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Edinburgh History of the Greeks, c. 500 to 1050
This volume traces the social, economic and political history of the Greeks between 500 and 1050.
Transforming Tommy
WARNING or ATTENTION (Depending on your perspective) This novel contains very graphic erotic M/M/M scenes within master/slave relationships, mild bondage, hypnosis, pup play, transformation, and mild water sports and foot worship.Transforming Tommy is an urban fantasy about a journey of self-awakening within a master and slave relationship. Some readers will enjoy the pleasure of escapism, others will seek insight into the master and slave lifestyle and others may find it a road map to enlightenment. At its heart, Transforming Tommy is a special kind of adult coming-out story about discovering and embracing a slaveheart; a much more challenging accomplishment than accepting sexual orientatio...
Innovating Democracy
In recent years democratic theory has taken a deliberative turn. Instead of merely casting the occasional ballot, deliberative democrats want citizens to reason together. They embrace 'talk as a decision procedure'. But of course thousands or millions of people cannot realistically talk to one another all at once. When putting their theories into practice, deliberative democrats therefore tend to focus on 'mini-publics', usually of a couple dozen to a couple hundred people. The central question then is how to connect micro-deliberations in mini-publics to the political decision-making processes of the larger society. In Innovating Democracy, Robert Goodin surveys these new deliberative mecha...
Do-it-yourself Democracy
In Do-It-Yourself Democracy, sociologist Caroline W. Lee examines how participatory innovations have reshaped American civic life over the past two decades. Lee looks at the public engagement industry that emerged to serve government, corporate, and nonprofit clients seeking to gain a handle on the increasingly noisy demands of their constituents and stakeholders. New technologies and deliberative practices have democratized the ways in which organizations operate, but Lee argues that they have also been marketed and sold as tools to facilitate cost-cutting, profitability, and other management goals - and that public deliberation has burdened everyday people with new responsibilities without delivering on its promises of empowerment.
Democracy in Motion
Although the field of deliberative civic engagement is growing rapidly around the world, our knowledge and understanding of its practice and impacts remain highly fragmented. Democracy in Motion represents the first comprehensive attempt to assess the practice and impact of deliberative civic engagement. Organized in a series of chapters that address the big questions of deliberative civic engagement, it uses theory, research, and practice from around the world to explore what we know about, how we know it, and what remains to be understood. More than a simple summary of research, the book is designed to be accessible and useful to a wide variety of audiences, from scholars and practitioners...
Democratic Extremism in Theory and Practice
Democracy and extremism are usually considered as opposites. We assume that our system (in the UK, the USA, the Netherlands etc.) is democratic, and extremists try to destroy our system and introduce some kind of dictatorship, if not chaos and anarchy. Yet in many cases, the extremists seem sincere in their attempt to construct a more democratic polity. Hence, they can be called democrats and yet also extremists, in so far as they strive for a regime with characteristics that are more extreme in a significant sense. This book analyses radical and extreme democratic theories and ideas in their historical context, interlocked with critical descriptions of historical institutions and experiment...
Rescuing Democracy
This book proposes a new institution - the 'People's Forum' - to enable democratic governments to effectively address long-running issues like global warming and inequality. It would help citizens decide what strategic problems their government must fix, especially where this requires them to suffer some inconvenience or cost.The People's Forum is first based on a new diagnosis of government failure in democracies. The book tests its own analyses of government failure by seeing whether these might help us to explain the failures of particular democracies to address (and in some cases, to even recognize) several crucial environmental problems. The essential features of a new design for democr...
The Oxford History of Byzantium
Byzantium linked the ancient and modern worlds, shaping traditions and handing down to both Eastern and Western civilization a vibrant legacy. The Oxford History of Byzantium is the only history to provide in concise form detailed historical coverage from the Roman beginnings to the fall of Constantinople and assimilation into the Turkish Empire. Against a backdrop of stories of emperors, intrigues, battles, and bishops the contributors to this beautifully illustratedvolume explore everyday life in cities and villages, manufacture and trade, machinery of government, the church as an instrument of state, minorities, education, literary activity, beliefs and superstitions, monasticism, iconoclasm, the rise of Islam, and the fusion with Western, or Latin, culture.
Political Communication and Deliberation
The act of deliberation is the act of reflecting carefully on a matter and weighing the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions to a problem. It aims to arrive at a decision or judgment based not only on facts and data but also on values, emotions, and other less technical considerations. Though a solitary individual can deliberate, it more commonly means making decisions together, as a small group, an organization, or a nation. Political Communication and Deliberation takes a unique approach to the field of political communication ...
Shadow Realm
Deep within the recesses of the human mind, there is a world where the souls of mankind are trapped in an eternal struggle between the dimensions of flesh and blood and the spirit realm. Within this Shadow Realm, fugitives live in hopelessness as the chains of death shackle them. This world is under the control of evil Overlords who maintain their power through the might of the Sahat and knights of Kratos. But there is hope. A light appears in the land from the power of the Bene Elohim that legend foretold has the power to remove the chains of death and free mankind. A young fugitive finds the light and embarks on a quest in search of the truth to expose the Shadow Realm for what it truly is and win freedom for his people.
