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Nonfiction/Politics Wednesday August 31, 2011 How Democratic is the American Constitution? Second Edition By Robert A. Dahl ISBN: 9780300095241   Introduction: Fundamental Questions * * * MY AIM IN THIS BRIEF BOOK IS NOT TO PROPOSE changes in the American Constitution but to suggest changes in the way we think about our constitution. In that spirit, I'll begin by posing a simple question: Why should we Americans uphold our Constitution? Well, an American citizen might reply, it has been our constitution ever since it was written in 1787 by a group of exceptionally wise men and was then ratified by conventions in all the states. But this answer only leads to a further question. To understand what lies behind that next question, I want to recall how the ... Read more     Theories of International Politics and Zombies By Daniel W. Drezner ISBN: 9780691147833   THE ZOMBIE LITERATURE It would be reckless to proceed with any discussion of the zombie problem without first reviewing the literature on the subject. Thankfully, the living dead are now the focus of rigorous scholarship, as figure 1 demonstrates. The humanities are replete with cultural decompositions of flesh-eating ghouls. Philosophers have chewed over the conceivability and metaphysical possibility of zombies at some length. The natural sciences have started attacking the zombie question. Zoologists have looked at the presence of zombielike creatures elsewhere in the animal kingdom. Biologists have researched the disease-transmission properties of humans... Read more       BookDaily Top Five Heaven is for Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of ... A Dance with Dragons: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Five The Great Gatsby In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American ... Things Fall Apart   Nonfiction/Politics Top Five Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-... The Road to Serfdom: Text and Documents--The Definitive ... The 48 Laws of Power

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