Current Events category: 843 books
Breaking the Ice
From Land Claims to Tribal Sovereignty in the Arctic
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2008
Breaking the Ice is a comparative study of the movement for native land claims and indigenous rights in Alaska and the Western Arctic, and the resulting transformation in domestic politics as the indigenous peoples of the North gained an increasingly prominent role in the governance of their homeland....
by Julio Camino
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2017
After the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union, socialism should have passed into history, along with Marxism. Marxism is not a "science" as declared by the academics of the Communist Party in Moscow, but an enormous senseless absurdity, full of contradictions.
And...
African Americans. Second Class Citizens
The history and presence of African Americans
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2014
African Americans. Second Class Citizens The history and presence of African Americans
African American Nigger Negro Barack Obama Michelle Obama Martin Luther King, Jr. Condoleezza Rice Oprah Winfrey Frederick Douglass Rosa Parks Malcolm X Booker T. Washington Harriet Tubman Dorothy Height...
The Bluest State
How Democrats Created the Massachusetts Blueprint for American Political Disaster
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
What's Happened to Massachusetts**?**
At one time, Americans thought of Massachusetts with pride. It was the place where the charge against British oppression was incubated and first battle of the Revolutionary War was fought. It was the intellectual center of the United States, the home of the country's...
The House Will Come To Order
How the Texas Speaker Became a Power in State and National Politics
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2010
In a state assumed to have a constitutionally weak governor, the Speaker of the Texas House wields enormous power, with the ability to almost single-handedly dictate the legislative agenda. The House Will Come to Order charts the evolution of the Speaker's role from a relatively obscure office to...
by Diana McCaulay
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
Told in two voices, educated Jamaican English and the nation-language of the people, this dramatic novel tells the story of a well-meaning, middle-class woman and a young boy from the ghetto whom she desperately wants to help. Alternating between the perspectives of the woman and the boy, the story...
Old Ghosts in New Sheets
European Populist Parties and Foreign Policy
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2011
This research paper analyses the foreign policy positions of five populist parties of the Right and Left in Western Europe. It focuses on foreign policy, an often ignored dimension of their ideas. It aims to fill a hole in policy debates by showing that European populism poses a coherent threat to...
An Emergency Plan That Could Save Thousands
Based on Experiences of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Medical Planning FDA Scam and Soft Targets: Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2018
An Emergency Plan That Could Save Thousands
By: Norman Ende M.D.
The explosion of the atom bomb at Hiroshima and Nagasaki had a great significance to anyone in the military, nationally and worldwide. It not only ended the war; it directly affected those in uniform. When the bombs...
The Military and the State in Central Asia
From Red Army to Independence
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
The military played a pivotal role in the political development, state functions, foreign policy and the daily lives of the people in the Central Asian states from the early twentieth century until the present. This book is the first major, in-depth study of the military institutions in Central Asian...
by Christian M. Allen
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013
Latin American cocaine trafficking organizations comprise an indigenous, globally competitive, multinational industry. Their business operations are deeply ingrained within the economic and political systems of countries throughout the region. While criminal enterprises operate in a more complex and...
by Ron Wood
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2014
All Roads Lead to Manyberries is like a script torn right out of Coronation Street, except it’s Canadian and it all happens in a little place called The Just One More Saloon in the Prairie town of Manyberries, Alberta. It’s a chair-dragging-across-the-saloon-floor earthy read. Ron Wood pokes fun...
The Third House
Lobbyists and Lobbying in the States
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2000
The book, which has drawn praise for its inviting and accessible style, thoroughly examines the lobbying scene: the settings in which lobbying takes place, the types and styles of lobbyists, the broad range of approaches and techniques used by lobbyists, and the role and influence of lobbying in our...
Russia's Federal Relations
Putin's Reforms and Management of the Regions
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
The development of centre-regional relations has been at the forefront of Russian politics since the formation of the Russian state and numerous efforts have been made by the country’s subsequent rulers to create a political model that would be suitable for the effective management of its vast territory...
by Varshini Tripura
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
பொதுப்புத்தி என்பது நிச்சயமாக ஒரு பொருளையோ அல்லது சித்தாந்தத்தையோ அல்லது தத்துவத்தையோ குறிப்பது அல்ல. மனித உளவியலைக்...