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  • Wetlands

    Series series Exploring Environmental Challenges: A Multidisciplinary Approach
    The purpose of the Exploring Environmental Challenges: A Multidisciplinary Approach series is to publish a collection of short texts that each explore a specific environmental issue and describe the methodologies, theories, and findings pertaining to that issue from both natural and social science perspectives. Each text contains three natural science essays, three social science essays, and a ... Read more

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  • A New Century for Natural Resources Management

    This book explores the changes that are leading to a new century of natural resources management. It places the current situation in historical perspective, analyzes the forces that are propelling change, and describes and examines the specific changes in goals, policy, and practice that are transforming all aspects of natural resources management.The book is an important overview for wildlife ... Read more

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  • Let the People Judge

    Wise Use And The Private Property Rights Movement

    One of the most serious challenges to environmentalism that has emerged in the 1990s is the so-called Wise Use movement. While operating under the guise of an independent movement of small landowners, it is in reality a backlash against environmental protection measures, funded and organized by corporations with a vested interest in preventing further environmental gains. Let the People Judge ... Read more

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  • Economic Development and Environmental Protection

    Economic Pursuit of Quality

    This text takes issue with the notion that economic well-being of people derives only from quantitatively expanding commercial business activity. It argues that economic qualities flow from the natural and social environment, and that they are public, not private, in character. ... Read more

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    Trudeau, Thatcher, and the Fight for Canada's Constitution

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    A bestseller in Quebec that describes the horse-trading, intrigue and unrest behind Trudeau’s quest to repatriate the Constitution.After the referendum in 1980, Pierre Elliott Trudeau turned his sights on repatriating the Constitution in an effort to make Canada fully independent from Britain. What should have been a simple process snowballed into a complicated intrigue.Quebec, which thought its ... Read more

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  • The Idea of America

    Reflections on the Birth of the United States

    **“Exceptional... a remarkable study of the key chapter of American history and its ongoing influence on American character.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)The Pulitzer Prize-winning historian of the Founding Era reflects on the birth of American nationhood and explains why the American Revolution remains so essential to our identity and culture.**For Gordon S. Wood, the American Revolution is ... Read more

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  • Eugene Forsey, Canada's Maverick Sage

    Canada's Maverick Sage

    by Helen Forsey ...
    Eugene Forsey's wit and wisdom are a legacy for the common good.Eugene Alfred Forsey (1904-1991) was one of Canada's foremost constitutional experts and a provocative voice for social justice and the common good. Legendary for his sharp wit and high principle, he brought encyclopedic knowledge, irascible tenacity and common sense to the causes of democracy, justice, and equality for all. Those ... Read more

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  • The Federalist

    A Commentary on the Constitution of the United States

    Series series Modern Library Classics
    The series of essays that comprise The Federalist constitutes one of the key texts of the American Revolution and the democratic system created in the wake of independence. Written in 1787 and 1788 by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay to promote the ratification of the proposed Constitution, these papers stand as perhaps the most eloquent testimonial to democracy that exists. They ... Read more

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  • The Framers' Coup

    The Making of the United States Constitution

    Americans revere their Constitution. However, most of us are unaware how tumultuous and improbable the drafting and ratification processes were. As Benjamin Franklin keenly observed, any assembly of men bring with them "all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests and their selfish views." One need not deny that the Framers had good intentions in order to ... Read more

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  • More Essential than Ever

    The Fourth Amendment in the Twenty First Century

    Series series Inalienable Rights
    When the states ratified the Bill of Rights in the eighteenth century, the Fourth Amendment seemed straightforward. It requires that government respect the right of citizens to be "secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures." Of course, "papers and effects" are now digital and thus more vulnerable to government spying. But the biggest threat ... Read more

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  • Building Global Democracy?

    Civil Society and Accountable Global Governance

    Edited by Jan Aart Scholte ...
    The scale, effectiveness and legitimacy of global governance lag far behind the world's needs. This path-breaking book examines how far civil society involvement provides an answer to these problems. Does civil society make global governance more democratic? Have citizen action groups raised the accountability of global bodies that deal with challenges such as climate change, financial crises, ... Read more

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  • Constitutional Government in the United States

    First published in 1908, Constitutional Government in the United States offers Woodrow Wilson’s thoughts on the US political system, including his famous theories regarding constitutional interpretation.This classic volume presents Woodrow Wilson’s criticism of the US founding fathers and cements him as a thought leader during the Progressive era. In it, Wilson discusses the various branches of ... Read more

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