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  • Neighborhood Futures

    Citizen Rights and Local Control

    by George Liebmann ...
    Two conflicting developments have recently characterized civic life in the United States. The first, the centralization of formal agencies of government, too often leads to diminishing political liberties and tyranny. The second, which is characterized by a greater amount of civic participation and individual self-actualization, is the formation of a whole new layer of sublocal institutions, both ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • The Common Law Tradition

    A Collective Portrait of Five Legal Scholars

    by George Liebmann ...
    This book commemorates a place and a time in American law teaching, but more importantly, an outlook: the common law tradition. That outlook was empirical and tolerant. These values were carried into expression by a group of people who were not part of a cult or faction nor ruled by the herd instinct. Now in paperback, The Common Law Tradition is a collective portrait of five scholars who ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Diplomacy Between the Wars

    Five Diplomats and the Shaping of the Modern World

    by George W. Liebmann ...
    "Diplomacy Between the Wars" is a detailed inside story of diplomacy seen through the careers of five remarkable career diplomatists. Here is a unique and authentic picture of practical diplomacy and its effect during periods of international crisis which shaped the twentieth century. These were not the statesmen and politicians who dominated the international stage but practical diplomats with ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

  • The Fall of the House of Speyer

    The Story of a Banking Dynasty

    by George W. Liebmann ...
    The dramatic story of the last fifty years of the Speyer banking dynasty, a Jewish family of German descent, is surprisingly little known today, yet at the turn of the 20th century, Speyer was the third largest investment banking firm in the United States, behind only Morgan and Kuhn, Loeb. It had branches in London, Frankfurt and New York, and the projects it financed included the Southern ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • The Last American Diplomat

    John D Negroponte and the Changing Face of US Diplomacy

    by George W. Liebmann ...
    Can John D. Negroponte be described as 'The Last American Diplomat'? In a career spanning 50 years of unprecedented American global power, he was the last of a dying breed of patrician diplomats - devoted to public service, a self-effacing and ultimate insider, whose prime duty was to advise, guide and warn - a bulwark of traditional diplomatic realism against ideologue excess.Negroponte served as ... Read more

    $199.99 CAD

  • America's Political Inventors

    The Lost Art of Legislation

    by George W. Liebmann ...
    Recent American political developments, including the election of Donald Trump, reveal profound disquiet with the highly centralized political regime based on discretionary allocation of funds and powers to interest groups that has developed since the creation of emergency institutions after America's entry into World War I. This book demonstrates the effectiveness in American history of measures ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

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    E Pluribus Awesome!

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  • Democratic Government in Canada, 5th Ed

    by R. MacGregor Dawson, W.F. Dawson, Norman Ward ...
    For more than a generation this concise survey has been the classic introduction to the fundamental ideas and structure of Canadian government and the practice of democracy in this country. It examines the various elements of federal government — the House of Commons, the cabinet, the Senate, the monarchy and governor-general, the public service, and the courts — and of provincial and municipal ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • God and Man at Yale

    The Superstitions of 'Academic Freedom'

    by William F. Buckley Jr. ...
    "For God, for country, and for Yale... in that order," William F. Buckley Jr. wrote as the dedication of his monumental work—a compendium of knowledge that still resonates within the halls of the Ivy League university that tried to cover up its political and religious bias.In 1951, a twenty-five-year-old Yale graduate published his first book, which exposed the "extraordinarily irresponsible ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Shock Doctrine

    The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

    by Naomi Klein ...
    A New York Times and international #1 bestseller, winner of the 2009 Warwick Prize for Writing and translated into over 30 languages.From the author of No Logo—the gripping story of how America’s “free market” polices exploited crises and shock for three decades from Pinochet’s coup in Chile in 1973 to the "War on Terror."In her groundbreaking reporting, Naomi Klein introduced the term "disaster ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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  • Regulating the Poor

    The Functions of Public Welfare

    by Frances Fox Piven, Richard Cloward ...
    Piven and Cloward have updated their classic work on the history and function of welfare to cover the American welfare state's massive erosion during the Reagan, Bush, and Clinton years. The authors present a boldly comprehensive, brilliant new theory to explain the comparative underdevelopment of the U.S. welfare state among advanced industrial nations. Their conceptual framework promises to ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • The Majesty of the Law

    Reflections of a Supreme Court Justice

    by Sandra Day O'Connor ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • “Shows us why Sandra Day O’Connor is so compelling as a human being and so vital as a public thinker.”—Michael BeschlossIn this remarkable book, Sandra Day O’Connor explores the law, her life as a Supreme Court Justice, and how the Court has evolved and continues to function, grow, and change as an American institution. Tracing some of the origins of American law through ... Read more

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