Current Events category: 843 books
by Ronald H. Bayor
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Atlanta is often cited as a prime example of a progressive New South metropolis in which blacks and whites have forged "a city too busy to hate." But Ronald Bayor argues that the city continues to bear the indelible mark of racial bias. Offering the first comprehensive history of Atlanta...
Bye Bye, Miss American Empire
Neighborhood Patriots, Backcountry Rebels, and their Underdog Crusades to Redraw America's Political Map
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2010
It's been almost a century and a half since a critical mass of Americans believed that secession was an American birthright. But breakaway movements large and small are rising up across the nation. From Vermont to Alaska, activists driven by all manner of motives want to form new states-and even new...
The Wolves of Alaska
A Fact-based Saga
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
Jim Rearden is Alaska's most popular outdoors journalist. He holds two degrees in wildlife management and was Professor of Wildlife Management at the University of Alaska Fairbanks 1950-54. As a member of the Alaska Board of Game 75-82 he helped develop the Tanana Flats wolf control program. He details...
After the Sheikhs: The Coming Collapse of the Gulf Monarchies
The Coming Collapse of the Gulf Monarchies
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
The Gulf monarchies (Saudi Arabia and its five smaller neighbours: the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, and Bahrain) have long been governed by highly autocratic and seemingly anachronistic regimes. Yet despite bloody conflicts on their doorsteps, fast-growing populations, and powerful modernising...
Democracy in California
Politics and Government in the Golden State
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
Democracy in California: Politics and Government in the Golden State is readable and thought-provoking. It is not the standard 'textbook' example of a textbook. Brian P. Janiskee and Ken Masugi clearly explain the politics and character of California's governmental institutions and the dynamics affecting...
Unlocking V. O. Key Jr.
Southern Politics for the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
Over sixty years ago, political scientist V. O. Key Jr. published his seminal work, Southern Politics in State and Nation. Key’s book defined the field of southern politics and remains one of the most cited and influential works in twentieth-century political science and southern history. In Unlocking...
Totalitaria: Brexit Edition
Look What's Coming
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016
On 24 June 2016, the world woke to news that Britain had voted to leave the European Union. The vote had not been expected by the Establishment, and the reaction was cataclysmic.
British voters did not just change the future of the UK, but they have also hit plans to impose a global governance...
by John J. Dinan
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2016
For too long, the American constitutional tradition has been defined solely by the U.S. Constitution drafted in 1787. Yet constitutional debates at the state level open a window on how Americans, in different places and at different times, have chosen to govern themselves. From New Hampshire in 1776...
by Hank Savitch, James C. Clinger, Michael W. Hail
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
The cornerstone of the American republic is an educated, active, and engaged citizenry; however, the multifaceted inner workings of government and the political forces that shape it are incredibly complex. Kentucky Government, Politics, and Public Policy is the first book in nearly three decades to...
by Jack Windollar
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2017
This is an EMPTY joke book. This BLANK book makes a satirical statement for the politically-minded on your gift list! Sometimes saying nothing says it all... Makes a great gag-gift!
(The paperback version makes a terrific blank journal, for notes, or just a shopping list - show 'em what you...
Local Democracy in Modern Mexico
a study in participatory methods
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2005
This in-depth study of local government in Mexico raises issues which go far beyond the territory it covers. It will be of absorbing interest to all students of local democracy and participatory methods, not only in Latin America, but in Western and Eastern Europe, the USA, Africa, Asia, and elsewhere,...
Accountability Politics
Power and Voice in Rural Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2007
How can the seeds of accountability ever grow in authoritarian environments? Embedding accountability into the state is an inherently uneven, partial and contested process. Campaigns for public accountability often win limited concessions at best, but they can leave cracks in the system that serve...
Compromised
How Money and Politics Drive FBI Corruption
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2018
If you ask most Americans what they think about the FBI, they would tell you it’s far and away the government agency they trust the most. The Bureau has, for decades, sold an image of itself as efficient, professional, unbiased, and untouchable by corruption.
That portrait is a sham.
Seamus...
A Legacy of Leadership
Governors and American History
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
In A Legacy of Leadership, top scholars and journalists create a new framework for understanding the contributions governors have made to defining democracy and shaping American history.
Structured chronologically, A Legacy of Leadership places governors in contrast and comparison with one...