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  • Etransformation in Governance
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    74,86 €

  • A Compassionate Civilization
    Robertson Work
    We are at a turning point in the history of civilization. Anyone watching the news can understand why. Our generation faces the challenges of global warming, misogyny, racism, systemic poverty, oligarchy, and more. Some believe that this will lead to a kind of fascist, environmentally ruined dystopia. Robertson Work, who has spent decades working in poverty-stricken villages an...
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    19,88 €

  • The Faithful Sextant
    Robert Devereux McEliece
    A moving and chilling story of childhood bonds in the 1950s where young men lived on a dare and were restricted only by their imaginations. This is a gripping tale of what the Vietnam War did to these boys and their families.The Faithful Sextant tells of Captain Robert D. McEliece as he passes through boyhood in Alexandria, Virginia to find manhood in the world of seafarers and...
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    11,13 €

  • Tishio la Ukombozi
    Amrit Wilson / Ahmada Shafi Adam
    Tishio la Ukombozi examines the role of the Umma Party of Zanzibar and its leader in the turbulent years of the Zanzibar revolution of the 1960s that was perceived in those Cold War years as a threat to the interests of the US and Europe. Based on declassified US and British documents, in-depth interviews and information released by WikiLeaks, Amrit Wilson offers an insightful ...
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    16,00 €

  • The View From First Mountain
    William G. Hanne / William GHanne
    The Croatian War of Independence ended with the success of Operation Storm on August 7, 1995.  Less than five months later, Bill Hanne found himself part of the Democracy Transition Long Range Management Program and packing for Zagreb.  With his background in military intelligence, plus graduate degrees in political geography and education policy and planning, Dr. Hanne brought...
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    35,53 €

  • Operation Nimrod
    Russell Phillips
    The truth behind the SAS' most famous mission.Drawing on extensive research, Operation Nimrod dispels the myths and reveals the truth of those six long days, and the dramatic rescue that thrust the SAS into the public eye.On 29th April 1980, British police assured Iran that their embassy was secure. The very next day, terrorists stormed the embassy and took twenty-six hosta...
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    14,32 €

  • THE WATERGATE RHYMES
    LEE G. LOVETT
    The Watergate Rhymes aims to educate, reflect and learn from that consumptive scandal, while using satire to see the humor in the human frailties of that maligned administration – and in ourselves, all with the perspective and understanding that only precious time enables. A funny way to explain the Watergate Scandal. Lastly, the book is truly humorous and it refreshes memories...
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    34,48 €

  • In Search of the Next P.O.T.U.S.
    Judy M Frankel
    The U.S. Government is Broken! In Search of the Next POTUS (President of the United States) tackles the seemingly impossible task of making Congress work! In this true adventure, political activist Judy Frankel shows how to combat corruption in Congress while choosing a qualified leader for the White House. Her humorous and heartbreaking crusade to overhaul Washington from th...
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    14,10 €

  • Foreign Conspiracy Against the Liberties of the United States
    Samuel FB Morse
    The Society of Jesus, the Jesuits, employed the Vatican, Austrian Prince Metternich and his St. Leopold Foundation to infiltrate the United States of America.  Samuel F.B. Morse spent several years in Europe, mostly near Rome, studying the actions and behaviors of the Jesuits, and conferring with dignitaries and others who had intimate knowledge of the Jesuits and their intri...
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    25,55 €

  • My Duty to Offend
    Kerry Johnson
    The explanation for the Trump phenomenon.  The unresolved confusion exhibited by many Americans in the wake of the Trump victory has propelled this previously obscure book to its place as, perhaps, the most relevant political work for 2017.  For millions of disoriented Americans wondering,  “What, in God’s name, happened in the 2016 elections?”, My Duty to Offend presents the s...
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    14,44 €

  • REALITY
    Mike Rosen
    Mike Rosen is now in his twenty-ninth year as an award-winning talk show host on 850 KOA Radio in Denver.  He's an editorial-page columnist for the Denver Post, holds an MBA degree from the University of Denver, was a corporate finance executive for Samsonite and Beatrice Foods, served as Special Assistant for Financial Management to the Assistant Secretary of the Navy at t...
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    19,62 €

  • Love, Not Guns
    Jay Breitlow D.C
    Discussion surrounding America’s violence problem often centers on the gun debate, an issue with no acceptable solution for half the population. Author Jay Breitlow, D.C., who lost his father in a school shooting, makes the case that addressing issues completely separate from the gun debate may provide more sustainable answers.Dr. Breitlow takes a comprehensive look at the bene...
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    12,82 €

  • Localism in the Mass Age
    In the United States the conventional left/right distinction has become increasingly irrelevant, if not harmful. The reigning political, cultural, and economic visions of both the Democrats and the Republicans have reached obvious dead ends. Liberalism, with its hostility to any limits, is collapsing. So-called Conservatism has abandoned all pretense of conserving anything at a...
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    26,75 €

  • Domestic Violence in Lebanon
    Maysar Sarieddine
    Lebanese women face discrimination and injustice shaped by their society’s overall values, beliefs, and identities. The purpose of this qualitative critical ethnography was to explore the Lebanese cultural unconscious, including cultural memory and communicative memory; and second, to inspire community transformation and social change to respond to the needs of women who have b...
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    13,09 €

  • Europa contra EU
    Sascha A Rossmüller
    „Erkenne Dich selbst” lautet ein vielzitierter Aphorismus am Apollotempel von Delphi. Auf das heutige Abendland angewandt, begegnen wir hier der Aufforderung, den Menschen in seiner Identität zu erkennen, um ein lebensrichtiges Bild von ihm zu erhalten. Gemessen an dem großen Austausch, der heute in Europa vollzogen wird, muss diese zeitlos gültige Maxime geradezu als weitsicht...
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    13,00 €

  • Handbook of Research on Modernization and Accountability in Public Sector Management
    The effects of recent economic and financial crises have reached an international scale. A number of different nations have experienced the fallout of these events, calling into question issues of accountability and reform in public management. The Handbook of Research on Modernization and Accountability in Public Sector Management is an essential scholarly publication that foc...
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    374,24 €

  • Proliferation of Open Government Initiatives and Systems
    Ayse Kok
    As is true in most aspects of daily life, the expansion of government in the modern era has included a move to a technologically-based system. A method of evaluation for such online governing systems is necessary for effective political management worldwide. Proliferation of Open Government Initiatives and Systems is an essential scholarly publication that analyzes open governm...
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    255,60 €

  • Realism in Practice
    The purpose of this book is to appraise the current relevance and validity of realism as an interpretative tool in contemporary International Relations. All chapters of the book are animated by a theoretical effort to define the conceptual aspects of realism and attempt to establish whether the tradition still provides the necessary conceptual tools to scholars.The chapters add...
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    20,36 €

  • Terrorist Training Camps in Iran
    NCRI- U.S. Representative Office / NCRI- U.SRepresentative Office
    The book details how  Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps trains foreign fighters in 15 various camps in Iran to export terrorism. The IRGC has created a large directorate within its extraterritorial arm, the Quds Force, in order to expand its training of foreign mercenaries as part of the strategy to step up its meddling abroad in Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Bahrain, Afghanistan and el...
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    23,24 €

  • Conservative Essays for the Modern Era
    Gregory E Parker
    With the ascension of relativism and the denial of absolutes and objectivity in everyday life, progressives and socialists have redefined the word "tolerance" to mean the blanket acceptance of anything no matter how unpalatable or absent of truth. Those who challenge this fraud of tolerance, who invoke factual data, display reason, or critical thinking are mocked and humiliated...
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    21,06 €

  • The Armchair Activist's Handbook
    Ruth Stokes
    Would you change the world, if only you knew how? Do you dream of doing more than signing online petitions but don't want to camp out on a pavement to prove a point? Are you frustrated because you're not making a difference but don't want to turn your life upside down in the name of action? Then this is the book for you. THE ARMCHAIR ACTIVIST'S HANDBOOK will help you find easy ...
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    15,01 €

  • Checking the Banks
    Tom Sgouros
    “This is a marvelous book! Well-written-even enjoyable to read-about local banking! Packed with important information, not only for the expert, but for anyone, activist or public official, Put it on top of your reading pile!” - Gar Alperovitz, author of What Then Must We Do? “A clear, accessible, practical, grounded, and authoritative intro- duction to ...
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    23,74 €

  • Spoilt Rotten
    Theodore Dalrymple
    In this perceptive and witty book, Theodore Dalrymple unmasks the sentimentality that is suffocating modern life. Under the multiple guises of raising children well, caring for the under-privileged, fighting poverty, assisting the less able, and doing good generally, we are achieving quite the opposite. Drawing on his long experience as a doctor, as well as work with thousands ...
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    20,09 €

  • The rise of devils
    James Crossland
    In the dying light of the nineteenth century, the world came to know and fear terrorism. Like today, this was a time of progress and dread, characterised by political and technological breakthroughs and waves of immigration that swelled the populations of ever-expanding cities.The era also simmered with political rage and social inequalities, which drove nationalists, nihilists...
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    27,79 €

  • The Healing of Nations and the Hidden Sources of Their Strife (Esprios Classics)
    Edward Carpenter
    Edward Carpenter (29 August 1844 - 28 June 1929) was an English utopian socialist, poet, philosopher, anthologist, an early activist for gay rights and prison reform whilst advocating vegetarianism and taking a stance against vivisection. As a philosopher, he was particularly known for his publication of Civilisation: Its Cause and Cure. Here, he described civilisation as a for...
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    28,97 €

  • Civilisation (Esprios Classics)
    Edward Carpenter
    Edward Carpenter (29 August 1844 - 28 June 1929) was an English utopian socialist, poet, philosopher, anthologist, an early activist for gay rights and prison reform whilst advocating vegetarianism and taking a stance against vivisection. As a philosopher, he was particularly known for his publication of Civilisation: Its Cause and Cure. Here, he described civilisation as a for...
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    32,88 €

  • الدور السعودي في مواجهة النفوذين الإيراني والتركي في المنطقة
    د. عبد الحفيظ عب محبوب / دعبد الحفيظ عب محبوب
    تتعرض المنطقة العربية اليوم إلى تفتيت وتجزئة الإسلام كدين أممي إلى طوائف ومذاهب تحت تأثير عنصري إقليمي بقيادة ملالي إيران المتستر بإرهاب ديني في اليمن ومتدخلا بالمذهب في العراق ومليشاويا مخترقا الغالبية السنية خصوصا العربية في سوريا ولبنان، استفادت دولة الملالي من إقصاء أوباما السعودية عمدا عن مفاوضات الاتفاق النووي، لكن التمرد السعودي على أمريكا جعل ترمب يعيد مراجعة الاستراتيج...
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    17,91 €

  • 新盛世危言 --荣剑时政评论录(2012-2020)
    荣剑 著
    本书收集了荣剑从2012年至今在公共媒体和自媒体上所发表的一部分时政和时事评论,内容涵盖近8年来中国所发生的一系列典型事件和人物,以及作者对中国政治和社会转型的理论思考。和晚清相比,中共的国家机器就其控制政治、经济、军事、财政以及一切资源的能力而言,在世界上无可匹敌,中国经济总量居世界第二,重返第一或指日可待。如此盛世,岂不是可以普天同庆?何来危机?然而,稍有常识的人即可判断,正是从2012年开始,盛世中国败象初现,原来长期蛰伏于社会深层结构中的各种矛盾浮出表面,以往可以视而不见或可以暂时搁置的问题已经无法回避,中共也前所未有地生长出'亡党亡国'的政治危机感。可以肯定地说,中国目前面临的不是局部性的、暂时性的和体制性的问题,而是总体性的、长期性的和制度性的问题,这些问题如果不能得到有效解决,中国必将面临更大的危机。作为一本时政时事评论录,主旨不是为了...
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    33,18 €

  • Resistencia y Lucha contra el Posmodernismo
    Roberto Vaquero
    Resistencia y lucha contra el posmodernismo pretende dar una visión crítica desde la izquierda obrera de la situación actual de la sociedad y del papel que tiene la izquierda del sistema, progre y acomplejada, ante los problemas que afectan al mundo y en especial a nuestro país. La corrección política los ha llevado a que no puedan posicionarse en nada relevante salvo siguiendo...
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    22,31 €

  • أنماط من بناء الدولة القومية في التاريخ الحديث
    د. عبدالله تركماني / دعبدالله تركماني
    لقد قامت الدول القومية الأوروبية إثر انهيار الإمبراطوريات، في التاريخ الحديث، على فكرة الاستقلال في جميع الميادين الجغرافية والاقتصادية والسياسية والثقافية. حيث تجسّد الاستقلال الجغرافي في حدود واضحة بين الدول الأوروبية، وتجسد الاستقلال الاقتصادي بالتنافس بين هذه الدول على تحقيق التقدم داخل حدودها، والهيمنة على الطرق التجارية والمواقع الاستراتيجية ومصادر الثروة والمواد الأولية ...
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    17,66 €