Algora Publishing: 206 books
Quality of Life, Balance of Powers, and Nuclear Weapons (2012)
A Statistical Yearbook for Statesmen and Citizens
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The foundations of power politics in the nuclear age, fundamental forces that drive events in the international news, and seldom-discussed factors that can shift whole economies, or trigger wars, may be discerned from the statistical tables presented in this novel yearbook first issued in 2008.This statistical...
Quality of Life, Balance of Power, and Nuclear Weapons (2010)
A Statistical Yearbook for Statesmen and Citizens
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The foundations of power politics in the nuclear age, fundamental forces that drive events in the international news, and seldom-discussed factors that can shift whole economies, or trigger wars, may be discerned from the statistical tables presented in this novel yearbook.This statistical annual presents...
Quality of Life, Balance of Power and Nuclear Weapons (2009)
A Statistical Yearbook for Statesmen and Citizens
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The foundations of power politics in the nuclear age, fundamental forces that drive events in the international news, and seldom-discussed factors that can shift whole economies, or trigger wars, may be discerned from the statistical tables presented in this novel yearbook first issued in 2008.This...
Fixing the EU Intel Crisis
Intelligence Sharing, Law Enforcement and the Threat of Chemical Biological and Nuclear Terrorism
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2016
The epidemic of wars and military clashes from Syria to Yemen, the rising powers of China and Russia, and the turbulence in Pakistan, Central Asia and North Africa all underscore the urgent need for a highly professional intelligence agency within the European Union and between the EU and the UK in particular....
by Rebekah S. Peery
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The book offers new interpretations of Nietzsche's thinking -- considering especially his ideas regarding power, values, nature, contrariety, sexuality and sexual politics -- that could offer new and provocative approaches toward dealing with the rising menace of war. His breadth and depth of interests...
Ex-Neocon
Dispatches from the Post 9/11 Ideological Wars
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2016
Ex-Neocon consists of Scott McConnell's historical and polemical essays from 2001 to the present. A prominent analyst and journalist who once knew the Kristols and Podhoretzes, worked with them, admired them and identified fully with them, McConnell shows what the thinking was among neocons in those...
Stairway to Tyranny
Corporate Creep, Globalism and the Loss of Liberty
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2017
Can we believe that there is no danger of “fascism,” or “totalitarianism” here? That there’s no corporate stranglehold on the economy; no collusion between Washington and the bankers/businesses; no creeping laws that take private property away from hard-working families and individuals for...
by Musa Khan Jalalzai
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
As Western troops withdraw from Afghanistan, the Afghan National Army (ANA) has been tasked with securing the country. Having broken the system that was in place, the US and NATO are now leaving Afghanistan to face Taliban elements, criminal warlords, and private militias which disrupt any efforts to...
by Jerold Waltman
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In a thorough and well-documented study of the American and British experience with minimum wage legislation, Prof. Jerold Waltman describes and analyzes the operation of current minimum wage policies and politics in both countries. Where are we and how did we get here? For Britain, he chronicles the...
by John Cones
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Many groups within our multi-cultural society have complained over the years about negative and stereotypical portrayals of their own group members in motion pictures produced or released through the Hollywood-based motion picture studios. Yet, as an expert on the U.S. film industry points out, such...
Sherlock Holmes
A Secret History
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
Many readers have been fascinated by the complex and cunning mind of Arthur Conan Doyle, inventor of the personality of Sherlock Holmes. Hennessy offers readers a deeper understanding of how one great mind goes about creating another great mind. The author notes and deciphers a wealth of symbols and...
Francis Bacon’s Hidden Hand in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice
A Study of Law, Rhetoric, and Authorship
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
Fans of Shakespeare have long been struck by Portia's impassioned plea for mercy and by the sophisticated lawyerly twists of the trial of Antonio v. Shylock in the Shakespeare play The Merchant of Venice.
Christina Waldman, JD, shows how the scene shifts from a "law court" to "chancery...
by Robert J. Stevenson
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This study in criminology, sociology, and the US Military, explores changes in the meaning and production of deviant populations in American military settings since 1941. It is designed to highlight the operation of an ethos of control as armed forces and society undergo historically unstable accommodation...
Homo Redneckus
On Being Not Qwhite In America
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Discussing questions of race and class in America, we often skip those who are white but are treated as a different kind of "other." A professor of English and literature, Dr. William Matthew McCarter explores the realities of being "Not Qwhite in America" from a historical and literary perspective....