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  • True Faith and Allegiance

    Immigration and American Civic Nationalism

    de Noah Pickus ...
    True Faith and Allegiance is a provocative account of nationalism and the politics of turning immigrants into citizens and Americans. Noah Pickus offers an alternative to the wild swings between emotionally fraught positions on immigration and citizenship of the past two decades. Drawing on political theory, history, and law, he argues for a renewed civic nationalism that melds principles and ... Leer más

    $34.59 USD

  • Robert Pickus, Pacifist Warrior

    Advocate of Representative Democracy, Developer of a Strategy of Peace

    de Robert Woito, M. Holt Ruffin, Michael Bernstam, Allan Blackman, Lucy Dougall, Gene Keyes, Louis Kriesberg, Walter Naegle, Augustin Nicolescu, Noah Pickus, Philip Siegelman, George Weigel ...
    Pacifist Warrior introduces Robert Pickus, his leadership role in the pacifist community (1951–2016), and his thoughtful work to constructively engage the United States in world politics. He called for leadership by the United States to move a conflict-filled world towards peace through non-military initiatives, designed to gain the reciprocation of allies and dedicated adversaries alike. Robert ... Leer más

    $36.99 USD

  • The New Global Universities

    Reinventing Education in the 21st Century

    de Bryan Penprase, Noah Pickus ...
    Reimagining higher education around the world: lessons from the creation of eight new colleges and universities in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and North AmericaHigher education is perpetually in crisis, buffeted by increasing costs and a perceived lack of return on investment, campus culture that is criticized for stifling debate on controversial topics, and a growing sense that the liberal ... Leer más

    $24.49 USD

  • Debating Moral Education

    Rethinking the Role of the Modern University

    de Noah Pickus, Julie A. Reuben ...
    After decades of marginalization in the secularized twentieth-century academy, moral education has enjoyed a recent resurgence in American higher education, with the establishment of more than 100 ethics centers and programs on campuses across the country. Yet the idea that the university has a civic responsibility to teach its undergraduate students ethics and morality has been met with ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Immigration and Citizenship in the Twenty-First Century

    de Noah M. J. Pickus, Linda S. Bosniak, Michael Jones-Correa, Charles R. Kesler, John J. Miller, Hiroshi Motomura, Juan F. Perea, Peter H. Schuck, Daniel J. Tichenor0, Kwame Anthony Appiah1, Joseph H. Carens2, David A. Hollinger3 ...
    In this important book, a distinguished group of historians, political scientists, and legal experts explore three related issues: the Immigration and Naturalization Service's historic review of its citizenship evaluation, recent proposals to alter the oath of allegiance and the laws governing dual citizenship, and the changing rights and responsibilities of citizens and resident aliens in the ... Leer más

    $44.99 USD

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  • A Conflict of Visions

    Ideological Origins of Political Struggles

    de Thomas Sowell ...
    **The landmark explanation of the competing visions of human nature that lie at the heart of our political conflicts“A classic of a very special kind...Reading it is like looking up at the night sky and discovering a new constellation.” —Christian Science Monitor**Controversies in politics arise from many sources, but the conflicts that endure for generations or centuries show a remarkably ... Leer más

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  • Birth of a White Nation

    The Invention of White People and Its Relevance Today

    de Jacqueline Battalora ...
    Birth of a White Nation is a fascinating new book on race in America that begins with an exploration of the moment in time when "white people,” as a separate and distinct group of humanity, were invented through legislation and the enactment of laws. The book provides a thorough examination of the underlying reasons as well as the ways in which “white people” were created. It also explains how the ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Geek Heresy

    Rescuing Social Change from the Cult of Technology

    de Kentaro Toyama ...
    After a decade designing technologies meant to address education, health, and global poverty, award-winning computer scientist Kentaro Toyama came to a difficult conclusion: Even in an age of amazing technology, social progress depends on human changes that gadgets can't deliver.Computers in Bangalore are locked away in dusty cabinets because teachers don't know what to do with them. Mobile phone ... Leer más

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  • Why Liberalism Failed

    de Patrick J. Deneen ...
    Series series Politics and Culture
    Has liberalism failed because it has succeeded?Of the three dominant ideologies of the twentieth century—fascism, communism, and liberalism—only the last remains. This has created a peculiar situation in which liberalism’s proponents tend to forget that it is an ideology and not the natural end-state of human political evolution. As Patrick Deneen argues in this provocative book, liberalism is ... Leer más

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  • Democracy and the Problem of Free Speech

    de Cass R. Sunstein ...
    Freedom of speech is one of our greatest legal rights and Cass Sunstein is one of our greatest legal theorists. This book is a must read for anyone who wants to think seriously about the free speech issues facing this generation.--Akhil Amar, Southmayd Professor, Yale Law SchoolThis is an important book. Beautifully clear and carefully argued, Sunstein's contribution reaches well beyond the ... Leer más

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  • The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy

    de Christopher Lasch ...
    "[A] passionate, compelling, and disturbing argument that the ills of democracy in the United States today arise from the default of its elites." —John Gray, New York Times Book Review (front-page review)In a front-page review in the Washington Post Book World, John Judis wrote: "Political analysts have been poring over exit polls and precinct-level votes to gauge the meaning of last November's ... Leer más

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  • Just Freedom

    A Moral Compass for a Complex World

    de Philip Pettit ...
    An esteemed philosopher offers a vision for the central role of one of our most cherished—and controversial—ideas.In this rigorous distillation of his political philosophy, Philip Pettit, author of the landmark work Republicanism, champions a simple standard for our most complex political judgments, offering a challenging ideal that nevertheless holds out a real prospect for social and democratic ... Leer más

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