The Fundamentals of Political Science Research provides an introduction to the scientific study of politics. It offers the basic tools necessary for readers to become both critical consumers and beginning producers of...
Political science
- Author:Kellstedt, Paul M.Summary:
- Author:Skrabec, Quentin R.Summary:
The author considers U.S. industrial policies that have shaped today's economic landscape and finds that, however well-intended, our polices have been misguided. Free trade was to promote world peace and democracy. No one foresaw...
- Author:Schlesinger, Andrea BatistaSummary:
The spirit of inquiry is the engine of democracy. The democratic process is nothing less than citizens regularly asking what kind of society they want to live in and whom they want to lead them. But more and more people are avoiding the...
- Author:Dyson, Michael EricSummary:
- Author:Raglin, RodSummary:
Young, talented, ambitious, Freyja Brynjarrson’s a photographer struggling to crash the art establishment, the challenges presented by her family and still keep true to her uncompromising ethic. Fate places her on the front line of a...
- Author:Palumbo, Arthur E.Summary:
In 2008, Alan Keyes, a Republican presidential candidate in 1996 and 2000, described the relationship between the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States in the following way: "The doctrine of...
- Author:TACITUS, Publius CorneliusSummary:
a history of the reigns of the four Roman Emperors succeeding Caesar Augustus. The surviving parts of the Annals extensively cover most of the reigns of Tiberius and Nero. The title Annals was probably not given by Tacitus, but derives...
- Author:Sisson, Dan, Hartmann, ThomSummary:
In this brilliant historical classic, Dan Sisson argues that Thomas Jefferson thought democratic revolutions would be necessary from time to time to break the grip of autocratic factions on the government. That is how Jefferson saw the...
- Author:Mestrovic, Stjepan G.Summary:
A shocking follow-up study of Operation Iron Triangle, Iraq, this book outlines the treatment of US soldiers who apparently were following their orders as they understood them and who were then accused of having committed war crimes....
- Author:REED, JohnSummary:
"Ten Days That Shook the World" is American journalist and socialist John Reed's first-hand account of the Russian October Revolution of 1917. While it is intended as an impartial and unbiased historical account, by Reed...
- Author:Graham, JohnSummary:
As President of the Giraffe Heroes Project, which since 1982 has been recognizing people who "stick their necks out for the common good," John Graham has seen what hundreds of average citizens around the world have done to bring about...
- Author:Barry, BruceSummary:
A factory worker is fired because her boss disagrees with her political bumper sticker. A stockbroker feels pressure to resign from an employer who disapproves of his off-hours political advocacy. A flight attendant is grounded because...
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- Author:Karger, Howard JacobSummary:
Drive through just about any low-income neighborhood and you're sure to see streets lined with pawnshops, check cashers, rent-to-own stores, payday and tax refund lenders, auto title pawns and buy-here-pay-here used car lots. We...
- Author:Zandt, DeannaSummary:
Social networks can be so much more than a way to find your high school friends or learn what your favorite celebrity had for breakfast. They can be powerful tools for changing the world. With Share This! both regular folks of a...
- Author:González, Pablo RafaelSummary:
The shocking implications of a worldwide scarcity of natural resources have suddenly started to become clear. Higher prices for gas and heating oil may be a mere inconvenience so far; occasional brown-outs and water shortages can be...
- Author:Wren, JacobSummary:
Who hasn't, at one time or another, considered killing a billionaire? Rich and Poor is a novel of a man who washes dishes for a living and decides to kill a billionaire as a political act. It is literature as political theory...
- Author:Burrell, JosephSummary:
The narrative portion of this book discusses the nature of the Republican Party and describes an important change by the Eisenhower administration in this country's foreign policy from the containment of communism policy of the...
- Author:PlatoSummary:
One of the greatest works of philosophy, political theory, and literature ever produced, Plato's Republic has shaped Western thought for thousands of years and remains as relevant today as when it was written during the fourth...
- Author:United States Senate Committee on Armed ServicesSummary:
The Inquiry into the Role and Oversight of Private Security Contractors in Afghanistan, which reported in September 2010, was precipitated by events in August 2008, when US forces bombed the Afghan village of Azizabad. This gave rise to...