Current Events category: 843 books
Lights Out
Islam, free speech and the twilight of the west
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
Roaming from America to Europe to Australia, Lights Out is a trenchant examination of the tensions between a resurgent Islam and a fainthearted west - and of the implications for liberty in the years ahead.
In 2007, the Canadian Islamic Congress brought three suits against Maclean's, Canada's...
Scorpions for Breakfast
My Battle with Washington to Secure Our Country's Border
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
In Scorpions for Breakfast, Jan Brewer, America’s toughest governor and one of the most popular conservative political figures in the nation today, proudly defends her embattled state of Arizona and challenges President Obama to do his job and keep our border safe. Unfairly tarred by liberal critics...
Oh, Florida!
How America's Weirdest State Influences the Rest of the Country
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2016
A New York Times Bestseller
Oh, Florida! That name. That combination of sounds. Three simple syllables, and yet packing so many mixed messages. To some people, it’s a paradise. To others, it’s a punch line. As Oh, Florida! shows, it’s both of these and, more important, it’s a Petri...
by Hope Barrett
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2012
When the machine went into bonus mode, irrespective of whether it was Cleopatra or Used Cars, head-witch would shout to her two followers, "Touch it!" and the two would dutifully start touching the 'belly' of the machine. "Rub it!" she would order, and they would both...
by Cesare Beccaria, Jacques Auguste Simon Collin de Plancy
Language: French
Release Date: February 7, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: February 7, 2015
Les avantages de la société doivent être également partagés entre tous ses membres. Cependant, parmi les hommes réunis, on remarque une tendance continuelle à rassembler sur le plus petit nombre les privilèges, la puissance et le bonheur, pour...
by Donna Kay Cindy Kakonge
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2014
Chris Rock avec son documentaire Good Hair sorti de nombreux sujets importants concernant la politique de cheveux des Noirs, en particulier les femmes. Cette recherche a été effectuée en 1999, soit 10 ans avant la sortie du documentaire de Chris Rock. Avec les histoires basées à Montréal, au...
by Auguste Rodin
Language: French
Release Date: November 8, 2013
Language: French
Release Date: November 8, 2013
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Notre époque est celle des ingénieurs et des usiniers, mais non point celle des artistes.
L’on recherche l’utilité dans la vie moderne : l’on s’efforce d’améliorer matériellement l’existence...
by Hope Barrett
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2012
IT HAS been seven months since the planets and airlines aligned so that we might find ourselves in the same country, in the same space, face to face. Normally this kind of movement in the skies only occurs once every two years. After 25 years of being there for each other through heart-break,...
Welcome to Hell
One Man's Fight for Life inside the Bangkok Hilton
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2017
Written from his cell and smuggled out page by page, Colin Martin’s autobiography chronicles an innocent man’s struggle to survive inside one of the world’s most dangerous prisons. After being swindled out of a fortune, Colin was let down by the hopelessly corrupt Thai police. Forced to rely...
Uprising
How Scott Walker Betrayed Wisconsin and Inspired a New Politics of Protest
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
On February 11, 2011, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker announced he would strip collective bargaining rights from public employees and teachers. In response, people rose up in mass protest, and Wisconsin became a reference point for a renewal of labor militancy and radical politics. These protests...
by Henry Ford
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
Why discuss the Jewish Question? Because it is here, and because its emergence into American thought should contribute to its solution, and not to a continuance of those bad conditions which surround the Question in other countries.
The Jewish Question has existed in the United States for...
by Henry Ford
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
Why discuss the Jewish Question? Because it is here, and because its emergence into American thought should contribute to its solution, and not to a continuance of those bad conditions which surround the Question in other countries.
The Jewish Question has existed in the United States for...
by Henry Ford
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2015
Why discuss the Jewish Question? Because it is here, and because its emergence into American thought should contribute to its solution, and not to a continuance of those bad conditions which surround the Question in other countries.
The Jewish Question has existed in the United States for...
The Jew in Character and Business
The World's Foremost Problem
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2015
Why discuss the Jewish Question? Because it is here, and because its emergence into American thought should contribute to its solution, and not to a continuance of those bad conditions which surround the Question in other countries.
The Jewish Question has existed in the United States for...