Oxford University Press

Deliberative democracy puts communication and talk at the centre of democracy.          Foundations and Frontiers of Deliberative Governance takes a fresh look at the        foundations of the field, and develops new applications in areas ranging from        citizen participation to the democratization of authoritarian states to the...

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This book examines issues that have excited and divided Americans for years,        including desegregation, school funding, testing, vouchers, bilingual education,        multicultural education, and ability grouping. The authors show that these devisive        issues stem from an apparent conflict, rooted in the American dream,...

Dallek has added an Afterword to his classic, Bancroft Prize-winning study of Franklin Roosevelt's diplomacy. He effectively answers recent critics who have attacked Roosevelt for producing Pearl Harbor, for `giving away' Eastern Europe to Stalin at Yalta, and for abandoning European Jews during the Holocaust. Dallek reaffirms the strength and...

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One of the great fears many of us face is that despite all our effort and        striving, we will discover at the end that we have wasted our life. In A Guide to        the Good Life, William B. Irvine plumbs the wisdom of Stoic philosophy, one of the        most popular and successful schools of thought in ancient Rome, and shows how...