Political activism / Political engagement Books

"Uma eleição perdida" by Francisco Manuel Carlos de Mello, conde de Ficalho, offers a fascinating glimpse into the political landscape of 19th-century Portugal. Written with sharp wit and insightful commentary, this work provides a satirical...

Discover Ideas and Pathways to Hope In these troubled times, why would anyone have hope? Heeding the constant drum roll of gloom and doom-climate catastrophe, political chaos, mental and physical ill health, AI takeover-many find it a test to stay upbeat...

This book critiques a modern American political system characterized by the partisan weaponization of bureaucratic systems and institutions.

One Woman's Journey of Advocacy, Faith, and Positivity"You only have three to five years to live."On the day she was diagnosed with HIV and thrust from the confines of her suburban mom bubble into the scary and unpredictable world of AIDS, Julie...

This book examines the role of NATO in the Middle East. It reviews the strategic importance of the region and why it has become a source of instability, looks at US and international initiatives to counteract this instability and charts the development...

The Maccabaea, published by the Zionist Organization of America, offers insights into Zionism, Jewish history, and Middle Eastern politics. This historical document provides a valuable snapshot of Zionist thought and activism. It is a resource for...

"History of Senatorial Elections in Iowa: A Study in American Politics" by Dan Elbert Clark offers a detailed examination of the senatorial election processes in Iowa during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This historical work delves into the...

Elucidates the political dynamics that link the Umbrella Movement to the anti-extradition protests and helps explain the key character of the latter movement.Presenting an analytical account of the relational dynamics linking the 2014 Umbrella Movement...

A clear, critical, accessible, and ultimately hopeful discovery voyage through the seas of Du Bois's language and ideas.Offering a vision both hopeful and thoughtful, Reading Du Bois is an Afrocentric reexamination of the work of one of the most...

The community land trust (CLT) movement has grown from a single CLT in 1970 to nearly six hundred today, scattered across a dozen countries. While many people can be credited with the global spread of CLTs, eight individuals have been especially...

<p>Discover how one woman's courage to act against overwhelming odds changed her life and the lives of those around her in Wing of an Angel.<br></p><p>This hard-hitting memoir by JB Hollows draws on ten years of experience in the...

The reader is pulled through the heart of the COVID-19 pandemic as real people make decisions, discuss, argue, and engage public officials, all the while weaving in the principles and practice of Public Health in full measure - science, epidemiology,...

Germany's landmark 1998 election saw for the first time in the Republic's fifty-year historyan incumbent Chancellor and his entire government replaced. In this collection fourteen distinguished scholars, from both sides of the Atlantic, have come...

A survey of the history of women in Russia, this book is the result of the collaboration of leading Russian and American specialists on Russian women's history. It is divided into four chronological periods, and four main topics are discussed for each...

Use this book to learn about the two-party system that is practiced in the United States. You will also read about the political party and what it takes to be a member of one. Further, examine the functions of political parties as well as how they are...

At the end of this book, you should be able to explain the process of the presidential election in the USA. Discuss how presidential candidates are selected and how they go through the process of nominating conventions to general elections. How often are...

The Columbine tragedy on April 20, 1999 began a new era in law enforcement as it became apparent that the police response to such mass shootings must be drastically altered. By the time the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting occurred on December 14,...

Our ‘1 Law 4 All’ gang is dragged into a complex multinational, election fraud scheme. The gang’s client champions fair and free elections. The battle lines are drawn. The political windmills established. The 1 Law 4 All Foundation...

U.S. Government Counterterrorism: A Guide to Who Does What is the first readily available, unclassified guide to the many U.S. government agencies, bureau offices, and programs involved in all aspects of countering terrorism domestically and overseas...

A long list of countries - labelled outcasts, pariahs and rogues - have failed to meet international standards of good conduct. In the Cold War years Rhodesia, Israel, Chile, Taiwan and South Africa, among others, featured among the ranks of the...

Ludger Mees offers the first comprehensive study of one of Europe's most protracted ethnic conflicts. He carefully analyzes both the historical roots of the conflict and its later growing violent dimension. Special attention is paid to the framing of a...

This book explains how and why European non-governmental development organisations (NGDOs) engage in advocacy towards the European Union (EU). It analyses the heterogenous structure of the sector, with examples ranging from large multinational networks...

An inspiring, no-holds-barred account of one woman'squest to find her true self.Shelley Bridgman is an award-winning stand-up comic, actor, scriptwriter, professional speaker and a leading psychotherapist - but it wasn't always this way.First she...

This book analyses the opportunities and barriers that NGOs and civil society actors face when conducting advocacy campaigns against such developments through a comparison of the strategies of two NGO coalitions advocating against the Xayaburi hydropower...

In parliamentary systems like Canada, voters directly contribute to the election outcome only in their own riding. However, the focus of election campaigns is often national, emphasizing the leader rather than the local candidate, and national rather...

In a compelling first-hand account of development assistance gone awry, Susan Walsh recounts how national, international, and multilateral organizations failed the Jalq'a people in the Bolivian Andes during the early millennium. Intent on assisting...

Third Party Blues presents a concerted effort to analyze the historical value of third parties while showing that minor party inclusion does prompt real-world positive consequences.

Our portraits of voters, their relationship to parties, and the behavior of elected party members have changed significantly within the last 10 to 15 years. Characterizations of dealignment and decreased importance of parties have been fairly rapidly...

This book brings together scholars from the hitherto disparate fields of terrorism and reconciliation studies to examine whether reconciliation is a possible strategy for dealing with and ending a terrorist conflict.

This book explores the significance of the Gay Games in the context of broader currents of gay and lesbian history, and addresses a wide range of key contemporary themes within sports studies, including the cultural politics of sport, the politics...

First published in English in 1920, this work is a reissue of Karl Kautsky's seminal work dealing with the origins and history of the forces at work in revolutionary epochs.

This book offers a detailed and practically oriented guide to the challenges of conducting terrorism fieldwork.

This book offers the first comprehensive, comparative and coherent perspective on parliamentary candidates in contemporary representative democracy. Based on the unique database of the 'Comparative Candidate Survey' project which interrogated...

This book explores the new debates on Basque sovereignty and statehood that have emerged in the post-violence Basque political scenario. It deciphers how sovereignty is understood or imagined by a revitalized civil society after the unilateral cessation...

Critical Terrorism Studies emerged around 2007, in the context of the rapidly intensifying War on Terror. It was in this era that "terrorism" became a "growth industry" which generated a huge amount of academic research as well as social and political...

This book provides new insights on contemporary terrorism and media research, opening the door for fresh perspectives and trends exploring theories and concepts in the field. Advances in technology have increased the threat of terrorism, as the Internet...

Primary elections have been used for the past century for most U.S. elective offices and their popularity is growing in other nations as well. In some circumstances, primaries ensure that citizens have a say in elections and test the skills of candidates...

When In So Many Words first appeared in 2006, the Chicago Tribune observed that Robert Schmuhl's collection of essays offered "some of the sharpest and most informative cultural criticism available."Now, In So Many More Words expands on the...

The image of middle-class women chaining themselves to the rails of 10 Downing Street, smashing windows of public buildings, and going on hunger strikes in the cause of "votes for women" have become visually synonymous with the British...

In The Inclusion Calculation, Melody E. Valdini examines women's representation in politics and offers insights into men's strategies for using women to advance their own political ambitions. While it is certainly valuable to encourage women to run for...

""An Enquiry Into The Nature And Effects Of The Paper Credit Of Great Britain"" is a book written by Henry Thornton in 1802. It is an in-depth analysis of the paper credit system in Great Britain during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The book...

Il libro ""Il Sistema Del Voto Limitato Nelle Elezioni Amministrative (1878)"" di Alberto Morelli ����� una trattazione sul sistema di voto limitato utilizzato nelle elezioni amministrative. Pubblicato nel 1878, il testo analizza le caratteristiche di...