Practical Politics category: 1369 books

In this “agenda-setting” polemic, journalist and historian Eric Alterman explains what is really happening with the Obama presidency. While Obama’s many compromises have disappointed liberals, Alterman argues that these concessions are largely due to a political system that is rigged against...

Do we live in basically orderly societies that occasionally erupt into violent conflict, or do we fail to perceive the constancy of violence and disorder in our societies? In this classic book, originally published in 1980, Cedric J. Robinson contends that our perception of political order is an illusion,...

This school system expose will inspire you to resign from the school system and experience the best things in life.

This book is about Nepal Congress where Mohan Shamsher, son of Chandra Shamsher had delivered a speech leading the sons of Chandra Shamsher at a grand feast arranged in the palace after awarding punishment to the members and supporters of the Nepal Praja Parishad organised to abolish the Rana regime...

Sheed & Ward, in partnership with the Commonweal Foundation and with funding from the Pew Charitable Trust, proudly presents the first of two volumes in a groundbreaking series called American Catholics in the Public Square. The result of a three-year study sponsored by Pew aimed at understanding...

In early 2004, filmmaker Jean-Daniel Lafond (Salam Iran, a Persian Letter) and author Fred A. Reed (Persian Postcards: Iran after Khomeini) returned to Iran after a two-year absence-on the eve of the parliamentary elections that were to seal the political defeat of the Reform movement. They had come...

The word 'governance' is ubiquitous. The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund make loans conditional on 'good governance'. Climate change and avian flu appear as issues of 'global governance'. The European Union issues a White Paper on 'Governance'. The U.S. Forest Service calls for 'collaborative...

Policy analysis in Canada brings together original contributions from many of the field’s leading scholars. Contributors chronicle the evolution of policy analysis in Canada over the past 50 years and reflect on its application in both governmental and non-governmental settings. As part of the International...

This book is a chapter-by-chapter analysis and documentation of the power of Israel via the Israeli, Jewish or Pro-Zionist Lobby on US Middle East policy. It raises serious questions as to the primary beneficiary of US policy, and its destructive results for the United States. The extraordinary extent...

British Prime Minister Lord Palmerston has enjoyed a rakish reputation as womaniser, careless aristocrat and the apostle of gun-boat diplomacy. His lengthy life linked the American War of Independence with the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, the colourful Regency period with the era of Queen Victoria,...

Are you happy? Does it matter? Increasingly, governments seem to think so. As the UK government conducts its first happiness survey, Alastair Campbell looks at happiness as a political as well as a personal issue; what it should mean to us, what it means to him. Taking in economic and political...

Si chiama POTERE. In tutte le sue forme, i suoi tic, i suoi segreti, i suoi perché. Lo vogliono in tanti ma lo provano in pochi. La parola va a chi è informato sui fatti perché il potere lo conosce bene. Col libro precedente, L’UOMO CHE SUSSURRA AI POTENTI, Bisignani e Madron si erano fermati al...

Mario Vargas Llosa, Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo, Enrique Krauze, Yoani Sánchez y Álvaro Vargas Llosa, entre muchos otros, abordan en esta obra el desastre que acompaña la llegada del populismo y diseccionan sus diferentes formas y máscaras, desde el populismo nacionalista de Trump o Le Pen hasta...

Desde que en 2015 el magnate de los negocios anunciara su candidatura a la presidencia de Estados Unidos, son muchas las voces que lo han calificado de liberal desde un extremo al otro del espectro político. Pero como demuestran en estas páginas diez expertos en la materia, la ideología política...