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  • Progressions of the Mind

    Poems

    by David Berman ...
    David Berman's posthumous collection Progressions of the Mind abounds in sagacity, empathy, and wit. Often in sonnet form, this former lawyer's meditations on humanity may be poignant or humorous, but they are always entertaining. He deftly interrogates commonplace notions of morality, religious beliefs, and human frailties and resilience. Readers of this collection will understand why Berman was ... Read more

    $13.73 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Arizona’s Quest for Reform

    Socialists, Unionists, and Progressives, 1900–1920

    by David R. Berman ...
    In Arizona’s Quest for Reform, David R. Berman traces the rise and fall of a dynamic coalition of socialists, labor activists, and progressive Democrats led by the influential Governor George Hunt as they pursued sweeping reforms in a rapidly changing state. From the fight for workers’ rights and women’s suffrage to the use of the initiative process and the role of radical newspapers, Berman ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

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  • The Great Philosophers:Berkeley

    by David Berman ...
    Series series GREAT PHILOSOPHERS
    Part of the GREAT PHILOSOPHERS series.George Berkeley 1685-1753A scientist, theologian and writer on medicine and economics, George Berkeley was in his way a most improbable philosopher. A master of English prose, he was suspicious of language; scornful of abstractions, he looked instead to immediate experience for the basis of his thought.David Berman's readable guide traces Berkeley's ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • State and Local Politics

    by David Berman ...
    Politics at the state and local level has never been more interesting than in our "devolutionary" age. This popular text is the most concise, readable, and current introduction to the field. Now in its ninth edition, the book keeps its focus on the varied and changing political and economic environments in which state and local governments function, and their strengths and weaknesses in key areas ... Read more

    $59.99 CAD

  • A History of Atheism in Britain

    From Hobbes to Russell

    by David Berman ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Philosophy of Religion
    Probably no doctrine has excited as much horror and abuse as atheism. This first history of British atheism, first published in 1987, tries to explain this reaction while exhibiting the development of atheism from Hobbes to Russell. Although avowed atheism appeared surprisingly late – 1782 in Britain – there were covert atheists in the middle seventeenth century. By tracing its development from so ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Local Government and the States

    Autonomy, Politics, and Policy

    by David Berman ...
    This book offers an overview of the legal, political, and broad intergovernmental environment in which relations between local and state units of government take place, the historical roots of the conflict among them, and an analysis of contemporary problems concerning local authority, local revenues, state interventions and takeovers, and the restructuring of local governments. The author pays ... Read more

    $76.99 CAD

  • Consciousness from Descartes to Ayer

    by David Berman ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    The title is meant to indicate that consciousness is being examined largely within the history of philosophy, and within the period of time from Descartes to Ayer.Investigators aiming to understand consciousness and minds usually try to take account of all individual human minds, so as to have the most data for the most encompassing induction. The problem with that approach is that because of the ... Read more

    $83.99 CAD

  • Socialist Mayors in the United States

    Governing in an Era of Municipal Reform, 1900-1920

    by David R. Berman ...
    Series series Studies in Government and Public Policy
    The United States is known as a country that has been highly antagonistic to Socialism of any form. Socialists in the United States have tended to be political outsiders, mounting criticisms of the government without serving in elected office themselves. However, from around 1900 to 1920, Socialist politicians in the United States were prominent and active at the municipal level, holding office as ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Radicalism in the Mountain West, 1890-1920

    Socialists, Populists, Miners, and Wobblies

    by David R. Berman ...
    Radicalism in the Mountain West, 1890-1920 traces the history of radicalism in the Populist Party, Socialist Party, Western Federation of Miners, and Industrial Workers of the World in Arizona, Utah, Nevada, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, and New Mexico.Focusing on the populist and socialist movements, David R. Berman sheds light on American radicalism with this study of a region that ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Proxy Wars

    Suppressing Violence through Local Agents

    Edited by Eli Berman, David A. Lake ...
    The most common image of world politics involves states negotiating, cooperating, or sometimes fighting with one another; billiard balls in motion on a global pool table. Yet working through local proxies or agents, through what Eli Berman and David A. Lake call a strategy of "indirect control," has always been a central tool of foreign policy. Understanding how countries motivate local allies to ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Modernism in the Streets

    A Life and Times in Essays

    by Marshall Berman ...
    Essays tracing the intellectual life of a quintessential New York City writer and thinkerMarshall Berman was one of the great urbanists and Marxist cultural critics of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and his brilliant, nearly sui generis book All That Is Solid Melts Into Air is a masterpiece of the literature on modernism. But like many New York intellectuals, the essay was his ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Governors and the Progressive Movement

    by David R. Berman ...
    Governors and the Progressive Movement is the first comprehensive overview of the Progressive movement’s unfolding at the state level, covering every state in existence at the time through the words and actions of state governors. It explores the personalities, ideas, and activities of this period’s governors, including lesser-known but important ones who deserve far more attention than they have ... Read more

    $47.99 CAD