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  • Design and Use of Pressure Sewer Systems

    by David Thrasher ...
    This valuable text gives previously unreported experience in the design, operation and maintenance of pressure sewers. Economic advantages of the pressure sewer system allow development of previously undeveloped areas-making central sewer extension more affordable for both municipalities and developers. Pressure systems make central sewers available where on-site disposal may prove undesirable. Of ... Read more

    $109.99 CAD

  • Fight Sports and American Masculinity

    Salvation in Violence from 1607 to the Present

    by Christopher David Thrasher ...
    Throughout America's past, some men have feared the descent of their gender into effeminacy, and turned their eyes to the ring in hopes of salvation. This work explains how the dominant fight sports in the United States have changed over time in response to broad shifts in American culture and ideals of manhood, and presents a narrative of American history as seen from the bars, gyms, stadiums and ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Toucan Jan Life in the Islands

    by Brenda M Pander-Stowe ...
    Illustrated by David Thrasher ...
    Don't miss... the beach, rainforest finds, limin' in the valley and hanging out in an ecosystem... and that is just book one!***Toucan Jan***is a rollicking series of fun rhyming books taking readers on a wave of cool adventures above and below the sea. Life in the Islands is the first in the series and has Toucan Jan meeting up with friends including Mumbles the monkey and Hee Haw the donkey to ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Polycentric Governance and the Good Society

    A Normative and Philosophical Investigation

    by W. Elliot Bulmer, Dries Daems, Mark Hoipkemier, Pablo Paniagua, Kaveh Pourvand, Alexander Schaefer, Vlad Tarko, John Thrasher, David Thunder, Aviezer Tucker1, Pilar Zambrano2 ...
    Series series Polycentricity: Studies in Institutional Diversity and Voluntary Governance
    Polycentric Governance and the Good Society: A Normative and Philosophical Investigation offers an examination of the idea of polycentric governance as one of the pillars of a flourishing human society. Rather than following the conventional path of suppressing complexity and diversity for the sake of reaching agreement on justice and political stability, David Thunder and Pablo Paniagua see ... Read more

    $120.99 CAD

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    A Beginners' Guide for Students and Politicians

    by Adam Swift ...
    Politicians invoke grand ideas: social justice, democracy, liberty, equality, community. But what do these ideas really mean? How can politicians across the political spectrum appeal to the same values?This new edition of Adam Swift's highly readable introduction to political philosophy answers these important questions, and includes new material on global justice, feminism, and method in ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Models of Democracy

    by David Held ...
    The first two editions of Models of Democracy have proven immensely popular among students and specialists worldwide. In a succinct and far-reaching analysis, David Held provides an introduction to central accounts of democracy from classical Greece to the present and a critical discussion of what democracy should mean today.This new edition has been extensively revised and updated to take account ... Read more

    $46.99 CAD

  • The Moral Foundations of Politics

    by Ian Shapiro ...
    When do governments merit our allegiance, and when should they be denied it? Ian Shapiro explores this most enduring of political dilemmas in this innovative and engaging book. Building on his highly popular Yale courses, Professor Shapiro evaluates the main contending accounts of the sources of political legitimacy. Starting with theorists of the Enlightenment, he examines the arguments put ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Free Market Fairness

    by John Tomasi ...
    Can libertarians care about social justice? In Free Market Fairness, John Tomasi argues that they can and should. Drawing simultaneously on moral insights from defenders of economic liberty such as F. A. Hayek and advocates of social justice such as John Rawls, Tomasi presents a new theory of liberal justice. This theory, free market fairness, is committed to both limited government and the ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • Human Rights

    Concepts, Contests, Contingencies

    Edited by Austin Sarat, Thomas R. Kearns ...
    Series series The Amherst Series In Law, Jurisprudence, And Social Thought
    Today the language of human rights, if not human rights themselves, is nearly universal. Human Rights brings together essays that attend to both the allure and criticism of human rights. They examine contestation and contingency in today's human rights politics and help us rethink some of the basic concepts of human rights. Questions addressed in Human Rights include: Can national self ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Moral Foundations of Politics

    by Ian Shapiro ...
    Series series The Institution for Social and Policy St
    When do governments merit our allegiance, and when should they be denied it? Ian Shapiro investigates this most enduring of political dilemmas in this innovative and engaging book.Shapiro discusses the different answers that have been proposed by the major political theorists in the utilitarian, Marxist, and social contract traditions over the past four centuries. Showing how these political ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • Democracy and the Global Order

    From the Modern State to Cosmopolitan Governance

    by David Held ...
    This book provides a highly original account of the changing meaning of democracy in the contemporary world, offering both an historical and philosophical analysis of the nature and prospects of democracy today. ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Private Virtues, Public Vices

    Philanthropy and Democratic Equality

    by Emma Saunders-Hastings ...
    A thought-provoking challenge to our ideas about philanthropy, marking it as a deeply political activity that allows the wealthy to dictate more than we think.Philanthropy plays a huge role in supporting the provision of many public goods in contemporary societies. As a result, decisions that affect public outcomes and people's diverse interests are often dependent on the preferences and judgments ... Read more

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