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  • The Process of Government

    A Study of Social Pressures

    by Arthur F. Bentley ...
    Arthur F. Bentley originally wrote this book over the years 1896-1908 while working as a Chicago newspaper reporter and editor, during which time he had a sense of tremendous social activity taking place, and a feeling that all the politics of the country, so to speak, were drifting across [his] desk. This prompted Bentley to develop an analysis of group interests, which he believed to be the true ... Read more

    $97.55 CAD

  • Theories of Democracy

    A Reader

    by John Locke, Thomas Paine, Alexis Tocqueville, John Rawls, Niccolo Machiavelli, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, John Winthrop, Horace Mann, Friedrich Hayek, Milton Friedman, Arthur Bentley, Robert Dahl, Joseph Schumpeter, Anthony Downs, John Dewey, Benjamin Barber, Max Weber, Noberto Bobbio, Michel Foucault, William Connolly, Jurgen Habermas, Mahatma Gandhi, Jean-bertrand Aristide, Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu, Liberal/Democratic Divide, Sheldon Wolin, Anne Phillips, John Stuart Mill, Iris Marion Young, Aung San Suu Kyi, Adolfo Perez Esquivel, Aristotle, James Madison, Robert Bellah, Chantal Mouffe, Cornel West ...
    Theories of Democracy builds on Robert Dahl's observation that there is no single theory of democracy; only theories. Beyond the broad commitment to rule by the majority, democracy involves a set of contentious debates concerning the proper function and scope of power, equality, freedom, justice, and interests. In this anthology, Ronald J. Terchek and Thomas C. Conte have brilliantly assembled the ... Read more

    $71.69 CAD

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    Through Broadland In A Breydon Punt (Unabridged)

    by Arthur Henry PATTERSON ...
    Narrated by Jodi Bentley ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 42 min

    Arthur Henry Patterson was a self-taught naturalist who, from a very early age, devoted much of his free time to observing, discovering and documenting all aspects of the natural history of the Norfolk Broads, especially the area around Breydon Water near his home town of Great Yarmouth. At some 75000 acres , the Broads are the largest protected wetland in Britain. AHP was the author of many books ... Read more

    $6.29 CAD

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  • Eyewitness To Power

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  • Media Relations of the Anti-War Movement

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