Political Science - General

"Local" has become synonymous with good. Trevor Latimer's engagingly written and provocative book acknowledges that some things that are local are good, but denies that what's local is always or even often better than what's far away. He exposes the supposed "virtue" of localism...

In Bulletproof Diva, Lisa Jones brings the wit and candor of her infamous Village Voice column, "Skin Trade," to a much larger audience. Chock full of the "fierce black girl humor" that has made her column so popular, this provocative collection of essays and...

80 Years After the Second World War: U.S. Courts and PrisonsBy: Sobhy Fahmy Amin Iskander80 Years After the Second World War: U.S. Courts and Prisons was written with the intention to educate business individuals who travel internationally into the United States on the law...

Mean Moon A'risen: America's Battles with ConspiraciesBy: H. Arnold Bruns, Ph.D Since its founding, America has seen a wide range of social battles founded on falsehoods, misunderstandings, and paranoia driven ideas, all of which have tested and continue to test our freedoms. This eye-opening...

The radical upheavals of the last decade of the 20th century, as well as increased globalization, soaring on the wings of economic and political liberalism, have profoundly altered international relations. No country will be spared by these important changes in the geopolitical, geo-economic and...

This book is a peep through the multiple doors that the author has passed in the course of his career. The account is a product of history. Guided by historical actuality, the author focuses on factuality, authenticity and the true value of knowledge in...

In Evidence, Politics, and Education Policy, political scientists Lorraine M. McDonnell and M. Stephen Weatherford provide an original analysis of evidence use in education policymaking to help scholars and advocates shape policy more effectively. The book shows how multiple types of evidence are combined...

Far too often, people are introduced to a caricature of the conservative movement before they've actually heard what the average conservative has to say. In The Downfall of America, Jake Klausner presents a conservative perspective on the forces currently working to tear down long-standing...

The opponents of Epicureanism in antiquity, including Cicero, Plutarch and Lactantius, succeeded in establishing a famous cliché the theoretical and practical disinterest of Epicurus and the Epicureans in political communities. However, this anti-Epicurean literature did not provide considerations of Epicurean political theory or the...

Politics has been difficult to understand since its beginnings. In one hand because of the philosophical, social, and academic approach of last centuries, and in the other hand because politicians and the interest groups they represent have no interest to make it comprehensible and...

The maintenance of any culture includes keeping the principles of values in place and exploring other means to advance effectiveness and efficiency. Political integrity is unavailable today because political parties have become the gates of martyrdom: everyone is playing to win the attention of...

The Liberty Fund second edition of James T. Schleifer's celebrated study of Tocqueville includes a new preface by the author and an epilogue, "The Problem of the Two Democracies." For the first time, the evolution of a number of Tocqueville's central themes--democracy, individualism, centralization,...

These seventy-eight essays characterize the richness and diversity of conservative scholarship. Modern Age was founded in 1957 by Russell Kirk, with Henry Regnery and David S. Collier. The magazine is now published by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute. George A. Panichas is the current editor...

A PASSIONATE ACCOUNT ABOUT THE COMING OF AGE OF A YOUNG MALAYSIAN POLITICIAN Malaysian Son is the story of Nik Nazmi Nik Ahmad, the Member of Parliament (MP) for Setiawangsa. Growing up privileged under the authoritarian regime of Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad, the...

This book examines how women journalists in Malaysia negotiated male power structures, in particular structures determined by the keystone party of the ruling coalition, the United Malays National Organisation. Through both oral histories and content analysis, it looks at how women journalists in the...

Is the concept of open society still relevant in the 21st century? Do the current social, moral, and political realities call for a drastic revision of this concept? Here fifteen essays address real-world contemporary challenges to open society from a variety of perspectives. What...

This book "" The Immigrant Tide, Its Ebb and Flow "", has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present...

From smart gates and drone patrols to e-visas and mobile GPS apps, digital technologies are becoming a ubiquitous feature of state borders and travel. The embedding of digital technologies into bordering and travel processes is reshaping the ways people move around the world, as...

This monograph analyzes development through an examination of those class relations and how they are situated vis-à-vis the politics of development and economic globalization in Bangladesh, and how they shape aid delivery mechanisms and aid recipients' choices in participating in such program. One of...

History of the Gbewaa Kingdoms is a presentation of the history, culture, tradition, and custom of the Gbewaa Kingdoms in Northern Ghana. These include. Mamprugu Kingdom, Dagbon Kingdom and Nanung Kingdoms. The Chiefdoms also include, The Builsa Chiefdom, Talensi Chiefdom, Nabdan Chiefdom, The Waala...

Most of us still hold to the belief that we are united by the credos of American democracy. That supposed democracy, however, is under attack from within. An economic ideology of unregulated corporations, privatization of public programs, and a limited role of government, has...

A Beautiful Resistance: After Empire explores the truths we are all beginning to understand, the whispers on the plague winds, the portents in the polluted sky, the omens in the failing harvests and the chthonic call in the rising seas. Everywhere we look we...

A searing commentary on image and the negative impact it has had on black people in this country.Author: Gibran TariqISBN-10: 1732454906ISBN-13: 9781732454903Publisher: Soulfire BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/22/2018Pages: 136Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.42lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.29d

Jamal Khashoggi, one of Saudi Arabia's most prominent journalists, hasn't been seen or heard from since he walked into the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on Oct. 2, 2018. He has been living in self-imposed exile in Virginia after leaving Saudi Arabia last year. Turkish...

We are being screwed over by our health-care system, and it's all our fault Did you know?- High blood pressure did not exist as a medical diagnosis until pharmaceutical companies invented medicines that can lower it and convinced physicians to sell it to their...

Were the Apollo moon landings hoaxed? Is Osama bin Laden really dead? Who wrote the occult grimoire, Necronomicon? In this PARANOIA compendium, 24 authors and interviewees discuss the monumental conspiracies of our time, including: What will happen in 2012? - Did the Mob assassinate...

The second edition of this popular book adds important new research on how racial stereotyping is gendered and sexualized. New interviews show that Asian American men feel emasculated in America's male hierarchy. Women recount their experiences of being exoticized, subtly and otherwise, as sexual...

The Triumph of an Idea is a look at the founding principles of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness from the epistemological perspective of a non-secular understanding of the nature of the human condition. With this as a springboard in which to examine...

Author: Abdul Karim BanguraISBN-10: 1609279018ISBN-13: 9781609279011Publisher: CognellaLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/02/2010Pages: 118Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.48lbsSize: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.25d

This book is a collection of humorous topical essays chronicling the best and worst of the American political landscape from internationally published blogger Stephen Guy Hardin. Written from the conservative viewpoint with a light dose of pathos and a heavy dose of sarcasm, few...

Armando Choy, Gustavo Chui et Moisƒƒ‚ƒƒ‚‚s Sƒƒ‚ƒƒ‚‚o Wong, trois jeunes Cubains d'origine chinoise, se sont investis dans la grande bataille prolƒƒ‚ƒƒ‚‚tarienne qui dƒƒ‚ƒƒ‚‚fini leur gƒƒ‚ƒƒ‚‚nƒƒ‚ƒƒ‚‚ration. Ils sont devenus des combattants dans la lutte clandenstine et la guerre rƒƒ‚ƒƒ‚‚volutionnaire qui ont renversƒƒ‚ƒƒ‚‚ la dictature soutenue...

Thomas Paine was a devout deist. That is, he believed in God, not because of faith, but rather because of the rational empirical evidence that the natural world provides. The Age of Reason was Paine's treatise on religion. At the time of its publication...

Please visit www.ArcManor.com for books by other great authors.Author: Walter LippmanISBN-10: 1604501421ISBN-13: 9781604501421Publisher: ARC ManorLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/14/2008Pages: 160Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.54lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.37d

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote many more novels, stories and works of nonfiction than the immortal tales of Sherlock Holmes. His interests, also, were broad-ranging. Conan Doyle became outraged upon learning of the abuses of human life that were committed as a result of...

A timeless classic of economic theory that remains fascinating and pertinent today, this is Frank Knight's famous explanation of why perfect competition cannot eliminate profits, the important differences between "risk" and "uncertainty," and the vital role of the entrepreneur in profitmaking. Based on Knight's...

Even though Fidel Castro founded the "26 of July" movement, this book shows that the organizing throughout Cuba fell on the shoulders of an underground leader named Frank Pais, who was also responsible for the survival of the incipient guerrilla force led by Castro...

Fiction is the Safest Place to Hide a Terrible Truth So That All May Find ItThe core truth of UFOs and the existence of extraterrestrials are buried under a fog of highly organized disinformation and propaganda. Its mantra is played time and again by...

Author: Rene RemondISBN-10: 1597405213ISBN-13: 9781597405218Publisher: ACLS History E-Book ProjectLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/07/2008Pages: 484Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.41lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.97d

Author: Irving BrantISBN-10: 1597404403ISBN-13: 9781597404402Publisher: ACLS History E-Book ProjectLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/07/2008Pages: 584Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.70lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.18d

If men's minds were as easily controlled as their tongues, every king would sit safely on his throne, and government by compulsion would cease; for every subject would shape his life according to the intentions of his rulers, and would esteem a thing as...

Author: Leonard R. SussmanISBN-10: 1591021421ISBN-13: 9781591021421Publisher: Prometheus BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/2004Pages: 432Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.60lbsSize: 9.18h x 6.60w x 1.13d

At 6:30 A.M. a head nurse reviews room assignments and the day's challenges ahead: twenty-nine patients, most of them seriously ill, and four nurses to care for them. That means a barely manageable and potentially risky patient-nurse ratio of seven to one, with one...

An engaging, moving, and poignant book of poetry from a well-known leader, educator, and writer with notable endorsements from Reverend Billy Talen (Church of Stop Shopping), Carolyn Martin (poetry editor at Kosmos Journal), and Alice Reys (Singer Dancer) among others. Colin Greer knows a...

"Globalization," surely one of the most used and abused buzzwordsof recent decades, describes a phenomenon that is typicallyconsidered to be a neutral and inevitable expansion of marketforces across the planet. Nearly all economists, politicians, businessleaders, and mainstream journalists view globalization as thenatural result of...

This handbook addresses how the Jewish American community emerged from obscurity to play a role in behind-the-scenes power politics and finally appeared center stage. Jewish Americans and Political Participation explores the rise of the Jewish people from hardscrabble immigrants to the highest echelons of...

Published in celebration of the Purchase's bicentennial, this resource offers a multifaceted view of a watershed American event. In one easy-access resource, The Louisiana Purchase brings together the work of over 100 experts covering historical figures, relevant legal and historical concepts, states that formed...

Author: Lawrence LaderISBN-10: 1573920126ISBN-13: 9781573920124Publisher: Prometheus BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/01/1995Pages: 254Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.23lbsSize: 9.32h x 6.34w x 1.01dReview Citation(s): Kirkus Reviews 08/15/1995 pg. 1163Library Journal 10/01/1995 pg. 106

"The author shares his firsthand experience with readers....For anyone interested in a short but highly readable account of our disarmament efforts, Smith's book is a good place to start." -Library JournalAuthor: Ambassador Gerard C. SmithISBN-10: 1568330626ISBN-13: 9781568330624Publisher: Madison BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/27/1996Pages: 288Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.25lbsSize:...

At a crucial point in the twentieth century, as Nazi Germany prepared for war, negotiations between Britain, France, and the Soviet Union became the last chance to halt Hitler's aggression. Incredibly, the French and British governments dallied, talks failed, and in August 1939 the...

In this personal account of the intelligence failure in Vietnam, Mr. Allen reveals specifically how American leaders largely excluded intelligence from important policy deliberations until it was too late. "Don't miss this book!"-John PradosAuthor: George W. AllenISBN-10: 1566633877ISBN-13: 9781566633871Publisher: Ivan R. Dee PublisherLanguage: EnglishPublished:...