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This book argues that liberalism was founded on a set of premises borrowed from Christian theology. It is indispensable for any student of liberalism and early modern political thought as well as for scholars of liberal political theory and Christian theology.

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This compendium of essays, articles, speeches, and documents--from notable personalities and ordinary people--strips away the accumulated mythology of the 1960s and lets readers see and feel the tumultuous era with vivid immediacy.

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A revolutionary program for fixing America's most serious domestic problems for just two cents on the national dollar--while we still can

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"Reader-friendly...it does move our understanding of the 2000 vote beyond the 'urgent trivia' of classic campaign books."--Washington Post

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This book analyzes how films have accurately or inaccurately portrayed the powers, rights, and freedoms within the U.S. Constitution, and it also explores how filmmakers lessons about the Constitution have changed over time. This book would make an excellent addition to a course or research on constitutional law or film analysis.

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Bringing together a selection of Slavoj Zizek's major writings on politics, this book includes his interventions on such world political events as the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001 and the American-led invasion of Iraq, his celebration of the revolutionary potential of Stalinism, and his critique of Third Way politics.

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An intriguing investigation, shattering the hackneyed notion that knowledge is power.

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Decades after its publication, Salman Rushdies controversial novel The Satanic Verses remains much talked about and little understood. The Unknown Satanic Verses Controversy on Race and Religion now responds to this critical gap through painstakingly detailed attention to the totality of Rushdies text.

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Decades after its publication, Salman Rushdies controversial novel The Satanic Verses remains much talked about and little understood. The Unknown Satanic Verses Controversy on Race and Religion now responds to this critical gap through painstakingly detailed attention to the totality of Rushdies text.

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Wood thoughtfully explains the origins of our current cultural malaise, and argues that western culture literally becomes more unreasonable as we abandon our Enlightenment heritage and become an anti-intellectual society.

There are steps we can take to reclaim our intellectual heritage.

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Originally published in hardcover in 2013 by Bloomsbury Academic.

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This is an investigation into what has gone wrong with the social fabric of American society. The author postulates two models of society - one that pursues profit and self-interest, and the other that cherishes community values - and argues that the two ethics cannot co-exist.

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Presents a study of a controversy in Britain at the turn of the twentieth century. This book explains how England's rulers failed to understand and respond to the initial evidence of erosion in their country's industrial, financial, naval, and military power.

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The American welfare state is supposed to be a pale imitation of 'true' welfare states in Europe and Canada. This book argues that the American welfare state is in fact larger, more popular, and more dynamic than commonly believed.

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One of Washington's finest writers on people, politics, and life -- collected for the first time.

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This collection, the first of its kind, brings together specially commissioned academic essays to mark fifty years since the death of John Kennedy Toole.

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This collection, the first of its kind, brings together specially commissioned academic essays to mark fifty years since the death of John Kennedy Toole.

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