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  • The Heart of Community

    A Family Journey

    by George Rupp ...
    This book is a memoir that explores the journey of one family. It examines how personal experiences interact with institutional settings to shape both individuals and communities. While the focus of the narrative is on the life and work of George Rupp, the telling of that story is inextricably connected with family relationships and also with institutional developments--in particular at Harvard ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Globalization Challenged

    Conviction, Conflict, Community

    by George Rupp ...
    Series series Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures
    In Globalization Challenged, George Rupp, president of the International Rescue Committee, outlines the steps necessary to engage the contemporary conflict between traditional religious belief and Western secularism.According to Rupp, the key objective is to build a community that is inclusive without denying the validity of particular commitments. While he acknowledges the threat of "resurgent ... Read more

    Was $24.99 USD Now $18.99 USD

  • Beyond Individualism

    The Challenge of Inclusive Communities

    by George Rupp ...
    Series Book 29 - Religion, Culture, and Public Life
    In many places around the world, relations between ethnic and religious groups that for long periods coexisted more or less amicably are now fraught with aggression and violence. This trend has profound international implications, threatening efforts to narrow the gap between rich and poor. Underscoring the need for sustained action, George Rupp urges the secular West to reckon with the continuing ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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    Series Book 6 - Anarchist Interventions
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    $12.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Leadership Imagination

    An Introduction to Taxonomic Leadership Analysis

    by Donald R. LaMagdeleine ...
    Series series New Horizons in Leadership Studies series
    The field of leadership studies needs theory and research techniques that balance conventional science with the arts and humanities in order to capture leadership's moral dimension. Borrowing from Aristotle's account of the three types of knowledge, the author argues that leadership is an in-between form that combines craft-based skill with theoretical knowledge adapted for a specific situation's ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Planetary Politics

    Human Rights, Terror, and Global Society

    by Alba Alexander, Drucilla Cornell, Irene Gendzier, Sam Gindin, Philip Green, Dick Howard, Micheline Ishay, Kurt Jacobsen, Leo Panitch, Karsten J. Struhl, Nadia Urbinati, David Held, Ulrich Beck, Carl Boggs, Douglas Kellner, Manfred B. Steger, Michael J. Thompson ...
    Series series Logos: Perspectives on Modern Society and Culture
    Global society has been analyzed in any number of ways: books dealing with its economic and cultural implications flood the market. But Planetary Politics highlights something unique. It explores globalization with an eye on the transformation of politics into a planetary enterprise. Unifying this collection is a political purpose: the attempt to engage in progressive fashion the dominant trends, ... Read more

    $42.89 USD

  • The African and Conscientization

    A Critical Approach to African Social and Political Thought with Particular Reference to Nigeria

    by Christian C. Anyanwu ...
    The withdrawal of imperial colonizers from Africa in the second half of the 20th century precipitated the need for newly independent African nations to establish political, economic, and social structures that would ensure the development of cohesive, stable, and functional nations. While Africans yearned for independence, once granted, the challenges of nation-building became apparent immediately ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • A Citizen¿s Guide to American Ideology

    Conservatism and Liberalism in Contemporary Politics

    by Morgan Marietta ...
    Series series Citizen Guides to Politics and Public Affairs
    Conservatives and Liberals often resort to cartoon images of the opposing ideology, relying on broadly defined caricatures to illustrate their opposition.?To help us get past these stereotypes, this short, punchy book explains the two dominant political ideologies in America today, providing a thorough and fair analysis of each as well as insight into their respective branches.To help us ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Achieving Human Rights

    by Richard Falk ...
    Richard Falk once again captures our attention with a nuanced analysis of what we need to do - at the personal level as well as state actions - to refocus our pursuit of human rights in a post-9/11 world. From democratic global governance, to the costs of the Iraq War, the preeminent role of the United States in the world order to the role of individual citizens of a globalized world, Falk ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Globalization and Postcolonialism

    Hegemony and Resistance in the Twenty-first Century

    by Sankaran Krishna ...
    Series series Globalization
    Globalization has become a widely used buzzword, yet popular discussions often miss its deeper realities. This book offers the first clear explanation of the impact of colonialist legacies in a globalized world in an era defined by the "War on Terror." Sankaran Krishna explores the history of the relationship between Western dominance and the forms of resistance that have emerged to challenge it. ... Read more

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  • (Re)Imagining Humane Global Governance

    by Richard Falk ...
    Series series Global Horizons
    In this important and path-breaking book, esteemed scholar and public intellectual Richard Falk explores how we can re-imagine the system of global governance to make it more ethical and humane.Divided into three parts, this book firstly scrutinizes the main aspects of Global Governance including, Geopolitics, The Future of International law, Climate Change and Nuclear weapons, 9/11, Global ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Are We All Postracial Yet?

    by David Theo Goldberg ...
    Series series Debating Race
    We hear much talk about the advent of a “postracial” age. The election of Barack Obama as President of the U.S. was held by many to be proof that we have once and for all moved beyond race. The Swedish government has even gone so far as to erase all references to race from its legislative documents.However, as Ferguson, MO, and countless social statistics show, beneath such claims lurk more ... Read more

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