Practical Politics category: 1369 books
by Jeff Appelquist
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
In Wisdom Is Not Enough: Reflections on Leadership and Teams, award-winning author Jeff Appelquist draws on his twenty-five years of real-world experience as a military officer, lawyer, corporate executive, and entrepreneur to share his hard-won and compelling insights into what makes great leaders...
Star Spangled Security
Applying Lessons Learned over Six Decades Safeguarding America
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2012
Harold Brown served as U.S. secretary of defense when the Soviet Union posed an existential threat with superior conventional force capability and a daunting nuclear weapons arsenal. No one could have been better suited to deter the Soviets during that most dangerous period in the Cold War.
A...
The Transformation of Governance in Rural China
Market, Finance, and Political Authority
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
The outbreak of organised, violent peasant protests across the Chinese countryside from the late 1990s to early 2000s has attracted much scholarly interest. In this study, An Chen endeavours to understand from these protests the question of the Chinese government's control in the countryside and the...
by Anonymous
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Something haunts many activists, anarchists, environmentalists, many of my friends. It haunted me. Much of our subcultures tell us it’s not there, that we can’t see it, hear it. Our best wishes for the world tell us not to see it. But for many, despite their best efforts — carrying on with the...
Network Governance and the Differentiated Polity
Selected Essays, Volume I
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
Network Governance and the Differentiated Polity is the first of two volumes featuring a selection of key writings by R. A. W. Rhodes. Volume I collects in one place for the first time the main articles written by Rhodes on policy networks and governance between 1990 and 2005. The introductory section...
Evidence-based policy making in the social sciences
Methods that matter
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2016
Drawing on the insights of some of the world’s leading authorities in public policy analysis, this important book offers a distinct and critical showcase of emerging forms of discovery for policy-making. Chapter by chapter this expert group of social scientists showcase their chosen method or approach,...
The Presidency of Barack Obama
A First Historical Assessment
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
An original and engaging account of the Obama years from a group of leading political historians
Barack Obama's election as the first African American president seemed to usher in a new era, and he took office in 2009 with great expectations. But by his second term, Republicans controlled Congress,...
America Votes 32
2015-2016, Election Returns by State
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
Authoritative, extensive in scope and meticulously researched, America Votes is a valuable resource that includes official, state-certified election returns for the presidential, House, Senate, and gubernatorial elections of 2015 and 2016. Including both primary and general election data, this volume...
Nation and State in Latin America
Political Language During Independence
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
No one in Latin American historiography has paid more attention to questions related to the emergence of nations than Jose Carlos Chiaramonte. Reflecting on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century uses of the concept of nation in Europe and the Americas, Chiaramonte argues that historical questions related...
Subversive Lives
A Family Memoir of the Marcos Years
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2016
From the 1960s to the 1990s, seven members of the Quimpo family dedicated themselves to the anti-Marcos resistance in the Philippines, sometimes at profound personal cost. In this unprecedented memoir, eight siblings (plus one by marriage) tell their remarkable stories in individually authored chapters...
When Presidents Lie
A History of Official Deception and Its Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2004
“I’ve never read a better explanation of why presidents lie.”—John W. Dean, former counsel to President Nixon, The Washington Monthly
By the end of the twentieth century, after decades of demoralizing revelations about the mendacity of their elected officials, most Americans had come...
Stealing the Minds of America
A Must for All Truth Seekers Who Vote
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2008
Stealing the Minds of America A Must for Truth-Seekers Who Vote There are people and organizations counting on you to not think for yourself. When this happens, they have effectively stolen you mind and vote. Do you really know the political party that you embrace? Janice Ponds has done extensive research...
How America Gets Away with Murder
Illegal Wars, Collateral Damage and Crimes Against Humanity
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2004
"Exciting, original, and completely convincing ... This book is essential reading for anybody who wants to understand how the law really works in international affairs, and it throws a great deal of light on those international affairs themselves." Edward S. Herman
"This closely reasoned and...
The State of the Parties
The Changing Role of Contemporary American Parties
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2014
The State of the Parties brings readers up to date on party action in election years and in between. This essential party primer includes: new chapters on polarization between and within the parties in the aftermath of the 2012 election, demographic changes to America’s political parties and the...