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  • The Politics of Trust

    Reubin Askew and Florida in the 1970s

    by Gordon E. Harvey ...
    Series series The Modern South
    Florida governor Reubin Askew memorably characterized a leader as “someone who cares enough to tell the people not merely what they want to hear, but what they need to know.” It was a surprising statement for a contemporary politician to make, and, more surprising still, it worked. In The Politics of Trust: Reubin Askew and Florida in the 1970s, Gordon E. Harvey traces the life and career of the ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • History and Hope in the Heart of Dixie

    Scholarship, Activism, and Wayne Flynt in the Modern South

    by Gordon E. Harvey, Bailey Thompson, Andrew M Manis, Dan T. Carter, Glenn Feldman, Brooks Blevins, John Shelton Reed, Susan Y. Ashmore, Jeffrey Frederick0, DeWayne Key1, Major Richard D. Starnes2 ...
    Series series The Modern South
    Social and political history of the modern South.This collection of essays on the social and political history of the modern South consider the region’s poor, racial mores and race relations, economic opportunity, Protestant activism, political coalitions and interest groups, social justice, and progressive reform. History and Hope in the Heart of Dixie illuminates the dual role of historian and ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • Fundamental Love (Utah, Notorious USA)

    by Gregg Olsen, Rebecca Morris ...
    Series series Notorious USA
    With Photos!New York Times bestselling authors Gregg Olsen and Rebecca Morris take a new look at Utah’s most notorious crimes, including Megan Huntsman, the Utah mother who hid seven dead infants in a garage; a cold case that was finally solved by a child’s Lego; the rogue Fundamentalist Mormon who thought it was his right to marry and rape young girls; the sad case of children dying in hot cars; ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • After the Sheikhs: The Coming Collapse of the Gulf Monarchies

    The Coming Collapse of the Gulf Monarchies

    by Christopher Davidson ...
    The Gulf monarchies (Saudi Arabia and its five smaller neighbours: the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Qatar, Oman, and Bahrain) have long been governed by highly autocratic and seemingly anachronistic regimes. Yet despite bloody conflicts on their doorsteps, fast-growing populations, and powerful modernising and globalising forces impacting on their largely conservative societies, they have ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Flying in the Year 200 000

    From Gregorian to the Space Age Calendar

    by L.L.E. Curtis ...
    'Flying in the year 200 000 – From Gregorian to the Space Age Calendar', is based on proposed solutions to the Leap Second Problem submitted to the International Telecommunications Union, in 2012 and 2015.This tiny time discrepancy provided a way to access and probe the layers of problems below it - so that step by step what emerged was not just attempted solutions to the problem but a paradigm ... Read more

    $7.92 USD

  • The Anti-Soapbox: Collected Essays

    by Aaron Garrison ...
    The typical soapbox comes with strings attached: an agenda to be pushed, an ego to be stroked, a donation box to be filled. This book, on the other hand, attempts to fulfill the soapbox’s original ideal, as a fount of goodwill and ideas. Aaron Garrison, author of Learn Yourself: A Manual for the Mind and Synchronicity: One Man’s Experience, has taken the soapbox, and the speech has begun. In these ... Read more

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  • Mississippi Moonshine Politics

    How Bootleggers & the Law Kept a Dry State Soaked

    by Janice Branch Tracy ...
    A Mississippi historian chronicles the rise and fall of The Magnolia State's moonshine empire in this revealing true crime history.For most states, the repeal of prohibition meant a return to legally drunken normalcy, but not so in Mississippi. The state had gone dry more than a decade before the rest of the nation. In that time, a lucrative black market for moonshine and bonded liquor became a ... Read more

    $12.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • West Hollywood Crystal Meth Forum 2004

    by Brad Theissen ...
    Text and photos from the October 2004, City of West Hollywood sponsored Town Hall public forum on Crystal Meth, and its relationship with the increasing number of HIV diagnoses. Panel participants included Actor Chad Allen, Singer Paul LeKakis, HIV AIDS Medical Doctor Dr. Gary Cohen HIV AIDS Activist Cleve Jones, and moderator West Hollywood Mayor John Duran. Plus, a 14 page backgrounder on ... Read more

    $2.72 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Representing Women

    Sex, Gender, and Legislative Behavior in Arizona and California

    by Beth Reingold ...
    Women in public office are often assumed to “make a difference” for women, as women — in other words, to represent their female constituents better than do their male counterparts. But is sex really an accurate predictor of a legislator’s political choices and actions? In this book, Beth Reingold compares the representational activities and attitudes of male and female members of the Arizona and ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • A Reality Revolution

    by David Domon ...
    Within the pages of this book awaits for you an adventure. For through the practice of ideas set forth one can find a greater awareness. I believe awareness to be a road traveled into the distance in which only honesty can send us. Into these open spaces a way forward comes into view past this world built upon a complexity of lies. And I, as most of you, have become tired of treading the seemingly ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Thoughts from the Broken Society

    by Robert Jameson ...
    A collection of angry, but hopefully thought-provoking moans about the degenerative and anti-intellectual tendencies of the society we live in. Warning: This book contains very strong language and provocative opinions that many people are very likely to find offensive. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • American Federalism in Practice

    The Formulation and Implementation of Contemporary Health Policy

    by Michael Doonan ...
    American Federalism in Practice is an original and important contribution to our understanding of contemporary health policy. It also illustrates how contentious public policy is debated, formulated, and implemented in today's overheated political environment.Health care reform is perhaps the most divisive public policy issue facing the United States today. Michael Doonan provides a unique ... Read more

    $28.19 USD