We the Fallen People: The Founders and the Future of American Democracy (McKenzie Robert Tracy)(Pevná vazba)

We the Fallen People: The Founders and the Future of American Democracy (McKenzie Robert Tracy)(Pevná vazba)

The success and survival of American democracy have never been guaranteed. Political polarization, presidential eccentricities, the trustworthiness of government, and the prejudices of the voting majority have waxed and waned ever since the time of the Founders, and there are no fail-safe

The Stakes: 2020 and the Survival of American Democracy (Kuttner Robert)(Pevná vazba)

Muslim American Politics and the Future of Us Democracy (Curtis IV Edward E.)(Pevná vazba)

Reveals the important role of Muslim Americans in American politics Since the 1950s, and especially in the post-9/11 era, Muslim Americans have played outsized roles in US politics, sometimes as political dissidents and sometimes as political insiders. However, more than at any other moment in

Fallen Angel - The stunning conclusion to The King's Witch trilogy (Borman Tracy)(Pevná vazba)

The third novel from historian and TV presenter Tracy Borman, author of The King's Witch

Robert Frank: Peru (Frank Robert)(Pevná vazba)

The weathered faces and dusty roads of Peru, compiled and sequenced by the master of the American photo-essayIn March 1949, Robert Frank mailed a birthday gift to his mother in Switzerland: A maquette of a series of photographs he had made during a visit to Peru between June and December of the

Digital Suffragists: Women, the Web, and the Future of Democracy (Tessier Marie)(Pevná vazba)

Why women's voices are outnumbered online and what we can do about it, by a New York Times comment moderator. If you've read the comments posted by readers of online news sites, you may have noticed the absence of women's voices. Men are by far the most prolific commenters on politics and public

Overdoing Democracy: Why We Must Put Politics in Its Place (Talisse Robert B.)(Pevná vazba)

We live in an age of political polarization. As political beliefs on the left and the right have been pulled closer to the extremes, so have our social environments: we seldom interact with those with whom we don't see eye to eye. Making matters worse, we are being appealed to--by companies,

Me the People: How Populism Transforms Democracy (Urbinati Nadia)(Pevná vazba)

A timely and incisive assessment of what the success of populism means for democracy. Populist movements have recently appeared in nearly every democracy around the world. Yet our grasp of this disruptive political phenomenon remains woefully inadequate. Politicians of all stripes appeal to the

By More Than Providence: Grand Strategy and American Power in the Asia Pacific Since 1783 (Green Michael)(Pevná vazba)

Soon after the American Revolution, ?certain of the founders began to recognize the strategic significance of Asia and the Pacific and the vast material and cultural resources at stake there. Over the coming generations, the United States continued to ask how best to expand trade with the region

American Weathervanes: The Art of the Winds (Shaw Robert)(Pevná vazba)

John Leslie Breck: American Impressionist (Stuhlman Jonathan)(Pevná vazba)

John Leslie Breck (1860-1899) was one of the founders of the American art colony at Giverny and was among the earliest American artists to embrace the Impressionist style. He was also one of the first to exhibit his Impressionist paintings in America and helped to popularize the style during his

The Founders at Home: The Building of America, 1735-1817 (Magnet Myron)(Pevná vazba)

Through the Founders' own voices--and in the homes they designed and built to embody the ideal of domestic happiness they fought to achieve--we come to understand why the American Revolution, of all great revolutions, was the only enduring success. The Founders were vivid, energetic men, with

Hayek: A Collaborative Biography: Part VIII: The Constitution of Liberty: 'Shooting in Cold Blood', Hayek's Plan for the Future of Democracy (Leeson Robert)(Pevná vazba)

Part I: Crony Capitalists and Their 'Free' Market School Of Economics1. 'Free' Market 'Knowledge' 2. The Deception Plans of the 'Aristocratic Revolution': 'von' Hayek I, II and III 3. The Deluding and the Deluded 4. Summoned by Bells to Aristocratic Service 5. 'Free' Market 'Knowledge': Seven

Hell of a Vision: Regionalism and the Modern American West (Dorman Robert L.)(Pevná vazba)

The American West has taken on a rich and evocative array of regional identities since the late nineteenth century. Wilderness wonderland, Hispanic borderland, homesteader's frontier, cattle kingdom, urban dynamo, Native American homeland. Hell of a Vision explores the evolution of these diverse

Never Ending Nightmare: The Neoliberal Assault on Democracy (Dardot Pierre)(Pevná vazba)

Neoliberalism's war against democracy and how to resist it How do we explain the strange survival of the forces responsible for the 2008 economic crisis, one of the worst since 1929? How do we explain the fact that neoliberalism has emerged from the crisis strengthened? When it broke, a number of

The Feedback Fix: Dump the Past, Embrace the Future, and Lead the Way to Change (Hirsch Joe)(Pevná vazba)

The Feedback Fix will improve the way we communicate important information to the people closest to us, both professionally and

Helping the People (Limbada Azra)(Pevná vazba)

It is our planet and our future. If we want a future worth having, then we need to make some big changes. In Our Planet, Our Future, learn about the things that are harming our environment and learn what we can all do to fix these

Can Democracy Safeguard the Future? (Smith Graham)(Pevná vazba)

Our democracies repeatedly fail to safeguard the future. From pensions to pandemics, health and social care through to climate, biodiversity and emerging technologies, democracies have been unable to deliver robust policies for the long term. In this book, Graham Smith asks why. Exploring the

Gender, Race, and Social Identity in American Politics: The Past and Future of Political Access (Montalbano Lori L.)(Pevná vazba)

Gender, Race, and Social Identity in American Politics: The Past and Future of Political Access explores the ways in which cultural expression is represented in American politics as it intersects with issues of gender, race, and the construction of social identity. Specifically, this body of work

Supernatural America: The Paranormal in American Art (Cozzolino Robert)(Pevná vazba)

America is haunted. Ghosts from its violent history--the genocide of Indigenous peoples, slavery, the threat of nuclear annihilation, and traumatic wars--are an inescapable and unsettled part of the nation's heritage. Not merely in the realm of metaphor but present and tangible, urgently calling

State of Emergency: How We Win in the Country We Built (Mallory Tamika D.)(Pevná vazba)

'A masterful book...reaffirms the urgency of the current state of Black people in America and the power we all have to win transformative change.' --Marc Lamont Hill, New York Times bestselling author 'Gives us the words and tools to fight for the justice our families deserve.' --Tamika Palmer,

The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (Caro Robert A.)(Pevná vazba)

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER - A modern American classic, this huge and galvanizing biography of Robert Moses reveals not only the saga of one man's incredible accumulation of power but the story of his shaping (and mis-shaping) of twentieth-century New York. One of the Modern Library's hundred greatest

We Have a Dream - Meet 30 Young Indigenous People and People of Colour Protecting the Planet (Craig Dr Mya-Rose)(Pevná vazba)

Read the incredible storiesand hear the dreams of 30 young Indigenous people and People of Colour protecting the

Empires of the Mind: The Colonial Past and the Politics of the Present (Gildea Robert)(Pevná vazba)

'The empires of the future would be the empires of the mind' declared Churchill in 1943, envisaging universal empires living in peaceful harmony. Robert Gildea exposes instead the brutal realities of decolonisation and neo-colonialism which have shaped the postwar world. Even after the rush of