Practical Politics category: 1369 books
America's Culture
Its Origins & Enemies
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2016
Are you grateful to be an American? Would you like to know why America is an exceptional country?
Do you feel the basic values Americans have lived by are being degraded? Would you like to understand why and how this is happening?
Is the federal government out of control in your opinion and taking...
The Radical Wrong: Lies Our Founding Fathers Never Told Us
Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Others Refute Right-Wing Extremists
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2012
This is a hard-hitting response to false statements about our nations values and ideals by rigid radical right-wing extremists. It unmasks their deceptions by using the actual words of the founding fathers—both brief quotations and longer passages. It pays tribute to the America you always knew was...
by Curt Waldrip
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
A look at how the concept of liberty as envisioned by the American founders is really quite radical by today's standards, and how that freedom has been slowly vanishing for the last century.
Sometimes humorous and sometimes rather acerbic with many disturbing and occasionally funny examples...
Boom Amid Gloom
The Spirit of Possibility in the 21st Century Gulf
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
The first decade of the new millennium witnessed wide-ranging transformations in the six countries that make up the Gulf Cooperation Council. They entered unchartered waters by experimenting politically and socially, expanding economically and asserting their influence internationally. These attempts...
Presidents and Terminal Logic Behavior
Term Limits and Executive Action in the United States, Brazil, and Argentina
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2014
Presidents of nations with constitutionally imposed term limits are often viewed as growing weaker as they approach the end of their time in office. However, in this important new study, political scientist Genevieve M. Kehoe argues that because such chief executives are free from reelection constraint...
The Political Power of Bad Ideas
Networks, Institutions, and the Global Prohibition Wave
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2010
In The Political Power of Bad Ideas, Mark Schrad uses one of the greatest oddities of modern history--the broad diffusion throughout the Western world of alcohol-control legislation in the early twentieth century--to make a powerful argument about how bad policy ideas achieve international success....
by Dr. David Garrahan
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Try not to cast the book aside because the recommendations are too radical. When Americans are fearful of visiting Disney World with their children; do not gather at a 4th of July celebration; avoid their favorite restaurants; and imagine their priest being beheaded on the altar it is time to think...
La nueva izquierda
Triunfos y derrotas de los gobiernos de Argentina, Brasil, Bolivia, Venezuela, C
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Mezcla de ensayo político, crónica periodística y relato de viaje, este
retrato del ascenso de la nueva izquierda en Sudamérica incluye desde
estadísticas económicas e interpretaciones históricas hasta letras de
canciones populares.
En pocos años, casi todos los países de la región...
by ulokoj
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
This is a timeless elucidation of a legendary leader from tropical africa who could have written a golden story of Nigeria in the black continent.
Palestine and the Decline of the Ottoman Empire
Modernization and the Path to Palestinian Statehood
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
During the final decades of Ottoman rule, Palestine was administratively divided into two states, Jerusalem and Beirut. Both provinces exhibited a strikingly cohesive history of modernisation, and as the Ottoman Empire began to recede, the education systems, taxation and bureaucracy which were left...
Nations in Transit - 2001-2002
Civil Society, Democracy and Markets in East Central Europe and Newly Independent States
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2017
"How are democracy and market reforms faring in East Central Europe and the former Soviet Union? Is civil society expanding or shrinking? Are the media free or fettered by official constraints? To what degree are nations governed by the rule of law? Are human rights respected? Do taxation and...
Young Generation Awakening
Economics, Society, and Policy on the Eve of the Arab Spring
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
The street protests that erupted in Tunisia in December 2010 and spread quickly throughout the Middle East surprised not only the entrenched dictators of the region but also international observers who collectively had taken for granted the durability of Middle Eastern authoritarianism. Specifically,...
Campaigning for Clean Air
Strategies for Pro-Nuclear Advocacy
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
Award-winning author Meredith Angwin guides you in your pro-nuclear advocacy, from a day when you are quietly typing at your computer to the day when you take the microphone in front of a legislative committee. Her book contains anecdotes, examples, and insights that will inspire and support your work toward a clean energy future.
The Political Economy of the New Egyptian Republic
Cairo Papers Vol. 33, No. 4
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
Egypt is a country of its people. What has been the effect on its inhabitants of the 2011 revolution and subsequent developments? In 2013, a conference held under the auspices of Cairo Papers in Social Science examined this issue from the points of view of anthropologists, historians, political scientists,...