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Liberal Purposes

Goods, Virtues, and Diversity in the Liberal State

By: William A. Galston

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Liberal Purposes

Goods, Virtues, and Diversity in the Liberal State

By: William A. Galston

A major contribution to the current theory of liberalism by an eminent political theorist challenges the views of such theorists as Rawls, Dworkin, and Ackerman, who believe that the essence of liberalism is neutrality.

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0521422507

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The Practice of Liberal Pluralism

By: William A. Galston

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Wisdom's Wonder

Character, Creation, and Crisis in the Bible's Wisdom Literature

By: William P. Brown

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Wisdom's Wonder

Character, Creation, and Crisis in the Bible's Wisdom Literature

By: William P. Brown

Wisdom's Wonder offers a fresh reading of the Hebrew Bible's wisdom literature with a unique emphasis on "wonder" as the framework for understanding biblical wisdom. William Brown argues that wonder effectively integrates biblical wisdom's emphasis on character formation and its outlook on creation, breaking an impasse that has plagued recent wisdom studies. Drawing on various disciplines, from philosophy to neuroscience, Brown discovers new distinctions and connections in Proverbs, Job, and Ecclesiastes. Each book is studied in terms of its view of moral character and creation, as well as in terms of the social or intellectual crisis each book identifies. Most general treatments of the wisdom literature spend too much time on issues of genre, poetry, and social context at the neglect of discussing the intellectual and emotional power of the wisdom corpus. Brown argues that the real power of the wisdom corpus lies in its capacity to evoke the reader's sense of wonder. An extensive revision and expansion of Brown's Character in Crisis (Eerdmans, 1996), this book demonstrates that the wisdom books are much more than simply advice literature: with wonder as the foundation for understanding, Brown maintains that wisdom is a process with transformation of the self as the goal.

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Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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0802867936

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Public Matters

Politics, Policy, and Religion in the 21st Century

By: William A. Galston

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Public Matters

Politics, Policy, and Religion in the 21st Century

By: William A. Galston

After preparing to lead a quiet life as a teacher and scholar of political theory, William Galston has spent the past quarter century crossing the boundaries between academia and public life, including a two-year stint as Deputy Assistant for Domestic Policy under President Clinton. Reflecting these boundary-crossings, Public Matters contains a selection of Galston's essays on politics, policy, and religion. Each is viewed through the prisms of history, theory, and ethical concerns. The essays on politics tell the story of Galston's efforts to help redirect the Democratic Party so that it speaks more clearly to the concerns of 21st century Americans. The essays in the policy section reflect the range of issues with which Galston has grappled as a political activist and public official. Finally, the essays on religion try to come to grips with the challenges that religion, taken seriously (as it should be) poses for the governance of constitutional democracies.

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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1461641497

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Liberal Pluralism

The Implications of Value Pluralism for Political Theory and Practice

By: William A. Galston

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The Implications of Value Pluralism for Political Theory and Practice

By: William A. Galston

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Cambridge University Press

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0521813042

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Anti-Pluralism

The Populist Threat to Liberal Democracy

By: William A. Galston

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Anti-Pluralism

The Populist Threat to Liberal Democracy

By: William A. Galston

The Great Recession, institutional dysfunction, a growing divide between urban and rural prospects, and failed efforts to effectively address immigration have paved the way for a populist backlash that disrupts the postwar bargain between political elites and citizens. Whether today’s populism represents a corrective to unfair and obsolete policies or a threat to liberal democracy itself remains up for debate. Yet this much is clear: these challenges indict the triumphalism that accompanied liberal democratic consolidation after the collapse of the Soviet Union. To respond to today’s crisis, good leaders must strive for inclusive economic growth while addressing fraught social and cultural issues, including demographic anxiety, with frank attention. Although reforms may stem the populist tide, liberal democratic life will always leave some citizens unsatisfied. This is a permanent source of vulnerability, but liberal democracy will endure so long as citizens believe it is worth fighting for.

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Yale University Press

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0300235313

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Public Matters

Essays on Politics, Policy and Religion

By: William Arthur Galston

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Essays on Politics, Policy and Religion

By: William Arthur Galston

Virtual enterprises and mobile computing are emerging as innovative responses to the challenges of doing business in an increasingly mobile and global marketplace. In this rapidly changing environment, it is critical to focus on the fundamental technological aspects that enable the concept of pervasive computing. Mobil Computing: Implementing Pervasive Information and Communication Technologies is designed to address some of the business and technical challenges of pervasive computing that encompass current and emerging technology standards, infrastructures and architectures, and innovative and high impact applications of mobile technologies in virtual enterprises. The various articles examine a host of issues including: the challenges and current solutions in mobile connectivity and coordination; management infrastructures; innovative architectures for fourth generation wireless and Ad-hoc networks; error-free frequency assignments for wireless communication; cost-effective wavelength assignments in optical communication networks; data and transaction modeling in a mobile environment, and bandwidth issues and data routing in mobile Ad-hoc networks. The book is organized around four categories of mobile and pervasive computing and technologies: (1) business and management, (2) architecture, (3) communication, and (4) computing. The first three chapters focus on the business aspects of mobile computing and virtual organization. The fourth chapter lays out an architecture for a fourth generation wireless network. Chapters 5 and 6 are geared towards communication technology, both wireless and wireline. Chapter 7 is a taxonomy of data management environments in mobile computing and Chapter 8 is a review article on data and transaction management and research directions in this area. Finally, Chapter 9 addresses various routing strategies for the seamless switching between mobile hosts in an Ad-hoc network. The primary audience for this book is industry practitioners, university faculty, independent researchers and graduate students. The articles have a mix of current and successful efforts, innovative ideas on providing the infrastructure support, and open problems-both conceptual and experimental. People in the academic as well as industry can benefit from this book. All the articles have gone through a peer review process. It is anticipated that the book will act as a single, consolidated source of information on the cutting edge of pervasive computing technologies.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0742549801

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9780742549807

Defending Rorty

Pragmatism and Liberal Virtue

By: William M. Curtis

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Defending Rorty

Pragmatism and Liberal Virtue

By: William M. Curtis

Mixing American pragmatism and romanticism, Richard Rorty defends liberal democracy as an antiauthoritarian political regime based on liberal civic virtues.

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Cambridge University Press

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110710985X

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Confrontational Citizenship

Reflections on Hatred, Rage, Revolution, and Revolt

By: William W. Sokoloff

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Confrontational Citizenship

Reflections on Hatred, Rage, Revolution, and Revolt

By: William W. Sokoloff

A growing number of people are enraged about the quality and direction of public life, despise politicians, and are desperate for real political change. How can the contemporary neoliberal global political order be challenged and rebuilt in an egalitarian and humanitarian manner? What type of political agency and new political institutions are needed for this? In order to answer these questions, Confrontational Citizenship draws on a broad base of perspectives to articulate the concept of confrontational citizenship. William W. Sokoloff defends extra-institutional and confrontational modes of political activity along with new ways of conceiving political institutions as a way to create political orders accountable to the people. In contrast to many forms of democratic theory, Sokoloff argues that confrontational modes of citizenship (e.g., protest) are good because they increase the accountability of a regime to the people, increase the legitimacy of regimes, lead to improvements in a political order, and serve as a means to vent frustration. The goal is to make the word citizen relevant and dangerous to the settled and closed practices that structure our political world and to provide a hopeful vision of what it means to be politically progressive today.

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State University of New York Press

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1438467834

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The New Challenge to Market Democracies

The Political and Social Costs of Economic Stagnation

By: William A. Galston

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The New Challenge to Market Democracies

The Political and Social Costs of Economic Stagnation

By: William A. Galston

William Galston explores the difficulties market democracies face in an era of diminished growth and a weakened middle class. Galston argues that if the West fails to address economic stagnation, other domestic and foreign policy issues will prove intractable.

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Brookings Institution Press

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0815726635

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Every Citizen a Soldier

The Campaign for Universal Military Training after World War II

By: William A. Taylor

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Every Citizen a Soldier

The Campaign for Universal Military Training after World War II

By: William A. Taylor

Beginning in 1943, US Army leaders such as John M. Palmer, Walter L. Weible, George C. Marshall, and John J. McCloy mounted a sustained and vigorous campaign to establish a system of universal military training (UMT) in America. Fearful of repeating the rapid demobilization and severe budget cuts that had accompanied peace following World War I, these leaders saw UMT as the basis for their postwar plans. As a result, they promoted UMT extensively and aggressively. In Every Citizen a Soldier: The Campaign for Universal Military Training after World War II, William A. Taylor illustrates how army leaders failed to adapt their strategy to the political realities of the day and underscores the delicate balance in American democracy between civilian and military control of strategy. This story is vital because of the ultimate outcome of the failure of the UMT initiative: the birth of the Cold War draft.

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Texas A&M University Press

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162349169X

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Workforce Education

A New Roadmap

By: William B. Bonvillian,Sanjay E. Sarma

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Workforce Education

A New Roadmap

By: William B. Bonvillian,Sanjay E. Sarma

A roadmap for how we can rebuild America's working class by transforming workforce education and training. The American dream promised that if you worked hard, you could move up, with well-paying working-class jobs providing a gateway to an ever-growing middle class. Today, however, we have increasing inequality, not economic convergence. Technological advances are putting quality jobs out of reach for workers who lack the proper skills and training. In Workforce Education, William Bonvillian and Sanjay Sarma offer a roadmap for rebuilding America's working class. They argue that we need to train more workers more quickly, and they describe innovative methods of workforce education that are being developed across the country.

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MIT Press

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0262361477

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Public Matters

Politics, Policy, and Religion in the 21st Century

By: William A. Galston

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Politics, Policy, and Religion in the 21st Century

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The Practice of Liberal Pluralism

By: William A. Galston

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Book's by William A. Galston

Liberal Purposes

Liberal Purposes

The Practice of Liberal Pluralism

The Practice of Liberal Pluralism

Wisdom's Wonder

Wisdom's Wonder

Public Matters

Public Matters

Liberal Pluralism

Liberal Pluralism

Anti-Pluralism

Anti-Pluralism

Public Matters

Public Matters

Defending Rorty

Defending Rorty

Confrontational Citizenship

Confrontational Citizenship

The New Challenge to Market Democracies

The New Challenge to Market Democracies

Every Citizen a Soldier

Every Citizen a Soldier

Workforce Education

Workforce Education

Public Matters

Public Matters

The Practice of Liberal Pluralism

The Practice of Liberal Pluralism

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