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  • Piece of Another Period

    Four sons and a Cambridge childhood

    de Richard Boyd, Stephen Boyd, Robert Boyd, John Boyd ...
    Dixon and Amelie Boyd were Belfast medical students. Later he was a Cambridge Professor and she an Academic's wife. They and their four sons, became a Cambridge mid-century fixture. Their copious letters (and memories of those sons, the authors) bring to light an unvarnished picture of that University at a time of dramatic change.Darlingest, It not only seems but it was a long time ago. We were ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Democracy in America

    Edición de Richard Boyd ...
    This collection of essays is an invaluable companion for understanding the composition, reception, and contemporary legacy of Alexis de Tocqueville's classic work Democracy in America. Chapters by political theorists, intellectual historians, economists, political scientists, and community organizers explore the major intellectual influences on Tocqueville's thought, the book's reception in its ... Leer más

    Antes $36.99 USD Ahora $31.99 USD

  • Tocqueville and the Frontiers of Democracy

    Edición de Ewa Atanassow, Richard Boyd ...
    Alexis de Tocqueville is widely cited as an authority on civil society, religion and American political culture, yet his thoughts on democratization outside the West and the challenges of a globalizing age are less known and often misunderstood. This collection of essays by a distinguished group of international scholars explores Tocqueville's vision of democracy in Asia and the Middle East; the ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

  • Polymer Dynamics and Relaxation

    de Richard Boyd, Grant Smith ...
    Polymers exhibit a range of physical characteristics, from rubber-like elasticity to the glassy state. These particular properties are controlled at the molecular level by the mobility of the structural constituents. Remarkable changes in mobility can be witnessed with temperature, over narrow, well defined regions, termed relaxation processes. This is an important, unique phenomenon controlling ... Leer más

    $50.99 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

  • Stardust, Supernovae and the Molecules of Life

    Might We All Be Aliens?

    de Richard Boyd ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    Where were the amino acids, the molecules of life, created: perhaps in a lightning storm in the early Earth, or perhaps elsewhere in the cosmos? This book argues that at least some of them must have been produced in the cosmos, and that the fact that the Earthly amino acids have a specific handedness provides an important clue for that explanation. The book discusses several models that purport to ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • Asian States

    Beyond the Developmental Perspective

    Edición de Richard Boyd, Tak-Wing Ngo ...
    Series series Politics in Asia
    A team of international leading experts provide a much needed re-examination of the theoretical claims and the empirical foundation of developmental state theory. Asian States argues that regardless of the merits of the developmental state as an explanation of economic growth, it falls far short of being an adequate theory of the state in Asia. The contributors critically review claims about ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD

  • State Making in Asia

    Edición de Richard Boyd, Tak-Wing Ngo ...
    Series series Politics in Asia
    Including contributions from an international team of leading experts, this volume examines state making from a uniquely Asian perspective and reveals some of the misunderstandings that arise when states and state making are judged solely on the basis of Western history. The contributors argue that if we are to understand states in Asia then we must first recognize the particular combination of ... Leer más

    $68.99 USD

  • Political Conflict and Development in East Asia and Latin America

    Edición de Richard Boyd, Tak-Wing Ngo, Galjart Benno ...
    Long run processes of socio-economic change generate prodigious problems of social conflict and social control, and governments responsible for these processes must therefore manage the resultant conflict. Consequently, the success or failure of a government's management of such conflicts is a crucial factor in development outcomes.This volume investigates the political struggle for development ... Leer más

    $65.99 USD

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  • The Harm in Hate Speech

    de Jeremy Waldron ...
    Series Libro 10 - The Oliver Wendell Holmes Lectures, 2009.
    For constitutionalists, regulation of hate speech violates the First Amendment and damages a free society. Waldron rejects this view, and makes the case that hate speech should be regulated as part of a commitment to human dignity and to inclusion and respect for members of vulnerable minorities. ... Leer más

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  • The Rhetoric of Reaction

    de Albert O. Hirschman ...
    With engaging wit and subtle irony, Albert Hirschman maps the diffuse and treacherous world of reactionary rhetoric in which conservative public figures, thinkers, and polemicists have been arguing against progressive agendas and reforms for the past two hundred years. He draws his examples from three successive waves of reactive thought that arose in response to the liberal ideas of the French ... Leer más

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  • Counter-Democracy

    Politics in an Age of Distrust

    de Pierre Rosanvallon, Arthur Goldhammer ...
    Series Libro 7 - The Seeley Lectures
    Democracy is established as a generally uncontested ideal, while regimes inspired by this form of government fall under constant criticism. Hence, the steady erosion of confidence in representatives that has become one of the major political issues of our time. Amidst these challenges, the paradox remains that while citizens are less likely to make the trip to the ballot box, the world is far from ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD