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Product Description: .cs95E872D0{text-align:left;text-indent:0pt;margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0pt} .csA62DFD6A{color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-weight:normal; font-style:italic; } .cs5EFED22F{color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-family:Times New Roman; font-size:12pt; font-weight:normal; font-style:normal; } Practice, Judgment, and the Challenge of Moral and Political Disagreement: A Pragmatist Account offers an account of moral and political disagreement, explaining its nature and showing how we should deal with it...read more
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9780739170670 | Lexington Books, April 5, 2012, cover price $70.00 | About this edition: .

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Product Description: Bilderberg People explores the hidden mechanisms of influence at work in the private world, and personal interactions, of the transnational power elite. It is not concerned with conspiracy theories; instead it is about certain fundamental forces that shape the world in which we live...read more
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9780415576345 | Routledge, July 13, 2011, cover price $138.00 | About this edition: Bilderberg People explores the hidden mechanisms of influence at work in the private world, and personal interactions, of the transnational power elite.

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9780415576352 | Routledge, July 12, 2011, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Bilderberg People explores the hidden mechanisms of influence at work in the private world, and personal interactions, of the transnational power elite.

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Product Description: Consent has long been used to establish the legitimacy of society. But when one asks - who consented? how? to what type of community? - consent becomes very elusive, more myth than reality. This is particularly true when the spotlight is on the relationship between indigenous and nonindigenous peoples...read more
By Colin M. Macleod (editor) and Jeremy Webber (editor)
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9780774818834 | Univ of British Columbia Pr, November 15, 2010, cover price $94.00 | About this edition: Consent has long been used to establish the legitimacy of society.

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9780774818841 | Univ of British Columbia Pr, June 27, 2011, cover price $37.95 | About this edition: Consent has long been used to establish the legitimacy of society.

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Product Description: The word consensus has been  frequently used  for centuries, perhaps millenia. People have always deemed it important that decisions having a long lasting impact on groups, countries or even civilizations be arrived at in a consensual manner...read more
By Mario Fedrizzi (editor), Jose Luis Garcia-Lapresta (editor), Enrique Herrera-viedma (editor), Janusz Kacprzyk (editor) and Hannu Nurmi (editor)
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9783642205323 | Springer-Verlag New York Inc, May 31, 2011, cover price $179.00 | About this edition: The word consensus has been  frequently used  for centuries, perhaps millenia.

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Product Description: Are you frustrated by that common challenge called group decision-making? Consensus-Oriented Decision-Making can help! Clearly written and well organized, keep this book by your side and refer to it often. Groups you are part of will function better as a result...read more
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9780865716896 | Reprint edition (New Society Pub, April 26, 2011), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Are you frustrated by that common challenge called group decision-making?

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Product Description: Consensus is an important topic in bioethics. Approaches to consensus formation developed over the last decade to establish standards of clinical practice are now extended to moral issues. Healthcare ethics committees, ethics advisory boards, and national ethics committees aim at creating and formulating consensus...read more
By Hans-Martin Sass (editor)
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9780792349440 | Kluwer Academic Pub, May 1, 1998, cover price $179.00 | About this edition: Consensus is an important topic in bioethics.

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9789048149933 | Springer Verlag, December 7, 2010, cover price $179.00 | About this edition: Consensus is an important topic in bioethics.

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Product Description: Within their territories, states claim to be the only authority to determine the law and to use coercive power to punish those who act illegally. Both claims are considered to be acceptable, provided a state acts in accordance with the framework of a legitimate constitution...read more
By Jorg Kuhnelt (editor)
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9781402085758 | Springer Verlag, October 1, 2008, cover price $139.00 | About this edition: Within their territories, states claim to be the only authority to determine the law and to use coercive power to punish those who act illegally.

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9789048179176 | Springer Verlag, November 25, 2010, cover price $139.00 | About this edition: Within their territories, states claim to be the only authority to determine the law and to use coercive power to punish those who act illegally.

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Product Description: In this fascinating collection, Jacques Ranciere, one of the world's most important and influential living philosophers, explores the nature of consensus in contemporary politics. Consensus does not mean peace. Instead it refers to a map of operations of war, of a topography of the visible, of what is possible and what can be thought, in which war and peace live side-by-side...read more
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9780826442888 | Continuum Intl Pub Group, August 22, 2010, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: In this fascinating collection, Jacques Ranciere, one of the world's most important and influential living philosophers, explores the nature of consensus in contemporary politics.

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Product Description: In a world facing increasing complexity, ambiguity, and uncertainty, it is both good and necessary to be reminded of deeper truths and practical principles for creating lasting change. Winner of the Nautilus Award for Conscious Business and Leadership, this book is for leaders, groups, communities, and networks desiring to increase our human capacity for creativity, well being, and social change...read more
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9781576754450 | Berrett-Koehler Pub, October 1, 2009, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: In a world facing increasing complexity, ambiguity, and uncertainty, it is both good and necessary to be reminded of deeper truths and practical principles for creating lasting change.

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Product Description: This book examines a number of different accounts developed by philosophers and political theorists to explain why political disagreement is so extensive and persistent. The author argues that moral and political questions can have correct answers, but that not every reasonable person will necessarily be satisfied with these answers...read more
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9780521433228 | Cambridge Univ Pr, September 1, 1993, cover price $100.00 | About this edition: This book examines a number of different accounts developed by philosophers and political theorists to explain why political disagreement is so extensive and persistent.

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9780521053990 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, January 21, 2008), cover price $44.00 | About this edition: This book examines a number of different accounts developed by philosophers and political theorists to explain why political disagreement is so extensive and persistent.

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Product Description: This book concerns the relationship between ideas and power in the genesis of the Roman empire. The self-justification of the first emperor through the consensus of the citizen body constrained him to adhere to ‘legitimate’ and ‘traditional’ forms of self-presentation...read more
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9780415977883 | 1 edition (Routledge, June 3, 2008), cover price $133.00 | About this edition: This book concerns the relationship between ideas and power in the genesis of the Roman empire.

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Product Description: Deliberative democracy has become one of the central areas of recent academic and practitioner discussions in democracy. This book takes an innovative and detailed look at this problem and offers some original suggestions that contribute to the development of the theory...read more
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9780748627394 | Edinburgh Univ Pr, June 1, 2008, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Deliberative democracy has become one of the central areas of recent academic and practitioner discussions in democracy.

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A guide for managers, consultants, and facilitators outlines the consensus-building process, explaining how it can be an effective tool for decision making, and identifying such common pitfalls as false agreement and the 'illusion of inclusion.' Original.
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9781576754191 | Berrett-Koehler Pub, October 28, 2006, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: A guide for managers, consultants, and facilitators outlines the consensus-building process, explaining how it can be an effective tool for decision making, and identifying such common pitfalls as false agreement and the 'illusion of inclusion.

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Product Description: Every day in communities across America hundreds of committees, boards, church groups, and social clubs hold meetings where they spend their time engaged in shouting matches and acrimonious debate. Whether they are aware of it or not, the procedures that most such groups rely on to reach decisions were first laid out as Robert's Rules more than 150 years ago by an officer in the U...read more
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9780195308419 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, September 1, 2006, cover price $74.00 | About this edition: Every day in communities across America hundreds of committees, boards, church groups, and social clubs hold meetings where they spend their time engaged in shouting matches and acrimonious debate.

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9780195308365 | Oxford Univ Pr, September 1, 2006, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: Every day in communities across America hundreds of committees, boards, church groups, and social clubs hold meetings where they spend their time engaged in shouting matches and acrimonious debate.

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Product Description: This valuable resource provides more than 50 practical, step-by-step activities and strategies for helping groups collaborate to build consensus and accomplish their goals.
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9781412937108 | 2 edition (Corwin Pr, June 21, 2006), cover price $80.95 | About this edition: This valuable resource provides more than 50 practical, step-by-step activities and strategies for helping groups collaborate to build consensus and accomplish their goals.

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9781412937115 | 2 edition (Corwin Pr, June 21, 2006), cover price $36.95 | About this edition: This valuable resource provides more than 50 practical, step-by-step activities and strategies for helping groups collaborate to build consensus and accomplish their goals.

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Product Description: One of the most remarkable developments in the last twenty years has been the revival of the idea of deliberative democracy. Set against aggregative models of democracy derived from economics, such as the theory of rational choice, the idea of deliberative democracy, or decision-making based on public deliberations among free and equal citizens, represents a highly significant development in democratic theory...read more
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9780719061011 | Manchester Univ Pr, March 1, 2003, cover price $69.95 | About this edition: This collection of essays provides a fresh and original perspective on a theme at the center of current debates in democratic theory and practice.

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9781412805674 | Transaction Pub, March 30, 2006, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: One of the most remarkable developments in the last twenty years has been the revival of the idea of deliberative democracy.

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Product Description: Here is a step-by-step guide to effective action in school districts, agencies, companies, organizations, and communities by using consensus decision-making. This book is based on the advice of experienced public and private leaders and participants who have used consensus approaches to solve problems in past decades...read more
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9781578862702 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, December 30, 2005, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Here is a step-by-step guide to effective action in school districts, agencies, companies, organizations, and communities by using consensus decision-making.

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An analysis of how to understand the workings of the world as it is reflected by groups contends that large groups have more collective intelligence than a smaller number of experts, drawing on a wide range of disciplines to offer insight into such topics as politics, business, and the environment. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.
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9780385721707 | Reprint edition (Anchor Books, August 16, 2005), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Looks at the theory that large groups have more collective intelligence than a smaller number of experts, drawing on a wide range of disciplines to offer insight into such topics as politics, business, and the environment.

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9780307275059 | Anchor Books, August 16, 2005, cover price $15.00

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Product Description: Democracy used to be seen as a relatively mechanical matter of merely adding up everyone's votes in free and fair elections. That mechanistic model has many virtues, among them allowing democracy to 'track the truth', where purely factual issues are all that is at stake...read more
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9780199256174 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, April 17, 2003, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: Democracy used to be seen as a relatively mechanical matter of merely adding up everyone's votes in free and fair elections.

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9780199279746 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, April 28, 2005, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Democracy used to be seen as a relatively mechanical matter of merely adding up everyone's votes in free and fair elections.

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Product Description: Without the experience of disagreement, political communication among citizens loses value and meaning. At the same time, political disagreement and diversity do not always or inevitably survive. This book, accordingly, considers the compelling issue of the circumstances that sustain political diversity, even in politically high stimulus environments where individuals are attentive to politics and the frequency of communication among citizens is correspondingly high...read more
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9780521834308 | Cambridge Univ Pr, July 12, 2004, cover price $95.00 | About this edition: Without the experience of disagreement, political communication among citizens loses value and meaning.

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9780521542234 | Cambridge Univ Pr, July 1, 2004, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Without the experience of disagreement, political communication among citizens loses value and meaning.

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An analysis of how to understand the workings of the world as it is reflected by groups contends that large groups have more collective intelligence than a smaller number of experts, drawing on a wide range of disciplines to offer insight into such topics as politics, business, and the environment. Simultaneous.
By Erik Singer (narrator) and James Surowiecki
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9780739311967 | Abridged edition (Random House, May 1, 2004), cover price $27.50 | About this edition: An analysis of how to understand the workings of the world as it is reflected by groups contends that large groups have more collective intelligence than a smaller number of experts, drawing on a wide range of disciplines to offer insight into such topics as politics, business, and the environment.

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An analysis of how to understand the workings of the world as it is reflected by groups contends that large groups have more collective intelligence than a smaller number of experts, drawing on a wide range of disciplines to offer insight into such topics as politics, business, and the environment. Simultaneous.
By Erik Singer (narrator) and James Surowiecki
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9780739311950 | Abridged edition (Random House, May 1, 2004), cover price $25.95 | About this edition: An analysis of how to understand the workings of the world as it is reflected by groups contends that large groups have more collective intelligence than a smaller number of experts, drawing on a wide range of disciplines to offer insight into such topics as politics, business, and the environment.

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An analysis of how to understand the workings of the world as it is reflected by groups contends that large groups have more collective intelligence than a smaller number of experts, drawing on a wide range of disciplines to offer insight into such topics as politics, business, and the environment. (Social Science)
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9780375433627 | Large print edition (Random House Large Print, May 1, 2004), cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Looks at the theory that large groups have more collective intelligence than a smaller number of experts, drawing on a wide range of disciplines to offer insight into such topics as politics, business, and the environment.

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An analysis of how to understand the workings of the world as it is reflected by groups contends that large groups have more collective intelligence than a smaller number of experts, drawing on a wide range of disciplines to offer insight into such topics as politics, business, and the environment.
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9780385503860 | Doubleday, May 1, 2004, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Looks at the theory that large groups have more collective intelligence than a smaller number of experts, drawing on a wide range of disciplines to offer insight into such topics as politics, business, and the environment.

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Product Description: This introduction to social theory addresses key issues in sociological, political, and cultural analysis through the unifying theme of social conflict, cohesion, and consent. Structured around the major theorists in the field, Joseph examines such thinkers as Marx and Engels, Gramsci, Durkheim, Parsons, Weber, The Frankfurt School, and Foucault...read more
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9780814742761 | New York Univ Pr, February 1, 2004, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: This introduction to social theory addresses key issues in sociological, political, and cultural analysis through the unifying theme of social conflict, cohesion, and consent.

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9780814742778 | New York Univ Pr, February 1, 2004, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: This introduction to social theory addresses key issues in sociological, political, and cultural analysis through the unifying theme of social conflict, cohesion, and consent.

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