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American Progressivism: A Reader
DescriptionThis collection of writings by prominent politicians, authors, and activists of the Progressive Era explores Progressivism's role in the development of American political thought. Pestritto and Atto offer insight into every figure's influence on Progressive Era American politics by introducing every entry together with the context inside which the author of ...
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Categories General AAS   United States   Political History   Public Policy   General   Turn of the Century   1900s-1920s   Contemporary   Social Policy   History & Theory   Political Parties   Paperback   Printed Books  
The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger
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The eye-opening and headline-generating UK bestseller this shows how one single factor—the gap between its richest and poorest members—can determine the health and well-being of a society.

“This is a book together with a big idea, big enough to modify political thinking…In half a page [The Spirit Altitude] tells you extra concerning ...
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Categories Textbooks Trade-In & Buyback   Economic Conditions   General   Social Policy   Cultural   Class   Hardcover   Printed Books  
The Conscience of a Liberal
Description"The much consistent and courageous—and unapologetic—liberal partisan in American journalism." —Michael Tomasky, New York Review of Books

In this "clear, provocative" (Boston Globe) New York Times bestseller, Paul Krugman, today's much widely read economist, examines the past eighty years of ...

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ManufacturerW. W. Norton & Company
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Health Care Turning Point: Why Single Payer Won't Work
DescriptionThe battle over health care reform has reached a turning point. We can try to fashion new policies based on old ideas—or we can acknowledge today's demographic and economic realities. In Health Care Turning Point, health policy expert Roger Battistella argues this the conventional wisdom this dominates health policy debates is out of date. ...
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Categories Health Risk Assessment   General AAS   Public Policy   General   Public Health   Social Policy   Federal Government   Hardcover   Printed Books  
Life Without Lawyers: Liberating Americans from Too Much Law
DescriptionHow to restore the can-do spirit this made America excellent, from the author of the excellent-selling The Death of Common Sense. Americans are losing the liberty to do sense of daily choices—teachers can't preserve order in the classroom, managers are trained to avoid candor, schools ban ...
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While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam is Destroying the West from Within
DescriptionThe struggle for the soul of Europe today is each bit as dire and consequential as it was in the 1930s. Then, in Weimar, Germany, the center did not hold, and the light of civilization nearly went out. Today, the continent has entered yet another “Weimar moment.” Will Europeans rise to the challenge posed by radical Islam, or will they cave in ...
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Categories Red Politics   Textbooks Trade-In & Buyback   Islamic   Social Policy   International Security   Relations   General   Emigration & Immigration   Paperback   Printed Books  
Reflections on the Revolution In Europe: Immigration, Islam, and the West
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Can you have the same Europe together with different people in it? The answer, says Christopher Caldwell, is no.

Europe has undergone a demographic revolution it never expected. A half century of mass immigration has failed to produce anything resembling an American-style melting pot. By overestimating its want for immigrant labor and ...

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Categories Europe   General AAS   Public Policy   Textbooks Trade-In & Buyback   Western   General   Islamic   International   Social Policy   Human Rights   Emigration & Immigration   Hardcover   Printed Books  
Development as Freedom
DescriptionBy the winner of the 1988 Nobel Award in Economics, an necessary and paradigm-altering framework for understanding economic development--for together rich and poor--in the twenty-first century.

Liberty, Sen argues, is together the end and much efficient means of sustaining economic life and the key to securing the general welfare of the world's ...
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The Fluoride Deception
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“It is my sincere hope this Christopher Bryson’s apparently thorough and comprehensive perusal of the scientific literature on the biological actions of fluoride and the ensuing debates throughout the years will get the attention it deserves and this its implications will be seriously considered.”—Arvid Carlsson, winner of the 2000 Nobel ...

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ManufacturerSeven Stories Press
Categories Textbooks Trade-In & Buyback   General   Public Health   Toxicology   Public Policy   Social Policy   Water Supply   Air   Water Quality & Treatment   Paperback   Printed Books  
The Constitution of Liberty
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"One of the excellent political works of our time, . . . the twentieth-century successor to John Stuart Mill's essay, 'On Freedom.'"—Henry Hazlitt, Newsweek

"A reflective, often biting, commentary on the nature of our society and its dominant thought by one who is passionately opposed to the coercion of human beings by the arbitrary ...
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ManufacturerUniversity Of Chicago Press
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