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  • A Quest for Humanity

    The Good Society in a Global World

    by Menno Boldt ...
    In A Quest for Humanity, Menno Boldt presents a persuasive new framework for achieving a human social order in the global age. Boldt explores the concept of ‘the good society’ as a world in which every person can realize their potential for humanity through liberty, social justice, and equal human dignity.A Quest for Humanity innovatively positions globalization as a deterministic phenomenon of ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • The Quest for Justice

    Aboriginal Peoples and Aboriginal Rights

    Edited by Menno Boldt, J. Anthony Long ...
    Series series Heritage
    This collection of many voices develops more deeply and exhaustively the issues raised in the editors’ earlier volume, Pathways to Self-Determination. It contains some twenty-three papers from representatives of the aboriginal people’s organizations, of governments, and of a variety of academic disciplines, along with introductions and an epilogue by the editors and appendices of the key ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

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  • Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice

    by Jack Donnelly ...
    In the third edition of his classic work, revised extensively and updated to include recent developments on the international scene, Jack Donnelly explains and defends a richly interdisciplinary account of human rights as universal rights. He shows that any conception of human rights-and the idea of human rights itself-is historically specific and contingent. Since publication of the first edition ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • The Trouble with Canada ... Still

    A Citizen Speaks Out

    by William D. Gairdner ...
    Two decades ago The Trouble with Canada sparked a conservative renewal and inspired a generation.Now, in this completely revised update, William D. Gairdner rejoins the battle, showing that Canada suffered a disturbing regime change in the last quarter of the twentieth century and is now caught between two irreconcilable styles of government: top-down collectivism and bottom-up individualism.The ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Is Democracy Possible Here?

    Principles for a New Political Debate

    by Ronald Dworkin ...
    Politics in America are polarized and trivialized, perhaps as never before. In Congress, the media, and academic debate, opponents from right and left, the Red and the Blue, struggle against one another as if politics were contact sports played to the shouts of cheerleaders. The result, Ronald Dworkin writes, is a deeply depressing political culture, as ill equipped for the perennial challenge of ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • The Ethics of Immigration

    by Joseph Carens ...
    Series series Oxford Political Theory
    In The Ethics of Immigration, Joseph Carens synthesizes a lifetime of work to explore and illuminate one of the most pressing issues of our time. Immigration poses practical problems for western democracies and also challenges the ways in which people in democracies think about citizenship and belonging, about rights and responsibilities, and about freedom and equality. Carens begins by focusing ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • The Great Divide

    Why Liberals and Conservatives Will Never, Ever Agree

    by William D. Gairdner ...
    The theme of The Great Divide is that the populations of the democratic world, from Boston to Berlin, Vancouver to Venice, are becoming increasingly divided from within, due to a growing ideological incompatibility between modern liberalism and conservatism. This is partly due to a complex mutation in the concept of liberal democracy itself, and the resulting divide is now so wide that those ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Whose Freedom?

    The Battle over America's Most Important Idea

    by George Lakoff ...
    A thought-provoking exploration of the conservative political tactics that have claimed ownership over the United States's most defining value."A very persuasive argument that Democrats have allowed Republicans to hijack words such as 'freedom' and 'liberty' in fundamental ways that have undercut Democrats' credibility." ― Chicago TribuneIn the wake of September 11, 2001, President George W. Bush ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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  • Human Rights as Politics and Idolatry

    by Michael Ignatieff, Kwame Anthony Appiah, David A. Hollinger, Diane F. Orentlicher, Thomas W. Laqueur ...
    Series series The University Center for Human Values Series
    Michael Ignatieff draws on his extensive experience as a writer and commentator on world affairs to present a penetrating account of the successes, failures, and prospects of the human rights revolution. Since the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, this revolution has brought the world moral progress and broken the nation-state's monopoly on the conduct of ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • Reading Obama

    Dreams, Hope, and the American Political Tradition

    by James T. Kloppenberg ...
    A leading intellectual historian traces the origins of Barack Obama’s ideasDerided by the Right as dangerous and by the Left as spineless, Barack Obama puzzles observers. In Reading Obama, James T. Kloppenberg reveals the sources of Obama's ideas and explains why his principled aversion to absolutes does not fit contemporary partisan categories. Obama's commitments to deliberation and ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • The Rights of Others

    Aliens, Residents, and Citizens

    by Seyla Benhabib ...
    Series Book 5 - The Seeley Lectures
    The Rights of Others examines the boundaries of political community by focusing on political membership - the principles and practices for incorporating aliens and strangers, immigrants and newcomers, refugees and asylum seekers into existing polities. Boundaries define some as members, others as aliens. But when state sovereignty is becoming frayed, and national citizenship is unravelling, ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • The State of Democratic Theory

    by Ian Shapiro ...
    What should we expect from democracy, and how likely is it that democracies will live up to those expectations? In The State of Democratic Theory, Ian Shapiro offers a critical assessment of contemporary answers to these questions, lays out his distinctive alternative, and explores its implications for policy and political action.Some accounts of democracy's purposes focus on aggregating ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD