"Politics is a gateway to a broader and better understanding of human nature, society, and the world." This idea has inspired each edition of UNDERSTANDING POLITICS: IDEAS, INSTITUTIONS, AND ISSUES.... This description may be from another edition of this product.
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Required Reading
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 19 years ago
The price for any commodity is relative. Buying four other books instead of this one will sum to a comparable cost--$80--without providing you the book to learn about your target subject-matter. Do not be mislead by show-off reviewers: stick with the real thing. If you want to be introduced to the subject of political organization, read this book rather than impressionistic glamour books.
expensive text
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 19 years ago
Clearly-written and accessible to undergraduates, without a lot of the dumbed-down, feel-good blather that mars so many textbooks. The text appears to be suffering from mission creep -- new editions are getting bigger, heavier, and more expensive. Asking students to pay $80 for a paperback is ridiculous; their money would be better spent purchasing copies of The Prince, Lenin's Tomb, Gideon's Trumpet, and Reading Lolita in Tehran. - Chad Raymond, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Gardner-Webb University
Summer Doctor
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 19 years ago
Charles H. Knickerbocker writes about his professional and personal experience on a coast off Maine in form of a novel. His fictional Daniel van Dine M.D. is a nonconformist with a keen sense of history and rather strong religious inclinations. This medical doctor feels that a deeply personal doctor-patient relationship is far more important than medical progress. The reader will meet a much married millionaire, a fisherman, an anthropologist, a violent artist,, a displaced cleric, a woman fashion editor, an ex-chorus girl, a spinster librarian, a gin loving Indian midwife, and an unusual adolescent. This novel comes to conclusions which will be of interest to doctors and patients. In addition, the doctor also owns a dog named Slob. All this makes for interesting reading.
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