John Keane

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the technology behind the pico-solar revolution and offers guidance on how to test and choose quality products. Meer

In this provocative book, John Keane calls for a fresh understanding of the vexed relationship between democracy and violence. Taking issue with the common sense view that 'human nature' is violent, Keane shows why mature democracies do not wage war upon each other, and why they are unusually sensitive to violence. Meer

aeo Important new book about civil society by one of the leading scholars in politics and political theory today. aeo Examines the world--wide popularisation of the term a civil societya and examines some of the key issues and debates associated with the distinction between civil society and the state. Meer

Vaclav Havel is revered as one of the 20th-century's great playwrights, dissidents, and honest champions of democracy. This study reveals a Havel, dramatising the key moments of joy, misery, triumph and tragedy on which his life has turned. Meer