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  • Congressional Expectations of Presidential Self-Restraint

    by Jack B. Greenberg, John A. Dearborn ...
    Series series Elements in American Politics
    This Element explores how Congress has designed laws reliant on an assumption of presidential self-restraint, an expectation that presidents would respect statutory goals by declining to use their formal powers in ways that were legally permissible but contrary to stated congressional intent. Examining several laws addressing political appointments since the 1970s – statutes involving the FBI ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

  • The Upside Down Spinnaker

    Ups and Downs of Cruising, Racing, And Buying Cruiser Size Sail Boats

    by Ned Rosen ...
    This book about sailing begins with an account of the author's and his collaborator's separate early experiences and the problems they encountered. In one case, ignorance was not bliss - it resulted in property damage. The other case, despite life-threatening conditions at sea, luckily had a happy conclusion. Fortunately, both boys grew up, and became very "salty" sailors. In this book, they share ... Read more

    $6.86 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Copyright Zone

    A Legal Guide For Photographers and Artists In The Digital Age

    by Jack Reznicki, Edward Greenberg ...
    If you license or publish images, this guide is as indispensable as your camera. It provides specific information on the legal rights of photographers, illustrators, artists, covering intellectual property, copyright, and business concerns in an easy-to-read, accessible manner. The Copyright Zone, Second Edition covers: what is and isn’t copyrightable, copyright registration, fair use, model ... Read more

    $81.06 CAD

  • Franz Kafka

    The Office Writings

    by Franz Kafka ...
    Translated by Eric Patton, Ruth Hein ...
    Franz Kafka: The Office Writings brings together, for the first time in English, Kafka's most interesting professional writings, composed during his years as a high-ranking lawyer with the largest Workmen's Accident Insurance Institute in the Czech Lands of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Franz Kafka (1883-1924) is commonly recognized as the greatest German prose writer of the twentieth century. It ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

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  • Propaganda

    by Edward Bernays ...
    “Bernays’ honest and practical manual provides much insight into some of the most powerful and influential institutions of contemporary industrial state capitalist democracies.”—Noam Chomsky“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an ... Read more

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  • The Regime Change

    Inside Donald Trump's Imperial Presidency and the Remaking of American Power

    by Billy L. Crawford ...
    What if the greatest threat to American democracy wasn't a foreign adversary — but a set of legal doctrines, executive precedents, and broken norms assembled over a century and handed to someone with no interest in their limits?When Donald Trump took the oath of office in January 2017, he didn't just inherit a presidency. He inherited a machine — a post-9/11 surveillance apparatus, an Office of ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed

    by James C. Scott ...
    Compulsory ujamaa villages in Tanzania, collectivization in Russia, Le Corbusier’s urban planning theory realized in Brasilia, the Great Leap Forward in China, agricultural "modernization" in the Tropics-the twentieth century has been racked by grand utopian schemes that have inadvertently brought death and disruption to millions. Why do well-intentioned plans for improving the human condition go ... Read more

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  • Captured

    The Corporate Infiltration of American Democracy

    by Sheldon Whitehouse ...
    A leading member of the Senate Judiciary Committee "spells out, in considerable detail, the extent of corporate influence over a variety of issues" in national politics (The New Yorker)As a U.S. senator and former federal prosecutor, Sheldon Whitehouse has had a front-row seat for the spectacle of dark money in government. In his widely praised book Captured, he describes how corporations buy ... Read more

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  • The Nazi Seizure of Power

    The Experience of a Single German Town, 1922-1945

    by William Sheridan Allen ...
    "Tells us how Nazism happened, in microcosm, in a single German town that was neither typical nor exceptional in admitting and then yielding to tyranny." — The New York TimesIn this classic work of twentieth-century history, William Sheridan Allen demonstrates how dictatorship subtly surmounted democracy in Germany and how the Nazi seizure of power encroached from below. Relying upon legal records ... Read more

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  • The Scheme

    How the Right Wing Used Dark Money to Capture the Supreme Court

    by Sheldon Whitehouse, Jennifer Mueller ...
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  • Two Cheers for Anarchism

    Six Easy Pieces on Autonomy, Dignity, and Meaningful Work and Play

    by James C. Scott ...
    A spirited defense of the anarchist approach to lifeJames Scott taught us what's wrong with seeing like a state. Now, in his most accessible and personal book to date, the acclaimed social scientist makes the case for seeing like an anarchist. Inspired by the core anarchist faith in the possibilities of voluntary cooperation without hierarchy, Two Cheers for Anarchism is an engaging, high-spirited ... Read more

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