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In Transforming Leadership, Burns illuminates the evolution of leadership structures, from the chieftains of tribal African societies, through Europe's absolute monarchies, to the blossoming of the Enlightenment's ideals of liberty and happiness during the American Revolution. Along the way he looks at key breakthroughs in leadership and the towering leaders who attempted to transform their worlds-Elizabeth I, Washington, Jefferson, Gandhi, Eleanor...
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"Vinieron por su marido. Las camionetas llegaron con estruendo, los ocupantes bajaron entre gritos, sus nietos jugaban en la calle, ambos corrieron asustados. Eran las siete y media de la tarde. Los siguieron al menos seis hombres. Otros quedaron afuera, de guardia.
"They came for her husband. The trucks arrived with a crash, the occupants came down screaming, their grandchildren played in the street, both ran scared. It was seven thirty in the...
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Constitutional democracy is not just any old form of democracy. It has a peculiar logic and is premised upon some exacting criteria and principles including good laws and institutions predicated on specific fundamental core values and principles. But it is, when fully ingrained in the public sensibility, a sort of civic serum necessary to inoculate free citizens against the ravages of anti-democratic populism, authoritarianism, racism, nativism, discrimination,...
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From Deplorable to Neanderthal Thinking is what a family of three authors saw, heard, read, and wrote during the election of nonpolitician businessman, Donald J Trump, his one-term presidency, and multiple failed efforts under the leadership of the Speaker of the House of Representatives to remove him from office.
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Un libro para lderes, que gobiernan con autoridad, pasin y poder sobrenatural en el contexto hispano-latino de los Estados Unidos. Los lderes gubernamentales son lderes del siglo 21 que tienen la mentalidad del reino, corazones de guerrero y son amigos del Espritu Santo. Es un libro para plantadores de Iglesia radicales, que buscan expandir el reino por la fuerza. La Iglesia hispana necesita una visitacin poderosa del Espritu Santo para cambiar la...
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Los casi cuarenta años de franquismo fueron un régimen basado en el genocidio y el terror que convirtió a los españoles de ciudadanos en súbditos amedrentados. Durante la interminable posguerra los vencedores fueron tan inhumanos y crueles que todavía hoy, a más de setenta años del fin de la contienda, se palpa el miedo cuando surge el tema del terror, las "sacas" de presos, los "paseos" organizados por los falangistas, las torturas en las...
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This is a hard-hitting response to false statements about our nation's values and ideals by rigid radical right-wing extremists. It unmasks their deceptions by using the actual words of the founding fathers-both brief quotations and longer passages. It pays tribute to the America you always knew was hidden behind smokescreens of rigid partisan ideological rhetoric and tells how to get it back. The spirits of Patrick Henry, Thomas Paine, Benjamin Franklin,...
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In Kosovo, America claimed its war was a 'humanitarian intervention,' in Afghanistan, 'self-defense,' and in Iraq, it claimed the authority of the Security Council of the United Nations. Yet each of these wars was illegal according to established rules of international law. According to these rules, illegal wars fall within the category of 'supreme international crimes'. So how come the war crimes tribunals never manage to turn their sights on America...
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Since 1980, America has been run by a corporate regime that has co-opted both political parties and shifted sovereignty from "we the people" to trans-national corporations. The result has been job insecurity for millions of workers, debts as far as the eye can see, and a dangerous quest for global domination. Democracy itself has been undermined and the Constitution weakened. This regime must be overturned! And, as Charles Derber demonstrates in his...
11) Nudo España
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Una discusión política de gran envergadura. Dos generaciones, dos maneras distintas de entender España, frente a frente.
Pablo Iglesias y Enric Juliana son personalidades extraordinariamente lúcidas y creativas y sin duda dos de los mejores conocedores del contexto político y social español actual. Pertenecientes a tradiciones intelectuales y políticas distintas, sus visiones se complementan en un diálogo que conforma una panorámica inédita...
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Why do some nonviolent revolutions lead to successful democratization, while others fail to consolidate democratic change? And, what can activists do to push toward a victory over dictatorship that results in long-term political freedom? When Civil Resistance Succeeds: Building Democracy After Popular Nonviolent Uprisings (ICNC Press, 2018) by Jonathan Pinckney explores these questions, offering takeaways for a variety of readers interested in supporting...
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After WWII, the world entered a phase of extreme dynamics. The USA outpaced all other countries. More than 50 years later, it no longer has the radical esprit that brought about its hegemony. Still, America of the information revolution remains the world's only superpower. But as the necessity of change, expressed in a variety of systemic crises, accelerated, the USA fell into patterns of reactive politics similar to those that led to the downfall...
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Hailed as the must-read political book of the year by commentators on all sides of the great divide, Power Trip is the explosive memoir of one of Westminster's most controversial figures. From 1999 to 2009, Damian McBride worked at the heart of the Treasury and No. 10. He was a pivotal member of Gordon Brown's inner circle before a notorious scandal propelled him out of Downing Street and onto the front pages. Known by friend and foe as 'Mad Dog'...
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Este libro estudia el tránsito de la clandestinidad de la guerrilla Farc-EP a su institucionalidad en la política partidaria, por medio del análisis del discurso político. Desde esta mirada, la política se despliega allí donde circula la palabra, con su polifonía y polisemia, su posibilidad de ser reformulada, reapropiada y recuperada. Pero afirmar que la política se despliega en el discurso no implica asumir que se trata de un terreno de...
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"Winner of the 2015 Legacy Award, Presidents and Executive Politics Section of the American Political Science Association" "One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2004" William G. Howell is Assistant Professor of Government at Harvard University. In 2001 he received both the E.E. Schattschneider Award for the best dissertation in American politics, from the American Political Science Association, and the Center for Presidential Studies prize...
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"Co-Winner of the 1997 Louis Brownlow Book Award, National Academy of Public Administration" Jacob S. Hacker is a Guest Scholar in Governmental Studies at the Brookings Institution, a doctoral candidate in political science at Yale University, and a Robert M. Leylan Fellow in Social Sciences at Yale University.
During the 1992 presidential campaign, health care reform became a hot issue, paving the way for one of the most important yet ill-fated...
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Stealing the Minds of America A Must for Truth-Seekers Who Vote There are people and organizations counting on you to not think for yourself. When this happens, they have effectively stolen you mind and vote. Do you really know the political party that you embrace? Janice Ponds has done extensive research regarding both political parties from the 1800's to the present; uncovering the foundational beliefs of both platforms and what they stand for today....
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Here are the facts:The United States has released 425 terrorists from Guantánamo, at least 50 of whom have returned to the battlefield to fight our troops. Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton both say they're fiscally responsible. But each has called for $1 trillion in tax increases over the next ten years-and dressed them up as tax cuts! Mainstream Media has been given marching orders from the Society of Professional Journalists: never refer to "Islamic...
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The long-awaited epilogue to what's been hailed as the must-read political book of the year by commentators on all sides of the great divide. In addition to material covering the phone-hacking scandal previously excluded for legal reasons, in these final three chapters of Power Trip Damian McBride details the aftermath of the book's publication and outlines his shocking predictions for the future of the Labour Party, politics and the economy with...
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