Political Science - General

Author: Scott N. BradleyISBN-10: 1436345472ISBN-13: 9781436345477Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/21/2009Pages: 528Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.69lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.18d

Author: Todd A. DavisISBN-10: 1436315050ISBN-13: 9781436315050Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/24/2008Pages: 188Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.62lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.43d

In spite of its tough message, there is much compassion and humanity in The Final Empire. Right away as you begin to read this work, you sense increasingly the grand perspective in K tke's words. He is not speaking of anarchy. He is offering...

In spite of its tough message, there is much compassion and humanity in The Final Empire. Right away as you begin to read this work, you sense increasingly the grand perspective in K tke's words. He is not speaking of anarchy. He is offering...

The Federalist Papers contain some of the greatest political writing of all time. Written to New Yorkers in 1787 and 1788 to urge the ratification of the proposed new Constitution, the papers received immediate respect. They were published in book form in 1788 and...

This book explores imagined interactions (IIs) as a type of self-therapy when dealing with stress and trauma.Author: Gary L. KrepsISBN-10: 1433154099ISBN-13: 9781433154096Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic PubliLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/15/2019Pages: 200Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.60d

In this volume the editors seek to build upon the agenda set in motion by the first volume, by: offering an overview of key developments in citizen journalism since 2008; providing a new set of case studies highlighting important instances of citizen reporting of...

Voices of Marginality is theoretically grounded in the theology of the diaspora, which according to Fernando F. Segovia has been forged in the migratory experience of American Hispanics. This theological perspective views Judean exiles (587 B.C.E.) and contemporary Mexican migrants as part of a...

The story of a political reform movement In the 1970's, in Chester County, PA., a small group of citizens raised the flag of reform against a dominant political machine. How did they go about it? Did they achieve success? What happened after the dust...

""John Locke and the Doctrine of Majority-Rule"" by Willmoore Kendall is a book that delves into the political philosophy of John Locke and his contribution to the concept of majority-rule. The book examines Locke's ideas on democracy, individual rights, and the role of government...

In Beyond Question Period you travel with a Canadian Member of Parliament and discover how challenging, yet exhilirating, the work of an MP can be. Running for election, debating and voting on bills, committee work, constituency work, representing Canada internationally, and speaking at a...

In this provocative treatise, author Joe Khamisi catalogues the events that took place during one of Kenya's most important periods in history. This period began in 2002, when Daniel Arap Moi stepped down after twenty-four years as president of Kenya. Khamisi reviews events up...

The author discusses the three Axioms in the dominant interpretation of the U.S.-Vietnam War that were established by the invisible permanent government right after the National Security Council meeting on September 21, 1960. They are: - There was never a legitimate non-communist government in...

Since the election of 2008, patriotic Americans have come to realize just how incompetent our representatives are in Washington, D.C. History shows us that no matter how great the empire, it can be lost to greedy and corrupt incompetent politicians. If we the people...

Making sense of Lee Harvey Oswald's politics is not easy and has understandably resulted in quite varied interpretations. In the aftermath of the assassination, the immediate reaction of many who knew him or knew about him was that Oswald could never have shot the...

With God, everything is possible! The advent of President Barack Obama, an African-American, to the US Presidency and the White House is providential. Before January 20, 2009, it was incomprehensible and impossible to all Doubting Thomases. Forty years earlier, Blacks generally were barred from...

The Kingdom of the Shining Ones is a book written by Flower A. Newhouse that delves into the world of spiritual beings and their connection to humanity. The book explores the idea that there are higher beings, known as the Shining Ones, who are...

Lynched-at-Law speaks to American life. Ambition encounters nuances of race, racism, religion, money, law, lawful conspiracy, criminal and the political forces that shape "reality".Author: James Orin OgleISBN-10: 1425183360ISBN-13: 9781425183363Publisher: Trafford PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/30/2008Pages: 344Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.45lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.81d

This is an attempt to explain why African Americans can't realize their potential as a race, and what to do about it.Author: James RollinsISBN-10: 1425108350ISBN-13: 9781425108359Publisher: Trafford PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/2006Pages: 112Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.39lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.27d

The irrationally exuberant highs and lows of the 1920s can help students recognize boom and bust cycles past, present, and future.Speculation--an economic reality for centuries--is a hallmark of the modern U.S. economy. But how does speculation work? Is it really caused, as some insist,...

Originally published in 1762, "The Social Contract" is Jean-Jacques Rousseau's treatise on how to best organize politics in the face of commercial society. Rousseau writes, "Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains." This statement exemplifies the main dilemma of government, that...

The period leading up to the foundation of the United States of America was a period in which a contentious debate permeated the colonies. A growing call for independence from England began to become discussed in whispers amongst the colonists. This contention was arguably...

Author: John LockeISBN-10: 1420955292ISBN-13: 9781420955293Publisher: Digireads.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/12/2017Pages: 108Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.32lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.26d

This book illustrates the commonly occurring racial issues that are happening to African Americans in work places all across America. This is my personal story of an employment termination from state government, and survial by fighting the system all the way from the hearing...

Marxism, Freedom and the State is a collection of essays and letters by the Russian anarchist philosopher and revolutionary, Mikhail Bakunin. In this book, Bakunin critiques the ideology of Marxism, arguing that it ultimately leads to a dictatorship of the proletariat and the concentration...

In this rich and savvy collection of commentaries on the events, people and issues that shape and define our world, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and New York Times bestselling author Ellen Goodman cuts to the heart of the stories and controversies that helped to define...

November 1977. Cuba has assembled a powerful skydiving team to compete at the Pan American Parachute Games in Mexico. Their trainer, a seasoned coach from the Soviet Union, believes the Cubans can defeat the US Army Team. Excitement in top government circles grows as...

A collection of the best essays from Current Affairs magazine. "Current Affairs is an important breath of fresh air. It stands out as by far the most intellectually sophisticated, thought-provoking, and politically astute among organs of left commentary directed toward a popular audience that...

In Your Face is former actor Chris DeRose's firsthand account of how he investigated and finally busted some of the most heartless and corrupt federally licensed pet-theft rings in the nation. This is no dry autobiography; it's a passionate story of personal involvement and...

The United States is at a crisis point. The economy is crumbling. Dysfunction in Washington is rampant. A remarkable Vision that prescribes the remedies. The 20/20 Vision charts the course of action to: the America our forefathers built for our children an America safe...

"Islam in the 21st Century: Challenges, Conspiracies & Chaos" is an attempt to present a Muslim perspective in the era of disinformation, misinformation and reductive historical and theological explanations related to Islam and the Islamic World. The Islamic states are part of the so-called...

James Madison once wrote, "A people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives." To those who seek to reclaim their command over American government today, The American Ideology serves as a powerful weapon to advance...

There are two Abraham Lincolns: Lincoln the political celebrity, whose image has been carefully crafted by Lincoln scholars, biographers, and mythographers, and the true Lincoln, whose actual words are almost completely unknown to the general public. Why are they not known? Because they have...

In 1709 a ship arrived on the shores of New York harbor carrying a man named Johann Dieter Ellrod and his family, the only Elrod link to Germany, verified by the board of trade list. The names Ellrod, Elrod, Elrodt, Ellrodt, Elrot, Ellrot, Elroot,...

The Wisdom of Group Decisions is a collection of 100 one-page tips for avoiding conflict and making thoughtful, lasting group decisions for our communities, organizations, governments, families, and our planet. Each tip is a provocative meditation and the book as a whole is a...

This is the number one source book for the theft of the 2004 presidential election and control of the 2008 presidential contest, compiled by the reporters Rev. Jesse Jackson calls "the Woodward & Bernstein of the 2004 election." This blunt, hard-hitting digest outlines and...

"But if by a 'Liberal' they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people--their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil...

Written at a time when disasters both natural - drought, famine - and manmade - the war in Yugoslavia, civil strike in South Africa - fill our TV screens and newspapers, and when politicians are arguing over how many refugees Britain should accept, this...

In democracies throughout the industrialised world, political systems are everywhere beginning to unravel, and thinking people - even amongst our leaders - are uncertain of the reason why. Whilst most governments drive towards greater equity and justice, the reality is towards an opposite direction,...

The divisions running through the history of the socialist movement between reformists and revolutionaries, authoritarians and democrats, putschists and gradualists-the divisions and disputes which have provided the categories in terms of which the history of the movement has been written-are secondary. The important distinction...

Despite the centralizing tendencies of the American national government in the twentieth century, there have been surprisingly few books defending the federal system. Felix Morley's Freedom and Federalism, which examines the root causes of the problem, was thus a pioneering achievement when it first...

Despite the centralizing tendencies of the American national government in the twentieth century, there have been surprisingly few books defending the federal system. Felix Morley's Freedom and Federalism, which examines the root causes of the problem, was thus a pioneering achievement when it first...

Fourteen essays explore the central problem of modern society--the decline of free institutions and the growth of the state. Among the essays are "State and Society," by Felix Morley; "The Monstrosity of Government," by John Lukacs; and "The Guaranteed Economy and Its Future," by...

Literary Nonfiction. Caribbean and African American Studies. Language and Ethnicity Politics. SOVEREIGNTY OF THE IMAGINATION gives us that capacity for language and therefore the ability to name and establish categories...it allows us to define freedom. George Lamming recognizes the centrality of the quest for...

Parents, child advocates, and family attorneys need to understand how to put the federal adoption assistance law to work for their children and clients in order to create adoptions, keep them intact and healthy, and encourage future special needs adoptive placements as well. This...

This book presents a broad analytical framework for the history of southeastern Ghana within the context of a representative study of one of the country's most important political and economic forces. The 150,000 Krobo are the most numerous of the Adangme-speaking peoples. They are...

Tim Niblock is a Lecturer in Politics at the University of Exeter.Author: Tim NiblockISBN-10: 0887064817ISBN-13: 9780887064814Publisher: State University of New York PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/01/1987Pages: 370Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.05lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.50w x 1.10d

This essential volume features John Locke's hand-corrected text with an outstanding introduction to Locke's life and role in intellectual history, his principal works, and their purpose. Written by the editor, Richard Cox, the introduction also outlines the course of both treatises of government and...

In these stimulating papers from the Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference in 1985, feminism and Faulkner studies collide, with beneficial results for each.The disruptive and disturbing characterization of women in Faulkner's fictional world and the influence of actual women in the novelist's life are given...

The United States' commitment to separation of church and state has defined the nation, from the structure of the schools and the welfare system to the nature of American politics and society. Many citizens mistakenly point to the First Amendment, which guarantees the freedom...