Democracy

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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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Tarek Masoud
Counting Islam: Religion, Class, and Elections in Egypt (Problems of International Politics)
Why does Islam seem to dominate Egyptian politics, especially when the country's endemic poverty and deep economic inequality would seem to render it promising terrain for a politics of radical redistribution rather than one of religious conservativism? This book argues that the answer lies not in t...
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Emmanouil M. L. Economou
The Economy of Classical Athens: Organization, Institutions and Society (Routledge Explorations in Economic History)
In parallel to the development of democracy, the Athenians of the Classical period established a series of sophisticated economic institutions for the time through which they developed a maritime and commercially oriented economy. This book provides a thorough analysis of this transformation and the...
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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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Aung San Suu Kyi
Letters from Burma
Letters from Burma - an unforgettable collection from the Nobel Peace prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi In these astonishing letters, Aung San Suu Kyi reaches out beyond Burma's borders to paint for her readers a vivid and poignant picture of her native land. Here she celebrates the courageous army offi...
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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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HIGOLD
HIGOLD 33'' L Single Bowl Stainless Steel Kitchen Sink, 957040-2527T
HIGOLD North America Series, successfully inherited the core value of American freedom and democracy by providing mutiple sink choices for every kitchen: single, double, topmount, undermount, apron etc....
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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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Morgan Marietta
SCOTUS 2023: Major Decisions and Developments of the US Supreme Court
Each year, the Supreme Court of the United States announces new rulings with deep consequences for our lives. This sixth volume in Palgrave’s SCOTUS series describes, explains, and contextualizes the landmark cases of the US Supreme Court in the term ending 2023. With a close look at cases involvi...
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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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Ellen Chervenick
Sarah Saves the Day: An Almost Forgotten Story from the American Revolutionary War with Educational Activities
Sarah crosses enemy lines on a top secret deception operation for General George Washington. Based on actual events. "I have never been afraid of man or beast, Major Brooks. I can easily do this, trust me!" Sarah declared. "But Sarah, we don't even have a plan for how exactly you would deliver this...
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Steven Johnston
The Truth about Patriotism
The Truth about Patriotism is a bracing repudiation of the claim that patriotism is essential—or even beneficial—to democracy. Contending that even at its best patriotism subverts the democracy it purports to value, Steven Johnston turns to patriotism’s defenders to show how they must jettiso...
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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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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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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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William D. Gairdner
The Great Divide: Why Liberals and Conservatives Will Never, Ever Agree
The theme of The Great Divide is that the populations of the democratic world, from Boston to Berlin, Vancouver to Venice, are becoming increasingly divided from within, due to a growing ideological incompatibility between modern liberalism and conservatism. This is partly due to a complex mutatio...
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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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Captivating History
Ancient Greece: A Captivating Guide to Greek History Starting from the Greek Dark Ages to the End of Antiquity (Ancient Greek History)
Explore the Captivating History of Ancient Greece The culture and events of Greece were so influential they have a significant effect on modern-day people all over the world. The ancient Greeks gave birth to democracy, a political system frequently used and considered by some as the best form of g...
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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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Rodolfo D Torres
The Latino Question: Politics, Laboring Classes and the Next Left
In the United States, the number of Latinos struggling in pursuit of the American Dream has never been greater. Millions work towards this ideal each year, only to find themselves trapped in a cycle of debt and labor. The need for a vivid, empirically grounded study on Latino politics, culture, and ...
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