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Constitution For All Times

by Pamela S. Karlan

47,70€ + 10% CARD

 A prominent lawyer and legal scholar describes her vision of an evolving Constitution, examining current legal issues that range from health care to gun control.
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End Of The Wild

by Stephen M. Meyer

45,05€ + 10% CARD

 With the extinction rate at 3000 species a year and accelerating, we can predict that as many as half of the Earth's species will disappear. This work argues that we must move away from the haphazard strategy of protecting species in isolation and create trans-regional "meta-reserves," designed to protect ecosystem functions.
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Border Wars

by Tom Barry

47,70€ + 10% CARD

 The consequences of political fear-mongering and tough talk on immigration in the American Southwest.
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Movies And The Moral Adventure Of Life

by Alan A. Stone

47,70€ + 10% CARD

 Films as life lessons, enlarging our sense of human possibilities.
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Government'S Place In The Market

by Eliot Spitzer

42,40€ + 10% CARD

 In his first book, the former New York governor and current CNN cohost offers a manifesto on the economy and the public interest.
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Immigrants And The Right To Stay

by Joseph H. Carens

45,05€ + 10% CARD

 A proposal that immigrants in the United States should be offered a path to legalized status.
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Race, Incarceration, And American Values

by Glenn C. Loury

42,40€ + 10% CARD

 The United States now houses twenty-five percent of the world's prison inmates. This work argues that this extraordinary mass incarceration is not a response to rising crime rates or a proud success of social policy. Instead, it is the product of a generation-old collective decision to become a more punitive society.
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Men In My Life

by Vivian Gornick

47,70€ + 10% CARD

 Examines a theme in literature: the struggle for the semblance of inner freedom. Great literature, the author believes, is not the record of the achievement but of the effort. She explores the work of V S Naipaul, James Baldwin, George Gissing, Randall Jarrell, H G Wells, Loren Eiseley, Allen Ginsberg, Hayden Carruth, Saul Bellow, and Philip Roth.
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Road To Democracy In Iran

by Akbar Ganji

45,05€ + 10% CARD

 Demonstrates the author's commitment to human rights and democracy. This book lays out the goals and means of Iran's democracy movement, why women's rights trump some interpretations of Islamic law, and how the West can help promote democracy in Iran and other Islamic countries.
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Taking Economics Seriously

by Dean Baker

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 A leading economist's exploration of what our economic arrangements might look like if we applied basic principles without ideological blinders.
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After America'S Midlife Crisis

by Michael Gecan

53,00€ + 10% CARD

 A longtime community organizer outlines a way to reverse the fifty-year decline in social mobility and economic progress.
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Inventing American History

by William Hogeland

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 A historian's call to make the celebration of America's past more honest
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Syria Dilemma

39,75€ + 10% CARD

 What should be done about the apparently intractable Syrian conflict? This book focuses on the ethical and political dilemmas at the heart of the debate about Syria and the possibility of humanitarian intervention in today's world.
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Giving Kids A Fair Chance

by James J. Heckman

79,50€ + 10% CARD

 A top economist weighs in on one of the most urgent questions of our times: What is the source of inequality and what is the remedy?In Giving Kids a Fair Chance, Nobel Prize-winning economist James Heckman argues that the accident of birth is the greatest source of inequality in America today. Children born into disadvantage are, by the time they start kindergarten, already at risk of dropping out of school, teen pregnancy, crime, and a lifetime of low-wage work. This is bad for all those born into disadvantage and bad for American society.Current social and education policies directed toward children focus on improving cognition, yet success in life requires more than smarts. Heckman calls for a refocus of social policy toward early childhood interventions designed to enhance both cognitive abilities and such non-cognitive skills as confidence and perseverance. This new focus on preschool intervention would emphasize improving the early environments of disadvantaged children and increasing the quality of parenting while respecting the primacy of the family and America''s cultural diversity. Heckman shows that acting early has much greater positive economic and social impact than later interventions—which range from reduced pupil-teacher ratios to adult literacy programs to expenditures on police—that draw the most attention in the public policy debate. At a time when state and local budgets for early interventions are being cut, Heckman issues an urgent call for action and offers some practical steps for how to design and pay for new programs.The debate that follows delves deeply into some of the most fraught questions of our time: the sources of inequality, the role of schools in solving social problems, and how to invest public resources most effectively. Mike Rose, Geoffrey Canada, Charles Murray, Carol Dweck, Annette Lareau, and other prominent experts participate.
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Occupy The Future

47,70€ + 10% CARD

 How the Occupy movement has challenged the gap between American principles and American practice--and how we can realize our most cherished ideals.
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Shopping For Good

by Dara O'Rourke

45,05€ + 10% CARD

 Where public policy fails, can consumer choices lead the way to more ethical and sustainable production practices?
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Blaming Islam

by John R. Bowen

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 Why fears about Muslim integration into Western society—propagated opportunistically by some on the right—misread history and misunderstand multiculturalism.In the United States and in Europe, politicians, activists, and even some scholars argue that Islam is incompatible with Western values and that we put ourselves at risk if we believe that Muslim immigrants can integrate into our society. Norway''s Anders Behring Breivik took this argument to its extreme and murderous conclusion in July 2011. Meanwhile in the United States, state legislatures'' efforts to ban the practice of Islamic law, or sharia, are gathering steam—despite a notable lack of evidence that sharia poses any real threat.In Blaming Islam, John Bowen uncovers the myths about Islam and Muslim integration into Western society, with a focus on the histories, policy, and rhetoric associated with Muslim immigration in Europe, the British experiment with sharia law for Muslim domestic disputes, and the claims of European and American writers that Islam threatens the West. Most important, he shows how exaggerated fears about Muslims misread history, misunderstand multiculturalism''s aims, and reveal the opportunism of right wing parties who draw populist support by blaming Islam.
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Why Nuclear Disarmament Matters

by Hans Blix

45,05€ + 10% CARD

 Looking at the UN post-World War II efforts against the use of nuclear weapons, this book documents the retreat from early commitments by nuclear powers, most alarmingly from pledges against first use and toward programs to develop new types of nuclear weapons.
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Rule Of Law, Misrule Of Men

by Elaine Scarry

47,70€ + 10% CARD

 A passionate call for citizen action to uphold the rule of law when government does not.
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Why We Cooperate

by Michael Tomasello

47,70€ + 10% CARD

 Understanding cooperation as a distinctly human combination of innate and learned behavior.Drop something in front of a two-year-old, and she''s likely to pick it up for you. This is not a learned behavior, psychologist Michael Tomasello argues. Through observations of young children in experiments he himself has designed, Tomasello shows that children are naturally—and uniquely—cooperative. Put through similar experiments, for example, apes demonstrate the ability to work together and share, but choose not to. As children grow, their almost reflexive desire to help—without expectation of reward—becomes shaped by culture. They become more aware of being a member of a group. Groups convey mutual expectations, and thus may either encourage or discourage altruism and collaboration. Either way, cooperation emerges as a distinctly human combination of innate and learned behavior. In Why We Cooperate, Tomasello''s studies of young children and great apes help identify the underlying psychological processes that very likely supported humans'' earliest forms of complex collaboration and, ultimately, our unique forms of cultural organization, from the evolution of tolerance and trust to the creation of such group-level structures as cultural norms and institutions. Scholars Carol Dweck, Joan Silk, Brian Skyrms, and Elizabeth Spelke respond to Tomasello''s findings and explore the implications.
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Africa'S Turn?

by Edward Miguel

45,05€ + 10% CARD

 Working in Busia, a small Kenyan border town, economist Edward Miguel began to notice something different starting in 1997: modest but steady economic progress, with new construction projects, shops, and ubiquitous cell phones. In this book, he tracks a decade of comparably hopeful economic trends throughout sub-Saharan Africa.
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Lurching Toward Happiness In America

by Claude S. Fischer

47,70€ + 10% CARD

 Amid confusing and alarmist media claims about our changing culture, Claude Fischer sets the record straight on social trends in America.
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Back To Full Employment

by Robert Pollin

39,75€ + 10% CARD

 Full employment used to be an explicit goal of economic policy in most of the industrialised world. Some countries even achieved it. In this book, Robert Pollin argues that the US - today faced with its highest level of unemployment since the Great Depression - should put full employment back on the agenda.
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Preparing For Climate Change

by Michael D. Mastrandrea e Stephen H. Schneider

47,70€ + 10% CARD

 Why we should prepare for climate change now by taking anticipatory action in vulnerable regions.Global momentum is building to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. So far, so good. The less happy news is that Earth''s temperatures will continue to rise for decades. And evidence shows that climbing temperatures are already having serious consequences for vulnerable people and regions through droughts, extreme weather, and melting glaciers. In this book, climate experts Michael Mastrandrea and Stephen Schneider argue that we need to start adapting to climate change, now. They write that these efforts should focus primarily on identifying the places and people most at risk and taking anticipatory action—from developing drought-resistant crops to building sea walls. The authors roundly reject the idea that reactive, unplanned adaptation will solve our problems—that species will migrate northward as climates warm, and farmers will shift to new crops and more hospitable locations. And they are highly critical of "geoengineering" schemes that are designed to cool the planet by such methods as injecting iron into oceans or exploding volcanoes. Mastrandrea and Schneider insist that smart adaptation will require a series of local and regional projects, many of them in the countries least able to pay for them and least responsible for the problem itself. Ensuring that we address the needs of these countries, while we work globally to reduce emissions over the long term, is our best chance to avert global disaster and to reduce the terrible, unfair burdens that are likely to accompany global warming.
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