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An Australian Book Review Best Book of the Year A disturbing in-depth exposé of the antidemocratic practices of despotic governments now sweeping the...
Genocidal wars, concentration camps, firebombed cities, spreading plagues of private blood-letting: the twentieth century has seen more than its fair ...
We live in a revolutionary age of communicative abundance in which many media innovations - from satellite broadcasting to smart glasses and electroni...
John Keane, a leading scholar of political theory, tracks the recent development of a big idea with fresh potency - global civil society. In this time...
In this provocative book, John Keane calls for a fresh understanding of the vexed relationship between democracy and violence. Taking issue with the c...
Old Images, New Visions
It is only a decade ago that the eighteenth-century distinction between civil society and the state seemed old-fashioned, an object of cynicism, even ...
In this essay, John Keane rethinks the relationship between the media and democracy. He opens up and explores a cluster of vital questions: where did ...
Wealth, Power, War, and Peace in the New Chinese Century
In China's Galaxy Empire, John Keane and Baogang He target a development of enormous significance: China's return, after two centuries of decline and ...
The Future of Monitory Democracy
An imaginative, radically new interpretation of the twenty-first-century fate of democracy by a distinguished scholar....
A Political Tragedy in Six Acts
Vaclav Havel is revered as one of the 20th-century's great playwrights, dissidents, and honest champions of democracy. In this study, John Keane revea...
Citizens Against the State in Central Eastern Europe
Books of great political insight and novelty always outlive their time of birth and this reissued work, initially published in 1985, is no exception. ...
Saving the Bloody Planet
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The Highest House on the Mountain examines the tension between brothers, fathers and sons. When Mikey's son Patrick comes to visit with his new wife, ...
The full chronological sweep of democracy, from the assemblies of ancient Mesopotamia and Athens to present perils around the globe. The Shortest Hist...
From Plato to de Tocqueville to Fukuyama-an epic history of the governing philosophy that has defined Western history....
On the Predicaments of European Socialism, the Prospects for Democracy, and the Problem of Controlling Social and Political Power
Making a Killing (Rupert, Charles & Diana) : Paintings & Prints
The Field is John B. Keane's fierce and tender study of the love a man can have for land and the ruthless lengths he will go to in order to obtain the...
Collected Humorous Writings
In this volume are hundreds of short pieces which represent the distillation of the experience of a funny, witty, wise and passionate observer of the ...
The Spanish Political Laboratory
Spain has become a remarkable democratic laboratory in which millions of citizens are experimenting with new forms of political expression. This book ...
Predictions of the coming collapse of Chinese politics are today commonplace, however this thought-provoking book explores a radically different alter...
A Political Life
'More than any other public figure of the eighteenth century, Tom Paine strikes our times like a trumpet blast from a distant world. His writings stil...
India's Passage to Despotism
India is heralded as the world's largest democracy. Yet, in recent years there has been growing alarm about its democratic health. To Kill a Democracy...
This expertly written guide will show you exactly why Pro Tools shrinks a full music studio into a computer, replacing the bulky recording infrastruct...
In a time of grave uncertainty about the future of our planet, the radical potential of democracy is more important than ever. From its beginnings in ...
The Earthscan Expert Guide to the Technology and Emerging Market
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the technology behind the pico-solar revolution and offers guidance on how to test and choose quality p...
A Play in Two Acts
Featuring new notes written by English teacher and daughter of John B. Keane, Joanna Keane O'Flynn. Suitable for both Senior and Junior cycle classes....
A tutorial for Pro Tools software...
First published in 1986. This book analyses, at an introductory level, the four main and competing political interpretations of the cause of unemploym...
The most significant unanticipated costs on many construction projects are the financial impacts associated with delay and disruption to the works. As...
From highwaymen to healing waters and from brewerys to bridges, not to mention lots of castles, cathedrals, abbeys, towers, passage tombs and priories...
Schools edition with notes by Eilis Flanagan
'Big Maggie 'J. B. Keane's most outspoken play' - The Irish Press ' Keane ... has brought the tyranny, the desperation and the frustration of the rura...
Account of the First Visit of the Association of Artists for Guatemala, 1992
Interweaving reportage, interview and analysis, this work provides an overview of Guatemala, its resilience and its suffering. It explores poverty and...
The Puget Sound area has been greatly influenced by the Irish, and while many of the names and events are familiar, until now, their Irish connections...
The author discusses the people, animals, and events he has encountered while searching for lost or stolen pets during his career as the only full-tim...
13th British National Conference on Databases, BNCOD 13, Manchester, United Kingdom, July 12 - 14, 1995. Proceedings
This volume presents the proceedings of the 13th British National Conference on Databases, BNCOD 13, held in Manchester, UK in July 1995. The volume c...