Local Government category: 1701 books
The Gilded Rage
A Wild Ride Through Donald Trump's America
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
“A series of fascinating Studs-Terkel-style long-form interviews with” Trump supporters from Pennsylvania to California “who defy easy categorization” (BillMoyers.com).
In 2016, Donald Trump’s presidential campaign succeeded despite behavior that would cripple any other politician,...
It's Your Time You're Wasting
A Teacher's Tales of Classroom Hell
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
Frank Chalk is an ordinary teacher in an ordinary British school... a school where the kids get drunk, beat up the teachers and take drugs - when they can be bothered to turn up.
It's Your Time You're Wasting is the blackly humorous diary of a year in his working life.
Chalk confiscates...
Generational Cycles
Predicting the Future
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2014
In this interview with Dr Nicholas Beecroft, Neil Howe explains the theory and sets out his observations of the current stage of the generational cycle during this “Fourth Turning” crisis period. He describes the interactions between all the various generations and predicts how the future in areas...
The Right To Privacy
With a Foreword by Philip Dossick
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2014
Feel like someone’s watching? You’re probably right. Your anonymity is an illusion.
The trend toward constant surveillance is disturbing. Supporters often argue, "If you're obeying the law, you have nothing to fear."
But is that true?
While many refuse to acknowledge...
Mayor 1%
Rahm Emanuel and the Rise of Chicago's 99%
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
Kari Lydersen's work has appeared in The New York Times, the Washington Post, the Chicago Reader, and The Progressive, among other publications.
Lydersen's book Revolt on Goose Island was awarded a Studs Terkel Community Media Award.
This is the only book that takes on Barack Obama's...
There's Nothing in the Middle of the Road but Yellow Stripes and Dead Armadillos
A Work of Political Subversion
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
Revised, and with a New Introduction by the Author
"I am an agitator, and an agitator is the center post in a washing machine that gets the dirt out."
--Jim Hightower
Hightower is mad as hell and he's not going to take it anymore! He's also funny as hell, and in this book...
Scotsman Englishman
Two friends. One thorny argument
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
In the summer of 2014 Scotland stood on the brink of an historic independence referendum and a vote that could have brought an end to the union between England and Scotland that had lasted since 1707. As the debate intensified, two experienced Newsweek correspondents – one Scottish, one English...
The Price of a Life
Shell, Gold, Carbon Notes and Weed: Four Kinds of Money in the Humboldt Bay / Six Rivers Region. A Historical and Personal Account
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2017
The Price of a Life is the story of money and marijuana in northern California’s Emerald Triangle. It tells the history, from dentalia shells to gold and from lumber and paper dollars to the emergent weed economy. Under the nom de guerre of Dr Loon, Jerry Martien has followed this story since the...
by Gary Freeman
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2015
The events of 9/11 shook the world. But how much do you really know about what happened that day? If your knowledge is based purely on what you've seen on the nightly news, prepare to have your mind blown as the unfiltered true facts of that horrific day are made clear in this fantastic book which...
America's Other Army
The U.S. Foreign Service and 21st-Century Diplomacy (Second Updated Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
"America's Other Army" brings the high-flying world of international diplomacy down to earth and puts a human face on a mysterious profession that has undergone a dramatic transformation since September 11, 2001.
Through the stories of American diplomats, the book explains how their work affects...
Union and States’ Rights
A History and Interpretation of Interposition, Nullification, and Secession 150 Years After Sumter
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
The third book in the &LAW series addresses the perpetual issue of state sovereignty in the federal union-'states' rights.' From the 1770s, through the Confederate states' secession, and continuing until now, a central issue of governance is state power to object to, cancel, or be immune from...
The Beholden State
California’s Lost Promise and How to Recapture It
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
California is at a tipping point. Severe budget deficits, unsustainable pension costs, heavy taxes, cumbersome regulation, struggling cities, and distressed public schools are but a few of the challenges that policymakers must address for the state to remain a beacon of business innovation and economic...
by Michael E Martin
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2006
Historically, residential segregation of Latinos has generally been seen as a result of immigration and the process of self-segregation into ethnic enclaves. The only theoretical exception to ethnic enclave Latino segregation has been the structural inequality related to Latinos that have a high degree...
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...