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Race-Baiter
Palgrave Macmillan 2012; US$ 27.99Gone is the era of Edward R. Murrow and Walter Cronkite, when news programs fought to gain the trust and respect of a wide spectrum of American viewers. Today, the fastest-growing news programs and media platforms are fighting hard for increasingly narrow segments of the public and playing on old prejudices and deep-rooted fears, coloring the conversation... more...
Citizenship and Identity
SAGE Publications 1999; US$ 60.00Through a detailed introductory discussion of the relation between the civil and the political, and between recognition and representation, this book provides a comprehensive vocabulary for understanding citizenship. more...
The Glass Palace
Algora Publishing 2012; US$ 22.95Is Qatar actually a suitable ally or a legitimate partner for the United States? Under Qatari labor law, foreign workers are actually owned, for all practical purposes, by their Qatari sponsors in a system akin to slavery. This book chronicles the experience of an American executive working in Qatar and delves into Qatar?'s feudal work-sponsorship... more...
A MIRACLE, A UNIVERSE
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2013; US$ 20.00In recent years as countries around the globe have begun to move from dictatorial to more democratic systems of governance, no more traumatic (or dramatic) ethical problem has arisen than what to do with the previous regime?s torturers. In most cases, the security and military apparatuses, responsible for the overwhelming majority of human-rights abuses,... more...
The Dual System of Privacy Rights in the United States
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 130.00Theoretically, the right to privacy is an individual?s right to space away from the public gaze to make life choices that are best for her or him, regardless of the beliefs of the majority. Yet the right to privacy in the United States has proven problematic for both political theorists and constitutional scholars, as it does not conform to theoretical... more...
Culture Wars
See Sharp Press 2013; US$ 9.99Boldly stated and passionately supported, this argument against religious influence on the American government and legal system analyzes the impact that religion has on culture in the United States. The book makes the claim that many laws based on religious beliefs, specifically theology promoted in the Middle Ages, are misattributed as long-standing... more...
Freedom and Foundation
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2013; US$ 30.00Freedom and the Foundation is a study in depth of the first and most controversial of the tax-exempt foundations dedicated to research and public education in the field of civil liberties and civil rights: The Fund for the Republic. The story of its struggle for survival, as Mr. Reeves demonstrates, exemplifies the broader conflict between... more...
Nature and Liberty
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 180.00Liberal democracy, it has been claimed, stands at the end of history. But there are hidden internal strains that could threaten its fabric. Nature and Liberty explores three of the most important practical problems of modern liberal politics - those connected with ethnicity and race, sex and the family, and bureaucratized government. The author traces... more...
Brave New Neighborhoods
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 39.95Fighting for First Amendment rights is as popular a pastime as ever, but just because you can get on your soapbox doesn't mean anyone will be there to listen. Town squares have emptied out as shoppers decamp for the megamalls; gated communities keep pesky signature gathering activists away; even most internet chatrooms are run by the major media companies.... more...









