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  • Democratic Decision-making

    Consensus Voting for Civic Society and Parliaments

    by Peter Emerson ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book provides a practical guide to how groups of people, everywhere, from the local village council to the United Nations Security Council, can best make collective decisions. By comparing the many voting procedures used in democratic decision-making, it explains why win-or-lose binary voting can be inaccurate and divisive, while the more inclusive preferential points system of voting can be ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • The Punters' Guide to Democracy

    What it is, Sadly; and What it Could be, Gladly

    by Peter Emerson ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book discusses multiple ways of voting in a democratic system and explains the basis of more consensual politics. Without delving into too much technical argument or too many mathematical examples, it aims toshow that binary decision-making is blunt, primitive, divisive, and sometimes inaccurate;prove that other methodologies are more accurate and, therefore, more democratic;highlight more ... Read more

    $42.29 CAD

  • Defining Democracy

    Voting Procedures in Decision-Making, Elections and Governance

    by Peter Emerson ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Defining Democracy looks both at the theory of why and the history of how different voting procedures have come to be used – or not, as the case may be – in the three fields of democratic structures: firstly, in decision-making, both in society at large and in the elected chamber; secondly, in elections to and within those chambers; and thirdly, in the various forms of governance, from no-party to ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

  • Majority Voting as a Catalyst of Populism

    Preferential Decision-making for an Inclusive Democracy

    by Peter Emerson ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This timely book presents a critique of binary majority rule and provides insights into why, in many instances, the outcome of a two-option ballot does not accurately reflect the will of the people. Based on the author's first-hand experience, majority-voting is argued to be a catalyst of populism and its divisive outcomes have prompted countless disputes throughout Europe and Asia. In like manner ... Read more

    $72.99 CAD

  • From Majority Rule to Inclusive Politics

    by Peter Emerson ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book discusses voting procedures in collective decision-making. Drawing on well-established election processes from all over the world, the author presents a voting procedure that allows for the speedy but fair election of a proportional, all-party coalition. The methodology - a matrix vote - is accurate, robust and ethno-color blind. In the vote, the counting procedure encourages all ... Read more

    $64.09 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Essays: First Series. History

    by Ralph Waldo Emerson ...
    Narrated by Peter Coates ...

    Unabridged

    55 min

    Time does not hold history—people do. Emerson's History is not a chronicle of names and dates, not a reverence for the past, but a revelation: every life is a vessel of all that came before. The individual is not separate from history but its continuation, its living pulse.Emerson does not ask his readers to study history; he asks them to recognize themselves within it. Every triumph, every ... Read more

    $1.83 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Emerson: Poems

    Edited by Peter Washington

    by Ralph Waldo Emerson ...
    Series series Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series
    Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the best-loved figures in nineteenth-century American literature. Though he earned his central place in our culture as an essayist and philosopher, since his death his reputation as a poet has grown as well.Known for challenging traditional thought and for his faith in the individual, Emerson was the chief spokesman for the Transcendentalist movement. His poems speak ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The American Scholar

    With a Biography by William Peterfield Trent

    by Ralph Waldo Emerson, William Peterfield Trent ...
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882), more commonly referred to as simply Waldo, was an American lecturer, essayist, poet, philosopher, and leader of the mid-1900s transcendentalist movement. Emerson wrote on a number of subjects and became a symbol of individualism, presenting his ideas through his many essays and over 1,500 lectures. On August 31, 1837 at the First Parish in Cambridge, Massachusetts, ... Read more

    $8.09 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    75+ Ralph Waldo Emerson Collection. Collected Essays, Poems, Speeches

    Self-Reliance, Nature, The Conduct of Life, Compensation, The American Scholar, May-Day And Other Pieces, Elements And Mottoes, Brahma, Days, The Snow-Storm, Concord Hymn and others

    by Ralph Waldo Emerson ...
    Narrated by Mark Bowen, Peter Coates ...

    Unabridged

    19 hours 52 min

    Ralph Waldo Emerson was an American essayist, lecturer, philosopher, abolitionist, and poet who led the transcendentalist movement of the mid-19th century. He was a prescient critic of the countervailing pressures of society, and his ideology was disseminated through dozens of published essays and more than 1,500 public lectures. Emerson gradually moved away from the religious and social beliefs ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Public Lands And The U.s. Economy

    Balancing Conservation And Development

    by George M Johnston, Peter Emerson ...
    Current law requires the federal government to fulfill a broad spectrum of responsibilities in managing public lands; to protect and conserve the environment; to foster the appropriate development of marketable commodities; to preserve wilderness areas, wildlife habitats, and unique historical sites; and to encourage public participation in land-use and management decisions. There is no consensus, ... Read more

    $76.94 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Nature

    by Ralph Waldo Emerson ...
    Narrated by Peter Coates ...

    Unabridged

    42 min

    Emerson's Nature is not just an essay—it's a rebellion against confinement, an argument against secondhand wisdom. He strips away artifice, forcing us to confront the raw, untamed presence of the world. To walk through the woods, he suggests, is to be undressed of civilization, to shed the weight of customs, history, and ego. Nature demands no commentary, no theory—it simply is.This is not the ... Read more

    $1.51 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBooks

    Also available as: eBooks

  • Party Politics in the Western Balkans

    Edited by Vera Stojarová, Peter Emerson ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Comparative Politics
    This book examines the development of party politics in the region of Western Balkans, describing party politics and analyzing inter-ethnic or inter-party cooperation and competition.Beginning with a thematic overview of the electoral systems and their link to the party systems, the authors consider the legacy of socialist/communist parties; compare the nationalist parties in the region; and ... Read more

    $75.57 CAD