Political Science - General

Lynched-at-Law speaks to American life. Ambition encounters nuances of race, racism, religion, money, law, lawful conspiracy, criminal and the political forces that shape "reality".Author: James Orin OgleISBN-10: 1425183360ISBN-13: 9781425183363Publisher: Trafford PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/30/2008Pages: 344Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.45lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.81d

This is an attempt to explain why African Americans can't realize their potential as a race, and what to do about it.Author: James RollinsISBN-10: 1425108350ISBN-13: 9781425108359Publisher: Trafford PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/01/2006Pages: 112Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.39lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.27d

The irrationally exuberant highs and lows of the 1920s can help students recognize boom and bust cycles past, present, and future.Speculation--an economic reality for centuries--is a hallmark of the modern U.S. economy. But how does speculation work? Is it really caused, as some insist,...

Originally published in 1762, "The Social Contract" is Jean-Jacques Rousseau's treatise on how to best organize politics in the face of commercial society. Rousseau writes, "Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains." This statement exemplifies the main dilemma of government, that...

The period leading up to the foundation of the United States of America was a period in which a contentious debate permeated the colonies. A growing call for independence from England began to become discussed in whispers amongst the colonists. This contention was arguably...

Author: John LockeISBN-10: 1420955292ISBN-13: 9781420955293Publisher: Digireads.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/12/2017Pages: 108Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.32lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.26d

This book illustrates the commonly occurring racial issues that are happening to African Americans in work places all across America. This is my personal story of an employment termination from state government, and survial by fighting the system all the way from the hearing...

Marxism, Freedom and the State is a collection of essays and letters by the Russian anarchist philosopher and revolutionary, Mikhail Bakunin. In this book, Bakunin critiques the ideology of Marxism, arguing that it ultimately leads to a dictatorship of the proletariat and the concentration...

In this rich and savvy collection of commentaries on the events, people and issues that shape and define our world, Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and New York Times bestselling author Ellen Goodman cuts to the heart of the stories and controversies that helped to define...

November 1977. Cuba has assembled a powerful skydiving team to compete at the Pan American Parachute Games in Mexico. Their trainer, a seasoned coach from the Soviet Union, believes the Cubans can defeat the US Army Team. Excitement in top government circles grows as...

A collection of the best essays from Current Affairs magazine. "Current Affairs is an important breath of fresh air. It stands out as by far the most intellectually sophisticated, thought-provoking, and politically astute among organs of left commentary directed toward a popular audience that...

In Your Face is former actor Chris DeRose's firsthand account of how he investigated and finally busted some of the most heartless and corrupt federally licensed pet-theft rings in the nation. This is no dry autobiography; it's a passionate story of personal involvement and...

The United States is at a crisis point. The economy is crumbling. Dysfunction in Washington is rampant. A remarkable Vision that prescribes the remedies. The 20/20 Vision charts the course of action to: the America our forefathers built for our children an America safe...

"Islam in the 21st Century: Challenges, Conspiracies & Chaos" is an attempt to present a Muslim perspective in the era of disinformation, misinformation and reductive historical and theological explanations related to Islam and the Islamic World. The Islamic states are part of the so-called...

James Madison once wrote, "A people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives." To those who seek to reclaim their command over American government today, The American Ideology serves as a powerful weapon to advance...

There are two Abraham Lincolns: Lincoln the political celebrity, whose image has been carefully crafted by Lincoln scholars, biographers, and mythographers, and the true Lincoln, whose actual words are almost completely unknown to the general public. Why are they not known? Because they have...

In 1709 a ship arrived on the shores of New York harbor carrying a man named Johann Dieter Ellrod and his family, the only Elrod link to Germany, verified by the board of trade list. The names Ellrod, Elrod, Elrodt, Ellrodt, Elrot, Ellrot, Elroot,...

The Wisdom of Group Decisions is a collection of 100 one-page tips for avoiding conflict and making thoughtful, lasting group decisions for our communities, organizations, governments, families, and our planet. Each tip is a provocative meditation and the book as a whole is a...

This is the number one source book for the theft of the 2004 presidential election and control of the 2008 presidential contest, compiled by the reporters Rev. Jesse Jackson calls "the Woodward & Bernstein of the 2004 election." This blunt, hard-hitting digest outlines and...

"But if by a 'Liberal' they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people--their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil...

Written at a time when disasters both natural - drought, famine - and manmade - the war in Yugoslavia, civil strike in South Africa - fill our TV screens and newspapers, and when politicians are arguing over how many refugees Britain should accept, this...

In democracies throughout the industrialised world, political systems are everywhere beginning to unravel, and thinking people - even amongst our leaders - are uncertain of the reason why. Whilst most governments drive towards greater equity and justice, the reality is towards an opposite direction,...

The divisions running through the history of the socialist movement between reformists and revolutionaries, authoritarians and democrats, putschists and gradualists-the divisions and disputes which have provided the categories in terms of which the history of the movement has been written-are secondary. The important distinction...

Despite the centralizing tendencies of the American national government in the twentieth century, there have been surprisingly few books defending the federal system. Felix Morley's Freedom and Federalism, which examines the root causes of the problem, was thus a pioneering achievement when it first...

Despite the centralizing tendencies of the American national government in the twentieth century, there have been surprisingly few books defending the federal system. Felix Morley's Freedom and Federalism, which examines the root causes of the problem, was thus a pioneering achievement when it first...

Fourteen essays explore the central problem of modern society--the decline of free institutions and the growth of the state. Among the essays are "State and Society," by Felix Morley; "The Monstrosity of Government," by John Lukacs; and "The Guaranteed Economy and Its Future," by...

Literary Nonfiction. Caribbean and African American Studies. Language and Ethnicity Politics. SOVEREIGNTY OF THE IMAGINATION gives us that capacity for language and therefore the ability to name and establish categories...it allows us to define freedom. George Lamming recognizes the centrality of the quest for...

Parents, child advocates, and family attorneys need to understand how to put the federal adoption assistance law to work for their children and clients in order to create adoptions, keep them intact and healthy, and encourage future special needs adoptive placements as well. This...

This book presents a broad analytical framework for the history of southeastern Ghana within the context of a representative study of one of the country's most important political and economic forces. The 150,000 Krobo are the most numerous of the Adangme-speaking peoples. They are...

Tim Niblock is a Lecturer in Politics at the University of Exeter.Author: Tim NiblockISBN-10: 0887064817ISBN-13: 9780887064814Publisher: State University of New York PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/01/1987Pages: 370Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.05lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.50w x 1.10d

This essential volume features John Locke's hand-corrected text with an outstanding introduction to Locke's life and role in intellectual history, his principal works, and their purpose. Written by the editor, Richard Cox, the introduction also outlines the course of both treatises of government and...

In these stimulating papers from the Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference in 1985, feminism and Faulkner studies collide, with beneficial results for each.The disruptive and disturbing characterization of women in Faulkner's fictional world and the influence of actual women in the novelist's life are given...

The United States' commitment to separation of church and state has defined the nation, from the structure of the schools and the welfare system to the nature of American politics and society. Many citizens mistakenly point to the First Amendment, which guarantees the freedom...

The first full-length biography of Edward J. Kelly tells the vivid story of the rough-hewn politician who became one of Chicago's most powerful mayors. With the help of Pat Nash, Mayor Kelly built the Democratic Machine of which Richard J. Daley was to be...

Hanes Walton, Jr., is Fuller E. Callaway Professor of Political Science at Savannah State College.Author: Hanes WaltonISBN-10: 0873959914ISBN-13: 9780873959919Publisher: State University of New York PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/30/1985Pages: 388Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.20lbsSize: 8.90h x 6.00w x 1.10d

As fun to read as it is hands-on practical, it can be enjoyed straight-through or used as a reference as students draft, revise, and edit. Spiral-bound, the College Edition lays flat as students work at the computer, and at $16.95 suggested retail (after bookstore...

If all politics is local, then so is almost everything else, argues sociologist Gary Alan Fine. We organize our lives by relying on those closest to us--family members, friends, work colleagues, team mates, and other intimates--to create meaning and order. In this thoughtful and...

Will Rogers was quoted more often than any other source besides the Bible and Shakespeare. Now his insightful wit is brought together in a collection of sayings organized by topic.Author: Bryan SterlingISBN-10: 0871317958ISBN-13: 9780871317957Publisher: M. Evans and CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/14/1995Pages: 332Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.10lbsSize: 9.02h...

After he fled Austria, Ludwig von Mises arrived in the United States and continued to write essays on economics. Among those included in this volume are: Guiding Principles for the Reconstruction of Austria (1940) An Eastern Democratic Union: A Proposal for the Establishment of...

This volume presents a representative sampling of James M. Buchanan's philosophical views as he deals with fundamental problems of moral science and moral order. As one might expect, Buchanan always goes back to fundamental principles first. From there, his observations and conclusions range far...

Two series of letters described as "the wellsprings of nearly all ensuing debate on the limits of governmental power in the United States" address the whole remarkable range of issues provoked by the crisis of British policies in North America out of which a...

Autobiography, philosophical inquiry, confession--The Traitor is an unclassifiable and unforgettable book from one of France's most inspiring social critics. Written when Andr Gorz was 32 and rising to prominence in the Parisian existentialist milieu, The Traitor starts from an acute personal crisis, "a state...

"Bolivia is a country with a reputation," writes James Dunkerley. "Not so long ago it was for Che Guevara, for whose death its citizens are on occasions held to be collectively responsible. More recently it has been for cocaine. But in general it is...

The ignominious failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961 marked the culmination of a curious episode at the height of the Cold War. At the end of the fifties, restless and rebellious youth, avant-garde North American intellectuals, old leftists, and even older...

President Bush has made the war against drugs the number one issue on the contemporary American political agenda. In this revised edition of his classic book, available for the first time in paperback, Edward Jay Epstein argues that the president has adopted the strategy...

"...it is evident that the editors have gone to some considerable effort to assemble a rich, diverse ethnographic treasure-trove, and to anticipate any charges of Eurocentrism by also drawing on examples of makeshift memorials from other parts of the world. Meanwhile, the thoughtful reflexivity...

Truth, Christopher Norris reminds us, is very much out of fashion at the moment - whether at the hands of politicians, media pundits, or purveyors of postmodern wisdom in cultural and literary studies. Across a range of disciplines the idea has taken hold that...

The first of four studies in the "History of Education in England," this volume traces the emergence of modern education from the efforts of the scientific societies in the 1780s up to the securing of universal education with the Act of 1870. The ideas...

The aim of the book is to make Socrates' investigation and resolution of the questions that still concern us as human beings more accessible to serious contemporary readers.Author: Christopher BruellISBN-10: 084769402XISBN-13: 9780847694020Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield PublishersLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/08/2003Pages: 240Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 8.90h x 6.00w...

This book assesses the current status of the public utility deregulation movement in the United States.Author: Alfred E. KahnISBN-10: 0844771562ISBN-13: 9780844771564Publisher: AEI PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/2002Pages: 96Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.23lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.20d