Local Government category: 1701 books
The 2008 Election in Florida
Change! But Only at the Top of the Ticket
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2011
During 2008, the Democrats achieved in Florida a goal that had eluded them in all but three of the national elections since 1964: victory in the presidential race. Despite this success, the Republicans retained their dominance in the U.S. Congress and in the Florida State Legislature. The 2008 Elections...
by Richard Jeanty
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2013
Black men are increasingly being victimized by the police in New York and other major cities around the country. The violence has escalated to deadly force, most of the time without justification. In this controversial book, noted author Richard Jeanty, tackles the problem of police brutality and...
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...
The Dynamic Dominion
Realignment and the Rise of Two-Party Competition in Virginia, 1945-1980
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2006
The Dynamic Dominion tells the dramatic story of Virginia's political transformation from the Second World War to the Reagan Revolution. The cradle of American democracy — and thus of the democratic movement that is sweeping the globe today — the venerable Old Dominion has emerged again in the...
City Power
Urban Governance in a Global Age
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
In 2013, Detroit filed the largest municipal bankruptcy in US history. That dubious honor marked the end of a long decline, during which city leaders slashed municipal costs and desperately sought to attract private investment. That same year, an economically resurgent New York City elected a progressive...
The Context of Legislating
Constraints on the Legislative Process in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2016
The Context of Legislating provides a much-needed examination of how the rules, resources, and political conditions within and surrounding different institutions raise or lower the costs of legislating. Using data tracking over 1,100 legislators, 230 committees and 12,000 bills introduced in ten state...
Pothole Confidential
My Life as Mayor of Minneapolis
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
A pajama party at the Minneapolis–St. Paul International Airport inadvertently helped launch R.T. Rybak’s political career (imagine a rumba line one hundred protesters long chanting, “We deserve to sleep, hey!”), but his earliest lessons in leadership occurred during his childhood. Growing...
Afghanistan Revealed
Beyond the Headlines
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Afghanistan Revealed offers the reader an incisive view into a country that has held the world’s attention for more than a decade. Hardly a day goes by without Afghanistan making news in the media – but behind the headlines, what do we really know about this complex and enigmatic country, its...
Crowd/Control
Two mindsets and the shape of our future
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
Where is the world going? And why is it doing that?
A lot of books looking at the incoming waves of the future get starry-eyed about technology. This one takes a broader view of social change, framing the world we see taking shape in terms of two mindsets that are pulling in different directions....
by Owen Jones
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2016
I hope that you will find the information helpful, useful and profitable.
The information in this ebook on various aspects of hybrid vehicles and related subjects is organized into 15 chapters of about 500-600 words each.
I hope that it will interest those who are interested in hybrid...
by Richard L. Bernal
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, China’s economic relationship with the countries of the Caribbean has grown significantly. While most of the burgeoning literature on China’s relations with Latin America and the Caribbean, focus primarily on Latin America, Dragon in the Caribbean...
Southern Baptists Contract A Derivative Of Obamamania
The American Worldview Chronicle: Issue 6
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2012
This edition contains the following: (1) Southern Baptists Contract A Derivative Of Obamamania, (2) Batman Shooter A Neuroscientist That Went Haywire, (3) What Else Would Drudge Like Done The Red Chinese Way?, (4) Quips & Observations, (5) Headline Links.
Myths, Lies, And Downright Stupidity
Get Out the Shovel -- Why Everything You Know is Wrong
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2007
America's favorite investigative reporter, John Stossel, tackles our favorite myths in his characteristic style and challenges us to look at life differently. Myths and Misconceptions covered in the book include: Is the media unbiased? Are our schools helping or hurting our kids? Do singles have a...
The Secrets of the Hopewell Box
Stolen Elections, Southern Politics, and a City's Coming of Age
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
"Squires' . . . grandfather was a sheriff's deputy who carried a gun and a clenched fist, a man whose talk with cronies was full of references to 'sonofabitching judges' and 'goddamn n*****s.' He was also, Squires relates, one of the muscle men behind a vicious cabal of power brokers headed by...