Current Events category: 843 books
Thriving During Challenging Times
The Energy, Food and Financial Independence Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
The news today is not good. We are experiencing a financial crisis that rivals the Great Depression, wild swings in energy prices signaling the end of cheap oil, food shortages and rising prices, water shortages all over the globe, and noticeable effects of climate change. It’s an easy time to be...
by Dee Van Dyk
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
Who killed JFK? Was Jack the Ripper a member of the Freemasons? Is Skull and Bones a secret society placed to form a sinister shadow government, or is it a gathering of wealthy kids performing bizarre adolescent rituals? Are we alone in the universe?
Van Dyk’s Conspiracy Theories takes...
The Undeserving Poor
America's Enduring Confrontation with Poverty: Fully Updated and Revised
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
First published in 1989, The Undeserving Poor was a critically acclaimed and enormously influential account of America's enduring debate about poverty. Taking stock of the last quarter century, Michael B. Katz's new edition of this classic is virtually a new book. As the first did, it will force all...
BLACK LIVES MATTER
Is It Open Season On Killing and Mistreating Blacks In America?
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
Each day that is blessed to us, some black man, woman or child has been killed or mistreated by police or from another black person. Black people in America should have always organized against injustices from police and other misguided blacks who are a threat to their survival. I cannot understand...
Cross-Border Cooperation Structures in Europe
Learning from the Past, Looking to the Future
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2014
Since its inception, one of the distinguishing features of the project of European integration has been the overcoming of internal borders. This aim has had one of the most remarkable outcomes in the history of cross-border cooperation, resulting in the creation of territorial structures known as...
Why Are You Here?
A Primer for State Legislators and Citizens
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2014
Why Are You Here?: A Primer for State Legislators and Citizens is a challenge to America’s 7,382 state legislators and their constituents to critically examine their state legislature and take appropriate action to improve it. This is a handbook telling how legislatures came to be, how they function,...
Overcome prejudice
Overcome
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
Prejudice damages many things. Let's deal with this in this book.
by Stephanie Snape, Pat Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
The theme of this collection of essays is partnerships between health and local government. Such partnerships are not new. Nor is discussion of the merits (or otherwise) of collaboration between the two sectors. The history of collaboration between these two sectors of the public services has been...
The State of State Theory
State Projects, Repression, and Multi-Sites of Power
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2017
The State of State Theory: State Projects, Repression, and Multi-Sites of Power, Glasberg, Willis, and Shannon argue that state theories should be amended to account both for theoretical developments broadly in the contemporary period as well as the multiple sites of power along which the state governs....
Interfaith Advocacy
The Role of Religious Coalitions in the Political Process
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
Using the historic Minnesota state government shutdown of 2011 as a backdrop, Interfaith Advocacy describes the work of the Joint Religious Legislative Coalition, an interfaith advocacy group that brings together leaders from Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, and Muslim traditions to advocate on behalf...
Infringe Me?
A Solution to Consider For Gun Violence in America
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2018
Gun violence in America is a hot issue. Gun rights folks vs. Gun control folks. Is there a solution that we can all live with? Yes, absolutely! The solution has already successfully been used to steer America's youth away from cigarettes and drugs. Why wouldn't it be as successful when addressing...
Inside the Carnival
Unmasking Louisiana Politics
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2006
With both an entertainer’s eye and a social scientist’s rigor, Wayne Parent subjects Louisiana’s politics to rational and empirical analysis, seeking and finding coherent reasons for the state’s well-known unique history. He resists resorting to vague hand-waving about “exoticism,” while...
by Olympe de Gouges
Language: French
Release Date: September 16, 2013
Language: French
Release Date: September 16, 2013
Ce livre est parfaitement mis en page pour une lecture sur Kobo.
L’Esclavage des Noirs est la pièce qui rendit célèbre Olympe de Gouges, publié sous ce titre en 1792 mais inscrite au répertoire de la Comédie-Française le 30 juin 1785 sous le titre de Zamore et Mirza, ou l’heureux...
Of Khans and Kremlins
Tatarstan and the Future of Ethno-Federalism in Russia
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2009
Katherine E. Graney examines one of the most important, puzzling, and ignored developments of the post-Soviet period: the persistence of the claim to possess state sovereignty by the ethnic republic of Tatarstan, one of the constituent members of the Russian Federation. In the first book by a Western...