Politics category: 19839 books
Corruption in contemporary politics
A new travel guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
The book provides an accessible account of the significance of political corruption, its causes, consequences and remedies.
State Politics and the Affordable Care Act
Choices and Decisions
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2019
After a great deal of discussion and debate across all levels of government, President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act (ACA) into law in March 2010. Since President Trump's election into office, the ACA has stayed in the headlines. Trump has continued to call for the replacement and repeal of...
Cleobury Mortimer
A Small Market Town Blighted by a Decade of Political Corruption
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2015
Cleobury Mortimer is a small market town nestling in the rolling countryside beneath the Clee Hills in South Shropshire. Passing through this town no-one would notice the simmering discontent or smell the stench of political corruption, but this account written by a local shop-keeper, depicts a decade...
by Roberto Mangabeira Unger
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 8, 2015
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 8, 2015
L’opera del più grande filosofo brasiliano di tutti i tempi. Roberto Mangabeira Unger è stato uno dei più ascoltati consiglieri del Presidente Luiz Inácio Lula, ora Ministro per gli Affari Strategici del governo Rousseff. Alla radice della teoria di Unger c’è l’idea di «società come creazione...
by Mansoureh Ebrahimi
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2016
Based on British and Iranian sources, this book investigates the background and goals of the coup in Iran, examining how British foreign and domestic agents interfered with Iran’s internal affairs between the nationalization of Iran’s oil in 1951 until its failure in 1953 with the overthrow of...
The Natural
The Misunderstood Presidency of Bill Clinton
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2002
Joe Klein, best-selling author of Primary Colors and one of our most brilliant political analysts, now tackles the subject he knows best: Bill Clinton. Astute, even-handed, and keenly intelligent, The Natural is the only book to read if you want to understand exactly what happened–to the military,...
Stone's Rules
How to Win at Politics, Business, and Style
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
Rules to live by from the master of political dark arts, as seen in the award-winning documentary Get Me Roger Stone
At long last, America’s most notorious political operative has released his operating manual!
A freedom fighter to his admirers, a dirty trickster to his detractors,...
The Conscience of a Liberal
Reclaiming the Compassionate Agenda
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2001
“Never separate the lives you live from the words you speak,” Paul Wellstone told his students at Carleton College, where he was professor of political science.
Wellstone has lived up to his words as the most liberal man in the United States Senate, where for the past decade he has been...
The Way It Works
Inside Ottawa
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2009
The ultimate insider takes us behind the scenes, in the book everyone is waiting for.
As Jean Chrétien’s right-hand man for thirty years in Ministries all over Ottawa, Eddie Goldenberg got to know how things worked — especially from 1993 to 2003, when he was Senior Policy Advisor to the...
Bobby Kennedy
The Making of a Liberal Icon
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
“A multilayered, inspiring portrait of RFK . . . [the] most in-depth look at an extraordinary figure whose transformational story shaped America.”—Joe Scarborough, The Washington Post
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Soon to be a Hulu original series starring Chris Pine. Larry Tye appears...
Fighting Corporate Abuse
Beyond Predatory Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2014
Fighting Corporate Abuse demonstrates, through compelling and revelatory analysis, the legislation and regulation needed to deal with the abuses in the corporate sector that have been revealed in recent years. It highlights the more general contribution of company law and practice to the current crisis...
Systems of Survival
A Dialogue on the Moral Foundations of Commerce and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2016
With intelligence and clarity of observation, the author of The Death and Life of Great American Cities addresses the moral values that underpin working life.
In Systems of Survival, Jane Jacobs identifies two distinct moral syndromes—one governing commerce, the other, politics—and explores...
Thank You for Being Late
An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
#1 New York Times Bestseller • Los Angeles Times Bestseller
One of The Wall Street Journal's 10 Books to Read Now • One of Kirkus Reviews's Best Nonfiction Books of the Year • One of Publishers Weekly's Most Anticipated Books of the Year
Shortlisted for the OWL Business Book Award...
Red Ink
Inside the High-Stakes Politics of the Federal Budget
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
The Pulitzer-Prize-winning reporter, columnist, and bestselling author of In Fed We Trust, dissects the federal budget in this New York Times bestseller.
In a sweeping narrative about the people and the politics behind the budget--a topic that is fiercely debated today in the halls of Congress...