Local Government category: 1701 books
Servants of the Law
Judicial Politics on the California Frontier, 1849-89
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2010
Servants of the Law examines the lives of two famous California judges, David S. Terry and Stephen J. Field, who created a lasting influence on the politics and judicial history of California's Supreme Court during the court's formative years of 1855 to 1865. These jurists shared the state's highest...
by Glenn Feldman
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2015
This first book-length examination of the Klan in Alabama represents
exhaustive research that challenges traditional interpretations.
The Ku Klux Klan has wielded considerable power both as
a terrorist group and as a political force. Usually viewed as appearing
in distinct incarnations, the...
Better Than Sex
Confessions of a Political Junkie
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
"Hunter S. Thompson is to drug-addled, stream-of-consciousness, psycho-political black humor what Forrest Gump is to idiot savants."
--The Philadelphia Inquirer
Since his 1972 trailblazing opus, Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail, Hunter S. Thompson has reported the election story in...
Never Trust Ann Coulter
An Unauthorized, Autobiographical Parody
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2013
In this hilarious unauthorized, autobiographical parody, Ann Coulter has been approached to be the Vice Presidential candidate in 2016, so she is coming out with a tell-all book. She will reveal who she is, who she was and who she hopes to be before the left wing media and the Democratic spin...
UKRAINE
ZBIG'S GRAND CHESSBOARD & HOW THE WEST WAS CHECKMATED
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
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I’m not sure if there’s been a better written book published yet this year than Ukraine: Zbig’s Grand Chessboard and How the West Was Checkmated, but I’m confident there’s not been a more important one. With some 17,000 nuclear bombs in the world, the United States and Russia...
MY DARK SHONE OUT
Poems by a rapper
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2017
South African rapper Ro, has taken the most vulnarable pages out of his lyrical diary, literally the content too daunting to be released in song, and opened up to expose even more of himself to the fans.
This book poetry mostly follows typical Hip-Hop rhyming form, with a few exceptions. Jam...
Faking It in Bangkok
Crime and Culture in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2012
The Cultural Detective established Christopher G. Moore as a writer whose essays deliver a unique perspective insight into Thai culture and contemporary political and social issues. In Faking It in Bangkok gangsters, gamblers, killers and other criminals are brought to life in the essays. Readers...
by Jonathan Soffer
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2010
In 1978, Ed Koch assumed control of a city plagued by filth, crime, bankruptcy, and racial tensions. By the end of his mayoral run in 1989 and despite the Wall Street crash of 1987, his administration had begun rebuilding neighborhoods and infrastructure. Unlike many American cities, Koch's New York...
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...
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...
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...