Search Results: Political Science from Quadrant Book Mart

US: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1999. Paperback. Near Fine-/None. 1999 Glossy yellow softcover with red and blue titling; little bit of edgewear at bottom front corner. Spine is uncreased. Interior is clean and unmarked. 8vo. Photos depict actual book offered for sale. Books are carefully packaged by hand and shipped from our family-owned bookshop in the US. BOOK INFO: See photos for table of contents. 'Giving voice to authors left silent creates a new, clear, and Deep Democracy, voicing a praise song for a new dawn of critical pragmatism. Green argues for a concept of democracy that moves beyond the conflict between the individual and community, quietism and activism, multiculturalism and monoculturalism, and theory in opposition to practice. In a house of darkness, a world plagued by ethnic wars, class conflict, and sexual exploitation, a strenuously researched and masterfully argued account of what democracy should mean is a welcomed beacon.' -Leonard Harris, Purdue University. 'In this… Read More

Librairie Felix Alcan: Librairie Felix Alcan, 1887. Ex-Library, 5th Edition. Hardcover. Good/None. Our photos depict the actual book offered. Green cloth (library rebound) boards with gilt titling on spine; spine is toned and bears white inked Dewey numbers at heel. Lightly rubbed and top corners bumped. Binding is sound. Lafayette College bookplate on front pastedown. Rear pastedown paper has been torn along bottom edge. Rear end paper has library slip. Pencilled numbers on title page, its verso, and the gutter of the next page. Text throughout is unmarked. Pages and edges are toned. Without dustjacket. Some mustiness. 8vo. Ships from US. BOOK INFO: Histoire de la science politique dans ses rapports avec la morale. Tome 2, par Paul Janet. In the French language. Includes bibliography and index.

Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1979. Ex-Library. Hardcover. Very Good-/None. Black cloth boards with gilt titling on spine; adhesive residue square at spine heel. Top and bottom page edges stamped 'Princeton University Library'. Pastedowns scarred where bookplates were removed. Text is unmarked. Binding is sound. 8vo. BOOK INFO: This book defends historical materialism, by offering argument in its favour, but more by presenting the theory in what I hope is an attractive form. (-from the foreword) Includes appendices, bibliography, subject index and index of names. Marx, Karl, 1818-1883, Historical materialism

Boston, London, Melbourne and Henley: Routledge Kegan & Paul, 1981. Paperback. Good-/None. Blue softcover with titling on front cover and spine, lightly edgeworn and rubbed, and with the shadow of residue from a small price sticker on front cover. Spine is uncreased and binding sound. Interior is unmarked. 8vo. BOOK INFO: People want their social institutions to be procedurally efficient and fair, to enable the realization of worthy collective and personal goals, to produce results which are just, and to leave them free to pursue whatever activities they themselves choose. Most political philosophy is (among other things) an attempt to work out how deeply inconsistent these wants are, and to decide what can be done about it. This book is no exception. Includes index. Philosophy of Politics.

New York: Rinehart & Company, Inc., 1950. Hardcover. Good/None. Green cloth boards worn at ends of spine and corners. Text unmarked. Pages clean and beginning to tan. The way America's party systems works causes ineffective government and vanished party responsiblity at the polls.

New York: Horizon Press, 1969. Hardcover. Good+/Fair+. Brown cloth boards with gilt titling on the spine and author's name on the front, bumped along bottom front board. Binding is sound. FFEP bears stamped 4-digit number and 3 marks of tape residue. Interior text is unmarked. Unpriceclipped dustjacket is edgeworn, chipped at spine head, with hole along spine and a number sticker taped at heel. Back of DJ is moderately soiled. Green upper page edges. Thick 8vo. Our photos depict actual book offered for sale. Books are carefully packaged by hand and shipped from our family-owned bookshop in the US. BOOK INFO: Copies of this book are scarce. See photos for Table of Contents. 'What happens when one of the most interesting minds of our age turns to analyzing the meaning of politics? This volume is a monumental revelation of the nature of politics, its origins in human needs, its far-reaching penetrations. It encompasses the political state and what it should be, how it affects and should affect the… Read More