Current Events category: 843 books
Felice Maniero e la Mala del Brenta
La vera storia di Faccia d'Angelo
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Jacopo Pezzan e Giacomo Brunoro raccontano l'epopea criminale della "Mala del Brenta", l'organizzazione malavitosa guidata da Felice Maniero.
La storia del boss con la faccia d'angelo ed il cuore da diavolo che ha imperversato a Nordest torna in una seconda edizione rinnovata e aggiornata...
by Weil Simone
Language: French
Release Date: April 20, 2013
Language: French
Release Date: April 20, 2013
Simone Weil (1909-1943) professeur agrégée de philosophie. Après avoir enseigné au Puy, elle quitte la France, en 1942, allant d’abord aux Etats-Unis puis à Londres où elle travaille pour le Général de Gaulle. Atteinte de la tuberculose, elle...
Over The Rainbow
A look at the many colourful peoples, who make up this diverse and vibrant society, as seen through the eyes of a newspaper reporter
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2019
A look at the many colourful peoples, who make up this diverse and vibrant society, as seen through the eyes of a newspaper reporter. Many colourful “vignettes” in this “land of great contrasts” – happy, sad and true, that was the fabric of South African life in the lead up to the historic...
What Color Is Your Sky?
How Our Assumptions Color Our World
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
There are many assumptions we make about the world around us. Most of them were taught to us. It may have been as innocent as, “Oh, look, child, at the beautiful blue sky!” We accept the statement at face value, without question, partly because when we look we do, indeed, see blue....
by Paul E. Peterson
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2012
Winner of the 1981 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award for the best book published in the United States on government, politics, or international affairs.
"City Limits radically reinterprets urban politics by deriving its dominant forces from the logic of the American federal structure. It...
by Julio Camino
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 4, 2017
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 4, 2017
Tras el derribo del Muro de Berlín y el colapso de la Unión Soviética, el socialismo debió haber pasado a la historia junto con el marxismo, El marxismo no es una “ciencia” como pretendían los académicos del Partido Comunista moscovita, sino un enorme absurdo sin sentido, plagado de contradicciones.
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by Filip Pierzchalski
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
This book depicts a new research perspective of political leadership, in which the multi-level and dynamic leadership relation is explained as relations between the leader (human agency) and followers (sociological environment). In this sense, leadership comprises mutual influences between personal...
New Jersey Politics and Government
The Suburbs Come of Age
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
This fourth edition is thoroughly updated to reflect the challenges New Jersey has overcome and those it continues to face: sustaining growth and opportunity in a multicultural society, providing quality education, and protecting the environment. State politics and government have been almost entirely...
The California Republic
Institutions, Statesmanship, and Policies
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2003
Even before its budget crisis and recall election, California held a unique position in the United States. Often lauded as having the fifth largest economy in the world, California leads the nation in other measures as well, particularly cultural and political trends. But were it an independent state,...
Obamacare Wars
Federalism, State Politics, and the Affordable Care Act
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2016
Not five minutes after the Affordable Care Act (ACA) was signed into law, in March 2010, Virginia’s attorney general was suing to stop it. And yet, the ACA rolled out, in infamously bumpy fashion, and rolled on, fought and defended at every turn—despite President Obama’s claim, in 2014, that...
CONTROVERSAL PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES
DUTERTE "IF I WERE PRESIDENT'...."
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2017
CONTROVERSAL PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES
“I won’t run. But it does not prevent me from making suggestions just because I am not running, that I should keep my mouth shut. If there’s anything that I can suggest that would make it easier for the people to live, let alone exist, then do it,” Duterte said.
by Cindy Kay Currier
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
It’s too late for a makeover. What society needs now is something totally new.
You’ve lost your home, been squeezed out of your life-long career, have limited access to your bank account and are wondering, what just happened? Is this America? You look around and realize a large portion...
The World Awakened
An essay with no agenda
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2013
"This essay is my opinion and no-one elses. This essay is the result of my self education and my thoughts on the various aspects of the world. It is written in order for me to convey my thoughts to the world in the hope these thoughts are considered by others and taken as a point of discussion....
Why States Matter
An Introduction to State Politics
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
When it comes to voting, taxes, environmental regulations, social services, education, criminal justice, political parties, property rights, gun control, marriage and a whole host of other modern American issues, the state in which a citizen resides makes a difference. That idea—that the political...