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- Politics : a very short introduction / by Minogue, Kenneth R.,1930-2013.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 109-110) and index.Why despots don't belong in politics. -- The classical Greeks: how to be a citizen. -- The Romans: the real meaning of patriotism. -- Christianity and the rise of the individual. -- Constructing the modern state. -- How to analyse a modern society. -- Relations between states: how to balance power. -- The experience of politics I: how to be an activist. -- The experience of politics II: parties and doctrines. -- The experience of politics III: justice, freedom, and democracy. -- Studying politics scientifically. -- Ideology challenges politics. -- Can politics survive the twenty-first century?"In this essay, Kenneth Minogue discusses the development of politics from the ancient world to the twentieth century. He prompts us to consider why political systems evolve, how politics offers both power and order in our society, whether democracy is always a good thing, and what future politics may have in the twenty-first century."--Jacket.- Subjects: Political science.;
- © 2000., Oxford University Press,
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- Collected writings / by Paine, Thomas,1737-1809.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 854-885) and index.Common sense -- The crisis, and other pamphlets, articles, and letters -- Rights of man -- The age of reason."I know not whether any man in the world", wrote John Adams in 1805, "has had more influence on its inhabitants or affairs for the last thirty years than Tom Paine". The impassioned democratic voice of the Age of Revolution, Paine wrote for his mass audience with vigor, clarity, and "common sense". This is the first major new edition of his work in 50 years, and the most comprehensive single-volume collection of his writings available. Emphasizing Paine's American career, it brings together his best-known works - Common Sense, The American Crisis, Rights of Man, The Age of Reason - along with scores of letters, articles, and pamphlets. Paine came to America in 1774 at age 37 after a life of obscurity and failure in England. Within 14 months he published Common Sense, the most influential pamphlet of the American Revolution and began a career that would see him prosecuted in England, imprisoned and nearly executed in France, and hailed and reviled in the American nation he helped create. In Common Sense Paine set forth an inspiring vision of an independent America as an asylum for freedom and an example of popular self-government in a world oppressed by despotism and hereditary privilege. The American Crisis, begun during "the times that try men's souls" in 1776, is a masterpiece of popular pamphleteering in which Paine vividly reports current developments, taunts and ridicules British adversaries, and enjoins his readers to remember the immense stakes of their struggle. Among the many other items included in the volume are the combative "Forester" letters, written in reply to a Tory critic of Common Sense, and several pieces concerning the French Revolution, including an incisiveargument against executing Louis XVI.- Subjects: Political science.;
- © 1995., Library of America,
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- The social contract; by Rousseau, Jean-Jacques,1712-1778.;
Includes bibliographical references.Presents the eighteenth century French philosopher's views on society and the relationship between the individual and the state.- Subjects: Political science.; Social contract.;
- © 1968., Penguin,
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- The history of government from the earliest times / by Finer, S. E.(Samuel Edward),1915-;
Includes bibliographical references and index.- Subjects: Political science.; Comparative government.;
- © c1999., Oxford University Press,
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- A Companion to contemporary political philosophy / by Goodin, Robert E.; Pettit, Philip,1945-;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Analytical philosophy / Philip Pettit -- Continental philosophy / David West -- History / Richard Tuck -- Sociology / Robert Brown -- Economics / Geoffrey Brennan -- Political science / Robert E. Goodin -- Legal studies / Tom D. Campbell -- Anarchism / Richard Sylvan -- Conservatism / Anthony Quinton -- Feminism / Jane J. Mansbridge, Susan Moller Okin -- Liberalism / Alan Ryan -- Marxism / Barry Hindess -- Socialism / Peter Self -- Autonomy / Gerald Dworkin -- Community / Will Kymlicka -- Contract and consent / Jean Hampton -- Constitutionalism and the rule of law / C.L. Ten -- Corporatism and syndicalism / Bob Jessop -- Democracy / Amy Gutmann -- Dirty hands / C.A.J. Coady -- Discourse / Ernesto Laclau -- Distributive justice / Serge-Christophe Kolm -- Efficiency / Russell Hardin -- Environmentalism / John Passmore -- Equality / Richard J. Arneson -- Federalism / William H. Riker -- International affairs / Chris Brown -- Legitimacy / Richard E. Flathman -- Liberty / Chandran Kukathas -- Power / Terence Ball -- Property / Andrew Reeve -- Republicanism / Knud Haakonssen --Rights / Jeremy Waldron -- Secession and nationalism / Allen Buchanan -- Sociobiology / Allan Gibbard -- The state / Patrick Dunleavy -- Toleration and fundamentalism / Stephen Macedo -- Totalitarianism / Eugene Kamenka -- Trust / John Dunn -- Virtue / Michael Slote -- Welfare / Alan Hamlin.- Subjects: Political science; Politics Philosophy;
- © 1993., Blackwell,
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- Common sense and other writings / by Paine, Thomas,1737-1809.; Wood, Gordon S.;
Common sense (1776) -- Four letters on interesting subjects (1776) -- The American crisis (1776, 1783) -- Letter to the Abbe Raynal (1782) -- Rights of man, part the second (1792) -- The Age of Reason (part one) (1794)- Subjects: Political science--Early works to 1800.;
- © 2003., Modern Library,
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- Leviathan / by Hobbes, Thomas,1588-1679.; Gaskin, J. C. A.(John Charles Addison);
Includes bibliographical references (l-lii) and index.- Subjects: Political science; Political science; State, The.;
- © 2008., Oxford University Press,
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- How the world really works : [electronic resource] : The science behind how we got here and where we're going. by Smil, Vaclav.;
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “A new masterpiece from one of my favorite authors… [ How The World Really Works] is a compelling and highly readable book that leaves readers with the fundamental grounding needed to help solve the world’s toughest challenges.” — Bill Gates   “Provocative but perceptive . . . You can agree or disagree with Smil—accept or doubt his ‘just the facts’ posture—but you probably shouldn’t ignore him.” —The Washington Post An essential analysis of the modern science and technology that makes our twenty-first century lives possible—a scientist's investigation into what science really does, and does not, accomplish. We have never had so much information at our fingertips and yet most of us don’t know how the world really works. This book explains seven of the most fundamental realities governing our survival and prosperity. From energy and food production, through our material world and its globalization, to risks, our environment and its future, How the World Really Works offers a much-needed reality check—because before we can tackle problems effectively, we must understand the facts.   In this ambitious and thought-provoking book we see, for example, that globalization isn’t inevitable—the foolishness of allowing 70 per cent of the world’s rubber gloves to be made in just one factory became glaringly obvious in 2020—and that our societies have been steadily increasing their dependence on fossil fuels, such that any promises of decarbonization by 2050 are a fairy tale. For example, each greenhouse-grown supermarket-bought tomato has the equivalent of five tablespoons of diesel embedded in its production, and we have no way of producing steel, cement or plastics at required scales without huge carbon emissions.   Ultimately, Smil answers the most profound question of our age: are we irrevocably doomed or is a brighter utopia ahead? Compelling, data-rich and revisionist, this wonderfully broad, interdisciplinary guide finds faults with both extremes. Looking at the world through this quantitative lens reveals hidden truths that change the way we see our past, present and uncertain future.Electronic reproduction.- Subjects: Electronic books.; Nonfiction.; Mathematics.; Politics.; Science.;
- © 2022.,
- On-line resources: http://link.overdrive.com/?websiteID=130119&titleID=6495140 -- Click to access digital title in OverDrive.;
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- Right in Michigan's grassroots : from the KKK to the Michigan militia / by Vinyard, JoEllen McNergney.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Nineteenth-century legacy -- Ku Klux Klan -- 1: Weaving a tangled web: the Great War and its aftermath -- 2: Americans we: people of the KKK -- 3: Klan in action -- Father Charles E Coughlin and the Union for Social Justice -- 4: Hard, harder, hardest of times -- 5: Ballots-not bullets! -- 6: Center restored -- Anti-communism and the John Birch Society -- 7: Better dead than red -- 8: Extremism in defense of influence: the John Birch Society -- 9: Other options, other causes -- Michigan militia -- 10: Duty of defense: organizing the Michigan militia -- 11: Unorganized, organized militia -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Index.Overview: Throughout the twentieth century, Michigan became home to nearly every political movement in America that emerged from the grassroots. Citizens organized on behalf of concerns on the "left," on the "right," and in the "middle of the road." Right in Michigan's Grassroots: From the KKK to the Michigan Militia is about the people who supported movements that others, then and later, would denounce as disgraceful-members of the Ku Klux Klan during the 1920s, the followers of Father Charles Coughlin in the 1930s, anti-Communists and the John Birch Society in the post-World War II era, and the members of the Michigan Militia who first appeared in the 1990s. The book explores the complex historical circumstances in Michigan that prompted the emergence of these organizations and led everyday men and women to head off, despite ridicule or condemnation, with plans unsanctioned and tactics unorthodox, variously brandishing weapons of intimidation, discrimination, fear mongering, and terror. Drawing heavily on primary sources, including the organizations' files and interviews with some of their leaders and surviving members, JoEllen Vinyard provides a far more complete portrait of these well-known extremist groups than has ever been available.- Subjects: Right and left (Political science);
- © c2011., University of Michigan Press,
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- The Oxford companion to politics of the world / by Krieger, Joel,1951-; Crahan, Margaret E.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.- Subjects: Political science; World politics;
- © 2001., Oxford University Press,
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