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Paperback. Hobbes' extreme political views have commanded so much attention that they have eclipsed his work on language and mind, and on reasoning, personhood, and group formation. This book argues that it was Hobbes who invented the invention of language thesis - the idea that language is a cultural innovation that transformed the human mind. Num Pages: 192 pages, 1 line illus. BIC Classification: CFA; HPM; HPS; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 155 x 12. Weight in Grams: 278.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691143255
ISBN
9780691143255
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.32

Paperback. Examines opinions by constitutional courts in liberal democracies to better understand the logic and nature of constitutional review. This book argues that the constitutional judge's role is nothing like that of the legislator or chief executive, or even the ordinary judge. Num Pages: 432 pages, 3 tables. BIC Classification: JPA; JPB; LNDM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 232 x 155 x 27. Weight in Grams: 596.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691144047
ISBN
9780691144047
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.40
€ 42.00

Paperback. Intends to bring insights from the Jewish political tradition into political and legal debates about rights and to bring rights discourse into Jewish thought. This book presents a theory of rights founded on the covenant between God and the Jewish people as that covenant is constituted by Scripture and the rabbinic tradition. Series: New Forum Books. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPS; HRJT; JFSR1; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 164 x 14. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691144375
ISBN
9780691144375
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.06

Hardback. Provides a fresh perspective on the problem of civic engagement, challenging idealists who aspire to revolutionize democracies and their citizens. This title identifies ways to achieve the political engagement we want and need without resorting to coercive measures such as compulsory national service or mandatory voting. Num Pages: 224 pages, 2 line illus. 2 tables. BIC Classification: JPA; JPHV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 163 x 18. Weight in Grams: 444.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Edition
First Edition, First Printing
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691144689
ISBN
9780691144689
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 53.40
€ 42.00

Hardback. Examining the social and political upheavals that characterized the collapse of public judgment in early modern Europe, this book offers a different account of the achievement of liberal democracy and self-government. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 227 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 342.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691144740
ISBN
9780691144740
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 71.20
€ 55.14

Paperback. Examines the changing nature of the modern state and reveals the dangers these changes pose to democracy. This title shows how fresh ideas about governance have gradually displaced old-style notions of government in Britain and around the world. Num Pages: 320 pages, 10 tables. BIC Classification: JPA; JPHV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 157 x 21. Weight in Grams: 466.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691145396
ISBN
9780691145396
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 53.40
€ 42.00

Hardback. Derided by the Right as dangerous and by the Left as spineless, Barack Obama puzzles observers. This title reveals the sources of Obama's ideas and explains why his principled aversion to absolutes does not fit contemporary partisan categories. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; JFCX; JPA; JPF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 490.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691147468
ISBN
9780691147468
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.43

Hardback. Proposes a new approach called value democracy. This title argues that the state should protect the right to express illiberal beliefs, but the state should also engage in democratic persuasion when it speaks through its various expressive capacities: publicly criticizing, giving reasons to reject, and other discriminatory viewpoints. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: HPS; JPA; JPHV; JPV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 238 x 161 x 20. Weight in Grams: 470.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691147628
ISBN
9780691147628
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 39.41

Paperback. Presents a study of a controversy in Britain at the turn of the twentieth century. This book explains how England's rulers failed to understand and respond to the initial evidence of erosion in their country's industrial, financial, naval, and military power. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; HBLL; JPA; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 158 x 22. Weight in Grams: 524.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Edition
Reissue
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691148007
ISBN
9780691148007
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.06

Paperback. Political parties are the defining institutions of representative democracy and the darlings of political science. This account moves between political theory and political science, and uses resources from both fields to outline an appreciation of parties and the moral distinctiveness of partisanship. Num Pages: 600 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JPA; JPHV; JPL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 150 x 226 x 37. Weight in Grams: 784.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
600
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691148144
ISBN
9780691148144
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 30.78

Hardback. The rise of China could be the most important political development of the twenty-first century. What will China look like in the future? What should it look like? And what will China's rise mean for the rest of world? This title sets out a vision for the coming decades from China's point of view. Editor(s): Bell, Daniel A.; Zhe, Sun. Translator(s): Ryden, Edmund. Series: The Princeton-China Series. Num Pages: 312 pages, 11 line illus. 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HPS; JPA; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 580.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691148267
ISBN
9780691148267
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 39.41

Hardback.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
680
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691148403
ISBN
9780691148403
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 85.62

Hardback. Num Pages: 272 pages, 4 line illus. BIC Classification: JKSN1; JNM; JPA; KC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 223 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 432.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691148625
ISBN
9780691148625
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 50.99
€ 35.96

Hardback. Brings together some of the author's most personal philosophical and nonphilosophical essays. This title offers an account of his first trip to India, which includes unforgettable vignettes of encounters with strangers and reflections on poverty and begging. It reveals a personal side of one of the influential philosophers of our time. Num Pages: 272 pages, 1 line illus. 1 table. BIC Classification: HPS; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152. Weight in Grams: 457.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691148809
ISBN
9780691148809
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 112.73
€ 85.15

Paperback. Provides a comprehensive look at the social engineering process that ensued. This title examines how collectivization assaulted the foundations of rural life, transforming village communities that were organized around kinship and status hierarchies into segments of large bureaucratic organizations, forged by the language of "class warfare". Num Pages: 520 pages, 24 halftones. 2 line illus. 9 tables. 1 map. BIC Classification: 1DVWR; 3JJPG; JHBL; JPA; KNAC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 237 x 156 x 29. Weight in Grams: 770.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
536
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691149738
ISBN
9780691149738
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 63.85

Hardback.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691149875
ISBN
9780691149875
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 65.05

Paperback. Argues that we owe civic obligations to the state if it is sufficiently just, and that constitutionally enshrined principles of justice in themselves - rather than territory, common language, or shared culture - are grounds for obedience to our particular state and for democratic solidarity with our fellow citizens. Num Pages: 272 pages, 1 table. BIC Classification: JPA; JPFK; JPFN; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 358.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691150222
ISBN
9780691150222
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.99
€ 29.15

Hardback. Situating Tocqueville in the context of the crisis of authority in post revolutionary France, this title shows that Tocqueville was an ambivalent promoter of democracy, a man who tried to reconcile himself to the coming wave, but who was also nostalgic for the aristocratic world in which he was rooted. Translator(s): Goldhammer, Arthur. Num Pages: 360 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JH; BGA; HBJD; HPS; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 164 x 232 x 34. Weight in Grams: 640.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Edition
Translation
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691152042
ISBN
9780691152042
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 37.99

Hardback. Governments and NGOs - in an effort to promote democracy, freedom, fairness, and stability throughout the world - have organized teams of observers to monitor elections in a variety of countries. This book argues that the practice of international election monitoring is broken, but still worth fixing. Num Pages: 336 pages, 28 line illus. 38 tables. BIC Classification: JPA; JPHF; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 239 x 157 x 27. Weight in Grams: 620.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691152776
ISBN
9780691152776
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 109.17
€ 82.56

Paperback. Governments and NGOs - in an effort to promote democracy, freedom, fairness, and stability throughout the world - have organized teams of observers to monitor elections in a variety of countries. This book argues that the practice of international election monitoring is broken, but still worth fixing. Num Pages: 336 pages, 28 line illus. 38 tables. BIC Classification: JPA; JPHF; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 154 x 235 x 22. Weight in Grams: 504.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691152783
ISBN
9780691152783
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 52.99
€ 37.99

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