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  • The Decline of Political Leadership in Australia?

    Changing Recruitment and Careers of Federal Politicians

    by Jan Pakulski, B. Tranter ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book analyses the changing political recruitment of the Australian federal parliamentary elite. It argues that the elite's quality has been reduced to a worrisome degree, especially since the 1990s. It suggests that the declining quality of the Australian 'political class' is a major factor behind the declining public trust in politicians. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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  • The Burn Pits

    The Poisoning of America's Soldiers

    by Joseph Hickman ...
    “There’s a whole chapter on my son Beau… He was co-located [twice] near these burn pits.”–Joe Biden, former Vice President of the United States of AmericaThe Agent Orange of the 21st Century… Thousands of American soldiers are returning from the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan with severe wounds from chemical war. They are not the victims of ruthless enemy warfare, but of their own military ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Don't Hurt People and Don't Take Their Stuff

    A Libertarian Manifesto

    by Matt Kibbe ...
    Do you believe in the freedom of individuals to determine their own future and solve problems cooperatively?Don't hurt people, and don't take their stuff. Simple and straightforward, that's liberty in a nutshell—no assembly required.And yet it seems like, more and more, the decisions Washington makes about what to do for us, or to us, or even against us, are having an increasingly adverse impact ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Big Mouths: The Playboy Interview

    50 Years of the Playboy Interview

    by Playboy, Howard Cosell, Gene Siskel, Roger Ebert, Rush Limbaugh, Howard Stern, Bob Novak, Rowland Evans, Bill O'Reilly, Michael Moore, Donald Trump, Mark Cuban, Simon Cowell, Keith Olbermann, Michael Savage ...
    These outspoken men never met an opinion that they didnt like—or an opinion that they didnt feel like sharing with everyone else. In this case, they shared their opinions in probing, wide-ranging and provocative interviews that first appeared in Playboy magazine. From the original frenemies Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert to conservative firebrands Rush Limbaugh and Michael Savage to the acid-tongued ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • To Make Men Free

    A History of the Republican Party

    by Heather Cox Richardson ...
    From the New York Times bestselling author of Democracy Awakening**, the paradoxical evolution of the Republican Party—founded to give the poor equal opportunity, but too often aligned with the country's elites.****"The most comprehensive account of the GOP and its competing impulses.” —**Los Angeles TimesWhen Abraham Lincoln helped create the Republican Party on ... ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Making of Law

    An Ethnography of the Conseil d'Etat

    by Bruno Latour ...
    In this book, Bruno Latour pursues his ethnographic inquiries into the different value systems of modern societies. After science, technology, religion, art, it is now law that is being studied by using the same comparative ethnographic methods. The case study is the daily practice of the French supreme courts, the Conseil d’Etat, specialized in administrative law (the equivalent of the Law Lords ... Read more

    $25.00 USD

  • Shadow State

    Inside the Secret Companies that Run Britain

    by Alan White ...
    Every year the British government spends £80 billion outsourcing public services. Today, private companies are responsible for fulfilling some of the most sensitive and important roles of the state – running prisons and providing healthcare, transport, legal aid, even child protection. These organizations have been handed enormous amounts of power and yet for the most part they operate with no ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Divided Welfare State

    The Battle over Public and Private Social Benefits in the United States

    by Jacob S. Hacker ...
    The Divided Welfare State is the first comprehensive political analysis of America's system of public and private social benefits. Everyone knows that the American welfare state is less expensive and extensive, later to develop and slower to grow, than comparable programs abroad. American social spending is as high as spending in many European nations. What is distinctive is that so many social ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • No Island of Sanity

    Paula Jones v. Bill Clinton: The Supreme Court on Trial

    by Vincent Bugliosi ...
    " One would like to think that the U.S. Supreme Court, the highest Court in the land, is the one island of sanity still remaining. But if what you folks are about to read is any indication, we've all got a lot to worry about. The question that presents itself is whether the near pathological dizziness and irrationality in our society has so invaded this nation's marrow that, like a wild-infectious ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Open to Debate

    How William F. Buckley Put Liberal America on the Firing Line

    by Heather Hendershot ...
    A unique and compelling portrait of William F. Buckley as the champion of conservative ideas in an age of liberal dominance, taking on the smartest adversaries he could find while singlehandedly reinventing the role of public intellectual in the network television era.When Firing Line premiered on American television in 1966, just two years after Barry Goldwater's devastating defeat, liberalism ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Government against Itself

    Public Union Power and Its Consequences

    by Daniel DiSalvo ...
    As workers in the private sector struggle with stagnant wages, disappearing benefits, and rising retirement ages, unionized public employees retire in their fifties with over $100,000 a year in pension and healthcare benefits. The unions defend tooth and nail the generous compensation packages and extensive job security measures they've won for their members. However, the costs they impose crowd ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Taking Rites Seriously

    Law, Politics, and the Reasonableness of Faith

    by Francis J. Beckwith ...
    Taking Rites Seriously is about how religious beliefs and religious believers are assessed by judges and legal scholars and are sometimes mischaracterized and misunderstood by those who are critical of the influence of religion in politics or in the formation of law. Covering three general topics - reason and motive, dignity and personhood, nature and sex - philosopher and legal theorist Francis J ... Read more

    $38.59 USD