Political Science - General

Little more than seventy years after the British settled Van Diemen's Land (later Tasmania) in 1803, the indigenous community had been virtually wiped out. Yet this genocide at the hands of the British is virtually forgotten today. The Last Man is the first book...

The Biafran War was truly a 'brother's war', which saw family and friends on opposing sides. When the breakaway province of Biafra tried to secede from Nigeria in 1967, the result was a civil war of terrifying intensity. The minority Igbo people stood little...

In some ways, I didn't - don't - want to remember any of it. Which is not to say that one ever forgets. I don't know any journalist who worked through the Troubles, with its relentless cycle of murders and doorstepping the homes of...

From the foreword by Genral (ret.) David Petraeus: "In 2010, as the scale and tempo of Coalition operations in Afghanistan increased, so did the need for historical accounts of small-unit actions. As commander of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), I commissioned the Combat...

First published in 2003 as a volume in the NASA "Monograph in Aerospace History" series. This study contains photographs and illustrations.Author: Dennis R. Jenkins, Tony Landis, Nasa History DivisionISBN-10: 1780393075ISBN-13: 9781780393070Publisher: www.Militarybookshop.Co.UKLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/2011Pages: 64Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.38lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.13d

An indirect response to Darwin's landmark work "On the Origin of Species," Drummond shows that faith and science actually go more hand in hand than most of us as theologians are willing to accept. By going over the facts of science, Drummond is able...

Have you ever asked yourself how our diverse nation got along to begin with and why we were able to work with one another up until the last fifty years? First, let's just state the obvious: The religious, agnostics and atheists aren't leaving the...

Author: Laura TingleISBN-10: 1760640700ISBN-13: 9781760640705Publisher: Quarterly EssayLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/17/2018Pages: 142Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.52lbsSize: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.30d

Australia is wreaking devastation on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Whatever the policy- from protection to assimilation, self-determination to intervention, reconciliation to recognition- government has done little to improve the quality of life of Indigenous people. In far too many instances, interaction with...

In Democracy and Education, Dewey argues that the primary ineluctable facts of the birth and death of each one of the constituent members in a social group determine the necessity of education. On one hand, there is the contrast between the immaturity of the...

The persistence of 'Ndrangheta activities around the world show that deterrence efforts alone directed against organized crime fall short in significantly reducing or preventing 'Ndrangheta organized crime. Additional approaches derived from the Rational Choice Perspective (RCP) are discussed, which include Routine Activities (RA) and...

Global warming is now affecting every part of the oceans, surface, and atmosphere of our planet. We are experiencing catastrophic weather events ranging from wildfires; increasingly severe storms, flooding, droughts; rising sea levels; reduced clean water; extinction of species; loss of pollinating insects; reduced...

Progressivism is not primarily a system of belief. It is a power strategy based upon the centralization of authority. Therefore to radically decentralize society is to destroy progressivism. And our ability to radically decentralize American society is now very real. It is the next...

Author: Ziad Abu-RishISBN-10: 1939067251ISBN-13: 9781939067258Publisher: Asi-KpLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/09/2016Pages: 48Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.30lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.10d

In An Essay on Trial by Jury, Lysander Spooner defends the doctrine of jury nullification, which holds that in a free society a trial jury not only has the authority to rule on the facts of the case, but also on the legitimacy of...

Author: Bertrand RussellISBN-10: 1936041812ISBN-13: 9781936041817Publisher: Simon & BrownLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/05/2011Pages: 114Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.39lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.27d

An anthology of writings from Thomas Paine, including "Common Sense", "African Slavery in America", "An Occasional Letter on the Female Sex", "Agrarian Justice", "The Rights of Man", and "The Age of Reason". Paine's radical views on the abolition of slavery, the emancipation of women,...

"Whether 'tis better to be loved or feared." 'The Prince' is Machiavelli's classic text on the principles of gaining and holding power.Author: Niccolo Machiavelli, Nicolo MachiavelliISBN-10: 193494100XISBN-13: 9781934941003Publisher: Red and Black PublishersLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/01/2008Pages: 124Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.39lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.26dAccelerated Reader:Reading Level:...

An outstanding history that shows how a promising workers' movement ended in a fascist victory.Author: Pierre Broué, Émile TémimeISBN-10: 1931859515ISBN-13: 9781931859516Publisher: Haymarket BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/2008Pages: 700Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.71lbsSize: 8.34h x 5.73w x 1.52d

A critical analysis of Karl Marx's Capital, which is without question one of the most influential books to be published in the course of the past two centuries. Controversial in its politics, and arriving at conclusions that are passionately debated to this day, it...

Antonio Gramsci was an innovative and wide-ranging thinker whose interpretations of Marxism helped rescue it from determinism and economic reductionism. In the words of Stuart Hall: 'Reading Gramsci has fertilised our political imagination, transformed our way of thinking, our style of thought, our whole...

... In this follow up to the acclaimed Multiculturalism: Some Inconvenient Truths Rumy Hasan examines a little explored but extremely important issue that has profound global implications A fresh look at the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, as it is shaped to become the iconic clash between...

For well over 60 years the Palestinian people, in Israel, the West Bank, Jerusalem, Gaza and refugee camps scattered around the borders of Israel, have been suffering a slow, grinding, very deliberate, calculated and determined form of genocide. This book details one year of...

Subversive is a book of interviews with fifty-two of the most radical people in the world. From all walks of life, some are famous, while others are almost completely unknown.These are people different to the rest of us. They want the world to change,...

The Writings of Thomas Paine: though his reasoning and conclusions may alarm some and even offend others, his thinking and writing is lucid and cogent, and for reflective minds will provide much food for thought. Accused of sophistry and impudence by some of his...

The subject of this Essay is not the so-called Liberty of the Will, so unfortunately opposed to the misnamed doctrine of Philosophical Necessity; but Civil, or Social Liberty: the nature and limits of the power which can be legitimately exercised by society over the...

In this new set of essays, Frank Salter dissects indigenous claims using research on ethnicity and nationalism and biological information about race differences. The same multicultural elites promoting the subordination and replacement of the historic Anglo nation also encourage the break-up of Australia by...

The Life and Times of Walter Reuther: An Unfinished Liberal Legacy recounts the events and social movements that have shaped modern America and examines Reuther's involvement in them. For over thirty years, Walter Reuther and his United Automobile Workers union were in the vanguard...

Fidel Castro. Che Guevara. Cesar Chavez. Karl Marx. Mao Tse-tung...and others. All Icons of the Progressive Left, and similarly the infallible Icons of the early years of Professor Frank M. Luna as he grew up on a small farm in Central California. After his...

Fundamental institutions are core values that originate from beliefs. Beliefs reflect on behaviors and repeated behaviors become habits. Shared habits are peoples' values, which when ingrained become norms and customs. Societies that believed in human interdependency formed collective institutions. These institutions are compatible with...

Is America a nation like any other, with a past marked by injustice and oppression? Or is America a shining city on a hill, marked by exceptionalism, one where the lamp of liberty and democracy burns brightly? Dinesh D'Souza has written What's So Great...

This book is made up of short notes on aspects of the political life of Cameroon. Arranged in the alphabetical (rather than in the chronological) order, the events discussed here, bring to the fore many of the happenings which have culminated in the war...

When establishing the fundamental principles of our great nation, our founders incorporated into them an understanding of the Liberty they sought to secure. An Individual Liberty that is natural, "endowed by our Creator," and for which we are indebted to no man for. In...

Divisive Discourse: The Extreme Rhetoric of Contemporary American Politicschallenges assumptions about political ideology. The book examines the techniques and contents of the divisive discourse that pervades contemporary American political conversation. It teaches us about extreme rhetoric, thus enabling readers to be more critical consumers...

The Second Treatise of Civil Government John Locke King James II of England (VII of Scotland) was overthrown in 1688 by a union of Parliamentarians and stadtholder of the Dutch Republic William III of Oranje-Nassau (William of Orange), who as a result ascended the...

The strategy of low-intensity conflict (or LIC) is a little-known yet sophisticated and deadly form of U.S. intervention in the Third World. Drawing heavily on his own experience of living and working in Central America, Nelson-Pallmeyer shows how LIC victimizes the poor through various...

The involvement of Hezbollah in the Syrian civil war has become one of the most well-known basic facts about the conflict. The group's intervention inside Syria first gained widespread public attention in the battle for Qusayr in Homs province-bordering Lebanon-in late May 2013, clearly...

Many wargamers enjoy the challenge of skirmish games where, instead of the strategy of vast armies portrayed by traditional wargames, the focus is on the tactics of a small unit. However, skirmish rules are often so complex that it can take hours of rolling...

This Critical Theory and Contemporary Society volume offers a critical review of epistemological issues in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.Author: Anastasia MarinopoulouISBN-10: 1526139626ISBN-13: 9781526139627Publisher: Manchester University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/10/2019Pages: 200Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.64lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.43d

Rock Against Racism was a mass movement built in opposition to racism and fascism in 1970s Britain. At a time of severe economic and social crises, RAR, alongside the Anti-Nazi League, organised one of the biggest and most effective political and cultural mobilisations of...

Public ownership is more widespread and popular in the United States than is commonly understood. This book is the most comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the scope and scale of U.S. public ownership, debunking frequent misconceptions about the alleged inefficiency and underperformance of public...

Conservatism, Republican politics, and traditional Christianity are thought by some to go together like baseball and apple pie. Yet, for a growing number of people, libertarian political thought provides an alternative to the traditional Christian right. That number includes the six young authors of...

The strategy of low-intensity conflict (or LIC) is a little-known yet sophisticated and deadly form of U.S. intervention in the Third World. Drawing heavily on his own experience of living and working in Central America, Nelson-Pallmeyer shows how LIC victimizes the poor through various...

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1922 Edition.Author: Mary Ellen RichmondISBN-10: 1498194664ISBN-13: 9781498194662Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/07/2014Pages: 270Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.57d

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1906 Edition.Author: George Haven PutnamISBN-10: 1498106404ISBN-13: 9781498106405Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/30/2014Pages: 520Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.63lbsSize: 11.02h x 8.50w x 1.05d

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1906 Edition.Author: George Haven PutnamISBN-10: 1498068316ISBN-13: 9781498068314Publisher: Literary Licensing, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/30/2014Pages: 404Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.05lbsSize: 11.02h x 8.50w x 0.83d

"I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours." Henry David Thoreau, Walden: Or,...

This book goes behind closed doors of both executive offices and the Corporate Board Room to disclose details about this corporate takeover that have never before been revealed. The book describes the tense events that lead to the decision to change the basic business...

This book goes behind closed doors of both executive offices and the Corporate Board Room to disclose details about this corporate takeover that have never before been revealed. The book describes the tense events that lead to the decision to change the basic business...

Modern exercise and nutrition are heavily rooted in the 1st Law of Thermodynamics--a theory which came about from scientific analyses of machines. Yet, if humans are fundamentally different from machines, would we benefit from another way by which to view how we move our...