Current Events category: 843 books
The Contract Clause
A Constitutional History
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2016
Few provisions of the American Constitution have had such a tumultuous history as the contract clause. Prompted by efforts in a number of states to interfere with debtor-creditor relationships after the Revolution, the clause—Article I, Section 10—reads that no state shall “pass any. . . Law...
by Richard Fulton, Jerry Brekke
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2010
In the study of American government, analysis of state governments is often neglected in favor of concentration on the national system. Certainly in-depth knowledge of our country’s constitutional structure is critical to an understanding of American government, but this continuing inattention to...
by alex trostanetskiy
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
Are you looking for a journey that will take you through 100 Countries With the Beautiful Women, along with funny comments and a word puzzle? Then this book is for you. Whether you are looking at this book for curiosity, choices, options, or just for fun; this book fits any criteria. Creating 100...
by Robson Fernando de Souza
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: December 21, 2017
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: December 21, 2017
Está cada vez mais difícil de ignorar. Cada pedaço de carne, laticínio, ovo, frasco de mel, roupa de couro ou lã, bebida com corante carmim ou qualquer outro produto de origem animal que você consome é produzido e fornecido através de um sistema de inadmissíveis violências: a exploração...
Letters to a Little Black Girl
Letters, Poems, and Stories of Love and Guidance for Every Little Girl
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2016
Uzoma Family Publications and Author Leila Lacey presents Letters to a Little Black Girl: Letters, Poems, and stories of Love and Guidance for every little Girl, an inspiring collection of narratives for girls, ages five to twenty-one.
The letters, poems, stories and scriptures were lovingly...
Artificial intelligence And life in 2030
Report Of The 2015 Study Panel
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2017
This is the ebook version of the report. PDF version is accessible on Stanford website.
-Detailed "table of contents" was added
-Footnotes are bi-directional hyperlinks
-Reference links are clickable
Marijuana
A Short History
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
From Reefer Madness to legal purchase at the corner store.
With long-time legal and social barriers to marijuana falling across much of the United States, the time has come for an accessible and informative look at attitudes toward the dried byproduct of Cannabis sativa. Marijuana: A Short...
Legalized It!
Inside Colorado and Washington State’s Historic Votes to End Marijuana Prohibition, and Other Tales of Adventure from a Fully-Embedded High Times Reporter
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2012
In Legalized It!, David Bienenstock, author of The Official High Times Pot Smoker’s Handbook (Chronicle Books), takes you to the frontlines of the War on Marijuana for an insider’s look at two states that just voted to end cannabis prohibition. ...
The Vermont Manifesto
The Second Vermont Republic
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2003
Not unlike other states, Vermonts quality of life, political independence, and sustainability are threatened by Corporate America, the U.S. government, the war on terrorism, homeland security, American imperialism, and globalization. This is a call for Vermont to reclaim its soul to return to its...
by T. R. Fehrenbach
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
The author of Lone Star: A History of Texas and the Texans explores the state’s unique mindset and culture.
Author T. R. Fehrenbach defines Texas as “a state of mind.” In The Seven Keys to Texas, he provides us with a seven-part framework for understanding this unique and ever-important...
by Royce Hanson
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2003
A study of how civic culture shaped policy responses to the demographic and economic transformations of Dallas, Texas.
Representing Women
Sex, Gender, and Legislative Behavior in Arizona and California
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2003
Women in public office are often assumed to "make a difference" for women, as women--in other words, to represent their female constituents better than do their male counterparts. But is sex really an accurate predictor of a legislator's political choices and actions? In this book, Beth...
Politics in the American States
A Comparative Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2017
**Winner of the 2017 Mac Jewell Enduring Contribution Award of the APSA's State Politics and Policy Section.
Politics in the American States, Eleventh Edition**, brings together the high-caliber research you expect from this trusted text, with comprehensive and comparative analysis of the...
Eurasian Economic Union
The new Power: banking, insurance, foreign exchange market, stock market
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2014
Eurasian Economic Union
The Competences of the Eurasian Economic Commission
The Competences of the Eurasian Economic Commission are defined in the Article 3 of the Treaty on the Eurasian Economic Commission dated November 18, 2010. All the powers of the Customs Union's Commission have...