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Total Publishing
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[2021]
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English
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Nikita Khrushchev proudly proclaimed the United States would one day awaken as a full-blown communist country. Americans are gullible, he said, the United States will be, defeated without firing a shot. What did he mean by this? This book will attempt to answer this question by examining the social sciences used to study our behavior for, the purpose of manipulating and changing it. The theories of B.F. Skinner, Cass Sunstein and others will be, looked...
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In 1831, the then twenty-seven year old Alexis de Tocqueville, was sent with Gustave de Beaumont to America by the French Government to study and make a report on the American prison system. Over a period of nine months the two traveled all over America making notes not only on the prison systems but on all aspects of American society and government. From these notes, Tocqueville wrote "Democracy in America", an exhaustive analysis of the successes...
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National Issues Forums Institute
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[2015]
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English
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Political Fix: How Do We Get American Politics Back on Track? The view that something is amiss in American government is now widely shared. "We have been studying Washington politics and Congress for more than 40 years," say scholars Tomas E. Mann and Norman Ornstein, "and never have we seen them this dysfunctional." Even some elected officials acknowledge they have a problem. "We need to change the way we do business," says Tom Udall, a Democratic...
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HarperCollins
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[2021]
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English
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"Greetings from Trumpland explores how an unprecedented presidency changed everything. As we enter a post-Trump era, facts are a matter of opinion, the boundaries of civility have shifted, and populism has re-emerged as a powerful tool for political leaders the world over. In a masterclass on using anger and fear for political gain, Donald Trump harnessed the power of social media to develop blind devotion among his supporters. Now, in the wake of...
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Worth Books
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[2017]
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English
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So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of No Place to Hide tells you what you need to know--before or after you read Glenn Greenwald's book. Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader. This short summary and analysis of No Place to Hide includes: Historical context Chapter-by-chapter overviews Character profiles Detailed timeline of key events Important...
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"American Insanity" reflects on the political insanity that has overtaken the United States of America. It addresses American citizen's apathetic view of our governing system, both towards elected officials and the ever controlling Washington bureaucracy. How and why the citizens of this Nation have failed their obligation to keep vigilance over our governing politicians and holding them accountable when they fail to uphold their promises and their...
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In this book, he outlines a sustainable community project that seeks to solve social problems that most community planners overlook. The pilot project includes numerous ways to make communities self-sufficient, and while it's geared for those in middle- and lower-income brackets, anyone can use its concepts. He explains how multiple-purpose buildings can be used to house a diversity of people, ways to launch a business within the community by collaborating...
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In How to Find and Eliminate Illegal Votes: Jackie Nutting gives you methods to not only find current illegal votes, but how to find potential illegal votes and eliminate the opportunity for those to be used in the future. Therefore, the lessons in each chapter teach the reader proactive strategies not just responses. There have been many elections taken to court after illegal votes have been cast, however traditionally judges will ask the losing...
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If America falters and states secede, what kind of constitution would they use?My belief is that people will want to create a new constitution that attempts to solve all of our problems. That is what I have done. I completely started from scratch. I wrote it from an idealistic perspective that believed anything is possible.I have attempted to create a society that is as close to being perfect as possible. It's my attempt at perfection. So what is...
11) Por qué Ucrania
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En este libro, Noam Chomsky expone las causas de la invasión de Ucrania iniciada por Rusia en febrero de 2022, partiendo de dos premisas fundamentales: por un lado, estamos ante «un grave crimen de guerra por el que hay que buscar explicaciones, pero que no tiene ni justificaciones ni atenuantes»; por el otro, estamos asistiendo a un movimiento expansivo de la OTAN hacia el este, que merece ser destacado y analizado.
A lo largo de ocho entrevistas...
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The book "The Secret of How to PASS Tests" is a product of experimentation that has been very successful. There are a lot of people who could benefit from the information we will share with you. Every time I give adults the information they are so impressed they ask me, "Why didn't anyone tell me this when I was in school?"
My hope is that the information we will give you will motivate you, educate you, get you thinking, and take the fear out of...
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NATIONAL CRISIS IN LEADERSHIP Ten years ago, our nation was on the right road to fiscal stability with four years of surpluses totaling $560 billion. Unfortunately, private and public sector senior executives made serious mistakes during the past decade, resulting in our federal government being on the road to a financial meltdown. This could lead to a long-term and deep economic depression like the 1930s. In Educating Voters for Rebuilding America,...
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Most Americans know their democracy has been hijacked by Big Money; that politicians are working for their rich contributors and leaving We The People in the lurch. The Tea Party knows it, and so too does the Occupy movement and both want to get out of the hole. The problem is the Tea Party wants to dig deeper, and the Occupy movement doesn't where to find a ladder. Reformers today are confronted by the following uncomfortable reality: No reform is...
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The book provides a clear assessment of the New Labour public policies and their outcomes in Britain under the leadership of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown from 1997–2009. Authors Florence Faucher-King and Patrick Le Galès argue that New Labour, in contrast to its European counterparts, developed a right-wing economic policy program based upon light financial regulation and strict macroeconomic management. Blair and Brown developed a large controlling...
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A manifesto for a new world order. Having made a hugely significant contribution to the increasingly irrefutable, if alarming, diagnosis of the ills of early 21st century consumerist culture and its free-market myths, George Monbiot sets out now with this book to offer something more constructive, a set of proposals - political, democratic, economic, environmental - that might affect the cultural change that many in the West (not to mention those...
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Presidents with little oversight short of checks and balances have abused funding, misdirected money, misused personal funds, and misappropriated tax payer contributions for personal gain. This history of presidential monetary abuse details the biggest, often blatant, abuses of power where political influence was bought and sold, lucrative contract handed out to friends and political support is up for purchase. The tales are shocking examples of the...
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THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION DID NOT BEGIN WITH SHOTS FIRED FROM A GUN. The Revolution began much earlier, born of a growing discontent with a government that was unresponsive to the people's needs, unrepresentative of the people's views, and that denied its citizens their basic liberties. SOUND FAMILIAR? Though the seminal events of the founding of this great nation occurred over two centuries ago, many of the grievances verbalized by patriots such as...
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Have lawmakers helped themselves while helping the country?
After the nation's financial crisis led Congress to unprecedented economic intervention, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post began an investigation that pierced the secrecy of the deeply flawed financial disclosure system that governs the 535 men and women who draft the nation's laws. Members of Congress directed millions of dollars to infrastructure projects near their residences...
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C. Michael Barry is a highly interested retiree of middle class heritage who possesses college degrees that provide him with a solid foundation to analyze the workings of government. In a quest to understand the true nature of government in the United States, he examines original sources in order to analyze letters of conversations with Thomas Jefferson and other Founding Fathers and scholars. Join Michael as he explores why the world wants to consider...
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