Product Description: Successful democracies throughout history--from ancient Athens to Britain on the cusp of the industrial age--have used the technology of their time to gather information for better governance. Our challenge is no different today, but it is more urgent because the accelerating pace of technological change creates potentially enormous dangers as well as benefits...read more

In After Capitalism, David Schweickart moves beyond the familiar arguments against globalizing capitalism to contribute something absolutely necessary and long overdue--a coherent vision of a viable, desirable alternative to capitalism. He names this system Economic Democracy, a successor-system to capitalism which preserves the efficiency strengths of a market economy while extending democracy to the workplace and to the structures of investment finance. Drawing on both theoretical and empirical research, Schweickart shows how and why this model is efficient, dynamic, and superior to capitalism along a range of values.

Product Description: Western political philosophers since Plato have used the family as a model for harmonious political and social relations. Yet, far from being an uncontentious domain for shared interests and common values, the family is often the scene of intense interpersonal conflict and disagreement...read more

Product Description: Analyzes the ancient Mediterranean and Middle East in social and cultural contexts   Ancient World, The: A Social and Cultural History, 8/e ,presents a comprehensive analysis of the cultures and societies of the ancient Mediterranean world from prehistoric times to the rise of Islam...read more

Product Description: Handwringing about political apathy is as old as democracy itself. As early as 425 BC, the playwright Aristophanes ridiculed his fellow Athenians for gossiping in the market instead of voting. In more recent decades, calls for greater civic engagement as a democratic cure-all have met with widespread agreement...read more

Product Description: Walter Grab, der Historiker der Französischen Revolution und des radikal-demokratischen und revolutionären Denkens in Deutschland und in Österreich, war ein streitbarer Gelehrter, der als glühender Demokrat für eine gerechte Gesellschaft eintrat...read more

Product Description: 2014 INDIEFAB Book of the Year Award Winner - Political Science (Adult Nonfiction)This book is about the two tribes of Washington, D.C.: Democrats and Republicans, whose members include lobbyists, Wall Street, and the military-industrial complex, among others...read more

Written by the text author, this manual includes experiments tied directly to the text.

Product Description: Sport has gained increasing importance for welfare society. In this process, however, the term of ‘sport’ has become less and less clear. Larger parts of what nowadays is called ‘sport for all’ are non-competitive and derived from traditions of gymnastics, dance, festivity, games, outdoor activities, and physical training rather than from classical modern elite sports...read more

Business and Information Systems is written specifically for the Introduction to Information Systems course, typically taught at freshman and sophomore levels. If you don't understand business, how can you understand information systems in business? Most introductory information systems textbooks assume the reader has already taken business courses or has extensive experience in business. This book does not. Nickerson combines the study of business and information systems at a level that is accessible for all students. Notice this is not a smaller, condensed version of a more advanced MIS textbook. Business and Information Systems can be packaged with Business and Information Systems Using Intuit's QuickBooks, a workbook and CD-ROM by Chuck Trepper at a discounted price.

Product Description: Buchanan and Tullock’s seminal work, The Calculus of Consent, linked economic methodology to substantive questions in political science. Among the major contributions of their book is a connection between constitutional decision making and contractarianism, a philosophical tradition that proponents believe can give institutions legitimacy...read more

An anthology of 26 of the works of Jonathan Swift including When I Come to be Old

Product Description: Financial crisis, economic globalization and the strengthening of neoliberal policies present stark challenges to traditional conceptions of representative democracy. Yet, at the same time, new opportunities are emerging that propose alternative visions for the future of democracy...read more

With its original contribution to the consideration of the most important social movements of our time, this book has become one of the greatest works of social theory written this century.

Americans now face a caring deficit: there are simply too many demands on people’s time for us to care adequately for our children, elderly people, and ourselves.At the same time, political involvement in the United States is at an all-time low, and although political life should help us to care better, people see caring as unsupported by public life and deem the concerns of politics as remote from their lives. Caring Democracy argues that we need to rethink American democracy, as well as our fundamental values and commitments, from a caring perspective. What it means to be a citizen is to be someone who takes up the challenge: how should we best allocate care responsibilities in society?  Joan Tronto argues that we need to look again at how gender, race, class, and market forces misallocate caring responsibilities and think about freedom and equality from the standpoint of making caring more just.The idea that production and economic life are the most important political and human concerns ignores the reality that caring, for ourselves and others, should be the highest value that shapes how we view the economy, politics, and institutions such as schools and the family. Care is at the center of our human lives, but Tronto argues it is currently too far removed from the concerns of politics. Caring Democracy traces the reasons for this disconnection and argues for the need to make care, not economics, the central concern of democratic political life.