age ~76
from Portsmouth, VA
Superstorm Sandy sent a strong message that a new generation of urban development and infrastructure is desperately needed, and it must be designed with resilience in mind. As cities continue to face climate change impacts while growing in population, they find themselves at the center of resilience...
Author
Sadhu Aufochs Johnston, Steven S. Nicholas, Julia Parzen
Binding
Paperback
Pages
264
Publisher
Island Press
ISBN #
1610913795
EAN Code
9781610913799
ISBN #
3
Rousseau's work has long been fundamental to democratic thought. Steven Johnston here addresses some of the more paradoxical and problematic aspects of his ambiguous legacy. Johnston argues that the philosopher's real and imagined polities foster forms of violence--even cruelty--at odds with his rep...
Author
Steven Johnston
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
189
Publisher
Cornell University Press
ISBN #
080143596X
EAN Code
9780801435966
ISBN #
2
The Truth about Patriotism is a bracing repudiation of the claim that patriotism is essential—or even beneficial—to democracy. Contending that even at its best patriotism subverts the democracy it purports to value, Steven Johnston turns to patriotism’s defenders to show how they must jettison much ...
Author
Steven Johnston
Binding
Paperback
Pages
296
Publisher
Duke University Press
ISBN #
0822341107
EAN Code
9780822341109
ISBN #
4
Violence and tragedy riddle democracy- not due to fatal shortcomings or unnecessary failures, but because of its very design and success. To articulate this troubling claim, Steven Johnston explores the cruelty of democratic founding, the brutal use democracies make of citizens and animals during wa...
Author
Steven Johnston
Binding
Paperback
Pages
312
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN #
1107496675
EAN Code
9781107496675
ISBN #
6