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Publisher
Crabtree Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"A government is a group of people who provide rules and authority for the society they serve. Examples of different kinds of governments around the world help show why it is important that citizens have a say in who governs them and the decisions that get made. Activities encourage further discussion"--Back of book.
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Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"From the United States and the United Kingdom to the East India Company, Standard Oil, Facebook, and Alibaba, states and corporations have gradually, and then much more rapidly, taken over the planet. They have helped to conquer poverty and eliminate disease, but also unleashed global wars and environmental degradation. As Runciman demonstrates, states and corporations are the ultimate decision-making machines, defined by their ability to make their...
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Series
Hafner library of classics volume 9
Publisher
Hafner Pub. Co
Pub. Date
1949.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A bold guide to how we must re-envision citizenship if American democracy is to survive. The United States faces dangerous threats from Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, terrorists, climate change, and future pandemics, but the greatest peril to the country comes not from abroad but from within, from none other than ourselves. The question facing us is whether we are prepared to do what is necessary to save our democracy. The Bill of Obligations...
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Series
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Drawing on Greek political theory, Cicero's 'The Republic' embodies the mature reflections of a Roman ex-consul on the nature of political organization, justice in society, and the qualities needed in a statesman.
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"The second volume of the bestselling landmark work on the history of the modern state Writing in The Wall Street Journal, David Gress called Francis Fukuyama's Origins of Political Order "magisterial in its learning and admirably immodest in its ambition." In The New York Times Book Review, Michael Lind described the book as "a major achievement by one of the leading public intellectuals of our time." And in The Washington Post, Gerard DeGrott exclaimed...
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Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"A crucial new big-picture framework that answers the question of how liberty flourishes in some states but falls to authoritarianism or anarchy in others--and explains how it can continue to thrive despite new threats"--
The most fundamental definition of liberty is that people are free from violence, intimidation, and other demeaning acts. Acemoglu and Robinson examine how and why human societies have achieved liberty-- or failed to achieve it....
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Wonderscape Entertainment, LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In this brand-new, 2016, high-definition program, learn all about the most common forms of government around the world, such as monarchy, constitutional government, democracy, dictatorship, and communism. Detailed graphics, diagrams, and exciting video, as well as on-screen, multiple-choice reviews at the end of each segment reinforce important concepts and make learning fun.
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