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The Fate of Young Democracies
The recent backlash against democracy in such countries as Bolivia, Venezuela, Russia, and Georgia poses renewed concerns about the viability of this...
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Newton as Philosopher
Newton's philosophical views are unique and uniquely difficult to categorise. In the course of a long career from the early 1670s until his death in...
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Crude Democracy
This book challenges the conventional wisdom that natural resource wealth promotes autocracy. Oil and other forms of mineral wealth can promote both...
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Science, Politics, and Evolution
This book brings together important essays by one of the leading philosophers of science at work today. Elisabeth A. Lloyd examines several of the...
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The Public Forum and Christian Ethics
This book addresses the question of the communication of Christian ethics in the public forum of liberal, pluralist societies. Drawing on debates in...
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Counter-Democracy
Democracy is established as a generally uncontested ideal, while regimes inspired by this form of government fall under constant criticism. Hence,...
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The Liberal Project and Human Rights
The ‘Liberal Project’ aims to transform society in accordance with liberal values and practices. This volume argues that the United Nations...
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That Nothing is Known
This is an edition of one of the crucial texts of Renaissance scepticism, Quod nihil scitur, by the Portuguese scholar Franciso Sanches. The...
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Political Institutions under Dictatorship
Often dismissed as window-dressing, nominally democratic institutions, such as legislatures and political parties, play an important role in...
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Appropriating Heidegger
Although Martin Heidegger is undeniably one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century, among the philosophers who study his work...
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Christian Realism and the New Realities
Are religion and public life really separate spheres of human activity? Should they be? In this book, Robin W. Lovin criticizes contemporary...
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Managing Strategic Surprise
The scope and applicability of risk management have expanded greatly over the past decade. Banks, corporations, and public agencies employ its new...
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God, the Mind’s Desire
This book reconfigures the basic problem of Christian thinking - ‘How can human discourse refer meaningfully to a transcendent God?’ - as a...
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Justice Across Borders
This book studies the struggle to enforce international human rights law in federal courts. In 1980, a federal appeals court ruled that a Paraguayan...
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Friedrich Schleiermacher
Friedrich Schleiermacher's groundbreaking work in theology and philosophy was forged in the cultural ferment of Berlin at the convergence of the...
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Welfare States in East Central Europe, 1919–2004
A comparative-historical study of welfare states in the former communist region of East Central Europe. Inglot analyzes almost one hundred years of...
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Language in Late Modernity
The study of teenagers in the classroom, and how they interact with one another and their teachers, can tell us a great deal about late-modern...
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Apocalypse and Millennium
This book is about the various ways in which the Book of Revelation (the Apocalypse) has been interpreted over the last 300 years. It examines in...
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Climate Change in Prehistory
How did humankind deal with the extreme challenges of the last Ice Age? How have the relatively benign post-Ice Age conditions affected the evolution...
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Systems of Nominal Classification
This book addresses the fundamental linguistic question of how the perceived world is expressed through systems of nominal classification that are...
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Children's Discourse
This comparative study explores two central questions in the study of first language acquisition: What is the relative impact of structural and...
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Language and Self-Transformation
Social scientists have long been fascinated by the Christian conversion, a form of religious experience that believers say both strengthens their...
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Citizens and Politics
Citizens and Politics: Perspectives from Political Psychology brings together some of the research on citizen decision making. It addresses the...
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Linguistics and the Formal Sciences
The formal sciences, particularly mathematics, have had a profound influence on the development of linguistics. This insightful overview looks at...
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