Practical Politics category: 1369 books
From Voice to Influence
Understanding Citizenship in a Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
How have online protests—like the recent outrage over the Komen Foundation’s decision to defund Planned Parenthood—changed the nature of political action? How do Facebook and other popular social media platforms shape the conversation around current political issues? The ways in which we gather...
by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2016
About This Famous Lenin Writing
On the eve of the October Revolution, Lenin wrote an anticrisis program entitled "The Threatening Catastrophe and How to Fight It."What was it about? It was about disorder in transportation and industry, unemployment, and approaching famine. And about the fact...
Distopía mexicana
Perspectivas para una nueva transición
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 11, 2016
Un libro que aborda la suma de aquellos males que agobian a México y que en cada página nos coloca ante un espejo, forzosamente incómodo, para advertirnos sobre el horror de seguir en este indeseable camino.
En Distopía mexicana Lorenzo Meyer reprueba categóricamente el actuar del gobierno...
Helmut Schmidt
Macht und Eleganz
Language: German
Release Date: November 26, 2015
An die politische Lebensleistung Konrad Adenauers und Helmut Kohls kam er nie heran, er war auch nicht so umschwärmt wie Willy Brandt, nicht so kumpelhaft wie Gerhard Schröder, nicht so kontrolliert wie Angela Merkel. Doch Helmut Schmidt übertrumpfte sie alle, weil er Eleganz und Macht verband....
Wladimir Putin
Vom KGB-Agenten zum starken Mann Russlands
Language: German
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Aus dem blassen, steif wirkenden Unbekannten, der 1999 Ministerpräsident wurde, ist ein vertrautes Gesicht geworden. So auffällig wie kaum ein anderer Politiker von Weltrang inszeniert sich Putin selbst. Die Fotos, die ihn mit nacktem Oberkörper zeigen, sind in die Ikonographie der Macht eingegangen....
Kissinger
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
By the time Henry Kissinger was made secretary of state in 1973, he had become, according to the Gallup Poll, the most admired person in America and one of the most unlikely celebrities ever to capture the world's imagination. Yet Kissinger was also reviled by large segments of the American public,...
Team of Rivals
The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2006
Winner of the Lincoln Prize
Acclaimed historian Doris Kearns Goodwin illuminates Abraham Lincoln's political genius in this highly original work, as the one-term congressman and prairie lawyer rises from obscurity to prevail over three gifted rivals of national reputation to become president.
On...
Leadership the Eleanor Roosevelt Way
Timeless Strategies from the First Lady of Courage
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2003
Eleanor Roosevelt's remarkable ability to confront and overcome hurdles-be they political, personal, or social-made her one of the greatest leaders of the last century, if not all time. In Leadership the Eleanor Roosevelt Way, author and scholar Robin Gerber examines the values, tactics, and beliefs...
by Alan Grendel
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
Ron Paul is a medical doctor, U.S. Congressman, intellectual godfather of the Tea Party and three-time U.S. Presidential nominee. Despite his folksy demeanor, Paul has attracted many ardent supporters of his libertarian beliefs. Ron Paul Quotes - Thoughts, Ideas and Straight Talk from the Last Principled...
Summary of A Passion for Leadership
by Robert Gates | Includes Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
Summary of A Passion for Leadership by Robert Gates | Includes Analysis Preview: A Passion for Leadership is an advice manual for those who want to enact reform from a position of leadership in a bureaucratic organization. It also examines the challenges of reforming...
Give War a Chance
Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
The #1 New York Times bestseller from “one of America’s most hilarious and provocative writers . . . a volatile brew of one-liners and vitriol” (Time).
Renowned for his cranky conservative humor, P. J. O’Rourke runs hilariously amok in this book, tackling the death of communism; his...
Finding the Trapdoor
Essays, Portraits, Travels
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017
For some 30 years, Adam Hochschild’s voice has been one of the most distinctive in American journalism. With grace and wit, he has brought to a startling variety of subjects a combination of adventurous reporting and personal honesty. Hochschild’s readers can count on an unobtrusive erudition,...
Pluche
politieke memoires
Language: Dutch
Release Date: March 4, 2016
‘Pluche’ is de persoonlijke en openhartige autobiografie van Femke Halsema over haar jaren in de landelijke politiek. Twaalfenhalf jaar zat Halsema voor GroenLinks in de Tweede Kamer, maar op 17 december 2011 nam zij afscheid. Van vertegenwoordiger van een collectief wilde ze weer individu worden....
by Joris Luyendijk
Language: Dutch
Release Date: February 25, 2017
Language: Dutch
Release Date: February 25, 2017
In 'Kunnen we praten' nodigt Joris Luyendijk de lezers uit om met elkaar in gesprek te gaan over de politiek, met name de mensen die net als hij het vertrouwen in de traditionele politieke partijen grotendeels of helemaal kwijt zijn. En over hoe het verder moet.