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Education for Democracy by Benjamin R Barber
RRP: £126.36Booksplease Price: £111.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780757587054Author Benjamin R BarberFormat PaperbackPage Count 650Imprint Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co... -
A Passion for Democracy: American Essays by Benjamin R. Barber
Booksplease Price: £41.96Benjamin Barber is one of America's preeminent political theorists. He has been a significant voice in the continuing debate about the nature and role of democracy in the contemporary world. A... -
Fear's Empire: War, Terrorism, and Democracy by Benjamin R. Barber 9780393325782
RRP: £18.50Booksplease Price: £17.03The author of Jihad vs. McWorld analyzes how American foreign policy has gone wrongand how it could go right. In this hard-hitting but pragmatic new critique of the Bush administration's foreign... -
The Conquest of Politics: Liberal Philosophy in Democratic Times by Benjamin R. Barber
Booksplease Price: £34.35The description for this book, The Conquest of Politics: Liberal Philosophy in Democratic Times, will be forthcoming.Reviews"[His commitment to democratic radicalism] has made Barber one of the... -
Strong Democracy: Participatory Politics for a New Age by Benjamin R. Barber 9780520242333
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £27.84Since its appearance twenty years ago, Benjamin R. Barber's "Strong Democracy" has been one of the primary standards against which political science thinking and writing is measured. Defined as the... -
If Mayors Ruled the World: Dysfunctional Nations, Rising Cities by Benjamin R. Barber
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.42Can 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,... -
The Truth of Power: Intellectual Affairs in the Clinton White House by Benjamin R. Barber 9780393323320
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £19.06President Clinton had a romance with big ideas. He intently cultivated intellectuals, seducing them with his characteristic charm and with the promise of real influence on the political stage. Yet... -
Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole by Benjamin R. Barber 9780393330892
RRP: £17.95Booksplease Price: £12.73A powerful sequel to Benjamin R. Barber's best-selling Jihad vs. McWorld, Consumed offers a vivid portrait of a global economy that overproduces goods and targets children as consumers in a market... -
A Place for Us: How to Make Society Civil and Democracy Strong by Benjamin Barber 9780809076567
RRP: £17.00Booksplease Price: £12.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809076567Author Benjamin R BarberFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Hill & WangPublisher Hill &... -
The Truth of Power: Intellectual Affairs in the Clinton White House by Benjamin Barber 9780231144391
Booksplease Price: £25.21In 1994 Benjamin R. Barber was invited by President Clinton to participate in a seminar on the future of democratic ideas and ideals. Following their meeting, Barber became an informal consultant to... -
A New Politics of Identity: Political Principles for an Interdependent World by Bhikhu Parekh 9781403906472
Booksplease Price: £45.75The New Politics of Identity pursues many of the central issues raised in the author's Rethinking Multiculturalism focusing in particular on their consequences for global politics. Parekh develops a... -
Democracy and Difference: Contesting the Boundaries of the Political by Seyla Benhabib
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £42.09The global trend toward democratization of the last two decades has been accompanied by the resurgence of various politics of "identity/difference." From nationalist and ethnic revivals in the... -
The Necessity of Choice: Nineteenth Century Political Thought Louis Hartz 9781412854870
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £43.94Louis Hartz is best known for his classic study, The Liberal Tradition in America. At Harvard University, his lecture course on nineteenth-century politics and ideologies was memorable. Through the... -
An Islamic Reformation? by Michaelle L. Browers 9780739105542
Booksplease Price: £86.43Over the last two decades we have seen a vast number of books published in the West that treat Islamic fundamentalism as a rising threat to the western values of secularism and democracy. In the last... -
G.W.F. Hegel Dudley Knowles 9780754627265
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £84.58Hegel is notable for his distinctive contribution to the perennial concerns of political philosophy. He outlines a powerful account of freedom as both a personal and social achievement, discussing... -
Demokratia: A Conversation on Democracies, Ancient and Modern by Josiah Ober
RRP: £68.00Booksplease Price: £62.67This book is the result of a long and fruitful conversation among practitioners of two very different fields: ancient history and political theory. The topic of the conversation is classical Greek... -
Experiencing Citizenship: Concepts and Models for Service-learning in Political Science by William Hudson
Booksplease Price: £49.22This practical guide is intended for faculty and service-learning directors, combining the how-to information and rigorous intellectual framework that teachers seek. What distinguishes this volume is... -
The Decline and Fall of the United States Information Agency: American Public Diplomacy, 1989-2001 by Nicholas John Cull 9780230340725
Booksplease Price: £112.12Using newly declassified archives and interviews with practitioners, Nicholas J. Cull has pieced together the story of the final decade in the life of the United States Information Agency, revealing... -
Women in Western Political Thought by Susan Moller Okin 9780691158341
Booksplease Price: £21.40In this pathbreaking study of the works of Plato, Aristotle, Rousseau, and Mill, Susan Moller Okin turns to the tradition of political philosophy that pervades Western culture and its institutions to... -
John Rawls: An Introduction by Percy B. Lehning
RRP: £78.00Booksplease Price: £74.93What is a just political order? What does justice require of us? These are perennial questions of political philosophy. John Rawls, generally acknowledged to be one of the most influential political... -
John Rawls: An Introduction by Percy B. Lehning 9780521727693
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £30.45What is a just political order? What does justice require of us? These are perennial questions of political philosophy. John Rawls, generally acknowledged to be one of the most influential political... -
Towards the Dignity of Difference?: Neither 'End of History' nor 'Clash of Civilizations' by Mojtaba Mahdavi
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £49.34The rise of popular social movements throughout the Middle East, North Africa, Europe and North America in 2011 challenged two hegemonic discourses of the post-Cold War era: Francis Fukuyama's 'The... -
Educating for Democracy: Paideia in an Age of Uncertainty by Alan M. Olson 9780742535404
Booksplease Price: £56.66The central conflicts of the world today are closely related to cultural, traditional, and religious differences between nations. As we move to a globalized world, these differences often become... -
Education for Citizenship: Ideas and Innovations in Political Learning by Grant Reeher 9780847683666
Booksplease Price: £43.76This book addresses the challenge of education for citizenship at a specific, concrete level. It offers examples of efforts to create among our students a new set of what Tocqueville called mores or... -
Confronting the New Conservatism: The Rise of the Right in America by Michael Thompson 9780814782989
Booksplease Price: £90.57William Kristol, Paul Wolfowitz, Donald Rumsfeld, Condoleeza Rice, George F. Will, and Dick Cheney. These are today's neoconservatives"confident, clear-cut, and a political force to be reckoned with... -
Confronting the New Conservatism: The Rise of the Right in America by Michael Thompson 9780814782996
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £25.82William Kristol, Paul Wolfowitz, Donald Rumsfeld, Condoleeza Rice, George F. Will, and Dick Cheney. These are today's neoconservatives"confident, clear-cut, and a political force to be reckoned with... -
The Engaged Campus: Certificates, Minors, and Majors as the New Community Engagement by Dan W. Butin 9780230338814
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £34.08The Engaged Campus offers a set of emerging best practices and articulation of critical issues for faculty and administrators committed to developing, strengthening, or expanding majors or minors in... -
Dialogues with Contemporary Political Theorists by Gary Browning 9780230303058
Booksplease Price: £46.28A lively and engaging collection which explains the various strands of political theory, identifies key futures trends and explores the foundations of contemporary debate. Features interviews with... -
Healthy, Wealthy, and Fair: Health Care and the Good Society by James A. Morone 9780195335255
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £28.31America may be one of the wealthiest countries in the world, yet its citizens have lower life expectancy, more infant mortalities, and higher adolescent death rates than those in most other advanced... -
The Decline and Fall of the American Republic by Bruce A. Ackerman
Booksplease Price: £23.28Bruce Ackerman shows how the institutional dynamics of the last half-century have transformed the American presidency into a potential platform for political extremism and lawlessness. Watergate,...