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“noah pickus”

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  • The New Global Universities

    Reinventing Education in the 21st Century

    by Bryan Penprase, Noah Pickus ...
    Reimagining higher education around the world: lessons from the creation of eight new colleges and universities in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and North AmericaHigher education is perpetually in crisis, buffeted by increasing costs and a perceived lack of return on investment, campus culture that is criticized for stifling debate on controversial topics, and a growing sense that the liberal ... Read more

    Was $23.99 USD Now $16.59 USD

  • Robert Pickus, Pacifist Warrior

    Advocate of Representative Democracy, Developer of a Strategy of Peace

    by Robert Woito, M. Holt Ruffin, Michael Bernstam, Allan Blackman, Lucy Dougall, Gene Keyes, Louis Kriesberg, Walter Naegle, Augustin Nicolescu, Noah Pickus, Philip Siegelman, George Weigel ...
    Pacifist Warrior introduces Robert Pickus, his leadership role in the pacifist community (1951–2016), and his thoughtful work to constructively engage the United States in world politics. He called for leadership by the United States to move a conflict-filled world towards peace through non-military initiatives, designed to gain the reciprocation of allies and dedicated adversaries alike. Robert ... Read more

    $36.49 USD

  • Debating Moral Education

    Rethinking the Role of the Modern University

    by Noah Pickus, Julie A. Reuben ...
    After decades of marginalization in the secularized twentieth-century academy, moral education has enjoyed a recent resurgence in American higher education, with the establishment of more than 100 ethics centers and programs on campuses across the country. Yet the idea that the university has a civic responsibility to teach its undergraduate students ethics and morality has been met with ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • True Faith and Allegiance

    Immigration and American Civic Nationalism

    by Noah Pickus ...
    True Faith and Allegiance is a provocative account of nationalism and the politics of turning immigrants into citizens and Americans. Noah Pickus offers an alternative to the wild swings between emotionally fraught positions on immigration and citizenship of the past two decades. Drawing on political theory, history, and law, he argues for a renewed civic nationalism that melds principles and ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

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  • Geek Heresy

    Rescuing Social Change from the Cult of Technology

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    After a decade designing technologies meant to address education, health, and global poverty, award-winning computer scientist Kentaro Toyama came to a difficult conclusion: Even in an age of amazing technology, social progress depends on human changes that gadgets can't deliver.Computers in Bangalore are locked away in dusty cabinets because teachers don't know what to do with them. Mobile phone ... Read more

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  • Why Liberalism Failed

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    Has liberalism failed because it has succeeded?Of the three dominant ideologies of the twentieth century—fascism, communism, and liberalism—only the last remains. This has created a peculiar situation in which liberalism’s proponents tend to forget that it is an ideology and not the natural end-state of human political evolution. As Patrick Deneen argues in this provocative book, liberalism is ... Read more

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  • The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy

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    "[A] passionate, compelling, and disturbing argument that the ills of democracy in the United States today arise from the default of its elites." —John Gray, New York Times Book Review (front-page review)In a front-page review in the Washington Post Book World, John Judis wrote: "Political analysts have been poring over exit polls and precinct-level votes to gauge the meaning of last November's ... Read more

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  • Political Philosophy

    A Beginners' Guide for Students and Politicians

    by Adam Swift ...
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  • The Oxford Handbook of Political Theory

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  • Dismantling Global White Privilege

    Equity for a Post-Western World

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    White privilege damages and distorts societies around the world, not just in the United States. This book exposes its pervasive global reach and creates a new space for discourse on worldwide racial equality.As Chandran Nair shows in this uncompromising new book, a belief in the innate superiority of White people and Western culture, once the driving force behind imperialism, is now woven into the ... Read more

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  • The Idea of Human Rights

    by Charles R. Beitz ...
    The international doctrine of human rights is one of the most ambitious parts of the settlement of World War II. Since then, the language of human rights has become the common language of social criticism in global political life. This book is a theoretical examination of the central idea of that language, the idea of a human right. In contrast to more conventional philosophical studies, the ... Read more

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