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Why We're Liberals
Penguin Group US 2008; US$ 16.00The bestselling author and Newsweek columnist takes a characteristically irreverent look at the rampant mistreatment of liberals and liberalism The "most honest and incisive media critic writing today"( National Catholic Reporter ), Eric Alterman is committed to restoring the liberal tradition to its honored place as the political philosophy... more...
Checkpoint Watch
Zed Books 2006; US$ 29.95This book is a critical exploration of Israel's curfew-closure policy in the Occupied Palestinian Territories through the eyes of CheckpointWatch, an organization of Israeli women monitoring human rights abuses. The book combines observers' daily reports from the checkpoints and along the Separation Wall, with analysis of the bureaucracy that... more...
The Future of Democratic Equality
Taylor and Francis 2008; US$ 42.952011 David Easton Award, presented for the best book by the Foundations of Political Theory section of APSA: "The Future of Democratic Equality , by Joseph Schwartz, takes on three tasks, and accomplishes all brilliantly. Any one of these tasks well fulfilled would have been a laudable achievement. First, Schwartz argues for the centrality... more...
Conservatism in America
Palgrave Macmillan 2007; US$ 32.00This book argues that the American conservative movement has been largely an invention of journalists and Republican activists. more...
Conservatism and American Political Development
Oxford University Press, USA 2009; US$ 23.99Editors' Preface. Introduction: Studying the role of conservatives in American Political Development. Part One. 1. Environmental Policy from the New Deal to the Great Society: The Lagged Emergence of an Ideological Dividing Line, Marc Allen Eisner. 2. Social Security from the New Deal to the Great Society: Expanding the Public Domain, Edward Berkowitz... more...
We Are Doomed
Crown Publishing Group 2009; US$ 15.00To his fellow conservatives, John Derbyshire makes a plea: Don't be seduced by this nonsense about "the politics of hope." Skepticism, pessimism, and suspicion of happy talk are the true characteristics of an authentically conservative temperament. And from Hobbes and Burke through Lord Salisbury and Calvin Coolidge, up to Pat Buchanan and Mark Steyn... more...
Persons, Rights, and the Moral Community
Oxford University Press, USA 1990; US$ 25.99This book provides a complete and convincing account of what rights we do and do not have, who has them, and why. Presenting the foundations of a liberal, individualistic theory of rights, Lomasky explains the place of rights within the overall structure of morality, arguing for the moral importance of individual commitments to and pursuit of "projects."... more...
Rethinking Liberalism
Continuum International Publishing 2005; US$ 140.00This book explores liberalisms past and present transformations and proposes a prospective future as a neo-republican democratic liberalism. Bellamy engages with theorists of liberalism from J. S. Mill, through T. H. Green, Guido De Ruggiero, Carl Schmitt and Joseph Schumpeter, to F. A. Hayek, John Rawls and Michael Walzer. He contends that the... more...
Liberal Languages
Princeton University Press 2009; US$ 30.95Liberal Languages reinterprets twentieth-century liberalism as a complex set of discourses relating not only to liberty but also to welfare and community. Written by one of the world's leading experts on liberalism and ideological theory, it uses new methods of analyzing ideologies, as well as historical case studies, to present liberalism as a... more...
Privacy
OUP Oxford 2010; US$ 9.99Professor Raymond Wacks is a leading international expert on privacy. For more than three decades he has published numerous books and articles on this controversial subject.Privacy is a fundamental value that is under attack from several quarters. Electronic surveillance, biometrics, CCTV, ID cards, RFID codes, online security, the monitoring of employees,... more...









