Political Science - General

Author: Darren BresaleISBN-10: 147978088XISBN-13: 9781479780884Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/06/2013Pages: 128Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.44lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.30d

Niccol di Bernardo dei Machiavelli ( 3 May 1469 - 21 June 1527) was an Italian historian, diplomat, philosopher, humanist and writer based in Florence during the Renaissance. A founder of modern political science, 1] he was a civil servant of theFlorentine Republic. He...

Expressions such as "Environmental terrorism" or "eco-anarchy" may sum up the state of the Niger Delta region of Nigeria, in a bid to explain the indiscriminate cutting of pristine forests, terminal scare of wildlife and extinction of biodiversity, loss of soil fertility and fecundity...

Author: Rohini DesilvaISBN-10: 1477135871ISBN-13: 9781477135877Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/23/2012Pages: 440Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.76lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.13d

As with other terrorist and extremist organizations, religion forms the basis of the Ku Klux Klan's dogmatic philosophy, providing justification for its beliefs and actions. The Klan represents a link to America's cultural past. While America has undergone tremendous social change, the secretive order...

From the Roots Up seeks to inform, motivate, challenge, and inspire you to look past conventional wisdom regarding life, faith, and politics. This collection of columns and stories offers thought-provoking story vignettes about everyday people and the issues they face today. Arizona native Randy...

The New Economic Diplomacy explains how states conduct their external economic relations in the 21st century: how they make decisions domestically, how they negotiate internationally and how these processes interact. Although the previous edition, published in 2011, was able to reflect the impact of...

Few lessons are as prevalent in military history as is the adage that tanks don't perform well in cities. The notion of deliberately committing tanks to urban combat is anathema to most. In Breaking the Mold: Tanks in the Cities, Mr. Ken Gott disproves...

A Nation at Risk: A Personal Narrative of the Cameroonian Crisis should be construed as a requiem for what used to be known as the Republic of Cameroon. The overriding objective of this book is to shine the searchlight on the dysfunctional government of...

As Wesley C. Hogan sees it, the future of democracy belongs to young people. While today's generation of leaders confronts a daunting array of existential challenges, increasingly it is young people in the United States and around the world who are finding new ways...

The author contends that the separation of powers in American government is not primarily based on the political theories of Montesquieu but on the actual experience of the colonists with the abuse of plural office-holding. Having tasted the bitter fruits of tyranny concentrated in...

Author: Thomas MoyerISBN-10: 1469165252ISBN-13: 9781469165257Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/24/2012Pages: 118Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.73lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d

Author: Muse IlluminatusISBN-10: 1469135035ISBN-13: 9781469135038Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/28/2011Pages: 128Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.76lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d

Why is this book different from all other books about Israel? All other books tend to defend Israel. ISRAEL RECLAIMING THE NARRATIVE goes on the attack. Why should my country apologize for fighting for its right to exist? ISRAEL RECLAIMING THE NARRATIVE prosecutes Israel's...

Chief Obafemi Awolowo: The Political Moses is a story of a man who dedicated the entirety of his life to serve humanity and the development of mankind. The Author makes use of the noun Moses to depict the tiresome journey of an activist who...

Chief Obafemi Awolowo: The Political Moses is a story of a man who dedicated the entirety of his life to serve humanity and the development of mankind. The Author makes use of the noun Moses to depict the tiresome journey of an activist who...

This is a book intended to help the average voter sort out the constant stream of misinformation and rhetoric emanating from political candidates, media, talking heads, and talk shows in order that they can formulate their own strategies about what's best for our country...

The book summarizes the vision and mission of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah and his strategies for moving Ghana from a third world country to a first world by the shortest possible means. It also looks at the economic repercussions of his overthrow. It contains all...

Sky Burial is the remarkable story of a young American physician who witnesses the largest independence demonstrations in Lhasa since China entered Tibet in 1949. After graduating from medical school, Blake Kerr hitch-hiked across the Tibetan Plateau with a college friend, John Ackerly, and...

Boldly going into an uncharted universe, the trailblazing governors demonstrated that women could succeed in politics, effectively lead state government, and have fun in the process They believed politics was an instrument of service, and courage, intelligence, and integrity were their defining characteristics. Who...

Eight years before the Boston Tea Party and ten years before Lexington and Concord, the first shots in the American Revolution were fired in Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, in 1765. Known as the Smith Rebellion, this crucial turning point in American history set the stage for...

The Archaeology of Capitalism in Colonial Contexts: Postcolonial Historical Archaeologies explores the complex interplay of colonial and capital formations throughout the modern world. The authors present a critical approach to this topic, trying to shift discourses in the theoretical framework of historical archaeology of...

Author: Sovathana SokhomISBN-10: 1456872362ISBN-13: 9781456872366Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/2011Pages: 192Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.97lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d

Author: Cleophas Johannes TsokodayiISBN-10: 1456852914ISBN-13: 9781456852917Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/23/2011Pages: 302Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.32lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81d

This account covers so many sites-a railway station in Berlin, Germany in 1933, a penthouse overlooking the mountains that surround Genoa, Italy, the World War II experience of picking cotton while an Athens, GA, high school student, to Atlanta, to St. Louis, to Chicago...

Author: Eric E. Dawson EsqISBN-10: 145673055XISBN-13: 9781456730550Publisher: AuthorhouseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/23/2011Pages: 180Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.44lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.41d

Random Contents: Common Sense, Manifest Destiny, Pig War, Newberg Conspiracy, Nullification Theory, Patrick Henry, Palin's Future, Global Economy, Isolationism, Alexis de Tocqueville, Line Item Veto, Laissez Faire, Manifest Destiny, Baseball, Petticoat Affair, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Electoral College, Haymarket Riot, Term Limits, Uncle Sam Alexander...

Author: William H. YoungISBN-10: 1453516646ISBN-13: 9781453516645Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/21/2010Pages: 636Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.38lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.56d

This book analyses how and why we are living at a critical moment in the history of human life on earth and explores how we find grounds for the hopes that will enable us to address the challenges and crises of our time. The...

Political correctness appears innocuous enough until one truly looks at the ripple effect created by today's manipulative players looking for an advantage. Political correctness is a lie because saying it isn't so, doesn't change the facts...the facts are that pigs don't fly and life...

Chapter 1 The Religion of Greed and its Impact on African Americans As christian counselors, we are confronted with a constant barrage of institutional conflicts which negatively affect the culture of black Americans and causes disunity. Decisions that are specific in uniting the culture...

Tom Pearson, Del Mar's only 5-time mayor, has compiled interesting and exciting stories he has written through the years that were published in newspapers. Included in the book are stories contributed by friends of Tom that add to the interesting eye witness accounts of...

The Indian as an Enemy raises provocative questions which acknowledge the historic role of the 'middleman minority' on the African continent. For example, what do we know about the Arabs in Libya, Mali and Sudan? What about the Lebanese in Ghana and the rest...

Half Truth is an endeavor to portray the real picture of today's burning and bleeding Afghanistan. It unveils the hidden faces and ruthless powerful forces behind this exclusive global tragedy. It reveals, how Afghanistan was turned into a battlefield in mid seventies, using highly...

Author: Lee BirkheadISBN-10: 145001738XISBN-13: 9781450017381Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/07/2010Pages: 278Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.91lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d

In the past year the elected leaders of the government of the United States have taken that nation down a road that can only lead to disaster. The federal government of the United States has borrowed more money in the past year alone than...

Little People Little Patriots: Saving America One Child at a Time is a short, easy to read refresher on the founding principles of the United States of America; it is a review of the very underpinnings that made this nation great. And, as the...

In this book, "All Medicines are Poison ," Melvin H. Kirschner, MPH, MD, sets out to remove the fog of confusion that clouds the landscape patients are required to navigate in their search for health care today. This book describes the risks and benefits...

The controversial role of the petrodollar in modern socio-political relations within the local, national and international settings evokes serious concerns. Oil has become a paramount source of political power in our energy-driven world. Nigeria is increasingly assuming the center stage within the global community...

Benjamin Tucker was an American anarchist and socialist.A 19th-century proponent of individualist anarchism which he called "unterrified Jeffersonianism", Tucker was the editor and publisher of the American individualist anarchist periodical Liberty as well as a member of the socialist First International.Tucker harshly opposed state...

This new edition of A Companion to Contemporary Political Philosophy has been extended significantly to include 55 chapters across two volumes written by some of today's most distinguished scholars. New contributors include some of today's most distinguished scholars, among them Thomas Pogge, Charles Beitz,...

The Morality of Spin explores the ethics of political rhetoric crafted to persuade and possibly manipulate potential voters. Based on extensive insider interviews with leaders of Focus on the Family, one of the most powerful Christian right organizations in America, Nathaniel Klemp asks whether...

Beginning with the assumption that a justice motive exists, the author posits that belief in a just world influences the behavior of most people most of the time. This is true for all people of all ages and in all areas of life, for...

Author: Paul BoeclerISBN-10: 1441589414ISBN-13: 9781441589415Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/30/2009Pages: 166Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.38d

Utopia and its Discontents traces literary representations of ideal communities from Plato to the 21st century. Each chapter offers close readings of key utopian and anti-utopian texts to demonstrate how they construct, challenge and explore the ideas and forms of earlier utopian writings and...

GLASS WALLS is a flowing, descriptive study of how public policy decisions by government can be misguided by social, cultural and religious influences within a textbook case setting-Williamson County, Texas. As the problem is described, a suggested cure surfaces, done with the intention of...

People with only a slight interest in history will enjoy these fascinating, short and easy to understand stories. Serious history buffs will like these lesser-known episodes, not the stories we've heard a million times. For example: try to find anyone who knows about the...

KOREA AND THE IMPERIALISTS Until the Korean War in 1950, except for evangelist Christian missionaries, Americans were not interested in Korea or considered it important in the scheme of things. Many did not know Korea had existed as an independent kingdom for centuries and...

Strong Pre-Plebiscite Position of British Southern Cameroons Leaders The two leaders (Endeley and Foncha, Former and current Prime Ministers) accepted completely dropping the idea of joining Nigeria or Cameroon, simply requesting of the British administering authority the granting of independence to the Southern Cameroons...

Empiricists believe that all knowledge comes from our perceptions of the world around us. But in rhe Problems of Philosophy, Bertrand Russell asks a fundamental question: "Is there any knowledge in the world which is so certain that no reasonable man could doubt it?"...