Algora Publishing: 206 books
William McKinley
Apostle of Protectionism
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
William McKinley was the first US president to address globalization; his legacy in protectionism and immigrant labor offer lessons for the current era. He orchestrated an alliance between big business and the American worker that ushered in one of the greatest periods of growth ever known in the US...
The Glass Palace
Illusions of Freedom and Democracy in Qatar
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
When Mr. Beydoun accepted an offer to work in Qatar in 2007, the population of this tiny, insular sheikhdom had jumped from 400,000 to 1.6 million in just seven years (around 250,000 actual Qatari citizens and over 1,350,000 guest workers), while its per capita GDP had skyrocketed to among the highest...
by Stephen D. Cummings|and Patrick B. Reddy
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
As Arnold Schwarzenegger begins to end his internationally famous and historic governorship, the intense jockeying to replace him has started. National figures like Dianne Feinstein, Jerry Brown, Gavin Newsome and Antonio Villaraigosa are among the contenders. California after Arnold provides historic...
by Rebekah S. Peery
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Prof. Peery's first two books emphasized Nietzsche's concerns and contributions as a cultural critic and cultural historian; this time, she concentrates on his major legacy as a philosopher. Taking a tender scalpel to his works, from Ecce Homo and Thus Spake Zarathustra to Beyond Good and Evil and others,...
Doctors Without Borders in Ethiopia:
Among the Afar
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This book describes the function of a Doctors Without Borders program at the ground level, at the TB mission they established in eastern Ethiopia during 2001. The culture of the Afar people is part of the story as well as the physical surroundings of the mission including the birds and animals of the...
Reflections on the Loss of the Free-Born American Nation
Banksters Against People
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2016
This book chronicles the rise of currency manipulation in the United States, the debate over whether to have a central bank, and sources of the US Civil War.The author documents the rise of a corrupt collusion between a large corporate elite (the American aristocracy), the centralized bank,...
The Crisis of Britain's Surveillance State
Security, Law Enforcement, and the Intelligence War in Cyberspace
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
Great Britain is in a great crisis, one that gets worse with every attempt to patch things up. The global spread of technology and international links enables a rapid rise in the traffic of dangerous ideas, dangerous materials and dangerous people. An international journalist ties together the common...
by Quentin R. Skrabec, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
McGuffey Readers were best sellers only surpassed in America by the Bible and Websters Dictionary. In 2008, the McGuffey Eclectic Reader was ranked with Thomas Paines Common Sense and Alexander Hamiltons The Federalist Papers as books that changed the course of U.S. history. Published originally...
Noise Wars
Compulsory Media and Our Loss of Autonomy
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Robert Freedman looks at the role of media in society in a unique wayby focusing exclusively on the emerging trend of audience captivity: the relocation of TV and other intrusive electronic media from our home, where we have personal control over it, to all the settings outside the home in which we...
What is Good for General Motors?
Solving America's Industrial Conundrum
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Tom Crumm thinks the American auto industry can regain the world leadership it once enjoyed in design, manufacturing and sales of world-class quality vehicles and profitability. There are nearly a million American jobs at stake and when the ideas in this book spread to component and other industries...
Motion Picture Biographies
The Hollywood Spin on Historical Figures
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
Hollywood movies are famous for promoting negative stereotypes of all kinds, especially against minorities, women, Southerners, and Christians. To what extent are biographical films selected for production according to certain biases, conscious or unconscious, among the Hollywood elite? An expert...
Empress Wu the Great
Tang Dynasty China
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Empress Wu was stunning in her beauty, in her ruthless elimination of rivals (including sons and daughters), and, most important, in her discernment.
Conceiving Evil
A Phenomenology of Perpetration
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
What is it that permits us to see others as 'evil'? This book argues that it's our epistemological framework, which also resituates our own moral compass and reframes our moral world such that we can justify performing violent deeds, which we would readily demonize in others, as the heroics of eradicating...
Sacred Wells
A Study in the History, Meaning, and Mythology of Holy Wells and Waters
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This book is a welcome addition to the scant literature concerning holy wells, springs, and rivers around the world. One of a few serious works outside of regional studies which discusses, in depth, the folklore, mythology, and archaeology of holy wells and springs, as well as rituals that still exist...