Democracy category: 2250 books
Unter Piraten
Erkundungen in einer neuen politischen Arena
Language: German
Release Date: March 31, 2014
Mit dem Erfolg bei den Abgeordnetenhauswahlen in Berlin ist die Piratenpartei in Politik und Öffentlichkeit angekommen. Sind die Piraten nur ein Übergangsphänomen, das von der Schlafmützigkeit des Establishments profitiert, oder gibt es ein Potenzial für nachhaltige Verschiebungen im politischen...
by Rod Dacombe
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
This book makes an important contribution to contemporary debates over the place of civic participation in democratic theory and practice. Drawing on a detailed case study of the Blackbird Leys area of Oxford, the book employs a novel empirical approach to ask whether widespread participation in civic...
Die Frage aller Fragen
Woher kommen wir, wohin gehen wir?
Language: German
Release Date: June 29, 2018
Wie wird das Wasser sein, das wir trinken, wie wird die Luft sein, die wir atmen, in 200 Jahren? Werden die Menschen der Zukunft im Paradies leben, in Wohlstand und Freiheit? Oder wird unser Dasein zur Hölle, gezeichnet von Kriegen, Armut und Hunger? Dieses inspirierende Buch analysiert und zeichnet...
Outside the Wire
Ten Lessons I've Learned in Everyday Courage
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
NOW A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!
A smart and revealing political memoir from a rising star of the Democratic Party.
"In life and in politics, the most important work is often that which happens outside the wire."
Going "outside the wire" -- military lingo for...
Neoliberalismus, Gewalt und Militarisierung
G8: "Der Club der Reichen und Mächtigen"
Language: German
Release Date: April 26, 2013
Presidential Lottery
The Reckless Gamble in Our Electoral System
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
In this eye-opening nonfiction account, world-renowned author James A. Michener details the reckless gamble U.S. voters make every four years: trusting the electoral college. In 1968, Michener served as a presidential elector in Pennsylvania. What he witnessed that fall disturbed him so much that...
Fire and Ashes
Success and Failure in Politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
In 2005 Michael Ignatieff left Harvard to lead Canada's Liberal Party and by 2008 was poised to become Prime Minister. It never happened. He describes what he learned from his bruising defeat about compromise and the necessity of bridging differences in a pluralist society. A reflective, compelling account of modern politics as it really is.
Bernie Sanders
Sus principales ideas para Estados Unidos
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 18, 2019
El famoso senador independiente de Estados Unidos, con una carrera de treinta y cinco años en el servicio público, hizo campaña para la presidencia de Estados Unidos, movilizando a gente de todo el país, poniendo la justicia económica, racial y social en el centro de atención.
El objetivo...
by Thomas Jefferson
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 1977
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 1977
Includes A Summary View of the Rights of British America and Notes on the State of Virginia complete; seventy-nine letters; "Response to the Citizens of Albemarle," 1790; "Opinion on the Constitutionality of a National Bank," 1791; and many other writings.
Troll Nation
How The Right Became Trump-Worshipping Monsters Set On Rat-F*cking Liberals, America, and Truth Itself
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
“Amanda Marcotte drains the swamp and reveals a Republican Party hijacked by grifters and frauds.” ?David Daley
The election of Donald Trump in 2016, like most of his campaign, came as a shock to many Americans. How could a man so lacking in capacity, so void of any intellectual heft, become...
A Farther Shore
Ireland's Long Road to Peace
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2003
He’s been imprisoned, shot at, denounced, shunned, and banned, yet Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams remains resolute in his belief that peace is the only viable option for the Irish people. Adams led the oldest revolutionary movement in Ireland on an extraordinary journey from armed insurrection...
by Robert A.G. Monks
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Democratic capitalism—the source of America’s vast wealth, the foundation of our entire economic system—is threatened as never before, not from without but from within. Shareholders today no longer own, except in the narrowest legal sense, the corporations they have invested in. Emboldened by...
Freedom Manifesto
Why Free Markets Are Moral and Big Government Isn't
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
From Steve Forbes, the iconic editor in chief of Forbes Media, and Elizabeth Ames coauthors of How Capitalism Will Save Us—comes a new way of thinking about the role of government and the morality of free markets.
Americans today are at a turning point. Are we a country founded on the...
by Bob Blain
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2014
The economics profession is ripe for a paradigm shift. Anomalies proliferate with an increasing number of economists searching for a more valid, reliable and helpful approach, whether it is adjustments in GDP, neoKeynesianism, critical theory, monetary reform, or more sublte changes such as modifying...