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Save Your City: How Toxic Culture Kills Community & What to Do About It"Save Your City is an inspired and powerful must-read. Our democracy is in peril and this book delivers the right message, by the right person, at the right time." --IRA BASEN, CBC RadioToxic culture is eroding our sense of belonging, community and well-being. Our...
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What Would Marx Do?: How the Greatest Political Theorists Would Solve Your Everyday ProblemsGet life advice and a crash course on social philosophy from the great minds of every generation. The writings of Karl Marx have seen a resurgence in popularity. After all, he lived in an uncannily familiar time, one of concentrated wealth and ultra-conservatism that...
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Trade-Offs: An Introduction to Economic Reasoning and Social IssuesWhen economists wrestle with issues such as unemployment, inflation, or budget deficits, they do so by incorporating an impersonal, detached mode of reasoning. But economists also analyze issues that, to others, typically do not fall within the realm of economic reasoning, such as organ...
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The Two Reconstructions: The Struggle for Black EnfranchisementWinner of the 2005 J. David Greenstone Book Award from the Politics and History section of the American Political Science Association. Winner of the 2005 Ralph J. Bunche Award of the American Political Science Association Winner of the 2005 V.O. Key, Jr. Award of...
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Streets, Railroads, and the Great Strike of 1877For one week in late July of 1877, America shook with anger and fear as a variety of urban residents, mostly working class, attacked railroad property in dozens of towns and cities. The Great Strike of 1877 was one of the largest and most...
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Disciplining the Poor: Neoliberal Paternalism and the Persistent Power of RaceDisciplining the Poor explains the transformation of poverty governance over the past forty years--why it happened, how it works today, and how it affects people. In the process, it clarifies the central role of race in this transformation and develops a more precise account...
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The Quality of Government: Corruption, Social Trust, and Inequality in International PerspectiveThe relationship between government, virtue, and wealth has held a special fascination since Aristotle, and the importance of each frames policy debates today in both developed and developing countries. While it's clear that low-quality government institutions have tremendous negative effects on the health and...
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The Laws of PlatoThe Laws, Plato's longest dialogue, has for centuries been recognized as the most comprehensive exposition of the practical consequences of his philosophy, a necessary corrective to the more visionary and utopian Republic. In this animated encounter between a foreign philosopher and a powerful statesman,...
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Liberty Power: Antislavery Third Parties and the Transformation of American PoliticsAbraham Lincoln's Republican Party was the first party built on opposition to slavery to win on the national stage-but its victory was rooted in the earlier efforts of under-appreciated antislavery third parties. Liberty Power tells the story of how abolitionist activists built the most...
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The Attack of the Blob: Hannah Arendt's Concept of the SocialThe European intellectual Hannah Arendt worried about the tendency of social structures to take on a life of their own and paralyze individual action. Pitkin . . . is determined to trace our problems to the actions of individuals. This book is thus a...
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Money, Power, and the People: The American Struggle to Make Banking DemocraticBanks and bankers are hardly the most beloved institutions and people in this country. With its corruptive influence on politics and stranglehold on the American economy, Wall Street is held in high regard by few outside the financial sector. But the pitchforks raised against...
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A World of Homeowners: American Power and the Politics of Housing AidIs there anything more American than the ideal of homeownership? In this groundbreaking work of transnational history, Nancy H. Kwak reveals how the concept of homeownership became one of America's major exports and defining characteristics around the world. In the aftermath of World War...
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Presidents and Parties in the Public MindHow is Donald Trump's presidency likely to affect the reputation and popular standing of the Republican Party? Profoundly, according to Gary C. Jacobson. From Harry S. Truman to Barack Obama, every postwar president has powerfully shaped Americans' feelings, positive or negative, about their party....
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Conspiracies of Conspiracies: How Delusions Have Overrun AmericaIt's tempting to think that we live in an unprecedentedly fertile age for conspiracy theories, with seemingly each churn of the news cycle bringing fresh manifestations of large-scale paranoia. But the sad fact is that these narratives of suspicion--and the delusional psychologies that fuel...
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Sacred Mandates: Asian International Relations Since Chinggis KhanContemporary discussions of international relations in Asia tend to be tethered in the present, unmoored from the historical contexts that give them meaning. Sacred Mandates, edited by Timothy Brook, Michael van Walt van Praag, and Miek Boltjes, redresses this oversight by examining the complex...
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Carl Schmitt and Leo Strauss: The Hidden DialogueCarl Schmitt was the most famous and controversial defender of political theology in the twentieth century. But in his best-known work, The Concept of the Political, issued in 1927, 1932, and 1933, political considerations led him to conceal the dependence of his political theory...
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The Partisan Sort: How Liberals Became Democrats and Conservatives Became RepublicansAs Washington elites drifted toward ideological poles over the past few decades, did ordinary Americans follow their lead? In The Partisan Sort, Matthew Levendusky reveals that we have responded to this trend--but not, for the most part, by becoming more extreme ourselves. While polarization...
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Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives ThinkWhen Moral Politics was first published two decades ago, it redefined how Americans think and talk about politics through the lens of cognitive political psychology. Today, George Lakoff's classic text has become all the more relevant, as liberals and conservatives have come to hold...
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Post-Racial or Most-Racial?: Race and Politics in the Obama EraWhen Barack Obama won the presidency, many posited that we were entering into a post-racial period in American politics. Regrettably, the reality hasn't lived up to that expectation. Instead, Americans' political beliefs have become significantly more polarized by racial considerations than they had been...
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Reason in Law: Eighth EditionOver the years, "Reason in Law" has established itself as the leading textbook for courses in legal reasoning, a critical aspect of the rule of law. This eighth edition brings the book s analyses and examples fully up to date, adding new cases while...
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