Practical Politics category: 1369 books

In a world where the built environment seems ever more shaped by invisible market forces, where modern architecture can seem to dissolve into a generic void, sometimes it takes a very special person to make a difference. Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson was Mayor of London from 2008 until...

Bewitched and Bedevilled: Women Write the Gillard Years is a provocative analysis of Australian attitudes towards Julia Gillard, the nations first female Prime Minister.Featuring a selection of Australias most influential, entertaining and controversial female voices examining the countrys reaction to...

As she nears 80, Mary O’Rourke reflects on her life and its universal themes through letters. To the Athlone Fianna Fáil Women’s Group … to a future female politician … to a young couple embracing on a bridge … to a past professor … to a niece in America … On the eve of...

Leviathan was devoted to the problems of the state. Leviathan was the name of the biblical monster, depicted as a force of nature, belittling a human race. Hobbes uses this image of this monster to describe the powerful state. Hobbes’ point of view was based on the postulate of the natural state...

Vor knapp einem Vierteljahrhundert führten die Volksbewegungen in den ostmitteleuropäischen Staaten und in der DDR sowie der Zusammenbruch der Sowjetunion zum Ende des Kalten Krieges und zur Überwindung der Spaltung Europas. Der damalige Bundeskanzler Kohl nutzte die Gunst der Stunde zur Vereinigung...

Written by Andrew Jack, the Moscow Bureau Chief of the Financial Times, here is a revealing look at the meteoric rise of Vladimir Putin and his first term as president of Russia. Drawing on interviews with Putin himself, and with a number of the country's leading figures, as well as many ordinary...

In this book of absorbing stories, Bruce Mazlish illuminates the lives of intellectual and political leaders with the penetrating light of psychohistory and in doing so illuminates our own lives as well. A pioneer in this field, Mazlish demonstrates that study of the origins of leaders—their personal...

Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) have become the cultural icons of the 21st century. Figures like Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg are held up as role models who epitomise the modern pursuit of innovation, wealth and success. We now live, Bloom and Rhodes argue, in a ‘CEO society’ – a society where...

In this book, Ambassador Martinus L. Johnson, Sr. recounts his experiences growing up in Liberia, obtaining an education in the United States, and ultimately representing his beloved country on four continents. Ambassador Johnson represented the Republic of Liberia for more than 25 years in some of...

The most comprehensive state election study ever undertaken, Elections in Pennsylvania provides data and analysis for more than 13,000 general elections and more than 6,000 primary elections held in the state between 1900 and 1998, with a postscript examining in less detail the elections of 2000 and...

Ever since George W. Bush began running for public office in the 1990s, questions have been raised in the public eye about his service in the Air National Guard during the late 1960s and early 1970s -- when countless American soldiers (John Kerry among them) were serving heroically in Vietnam. By...

Abridged version of Ian Bone's Bash The Rich released as an ebook as a 'tribute' to the passing of Margaret Thatcher. This edition includes, Bone's eary years, skips the time he spent in Swansea as a student and anarchist activist and concentrates of the founding of Class War in an attempt to open...

New childrens book will save civilization. After his revolutionary holiday book, Yes, There Is A Santa Claus, Mr. Erik Raichles new book tells us that we are in big trouble. Weve reached Peak Oil, Peak Debt, and Peak Social Decay. If someone doesnt do something soon, civilization will collapse, forever....

According to postmodern scholars, subjects are defined only through their relationship to institutions and social norms. But if we are only political people insofar as we are subjects of existing power relations, there is little hope of political transformation. To instigate change, we need to draw...