Public Affairs category: 1291 books
Barack Obama: His Love and Dream for America
A Presidency Rising Above Conflicts and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Here we are in the twenty-first century and one man named; Barack Obama has changed the meaning of democracy and freedom for a lifetime. Unfortunately, like progress and freedom, negative people want to question Barack Obama his citizenship, competence and duty to serve as commander in chief. But...
Corruption in Cuba
Castro and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
While Fidel Castro maintains his longtime grip on Cuba, revolutionary scholars and policy analysts have turned their attention from how Castro succeeded (and failed), to how Castro himself will be succeeded—by a new government. Among the many questions to be answered is how the new government will...
National Suicide
How Washington Is Destroying the American Dream from A to Z
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Government Racket, A Call for Revolution and The Tax Racket comes a scathing indictment of the dysfunctional federal government and its reckless disregard for the future of our country.
The government of the United States is a juggernaut of...
The Center
People and Power in Political Washington
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
A portrait of Washington politics during one of the most turbulent eras in American history by the twentieth century’s premier US government insider.
During his three decades as a journalist and political pundit for the New York Herald Tribune and Newsweek magazine, Stewart Alsop covered many...
Dalton McGuinty
Making a Difference
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2015
2016 Speaker's Book Award — Shortlisted
Former Ontario premier Dalton McGuinty shares the story of his life in politics and the leadership lessons he has learned.
Dalton McGuinty was premier of Ontario for ten years, from 2003 to 2013. Inheriting a province wounded from years of cutbacks...
The Making of a Chinese City: History and Historiography in Harbin
History and Historiography in Harbin
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
The history of Harbin, ruled by the Russians, by an international coalition of allied powers, by Chinese warlords, by the Soviet Union and finally by the Chinese Communists - all in the course of 100 years - is presented here as an example of Chinese local-history writing.
by Earl Schenck Miers, Richard A. Brown, James L. Robertson Jr
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
Originally published in 1948, this book tells the story of the three fateful days of Gettysburg in the words of the men and women who lived it. No mere chronicle of troop movements and military decisions, it is a path-breaking work in the reporting of Civil War history. Praised by "The New York...
Tear Down This Myth
How the Reagan Legacy Has Distorted Our Politics and Haunts Our Future
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2009
In this provocative new book, award-winning political journalist Will Bunch unravels the story of how a right-wing cabal hijacked the mixed legacy of Ronald Reagan, a personally popular but hugely divisive 1980s president, and turned him into a bronze icon to revive their fading ideology. They succeeded...
by Nicholas deB Katzenbach
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2008
A lively, intimate memoir that vividly recalls the idealism of the Kennedy administration.
As deputy attorney general under Bobby Kennedy and then attorney general and under secretary of state for Lyndon Johnson, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach offers a unique perspective on the civil rights movement,...
by College Guide World
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2013
Place of Women In Saudi Arabia
Copyright
Chapter One: Introduction
Chapter Two: History and Background
Chapter Three: Culture and Religion
Chapter Four: Islam and Sex Segregation
Chapter Five: Female Workforce
Chapter Six: Female Education and Sports
Chapter Seven: Female Mobility
Chapter Eight: Women and Politics
Chapter Nine: Family and Marriages
Chapter Ten: Plight of Women
Portrait of America
A Cultural History of the Federal Writers' Project
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2004
How well do we know our country? Whom do we include when we use the word "American"? These are not just contemporary issues but recurring questions Americans have asked themselves throughout their history--and questions that were addressed when, in 1935, the Roosevelt administration created...
May It Please the Court
Judicial Processes and Politics In America
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
This practical, comprehensive, and engaging introduction to the American judicial system is designed primarily for undergraduate students in criminal justice, liberal arts, political science, and beginning law. It differs from other texts not only by delivering an insider’s view of the courts, but...
Refuelling Europe
A Roadmap for completing the Single Energy Market
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2015
The Ukraine crisis has reignited debate in Europe surrounding the EU’s lack of a fully functioning single energy market. It has brought home to all member states the general need for a more coordinated energy policy, even though they may differ on aspects of what needs to be done. This...
by Anthony Anamgba
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2017
Ideology is the study of the origin, evolution and nature of ideas. Political ideology is any action-related body of ideas that guides and explains political behaviour.
It is in this lucid manner that this book will teach you political ideology.
It clearly explains the salient features...