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by Elisa Hategan
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
Set in 1990s Toronto, RACE TRAITOR is the visceral true story of a teenage girl who becomes entangled in Canada’s most powerful white supremacist group, the Heritage Front – a domestic terrorist group later revealed to have been created and funded with the assistance of Canada’s spy agency,...
In the Name of Democracy
American War Crimes in Iraq and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
A riveting documentary anthology that examines a deeply disturbing question: Is the United States guilty of war crimes in Iraq?
Until recently, the possibility that the United States was responsible for war crimes seemed unthinkable to most Americans. But as previously suppressed information...
Radicals for Capitalism
A Freewheeling History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2009
On Wall Street, in the culture of high tech, in American government: Libertarianism-the simple but radical idea that the only purpose of government is to protect its citizens and their property against direct violence and threat- has become an extremely influential strain of thought. But while many...
Strengthening Democracy in Malaysia
The Need for a Vibrant Public Sphere
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2013
What is democracy? For many of us, it simply involves having periodic elections to decide which political party forms the next government. Yet, democracy is more than just elections. It involves the existence of a space which allows for people to freely debate on public issues and government...
The Battle for Wisconsin
Scott Walker and the Attack on the Progressive Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2011
This past January, the newly elected governor Scott Walker declared war on Wisconsin's progressive roots. Under the guise of budget repair, he and his Republican colleagues in the state legislature introduced a whole host of initiatives meant to roll back hard-won gains for workers and recast the...
by Thomas Hobbes
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
This carefully crafted ebook: “The Collected Political Works: Leviathan + De Cive (On the Citizen) + The Elements of Law + Behemoth, or The Long Parliament ” contains 4 books in one volume and is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.
The Collected...
Leviathan
or the Matter, Forme, and Power of a Common-Wealth Ecclesiastical and Civill
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2015
Leviathan, or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil is a book written in 1651 by Thomas Hobbes.
In the book, Hobbes argues for a social contract and rule by a sovereign. Influenced by the English Civil War, Hobbes wrote that chaos or civil war - situations...
by Michael Novak, Paul Adams
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
What is social justice? For Friedrich Hayek, it was a mirage-a meaningless, ideological, incoherent, vacuous cliché. He believed the term should be avoided, abandoned, and allowed to die a natural death. For its proponents, social justice is a catchall term that can be used to justify any progressive-sounding...
Politics of Urbanism
Seeing Like a City
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
To see like a city, rather than seeing like a state, is the key to understanding modern politics. In this book, Magnusson draws from theorists such as Weber, Wirth, Hayek, Jacobs, Sennett, and Foucault to articulate some of the ideas that we need to make sense of the city as a form of political order.
Locally...
by John Dunn
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
In this timely and important work, eminent political theorist John Dunn argues that democracy is not synonymous with good government. The author explores the labyrinthine reality behind the basic concept of democracy, demonstrating how the political system that people in the West generally view as straightforward...
Thriving During Challenging Times
The Energy, Food and Financial Independence Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
The news today is not good. We are experiencing a financial crisis that rivals the Great Depression, wild swings in energy prices signaling the end of cheap oil, food shortages and rising prices, water shortages all over the globe, and noticeable effects of climate change. It’s an easy time to be...
by Dee Van Dyk
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2014
Who killed JFK? Was Jack the Ripper a member of the Freemasons? Is Skull and Bones a secret society placed to form a sinister shadow government, or is it a gathering of wealthy kids performing bizarre adolescent rituals? Are we alone in the universe?
Van Dyk’s Conspiracy Theories takes...
BLACK LIVES MATTER
Is It Open Season On Killing and Mistreating Blacks In America?
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2016
Each day that is blessed to us, some black man, woman or child has been killed or mistreated by police or from another black person. Black people in America should have always organized against injustices from police and other misguided blacks who are a threat to their survival. I cannot understand...
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