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  • Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality

    Gay People in Western Europe from the Beginning of the Christian Era to the Fourteenth Century

    by John Boswell ...
    "What makes this work so exciting is not simply its content . . . but its revolutionary challenge to . . . Western culture's most familiar moral assumptions." — NewsweekJohn Boswell's National Book Award–winning study of the history of attitudes toward homosexuality in the early Christian West was a groundbreaking work that challenged preconceptions about the Church's past relationship to its gay ... Read more

    $22.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Same-Sex Unions in Premodern Europe

    by John Boswell ...
    Both highly praised and intensely controversial, this brilliant book produces dramatic evidence that at one time the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches not only sanctioned unions between partners of the same sex, but sanctified them--in ceremonies strikingly similar to heterosexual marriage ceremonies. ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Trumped

    Think Like a Bazillionaire

    by John Boswell ...
    Dear Reader:CONGRATULATIONS!You have just picked up the best book ever written, by the greatest person who ever lived, using the finest pen ever made, set down on the world's most luxurious legal pads.And the advice I have to share with you in Trumped: Think Like a Bizillionaire is worth even more than the paper it's printed on. You'll learn the most important ways to get ahead, the best financial ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • U.S. Armed Forces Survival Guide

    Get the Same Survival Training That the U.S. Military Uses for Its Troops

    Edited by John Boswell ...
    Get the same survival training that the U.S. military uses for its troops.The U.S. Armed Forces Survival Guide is the only source hikers, campers, explorers or families focused on emergency preparedness will ever need.The U.S. Armed Forces Survial Guide covers everything a modern outdoorsperson needs to know to make it in tough terrain and tense situations, from the psychology of survial and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Never Make the First Offer

    (Except When You Should) Wisdom from a Master Dealmaker

    by Donald Dell, John Boswell ...
    "On a handshake, I've trusted Donald Dell with my life." -Arthur Ashe, U.S. Open championGood negotiators know the rules. Great negotiators know when to break those rules. And then there are the true master dealmakers, like the pioneering sports lawyer Donald Dell. Over the last four decades, he has fought for some of the biggest stars in the world-Michael Jordan, Jimmy Connors, Patrick Ewing, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Art and Craft of Comparison

    by John Boswell, Jack Corbett, R. A. W. Rhodes ...
    Series series Strategies for Social Inquiry
    Is it possible to compare French presidential politics with village leadership in rural India? Most social scientists are united in thinking such unlikely juxtapositions are not feasible. Boswell, Corbett and Rhodes argue that they are possible. This book explains why and how. It is a call to arms for interpretivists to embrace creatively comparative work. As well as explaining, defending and ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Magical Thinking in Public Policy

    Why Naïve Ideals about Better Policymaking Persist in Cynical Times

    by John Boswell ...
    This book explores why naïve ideals about better policymaking persist even in cynical times, revealing the careful reflection at the heart of what appears to be 'magical thinking' in public policy. Contemporary policy scholarship tends to be cynical about movements to reform policymaking by making it more rational or more democratic. Scholars point to the pathologies and vagaries of realpolitik ... Read more

    $75.99 USD

  • How Citizens Encounter the Democratic State

    Weapons of the Meek at the Frontlines of Public Services

    by John Boswell ...
    Despite innovation to address ailing trust and rising inequalities, democratic reformers ignore the most common way that disaffected citizens encounter the state: in the frontline implementation of laws, policies, and services. Dominant thinking about democracy seemingly writes off these encounters as technocratic and apolitical, implicitly presenting citizens as 'meek' targets of state action. ... Read more

    $103.99 USD

  • The Real War on Obesity

    Contesting Knowledge and Meaning in a Public Health Crisis

    by John Boswell ...
    Series series Medicine (R0)
    This book sheds new light on the political battle to define and construct obesity as a policy issue. Through a rich analysis of the debates in Australia and the UK, it develops a nuanced analysis of the competing narratives that actors rely on to make sense of and argue about this issue, and documents how and to what effect they draw on scientific evidence to support their accounts. The real 'war ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Innovations in Critical Policy Analysis

    What’s the Problem Represented to Be?

    by Jian Wu, Carol Bacchi, Anne Wilson, John Boswell, Stephen Kelly, Pamela Ugwudike, Amelia Odida, Tomas Mitander, Andreas Öjehag Pettersson, Stephanie Paterson, Lindsay Larios, Lina Rahm, Jörgen Behrendtz, Hanne Marlene Dahl ...
    Public policy is often framed as a response to social problems rather than the cause of them. Carol Bacchi’s influential ‘What’s the Problem Represented to Be?’ (WPR) approach – first published in her 2009 book, Analysing Policy – addresses this contrast and has become an essential methodology for post-structural analysis of public policy.This edited volume brings together leading international ... Read more

    $37.79 USD

  • Mending Democracy

    Democratic Repair in Disconnected Times

    by Carolyn M. Hendriks, Selen A. Ercan, John Boswell ...
    The fabric of democracy is threadbare in many contemporary societies. Connections that are vital to the functioning and integrity of our democratic systems are wearing thin. Citizens are increasingly disconnected — from their elected representatives, from one another in the public sphere, and from complex processes of public policy. In such disconnected times, how can we strengthen and renew our ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • What to Say to Get Your Way

    The Magic Words that Guarantee Better, More Effective Communication

    by John Boswell ...
    A guidebook of simple conversational swaps that reveals how to have more productive conversations.Have you ever heard that sticks and stones will break your bones "but words will never hurt you"? Whoever coined that phrase didn't get it right. Words do hurt, and words matter. The words you choose can cause misunderstandings, destroy deals, and break up marriages.Take one simple example: someone ... Read more

    $12.99 USD