Current Events category: 843 books
by Elisa Hategan
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
Set in 1990s Toronto, RACE TRAITOR is the visceral true story of a teenage girl who becomes entangled in Canada’s most powerful white supremacist group, the Heritage Front – a domestic terrorist group later revealed to have been created and funded with the assistance of Canada’s spy agency,...
A Credo for Progressives
Essays on Political Theory and Practical Politics
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
For fifty-five years, Robert Paul Wolff has been reflecting on the theory of modern political society and engaging actively in a number of progressive political movements, including the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, the protest against the Viet Nam War, and the world-wide effort to end the apartheid...
by Kerry Brown
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
China has created its own distinctive pathway to becoming one of the world's largest economies – and the country's economic and political development over the next decade will have profound implications for the rest of the world. Knowledge of contemporary China is therefore essential for anyone who...
The Dragon Delusions
Confronting the myths and exploring the implications of a rapidly rising China
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
China’s meteoric rise to become the new economic and geopolitical superpower of the 21st century has astonished and baffled Western observers. Despite its ever-growing importance on the world stage there is still so much we don’t know about this great nation. It is a topic that is still very much...
The Battle for Wisconsin
Scott Walker and the Attack on the Progressive Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2011
This past January, the newly elected governor Scott Walker declared war on Wisconsin's progressive roots. Under the guise of budget repair, he and his Republican colleagues in the state legislature introduced a whole host of initiatives meant to roll back hard-won gains for workers and recast the...
Christopher G. Moore Collected Essays
The Cultural Detective / Faking It in Bangkok / Fear and Loathing in Bangkok
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2014
Christopher G. Moore Collected Essays
The Cultural Detective
For more than twenty years, Christopher G. Moore has been writing about the history, culture and politics of Southeast Asia, in particular Thailand. The Cultural Detective is a behind-the-scene view into Moore’s writing...
Ta gueule, Merkel!
Maul zu, Frau Merkel ! Occupez-vous de vos pauvres
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2014
Ta gueule, Merkel! - Maul zu, Frau Merkel ! Occupez-vous de vos pauvres
Wenig emotionale Bindungsfähigkeit - eine 'falsche Mutti ohne Kinder. Eine 'Mutti' des Deutschen infantilen Mannes. Bei Männern ist ein Mutterkomplex offensichtlicher als bei Frauen, auch ist zwischen positivem...
The Sagebrush State, 4th Ed
Nevada’s History, Government, and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2013
Nevada’s politics have been formed in large measure by its turbulent history and harsh environment. Bowers’ concise volume explains the dynamics of this process, which is strikingly unique among the fifty states. This is a readable and insightful explanation of how Nevada’s history has formed...
It's NORML to Smoke Pot
The 40 Year Fight for Marijuana Smokers' Rights
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2013
It's NORML to Smoke Pot: The 40 Year Fight for Marijuana Smokers' Rights by NORML Founder and Legal Counsel, Keith Stroup, provides the first ever account of the history of NORML's forty decade fight for a sane marijuana policy direct from the person who started it all.
From the highs of...
States in Crisis
Politics in Ten American States, 1950-1962
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
This is a report on political conditions in ten widely differing states judged, for one reason or another, to be crucial, typical, or otherwise important. Part one is composed of case histories of state politics; part two reviews some general characteristics of the political structure; the epilogue...
Negotiating Statehood
Dynamics of Power and Domination in Africa
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
Negotiating Statehood: Dynamics of Power and Domination in Africa provides a conceptual framework for analysing dynamic processes of state-making in Africa.
Features a conceptual framework which provides a method for analysing the everyday making, contestation, and negotiation of statehood in...
by Cally Phillips
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2013
Ten years ago the Lysistrata Project asked people to take part in a worldwide act of theatrical dissent (dramatic huh?) In Dumfries and Galloway a bunch of writers responded by writing their own sketches and monologues and performing them live.
Ten years on we are revisiting...
by Ian Wishart
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
The battle for control of your life: the rise of democratic totalitarianism.
For the first time in history, governments are on the brink of being able to totally control your life. This is where The Truman Show meets The Omen.
Be very afraid.
The story of human history has...
Je suis PEGIDA „Rettet die abendländische Kultur“
„Deutschland erwacht, wir werden jeden Tag mehr!...“
Language: German
Release Date: January 13, 2015
Je suis PEGIDA „Rettet die abendländische Kultur“ „Deutschland erwacht, wir werden jeden Tag mehr!...“
Patriotische Europäer gegen die Islamisierung des Abendlandes und der „Mainstreampresse“. „Merkel muss weg“ „Bürgerrechtsbewegung Solidarität“...