Current Events category: 843 books
Fred en de wet
De schaduwzijde van een crimefighter
Language: Dutch
Release Date: June 23, 2015
Staatssecretaris van Justitie Fred Teeven was jarenlang persoonlijk het episch centrum in de aanpak van de georganiseerde misdaad in Nederland. Willem Holleeder, Mink Kok, De Hakkelaar, Henk Rommy en Cor van Hout. Slechts een paar voorbeelden van zware criminelen die door Teeven meedogenloos werden...
by Richard Crasta
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2012
What do you really need? Mostly, what we all need: Love, sex, comfort, food, laughter, a child who loves you as much as you do him, mental stimulation, massage, travel, understanding, freedom, truth, happiness, peace, and a history of the world that provides a greater understanding of the role...
by Maamar REKAIBA
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
This slender book is thick with information, reflexion, and humanity. It is about a man. It is about a country. It is about a very wide panorama of contemporary history. It is about good and evil, and how difficult it is to make a choice.
How violence permeates our lives, and how more violence may...
Claytie and the Lady
Ann Richards, Gender, and Politics in Texas
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
It was like a remake of The Cowboy and the Lady, except that this time they weren't friends. The 1990 Texas governor's race pitted Republican Clayton Williams, a politically conservative rancher and oil millionaire, against Democrat Ann Richards, an experienced progressive politician noted for her toughness...
by Michael Seltzer, Christian Kullberg, Ilmari Rostila
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Listening to the Welfare State presents, for the first time in English, central research findings from recent studies of the welfare systems of Denmark, Norway, Finland and Sweden. The book’s contributors are leading investigators of face-to-face encounters between welfare professionals and clients...
The Decline of Regionalism in Putin's Russia
Boundary Issues
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2011
This book reassesses Putin's attempt to reverse the decentralization of power that characterised centre-regional relations in the 1990s, focusing on regional responses to Putin's federal reforms. It explains the decline of regionalism after 2000 in terms of the dynamics of regional boundaries, understood...
Promised Land
A Nun’s Struggle to Resist Landlessness, Lawlessness, Slavery, Poverty, Corruption, Injustice, and Environmental Devastation in Amazonia
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2013
Sister Leonora Brunetto lives and works in Brazil’s state of Mato Grosso. In 1978, rainforest covered the region. Today, cattle pastures stretch to the horizon, their unshaded grass rippling with heatwaves. Ranches of tens of thousands of acres benefit single families who have no title to the land....
America Under Fire
3 Things America Must Do to Rebuild Its Foundation
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2012
This book was written to hopefully make people aware of the fact, that there are different ways of looking at thinks. Of courser this does not apply to every situation and circumstance that arises. However, I believe it applies enough, that people should start to consider this different approach to...
by
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
The Oxford Handbook of State and Local Government is an historic undertaking. It contains a wide range of essays that define the important questions in the field, evaluate where we are in answering them, and set the direction and terms of discourse for future work. The Handbook will have a substantial...
by Walter Keene Ferguson
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
Conservation and development of natural resources are issues of critical importance throughout the world. These issues have been matters of public concern in Texas since legislators first adopted the state-sponsored geological survey as a means of extending government funds to private citizens who...
The Syrian civil terror war - Al-Nusra Front
National Coalition for Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
by Lana Burkhart
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2016
True to America attempts to answer a big question: Just exactly what is a typical American? Its not an easy question to answer, but it is not impossible to answer either. It does require a short book, however, to make sure you get a well-rounded and accurate picture of the rather complex thoughts,...
Engines of Democracy
Politics and Policymaking in State Legislatures
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2008
State legislators have often been in the shadow of their national counterparts, but they drive the processes of democracy.
Rosenthal brings together a lifetime of research and experience on state legislative politics into one eminently readable volume—a dynamic, inside view of the...
The Decline of Representative Democracy
Process, Participation, and Power in State Legislatures
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 1997
Based on a leading scholar's firsthand observations of legislatures as well as extensive interviews with legislators, legislative staff, and lobbyists, this important work describes and analyzes the contemporary state of legislatures and the legislative process in the fifty states. It...