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iUniverse United Nations
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iUniverse Im a teacher too The War on Ignorance Continues
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iUniverse Who Killed Detroit Other Cities Beware
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iUniverse AMERICANS ON POLITICS POLICY AND POP CULTURE THE 101 BEST OPINION EDITORIALS FROM OPEDSCOM
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iUniverse Hey Stranger Letters From an AllAmerican Loudmouth Letters From an AllAmerican Loudmouth
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iUniverse The 10 Most Popular UnAmerican Attitudes
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iUniverse The Declaration of Global Civilization
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iUniverse THE REPUBLICAN PERIL Dialectic for Democratizing Sovereignty
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iUniverse The War against Socialism
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iUniverse CONFESSIONS OF AN AMERICAN SHERIFF The Nicest Sheriff in America
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iUniverse Global Transformation Strategy for Action
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iUniverse A TIME FOR ACTION
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iUniverse THE IMPOTENT GIANT How to Reclaim the Moral High Ground of Americas Politics
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iUniverse Short Jabs to the Head Snapshots of History 20052007
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iUniverse The Turner Report
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iUniverse OTHERS Fighting Bob La Follette and the Progressive Movement ThirdParty Politics in the 1920s
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iUniverse The iPINIONS Journal Commentaries on World Events Vol III 3
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iUniverse Reflections on the War of the Willing
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iUniverse My Life in the Va Lessons in Leadership
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iUniverse Reflections on the War of the Willing
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iUniverse My Life in the Va Lessons in Leadership
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iUniverse The iPINIONS Journal Commentaries on World Events Vol III 3
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iUniverse Discordant Sound
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iUniverse What Freedom Is
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iUniverse A Few Words Remarks Comments and Speeches at a Variety of Occasions
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iUniverse Individual Society and the World
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iUniverse Life of the Mind Political Essays of Shahzad Najmuddin
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iUniverse Global Transformation Strategy for Action
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iUniverse THE IMPOTENT GIANT How to Reclaim the Moral High Ground of Americas Politics
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iUniverse The Declaration of Global Civilization
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Punctum Books Commonist Tendencies Mutual Aid Beyond Communism
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Budgate Press The Interim Is Mine
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Budgate Press The Engines of the Broken World
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Interventions Inc Into the Mainstream
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Dictatorship of Virtue How the Battle Over Multiculturalism Is Reshaping Our Schools Our Country and Our Lives
Book SynopsisIn a fiercely provocative book that will generate debate for years to come, Bernstein shows how multicultural orthodoxy has created a highly lucrative bureaucracy, even as it shortchanged the very people it is meant to benefit. 'Graceful and lucid. . . . reading the book is arguably a civic duty.'--Boston Globe.
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MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas Common Law and Liberal Theory Coke Hobbes and
Book SynopsisThis work suggests that American constitutionalism is the product of a combination of two opposing schools of thought: the English common law tradition as exemplified by the work of Edward Coke, and early liberal political philosophy as seen in the work of Thomas Hobbes.
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MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas Policy Design for Democracy
Book SynopsisA theoretical work on how democracy can be improved when people are disenchanted with government. It summarizes four current approaches to policy theory - pluralism, policy sciences, public choice, and critical theory - and shows how none offer more than a partial view of policy design.Trade ReviewThe book is cogent and well written, offering clear discussion in a logical format." —American Political Science Review"Critical and perceptive." —Governance!One of the many attractions of the book is that it takes seriously the claims of social science to explain policy change and stability. . . the book uses the use of the concept of policy design to fill the gaps in rather than replace empirical research. Also, for the practitioner, Schneider and Ingram recommend general principles for good design." —American Politics Review"In this incredibly rich and sophisticated analysis, Schneider and Ingram develop a theoretical framework that both highlights how the elements of policy designs are socially constructed and explains how the characteristics of those designs often work to weaken democratic values and processes. This superb book will be of special value to those interested in policy studies." —Choice"This is a policy textbook with point of view and attitude. It will influence the next generation of students (graduates and undergraduates alike) and it will have to be taken with utmost seriousness by scholars, practitioners, and politicians."—Theodore Lowi, author of American Government and The End of Liberalism"Schneider and Ingram have resynthesized the policy literature around one central question: how do various elements of policy design and policy making help or hinder democracy? And in their new bottles, the old wine really does taste better."—Deborah A. Stone, author of The Disabled State and Policy Paradox and Political Reason"This superb review, critique, and synthesis of policy theory will enable everyone concerned with public policy, whether as practitioner, teacher, or student, not only to understand the process better and be more effective, but to think clearly about the values on which policy should be built."—John Mollenkopf, author of A Phoenix in the Ashes"It is time for intelligent optimism in political science, and Schneider and Ingram serve us well. Their formulation of ‘policy design’ wonderfully reminds us that policy has content and not mere form. They offer a framework that seeks to overcome degenerative policymaking, of which there is surely enough, and to achieve constructive results through democratic means. It is Lasswellian in spirit, but also reminds one of Norton Long."—Matthew Holden, Jr., author of Continuity and Disruption
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MP-KAN Uni Press of Kansas Targeting the Third Reich Air Intelligence and the Allied Bombing Campaigns
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Foucault
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Scanlon and Contractualism
Book SynopsisThis collection brings together essays by distinguished political philosophers which reflect on the detailed arguments of What We Owe to Each Other, and comment critically both on Scanlon''s contractualism and his revised understandings of motivation and morality. The essays illustrate the uses of Scanlon''s contractualism by applying it to moral and political problems and in so doing they provide an assessment of the ability of Scanlon''s contractualism by applying it to other forms of ethical theory. The resulting volume makes an important and original contribution to the literature on Scanlon, on contractualism and on contemporary political philosophy.Table of Contents1. Scanlon and Reasons 2. The Magic in the Pronoun 'My' 3. Contractualism, Spare Wheel, Aggregation 4. Responsibility and Choice 5. Promises and Perlocutions 6. Contractualism and the Virtues.
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Penguin Putnam Inc The Square and the Tower Networks and Power from
Book SynopsisThe instant New York Times bestseller. A brilliant recasting of the turning points in world history, including the one we're living through, as a collision between old power hierarchies and new social networks.“Captivating and compelling.” —The New York TimesNiall Ferguson has again written a brilliant book...In 400 pages you will have restocked your mind. Do it. —The Wall Street Journal“The Square and the Tower, in addition to being provocative history, may prove to be a bellwether work of the Internet Age.” —Christian Science MonitorMost history is hierarchical: it's about emperors, presidents, prime ministers and field marshals. It's about states, armies and corporations. It's about orders from on high. Even history from below is often about trade unions and workers' parties. But what if that's simply because hi
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Xlibris The Anarchists Convention
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Lexington Books Toward a New Socialism
Book SynopsisOffers a critical analysis of capitalism's failings and the imminent need for socialism as an alternative form of government. This book contains essays, which explore the benefits and consequences of a socialist system as an avenue of increased human solidarity and ethical principle.Trade ReviewIntelligent and well-written essays filled with radical visions and sensible, humane policy proposals. This book will be extremely valuable for readers who think we can do better than the present system-and even more important for those who think we can't. -- Roger S. Gottlieb, author of A Greener Faith: Religious Environmentalism and our Planet's FutureRecommended. -- H.G. Reid, University of Kentucky * CHOICE *...the essays are first class- well written, well argued, and highly engaging....I would certainly recommend the book... * Political Studies Review *inspiring and hopeful.... It is an important contribution to socialist thought... * Against the Current, March 2009 *I know of no other work remotely comparable to this anthology. The collection should make a major contribution to public debates regarding the feasibility and desirability of a more democratic alternative to global capitalism. The comprehensiveness of the issues considered also sets it apart. And the authors collected here form a veritable 'who's who' of leading socialist philosophers working in the U.S. today. Without question this is the single best collection of writings by contemporary U.S. socialist philosophers available. -- Tony Smith, Iowa State UniversityTable of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction: Toward a New Socialism Part 2 Part One: Principles Chapter 3 Socialist Voices Chapter 4 Socialist Freedom Chapter 5 Equality Chapter 6 Socialist-Feminism: A Cooperative Vision and the Right to Care Chapter 7 Social Feelings and the Morality of Socialism Chapter 8 Can We Get There From Here?: Reflections about Fundamental Social and Human Change Chapter 9 Their Rationality and Ours Chapter 10 Social Hope and Prophetic Intellectuals in a "Hopeless World" Part 11 Part Two: Specific Institutions in a Socialist Society Chapter 12 Socializing Care: Reinventing Family Life Chapter 13 Schooling in a Socialist Society Chapter 14 Between Repression and Liberation: Sexuality and Socialist Theory Chapter 15 The Religion of Liberation: Theology of Liberation and Socialism Chapter 16 The Right of Association: The Shameful History of a Right Fundamental to Democracy Chapter 17 Democracy Chapter 18 The Role of Prisons in a Socialist Future or: The Incorrigible Ethos of Incarceration Chapter 19 Socialism and Technology: A Sectoral Overview Chapter 20 Social Justice as an Environmental Issue Chapter 21 Capitalism, Sustainability, and Climate Change Chapter 22 Marxism and War Part 23 Part Three: Promising Social Movements and Their Projects Chapter 24 Worker Controlled Workplaces Chapter 25 Challenging the "Market as God" Ideology: Living Wage Campaigns and the Fight for Socialism Chapter 26 A Politics and a Sensibility: The Anarchist Current on the U.S. Left Chapter 27 Multiculturalism as Solidarity: Globalizing Resistance Chapter 28 The New Solidarity: A Case Study of Cross-Border Labor Networks and Mural Art in the Age of Globalization Chapter 29 The Zapatistas: Lessons for the U.S. Left Chapter 30 Dear Sup. Much Obliged: An Afterword Chapter 31 An Afterword to the Afterword: The Zapatista Movement a Decade Later
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Lexington Books Augustine and Psychology Augustine in
Book SynopsisThe essays here show the interface and relevance of psychology to theology (and vice versa), and they do so in a way that will be useful to upper-level undergraduate or graduate-level courses in religious studies. The collection is also useful for presenting classic essays as well as new essays appearing here for the first time.Trade ReviewThis impressive collection of new and classic essays connects Augustine’s thought with Freudian theory, philosophical psychology, neuroscience, and related inquiries. Augustine and Psychology is a fine addition to a distinguished series. -- William WerpehowskiThis collection of illuminating essays reminds us that St. Augustine remains our contemporary: a writer who understood our sense of fragmentation, our longing for wholeness, and our intuitions of the way that leads there. -- Paul J. Contino, Pepperdine UniversityTable of ContentsChapter 1: The Journey to Simplicity: Augustine and the Plural Experiences of the Soul Todd Breyfogle Chapter 2: Teaching Freud and Interpreting Augustine’s Confessions Sandra Lee Dixon Chapter 3: Reading Augustine, Monica, Milan with Attention to Cultural Interpretation and Psychological Theory Sandra Lee Dixon Chapter 4: St. Augustine: Archetypes of Family Anne Hunsaker Hawkins Chapter 5: Between Two Worlds Morton Kelsey Chapter 6: Augustine among the Ancient Therapists Paul R. Kolbet Chapter 7: Augustine and Freud: The Secularization of Self-Deception Margaret R. Miles Chapter 8: Augustine and Dopamine Daniel B. Morehead Chapter 9: Tears of Grief and Joy: Chronological Sequence and the Structure of Confessions, Book 9 Kim Paffenroth Chapter 10: On Seeing the Light: Assessing Psychoanalytic Interpretations of Vision in Augustine’s Confessions William B. Parsons Chapter 11: Augustine’s Extraordinary Theory of Memory Raymond J. Shaw
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Lexington Books Teaching in an Age of Ideology
Book SynopsisThis volume explores the role of some of the most prominent twentieth-century philosophers and political thinkers as teachers. It examines how these teachers conveyed truth to their students against the ideological influences found in the university and society. Philosophers from Edmund Husserl and Hannah Arendt to political thinkers like Eric Voegelin and Leo Strauss, and their students such as Ellis Sandoz, Stanley Rosen, and Harvey Mansfield, are in this volume as teachers who analyze, denounce, and attempt to transcend ideology for a more authentic way of thinking. What the reader will discover is that teaching is not merely a matter of holding concepts together, but a way of existing or living in the world. The thinkers in this volume represent this form of teaching as the philosophical search for truth in a world deformed by ideology.Trade ReviewThere may be no formula on how to be an outstanding teacher, but this splendid collection, mostly by younger scholars, provide intimations, insights, and reflections on master teachers they have known. Great teaching always contains an element of resistance –to the lie, to mere opinion, to deceit—and is invariably based on common sense even while it aspires to something more. -- Barry Cooper, University of CalgaryI opened Teaching in an Age of Ideology to look for stories of great teachers I knew or had read, and quickly I was confronted with unsolved questions of political philosophy and liberal education. The stories are here, but often they are merely the hook to bring the reader virtually into the kind of classroom where he is compelled to upset his settled opinions and to see the world afresh. These essays by master teachers about master teachers are not only enjoyable and illuminating; taken as a whole, they offer a précis of the great crises of the past century and an intimation of how the human spirit can transcend dark days. -- James R. Stoner, Jr., Louisiana State UniversityThe largely realized promise of this collection is that the human activity of political-philosophical inquiry is exhibited and helpfully illuminated not merely in what philosophers and scholars write and publish, but in their acts of teaching. These thoughtful reflections on the teaching work of scholars deserve the attention of scholars and students alike. -- Thomas W. Heilke, University of KansasIn this collection of essays celebrating 11 scholar-teachers who opposed today's dominant educational and political ideologies, and written by their students and followers, Heyking (Univ. of Lethbridge, Canada) and Trepanier (Saginaw Valley State Univ.) have constructed a biographical narrative of ideas that begins largely among secular Jewish philosophers in early-20th-century Europe and ends with conservative political theorists in US universities. From Edmund Husserl and Hannah Arendt in Germany through Eric Voegelin, Leo Strauss, and Harvey Mansfield in the US, the essays examine how and why their mentors shaped ways of thinking that are a form of reflective action that enhances both human freedom and democratic citizenship. Both as teachers and as scholars, they employed ways of doing political philosophy that became models of liberal education itself--models that now occupy proud but beleaguered outposts even within the liberal arts in most colleges and universities. At a time when "theory" in academic life is often a dogmatic barrier to everyday experience, shared meanings, and opening to transcendence, this collection echoes similar responses by Harry Clor in On Moderation: Defending an Ancient Virtue in a Modern World (CH, Jan'09, 46-2925) and David Walsh in After Ideology: Recovering the Spiritual Foundations of Freedom (1983). Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduate, graduate, and research collections. * CHOICE *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Teaching Political Philosophy, Lee Trepanier and John von Heyking Section I: Thinking and Teaching against Ideology Chapter 1: Edmund Husserl, Molly Brigid Flynn Chapter 2: Hannah Arendt, Leah Bradshaw Chapter 3: Raymond Aron’s Educative Legacy, Bryan-Paul Frost Chapter 4: Bernard Lonergan, Lance M. Grigg Section II: The Teacher’s Search for Order Chapter 5: Eric Voegelin and the “Art of the Perigoge”, John von Heyking Chapter 6: Gerhart Niemeyer as Educator: The Defense of Western Culture in an Ideological Age, Michael Henry Chapter 7: Ellis Sandoz as Master Teacher Charles R. Embry, Texas A & M University at Commerce Chapter 8: John H. Hallowell, Principled Pragmatist, Tim Hoye Section III: The Teaching of Natural Rights Today Chapter 9: Leo Strauss’s Two Agendas for Education, Michael Zuckert Chapter 10: Stanley Rosen the Nemesis of Nihilism. Nalin Ranasinghe Chapter 11: Harvey Mansfield, Travis D. Smith
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