rests on his a...
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Alexander Hamilton
The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States (Modern Library Classics)
The series of essays that comprise The Federalist constitutes one of the key texts of the American Revolution and the democratic system created in the wake of independence. Written in 1787 and 1788 by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay to promote the ratification of the proposed Const...
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David Held
Global Governance and Public Accountability
This volume brings together prominent scholars from the fields of politics and international relations in order to explore questions of crucial importance to the creation of an effective, accountable and legitimate system of global governance. - An exploration of questions of crucial importance...
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Benjamin R. Barber
If Mayors Ruled the World: Dysfunctional Nations, Rising Cities
Can cities solve the biggest problems of the twenty-first century better than nations? Is the city democracy’s best hope? In the face of the most perilous challenges of our time—climate change, terrorism, poverty, and trafficking of drugs, guns, and people—the nations of the world seem para...
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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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