David J Lorenzo: 4 books
Conceptions of Chinese Democracy
Reading Sun Yat-sen, Chiang Kai-shek, and Chiang Ching-kuo
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Conceptions of Chinese Democracy provides a coherent and critical introduction to the democratic thought of three fathers of modern Taiwan—Sun Yat-sen, Chiang Kai-shek, and Chiang Ching-kuo—in a way that is accessible and grounded in broader traditions of political theory.
David J. Lorenzo’s...
Debating War
Why Arguments Opposing American Wars and Interventions Fail
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2015
What arguments have critics of American wars and interventions put forward, and what arguments do they currently employ? Thomas Jefferson, Henry Thoreau, John Calhoun, the Anti-Imperialist League, Herbert Hoover, Charles Lindbergh, Martin Luther King Jr., and Ron Paul (among others) have criticized...
Cities at the End of the World
Using Utopian and Dystopian Stories to Reflect Critically on our Political Beliefs, Communities, and Ways of Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
This book undertakes a critical examination of contemporary political problems through discussions of three utopian and three dystopian texts.
Selected stories from Morris, Orwell, More, Bellamy, Neville, and Zamyatin are used to generate questions about fundamental economic, political, and...
Root Cause Analysis Handbook
A Guide to Efficient and Effective Incident Investigation
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Are you trying to improve performance, but find that the same problems keep getting in the way? Safety, health, environmental quality, reliability, production, and security are at stake. You need the long-term planning that will keep the same issues from recurring. Root Cause Analysis Handbook: A...