We live in times of economic change and challenges, as reports of the increasing concentration of wealth with "the 1%" and stagnating wages compete for headlines with new and contentious politics...
What is the nature of political activity? This question has vexed political thinkers since Plato wrote Statesman and remains challenging today. Contemporary intellectual categories obstruct individuals...
Its Perennial Questions and Enduring Relevance in North America
Edited by Ronald L Weed and John Von Heyking
Price: $79.95
ISBN: 9780813217246
Pub Date: March 31st, 2010
Format: Hardcover
Civil religion has proven to be a religion that we cannot live without. It remains a persistent feature of most modern liberal societies, despite the apparent progress of religious toleration. Civil...
Explorations along the Medieval/Modern Divide from John of Salisbury to Hegel
by Cary J Nederman
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9780813215815
Pub Date: May 14th, 2009
Format: Paperback
This book examines some of the salient historiographical and conceptual issues that animate current scholarly debates about the nature of the medieval contribution to modern Western political ideas....
Eugenics, Population Control, and the Abortion Campaign
by Ann Farmer
Price: $79.95
ISBN: 9780813215303
Pub Date: August 28th, 2008
Format: Hardcover
Ann Farmer illuminates a dark corner of modern Western history in her groundbreaking new study of the English abortion campaign. The product of rigorous research, this book aims to correct long-held...
What can pro-life lawmakers rightly do when it is not possible to overturn laws permitting abortion? For many, the obvious answer is to restrict abortion as much as possible. Having previously accepted...
Clearly we have entered an era of heightened interest in spirituality. The proliferation of books, music, and paraphernalia espousing the way of the spirit is a striking phenomenon. Everywhere there...
From "Brilliant Errors" to Things of Uncommon Importance
by James V. Schall
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9780813209227
Pub Date: July 1st, 1998
Format: Paperback
How do politics and religion point to each other in a way that respects the integrity of both? Why are reason and revelation not in absolute opposition to each other? Political philosophy asks questions...
When it was first published twenty-five years ago, this classic work of political theory gained notoriety because neither its approach nor its interpretations readily fit into any of the major schools...
How the Mass Media Have Transformed World Politics
by Lee Edwards
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9780813209920
Pub Date: May 2nd, 2001
Format: Paperback
Drawing upon his lifelong study of politics and journalism, political historian Lee Edwards offers the first scholarly examination of a powerful new phenomenon in world politics—the mass media....
