The notion of a distinctive religious basis for American democracy and culture was first described and popularized by Alexis de Tocqueville in the 1840s, in his influential book, Democracy in America.

In May 2004, Kenneth Brown of the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution made the accusation that major parts of the Linux kernel had been copied from the MINIX codebase, in a book called Samizdat.

Tocqueville begins his book by describing the change in social conditions taking place.

Tocqueville described this revolution as a " providential fact " of an " irresistible revolution ," leading some to criticize the determinism found in the book.

This visit resulted in the publication in The Spectator of seven weekly letters, collected in book form at the end of 1847 ( see a letter to de Tocqueville in Mrs Grote's reprint of the Seven Letters, 1876 ).

In developing material for his book, Bryce painstakingly reproduced the travels of Alexis de Tocqueville, writer of Democracy in America.

In the series, " In the Footsteps of Tocqueville ", Lévy imitated his compatriot and predecessor in American critique, Alexis de Tocqueville, criss-crossing the United States, interviewing Americans and recording his observations first for magazine and then book publication.

The Road to Serfdom was to be the popular edition of the second volume of Hayek ’ s treatise entitled “ The Abuse and Decline of Reason ,” and the title was inspired by the writings of the 19th century French classical liberal thinker Alexis de Tocqueville on the “ road to servitude .” The book was first published in Britain by Routledge in March 1944, during World War II, and was quite popular, leading Hayek to call it “ that unobtainable book ,” also due in part to wartime paper rationing.

Samizdat: And Other Issues Regarding the ' Source ' of Open Source Code is a book by Kenneth Brown, which was prereleased in May 2004 and was to be published later that year by the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution ( AdTI ).

In this book, de Tocqueville develops his main theory about the French revolution, the theory of continuity, in which he states that even though the French tried to disassociate themselves from the past and from the autocratic old regime, they eventually reverted to a powerful central government.

A major influence on McWilliams's thought was the book Democracy in America by the French theorist Alexis de Tocqueville, and like Tocqueville, McWilliams commended to modern liberal democracy the arts of association and a chastening form of religious faith.

Alexis de Tocqueville visited Knoxville in 1832 as part of his tour of America which he would eventually describe in his famous book, Democracy in America.

In his book Democracy in America, De Tocqueville describes this as " soft oppression.

In addition to his writings on computer science, Knuth, a Lutheran, is also the author of 3: 16 Bible Texts Illuminated, in which he examines the Bible by a process of systematic sampling, namely an analysis of chapter 3, verse 16 of each book.

* Intimate Behaviour ( 1971 ) — this book examines and analyses any physical contact acted out by human animals.

He instead, as the title of the book suggests, examines the social conditions that brought about the production of the Encyclopédie.

To describe such self-referencing objects, Hofstadter coins the term " strange loop ", a concept he examines in more depth in his follow-up book I Am a Strange Loop.

This book examines Jewish denominationalism, especially Orthodox tolerance toward non-Orthodox Jews as exemplified by Rabbis Hatam Sofer and Moshe Feinstein.

The book examines the personality of Georg Steller and depicts the Kamchatka expedition during which the discovery of the Steller's sea cow was made.

Lucian in the 2nd century AD in his book True History examines the idea of a crew of men whose ship travels to the Moon during a storm.

The 2009 book Knossos and the prophets of modernism by Cathy Gere examines the political influence on archaeology more generally.

In the book The Piri Reis Map of 1513 Gregory C. McIntosh examines Hapgood's claims for both maps and states that " they fall short of proving or even strongly suggesting that the Piri Reis map and the Fine map depict the actual outline of Antarctica.

Witherspoon's next film will be Atom Egoyan's same-named adaptation of the true crime book Devil's Knot, which examines the controversial case of the West Memphis Three.

The book examines city, county and state level data from the entire United States and measures the impact of 11 different types of gun control laws on crime rates.

Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal ( 2002 ) is a book by investigative journalist Eric Schlosser that examines the local and global influence of the United States fast food industry.

His latest book, I Want to Make a Difference-But I Don't Like Politics, examines the reasons for the decline in turnout at UK elections and was published in October 2006.

This book examines the field of Ariosophy, an esoteric movement in Germany and Austria 1890-1930, that Goodrick-Clarke himself describes as occult.

This branch of the bibliographic discipline examines the material features of a textual artifact – such as type, ink, paper, imposition, format, impressions and states of a book – to essentially recreate the conditions of its production.

Amartya Sen, in his book Hunger and Public Action examines the performance of Chile in various economic and social indicators.

The book examines the complex psychological relationship between two parolees who together commit a mass murder.

Based around the fictional British town of Timechester, the book looks at how the settlement would have progressed from the Palaeolithic through to the modern day, and examines the remains that each period would have left behind in the archaeological record.

The 2000 book, Sandbars and Sternwheelers: Steam Navigation on the Brazos by Pamela A. Puryear and Nath Winfield, Jr., with introduction by J. Milton Nance, examines the early vessels that attempted to sail on the Brazos.

The book also examines other home-design materials once used by the lower classes to emulate their betters.

A 2010 book, Weird City, examines Florida's influence on planning policy in Austin, Texas.

In his book The Politics of Lust, author and sexual activist John Ince examines three distinct cause and effect forces that fuel erotophobia: " antisexualism ," the irrational negative response to harmless sexual expression ; " nasty sex ," which includes rape and violent pornography ; and " rigidity ," the inability to enjoy " playful and spontaneous " sex.

The book also examines the terms " harmful to minors " and " indecency ," which Levine considers to be umbrella terms for censorship, as well as the Dylan v. Heather case, and the little-known SPARK-Support Program for Abusive Reactive Kids and STEP-Sexual Treatment Education Program and Services, both of which she claims do far more harm than the child sex offenders did themselves.

*" Beyond Going Postal: Shifting from workplace tragedies and toxic workplace environments to a safe and healthy organization " is the title of a book by Musacco, Ph. D., which examines the paramilitary, authoritarian postal culture and its relationship to toxic workplace environments and postal tragedies.

Initially sympathetic to Wieser's democratic socialism, Hayek's economic thinking shifted away from socialism and toward the classical liberalism of Carl Menger after reading Ludwig von Mises ' book Socialism.

But foreign policy scholars such as Eric Nordlinger in his book Isolationism Reconfigured have argued that " A vision of Finlandization in America's absence runs up squarely against the European states ' long-standing Communist antipathies and wariness of Moscow's peaceful wiles, valued national traditions and strong democratic institutions, as well as their size and wherewithal.

In his book In the Fourth Year published in 1918 he suggested how each nation of the world would elect, " upon democratic lines " by proportional representation, an electoral college in the manner of the United States of America, in turn to select its delegate to the proposed League of Nations.

Howison, in his book The Limits of Evolution and Other Essays Illustrating the Metaphysical Theory of Personal Idealism, created a democratic notion of personal idealism that extended all the way to God, who was no more the ultimate monarch but the ultimate democrat in eternal relation to other eternal persons.

The thrust of the book was against the pro-war position taken by the European social democratic parties, primarily the German party.

Fenner Brockway, a leading British democratic socialist of the Independent Labour Party, wrote in his book Britain's First Socialists:

The culmination of Fromm's social and political philosophy was his book The Sane Society, published in 1955, which argued in favor of a humanistic and democratic socialism.

One of the main challenges to neorealist theory is the democratic peace theory and supporting research such as the book Never at War.

On the book Winning the War on Terror Dr. James Forest, U. S. Military Academy Combating Terrorism Center at West Point, comments: " While the West faces uncertainties in the struggle against militant Islam ’ s armies of darkness, and while it is true that we do not yet know precisely how it will end, what has become abundantly clear is that the world will succeed in defeating militant Islam because of the West ’ s flexible, democratic institutions and its all-encompassing ideology of freedom.

The book argues that replacing dictatorships with democratic governments is both morally justified, since it leads to greater freedom for the citizens of such countries, and strategically wise, since democratic countries are more peaceful, and breed less terrorism than dictatorial ones.

In his book on St. Paul, as in the Apostles, he shows his concern with the larger social life, his sense of fraternity, and a revival of the democratic sentiment which had inspired L ' Avenir de la science.

In 1956, sociologist C. Wright Mills had claimed in his book The Power Elite that a class of military, business, and political leaders, driven by mutual interests, were the real leaders of the state, and were effectively beyond democratic control.

The leader of the PCE, Santiago Carrillo, wrote Eurocommunism's defining book Eurocomunismo y estado ( Eurocommunism and the State ) and participated in the development of the liberal democratic constitution as Spain emerged from the dictatorship of Franco.

In his book The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, historian William Shirer described the Weimar Constitution as " on paper, the most liberal and democratic document of its kind the twentieth century had ever seen ... full of ingenious and admirable devices which seemed to guarantee the working of an almost flawless democracy.

His book Development as Freedom argues that lack of democracy is the major culprit: " Indeed, no substantial famine has ever occurred in a democratic country — no matter how poor.

The book was influential abroad, exporting the ideas of Poland's Golden Freedom and democratic system.

The book provided an analysis of the policy history that made the system possible and suggested the rudiments of a road map for how the system might be changed to produce more democratic results.

The book is meant to provide a historical and political context for the policymaking process, with the notion that during a critical juncture the range of options for reform grow democratically larger, and the possibilities for democratic advance are much greater.

The Case Against Free Trade, subtitled GATT, NAFTA, and the Globalization of Corporate Power, is a book edited by Ralph Nader, with chapters written by William Greider, Margaret Atwood, David Philips, and Pat Choate, which claims that corporations are using free trade as a cloak or smokescreen under which they intend to circumvent the democratic process to harm the health and safety of the general public.

*-the book that Chamberlain sought to suppress containing Wagner's liberal democratic views

The book also sought to re-establish Marxism as a viable position within philosophy, albeit in a manner influenced by structuralism, against its years of dilution from not only critiques ( humanist and Sartrean ones, particularly ) but also from the supposedly socialist philosophy of popular liberal-socialist democratic writing and politics.

The David and Elaine Spitz Prize is an award for a book in liberal and / or democratic theory.

In his 1938 book, Socialism on the Defensive, SP leader Norman Thomas acknowledged that a number of issues had been involved in the split which led to the formation of the SDF, including " organizational policy, the effort to make the party inclusive of all socialist elements not bound by communist discipline ; a feeling of dissatisfaction with social democratic tactics which had failed in Germany " as well as " the socialist estimate of Russia ; and the possibility of cooperation with communists on certain specific matters.