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by Alexandra Kitty
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
Why gender-specific books are needed -- for the simple fact that women's work is never done!
About the Author
Alexandra Kitty is a dangerous woman who is the author of Don’t Believe It!: How lies become news, OutFoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s war on journalism, and Consumer-isms in 12...
Jihad in Brooklyn
The NYPD Raid That Stopped America's First Suicide Bombers
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2005
The true story of a potentially devastating terrorist plot in New York City—and the heroes who risked their lives to prevent it.
On the morning of July 31, 1997, two young Palestinian men living in Brooklyn, New York, were prepared to sacrifice themselves as martyrs to their bloody cause. Their...
State of Change
Colorado Politics in the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Colorado has recently been at the center of major shifts in American politics. Indeed, over the last several decades the political landscape has altered dramatically on both the state and national levels. State of Change traces the political and demographic factors that have transformed Colorado,...
America Under Attack
The One Solution to the United States' Broken Government
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Are you concerned about where the current administration is leading this country? Whether the nation can survive the next four years? It’s worse than you think, and there is only one way to solve this gigantic problem.
In this booklet: • The Hidden Cause of Society's Deadly Decline • Attack From Within • An Attack On Law
Soft Corruption
How Unethical Conduct Undermines Good Government and What To Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
New Jersey has long been a breeding ground for political corruption, and most of it is perfectly legal. Public officials accept favors from lobbyists, give paid positions to relatives, and rig the electoral process to favor their cronies in a system where campaign money is used to buy government results....
Sauerkraut, Suspenders, and the Swiss
A Political History of Green County’S Swiss Colony, 1845–1945
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2012
From the first Cheese Day in 1874 to the Great Limburger War of 1935, author Duane H. Freitag peers into the nooks and crannies of the tumultuous political history of Green County, Wisconsin.
In this previously untold story, Freitag pulls back the curtain to uncover how the Swiss immigrants...
by Matthew Zencey
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2012
How much do you really know about former Alaskan governor Sarah Palin? The revelations in Matthew ZenceyÆs account of her tenure will surprise you. Although Palin is widely seen as a conservative social ideologue, her political career in Alaska was marked by a progressive approach that is at odds with...
Power, Place, and State-Society Relations in Korea
Neo-Confucian and Geomantic Reconstruction of Developmental State and Democratization
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
No book has addressed the simultaneous phenomena of Korea’s rapid economic development and its vibrant democratization in a single coherent paradigm. The late developmentalist approach emphasizes the strong role of Korea’s state and bureaucratic efficiency but does not explain how political development...
by Edward V. Schneier, John Brian Murtaugh, Antoinette Pole
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2009
Completely revised and updated with extensive new material, this acclaimed book offers an inside look at how influence is wielded in Albany. The authors--an Albany-based political scientist and a former State Assembly member, now joined by an expert on both state politics and political blogging and...
From Here to Absurdity
Pink Flamingos, Vibrators and other Comical Events
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2012
Have you ever looked at anything and felt like laughing out loud – while no one else around you saw the humor? Do you find it odd that there are more plastic flamingos in America than the real thing?
Does it seem strange to you that the great schism between Christianity in the East...
The Three Governors Controversy
Skullduggery, Machinations, and the Decline of Georgia's Progressive Politics
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
The death of Georgia governor-elect Eugene Talmadge in late 1946 launched a constitutional crisis that ranks as one of the most unusual political events in U.S. history: the state had three active governors at once, each claiming that he was the true elected official.
This is the first full-length...
by Alfred Mbati
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2016
The Diplomatic Lifestyle Journal offers content whose primary goal is to give the reader an insight as to how to live like a Diplomat while positioning themselves amongst the top 1% in the Social, Political and Economic spheres of the world’s population.
Living life can sometimes be a headache...
by Gerald Benjamin
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2012
New York remains the Empire State. Its trillion dollar economy makes the state a national-and often world-leader in banking, finance, publishing, soft services (law, accounting, insurance, consulting), higher education, culture, and the arts. With more than one in five of its residents having immigrated...
by Edward Flattau
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2014
Green Morality, renowned environmental columnist's Edward Flattau's fourth book, is a thorough and timely exploration of mankind's moral obligation to create an environmentally sustainable global society. Along the way, he confronts moral hypocrisy, failed environmental movements and policies, globally...