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Women in the Age of Welfare ReformHailed as a great success, welfare reform resulted in a dramatic decline in the welfare rolls--from 4.4 million families in 1996 to 2.1 million in 2001. But what does this "e;success"e; look like to the welfare mothers and welfare caseworkers who experienced it? In Flat Broke, With Children, Sharon Hays...

A Very Short IntroductionNo political concept is more used, and misused, than that of democracy. Nearly every regime today claims to be democratic, but not all 'democracies' allow free politics, and free politics existed long before democratic franchises.This book is a short account of the history of the doctrine and practice of democracy, and of...

Blame is an unpopular and neglected notion: it goes against the grain of a therapeutically-oriented culture and has been far less discussed by philosophers than such related notions as responsibility and punishment. This book seeks to show that neither the opposition nor the neglect is justified. The book's most important conclusion is that blame...

Marcus Cato        SullaAemilius Paullus     PompeyThe Gracchi        MariusJulius Caesar       Anthony'I treat the narrative of the Lives as a kind of mirror...The experience is like nothing so much as spending time in their company and living with them: I receive and welcome each of them in turn as my guest.'In the eight lives of this collection...

A Skeptic Reading of PlatoBelief and Truth: A Skeptic Reading of Plato explores a Socratic intuition about belief, doxa -- belief is "e;shameful."e; In aiming for knowledge, one must aim to get rid of beliefs. Vogt shows how deeply this proposal differs from contemporary views, but that it nevertheless speaks to intuitions we are likely to...

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