Democracy category: 2250 books

Building on the vast research conducted on war and media since the 1970s, scholars are now studying the digital transformation of the production of news. Little scholarly attention has been paid, however, to non-professional, eyewitness visuals, even though this genre holds a still greater bearing...

This ebook consists of a summary of the ideas, viewpoints and facts presented by Brian Jennings in his book “Censorship: The Treat to Silence Talk Radio”. This summary offers a concise overview of the entire book in less than 30 minutes reading time. However this work does not replace in any case...

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A JUNIOR LIBRARY GUILD SELECTION Do you believe everything you read in the newspaper? Early in August 1937, a news flash came: a sea monster had been spotted lurking off the shore of Nantucket Island. Historically, the Massachusetts island had served as port for whaling ships. Eyewitnesses...

Ashley Moore wants to know why there's never been a girl president. Before long the inspired six-year-old girl creates a special girls-only club - the Future Presidents Club. Meet five enthusiastic young girls who are ready to change the world. Future Presidents Club is the first book in a series about girls making a difference!

Will Barack Hussein Obama be the last president of the United States? His words, actions, and lack of respect for our Constitution indicate that’s his plan. The president of the United States has always been elected with the presumption that he will be the president of all the people of the...

This ebook consists of a summary of the ideas, viewpoints and facts presented by Allen Raymond and Ian Spiegelman in their book “How to Rig an Election: Confessions of a Republican Operative”. This summary offers a concise overview of the entire book in less than 30 minutes reading time. However...

This is a guide to the life and work of the French intellectual Georges Bataille, best known as the author of the celebrated erotic novel, The Story of the Eye. Benjamin Noys introduces Bataille as a writer out of step with the dominant intellectual trends of his day - surrealism and existentialism...

Complete summary of Maureen Dowd's book: "Bushworld: Enter At Your Own Risk".This summary of the ideas from Maureen Dowd's book "Bushworld" reveals the author's scathing observations of everything Bush-related, right from the family beginnings to the 2004 election. Maureen Dowd explains that the Bush...

This ebook consists of a summary of the ideas, viewpoints and facts presented by Matt Taibbi in his book “Spanking the Donkey: On the Campaign Trial with the Democrats”. This summary offers a concise overview of the entire book in less than 30 minutes reading time. However this work does not replace...

In a 1907 lecture to Harvard undergraduates, Theodore Roosevelt warned against becoming "too fastidious, too sensitive to take part in the rough hurly-burly of the actual work of the world." Roosevelt asserted that colleges should never "turn out mollycoddles instead of vigorous men,"...

The rapid proliferation of technologies like the Internet has raised the question of whether they have had a positive or a negative effect upon democratic citizenship. This guide uses Steven Lukes' three-dimensional analysis of power to examine arguments of technological determinism that cast a negative light on the technology, and Castells' positive analysis of mass self-communication.

"It will be particularly interesting to watch the ingenuities of the politicians in the new Parliament in producing schemes that will look like electoral reform and yet leave the profession still active for mischief. They will fight desperately against large constituencies with numerous members....

The Founding Fathers of the United States of America created the first free people in modern times. They wrote a new kind of Constitution which is now the oldest in existence. They built a new kind of commonwealth designed as a model for the whole human race. They believed it was thoroughly possible...