Foreign Legal Systems category: 1801 books
The Bully Pulpit
Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
One of the Best Books of the Year as chosen by The New York Times*, The Washington Post, The Economist, Time, USA TODAY, Christian Science Monitor,* and more. “A tale so gripping that one questions the need for fiction when real life is so plump with drama and intrigue” (Associated Press).
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Gobernanza inteligente para el siglo XXI
Una vía intermedia entre Occidente y Oriente
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 9, 2013
¿Cuál es la mejor forma de gobernar un mundo en profunda transformación? Un libro que analiza la unión de las mejores prácticas de gobierno en Oriente y Occidente como fórmula para afrontar los desafíos de la globalización
Durante décadas la democracia liberal ha sido aplaudida como...
The European Dream
How Europe's Vision of the Future Is Quietly Eclipsing the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2005
The national bestseller that shows how the American Dream is languishing, surpassed worldwide by a powerful alternative in the lifestyle of the new Europe.
A Fine Mess
A Global Quest for a Simpler, Fairer, and More Efficient Tax System
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
New York Times bestelling author T. R. Reid travels around the world to solve the urgent problem of America's failing tax code, unravelling a complex topic in plain English - and telling a rollicking story along the way.
The U.S. tax code is a total write-off. Crammed with loopholes and special...
Cuba : What Everyone Needs To Know
What Everyone Needs to Know
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Ever since Fidel Castro assumed power in Cuba in 1959, Americans have obsessed about the nation ninety miles south of the Florida Keys. America's fixation on the tropical socialist republic has only grown over the years, fueled in part by successive waves of Cuban immigration and Castro's larger-than-life...
Fortress Farm - Shield of the Okaw
Fortress Farm, #2
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
The farmers of the Okaw have survived the initial chaos of the Great Reset. Using their resourcefulness and with the help of their mechanical geniuses, they have created a safe place for their friends and family.
But their success has drawn attention, and those who wish to control the new world...
The Road to Unfreedom
Russia, Europe, America
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
With the end of the Cold War, the victory of liberal democracy was thought to be absolute. Observers declared the end of history, confident in a peaceful, globalized future. But we now know this to be premature. Authoritarianism first returned in Russia, as Putin developed a political system dedicated...
by Stephen Clarke
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2012
The author of A Year in the Merde and Talk to the Snail offers a highly biased and hilarious view of French history in this international bestseller.
Things have been just a little awkward between Britain and France ever since the Norman invasion in 1066. Fortunately—after years of humorously...
Carnage and Culture
Landmark Battles in the Rise to Western Power
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Examining nine landmark battles from ancient to modern times--from Salamis, where outnumbered Greeks devastated the slave army of Xerxes, to Cortes’s conquest of Mexico to the Tet offensive--Victor Davis Hanson explains why the armies of the West have been the most lethal and effective of any fighting...
Capitalisms Compared
Welfare, Work, and Business
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2013
*How different would Americans’ lives be if they had guaranteed access to health care, generous public pensions, paid family leave, high-quality public pre-school care, increased rights at work, and a greater say in how corporations are run? *This one-of-a-kind book emphasizes that differences...
Trading with the Enemy
A Yankee Travels Through Castro's Cuba
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2008
Havana knew me by my shoes,” begins Tom Miller's lively and entertaining account of his sojourn for more than eight months traveling through Cuba, mixing with its literati and black marketers, its cane cutters and cigar rollers. Granted unprecedented access to travel throughout the country, the...
by Edward Luce
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
One of the Washington Post’s 50 notable works of nonfiction in 2017. An Amazon Top 100 book of the year. A Financial Times and Economist best book of the year. Selected for a Kindle Daily Deal in January 2018.
In the run-up to hardcover publication, Luce published an op-ed on the British...
The Accidental Superpower
The Next Generation of American Preeminence and the Coming Global Disorder
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
In the bestselling tradition of The World Is Flat and The Next 100 Years, THE ACCIDENTAL SUPERPOWER will be a much discussed, contrarian, and eye-opening assessment of American power.
Near the end of the Second World War, the United States made a bold strategic gambit that rewired the international...
by C.B. Macpherson
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 1992
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 1992
In his 1964 CBC Massey Lectures C. B. Macpherson examines the rival ideas of democracy - the communist, Third World, and Western-liberal variants - and their impact on one another. He suggests that the West need not fear any challenge to liberal democracy if it is prepared to re-examine and alter its own values.