Prompted by the EU referendum in the UK & the presidential election in the USA, A. C. Grayling investigates why the institutions of representative democracy seem unable to hold up against forces they were designed to manage, & why, crucially, it matters. First he considers moments in history
- Periclean Athens, the English Civil War, the American & French Revolutions, among them
- in which the challenges we face today were first encountered & what solutions, however imperfect, were found. Then he lays bare the specific problems of democracy in the twenty-first century & maps out a set of urgently needed reforms. With the advent of authoritarian leaders & the simultaneous rise of populism, representative democracy appears to be caught between a rock & a hard place, yet it is this space that it must occupy, says Grayling, if a civilized society, that looks after all its people, is to flourish.

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The EU referendum in the UK & Trump`s victory in the USA sent shockwaves through our democratic systems. In Democracy & Its Crisis A. C. Grayling investigates why the institutions of representative democracy seem unable to hold up against forces they were designed to manage, & why it matters. First he considers those moments in history when the challenges we face today were first encountered & what solutions were found. Then he lays bare the specific threats facing democracy today. The paperback edition

Includes:: new material on the reforms that are needed to make our system truly democratic.

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In 1831 Tocqueville set out from post-revolutionary France on a journey across America that would take him 9 months & cover 7, 000 miles. The result was ” Democracy in America”: a subtle & prescient analysis of the life & institutions of 19th-century America. Tocqueville`s study of the strengths & weaknesses of an evolving democratic society has been"ed by every American president since Eisenhower. It remains a key point of reference for any discussion of the American nation or the democratic system. ...

An explosive expose of the man who devoted his career to shackling democracy
- & succeeded. Libertarian billionaires are using
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The new jaw-achingly funny novel from David Walliams, the number one bestselling author! Make your appointment if you dare... Darkness had come to the town. Strange things were happening in the dead of night. Children would put a tooth under their pillow for the tooth fairy, but in the morning they would wake up to find...a dead slug; a live spider; hundreds of earwigs creeping & crawling beneath their pillow. Evil was at work. But who or what was behind it...? Read this book & find out! ...

THE EPIC NEW THRILLER BEGINS. The creator of the number one bestselling Skulduggery Pleasant series returns with the story of a girl on the run from everything she loves...and the monsters that await her. For anyone who ever thought their parents were monsters... Amber Lamont is a normal sixteen-year-old. Smart but insecure, she spends most of her time online, where she can avoid her beautiful, aloof parents & their weird friends. But when a shocking encounter reveals a horrifying secret, Amber is forced to go on the run. Killer cars, vampires, undead serial killers & red-skinned, horned demons
- Amber hurtles from one threat to the next, revealing the terror woven into the very fabric of her life. As her parents close in behind her, Amber`s only chance rests with her fellow travellers, who are not at all what they appear to be... Witty, action-packed & heart-stoppingly thrilling, Demon Road will take you on an epic road-trip across the supernatural landscape of America.
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THE EPIC NEW THRILLER BEGINS. The creator of the number one bestselling SKULDUGGERY PLEASANT series returns with the story of a girl on the run from everything she loves...and the monsters that await her. For anyone who ever thought their parents were monsters... Amber Lamont is a normal sixteen-year-old. Smart but insecure, she spends most of her time online, where she can avoid her beautiful, aloof parents & their weird friends. But when a shocking encounter reveals a horrifying secret, Amber is forced to go on the run. Killer cars, vampires, undead serial killers & red-skinned, horned demons
- Amber hurtles from one threat to the next, revealing the terror woven into the very fabric of her life. As her parents close in behind her, Amber`s only chance rests with her fellow travellers, who are not at all what they appear to be... Witty, action-packed & heart-stoppingly thrilling, Demon Road will take you on an epic road-trip across the supernatural landscape of America.
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Pyotr & Stavrogin are the leaders of a Russian revolutionary cell. Their aim is to overthrow the Tsar, destroy society & seize power for themselves. Together they train terrorists who are willing to go to any lengths to achieve their goals
- even if the mission means suicide. But when it seems the group is about to be discovered, will their recruits be willing to kill one of their own circle in order to cover their tracks? Partly based on the real-life case of a student murdered by his fellow revolutionaries, Dostoyevsky`s sprawling novel is a powerful & prophetic, yet lively & often comic depiction of nineteenth-century Russia, & a savage indictment of the madness & self-destruction of those who use violence to serve their beliefs.
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Map No. 9 O, Den Helder East, in the topographic survey of the Netherlands at 1:50, 000 from Kadaster. Holland's national survey organization produces one of the most attractive topographic surveys in Europe. The maps are very colourful, with their characteristic patchwork of polders & an unusually large amount of land use information: meadows, arable l&, different types of forest, marshes, sand dunes, etc. Contours are shown at 5-metre intervals with numerous spot heights &, with such a large part of the country below the sea level, spot depths. Each map covers an area of Approx. 25 x 20 km / 15 x 12 miles, with some sheets slightly larger. The maps have a 1-km Dutch national grid, plus latitude & longitude at intervals of 1'. Map legend

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Kadaster, Holland`s national survey organization, produces one of the most attractive topographic surveys in Europe. The maps are very colourful, with their characteristic patchwork of polders & an unusually large amount of land use information: meadows, arable l&, different types of forest, marshes, sand dunes, etc. Contours are shown at 5-metre intervals with numerous spot heights &, with such a large part of the country below the sea level, ”spot depths”. Each map covers an area of Approx. 25 x 20 km / 15 x 12 miles, with some sheets slightly larger. The maps have a 1-km Dutch national grid, plus latitude & longitude at intervals of 1`. Map legend

Includes:: English.IMPORTANT
- PLEASE NOTE BEFORE ORDERING: both the west (W) & the east (O) sheet of each number has the same name, although the town after which the two maps are named appears only on one of the sheets. For example: maps 41W & 41O are both called Arnhem, although the city of Arnhem appears only on sheet 40W, etc. To see the list of titles available in this series please click on the series link.


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