A Cohen: 103 books
by G. A. Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2009
Is socialism desirable? Is it even possible? In this concise book, one of the world's leading political philosophers presents with clarity and wit a compelling moral case for socialism and argues that the obstacles in its way are exaggerated.
There are times, G. A. Cohen notes, when we all...
by Gerald A. Cohen
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 29, 2016
Language: Spanish
Release Date: August 29, 2016
Con gran soltura, lucidez crítica y sentido del humor, el reconocido filósofo Gerald A. Cohen defiende en este libro la necesidad de superar el carácter depredador de las sociedades de mercado. Los textos de Por una vuelta al socialismo son un ataque al capitalismo: demuestran que la extendida...
American Maelstrom
The 1968 Election and the Politics of Division
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
In his presidential inaugural address of January 1965, Lyndon B. Johnson offered an uplifting vision for America, one that would end poverty and racial injustice. Elected in a landslide over the conservative Republican Barry Goldwater and bolstered by the so-called liberal consensus, economic prosperity,...
by A. Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
In the first part of this book, Adam Max Cohen embraces the many meanings of wonder in order to challenge the generic divides between comedy, tragedy, history, and romance and suggests that Shakespeare's primary goal in crafting each of his playworlds was the evocation of one or more varieties of wonder.
Sociologia n.3/2017
Rivista quadrimestrale di Scienze Storiche e Sociali
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 15, 2018
TITO MARCI Dare una chance all'etica Give Ethics a Chance: Rethinking Politics and Ethics in Contemporary American Society RICHARD A. COHEN Introduction RICHARD I. SUGARMAN Is Ethics Possible in Contemporary American Political Life? CHRISTOPHER BUCKMAN Palladium of the People: A Kantian Right to Internet...
Heroic Leadership
Leading with Integrity and Honor
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2010
Proven leadership strategies used by combat and business leaders to accomplish impossible goals
Heroic Leadership examines military leadership principles as they apply to business and life. Leadership expert and retired general William Cohen describes the eight universal laws of leadership...
One Hundred Days of Silence
America and the Rwanda Genocide
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2006
One Hundred Days of Silence is an important investigation into the 1994 Rwandan genocide and American foreign policy. During one hundred days of spring, eight-hundred thousand Rwandan Tutsis and sympathetic Hutus were slaughtered in one of the most atrocious events of the twentieth century. Drawing...
Movement, Manifesto, Melee
The Modernist Group, 1910-1914
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2004
The years before World War I were a fertile period for artists in Europe and the United States who were challenging aesthetic convention in music, writing, and the visual arts. These early pioneers of modernism sometimes preferred to work alone, but just as often they were associated with groups whose...
Supreme Command
Soldiers, Statesmen and Leadership in Wartime
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
The relationship between military leaders and political leaders has always been a complicated one, especially in times of war. When the chips are down, who should run the show -- the politicians or the generals? In Supreme Command, Eliot Cohen examines four great democratic war statesmen -- Abraham...
Revolution Under Attack
The Forqan Group of Iran
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
During the revolution in Iran, a small, fanatical group called the Forqan used targeted assassinations of religious leaders to fight the Ayatollah Khomeini's plan to establish a theocratic Islamic state. Ronen A. Cohen examines what really happened behind the fog of revolution.
by G. A. Cohen
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 1995
In this book G. A. Cohen examines the libertarian principle of self-ownership, which says that each person belongs to himself and therefore owes no service or product to anyone else. This principle is used to defend capitalist inequality, which is said to reflect each person's freedom to do as as...
Military Misfortunes
The Anatomy of Failure in War
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
Why do competent armies fail?
• Why did the American-led coalition in Iraq fail to wage a classic counter-insurgency campaign for so long after the fall of Baghdad?
• Why was the sophisticated Israeli intelligence service so thoroughly surprised by the onslaught of combined Arab armies...
Challenge to China
How Taiwan Abolished Its Version of Re-Education Through Labor
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2013
Challenge to China: How Taiwan Abolished Its Version of Re-Education Through Labor draws attention to an underappreciated aspect of legal reforms in Taiwan, and asks how Taiwan's experience might be relevant to its giant neighbor across the Taiwan Strait. This timely book by Jerome A. Cohen,...
Consulting Drucker
How to apply Drucker's principles for business success
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2018
Peter Drucker is known worldwide as "The Father of Modern Management." But he was also the world's most famous and successful independent consultant. The methods developed by Drucker remain highly relevant and continue to be used in today's organizations. This book, written by Drucker's...