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The past decade has witnessed a resurgence of interest in Marxism both within and without the academy. Marxian frameworks, concepts and categories continue to be narratively relevant to the features and events of contemporary capitalism. Most crucially, an attention to shifting cultural conditions has...

From abused child; to child abuser; to murderer; to prison minister! "I CRIED, YOU DIDN'T LISTEN IS THE MOST POWERFUL TALE OF HORROR WITHIN THE WALLS OF PENAL INSTITUTIONS SINCE 'PAPILLON.' THE TERRIFYING ASPECT IS THAT IT DESCRIBES AMERICA'S JUVENILE SYSTEM" - Alden Mills,...

In eighteenth-century America, fashion served as a site of contests over various forms of gendered power. Here, Kate Haulman explores how and why fashion--both as a concept and as the changing style of personal adornment--linked gender relations, social order, commerce, and political authority during...

In 1987 Judge Russell Clark mandated tax increases to help pay for improvements to the Kansas City, Missouri, School District in an effort to lure white students and quality teachers back to the inner-city district. Yet even after increasing employee salaries and constructing elaborate...

We are witnessing a crisis of liberal democracy. A widespread fear of social decline, rapid globalization and uncontrolled immigration have culminated in a prevailing mood of hostility towards the established order. Confidence in democratic institutions and mainstream political parties is fast eroding, with people...

Violence - from state coercion to wars and revolutions - remains an enduring global reality. But whereas it is often believed that the point of constitutional politics is to make violence unnecessary, others argue that it is an unavoidable element of politics. In this...

This book was written by a man who lived under communism from birth until the age of 23. He lived in America since 1973 and continued observing the progress of communism in both his old country and in America. An interesting pattern was observed....

There is a growing need for fiscal discipline and balanced budgets and a more liberal approach to fiscal conservative governance and the devolution of economic and taxation powers to the lowest practical level. The costs of contemporary moral problems and the national debt mountain...

Inquiry Into the Origin and Course of Political Parties in the United States is an American political science classic written by the eighth president of the United States, Martin Van Buren. This political science text is a thorough look at the history and development...

KZ's healing vision of Auschwitz survival, through the use of LSD, is grace-based. This book review offers six gates that attest to Shivitti as the best book of the 20th century; no other book captures and conveys the human, all too human nature of...

Gain the skills you need to conduct political analysis and critically assess statistical research. In this Sixth Edition of The Essentials of Political Science, bestselling authors Philip H. Pollock III and Barry C. Edwards build your analytic abilities and develop your statistical reasoning with...

The author has been fascinated by the problem of racism from the time he first encountered it in September 1957 when he arrived in the United Kingdom. And over the period of 60 years of adulthood he has tried to understand the causes of...

CAPTAIN, INFANTRY A Vietnam War Memoir The mid-1960s witnesses scores of college men being sworn in as second lieutenants in the U.S. Army. Leo V. Kanawada, Jr., was one of these ROTC graduates. In 1965, Kanawada journeys to Fort Benning to participate in the...

President Barack Obama's inaugural speeches are gathered in this book along with a short biography on how he rose from humble beginnings all the way up to the presidency.Author: Russell Lee, Jon FavreauISBN-10: 1503108074ISBN-13: 9781503108073Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/05/2014Pages: 32Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.13lbsSize:...

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At the height of the space race, 6,000 men and women operated NASA's Spaceflight Tracking and Data Network at some two dozen locations across five continents. This network, known as the STDN, began its operation by tracking Sputnik 1, the world's first artificial satellite...

Finally, the truth is told. After research, interviews, and in depth debates the issues have never seemed clearer than in this book. This book will shed light on Jacob Zuma's plans to prevent and fight the war on South Africa's HIV/Aids Crisis. It will...

Shakespeare's famous play, Hamlet, has been the subject of more scholarly analysis and criticism than any other work of literature in human history. For all of its generally acknowledged virtues, however, it has also been treated as problematic in a raft of ways. In...

Karst aquifer systems are present throughout parts of the United States and some of its territories and are developed in carbonate rocks that span the entire geological time frame.Author: Eve L. KunianskyISBN-10: 1500178144ISBN-13: 9781500178147Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/12/2014Pages: 220Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.15lbsSize: 11.02h...

This comprehensive book provides a comparative analysis of religious nationalism in globalized Asia. Through a rich variety of thematic case studies, Kingston explores the nexus of religion, identity, and nationalism across the region. He focuses on how religious sentiments influence how people express nationalism,...

The book By Stealth and Deception reveals the clandestine movement to form a North American Union similar to the European Union, also done secretly without the oversight of parliaments or the vote of the people until it was a done deal. By Stealth and...

The book By Stealth and Deception reveals the clandestine movement to form a North American Union similar to the European Union, also done secretly without the oversight of parliaments or the vote of the people until it was a done deal. By Stealth and...

From propaganda released by the Third Reich to legislation passed in more than fifty nations, smoking is one of society's favorite targets. While the public goes along with persecuting smokers, Theodore J. King is here to tell us why we shouldn't. In this book,...

FREEDOM '56 is a comprehensive first-hand historical compilation of the Hungarian Revolution and its aftermath, including the 50th anniversary with more than 160 interviews, accounts, anecdotes, documents, poems and pictures from survivors, friends and adversaries from all walks of life worldwide.Author: Scarlett AntaloczyISBN-10: 1439227519ISBN-13:...

This book is centered around the memoir "Looking Back", written in 1928 by 20 year old Isadore Weiss, only six years after coming to the United States. Isadore provides a fascinating insight into Jewish life in the Ukrainian village of Minkovitz before, during and...

Seven Floors High is based around a true story of life inside iaxis, a London based telecoms start-up company valued at US$1 Billion during the "Dot.Com" boom. Written with style, insight and often hilarious humour, Goddard's story is an exhilarating account of greed, hubris...

The basic health care system in the United States is not working and must be fixed. In this book, Dr. Gumbner discusses his theories of what does and does not make HMOs work. He also deals with the machinations of Wall Street, the investors'...

Author: Ross ParkerISBN-10: 1438937369ISBN-13: 9781438937366Publisher: AuthorhouseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/25/2009Pages: 460Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.82lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.19d

History of the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, by the House of Representatives, and his trial by the Senate for high crimes and misdemeanors in office, 1868 is a book written about one of the most significant events in American...

Karl Marx was commissioned by the Communist League along with Friederich Engels to write The Communist Manifesto. The manifesto is considered to be one of the world's most influential political tracts. The Manifesto established a course of action for the working class revolution to...

Karl Marx was commissioned by the Communist League along with Friederich Engels to write The Communist Manifesto. The manifesto is considered to be one of the world's most influential political tracts. The Manifesto established a course of action for the working class revolution to...

The Liquor Problem: A Summary Of Investigations Conducted By The Committee On Fifty, 1893-1903 (1905) is a book written by John Shaw Billings. It provides a comprehensive overview of the investigations conducted by the Committee on Fifty, a group of prominent citizens and experts...

Author: Rufus G. W. Ph. D. SandersISBN-10: 1436396522ISBN-13: 9781436396523Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/03/2009Pages: 168Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.56lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.39d

Author: Scott N. BradleyISBN-10: 1436345472ISBN-13: 9781436345477Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/21/2009Pages: 528Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.69lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.18d

Author: Todd A. DavisISBN-10: 1436315050ISBN-13: 9781436315050Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/24/2008Pages: 188Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.62lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.43d

In spite of its tough message, there is much compassion and humanity in The Final Empire. Right away as you begin to read this work, you sense increasingly the grand perspective in K tke's words. He is not speaking of anarchy. He is offering...

In spite of its tough message, there is much compassion and humanity in The Final Empire. Right away as you begin to read this work, you sense increasingly the grand perspective in K tke's words. He is not speaking of anarchy. He is offering...

The Federalist Papers contain some of the greatest political writing of all time. Written to New Yorkers in 1787 and 1788 to urge the ratification of the proposed new Constitution, the papers received immediate respect. They were published in book form in 1788 and...

This book explores imagined interactions (IIs) as a type of self-therapy when dealing with stress and trauma.Author: Gary L. KrepsISBN-10: 1433154099ISBN-13: 9781433154096Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic PubliLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/15/2019Pages: 200Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.60d

In this volume the editors seek to build upon the agenda set in motion by the first volume, by: offering an overview of key developments in citizen journalism since 2008; providing a new set of case studies highlighting important instances of citizen reporting of...

Voices of Marginality is theoretically grounded in the theology of the diaspora, which according to Fernando F. Segovia has been forged in the migratory experience of American Hispanics. This theological perspective views Judean exiles (587 B.C.E.) and contemporary Mexican migrants as part of a...

The story of a political reform movement In the 1970's, in Chester County, PA., a small group of citizens raised the flag of reform against a dominant political machine. How did they go about it? Did they achieve success? What happened after the dust...

""John Locke and the Doctrine of Majority-Rule"" by Willmoore Kendall is a book that delves into the political philosophy of John Locke and his contribution to the concept of majority-rule. The book examines Locke's ideas on democracy, individual rights, and the role of government...

In Beyond Question Period you travel with a Canadian Member of Parliament and discover how challenging, yet exhilirating, the work of an MP can be. Running for election, debating and voting on bills, committee work, constituency work, representing Canada internationally, and speaking at a...

In this provocative treatise, author Joe Khamisi catalogues the events that took place during one of Kenya's most important periods in history. This period began in 2002, when Daniel Arap Moi stepped down after twenty-four years as president of Kenya. Khamisi reviews events up...

The author discusses the three Axioms in the dominant interpretation of the U.S.-Vietnam War that were established by the invisible permanent government right after the National Security Council meeting on September 21, 1960. They are: - There was never a legitimate non-communist government in...

Since the election of 2008, patriotic Americans have come to realize just how incompetent our representatives are in Washington, D.C. History shows us that no matter how great the empire, it can be lost to greedy and corrupt incompetent politicians. If we the people...

Making sense of Lee Harvey Oswald's politics is not easy and has understandably resulted in quite varied interpretations. In the aftermath of the assassination, the immediate reaction of many who knew him or knew about him was that Oswald could never have shot the...

With God, everything is possible! The advent of President Barack Obama, an African-American, to the US Presidency and the White House is providential. Before January 20, 2009, it was incomprehensible and impossible to all Doubting Thomases. Forty years earlier, Blacks generally were barred from...

The Kingdom of the Shining Ones is a book written by Flower A. Newhouse that delves into the world of spiritual beings and their connection to humanity. The book explores the idea that there are higher beings, known as the Shining Ones, who are...