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“david ricci”

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  • Post-Truth American Politics

    False Stories and Current Crises

    by David Ricci ...
    David Ricci has written two books on 'political stories,' providing the foundations for Post-Truth Democracy. Yet the present book is arguably the most important yet. The author writes that we need stories to make our way in the world. But many stories, say from identity politics, are necessarily false because they are simplifications of some larger reality. However, not all stories are equally ... Read more

    $25.49 USD

  • Politics without Stories

    The Liberal Predicament

    by David Ricci ...
    Liberal candidates, scholars, and activists mainly promote pragmatism rather than large and powerful narratives - which may be called 'alpha stories' for their commanding presence over time. Alternatively, conservative counterparts to such liberals tend to promote their policy preferences in alpha stories praising effective markets, excellent traditions, and limited government. In this face-off, ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • Defending Democracy

    Citizenship as a Vocation

    by David M. Ricci ...
    To defeat demagogues like Donald Trump, citizens must vote to defend democracy, otherwise it will not be there to defend them. Taking off from Max Weber's 'Vocation Lectures,' David Ricci's Defending Democracy therefore explores the idea of 'citizenship as a vocation,' which is a commitment to defending democracy by supporting leaders who will govern according to the Declaration of Independence's ... Read more

    $27.09 USD

  • Why Conservatives Tell Stories and Liberals Don't

    Rhetoric, Faith, and Vision on the American Right

    by David M Ricci ...
    Why do conservatives tell stories? Because it helps them win elections and assail liberal policies like health care reform and economic stimulus. "Why" is important, but the "what" and the "how" behind the stories that conservatives tell are equally interesting, and in this new book, David Ricci reveals all. He shows how conservative activists and candidates tell many tales that come together to ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Faith, Hope, and Love: The Space Between Therapy Sessions

    A Holistic Approach for Treating Adolescents and Young Adults with Anxiety and Depression

    by David J. Heavner ...
    Anxiety doesn’t define a person. Depression doesn’t get the final word. Young people struggling with anxiety or depression already know that healing is more than just a once-a-week conversation or a daily dose of medication. What about the space in between—the long days, the sleepless nights, the hidden questions? Faith, Hope, and Love: The Space Between Therapy Sessions speaks directly to that ... Read more

    $30.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Political Science Manifesto for the Age of Populism

    Challenging Growth, Markets, Inequality and Resentment

    by David M. Ricci ...
    Populism and authoritarian-populist parties have surged in the 21st century. In the United States, Donald Trump appears to have become the poster president for the surge. David M. Ricci, in this call to arms, thinks Trump is symptomatic of the changes that have caused a crisis among Americans - namely, mass economic and creative destruction: automation, outsourcing, deindustrialization, ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Graduate Students in Data Science Consulting

    A Blueprint for Success

    by Emily H. Griffith, Mara Rojeski Blake, David J. Edwards, Shannon Ricci, Michelle Thompson Gumbs, Kate Freeman, Joddy Marchesoni ...
    This manual provides a practical guide on how graduate students can work in statistical and data science consulting and offers valuable resources for anyone interested in creating, expanding, or maintaining statistical or data science consulting programs in higher education across multiple disciplines.Key Features:Hands on, practical guide to working with graduate students in data science ... Read more

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    Rhetoric or Reality

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    It is now more than three decades since the historic Supreme Court decision on desegregation, Brown v. Board of Education. Thomas Sowell takes a tough, factual look at what has actually happened over these decades -- as distinguished from the hopes with which they began or the rhetoric with which they continue, Who has gained and who has lost? Which of the assumptions behind the civil rights ... Read more

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  • Letters to a Young Conservative

    by Dinesh D'Souza ...
    Among the topics Dinesh D'Souza covers in Letters to a Young Conservative: -- Fighting Political Correctness -- Authentic vs. Bogus Multiculturalism -- Why Government Is the Problem -- When the Rich Get Richer -- How Affirmative Action Hurts Blacks -- The Feminist Mistake -- All the News That Fits -- How to Harpoon a Liberal -- The Self-Esteem Hoax -- A Republican Realignment? -- Why Conservatives ... Read more

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  • Reading Obama

    Dreams, Hope, and the American Political Tradition

    by James T. Kloppenberg ...
    A leading intellectual historian traces the origins of Barack Obama’s ideasDerided by the Right as dangerous and by the Left as spineless, Barack Obama puzzles observers. In Reading Obama, James T. Kloppenberg reveals the sources of Obama's ideas and explains why his principled aversion to absolutes does not fit contemporary partisan categories. Obama's commitments to deliberation and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Why Democracies Need an Unlovable Press

    by Michael Schudson ...
    Journalism does not create democracy and democracy does not invent journalism, but what is the relationship between them? This question is at the heart of this book by world renowned sociologist and media scholar Michael Schudson.Focusing on the U.S. media but seeing them in a comparative context, Schudson brings his understanding of news as at once a story-telling and fact-centered practice to ... Read more

    $21.00 USD

  • The Closing of the Liberal Mind

    How Groupthink and Intolerance Define the Left

    by Kim R. Holmes ...
    A former U.S. Assistant Secretary of State and currently Acting Senior Vice President for Research at The Heritage Foundation, Kim R. Holmes surveys the state of liberalism in America today and finds that it is becoming its opposite—illiberalism—abandoning the precepts of open-mindedness and respect for individual rights, liberties, and the rule of law upon which the country was founded, and ... Read more

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