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Trigger warning, this book contains thoughts and opinions about this crazy world. This book may also, hurt your feelings and piss you off if you are overly sensitive. You may also come to agree or disagree on some of the topics mentioned in this...

America is teetering on the edge between a free and democratic form of government, and an authoritarian regime. Trumpism plays a major role in pushing us in the direction of authoritarianism. This book takes an historic look at fascism in 20th century Europe, drawing...

The presentation contained in this book is an objective analysis of the judgment passed by both the Judicial Committees of the Northern Region and National House of Chiefs and the Supreme Court of Ghana in the interest of Nanung tradition and custom. It is...

Global trends suggest that the number of people involuntarily displaced will increase exponentially in the coming decades. The authors argue that when the agency, time-tested adaptations, innovative capacities, dignity, and human rights of displaced people are respected as full participants in the rebuilding of...

What Sister Said... My Observations, My Interpretations, My OpinionsBy: Crystal BrandonAs a young girl in 1969, Crystal Brandon was told by her trusted and respected Nun what to expect in the future. Fast forward to adulthood, and Crystal Brandon cannot believe the accuracy of...

Do you believe we could be on the verge on WW III? The intent of the authors is to warn the reader of impending events that will be devastating to humankind - that is unless people turn to God and away from evil. This...

Do you believe we could be on the verge on WW III? The intent of the authors is to warn the reader of impending events that will be devastating to humankind - that is unless people turn to God and away from evil. This...

Following over four decades of research and study, it became clear what the real dangers are to our way of life. Anyone who has any stake in our precious society should read this. The first two volumes, We Are in This Together! and We...

Author: Lewis A. Friedland, Dhavan V. Shah, Michael W. WagnerISBN-10: 1108925065ISBN-13: 9781108925068Publisher: Cambridge University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/04/2022Pages: 75Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.23d

This book takes an explicitly feminist approach to studying gender and social inequalities in island settings while deliberating on 'islandness' as part of the intersectional analysis.Though there is a wealth of recent literature on islands and island studies, most of this literature focuses on...

Miguel M rmol is the testimony of a revolutionary, as recorded by Salvadoran writer, Roque Dalton, which documents the historical and political events of El Salvador through the first decades of the 20th century. This Latin American classic describes the growth and development of...

Liberal ideas were very important in Argentina from the time of independence. The Argentine constitution (1853-60), in force for a long time, was based on liberal principles taken from both the North American and the European tradition. The general structure of the collection is...

The Rainbow People Of God traces South Africa's glorious victory over apartheid in the writings and speeches of one its central figures, Archbishop Desmond Tutu. From the graveside of Steven Biko to the triumphant inauguration of Nelson Mandela as President of South Africa, Tutu's...

Over the past decade, an intellectual movement known as "realism" has challenged the reigning orthodoxy in political theory and political philosophy. Realists take issue with what they see as the excessive moralism and utopianism associated with prominent philosophers like John Rawls, Ronald Dworkin, and...

World Climate Change: The Role of International Law and Institutions is a collection of papers on global climate problems prepared for a two-day conferences held in 1980 at the University of Denver College of Law. The papers describe and evaluate the present state if...

In this book contributors from various scholarly backgrounds interpret past trends in world food trade, aid and security and propose new policy options for the 1990s. They address the problems facing the distribution of global economic growth and trade between industrialized and developing countries...

"A fascinating account of an extraordinary moment in the life of the United States." --The New York Times With the world currently in the grips of a financial crisis unlike anything since the Great Depression, Nothing to Fear could not be timelier. This acclaimed...

Running Out of Time: Chasing Red, White, and BlueBy: Robert Prah, Jr.Originally created for his daughter to detail his run for public office, Running Out of Time: Chasing Red, White, and Blue chronicles this pursuit by Robert Prah, Jr. during a very challenging time...

Why on earth would anyone choose to do a PhD in democracy studies? How and why should we even study democracy? And what are the challenges and rewards of the PhD journey? We have asked these questions to democracy researchers, young PhD candidates, people...

An estimated 1,300 to 1,800 Americans are murdered by intimate partners each year. Far from being a problem that only impacts women, domestic violence hurts society as a whole both socially as well as financially, with an estimated direct and indirect cost of nearly...

Eric Leif Davin discusses a wide range of political issues and procedures. These include fascism, populism, sedition, elections, efforts to suppress electoral participation over the years, the deficit, balancing the budget, political demographics, the fourth branch of government, and how to create a powerful...

Ruy Teixeira, a lifelong man of the Left, author of the 2002 The Emerging Democratic Majority, Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress and fixture of Democratic Party politics for more than 30 years who very much wants the Democratic Party to succeed,...

In Time in the Ditch, John McCumber explores the effects of McCarthyism on American philosophy in the 1940s and 1950 and the possibility that the political pressures of the McCarthy era skewed the development of the discipline. Why was silence maintained for so long?...

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...

"During the first three months of 1972 a trial took place in the middle district of Pennsylvania: THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA versus Eqbal Ahmad, Philip Berrigan, Elizabeth McAlister, Neil McLaughlin, Anthony Scoblick, Mary Cain Scoblick, Joseph Wenderoth. The defendants stood accused of conspiring...

80 Years After the Second World War: Politics and Wars (English Version)By: Sobhy Fahmy Amin IskanderAmerican / Arabian Novel(2022, paperback, 220 pages)Author: Sobhy Fahmy Amin IskanderISBN-10: 8886042930ISBN-13: 9798886042931Publisher: Dorrance Publishing Co.Language: EnglishPublished: 08/12/2022Pages: 220Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.58lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.57d

The Honest Contrarian: And Other Stories About Washington DCBy: John Patrick FeeheryOn the morning of September 11th, 2001, John Feehery was running late to his office in the nation's Capitol building. He had to make a choice. Get his weekly picks in for his...

Magic Science Religion explores surprising intersections among the three meaning-making and world-making practices named in the title. Through colorful examples, the book reveals circuitous ways that social, cultural and natural systems connect, enabling real kinds of magic to operate. Among the many case studies...

Sharon Thompson states: "There can be no mistake about it-the United States is an empire, the most powerful in history... Empires are always about extraction of wealth from the provinces for the benefit of the center, without regard for the subject people. They may...

Down and Out in Philadelphia and New York by author Garret Thomas Godwin is an introspective look at two great American cities. Godwin, with an omnipotent and candid voice, philosophizes about the modern-day issues that affect these metropolises: poverty, status, crime, education, and ethnicity....

Robert Fitch argues that, within a generation, New York City has been transformed from the richest city in the world to one of the poorest in North America. The pillars of its economy--Macy's, the Daily News, Citibank, Olympia and York, the Trump organization--have cracked...

The Greatest Lie: The Untold TruthBy: Jamie PhillipsThe Greatest Lie: The Untold Truth describes the correlation between the Nazi regime of the 1930s and 40s and their relationship to the present-day Democrat party. With facts used to prove this, readers will understand what is...

"Handbook on Evolution and Society" brings together original chapters by prominent scholars who have been instrumental in the revival of evolutionary theorizing and research in the social sciences over the last twenty-five years. Previously unpublished essays provide up-to-date, critical surveys of recent research and...

A translation of a popular Buddhist work on worldly ethics by Tibet's most famous philosopher. Leadership. Power. Responsibility. From Sun Tzu to Plato to Machiavelli, sages east and west have advised kings and rulers on how to lead. Their motivations and techniques have varied,...

Since 1866 the Ku Klux Klan has been a significant force in Mississippi, enduring repeated cycles of expansion and decline. Klansmen have rallied, marched, elected civic leaders, infiltrated law enforcement, and committed crimes ranging from petty vandalism to assassination and mass murder. This is...

What Would George Washington Do is a classic sports drama that follows the making of a man as a young boy turns into a formidable football player under the guidance of his scientist grandfather. The story follows Stephen H. Kellogg and his years of...

Numerous human societal problems are escalating and no one is offering real solutions-until now! It's okay to judge this book by its cover because you're really about to see a sensible, viable, achievable "...Way to FIX Our World." Something truly new doesn't come around...

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...

Author: Charles N. HillISBN-10: 1848167962ISBN-13: 9781848167964Publisher: Imperial College PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/17/2011Pages: 388Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.55lbsSize: 9.60h x 6.50w x 0.80dReview Citation(s): Choice 10/01/2012

The Boer War with the Horse Gunners Erskine Childers, the famed author of the classic novel of sailing and spying 'The Riddle of the Sands' served with London's finest-The City Imperial Volunteers within its artillery arm-associated with the Honourable Artillery Company. Childers-together with his...

Over the last fifteen years, the South African postapartheid Transitional Amnesty Process - implemented by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) - has been extensively analyzed by scholars and commentators from around the world and from almost every discipline of human sciences. Lawyers, historians,...

This book is the first to explore the relationship between tourism and Brexit from a social science perspective. Contributors from around the world use international examples to examine three entwined themes integral to tourism: travel, borders and identity. It will be useful for students...

In an age of military neoliberalism, social movements and center-Left coalition governments have advanced across South America, sparking hope for radical change in a period otherwise characterized by regressive imperial and anti-imperial politics. Nowhere do the limits and possibilities of popular advance stand out...

As a pioneering foreign correspondent, Conor O'Clery has been witness to some of the major world events of the past thirty years, including the Russian invasion of Afghanistan, the Iran-Iraq war, the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Clinton years in the White House,...

The Unspoken Morality of Childhood: Family, Friendship, Self-Esteem and the Wisdom of the Everyday reflects the thoughts of a senior ethicist. Each essay begins with a homey essay about the kind of everyday event that happens to everyone and then proceeds to discuss the...

Grand-Gugignol Cinema and the Horror Genre traces important contributions of the Parisian Grand-Guignol theatre's Golden Age as theoretical considerations of embodiment and affect in the development of horror cinema in the twentieth century. This study traces key components of the Grand-Guignol stage as a...

Thirty years after the collapse of Communism, and at a time of increasing anti-migrant and anti-Roma sentiment, this book analyses how Roma identity is expressed in contemporary Europe. From backgrounds ranging from political theory, postcolonial, cultural and gender studies to art history, feminist critique...

However you feel about it the doctrine of political correctness, designed to combat discrimination against certain "identity groups", has become one of the key ideologies that govern the world of the twenty-first century. As such it merits close, and even-handed, analysis. Is it as...