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  • Democratic Education

    Revised Edition

    de Amy Gutmann ...
    A groundbreaking classic that lays out and defends a democratic theory of educationWho should have the authority to shape the education of citizens in a democracy? This is the central question posed by Amy Gutmann in the first book-length study of the democratic theory of education. The author tackles a wide range of issues, from the democratic case against book banning to the role of teachers' ... Leer más

    $43.99 USD

  • Identity in Democracy

    de Amy Gutmann ...
    Written by one of America's leading political thinkers, this is a book about the good, the bad, and the ugly of identity politics.Amy Gutmann rises above the raging polemics that often characterize discussions of identity groups and offers a fair-minded assessment of the role they play in democracies. She addresses fundamental questions of timeless urgency while keeping in focus their relevance to ... Leer más

    $32.39 USD

  • On Risk and Disaster

    Lessons from Hurricane Katrina

    de Amy Gutmann ...
    Named one of Planetizen's Top 10 Books of 2006Hurricane Katrina not only devastated a large area of the nation's Gulf coast, it also raised fundamental questions about ways the nation can, and should, deal with the inevitable problems of economic risk and social responsibility. This volume gathers leading experts to examine lessons that Hurricane Katrina teaches us about better assessing, ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • On Risk and Disaster

    Lessons from Hurricane Katrina

    de Amy Gutmann ...
    Named one of Planetizen's Top 10 Books of 2006Hurricane Katrina not only devastated a large area of the nation's Gulf coast, it also raised fundamental questions about ways the nation can, and should, deal with the inevitable problems of economic risk and social responsibility. This volume gathers leading experts to examine lessons that Hurricane Katrina teaches us about better assessing, ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven but Nobody Wants to Die

    Bioethics and the Transformation of Health Care in America

    de Amy Gutmann, Jonathan D. Moreno ...
    NOW FEATURING A NEW AFTERWORD, "PANDEMIC ETHICS"From two eminent scholars comes a provocative examination of bioethics and our culture’s obsession with having it all without paying the price.Shockingly, the United States has among the lowest life expectancies and highest infant mortality rates of any high-income nation, yet, as Amy Gutmann and Jonathan D. Moreno show, we spend twice as much per ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • The Spirit of Compromise

    Why Governing Demands It and Campaigning Undermines It

    de Amy Gutmann, Dennis Thompson ...
    Why compromise is essential for effective government and why it is missing in politics todayTo govern in a democracy, political leaders have to compromise. When they do not, the result is political paralysis—dramatically demonstrated by the gridlock in Congress in recent years. In The Spirit of Compromise, eminent political thinkers Amy Gutmann and Dennis Thompson show why compromise is so ... Leer más

    $14.39 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Why Deliberative Democracy?

    de Amy Gutmann, Dennis F. Thompson ...
    The most widely debated conception of democracy in recent years is deliberative democracy--the idea that citizens or their representatives owe each other mutually acceptable reasons for the laws they enact. Two prominent voices in the ongoing discussion are Amy Gutmann and Dennis Thompson. In Why Deliberative Democracy?, they move the debate forward beyond their influential book, Democracy and ... Leer más

    $31.69 USD

  • The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

    Penn Reading Project Edition

    de Benjamin Franklin, Amy Gutmann ...
    Printer and publisher, author and educator, scientist and inventor, statesman and philanthropist, Benjamin Franklin was the very embodiment of the American type of self-made man. In 1771, at the age of 65, he sat down to write his autobiography, "having emerged from the poverty and obscurity in which I was born and bred to a state of affluence and some degree of reputation in the world, and having ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

    Penn Reading Project Edition

    de Benjamin Franklin, Amy Gutmann ...
    Printer and publisher, author and educator, scientist and inventor, statesman and philanthropist, Benjamin Franklin was the very embodiment of the American type of self-made man. In 1771, at the age of 65, he sat down to write his autobiography, "having emerged from the poverty and obscurity in which I was born and bred to a state of affluence and some degree of reputation in the world, and having ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

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    Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven But Nobody Wants to Die

    Bioethics and the Transformation of Health Care in America

    de Amy Gutmann, Jonathan D. Moreno ...
    Narrado por Andrea Gallo ...

    Completo

    12 hora

    An incisive examination of bioethics and American healthcare, and their profound affects on American culture over the last sixty years, from two eminent scholars. An eye-opening look at the inevitable moral choices that come along with tremendous medical progress, Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven but Nobody Wants to Die is a primer for all Americans to talk more honestly about health care. ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

    Disponible también en: eBook

    Disponible también en: eBook

  • The Lives of Animals

    de J. M. Coetzee ...
    Series series Princeton Classics
    The idea of human cruelty to animals so consumes novelist Elizabeth Costello in her later years that she can no longer look another person in the eye: humans, especially meat-eating ones, seem to her to be conspirators in a crime of stupefying magnitude taking place on farms and in slaughterhouses, factories, and laboratories across the world.Costello's son, a physics professor, admires her ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Democracy and the Welfare State

    Edición de Amy Gutmann ...
    Series series Studies from the Project on the Federal Social Role
    The essays in this volume explore the moral foundations and the political prospects of the welfare state in the United States. Among the questions addressed are the following: Has public support for the welfare state faded? Can a democratic state provide welfare without producing dependency on welfare? Is a capitalist (or socialist) economy consistent with the preservation of equal liberty and ... Leer más

    $51.89 USD