Basic books cambridge ma (9 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. Hardcover. Several superficial marks on dust jacket. Jacket spine ends are slightly creased. Hardcover spine ends are a little bumped. Page block is lightly faded. Binding is tight, contents are clean and clear throughout. AM. Used. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Good+. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good+. First Edition; First Printing. 6.75 X 1.25 X 9.75 inches; 348 pages; faint, minor stains and some shelf wear on DJ. Light foxing on the exterior edges of textblock. Very Good condition otherwise. No other noteworthy defects. No markings. DJ is not price-clipped.; - Your satisfaction is our priority. We offer free returns and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your item will be packaged with care and ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence. …

Hardcover. Zustand: Good in good dust jacket. . First edition. First printing [stated]. xvi, 208 pages. Illustrations (Figures, Tables). References. Index. Highlighting/underlining. Yellow highlighting noted. Name of previous owner present. World-renowned competition strategist Porter and his colleagues explain why American assumptions about Japan have proved inaccurate, what this nation must do to come back, and what its journey can tell us about how to succeed in the global economy.…

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: very good. First edition. First printing [stated]. xiv, 402 p. Illustrations. Notes. Suggestions for Further Reading. Index. The first complete history of the modern United States Senate, and the people who shaped its role in the twentieth century The Senate was originally conceived by the Founding Fathers as an anti-democratic counterweight to the more volatile House of Representatives, but in the twentieth century it has often acted as an impediment to needed reforms. A hundred years ago, senators were still chosen by state legislatures rather than direct elections. Now, in the wake of the 2004 elections and the consolidation of Republican control, the Senate is likely to become a crucible of power shifts that will have enormous impact on American politics in the twenty-first century. In The Most Exclusive Club, acclaimed political historian Lewis Gould puts the debate about the Senate's future into the context of its history from the Progressive Era to the war in Iraq. From charges of corruption to the occasional attempt at reform, Gould highlights the major players, issues and debates (including the League of Nations, the McCarthy hearings and the Iran-Contra affair) that have shaped the institution. Beyond the usual outsized figures such as Lyndon Johnson, Strom Thurmond and Barry Goldwater, Gould also tells the story of the lesser-known Senate leaders who have played a vital role in America's upper house. Filled with colourful anecdotes, this is a long-awaited history of one of the most powerful political bodies in the world, written by a master. Gould's sweeping narrative combines deft story-telling with a fresh look at the crucible of contemporary political debate and decision-making.…

hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. First Edition. Very good condition; minor shelf wear; contents clean, sound, bright. Used.

Zustand: very good, very good. First Printing. 25 cm, 262, references, index. Leading experts on decision making show how to apply "wise tradeoffs" to political negotiation.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very good. First Printing [Stated]. xv, [3], 281, [5] pages. Notes. Index. DJ has slight wear and soiling, and small crease in front DJ flap. Cass Robert Sunstein FBA (born September 21, 1954) is an American legal scholar, particularly in the fields of constitutional law, administrative law, environmental law, and law and behavioral economics. He is also The New York Times best-selling author of The World According to Star Wars (2016) and Nudge (2008). He was the Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs in the Obama administration from 2009 to 2012. As a professor at the University of Chicago Law School for 27 years, he wrote influential works on regulatory and constitutional law, among other topics. Since leaving the White House, Sunstein has been the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard Law School. Studies of legal publications found Sunstein to be the most frequently cited American legal scholar by a wide margin. Contributing to the anthology Our American Story (2019), Sunstein addressed the possibility of a shared American narrative. He cited the concepts of self-government and equal dignity of human beings, but focused in particular on stories: "an emphasis on what happened before and after the shots in Concord and the courageous response of the embattled farmers maintains continuity with the historical facts and offers us something on which we can build." Sunstein is a contributing editor to The New Republic and The American Prospect and is a frequent witness before congressional committees. He played an active role in opposing the impeachment of Bill Clinton in 1998. Derived from a Kirkus review: Attempting to support his view of how life would degrade under the sway of extreme right-wing judges, Sunstein presents a surprisingly balanced history of constitutional law. Sunstein warns that legal fundamentalists, who interpret the Constitution according to the "original understanding," that is, how the framers and ratifiers conceived it, would deprive us of many of the freedoms and protections that we now take for granted. Fundamentalist courts would, for example, overturn Roe v. Wade on the basis that the Constitution does not protect privacy, strike as unconstitutional key provisions of anti-discrimination laws such as the Civil Rights Act and environmental safeguards such as the Clean Air Act, permit states to bar women from practicing as doctors or lawyers, declare even modest gun control laws invalid, scale back the rights of the accused, shield commercial advertising from government regulation and poke giant doorways in the wall that separates church and state. In fact, states could establish official religions. Sunstein's most compelling argument against fundamentalism is that the framers and ratifiers were only human, so the Constitution can't be perfect. Sunstein, however, does not establish a strong one-to-one correspondence between fundamentalism and extreme right-wing politics, other than to say that Justice Antonin Scalia, the most conservative member of the U.S. Supreme Court, is a fundamentalist. Not until near the end does he state, without much support, "The constitutional judgments of fundamentalists are eerily close to the political judgments of conservative politicians." His evidence that courts are generally shifting to the extreme right is also weak. Sunstein promotes a minimalist approach to constitutional law, which allows that it's okay to nudge the law carefully in one direction or another (right or left) with incremental decisions, rather than overreach, as he believes the Supreme Court did in Roe v. Wade. Enlightening and in some places fascinating. Den Dry (Author photograph) (illustrator).…

Octavo, xiv+142 pages, original boards in dustwrapper, name on first page, otherwise near fine. First US edition.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very good. Second printing [stated]. Format is approximately 5.25 inches by 7 8.25 inches. xii, [2], 141, [3] pages. Signed by the author on the title page. Previous owner's information in ink on fep. Autographed copy sticker on front of DJ. Christopher Eric Hitchens (13 April 1949 - 15 December 2011) was an English-American intellectual, polemicist, and socio-political critic who expressed himself as an author, orator, essayist, journalist, and columnist. Hitchens was the author, co-author, editor, or co-editor of over 30 books, including five collections of essays on culture, politics, and literature. A staple of public discourse, his confrontational style of debate made him both a lauded public intellectual and a controversial public figure. He contributed to New Statesman, The Nation, The Weekly Standard, The Atlantic, London Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement, Slate, Free Inquiry, The Spectator, and Vanity Fair. As an anti-theist, he regarded all religions as false, harmful, and authoritarian. He argued in favor of free expression and scientific discovery, and asserted that it was superior to religion as an ethical code of conduct for human civilization. He also advocated for separation of church and state. The dictum, "What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence", has become known as Hitchens's razor. In 1991, he received a Lannan Literary Award for Nonfiction. In 2007, Hitchens's work for Vanity Fair won the National Magazine Award in the category "Columns and Commentary". In 2009, Hitchens was listed by Forbes magazine as one of the '25 most influential liberals in the U.S. media'. Letters to a Young Contrarian is Christopher Hitchens' contribution to the Art of Mentoring series published by Basic Books. Inspired by his students at The New School in New York City and "a challenge that was made to me in the early months of the year 2000," the book is addressed directly to the reader-"My Dear X" -as a series of missives exploring a range of "contrarian," radical, independent or "dissident" positions, and advocating the attitudes best suited to cultivating and to holding them. Hitchens touches on his own ideological development, the nature of debate and humor, the ways in which language is slyly manipulated in apology for offensive and ridiculous positions, and how to see through this and recognize it whenever it arises in oneself. Throughout Hitchens makes reference to those dissenters who have inspired him over the years, including Émile Zola, Rosa Parks, George Orwell, Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke, and Václav Havel. The book also contains some of the critiques of religion and religious belief which Hitchens would later develop in his book God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything. In Letters to a Young Contrarian, best-selling author and world-class provocateur Christopher Hitchens inspires the radicals, gadflies, mavericks, rebels, and angry young (wo)men of tomorrow. Exploring the entire range of "contrary positions"--from noble dissident to gratuitous nag--Hitchens introduces the next generation to the minds and the misfits who influenced him, invoking such mentors as Emile Zola, Rosa Parks, and George Orwell. As is his trademark, Hitchens pointedly pitches himself in contrast to stagnant attitudes across the ideological spectrum. No other writer has matched Hitchens's understanding of the importance of disagreement--to personal integrity, to informed discussion, to true progress, to democracy itself.…