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Out of the Ordinary

By: Marc Stears

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From a major British political thinker and activist, a passionate case that both the left and right have lost their faith in ordinary people and must learn to find it again. This is an age of polarization. It’s us vs. them. The battle lines are clear, and compromise is surrender. As Out of the Ordinary reminds us, we have been here before. From the 1920s to the 1950s, in a world transformed by revolution and war, extreme ideologies of left and right fueled utopian hopes and dystopian fears. In response, Marc Stears writes, a group of British writers, artists, photographers, and filmmakers showed a way out. These men and women, including J. B. Priestley, George Orwell, Barbara Jones, Dylan Thomas, Laurie Lee, and Bill Brandt, had no formal connection to one another. But they each worked to forge a politics that resisted the empty idealisms and totalizing abstractions of their time. Instead they were convinced that people going about their daily lives possess all the insight, virtue, and determination required to build a good society. In poems, novels, essays, films, paintings, and photographs, they gave witness to everyday people’s ability to overcome the supposedly insoluble contradictions between tradition and progress, patriotism and diversity, rights and duties, nationalism and internationalism, conservatism and radicalism. It was this humble vision that animated the great Festival of Britain in 1951 and put everyday citizens at the heart of a new vision of national regeneration. A leading political theorist and a veteran of British politics, Stears writes with unusual passion and clarity about the achievements of these apostles of the ordinary. They helped Britain through an age of crisis. Their ideas might do so again, in the United Kingdom and beyond.

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Harvard University Press

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0674743873

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9780674743878

Demanding Democracy

American Radicals in Search of a New Politics

By: Marc Stears

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Demanding Democracy

American Radicals in Search of a New Politics

By: Marc Stears

What today's political thinkers can learn from the radical democratic movements of twentieth-century America This is a major work of history and political theory that traces radical democratic thought in America across the twentieth century, seeking to recover ideas that could reenergize democratic activism today. The question of how citizens should behave as they struggle to create a more democratic society has haunted the United States throughout its history. Should citizens restrict themselves to patient persuasion or take to the streets and seek to impose change? Marc Stears argues that anyone who continues to wrestle with these questions could learn from the radical democratic tradition that was forged in the twentieth century by political activists, including progressives, trade unionists, civil rights campaigners, and members of the student New Left. These activists and their movements insisted that American campaigners for democratic change should be free to strike out in whatever ways they thought necessary, so long as their actions enhanced the political virtues of citizens and contributed to the eventual triumph of the democratic cause. Reevaluating the moral and strategic arguments, and the triumphs and excesses, of this radical democratic tradition, Stears contends that it still offers a compelling account of citizen behavior—one that is fairer, more inclusive, and more truly democratic than those advanced by political theorists today.

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Princeton University Press

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0691157901

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9780691157900

Progressives, Pluralists, and the Problems of the State

Ideologies of Reform in the United States and Britain, 1909-1926

By: Marc Stears

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Progressives, Pluralists, and the Problems of the State

Ideologies of Reform in the United States and Britain, 1909-1926

By: Marc Stears

Examining the close relationship between leading groups of British socialists and American progressives in the first three decades of the 20th century, this book employs new methods of conceptual and institutional analysis.

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Oxford University Press

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0198296762

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9780198296768

Demanding Democracy

American Radicals in Search of a New Politics

By: Marc Stears

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American Radicals in Search of a New Politics

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Princeton University Press

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1400835046

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9781400835041

Russell & Rubinstein's Pathology of Tumors of the Nervous System 7Ed

By: Roger McLendon,Marc Rosenblum,Darell Bigner

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Russell & Rubinstein's Pathology of Tumors of the Nervous System 7Ed

By: Roger McLendon,Marc Rosenblum,Darell Bigner

This is the leading international professional reference text that also serves as a bench book, describing all aspects of the pathology of brain tumours - genetics, molecular biology, epidemiology, morphology, immunohistochemistry, diagnostic criteria and prognosis. Beautifully illustrated in colour throughout and comprehensively referenc

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CRC Press

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1444113437

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9781444113433

Stroke E-Book

Pathophysiology, Diagnosis, and Management

By: J. P. Mohr,Philip A. Wolf,Michael A. Moskowitz,Marc R Mayberg,Rudiger Von Kummer

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Stroke E-Book

Pathophysiology, Diagnosis, and Management

By: J. P. Mohr,Philip A. Wolf,Michael A. Moskowitz,Marc R Mayberg,Rudiger Von Kummer

First published in 1986 under the editorial direction of Dr. Henry J.M. Barnett, Stroke: Pathophysiology, Diagnosis, and Management continues to provide the dependable, current answers you need to effectively combat the increasing incidence of this disease. Dr. J.P. Mohr, together with new associate editors Philip A. Wolf, James C. Grotta, Michael A. Moskowitz, Marc Mayberg, and Rüdiger von Kummer as well as a multitude of expert contributors from around the world, offer you updated and expanded coverage of mechanisms of action of commonly used drugs, neuronal angiogenesis and stem cells, basic mechanisms of spasm and hemorrhage, prevention of stroke, genetics/predisposing risk factors, and much more, equipping you to understand the latest scientific discoveries and make effective use of the newest approaches to diagnosis and treatment. Gain fresh perspectives and up-to-date insights from the world’s leading authorities on the pathophysiology, diagnosis, and management of stroke. Access the comprehensive, expert clinical guidance you need to recognize the clinical manifestations of stroke, use the latest laboratory and imaging studies to arrive at a diagnosis, and generate an effective medical and surgical treatment plan. Make efficient and accurate diagnoses with the aid of abundant full-color CT images and pathology slides. Stay up to date on hot topics such as mechanisms of action of commonly used drugs, neuronal angiogenesis and stem cells, basic mechanisms of spasm and hemorrhage, prevention of stroke, genetics/predisposing risk factors, and much more.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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1437737803

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9781437737806

Progressives, Pluralists, and the Problems of the State

Ideologies of Reform in the United States and Britain, 1909-1926

By: Marc Stears

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Progressives, Pluralists, and the Problems of the State

Ideologies of Reform in the United States and Britain, 1909-1926

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Oxford University Press

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0198296762

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England

Seven Myths That Changed a Country – and How to Set Them Straight

By: Tom Baldwin,Marc Stears

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England

Seven Myths That Changed a Country – and How to Set Them Straight

By: Tom Baldwin,Marc Stears

Challenging, forensic, compelling' SATHNAM SANGHERA 'Pure centrist erotica. A myth-busting chronicle of bad-tempered, Brexit-riven England' SUNDAY TIMES 'Wonderfully evocative. Too honest, too nuanced and too deep for any party manifesto' MATTHEW PARRIS After an election where people voted for a politics that our new Prime Minister describes as 'treading more lightly on people's lives', this must-read book charts a gentler course for a country that has suffered the ructions of profound change in recent decades. Some politicians will still talk of restoring an English birthright of liberty and the swashbuckling self-confidence to rule the waves. Others yearn for the old-fashioned morality which they claim once civilised a savage world or want to look inwards to a story of an enchanted island that can stand alone and isolated against the world. But England, by Tom Baldwin, the bestselling biographer of Keir Starmer, and Marc Stears, an influential think tank head, unravels the myths that have distorted ideas of this country and provided ammunition for culture warriors from both left and right. Instead of vainly promising to solve everything all at once, Baldwin and Stears provide clues for how a humbler, less grandiose, set of ideas rooted in real lives can help fix some of the things that have gone so badly wrong in recent years. They travel from muddy fields in the Home Counties to the ports of Plymouth and Hull. They visit the old industrial heartland of Wolverhampton, spend weekends in the worn-down seaside resort of Blackpool, then gaze up the gleaming towers of modernity on the edge of London and the dreaming spires of Oxford. Along the way, they speak with many different people who tell stories of England, including politicians Nigel Farage and David Lammy, campaigner Chrisann Jarrett, playwright James Graham and scientist Sarah Gilbert. What emerges is a startlingly fresh and vivid picture of an old country that belongs to everyone, or at least, to no one in particular.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1526646277

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9781526646279

Official Price Guide to United States Postage Stamps

By: Marc Hudgeons,Tom Hudgeons

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Official Price Guide to United States Postage Stamps

By: Marc Hudgeons,Tom Hudgeons

Collectors rely on this handy guide for affordable and up-to-date price listings of U.S. stamps, helpful advice from the experts on buying, grading, and selling, and tips on caring for stamps. Full color.

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