Showing posts with label Politics. Show all posts
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Thursday, 22 December 2016

Theodore Roosevelt and the Idea of Race By Thomas G. Dyer


Theodore Roosevelt and the Idea of Race
Title : Theodore Roosevelt and the Idea of Race
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ISBN : 0807118087
Format : Paperback
Number of Pages : 182




This provocative study examines Theodore Roosevelt s ideas about race, focusing especially on his attitudes towards blacks, American Indians, immigration, and imperialism Thomas G Dyer gives careful attention to formal and nonformal aspects of Roosevelt s thought, as revealed in his voluminous published works and personal papers Historians have traditionally disagreed a This provocative study examines Theodore Roosevelt s ideas about race, focusing especially on his attitudes towards blacks, Ame...

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Wednesday, 21 December 2016

The Bottom Billion By Paul Collier


The Bottom Billion
Title : The Bottom Billion
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ISBN : 0195311450
Format : Hardcover
Number of Pages : 205




In the universally acclaimed and award winning The Bottom Billion, Paul Collier reveals that fifty failed states home to the poorest one billion people on Earth pose the central challenge of the developing world in the twenty first century The book shines much needed light on this group of small nations, largely unnoticed by the industrialized West, that are dropping fu In the universally acclaimed and award winning The Bottom Billion, Paul Collier reveals that fifty failed states home to the po...

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Saturday, 17 December 2016

When Trumpets Call By Patricia O'Toole


When Trumpets Call
Title : When Trumpets Call
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ISBN : 0684864789
Format : Paperback
Number of Pages : 512




From the author of the acclaimed Five of Hearts, this highly praised, spell binding biography is the definitive account of TR s final decade, the most poignant and in some ways, the most heroic years of his extraordinary life Drawn from a wealth of new materials, this is a remarkable portrait of a remarkable man....

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Thursday, 15 December 2016

Churchill and America By Martin Gilbert


Churchill and America
Title : Churchill and America
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ISBN : 0743259920
Format : Hardcover
Number of Pages : 503




In this stirring book, Martin Gilbert tells the intensely human story of Winston Churchill s profound connection to America, a relationship that resulted in an Anglo American alliance that has stood at the center of international relations for than a century Winston Churchill, whose mother, Jennie Jerome, the daughter of a leading American entrepreneur, was born in B In this stirring book, Martin Gilbert tells the intensely human story of Winston Churchill s profound connection to America, a relationship...

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The Wretched of the Earth By Frantz Fanon


The Wretched of the Earth
Title : The Wretched of the Earth
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ISBN : 0394173279
Format : Paperback
Number of Pages : 316




Frantz Fanon was one of the twentieth century s most important theorists of revolution, colonialism, and racial difference, and this, his masterwork, is a classic alongside Orientalism and The Autobiography of Malcolm X The Wretched of the Earth is a brilliant analysis of the psychology of the colonized and their path to liberation Bearing singular insight into the rage of Frantz Fanon was one of the twentieth century s most important theorists of revolution, colonialism, and racial d...

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Saturday, 26 November 2016

1905 By Leon Trotsky


1905
Title : 1905
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ISBN : 0394715152
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PART ONERussia s Social Development and Tsarism Russian CapitalismRussian CapitalismThe Peasantry and the Agrarian QuestionThe Driving Forces of the Russian RevolutionThe SpringJanuary NinthThe Strike in OctoberThe Creation of the Soviet of Workers DeputiesOctober EighteenthWitte s MinistryThe first Days of the Freedoms The Tsar s Men at WorkStorming the Censorship Basti PART ONERussia s Social Development and Tsarism Russian CapitalismRussian CapitalismThe Peasantry and the Agrarian QuestionThe Driving F...

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Sunday, 20 November 2016

Theodore Roosevelt (The American Presidents, #26) By Louis Auchincloss


Theodore Roosevelt (The American Presidents, #26)
Title : Theodore Roosevelt (The American Presidents, #26)
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ISBN : 1559277386
Format : Audio
Number of Pages : 0




An intimate portrait of the first president of the 20th centuryThe warm and knowing biography traces Roosevelt s involvement in the politics of New York City and New York State, his celebrated ,military career, and his ascent to the national political stage Caricatured through history as the bull moose , Roosevelt was in fact a man of extraordinary discipline whose refin An intimate portrait of the first president of the 20th centuryThe warm and knowing biography traces Roosevelt s involvement i...

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Monday, 7 November 2016

The United States of Air By J.M. Porup


The United States of Air
Title : The United States of Air
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ISBN : 0988006936
Format : Paperback
Number of Pages : 286




The National Sewer Agency is spying on people s toilets, looking for food terroristsFood Enforcement Agent Jason Frolick believes in America He believes in eating air He struggles to get the food monkey off his back As part of the Global War on Fat, his job is to put food terrorists in Fat Camp.When a pizza dealer gets whacked in the park across the street from the T The National Sewer Agency is spying on people s toilets, looking for food terroristsFood Enforcement Agent Jason Frolick believes in America...

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Thursday, 13 October 2016

The Man By Irving Wallace


The Man
Title : The Man
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ISBN : 067103894X
Format : Paperback
Number of Pages : 768




The time is 1964 The place is the Cabinet Room of the Where House An unexpected accident and the law of succession have just made Douglass Dilman the first black President of the United States.This is the theme of what was surely one of the most provocative novels of the 1960s It takes the reader into the storm center of the presidency, where Dilman, until now an almost The time is 1964 The place is the Cabinet Room of the Where House An unexpected accident and the law of succession have just made Douglas...

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Sunday, 9 October 2016

Debunking Economics - Revised and Expanded Edition By Steve Keen


Debunking Economics - Revised and Expanded Edition
Title : Debunking Economics - Revised and Expanded Edition
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ISBN : 1848139926
Format : Paperback
Number of Pages : 496




Debunking Economics Revised and Expanded Edition , now including a downloadable supplement for courses, exposes what many non economists may have suspected and a minority of economists have long known that economic theory is not only unpalatable, but also plain wrong When the original Debunking Economics was published in 2001, the market economy seemed invincible, and c Debunking Economics Revised and Expanded Edition , now including a downloadable supplement for courses, e...

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Saturday, 8 October 2016

Hard Green By Peter W. Huber


Hard Green
Title : Hard Green
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ISBN : 0465031137
Format : Paperback
Number of Pages : 256




This book sets out the case for Hard Green, a conservative environmental agenda Modern environmentalism, Peter Huber argues, destroys the environment Captured as it has been by the Soft Green oligarchy of scientists, regulators, and lawyers, modern environmentalism does not conserve forests, oceans, lakes, and streams it hastens their destruction For all its scientifi This book sets out the case for Hard Green, a conservative environmental agenda Modern environmentalism, Peter Huber argues, dest...

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Tuesday, 27 September 2016

The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It By Richard Hofstadter


The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It
Title : The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It
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ISBN : 0679723153
Format : Paperback
Number of Pages : 560




IntroductionThe founding fathers, an age of realismThomas Jefferson, the aristocrat as democratAndrew Jackson the rise of liberal capitalismJohn C Calhoun, the Marx of the master class Abraham Lincoln the self made myth Wendell Phillips, the patrician as agitator The spoilsmen, an age of cynicism William Jennings Bryan, the democrat as revivalist Theodore Roos IntroductionThe founding fathers, an age of realismThomas Jefferson, the aristocrat as democratAndrew Jackson the rise of liberal capital...

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Jim Crow's Children By Peter Irons


Jim Crow's Children
Title : Jim Crow's Children
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ISBN : 0142003751
Format : Paperback
Number of Pages : 400




In 1954 the U.S Supreme Court sounded the death knell for school segregation with its decision in Brown v Board of Education of Topeka So goes the conventional wisdom Weaving together vivid portraits of lawyers and such judges as Thurgood Marshall and Earl Warren, sketches of numerous black children throughout history whose parents joined lawsuits against Jim Crow scho

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Thursday, 25 August 2016

Unreasonable Men By Michael Wolraich


Unreasonable Men
Title : Unreasonable Men
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ISBN : 023034223X
Format : Hardcover
Number of Pages : 310




As Michael Wolraich argues in his sharp, streamlined new book, Unreasonable Men, it was the greatest period of political change in American history Washington Post, 50 Notable Works of NonfictionAt the turn of the twentieth century, the Republican Party stood at the brink of an internal civil war After a devastating financial crisis, furious voters sent a new breed As Michael Wolraich argues in his sharp, streamlined new book, Unreasonable Men, it was the greatest period ...

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Wednesday, 24 August 2016

Grundrisse By Karl Marx


Grundrisse
Title : Grundrisse
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ISBN : 0140445757
Format : Paperback
Number of Pages : 912




Written during the winter of 1857 8, the Grundrisse was considered by Marx to be the first scientific elaboration of communist theory A collection of seven notebooks on capital and money, it both develops the arguments outlined in the Communist Manifesto 1848 and explores the themes and theses that were to dominate his great later work Capital Here, for the first time, Written during the winter of 1857 8, the Grundrisse was considered by Marx to be the first scientific elaboration of communist t...

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Friday, 19 August 2016

Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy By Joseph Alois Schumpeter


Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy
Title : Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy
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ISBN : 0415107628
Format : Paperback
Number of Pages : 460




Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy remains one of the greatest works of social theory written this century When it first appeared the New English Weekly predicted that for the next five to ten years it will cetainly remain a work with which no one who professes any degree of information on sociology or economics can afford to be unacquainted Fifty years on, this predic Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy remains one of the greatest works of social theory written this century When it first appea...

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Thursday, 18 August 2016

Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844 By Karl Marx


Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
Title : Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
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ISBN : 0486455610
Format : Paperback
Number of Pages : 208




Written in 1844 as a series of notes, Marx s posthumously published critiques on the conditions of modern industrialist societies forms the foundation of the author s denunciation of capitalism Combining elements of psychology, sociology, and anthropology, it is a profound examination of the human condition rooted in a philosophy of economics.In this concise treatise, Mar Written in 1844 as a series of notes, Marx s posthumously published critiques on the conditions of modern industrialist socie...

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