Understanding Politics: Ideas, Institutions, and Issues

by Thomas M. Magstadt and Charles H Knickerbocker

Book Overview

"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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1285452356
• ISBN13: 9781285452357
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Cengage Learning
• Length: 608 Pages
• Weight: 2.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.3" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

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Required Reading

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

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

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.