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Product Description: The increasing prevalence of consumerism in contemporary society often equates happiness with the acquisition of material objects. Consuming Schools describes the impact of consumerism on politics and education and charts the increasing presence of commercialism in the educational sphere through an examination of issues such as school-business partnerships, advertising in schools, and corporate-sponsored curriculum...read more
By Benjamin R. Barber (foreword by) and Trevor Norris
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9781442611078 | Univ of Toronto Pr, January 14, 2011, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: The increasing prevalence of consumerism in contemporary society often equates happiness with the acquisition of material objects.

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Product Description: "Powerful and disturbing. No one who cares about the future of our public life can afford to ignore this book."—Jackson LearsA powerful sequel to Benjamin R. Barber's best-selling Jihad vs. McWorld, Consumed offers a vivid portrait of an overproducing global economy that targets children as consumers in a market where there are never enough shoppers and where the primary goal is no longer to manufacture goods but needs...read more
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9780393049619 | 1 edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, March 1, 2007), cover price $26.95 | About this edition: An examination of the effects of capitalism on American culture and society reveals how consumer capitalism overproduces goods, targets children as consumers, and replaces public goods with private commodities.

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9780393330892 | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, March 30, 2008), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: "Powerful and disturbing.

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Product Description: In 1994 Benjamin R. Barber was invited by President Clinton to participate in a seminar on the future of democratic ideas and ideals. Following their meeting, Barber became an informal consultant to the Clinton White House, working with a president who proved to be an astonishing listener open to a variety of ideas...read more
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9780393020144 | W W Norton & Co Inc, August 1, 2001, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Examines the life and legacy of the former president, discussing Clinton's relationship with American intellectualism and his failure to bridge the gap between ideals and action, and offers insights for progressive leaders to learn from.

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9780231144391 | Columbia Univ Pr, June 1, 2008, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: In 1994 Benjamin R.

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Product Description: "Fear's Empire lays the foundation for a principled opposition based on America's truest and best values."--Senator Gary HartThe author of Jihad vs. McWorld analyzes how American foreign policy has gone wrongand how it could go right...read more
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9780393325782 | W W Norton & Co Inc, October 1, 2004, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: "Fear's Empire lays the foundation for a principled opposition based on America's truest and best values.

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Product Description: From a number of perspectives, it explores the civic implications of the ubiquity of interdependence, and the urgent need for citizens to expand their sense of responsibility beyond community and nation to all the world's people if we are to choose a future that holds the promise of liberty and justice for all...read more
By Benjamin R. Barber (editor) and Sondra Myers (editor)
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9781932716016 | Central European Univ Pr, September 1, 2004, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: From a number of perspectives, it explores the civic implications of the ubiquity of interdependence, and the urgent need for citizens to expand their sense of responsibility beyond community and nation to all the world's people if we are to choose a future that holds the promise of liberty and justice for all.

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By Benjamin R. Barber (contributor), T. J. Clark (contributor), Lorraine Daston (contributor), Michael Fried (contributor), Frank Kermode (contributor), Martha C. Nussbaum, Derek Parfit (contributor), Grethe B. Peterson (editor), Salman Rushdie (editor), Laurence H. Tribe (contributor) and Garry Wills (contributor)
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9780874807950 | Univ of Utah Pr, June 24, 2004, cover price $35.00

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9780809076567 | Hill & Wang Pub, February 28, 2004, cover price $16.00

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Product Description: Since its appearance twenty years ago, Benjamin R. Barber's Strong Democracy has been one of the primary standards against which political science thinking and writing is measured. Defined as the participation of all of the people in at least some aspects of self-government at least some of the time, Strong Democracy offers liberal society a new way of thinking about and of practicing democracy...read more
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9780520051157 | Univ of California Pr, June 1, 1984, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Examines the impact of liberalism on democratic government and argues that the participation of citizens in government is necessary for the survival of democracy

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9780520242333 | 20 anv edition (Univ of California Pr, January 1, 2004), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Since its appearance twenty years ago, Benjamin R.

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Offers a detailed critique of the Bush administration's foreign policy, including arguments about the imposition of democracy on foreign nations and hypocritical actions by America.
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9780393058369 | 1 edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, September 1, 2003), cover price $23.95 | About this edition: Offers a detailed critique of the Bush administration's foreign policy, including arguments about the imposition of democracy on foreign nations and hypocritical actions by America.

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9780871173249 | Community College Pr/Amer Assoc, February 1, 2002, cover price $16.00

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Product Description: Although the conflict and the bloodshed in the name of democracy have given us some our noblest moments, democracy itself remains one of the most flawed, confusing, threatened, and complex of human institutions. By examining the paradoxes and perplexities, The Struggle for Democracy provides a clear understanding of the origin and nature of democracy, including the extraordinary idea of citizenship, the tremendous achievement of free speech, and the enormous power placed in the hands of ordinary men and women...read more
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9780886191764 | Lester & Orpen Dennys Ltd, March 1, 1992, cover price $6.98 | About this edition: Although the conflict and the bloodshed in the name of democracy have given us some our noblest moments, democracy itself remains one of the most flawed, confusing, threatened, and complex of human institutions.

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9781552631683 | Key Porter Books, March 1, 2001, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Although the conflict and the bloodshed in the name of democracy have given us some our noblest moments, democracy itself remains one of the most flawed, confusing, threatened, and complex of human institutions.

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9788449308376 | Italian edition edition (Paidos Iberica Ediciones S A, March 20, 2000), cover price $27.95

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Product Description: Benjamin Barber is one of America's preeminent political theorists. He has been a significant voice in the continuing debate about the nature and role of democracy in the contemporary world. A Passion for Democracy collects twenty of his most important writings on American democracy...read more
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9780691057668 | Princeton Univ Pr, May 1, 1998, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: This collection features 20 of the author's essays on American democracy.

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9780691050249 | Princeton Univ Pr, March 13, 2000, cover price $37.50 | About this edition: Benjamin Barber is one of America's preeminent political theorists.

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9780787251567 | Pap/dskt r edition (Kendall Hunt Pub Co, June 1, 1999), cover price $84.35
9780840388469 | Kendall Hunt Pub Co, July 1, 1993, cover price $59.95

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Examines the conflicts created by bureaucracy and capitalism and discusses ways in which society can cultivate democratic values and civic debate (view table of contents)
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9780809076574 | Hill & Wang Pub, July 1, 1998, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Examines the conflicts created by bureaucracy and capitalism and discusses ways in which society can cultivate democratic values and civic debate

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Proposing that, while capitalism on a global scale is bringing the world together, ethnic, racial and religions tensions are pulling it apart, the author of An Aristocracy of Everyone discusses potential ramifications of the crisis these two forces may eventually create. Reprint. NYT. (view table of contents)
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9780345383044 | Reprint edition (Ballantine Books, August 1, 1996), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Analyzes the conflict between free-market capitalism and religious and tribal fundamentalism
9789990059526 | Ballantine Books, August 1, 1996, cover price $0.02

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A perceptive analysis of the conflict between free-market capitalism and religious and tribal fundamentalism discusses the forces at work in the modern world, their impact on democracy, and their ramifications for the people of the world. 15,000 first printing.
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9780812923506 | 1 edition (Times Books, July 1, 1995), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: An analysis of the conflict between free-market capitalism and religious and tribal fundamentalism discusses the forces at work in the modern world, their impact on democracy, and their ramifications for the people of the world

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Product Description: In this timely, witty, and readable account, Barber emphatically shows that education must emphasize democracy as much as it does the pursuit of excellence. With such an education, young Americans will gain nothing less than an apprenticeship in liberty-one grounded in a renewed commitment to community service-an idea that Barber put into practice at Rutgers University, and one which President Clinton has embraced as the key to a revitalized America...read more
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9780345370402 | 1 edition (Ballantine Books, October 1, 1992), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Contends that education should be the number one national priority, argues against the fashionable cries of political correctness, and offers a program for teaching democracy through a resurgence of community service

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9780195091540 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, March 31, 1994), cover price $39.99 | About this edition: In this timely, witty, and readable account, Barber emphatically shows that education must emphasize democracy as much as it does the pursuit of excellence.

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Product Description: Does political philosophy have anything significant to say to citizens facing the real political world in a modern democracy? Addressing the thought of six major twentieth-century philosophers--Bertrand Russell, John Rawls, Robert Nozick, Bruce Ackerman, Michael Oakeshott, and Alasdair MacIntyre--Benjamin Barber maintains that each of them has aided in the "conquest of politics" by abstract and speculative philosophy...read more
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9780691077642 | Princeton Univ Pr, April 1, 1988, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: "[His commitment to democratic radicalism] has made Barber one of the leading--he is also one of the most intelligent--representatives of contemporary republican political theory.

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9780691023236 | Reprint edition (Princeton Univ Pr, October 1, 1989), cover price $30.95 | About this edition: Does political philosophy have anything significant to say to citizens facing the real political world in a modern democracy?

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9780878553808 | Transaction Pub, June 1, 1980, cover price $44.95

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9780691075549 | Princeton Univ Pr, February 1, 1974, cover price $47.50

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