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1) Politics is
Author
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
160 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Description
Traces the history of politics, looking at the beliefs of political thinkers, leaders, and activists from around the world, and investigates the role of such external factors as protest and the media in political decision-making.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
270 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
From the end of the Civil War to the tumultuous issues in America today, an acclaimed historian reframes the conversation about race, chronicling the powerful forces opposed to black progress in America.
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
265 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), portraits ; 21 cm
Description
"Today's world can feel like a seriously confusing mess. Headlines and newscasters and posts are coming at us from all sides, each talking about the latest issues and injustices, and everyone with their own opinion on how to solve the problems of the day. It's enough to make anyone's mind melt. Right? Enter: Cramm This Book, your one-stop-shop for the scoop behind the scoop of the day."--Publisher.
Publisher
DK, 2017
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
352 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Description
¿Debe ser derrocado un gobernante injusto? ¿Es la democracia la mejor forma de gobierno? ¿Puede ser justa una guerra? A lo largo de la historia, estas y otras preguntas acerca de cuál es el mejor modo de gobernarnos han suscitado respuestas de grandes pensadores que hoy siguen dando forma al mundo. Con un lenguaje claro se ofrece concisas explicaciones que desbrozan la jerga académica, esquemas que hacen sencillas las teorías más complejas...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2019
Physical Desc
1 online resource(1 sound file (7hr.,55min.,18sec.))
Description
The creator of the wildly popular award-winning podcast Hardcore HistoryThe End Is Always NearThe End Is Always Near examines issues that are rarely presented, and makes the past immediately relevant to our very turbulent present.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2019
Physical Desc
1 online resource(1 sound file (17hr.,45min.,36sec.))
Description
The New York TimesGreat SocietyGreat Society captures a dramatic contest with lessons both dark and bright for our own time.Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
xx, 364 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"CHINA AND THE UNITED STATES ARE HEADING TOWARD A WAR NEITHER WANTS. The reason is Thucydides's Trap, a deadly pattern of structural stress that results when a rising power challenges a ruling one. This phenomenon is as old as history itself. About the Peloponnesian War that devastated ancient Greece, the historian Thucydides explained: "It was the rise of Athens and the fear that this instilled in Sparta that made war inevitable." Over the past 500...
Publisher
DK Pub
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
352 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm.
Description
"Exploring more than 100 big ideas on topics as diverse as the rule of law, the extent of liberty, and the justification of warfare, [this book] takes you on a journey through the history of politics, from the influential theories of ancient Greece, Rome, and Asia to modern concepts voiced by today's brightest political thinkers."--Front jacket flap.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
x, 403 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"A provocative, intimate look at the evolution of America's political soul through the lives of six political figures--from Whittaker Chambers to Christopher Hitchens--who abandoned the left and joined the right. In Exit Right, Daniel Oppenheimer tells the stories of six major political figures whose journeys away from the left reshaped the contours of American politics in the twentieth century. By going deep into the minds of six apostates--Whittaker...
Author
Publisher
The Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
305 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Description
"From the bestselling authors of The Right Nation, a visionary argument that our current crisis in government is nothing less than the fourth radical transition in the history of the nation-state. Dysfunctional government: It's become a cliche. And most of us are resigned to the fact that nothing is ever going to change. As John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge show us, that is a seriously limited view of things. In fact, there have been three great...
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