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  • The Making of Twenty-First-Century Richmond

    Politics, Policy, and Governance, 1988-2016

    de Thad Williamson, Julian M. Hayter, Amy L. Howard ...
    Richmond, Virginia, took center stage globally in the summer of 2020 as an epicenter of antiracist protests in the wake of the police murder of George Floyd. In a period of just a few weeks, overwhelming public support grew for removing Richmond’s Confederate monuments. Activists then transformed the remaining statue of Robert E. Lee into a shrine to African American resolve, to the Black Lives ... Leer más

    $20.99 USD

  • Sprawl, Justice, and Citizenship

    The Civic Costs of the American Way of Life

    de Thad Williamson ...
    Must the strip mall and the eight-lane highway define 21st century American life? That is a central question posed by critics of suburban and exurban living in America. Yet despite the ubiquity of the critique, it never sticks-Americans by the scores of millions have willingly moved into sprawling developments over the past few decades. Americans find many of the more substantial criticisms of ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Making a Place for Community

    Local Democracy in a Global Era

    de Thad Williamson, David Imbroscio, Gar Alperovitz ...
    When pundits refer to the death of community, they are speaking of a number of social ills, which include, but are not limited to, the general increase in isolation and cynicism of our citizens, widespread concerns about declining political participation and membership in civic organizations, and periodic outbursts of small town violence. Making a Place for Community argues that this death of ... Leer más

    $65.99 USD

  • Alexis de Tocqueville and the Art of Democratic Statesmanship

    de Derek Barker, Richard Boyd, Paul Carresse, Brian Danoff, Albert W. Dzur, Khalil M. Habib, L. Joseph Hebert Jr., Peter Augustine Lawler, Susan McWilliams Barndt0, Thomas L. Pangle1, William B. Parsons Jr.2, Jon D. Schaff3, F Flagg Taylor IV4, Aristide Tessitore5, Alexis De Tocqueville6, Conor Williams7, Thad Williamson8 ...
    In 1835, Alexis de Tocqueville famously called for 'a new political science' that could address the problems and possibilities of a 'world itself quite new.' For Tocqueville, the democratic world needed not just a new political science but also new arts of statesmanship and leadership. In this volume, Brian Danoff and L. Joseph Hebert, Jr., have brought together a diverse set of essays revealing ... Leer más

    $48.99 USD

  • Audiolibro

    Jack Williamson: Salvage in Space

    To Thad Allen, meteor miner, comes the dangerous bonanza of a derelict rocket-flier manned by death invisible.

    de Jack Williamson ...
    Narrado por philip chenevert ...

    Completo

    1 horas 4 minutos

    This is an SF tale of excitement, danger, derring-do and strangely enough, love. A lonely and very poor asteroid miner, slowly collecting bits of metallic ore in the asteroid belt on his v-e-r-y slowly accumulating 'planet' of debris, sees and captures a derelict space ship with a horrible monster aboard .. as well as a dead but lovely girl. How does it all end? Well you will need to listen to ... Leer más

    $3.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Property-Owning Democracy

    Rawls and Beyond

    Edición de Martin O'Neill, Thad Williamson ...
    Property-Owning Democracy: Rawls and Beyond features a collection of original essays that represent the first extended treatment of political philosopher John Rawls' idea of a property-owning democracy.Offers new and essential insights into Rawls's idea of "property-owning democracy"Addresses the proposed political and economic institutions and policies which Rawls's theory would requireConsiders ... Leer más

    $36.00 USD

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    Opportunity Hoarding and Segregation in the Age of Inequality

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    **A 2021 C. Wright Mills Award FinalistShows how government created “ghettos” and affluent white space and entrenched a system of American residential caste that is the linchpin of US inequality—and issues a call for abolition.**The iconic Black hood, like slavery and Jim Crow, is a peculiar American institution animated by the ideology of white supremacy. Politicians and people of all colors ... Leer más

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  • Ethnicity and Human Rights in Canada

    de Evelyn Kallen, Leo Panitch ...
    This book examines key issues surrounding ethnicity and human rights in our country. It asks: How do we account for the persistence of racism in the face of increasing legal protection for human rights? Kallen's classic study reveals the ways in which human rights violations, by way of discrimination on the bases of race and ethnicity, create and sustain the marginalized status of diverse racial ... Leer más

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  • The Color of Money

    Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap

    de Mehrsa Baradaran ...
    “Read this book. It explains so much about the moment…Beautiful, heartbreaking work.”—Ta-Nehisi Coates“A deep accounting of how America got to a point where a median white family has 13 times more wealth than the median black family.”—The Atlantic“Extraordinary…Baradaran focuses on a part of the American story that’s often ignored: the way African Americans were locked out of the financial engines ... Leer más

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  • The Injustice of Place

    Uncovering the Legacy of Poverty in America

    de Kathryn J. Edin, H. Luke Shaefer, Timothy J. Nelson ...
    A sweeping and surprising new understanding of extreme poverty in America from the authors of the acclaimed $2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America.“This book forces you to see American poverty in a whole new light.” (Matthew Desmond, author of Poverty, by America and Evicted)Three of the nation’s top scholars – known for tackling key mysteries about poverty in America – turn their ... Leer más

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  • The Third Way

    The Renewal of Social Democracy

    de Anthony Giddens ...
    The idea of finding a 'third way' in politics has been widely discussed over recent months - not only in the UK, but in the US, Continental Europe and Latin America. But what is the third way? Supporters of the notion haven't been able to agree, and critics deny the possibility altogether. Anthony Giddens shows that developing a third way is not only a possibility but a necessity in modern ... Leer más

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  • Systemic Racism 101

    A Visual History of the Impact of Racism in America

    de Living Cities, Aminah Pilgrim ...
    Discover how—and why—Black, Indigenous, and people of color in America experience societal, economic, and infrastructural inequality throughout history covering everything from Columbus’s arrival in 1492 to the War on Drugs to the Black Lives Matter movement.From reparations to the prison industrial complex and redlining, there are a lot of high-level concepts to systemic racism that are hard to ... Leer más

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