What have been the major contributions of books to democratic life?
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to generate the ability o free thinking.  Remember the book of Ray Bradbury FARENHAIT 911 which tells the reality of a comunity that was forbidden of reading books, and the government would control the population by tv. Maybe you can read a breef of that book, i'm sure will be an inspirantion.\nGood luck!
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I read the book myself about 5 years ago at school. Its all metaphors and political commentary. The link below will provide all the information you could need.\n\nAs to the above answer "do a google", you will find the 95% of the questions on here coud be solved quicker are more effectivly with a google search by the user.
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Many things...the link below takes you to a page of further reading...:D
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1. Politics\n2. Politics\n3. Politics
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Notable ideas: tabula rasa, "government with the consent of the governed"; state of nature; rights of life, liberty and property \nInfluences: Plato, Aristotle, Aquinas, Grotius, Descartes, Hooker, Hobbes
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It is important to vote Democrat.
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A decline in reading.\n\nAn increase in visual media that bypasses the critical thinking function that reading stimulates.\n\nA lack of awareness of history. When history is promoted, it is usually heavily edited to promote an agenda or to sensationalize it; source documents are ignored if they don't fit the plan. Literature classes are more likely to be selectively laced with politically correct readings which fit proper political indoctrination.\n(Anyone taken a Women Lit class that features writings by Ayn Rand? ---Just wondering...)\n\nAnd don't forget to do your drugs (or was that THX 1138?)\n\nWith cameras on every corner (1984), stem cell research and human cloning (Brave New World) and the disappearance of the written word (F. 451) it's no wonder that some of us old geezers feel like we're strangers living in a strange land....
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I'm surprised no one has mentioned the movable type printing press. This enabled the easy storage and movement of information. \n Think about all the education you have had, and your educators have had, and their educators have had etc... how much has been learnt and passed on through the printed word? Including information on how to make a wheel, what a wheel is, and all the possible applications for the wheel. Same goes for the other inventions mentioned.\n\nSure simple devices such as the wheel had been around for centuries before the printing press and some had some considerable impact on mankind. However technological development had been pretty stagnant before the advent of the movable type printing press.The industrial revolution wouldn't have been possible without the printing press. We would still be living in the 'Dark Ages'.\n\nNot only has the movable type printing press been a key part of the technologies used in other inventions mentioned but has also been a key factor in the social development of mankind. For example\nthe massive impact of political works such as the Communist Manifesto.
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Here are some possiblities:\n\nAlbany's O'Connell Machine: An American Political Relic by Frank Robinson, Published by Washington Park Spirit (1973)\n\nMachine Politics: A Study of Albany's O'Connells also by Frank Robinson - reprint edition is ISBN: 0878551476\n\nO Albany!: Improbable City of Political Wizards, Fearless Ethnics, Spectacular Aristocrats, Splendid Nobodies, and Underrated Scoundrels by William J. Kennedy, reprint edition isbn: 0140074163\n\nAnd, possibly, When Leaders Were Bosses: An Inside Look at Political Machines and Politics by Noal Solomon, ISBN: 0682483338
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Try to reading Books on topics of Human Behaviour in an Organization (HBO).
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Dont know sorry. Dont they have books for that or some thing.
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books or a college class
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"My Pet Goat".  It, indeed, must have been fascinating reading.\nMust remember to pick up a copy.
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20 copies of Atlas Shrugged so I can give one to anyone who doesn't understand what the liberal agenda is going to do to this country.  Also The Road to Jerusalem and every history book I have ever come across.
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see http://www.thebigview.com/greeks/democritus.html
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Books because I like to learn
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authors of Presidential elections: Strategies of American electoral politics