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Diet and Exercise in Cognitive Function and Neurological Diseases

Product Description: Diet and exercise have long been recognized as important components of a healthy lifestyle, as they have a great impact on improving cardiovascular and cerebrovascular functions, lowering the risk of metabolic disorders, and contributing to healthy aging...read more

By Tahira Farooqui

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9781118840559 | 1 edition (Blackwell Pub, April 20, 2015), cover price $205.95 | About this edition: Diet and exercise have long been recognized as important components of a healthy lifestyle, as they have a great impact on improving cardiovascular and cerebrovascular functions, lowering the risk of metabolic disorders, and contributing to healthy aging.

9780391039193, titled "Selected Writings of Eduard Bernstein, 1900-1921" | Prometheus Books, April 1, 1996, cover price $49.95 | also contains Selected Writings of Eduard Bernstein, 1900-1921 | About this edition: This collection presents the English-language reader for the first time with essays that are representative of Bernstein’s much-neglected revisionist period, 1901-1921.

Might, Right, Prosperity and Consent: Representative Democracy and the International Economy 1919-2001

Product Description: This book offers an original analysis of the problem of the authority of the state in democracies. Unlike many discussions of democracy that treat authority as a problem primarily of domestic politics or normative values, this book puts the international economy at the centre of the analysis...read more

By Helen Thompson

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9780719077500 | Manchester Univ Pr, September 30, 2008, cover price $89.00 | About this edition: This book offers an original analysis of the problem of the authority of the state in democracies.

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9780719097294 | Manchester Univ Pr, April 1, 2015, cover price $42.95 | About this edition: This book offers an original analysis of the problem of the authority of the state in democracies.

The Confidence Trap: A History of Democracy in Crisis from World War I to the Present

Product Description: Why do democracies keep lurching from success to failure? The current financial crisis is just the latest example of how things continue to go wrong, just when it looked like they were going right. In this wide-ranging, original, and compelling book, David Runciman tells the story of modern democracy through the history of moments of crisis, from the First World War to the economic crash of 2008...read more

By David Runciman

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9780691148687 | Princeton Univ Pr, October 27, 2013, cover price $29.95

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9780691165837 | Rev upd edition (Princeton Univ Pr, March 22, 2015), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Why do democracies keep lurching from success to failure?

Problems Confronting Contemporary Democracies: Essays in Honor of Alfred Stepan

By Scott Mainwaring (editor)

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9780268023720 | Univ of Notre Dame Pr, September 30, 2012, cover price $75.00

Democratic Decline and Democratic Renewal: Political Change in Britain, Australia and New Zealand

Product Description: The story of liberal democracy over the last half century has been a triumphant one in many ways, with the number of democracies increasing from a minority of states to a significant majority. Yet substantial problems afflict democratic states, and while the number of democratic countries has expanded, democratic practice has contracted...read more

By Raymond Miller

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9781107025684 | Cambridge Univ Pr, August 27, 2012, cover price $125.00 | About this edition: The story of liberal democracy over the last half century has been a triumphant one in many ways, with the number of democracies increasing from a minority of states to a significant majority.

America's Mission: The United States and the Worldwide Struggle for Democracy

By Tony Smith

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9780691154923 | Expanded edition (Princeton Univ Pr, February 21, 2012), cover price $28.95

Human Rights and Democracy: The Precarious Triumph of Ideals

Product Description: The 20th century has been described as the bloodiest in human history, but it was also the century in which people around the world embraced ideas of democracy and human rights as never before, constructing social, political and legal institutions seeking to contain human behaviour...read more

By Todd Landman

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9781849663465 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, November 21, 2013, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: The 20th century has been described as the bloodiest in human history, but it was also the century in which people around the world embraced ideas of democracy and human rights as never before, constructing social, political and legal institutions seeking to contain human behaviour.

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9781849663458 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, November 21, 2013, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: The 20th century has been described as the bloodiest in human history, but it was also the century in which people around the world embraced ideas of democracy and human rights as never before, constructing social, political and legal institutions seeking to contain human behaviour.

The United Nations Democracy Agenda: A Conceptual History

Product Description: The United Nations Democracy Agenda is a critical, conceptual-historical analysis of democracy at the United Nations, detailed in four "visions" of democracy: civilization, elections, governance, and developmental democracy. Â "I know it when I see it" were the famous words of US Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart on defining obscenity...read more

By Kirsten Haack

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9780719079818 | 1 edition (Manchester Univ Pr, December 15, 2011), cover price $100.00 | About this edition: The United Nations Democracy Agenda is a critical, conceptual-historical analysis of democracy at the United Nations, detailed in four "visions" of democracy: civilization, elections, governance, and developmental democracy.

History for the IB Diploma: Democratic States

By Jean Bottaro and John Stanley

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9780521189378 | Cambridge Univ Pr, June 30, 2011, cover price $40.95

Democracy Denied, 1905-1915: Intellectuals and the Fate of Democracy

Product Description: In the decade before World War I, a wave of democratic revolutions swept the globe, consuming more than a quarter of the worldâs population. Revolution transformed Russia, Iran, the Ottoman Empire, Portugal, Mexico, and China. In each case, a pro-Âdemocracy movement unseated a long-standing autocracy with startling speed...read more

By Charles Kurzman

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9780674030923 | 1 edition (Harvard Univ Pr, December 15, 2008), cover price $62.50 | About this edition: In the decade before World War I, a wave of democratic revolutions swept the globe, consuming more than a quarter of the worldâs population.

Providential Democracy: An Essay on Contemporary Equality

Product Description: Democracy posits the universality of the equality principle: a community of citizens is governed by the principle of the formal equality of all individuals, whatever their real social, cultural, or other inequalities. Democratization, on the other hand, is motivated by the ambition of ensuring the real equality of citizens, and not simply their formal equality...read more

By John Taylor (trans)

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9781412808699 | Transaction Pub, September 30, 2008, cover price $30.95 | About this edition: Democracy posits the universality of the equality principle: a community of citizens is governed by the principle of the formal equality of all individuals, whatever their real social, cultural, or other inequalities.

The Advancement of Liberty: How American Democratic Principles Transformed the Twentieth Century

By Matthew C. Price

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9780313346187 | Praeger Security Intl, December 30, 2007, cover price $84.00

Providential Democracy: An Essay of Contemporary Equality

By Dominique Schnapper and John Taylor (trans)

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9780765803061 | Transaction Pub, January 1, 2006, cover price $45.95 | About this edition: Democracy posits the universality of the equality principle: a community of citizens is governed by the principle of the formal equality of all individuals, whatever their real social, cultural, or other inequalities.

The Democratic Century

In this study on democracy and democratic systems, two scholars offer an expansive view of democratic systems and explain why democracy has succeeded in some countries and has failed in others.

By Jason M. Lakin and Seymour Martin Lipset

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9780806136189 | Univ of Oklahoma Pr, September 1, 2004, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: In this study on democracy and democratic systems, two scholars offer an expansive view of democratic systems and explain why democracy has succeeded in some countries and has failed in others.

Voter Turnout and the Dynamics of Electoral Competition in Established Democracies since 1945

Product Description: Demonstrating how voter turnout can serve as an indicator of the health of a democracy, this study documents the conditions that can result in low voter turnout and suggests reforms that might alleviate these conditions. Mark Franklin concludes that declining turnout does not necessarily reflect reductions in civic virtue or increases in alienation...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Cees van der Eijk (contributor), Diana Evans (contributor), MIchael Fotos (contributor), Mark N. Franklin and Wolfgang Hirczy de Mino (contributor)

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9780521833646 | Cambridge Univ Pr, April 19, 2004, cover price $105.00 | About this edition: Demonstrating how voter turnout can serve as an indicator of the health of a democracy, this study documents the conditions that can result in low voter turnout and suggests reforms that might alleviate these conditions.

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9780521541473 | Cambridge Univ Pr, April 1, 2004, cover price $34.99

The Manitous: The Spiritual World of the Ojibway

A collection of sacred stories comprises the spiritual teachings and perceptions of the Ojibway people and addresses the living essences that infuse and safeguard every plant and animal (view table of contents)

By Basil Johnston

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9780060171995 | Harpercollins, August 1, 1995, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: A collection of sacred stories comprises the spiritual teachings and perceptions of the Ojibway people and addresses the living essences that infuse and safeguard every plant and animal

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9780873514118 | Minnesota Historical Society Pr, September 1, 2001, cover price $19.95

9780060927356 | Reprint edition (Harpercollins, August 1, 1996), cover price $13.95 | also contains Democracy at the Point of Bayonets | About this edition: A collection of sacred stories illustrates the spiritual teachings and perceptions of the Ojibway people and describes the living essences that infuse and safeguard every plant and animal

The International Dimensions of Democratization: Europe and the Americas

Product Description: In recent years, and especially following the end of the cold war, democratization has become one of the most crucial issues on the international political scene. Here, highly respected scholars from around the world explore the role and importance of international relations in the democratic development of states in the Americas and Europe, combining theoretical approaches with a rich set of empirical case studies...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Laurence Whitehead (editor)

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9780198280361 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, October 3, 1996, cover price $165.00 | About this edition: 'Seven of 14 chapters deal with the Americas, three others provide analytic context (four treat democratization in Europe).

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9780199243754 | Rev exp edition (Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, August 30, 2001), cover price $96.00 | About this edition: In recent years, and especially following the end of the cold war, democratization has become one of the most crucial issues on the international political scene.

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9780191529443 | Rev exp edition (Oxford Univ Pr, June 1, 2001), cover price $67.43

Comparative Democracy and Democratization

Product Description: This text provides students and scholars with a sense of the distinct philosophies and political cultures that can shape different forms of democracy. Wiarda covers the theoretical and political cultural bases of democracy, explaining why democracy thrives or fails to take root in different societies...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Howard J. Wiarda (editor)

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9780155071025 | Wadsworth Pub Co, June 1, 2001, cover price $82.95 | About this edition: This text provides students and scholars with a sense of the distinct philosophies and political cultures that can shape different forms of democracy.

Sister Revolutions: French Lightning, American Light

Product Description: What the two great modern revolutions can teach us about democracy todayThe American and French revolutions presented the world with two very different visions of democracy. Although both professed similar Enlightenment ideals of freedom, equality, and justice and set similar political agendas, there were also fundamental differences...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Susan Dunn

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9780571199006 | Faber & Faber, October 1, 1999, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Compares the two great revolutions of the eighteenth century

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9780571199891 | Faber & Faber, September 1, 2000, cover price $19.00 | About this edition: What the two great modern revolutions can teach us about democracy todayThe American and French revolutions presented the world with two very different visions of democracy.

The Dynamics of Democratization: Elites, Civil Society, and the Transition Process

Product Description: One of the most significant developments in the last three decades of the 20th century was the fall of many authoritarian regimes and their replacement by governments claiming democratic credentials. Although the most spectacular instance of this was the collapse of communism, epitomized by the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, it had occurred in a much wider range of countries--from Spain and Greece to Uruguay and South Korea...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Graeme J. Gill

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9780312231712 | Palgrave Macmillan, March 1, 2000, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: One of the most significant developments in the last three decades of the 20th century was the fall of many authoritarian regimes and their replacement by governments claiming democratic credentials.

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9780312231729, titled "The Dynamics of Democratization: Elites, Civil Society and the Transition Process" | Palgrave Macmillan, July 7, 2000, cover price $51.00 | About this edition: One of the most significant developments in the last three decades of the 20th century was the fall of many authoritarian regimes and their replacement by governments claiming democratic credentials.

Saving Democracies: U.S. Intervention in Threatened Democratic States

Product Description: U.S. military forces are increasingly involved in peacekeeping missions around the world, and this new role raises the prospect of confrontation with guerrilla movements, combat for which troops are largely untrained. This book contains analyses of past and present conflicts involving the American military, not only the Vietnam experience but also more recent involvement in El Salvador and Somalia, each of which has provoked great controversy on the domestic front...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Anthony James Joes (editor)

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9780275963040 | Praeger Pub Text, November 1, 1999, cover price $84.00 | About this edition: U.

Democracy at the Point of Bayonets

Encompasses four hundred years of African American history, discussing topics ranging from African culture and slavery to noted inventors and the origins of jazz music (view table of contents)

By Mark Peceny

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9780271018829 | Pennsylvania State Univ Pr, October 1, 1999, cover price $73.95

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9780271018836 | Pennsylvania State Univ Pr, October 1, 1999, cover price $35.95

9780060927851, titled "America Is Me: 170 Fresh Questins and Answers on Black American History" | Harpercollins, February 1, 1997, cover price $27.50 | also contains America Is Me: 170 Fresh Questins and Answers on Black American History | About this edition: Encompasses four hundred years of African American history, discussing topics ranging from African culture and slavery to noted inventors and the origins of jazz music

9780060927356, titled "The Manitous: The Spiritual World of the Ojibway" | Reprint edition (Harpercollins, August 1, 1996), cover price $13.95 | also contains The Manitous: The Spiritual World of the Ojibway | About this edition: A collection of sacred stories illustrates the spiritual teachings and perceptions of the Ojibway people and describes the living essences that infuse and safeguard every plant and animal

Developing Democracy: Toward Consolidation

Product Description: In this book noted political sociologist Larry Diamond sets forth a distinctive theoretical perspective on democratic evolution and consolidation in the late twentieth century. Rejecting theories that posit preconditions for democracy -- and thus dismiss its prospects in poor countries -- Diamond argues instead for a "developmental" theory of democracy...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Larry Jay Diamond

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9780801860140 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, May 1, 1999, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: In this book noted political sociologist Larry Diamond sets forth a distinctive theoretical perspective on democratic evolution and consolidation in the late twentieth century.

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9780801861567 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, April 8, 1999, cover price $27.00 | About this edition: In this book noted political sociologist Larry Diamond sets forth a distinctive theoretical perspective on democratic evolution and consolidation in the late twentieth century.

Democracies Against Hitler: Myth, Reality and Prologue

Product Description: This work examines the response of political democracies to the phenomenon of Hitlerism, beginning with democracy in Germany itself in the 1920s and 1930s, and ending up with Britain and US in the 1940s. Contrary to mythology, this response was far more a failure than a success...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Alexander J. Groth

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9781840144659 | Ashgate Pub Ltd, March 1, 1999, cover price $144.95 | About this edition: This work examines the response of political democracies to the phenomenon of Hitlerism, beginning with democracy in Germany itself in the 1920s and 1930s, and ending up with Britain and US in the 1940s.

The Changing Nature of Democracy

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By Takashi Inoguchi (editor), John Keane (editor) and Edward Newman (editor)

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9789280810059 | United Nations Univ, July 1, 1998, cover price $24.95

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