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by Owen Jones
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2016
I hope that you will find the information helpful, useful and profitable.
The information in this ebook on various aspects of hybrid vehicles and related subjects is organized into 15 chapters of about 500-600 words each.
I hope that it will interest those who are interested in hybrid...
Southern Baptists Contract A Derivative Of Obamamania
The American Worldview Chronicle: Issue 6
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2012
This edition contains the following: (1) Southern Baptists Contract A Derivative Of Obamamania, (2) Batman Shooter A Neuroscientist That Went Haywire, (3) What Else Would Drudge Like Done The Red Chinese Way?, (4) Quips & Observations, (5) Headline Links.
The Secrets of the Hopewell Box
Stolen Elections, Southern Politics, and a City's Coming of Age
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
"Squires' . . . grandfather was a sheriff's deputy who carried a gun and a clenched fist, a man whose talk with cronies was full of references to 'sonofabitching judges' and 'goddamn n*****s.' He was also, Squires relates, one of the muscle men behind a vicious cabal of power brokers headed by...
Lone Star America
How Texas Can Save Our Country
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2014
Throughout America and around the world, the United States has been known as a beacon of hope and opportunity, the land of the free and the home of the brave. Sadly, from the crumbling urban ghetto of Detroit to the cash-strapped shores of California to the rust belt of the Midwest, America is not...
It's Your Time You're Wasting
A Teacher's Tales of Classroom Hell
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
Frank Chalk is an ordinary teacher in an ordinary British school... a school where the kids get drunk, beat up the teachers and take drugs - when they can be bothered to turn up.
It's Your Time You're Wasting is the blackly humorous diary of a year in his working life.
Chalk confiscates...
by Rachelle Kaufman
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
Come learn about what it’s like to see a synagogue in ruin, meet the warm people of Hungary and to see a makeshift Holocaust memorial, put up in front of a statue referred to as “a monument to the government’s arrogance”. Guide book author Rachelle Kaufman talks about Hungary from...
The Right To Privacy
With a Foreword by Philip Dossick
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2014
Feel like someone’s watching? You’re probably right. Your anonymity is an illusion.
The trend toward constant surveillance is disturbing. Supporters often argue, "If you're obeying the law, you have nothing to fear."
But is that true?
While many refuse to acknowledge...
A Most Canadian Odyssey
Education Diplomacy and Federalism, 1844-1984
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2016
This book was first published as a peer-reviewed monograph by Althouse Press at Western University in London, Canada. Now, the original manuscript has been reprinted for worldwide distribution. Drawing on historical research, John Allison documents the history and development of Educational...
State Legislatures Today
Politics under the Domes
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
A concise and provocative introduction to State Legislative Politics, State Legislatures Today is designed as a supplement for state and local government courses and upper level courses on legislative politics. The book examines state legislatures and state lawmakers, putting them in historical context,...
There's Nothing in the Middle of the Road but Yellow Stripes and Dead Armadillos
A Work of Political Subversion
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2010
Revised, and with a New Introduction by the Author
"I am an agitator, and an agitator is the center post in a washing machine that gets the dirt out."
--Jim Hightower
Hightower is mad as hell and he's not going to take it anymore! He's also funny as hell, and in this book...
The Negotiator
Freeing Gilad Schalit from Hamas
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2014
THE NEGOTIATOR is the only behind-the-scenes account of the negotiations to release abducted Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit. This new work is the remarkable story of Gershon Baskin, who acted on his own initiative to create a secret back channel between Hamas and the Israeli government to secure a...
The Price of a Life
Shell, Gold, Carbon Notes and Weed: Four Kinds of Money in the Humboldt Bay / Six Rivers Region. A Historical and Personal Account
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2017
The Price of a Life is the story of money and marijuana in northern California’s Emerald Triangle. It tells the history, from dentalia shells to gold and from lumber and paper dollars to the emergent weed economy. Under the nom de guerre of Dr Loon, Jerry Martien has followed this story since the...
Union and States’ Rights
A History and Interpretation of Interposition, Nullification, and Secession 150 Years After Sumter
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
The third book in the &LAW series addresses the perpetual issue of state sovereignty in the federal union-'states' rights.' From the 1770s, through the Confederate states' secession, and continuing until now, a central issue of governance is state power to object to, cancel, or be immune from...
The Beholden State
California’s Lost Promise and How to Recapture It
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
California is at a tipping point. Severe budget deficits, unsustainable pension costs, heavy taxes, cumbersome regulation, struggling cities, and distressed public schools are but a few of the challenges that policymakers must address for the state to remain a beacon of business innovation and economic...