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When he left graduate school, R. Nelson Haas dreamed of changing political theory and Canadian politics for the better. However, this dream was cut short by his mysterious and untimely death. At the time, Haas was putting the finishing touches on his now-infamous manifesto of moderation, Existential Liberalism and the Republic of Canada. His death robbed the world of a true political hero and prevented the official release of his book, leaving only...
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Get the Summary of Byron Tau's Means of Control in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Means of Control: How the Hidden Alliance of Tech and Government Is Creating a New American Surveillance State" by Byron Tau delves into the intricate relationship between technology companies and government agencies in the context of surveillance. The book begins with the story of Waleed al-Shehri, a 9/11 hijacker, whose activities...
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The sorry state of the economy and international involvement in hopeless wars is blamed on George W. Bush, but they came out of the policies established by Ronald Reagan. It was Reagan who brought back utopian free market economics that had always failed when attempted in the past. Huge tax cuts for the top income bracket led to the rise of Wall Street into control of the economy and the emasculation of manufacturing, along with declining incomes...
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Welcome to the third edition of our textbook. As indicated by the new title, this edition is significantly different than the previous two, and accordingly stocked with mostly new material. Whereas the first two editions described "what" was being done in the name of homeland security, this one explains "why". In keeping with our previous approach, we do not ascribe ourselves as "authors" but "editors" because the bulk of material is drawn directly...
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eric (yes, lowercase e) is politically conservative, morally liberal, and by his own admission completely off kilter. These quirks have allowed him to pursue his goal of being the world’s preeminent Republican Jewish blogger (www.tygrrrrexpress.com).
eric has dedicated his life to fighting ideological bigotry what he defines as a pervasive disdain for conservatives merely because they exist. With this book, eric presents his best columns as a cohesive...
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This book presents a lively retrospective account of a career as an inner and outer in American government and academe by a social scientist who has spent many years conducting evaluation studies of what works-and what doesn't work-in domestic public affairs. It uses rich histories of prominent policy issues and descriptions of major studies of welfare and job programs to bring to life crucial questions about how social science can best serve social...
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La segunda vuelta de las elecciones presidenciales del 19 de junio de 2022 opuso a dos personalidades alejadas de las élites tradicionales del país y de los grandes partidos políticos. Por un lado, Gustavo Petro era líder de una izquierda que nunca había llegado a las más altas funciones en Colombia y parecía condenada al eterno ejercicio de la oposición, por el otro, Rodolfo Hernández era una figura nueva en la política nacional que saltó...
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Summary of The President's Book of Secrets by David Priess | Includes Analysis Preview: The President's Book of Secrets by David Priess is a journalistic examination of the history of the President's Daily Brief (PDB), a short, top-secret summary of the most important intelligence delivered to the president of the United States each day. The PDB is a document with some of the tightest access controls in the world. Prior to Harry Truman's presidency,...
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This volume collects together the most important writings of founding father Thomas Paine. First published on January 10, 1776, "Common Sense" was one the most influential and best-selling works from the colonial period. One of the central political arguments amongst the colonists of the pre-revolutionary period was whether or not they should seek freedom from British rule. In "Common Sense", Paine provided a straightforward argument to the American...
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Book Preview:#1 I first met Trump in 2004 to discuss his New Jersey casinos. I enjoyed working with him, and Atlantic City proved to be a good investment for him. However, no lawyer could make Atlantic City profitable.
#2 I suffered a loss when my father passed away. I was extremely close with him, and he was the one who taught me about the Jewish faith. I observed seven days of shiva...
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Two years ago George Lakoff published the bestselling Don't Think of an Elephant! Its account of the conservative monopoly on effective framing touched off a national discussion about political language. It also gave rise to a chorus of pleas for more:
* What is the progressive vision of America;
* Why progressive values are America's values;
* How frames are necessary to serve the truth;
* Why sloganeering alone doesn't work;
* How progressives...
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Nigeria today appears rudderless, with no particular direction. Our country has no purposeful destiny that we can say with conviction is our lodestar. Our citizens are increasingly unsure, what being a Nigerian means... This is a fundamental challenge we must overcome, for a nation or a country without a clear worldview simply cannot become a prosperous and powerful one. The book 'Build Innovate and Grow: My Vision for Our Country', addresses the...
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Never in modern times has there been a greater need for understanding of the Muslim world. Nothing in that world is more important than the relationship between Muslims and their Faith, yet now that Faith has become far more confusing and challenging. The emergence of religious fundamentalism, often linked to terrorism, seems wholly inconsistent with the teaching of the Quran and the other holy documents of the Faith, which defines itself as a religion...
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The purpose of this book is to bring your conscious mind a Revelation. The Truth is that you are the Spirit that inhabits your form. My story will acquaint you with Agape love exploits in a life of young and intelligent people. They each have a mission and an agenda to live their lifestyle. To make it explicitly different the woman subject is a witch and the male is by the Holy Spirit protected. A county is in need to expending their infrastructure....
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The theoretic aspects of the global phenomena of modern civilization are reviewed; the issues of global management and global development are analyzed. The analysis of the major threats to and the problems and risks of the world civilization is conducted. Modern political conflicts are reviewed and classified; the difficulties of their reconciliation and resolution are analyzed based on modern approaches, concepts and technologies. The major approaches...
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Over the course of nine months in 1831 Alexis de Tocqueville, a French political thinker, and accompanied by Gustave de Beaumont, travelled the United States under the pretext of studying the American prison system. Over the course of his travels, Tocqueville also studied American society, religion, politics, and economics, undertaking what would become one of the most comprehensive studies to that time of the practice of democracy in the United States.
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Politics can be distasteful to many people, for good reason. Yet the right to vote and choose who will lead us is a great privilege, as well as a responsibility. The list of important issues is long, and it can be a daunting task to get educated enough to form a well thought out opinion on each. If you are like most Americans, you lead a very busy life and simply don't have the time to research. As Christians, we want our views to be in sync with...
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One of the bloodiest conflicts ever to take place on American soil, the Civil War pitted brother against brother as North and South fought to secure their futures. Confederate president Jefferson Davis's 1881 memoir, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government is a history of the Confederate States of America and a vindication of the Southern cause.
While Rise and Fall disappointed Davis's hopes of restoring his fortune, destroyed during and...
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America's lax moral attitudes are placing the nation on the brink of national suicide. No other nation has ever purposely promoted its own self-destruction. At no other time in recorded history has a nation's internalized sense of guilt dominated its social and political thinking; never a collective desire to purge itself of self-fabricated guilt complexes whose origins are, more often than not, imaginary. We have devolved into groveling apologists...
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Kori Schake examines key questions about the United States' position of power in the world, including, Why is the United States' power so threatening? Is it sustainable? Does military force still matter? How can we revise current practices to reduce the U.S. cost of managing the system? What accounts for the United States' stunning success in the round of globalization that swept across the international order at the end of the twentieth century?...
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