19 reviews
How to Win Nearly Every Political Argument: 2020 Election - CONSERVATIVE Edition
You are NOT going to win a debate with progressives through rational discussion. That said, is there really is a way to put an end to your insane political arguments? The good news is that there is. The bad news is that there is one way – and only one way. So, you are going to have to accept it, adopt it, and embrace it, or deal with kooky, never-ending, malicious disputes that go nowhere forevermore. Written by the grandson of author Robert Bloch (Psycho), this book shows you how to consistently turn the tables on your political opponents so that you almost never lose a political argument again....
Genre: Politics & Social Sciences, Political History & Theory, Political Parties
Size: 135 pages
Free eBook download for Kindle from 05 February 2020 onward
5 reviews
Building the American Republic, Volume 1: A Narrative History to 1877
Building the American Republic combines centuries of perspectives and voices into a fluid narrative of the United States. Throughout their respective volumes, Harry L. Watson and Jane Dailey take care to integrate varied scholarly perspectives and work to engage a diverse readership by addressing what we all share: membership in a democratic republic, with joint claims on its self-governing tradition. It will be one of the first peer-reviewed American history textbooks to be offered completely free in digital form.Volume 1 starts at sea and ends on the battlefield. Beginning with the earliest Americans and the arrival of strangers on the eastern shore, it then moves through colonial society to the fight for independence and the construction of a federalist republic. From there, it explai...
Genre: History, Americas, Nonfiction, Politics & Social Sciences, Political History & Theory
Size: 640 pages
Free eBook download for Kindle from 18 February 2020 onward
5 reviews
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Genre: Business & Finance, Economics, Finance, Nonfiction, Politics & Social Sciences, Social Sciences, Political History & Theory, Science & Maths, Nature & Ecology
Size: Unknown
Free eBook download for Kindle from 16 February 2020 onward
5 reviews
Bordieuan Field Theory as an Instrument for Military Operational Analysis (New Security Challenges)
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This book uses Pierre Bourdieu’s field theory as a lens through which to examine military operations. Novel in its approach, this innovative text provides a better, more nuanced understanding of the modern ‘battlespace’, particularly in instances of prolonged low-intensity conflict. Formed in two parts, this book primarily explores the scope of Bourdien theory before secondly providing a detailed case study of the Yugoslavian succession war of 1990-1992. Gunneriusson suggests that although theories do not necessarily provide answers, they do help us ask better questions. This volume suggests news lines of interdisciplinary investigation that will be of interest to members of armed forces, practitioners from NGOs, and policymakers....
Genre: Nonfiction, Politics & Social Sciences, Philosophy, Freedom & Security, Political History & Theory
Size: 123 pages
Free eBook download for Kindle from 15 February 2020 onward
5 reviews
Dignity in the 21st Century: Middle East and West (SpringerBriefs in Philosophy)
This book is open access under a CC BY license.This book offers a unique and insightful analysis of Western and Middle Eastern concepts of dignity and illustrates them with examples of everyday life.Dignity in the 21st Century - Middle East and West is unique and insightful for a range of reasons. First, the book is co-authored by scholars from two different cultures (Middle East and West). As a result, the interpretations of dignity covered are broader than those in most Western publications. Second, the ambition of the book is to use examples from everyday life and fiction to debate a range of dignity interpretations supplemented by philosophical and theological theories. Thus, the book is designed to be accessible to a general readership, which is further facilitated because it is publi...
Genre: Nonfiction, Education & Reference, Education, Professional & Technical, Law, Politics & Social Sciences, Philosophy, Political History & Theory, Religion & Spirituality, Islam, Other Eastern Religions
Size: 113 pages
Free eBook download for Kindle from 10 February 2020 onward
5 reviews
Building the American Republic, Volume 2: A Narrative History from 1877
Building the American Republic combines centuries of perspectives and voices into a fluid narrative of the United States. Throughout their respective volumes, Harry L. Watson and Jane Dailey take care to integrate varied scholarly perspectives and work to engage a diverse readership by addressing what we all share: membership in a democratic republic, with joint claims on its self-governing tradition. It will be one of the first peer-reviewed American history textbooks to be offered completely free in digital form.The American nation came apart in a violent civil war less than a century after ratification of the Constitution. When it was reborn five years later, both the republic and its Constitution were transformed. Volume 2 opens as America struggles to regain its footing, reeling fro...
Genre: History, Americas, Nonfiction, Politics & Social Sciences, Political History & Theory
Size: 472 pages
Free eBook download for Kindle from 10 February 2020 onward
5 reviews
Allegories of America: Narratives, Metaphysics, Politics (Contestations)
Allegories of America offers a bold idea of what, in terms of political theory, it means to be American. Beginning with the question What do we want from a theory of politics? Dolan explores the metaphysics of American-ness and stops along the way to reflect on John Winthrop, the Constitution, 1950s behavioralist social science, James Merrill, and William Burroughs....
Genre: History, Americas, Nonfiction, Politics & Social Sciences, Political History & Theory
Size: Unknown
Free eBook download for Kindle from 05 February 2020 onward
4 reviews
Hit the Road Jack: A wickedly suspenseful serial killer thriller (Jack Ryder Book 1)
New series from the Amazon Bestselling author Willow Rose. Ben is supposed to be in school. It's Monday morning but his parents are still asleep after a night of heavy drinking. Ben Waits patiently, even though he knows he is missing out on today's field trip to the zoo. But, when his black Labrador suddenly runs upstairs and comes down with a finger in his mouth, Ben knows he's not making it to school today at all. Detective Jack Ryder is chaperoning his kids' field trip when he gets the call from the head of the Cocoa Beach Police Department. A body has been found and they need his help. Soon, Jack finds himself up against a killer, a predator who ruthlessly chases women and kills them so they can never leave him. The case soon causes serious consequences for him and his family once ...
Genre: Arts & Photography, Dance, Fashion, Film & Video, Music, Photography, Pop Culture, Television, Biography & True Accounts, Arts & Literature, Ethnic, Historical, Leaders & Notable People, Memoirs, Professionals & Academics, Reference & Collections, Travel, Business & Finance, Business Life, Economics, Finance, Industries & Professions, Investing, Marketing & Sales, Personal Finance, Reference, Small Business & Entrepreneurship, Children's eBooks, Arts, Music & Photography, Computers & Internet, Science, Nature & How It Works, Sport & Outd
Size: 454 pages
Free eBook download for Kindle from 20 February 2020 onward
4 reviews
“Leviathan” is a work of political philosophy. Written by Thomas Hobbes during a time of civil war, it argues that sovereign rule is the most stable form of government. An early proponent of social contract theory, Hobbes’ observations regarding the dangers of unrestrained individual freedom have influenced generations of thinkers....
Genre: Nonfiction, Politics & Social Sciences, Philosophy, Political History & Theory
Size: 287 pages
Free eBook download for Kindle from 23 February 2020 onward
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Genre: Nonfiction, Politics & Social Sciences, Social Sciences, Political History & Theory
Size: 300 pages
Free eBook download for Kindle from 09 February 2020 onward
3 reviews
Are you tired of having to argue with people who say the American Civil War WASN'T about slavery? Are you ever frustrated that they came prepared to argue, but you didn't? This is a very brief, easily navigated handbook of actual quotes from the people who were directly involved in the conflict. Let the Confederacy speak for themselves. They were very clear about their motives. Don't let the "lost cause" myth muddy our true and important history....
Genre: History, Americas, Nonfiction, Politics & Social Sciences, Political History & Theory
Size: 17 pages
Free eBook download for Kindle from 08 February 2020 onward
3 reviews
Without Foundations: Justification in Political Theory
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Genre: Nonfiction, Politics & Social Sciences, Philosophy, Political History & Theory
Size: 258 pages
Free eBook download for Kindle from 30 January 2020 onward
Social Innovations in the Urban Context (Nonprofit and Civil Society Studies)
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Genre: Nonfiction, Politics & Social Sciences, Social Sciences, Political History & Theory
Size: 313 pages
Free eBook download for Kindle from 24 February 2020 onward
Grassroots Politics and Oil Culture in Venezuela: The Revolutionary Petro-State
This book is published open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This book presents an ethnographic study of how grassroots activism in Venezuela during the Chávez presidency can be understood in relation to the country's history as a petro-state. Taking the contested relationship between the popular sectors and the Venezuelan state as a point of departure, Iselin Åsedotter Strønen explores how notions such as class, race, state, bureaucracy, popular politics, capitalism, neoliberalism, consumption, oil wealth, and corruption gained salience in the Bolivarian process. A central argument is that the Bolivarian process was an attempt to challenge the practices, ideas, and values inherited from Venezuela's historical development as an oil-producing state. Drawing on rich ethnographic material ...
Genre: Business & Finance, Finance, Industries & Professions, History, Nonfiction, Politics & Social Sciences, Social Sciences, Political History & Theory
Size: 357 pages
Free eBook download for Kindle from 14 February 2020 onward
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Genre: History, Russia, Politics & Social Sciences, Political History & Theory
Size: Unknown
Free eBook download for Kindle from 13 February 2020 onward
Power and Business Trillions of Dollars Make JFK Must Be Killed: 669 Data and Timeline Proving It
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Genre: Biography & True Accounts, Leaders & Notable People, Specific Groups, Nonfiction, Politics & Social Sciences, Political History & Theory
Size: 467 pages
Free eBook download for Kindle from 13 February 2020 onward
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. The study of South Asian music falls under the purview of ethnomusicology, whereas that of South Asian literature falls under South Asian studies. As a consequence of this academic separation, scholars rarely take notice of connections between South Asian song and poetry. Modernizing Composition overcomes this disciplinary fragmentation by examining the history of Sinhala-language song and poetry in twentieth-century Sri Lanka. Garrett Field describes how songwriters and poets modernized song and poetry in response to colonial and postcolonial formations. The story of this modernization is significant in that it shi...
Genre: Arts & Photography, Music, Fiction, History, Asia, Nonfiction, Literary Criticism & Theory, Politics & Social Sciences, Political History & Theory
Size: 171 pages
Free eBook download for Kindle from 13 February 2020 onward
In Toward a Liberalism, Richard Flathman shows why and how political theory can contribute to the quality of moral and political practice without violating, as empiricist- and idealist-based theories tend to do, liberal commitments to individuality and plurality. Exploring the tense but inevitable relationship between liberalism and authority, he advances a theory of democratic citizenship tempered by appreciation of the ways in which citizenship is implicated with and augments authority. Flathman examines the relationship of individual rights to freedom on one hand and to authority and power on the other, rejecting the quest for a single homogenous and authoritative liberal theory....
Genre: Nonfiction, Politics & Social Sciences, Philosophy, Ideologies, Political History & Theory
Size: 248 pages
Free eBook download for Kindle from 10 February 2020 onward
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Genre: Nonfiction, Politics & Social Sciences, Philosophy, Ideologies, International, Political History & Theory
Size: 138 pages
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The Anxiety of Freedom: Imagination and Individuality in Locke's Political Thought
The enduring appeal of liberalism lies in its commitment to the idea that human beings have a "natural" potential to live as free and equal individuals. The realization of this potential, however, is not a matter of nature, but requires that people be molded by a complex constellation of political and educational institutions. In this eloquent and provocative book, Uday Singh Mehta investigates in the major writings of John Locke the implications of this tension between individuals and the institutions that mold them. The process of molding, he demonstrates, involves an external conformity and an internal self-restraint that severely limit the scope of individuality.Mehta explores the centrality of the human imagination in Locke’s thought, focusing on his obsession with the potential dan...
Genre: Biography & True Accounts, Professionals & Academics, Specific Groups, Nonfiction, Politics & Social Sciences, Philosophy, Political History & Theory
Size: Unknown
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Mexican immigration to the USA: [IMMIGRATION HISTORY AND ITS EFFECTS ON THE U.S. ECONOMY]
Illegal immigration to the United States is the unlawful entry of foreign nationals into the United States, and the remaining in the country of admitted foreign nationals after the expiration of their U.S. visas or parole documents. Earlier naturalization laws were followed by the 1875 and 1882 Acts prohibiting Chinese immigrants. A 1906 act required immigrants to learn English in order to become citizens, and a 1917 act defined aliens with a long list of undesirables, including most Asians. The U.S. had otherwise nearly open borders until the early 20th century, with only 1% rejected from 1890-1924. A 1924 act established visa requirements and enacted quotas for immigrants from specific countries, especially targeting Italians and Eastern Europeans.In response to the September 11 attacks,...
Genre: Politics & Social Sciences, Government, Political History & Theory
Size: 72 pages
Free eBook download for Kindle from 08 February 2020 onward
The Voice of the Silent Majority: The Case for Keeping The Electoral College
Is the Electoral College fit for purpose in the 21st century? Does it reflect the mood of the people or is it an outdated idea that should be scrapped?The Electoral College has been in place since it was established by the founding fathers as a compromise. Its processes have been implemented in the election of every President and Vice President the nation has elected, but there are increasing calls for it to be abandoned amid claims that it is antidemocratic.In this powerful new book, The Voice of the Silent Majority: The Case for Keeping The Electoral College, author Nicholas J.D. Regan presents his arguments about why the system should remain, with a look at:Brief History of the Electoral CollegeThe Twelfth AmendmentCriticisms of the Electoral CollegeArguments in Support of the Electoral...
Genre: Politics & Social Sciences, Political History & Theory
Size: 55 pages
Free eBook download for Kindle from 08 February 2020 onward
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Genre: Politics & Social Sciences, Government, Freedom & Security, International, Political History & Theory, Terrorism
Size: Unknown
Free eBook download for Kindle from 08 February 2020 onward
Barrington Moore, Jr., one of the most distinguished thinkers in critical theory and historical sociology, was long concerned with the prospects for freedom and decency in industrial society. The product of decades of reflection on issues of authority, inequality, and injustice, this volume analyzes fluctuating moral beliefs and behavior in political and economic affairs at different points in history, from the early Middle Ages in England to the prospects for liberalism under twentieth-century Soviet socialism. The social sources of antisocial behavior; principles of social inequality; and the origins, enemies, and possibilities of rational discussion in public affairs—these are among the topics Moore considers as he seeks to uncover the historical causes of some accepted forms of moral...
Genre: Business & Finance, Economics, Reference, History, World, Nonfiction, Politics & Social Sciences, Philosophy, Social Sciences, Political History & Theory
Size: 186 pages
Free eBook download for Kindle from 05 February 2020 onward
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Genre: Politics & Social Sciences, Political History & Theory, Practical Politics
Size: 149 pages
Free eBook download for Kindle from 04 February 2020 onward
Policy-Oriented Technology Assessment Across Europe: Expanding Capacities
This book is open access under a CC-BY license.Policy-making to address grand challenges faces greater complexity than any previous project of modernization. Future scenarios are haunted by uncertainty and there is real ambivalence as to the values that policy should strive for. In this situation decision-makers look to research and innovation to provide answers and solutions. But neither can the great transitions ahead be planned by science, nor will conventional methods of innovation bring such transitions about. A turn to interactive governance is therefore underway with policy-makers and citizens becoming increasingly involved in processes of deliberating futures. Technology Assessment (TA) is the art of structuring such processes. TA goes beyond traditional expert policy analysis by s...
Genre: Business & Finance, Biographies & Primers, Economics, Computing, Hardware, Microsoft, Networking, Nonfiction, Professional & Technical, Law, Politics & Social Sciences, Political History & Theory, Science & Maths
Size: Unknown
Free eBook download for Kindle from 31 January 2020 onward
