Political Science - General

There is nothing like getting your information first hand. Back in 1972, I unexpectedly found myself in Castro's Cuba where I spent four days, before being allowed to come home. While there, I had a chance to hear in some detail from a government...

How to decide if this book is for you: (1) Do you live here? Yes__ No __ (2) Are you thinking about moving here? Yes__ No __ If you checked yes for 1 or 2, then you should read this book. Author: Jerold Lynn...

Abdulrahman bin Mohammad bin Khaldun Al-Hadrami, (1332-1406), generally known as Ibn Khaldun, was an Islamic theologian, scholar, and jurist internationally known as the father of sociology. His book, the world-renown Muqaddimah (The Introduction), is considered the breeding ground for numerous disciplines of study, including...

Author: David L. BrownISBN-10: 1450089763ISBN-13: 9781450089760Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/30/2010Pages: 328Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.06lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.73d

Author: Lee BirkheadISBN-10: 1450017398ISBN-13: 9781450017398Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/07/2010Pages: 278Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.24lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d

The digital sensation that set fire to the cyber-world now invades the real world. Much has been said of the supposed rift between the Black and Brown communities, with accusatory fingers being pointed at both sides. The combined literary efforts in Raise Your Brown...

Everyday we are bombarded with images about how bad things are. Everyone points fingers and argues as to who is at fault... never really coming up with solutions. Half the time they never really acknowledge the real issues. Instead it is just a finger...

FROM WATERGATE TO HUGO CHAVEZ, AN EX-DIPLOMAT'S MEMOIRS consists of a selection of experiences beautifully written by their protagonist, Dr. Gonzalo T. Palacios. The stories illustrate what went on behind the diplomatic activities from 1974 until Hugo Chavez's rise to power in Caracas. Dr....

Beautifully written, intelligent and provocative reflections on the world scene as Ascherson looks first at the painful business of being English in a period of decline marked by public nastiness and private confusion. He goes on to attack - in an important and original...

Nearly eight years after 9/11, the world remains a dangerous place and individual self-protection may be more important now than ever. With that in mind, STRATFOR (www.stratfor.com) has collected these pieces, which contain some of its best work on personal security. STRATFOR hopes this...

Douglas Kellner elaborates upon his well known theory which explores how media spectacle can be used as a key to interpreting contemporary culture and politics. Grounded in both cultural and communication theory, Kellner argues that politics, war, news and information, media events (like terrorist...

This book examines ten major political scandals involving the White House in the past 50 years, revealing how the investigative reporters behind the stories uncovered the hidden truths. On numerous occasions, the dogged efforts of investigative journalists have led to a dissemination of information...

How did the U.S. get into a war over non-existent "weapons of mass destruction"? How did we allow our civil rights to be hijacked and our environment raped? How did we manage to let our personal savings be plundered? How did we get into...

Author: Luis WallpherISBN-10: 1438943024ISBN-13: 9781438943022Publisher: AuthorhouseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/20/2009Pages: 148Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.50lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.34d

"Unplugged and Unashamed" is the culmination of years of pent-up anger and disdain as I watched liberals undermine the fundamental beliefs and foundations from which this country was born. I take on issues near and dear to conservatives. In fact, included in my book...

This book is a passionate cry from the heart. From the heart of someone who has given almost everything she has to the cause of justice and happiness for heavily-abused children and for HIV/AIDS sufferers, and from the heart of the real, here-and-now, South...

When Hurricane Katrina, the worst natural disaster in the history of the United States, hit the Gulf Coast on August 29, 2005, few people could believe the horror and destruction that would unfold in the days that followed. As Communications Director for the City...

This volume examines the communication strategies, informed and influenced by their individual experiences, employed by the hosts as they seek to handle Trump and the fast-moving news cycle that trails in his wake.Author: Lori HensonISBN-10: 1433176475ISBN-13: 9781433176470Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic PubliLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

From Blackface to Black Twitter: Reflections on Black Humor, Race, Politics, & Gender traces the roots and fruits of comedy over the centuries to analyze and offer insights into the intersections of race, gender, and politics in humor that is by, for, and/or about...

Offering a transnational and interdisciplinary perspective, Cultures of Copyright offers readers - scholars, researchers, practitioners, theorists, and others - key considerations to contemplate in terms of how we understand copyright's past and how we chart its futures.Author: Susan J. DruckerISBN-10: 1433125617ISBN-13: 9781433125614Publisher: Peter Lang...

Peter Berglez sets out to develop the idea of global journalism as an epistemological updating of everyday mainstream news media. He theoretically understands and explains global journalism as a concrete practice and argues that the future of professional news journalism is about leaving behind...

There are specific state and federal laws that define, prohibit, and penalize criminal behavior. Various factors, such as the nature and type of the crime committed and the relevant law, may determine whether the state or federal justice system is responsible for the prosecution,...

Would it not put fear in your heart to know you could only talk to your mother or father through an interpreter? Wrong is wrong, and right is right Most of us are guilty of wrong, but our story is not over. Some can...

The Military Whistleblower Protection Act of 1988, as amended, and its implementing directive, Department of Defense Directive 7050.06,11 establish the basic concepts and framework for the investigative process and establish the roles and responsibilities of the various affected organizations.Author: U S Government Accountability OfficeISBN-10:...

Americans are being lied to ... We are lied to by our government, misled by the entertainment media, indoctrinated by our educational institutions, defrauded by our banking institutions, and subjugated by our employers. Nevertheless, we willingly grant these institutions power over nearly every aspect...

"In our nations current state of affairs, Seth Morgan's fortitude to speak about Liberty resonates to our country's core. The values, principles and convictions of George Washington are encompassed by Morgan, reminding us that we cannot regulate liberty. Americans need to answer the call-which...

We Shall Not Be Moved narrates the story of the Kent State student-led May 4th Coalition and its efforts to maintain untouched the site of the Ohio National Guard's shooting of thirteen Kent State students.The story is told in a local context of the...

CHAOS, CONFUSION, AND POLITICAL IGNORANCE: The Untold Truth about the Start of World War II June 28 - August 5, 1914 by John Hance Three events can be directly responsible for the start of World War II. This book discusses the second event; which...

"READERS COMMENTS" "He hit it out of the park. This book clearly puts this author in a league all his own. No other current author about end times prophecy comes close, no one." "I never dreamed a book of this length could hold my...

Author: Jerry RhoadsISBN-10: 1483625966ISBN-13: 9781483625966Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/10/2013Pages: 364Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.51lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.94d

Author: Daniel BingelISBN-10: 148361509XISBN-13: 9781483615097Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/03/2013Pages: 178Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.59lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.41d

The first part of this book is designed to display the sources and principles of economics and trade transactions in the Islamic community. It analyzes the judicial injunctions against riba and proves that riba including interest is prohibited. Basing the argument on theoretical (Quran...

The 2002 violence in Gujarat, Godhra and after was reported widely by the media, both Indian and Global. The nature of the violence, the role of the state government, and also of the then Chief Minister Narendra Modi were massively debated and discussed. Many...

This is not a book about climate science.Rather it analyses why some people dispute the reality, reliability andreasonableness of this science. The validity of the scientifi c consensusis therefore taken as a given, solely in order to analyse the views ofclimate change sceptics who...

What makes this book more interesting is that apart from description on the tactics and naval operation at sea, it also discusses various subjects that we might have forgotten for a long time in executing the management in dealing with the battle, such as...

The Breakdown gives a clear and concise explanation of the various political, economic, linguistic, and psychological systems which govern our everyday lives. It speaks openly and honestly about the lies and misrepresentations that everybody is indoctrinated to since birth and that are taught in...

Today Thomas R. Marshall is remembered as Vice President under Woodrow Wilson (1913-1921), who served two terms in that office and presided over the Senate at a time when the nation was debating whether the nation should join the League of Nations. "Tom" Marshall...

Handwriting experts from around the world have analyzed the signature of President Donald J. Trump, but virtually all of them have limited their analysis by only highlighting the leading traits of his personality. For the first time in this book, handwriting expert Ilyas M....

Explores the complex role that Black religious leaders play--or don't play--in twenty-first-century racial justice efforts Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. along with many of his Black religious contemporaries courageously mobilized for freedom, ushering in the civil rights movement of the mid-twentieth century. Their efforts...

Finalist, 2020 C. Wright Mills Award, given by the Society for the Study of Social Problems Honorable Mention, 2021 Asian America Section Book Award, given by the American Sociological Association An inspiring look inside immigrant youth's political activism in perilous times Undocumented immigrants in...

In Think Moderates, Milton King makes a strong case for changing public debate from an unproductive focus on extremists, problems, and off-centered public life to a more productive focus on moderates, solutions, and balance. He shows that turning to moderates for solutions and balance...

Based on extended interviews at the Culipr疣 fundo in Chile with peasants who recount in their own terms their political evolution, this is an in-depth study of peasants in social and political action. It deals with two basic themes: first, the authoritarian structure within...

Each nation has its heroes and its villains. And whatever Historians may convey about either, it only becomes meaningful to a people when it is told by their own; because, only they truly value and aspire to uphold and to protect their heritage. A...

Author: J. M. Ombati SimonISBN-10: 1477136118ISBN-13: 9781477136119Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/28/2012Pages: 192Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.64lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.44d

Author: John Wesley HardyISBN-10: 1477110402ISBN-13: 9781477110409Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/06/2012Pages: 94Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.33lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.23d

The Ku Klux Klan's persecution of Hispanics during the early 1920s was just as brutal as their terrorizing of the black community--a fact sparsely documented in historical texts. The KKK viewed Mexicans as subhuman foreigners supporting a Catholic conspiracy to subvert U.S. institutions and...

This second Small Wars Journal-El Centro anthology signifies the important debate that this new forum, focusing on the crime wars and criminal insurgencies taking place in Mexico and other regions of the Americas, is helping to generate in U.S. defense and homeland security circles....

The study of decisions in the criminal justice process provides a useful focus for the examination of many fundamental aspects of criminal jus- tice. These decisions are not always highly visible. They are made, or- dinarily, within wide areas of discretion. The aims of...

After neo-evolutionism, how does one talk about the pre-modern state? Over the past two decades archaeological research has shifted decisively from check-list identifications of the state as an evolutionary type to studies of how power and authority were constituted in specific polities. Developing Gramsci's...

"This is a book about who we are today, and how we have become who we are. It is about the engineers of the modern soul, the entrepreneurial self. It is essential reading for all those who care about the incessant demands placed on...