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D. Vance Smith, joined in conversation with Simon Gikandi, presents his new book Atlas&rs ...
Oblong hardback book with dust jacket titled THE ART AND POLITICS OF GEOFFREY MOSS. With a Foreword by Dan Rather. Published by Hawthorn Books in 1977. See my photographs (3) of this book on main...
In Brennan and Democracy, a leading thinker in U.S. constitutional law offers some powerful reflections on the idea of "constitutional democracy," a concept in which many have seen the makings of...
How postwar abstract modernist paintings came to be seen as metaphorical embodiments of masculine selfhood; an examination of the critical discourse surrounding the work of Matisse, de Kooning,...
A bracingly provocative challenge to one of our most cherished ideas and institutionsMost people believe democracy is a uniquely just form of government. They believe people have the right to an...
How prominent curator and author James Johnson Sweeney cast the modern museum as a secular temple of art. Artists have often taken rational, material existence as a starting point for engagement with...
This is a collection of poetry by Geoffrey Hill. It includes To the High Court of Parliament, November 1994, Churchill's Funeral and Mysticism and Democracy.
Both controversial and beloved, Edward Said was the pioneer of postcolonial studies, a tireless champion for his native Palestine, and an erudite literary critic whose books continue to impact...
Why you have the right to resist unjust governmentThe economist Albert O. Hirschman famously argued that citizens of democracies have only three possible responses to injustice or wrongdoing by their...
In this lively book, Geoffrey Blainey, Victoria's best known historian, traces the history of Victoria from the time the Aboriginals could walk across Bass Strait to the State's fall from grace and...
A New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceThe first comprehensive biography of the most influential, controversial, and celebrated Palestinian intellectual of the twentieth centuryAs someone who...
Why you have the right to resist unjust government
For centuries, almost everyone has believed that we must allow the government and its representatives to act without interference, no matter how...
Ending violence and creating peace begins with ourselves and our interpersonal encounters in our daily lives.With impeccable wisdom and graceful simplicity, Peace by Peace offers 99 points to provoke...
The fruit of a lifetime's work by one of the country's leading historians, this is history writing on a grand scale. By the 1790s Britain was constitutionally united and newly established as a major...
The Landmark Xenophon’s Anabasis is the definitive edition of the ancient classic—also known as The March of the Ten Thousand or The March Up-Country—which chronicles one of the greatest true-life...
A heart-warming picture book for kids ages 3-7 about a bear who finds pleasure in solitude and the great outdoors—from the creator of the Benny and Penny series.The first reissue of Geoffrey Hayes’s...