Democracy category: 2250 books
by Capitol Reader
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2013
This ebook consists of a summary of the ideas, viewpoints and facts presented by Michael Savage in his book “Liberalism is a Mental Disorder”. 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 Michael Savage’s...
The Society for Useful Knowledge
How Benjamin Franklin and Friends Brought the Enlightenment to America
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2013
Benjamin Franklin and his contemporaries brought the Enlightenment to America-an intellectual revolution that laid the foundation for the political one that followed. With the “first Drudgery” of settling the American colonies now past, Franklin announced in 1743, it was time the colonists set...
by Capitol Reader
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2013
This ebook consists of a summary of the ideas, viewpoints and facts presented by Jonathan Kay in his book “Among the Truthers”. 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 Jonathan Kay’s book.Kay...
Time for a Turning Point
Setting a Course Toward Free Markets and Limited Government for Future Generations
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk shares a vision for America’s future embracing first principles, free markets, and small government. Kirk provides a roadmap on how to return to a free America, with an emphasis on reaching our youth and engaging them in the process.
During the...
Making Ends Meet
How Should We Spread Prosperity and Improve Opportunity
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
For many Americans, the recovery from the 2007 recession, a recovery that officially began in 2009, feels very remote, or nonexistent. Even as the stock market surges and millions of jobs have been created, they see a very different picture. Many Americans still believe in the basic notion that anyone...
South Africa - The Present as History
From Mrs Ples to Mandela and Marikana
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2014
In 1994, the first non-racial elections in South Africa brought Nelson Mandela and his African National Congress to office; elections since have confirmed the ANC's hold, both popular and legitimate, on power. Yet, at the same time, South Africa has one of the highest rates of protest and dissent...
Revolution 2.0
The Power of the People Is Greater Than the People in Power: A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2012
“A gripping chronicle of how a fear-frozen society finally topples its oppressors with the help of social media.” — San Francisco Chronicle
Wael Ghonim was a little-known, thirty-year-old Google executive in the summer of 2010 when he anonymously launched a Facebook page to protest the...
by Kevin Grant
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2015
If you're like most people then you live your life with no real understanding of the political game in which you're one of the pieces being played. But have no fear. As with any other game, there are explicit strategic and tactical considerations whose mastery will improve your understanding...
If Only They Didn't Speak English
Notes From Trump's America
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
'You see, if only they didn’t speak English in America, then we’d treat it as a foreign country – and probably understand it a lot better’
‘the sanest man in America’ – Bill Bryson
‘Jon Sopel nails it’ – Emily Maitlis
**With a brand new chapter, charting Trump's first...
Speeches that Shaped South Africa
From Malan to Malema
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
Great speeches have the power to bring about political change, and South Africa lays claim to some of the world’s most skilled orators, from Nelson Mandela, whose courageous statement from the dock inspired the liberation struggle, to Desmond Tutu, whose ‘Rainbow People of God’ speech prepared...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
This book offers an innovative examination of the utopian impulse through performance as a proposition of practical engagement in the contemporary Americas. The volume compiles unique multidisciplinary and exploratory texts, applying diverse critical and artistic approaches. Its contributors reconceptualize...
民主國家如何死亡：歷史所揭示的我們的未來
How Democracies Die: What History Reveals About Our Future
Language: Chinese
Release Date: January 11, 2019
《紐約時報》暢銷書，已翻譯十五種語言
關於當下的川普總統必讀書籍之一
「作者說明了許多國家的民主如何崩潰，不只是透過暴力政變，更常見（與隱晦）的是逐漸陷入專制…對於美國可能發生的事，本書是一本透徹又重要的指引。」
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L'Utopie
un essai de théorie politique de Thomas More (édition intégrale de 1516)
Language: French
Release Date: May 21, 2019
Pamphlet virulent dirigé contre la société anglaise d'Henri VIII et construction imaginaire proposant en contrepoint l'image d'une société idéale, L'Utopie, publiée en 1516, est la célèbre contribution de l'humaniste chrétien Thomas More au débat philosophique sur les finalités du politique....
by Skye Blue
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
Social and political commentator, Skye Blue, looks at an innovative solution to the GST issue in Australian politics.Do we have a revenue problem, or a spending problem? Who should decide what the GST rate is? Perhaps you should decide? Join Skye in this unique article about the GST.