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  • The Right-Wing Threat to Democracy

    The Undoing of America's Exceptionalism

    by Burt Hall ...
    p>For over thirty years, World War II veteran and author Burt Hall assessed accountability in government and national security. Now, this seasoned, professional analyst delivers a tough account of what went wrong in our politics and system of government over the past two decades and what we can do about it.The right wing (not to be confused with Conservatism) has hijacked the Republican Party and ... Read more

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    by James MacGregor Burns ...
    Series Book 2 - The American Experiment
    The second volume of Burns's acclaimed history of America, from the end of the Civil War to the beginning of the Great DepressionAbraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address pointed to a new way to preserve an old hope—that democracy might prove a vibrant and lasting form of government for people of different races, religions, and aspirations. The scars of the Civil War would not soon heal, but with that ... Read more

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  • Cybercrime and the Darknet

    Revealing the hidden underworld of the internet

    by Cath Senker ...
    With the emergence of the internet new forms of crime became possible. From harassment and grooming to fraud and identity theft the anonymity provided by the internet has created a new world of crime of which we all must be aware. The threat of hackers reaches beyond the individual, threatening businesses and even states, and holds worrying implications for the world we live in.In this ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Rescuing a Broken America

    Why America is Deeply Divided and How to Heal it Constitutionally

    by Michael Coffman ...
    A plan for restoring and protecting freedom, based on the United States Constitution.There has been a deliberate effort over the past one hundred years to change the worldview of Americans from a liberty and constitutionally focused world view, based on the writings of Englishman John Locke, to that of government control of the individual based on the writings of Frenchman Jean Jacques Rousseau. ... Read more

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  • Nation of Secrets

    by Ted Gup ...
    Award winning journalist Ted Gup exposes how and why our most important institutions increasingly keep secrets from the very people they are supposed to serve.Drawing on his decades as an investigative reporter, Ted Gup argues that a preoccupation with secrets has undermined the very values--security, patriotism, and privacy--in whose name secrecy is so often invoked. He explores the blatant ... Read more

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  • Syria under Bashar al-Asad

    Modernisation and the Limits of Change

    by Volker Perthes ...
    Series series Adelphi series
    Syria entered a new phase with the death of its long-serving leader, Hafiz al-Asad, and the accession of his son Bashar in 2000. While the new president has disappointed much of the hopes for political opening which he himself has created, Syria is clearly undergoing a process of change. The author analyses the factors of economic and political change in the country, and gives a portrait of its ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Immigration and Membership Politics in Western Europe

    by Sara Wallace Goodman ...
    Why are traditional nation-states newly defining membership and belonging? In the twenty-first century, several Western European states have attached obligatory civic integration requirements as conditions for citizenship and residence, which include language proficiency, country knowledge and value commitments for immigrants. This book examines this membership policy adoption and adaptation ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • Dictators and Democracy in African Development

    The Political Economy of Good Governance in Nigeria

    by A. Carl LeVan ...
    Series Book 130 - African Studies
    What are the conditions for good governance in Africa, and why do many democracies still struggle with persistent poverty? Drawing on a historical study of Nigeria since independence, this book argues that the structure of the policy-making process explains variations in government performance better than other commonly cited factors, such as oil, colonialism, ethnic diversity, foreign debt, and ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • The Experiment

    Georgia's Forgotten Revolution 1918-1921

    by Eric Lee ...
    For many the Russian Revolution of 1917 was a symbol of hope. In the eyes of its critics, however, Soviet authoritarianism and the horrors of the gulags have led to the revolution becoming synonymous with oppression, threatening to forever taint the very idea of socialism.The experience of Georgia, which declared its independence from Russia in 1918, tells a different story. In this riveting ... Read more

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  • The Spirit of Religion and the Spirit of Liberty

    The Tocqueville Thesis Revisited

    Edited by Michael P. Zuckert ...
    Tocqueville’s thesis on the relation between religion and liberty could hardly be timelier. From events in the Middle East and the spread of Islamist violence in the name of religion to the mandated coverage under the Affordable Care Act, the interaction between religion and politics has once again become central to political life. Tocqueville, facing the coming of a new social and political order ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Open Government (Routledge Revivals)

    A study of the prospects of open government within the limitations of the British political system

    Edited by Richard A. Chapman, Michael Hunt ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1987 this book considers the practical implications of increasing public access to official information in Britain, both from the perspective of increasing Freedom of Information and reforming Section 2 of the Official Secrets Act. It draws attention to the practical problems such changes would pose for both politicians and civil servants working in an adversarial system of ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • America Under Mind Control

    by Jamell Crouthers ...
    What happens when society takes control of your mind and how you think? This book speaks on all of the issues going on in today's society and how the rich, wealthy and elite do everything in their power to keep the American people under mind control. There are different tactics and ways they use to make sure we as a people don't strive for greatness in life. It starts from when you're a child in ... Read more

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