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This is the final book in the One American's Opinion - For Patriots Who Love Their Country Trilogy. The first book was about President Obama's years in office. The second book covered the first year of the Trump presidency. This final book chronicles the...

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Everything that was published years after the Chernobyl catastrophe could refer to a great deal of substantial material and facts in retrospect. But during the catastrophe, the reporting was partly characterized by ignorance, a lack of facts and the undermining of information, by speculations,...

Peter McLaren, l'enfant terrible of the educational establishment has continued to be a highly visible and much valued international firebrand whose work is characterized by an exquisite militancy and eloquence. McLaren's newest work is a clarion call for challenging religious fundamentalism and its unholy...

Those studying development often address the impact of government policies, but rarely the politics that generate these policies. A culmination of several decades of work by Robert Bates, among the most respected comparativists in political science, this compact volume seeks to rectify that omission....

This is the story of Hank. A retired janitor, son of a mechanic - and one of the forgotten men and women who Trump promised to take care of once elected. No one was more excited when Trump won the presidency. Hank was a...

UNMASKED2020 is a collection of commentaries on the government's executive and legislative actions during the historic 2020 session of the Colorado General Assembly. The 2019 legislative session had produced much equally radical legislation, like the knee-capping of the oil and gas industry in Senate...

Current events reportage and analysis from the Mort Report on the damage done in the United States and abroad during Donald Trump's presidency, with an essay examining the threatened future impact on global geopolitics, the environment and climate change and other previously unpublished miscellany....

This book helps undergraduate and graduate students understand Chester Barnard's organization theory. Barnard's book The Functions of the Executive is a classic that, along with Herbert Simon's Administrative Behavior, is often considered to be essential reading for management students. However, it is well known...

An audio-only collection published in partnership with CBS News's 60 Minutes. Barack Obama: The 60 Minutes Interviews offers an unprecedented glimpse into the Obama presidency, through a series of extended interviews presented with new commentary by award-winning 60 Minutes veteran Steve Kroft. Kroft conducted...

The commentary on Plato's Republic by Proclus (d. 485 CE), which takes the form of a series of essays, is the only sustained treatment of the dialogue to survive from antiquity. This three-volume edition presents the first complete English translation of Proclus' text, together...

In this book, a multidisciplinary and international selection of Jungian clinicians and academics discuss some of the most compelling issues in contemporary politics. Presented in five parts, each chapter offers an in-depth and timely discussion on themes including migration, climate change, walls and boundaries,...

Author: AnonymISBN-10: 3346202038ISBN-13: 9783346202031Publisher: Grin VerlagLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/19/2020Pages: 26Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.10lbsSize: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.06d

'Crowds, doubtless, are always unconscious, but this very unconsciousness is perhaps one of the secrets of their strength.' Gustave Le Bon gives insight into the general characteristics and mental unity of a crowd, its sentiments and morality, ideas, reasoning power, imagination, opinions and much...

In 1910, E. T. Whittaker wrote "A History of the Theories of Aether and Electricity", which gave a very detailed account of the aether theories from Ren Descartes to Hendrik Lorentz, and which made Whittaker a respected historian of science. Though the book was...

Peace operations remain a principal tool for managing armed conflict and protecting civilians. The fully revised, expanded and updated third edition of Understanding Peacekeeping provides a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to the theory, history, and politics of peace operations. Drawing on a dataset of...

This book is filled with some of the positive accomplishments of President Trump's first Administration. Most of this has never been covered by the echo-chamber megaphone pretending to be an objective media. Some of it has been covered as if through a carnival mirror,...

This timely book explores the external dimension of the European Union's (EU) energy law and policy. In doing so, it provides an analysis of the EU's competences in the energy field, the Energy Community and its relation to EU energy policy, the energy relations...

Indonesia is a prime example for studies of nationalism in postcolonial societies: since 1912 Java has been the place of a historically unprecedented independence movement. Only with the example of Indonesia and especially Java can we understand what it means for a colonial territory...

The United Stated has reached its peek, failed to remain at the summit, and it's descending. How long will the Americans civilization lost, another 150,200,250 years? The Roman Civilization lasted for 1,500 years, then collapsed. The common link between the Ramos Empire, and the...

Learn on your terms with Sidlow/Henschen's GOVT 11. Combining an easy-reference paperback textbook with robust resources and an innovative online experience, GOVT 11 presents an accessible and concise overview of American government that equips you with anywhere, anytime learning tools -- all at an...

This book demonstrates the continuing relevance of Marx's critique of the capitalist system, in which value is simply equated with market price. It includes chapters specifically on the environment and financialisation, and presents Marx's qualitative theory of value and the associated concept of fetishism...

Understanding future supply and demand of raw materials and the associated environmental and social implications is essential to supporting the transition towards greenhouse gas neutrality by 2050. In this Special Issue, we present a range of research papers with a focus on future outlooks...

Christian Theocracy or Secular?Run by Corporations or Capitalistic-Socialism?Is the US a Christian nation OR secular? Should corporations with limited government run the US? OR, have a dynamic mix of capitalism, socialism, and proper size government?This book explores those these two tensions by explaining the...

This book is the first complete and accurate biography of the remarkable life and revolutionary career of Anita Garibaldi. Illiterate and poor, the daughter of a herdsman in 19th century Brazil, Anita lifted herself from a life of obscurity to one that is the...

Seven years since his death (2013), Nelson Mandela still occupies an extraordinary place in the global imagination. Internationally, Mandela's renown seems intact and invulnerable. In South Africa, however, his legacy and his place in the country's history have become matters of contention and dispute,...

This book discusses Russia's policy on Crimea influenced by its policy towards separatism in Georgia. By applying concept of political learning, this paper aims to analyse how Russia's learning about its policy to militarily support Abkhazian and South Ossetian separatists in Russo-Georgia War underpinned...

This study aims to investigate the role of history writing and the development of conflict narratives that emerge out of a particular understanding of history. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is used as a case study of a context in which the competition for the correct...

The global crisis of our time involves a complex of ecological, economic, technological and migratory challenges that no state is able to control. The result is a provincialisation of our democracies with respect to the new planetary powers confronting humanity. It is from this...

In this book, Mashal Saif explores how contemporary 'ulama, the guardians of religious knowledge and law, engage with the world's most populated Islamic nation-state: Pakistan. In mapping these engagements, she weds rigorous textual analysis with fieldwork and offers insight into some of the most...

Shakespeare was not only a poet-playwright; he was a sage who saw deeply into human nature and mankind's place in the natural order. He both diagnosed the ills of society-and saw beyond them to a healthier, saner world.The purpose of this little book is...

Chifley and Postwar Reconstruction: the Australian Labor Party and the platform is the fifth in a series of books that analyses federal Labor governments and their attempts to pursue and enact the platform they were pledged to uphold.The book examines the leadership, vision, tenacity,...

Transgenderism is one of the biggest social issues of our time. Society has embraced the growing number of transgender people in a way that would have been unimaginable just ten years ago. It has even been described as the next civil rights issue. But...

For too long tradition and common sense have been marginalised by an illiberal elite, whose supposedly progressive ideology has degenerated into a collective mental malady. This treatise describes the virulent spread of 'woke' group-think as moralitis - a cultural virus. Robert Oulds and Niall...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed...

This book was written to provide consolation, in particularly, to the millions in Christ Jesus and others who are profoundly sickened, frustrated, irritated, broken-hearted about the immoral actions and fifthly languages of Donald J. Trump, both before and after becoming president of the United...

This book of poems has been in the works since the Vietnam War era. Many of them have evolved and been refined over the years -- I could never let go of them. Some are about The Vietnam War and the weapons of war;...

This book provides a history of the ethnic persecution of the Rohingyas in Myanmar and their disputed ethnic and national identity. It focuses on how the crisis has morphed into a geopolitical encounter among Bangladesh, China, India, and Myanmar. It further explores the moral,...

In the face of climate chaos, post-truth politics, and growing tribalisms, it's clear that liberalism's old structures are unraveling. Drawing on resilience ecology, Stephanie Wakefield suggests we understand such phenomena to be indicators that we are entering the Anthropocene's back loop, a time of...

The United States is a unique country. We were founded on the concept of Natural Rights. Many are telling us that entitlements are rights. We were founded as a Republic and not a democracy. Many are telling us we are a democracy. Are these...

O, Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation. (Isaiah 10:5)Assyria may have been the rod of God's anger. I say this lightly, for the Bible explains that only God knows the heart of humanity as mentioned...

The rule of law is indispensable for sustained peace, good governance, and economic growth, especially in countries recovering from civil war. Yet despite its importance, we know surprisingly little about how to restore the rule of law in the wake of conflict. In this...

During the 1920s and 1930s in Mexico, both intellectuals and government officials promoted ethnic diversity while attempting to overcome the stigma of race in Mexican society. Programs such as the Indigenista movement represented their efforts to redeem the Revolution's promise of a more democratic...

Americans are currently in an era of significant uncertainty. The previous conventions that shaped the political landscape have disappeared to be replaced by, well, Donald Trump and Trumpism. It is not clear what impact this political overhaul will have for America. Of course, making...

Conspiracy theories seem to be proliferating today. Long relegated to a niche existence, conspiracy theories are now pervasive, and older conspiracy theories have been joined by a constant stream of new ones - that the USA carried out the 9/11 attacks itself, that the...

They had it all, but it was taken from them. During the early 1900s, Cecil L. Snyder, a businessman, a husband, and a father, who was dedicated to his country, endured endless political injustices from governmental bodies, whose intentions were to bring him down....

Nonverbal Communication in Political Debates presents a framework for understanding and analyzing the multiple ways that nonverbal behavior functions in political debates. In addition to addressing the ways in which politicians are presented and present themselves in debate broadcasts, the framework considers a wide...

This edited volume features essays derived from presentations delivered at the 15th Biennial Public Address Conference held at Syracuse University in October 2016, as well as additional material. Author: Mitchell S. McKinneyISBN-10: 1433173530ISBN-13: 9781433173530Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic PubliLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/21/2020Pages: 370Format: PaperbackWeight:...

This book builds on the consolidated research field of Political Discourse Analysis and attempts to provide an introduction suitable for adoption amongst a readership wishing to understand some of the principles underlying such research, and above all to appreciate how the tools of discourse...