This personal account of the experience of an ordinary person-thrust into the public arena by circumstances beyond his control-exposes political conflict at the community level as the basis of self-government. What the author learned as he grew into the role of public citizen is vital to the restoration of our republic.Set in 1990s Puget Sound between Seattle and the Canadian border, Blind Spots is the story of how industrial-backed terrorism-using racial and religious div...

“Dunne has a wicked eye for the telling details, an uncanny ear for the revealing phrase.”—The New York Times.   Quintana & Friends gathers thirty-three brilliant essays written by a pioneer of New Journalism between 1963 and 1978. John Gregory Dunne's gifts for keen reportage, subtle storytelling, and articulate opinion on full display, he covers topics ranging from the Hollywood machine to America’s last fight club to departure day for youn...

This book is dedicated to all of the people who bought memberships, raised money and fought elections, especially in the dark, lean opposition years, to maintain the Progressive Conservative Party as a viable option in Island politics.

The author of Lone Star: A History of Texas and the Texans explores the state's unique mindset and culture.Author T. R. Fehrenbach defines Texas as "a state of mind." In The Seven Keys to Texas, he provides us with a seven-part framework for understanding this unique and ever-important state: its people, frontiers, land, economy, society, politics, and the change that has taken place and continues as Texas grows and develops. A must read for those...

It is, as he writes in the preface, “an attempt to move beyond the day-to-day headlines that dominate our political debate. By placing Bill de Blasio’s words, and the actions of his administration, into a political, cultural, social, and intellectual context, we can see just how daunting the task he has set for himself really is: to use the power of the city government to make New York a fairer and more equal place for all its inhabitants, and to do so while executing the fundamental tasks...

EU Federalism and Constitutionalism: The Legacy of Altiero Spinelli, edited by Andrew Glencross and Alexander H. Trechsel, represents the first book-length study of the travails of the implementation of federalism at the European level from the perspective of Altiero Spinelli's ideas and his political life, which were both devoted to a federally united Europe. It is also a timely publication given the protracted struggle to implement a new EU institutional architecture—the 2009 Lisbon Trea...

In Sierra Leone, the dominant epistemological framework of the political and social history of the country and the post-colonial understanding of the place of men and women are based on the inter-subjective discourses of power, place, identity and belongingness. Through a complex web of culturally regulated, politically motivated and patriarchally conditioned belief systems on sexualities, a transition is imagined that goes beyond symbolism and familial attributes. Its aesthetics, as this ...

An introductory tale to Tales of Alienation Tale of Advent. Although tales vary. This one has mystery, drama, and suspense. A true story thriller.

What makes for a "good" legislature? In Heavy Lifting, Alan Rosenthal traveled to five states, interviewing and shadowing legislators to find out the answer. Through this engaging narrative, the author first establishes the most important aspects of American state legislatures--what they are and how they do their jobs--and then graduates to the book’s central thesis: Rosenthal argues that, on the whole, the American legislature must be evaluated on the basis of its processes, not ...

“With colorful characters so ludicrous they could only be real, McCord’s satire of profit, politics and capital punishment should be required reading.” – Clarion Review A satire in the tradition of Swift, Voltaire, Heller and Marx (Groucho, that is) The Birth of Real America...is Not Without Complications What will readers encounter when exploring the wicked and witty satirical universe of The Execution Channel: A Political Fable by Michael McCord?

Across the globe a “revolt” of sorts is taking place against elitism. No more will big government, big media, big banks, big bureaucracy, and big institutions hold the secret nuggets of truth and dictate our lives and fortunes. Financial markets, political punditry, and cultural leaders are all scrambling to react to the rise of the often disenfranchised.But what happens after all the bogeymen have been vanquished? What if opposing the incompetence of the European Union, the biases...

Qi=mc2 is available in digital print and in MP3 recorded versions. The book is in two volumes to mirror the thinking of the two-hemisphere brain so that each volume stands alone and readers may choose their principal way of knowing to grasp the emerging world-view underlying the chaotic events in our time; Gnosis: Planetary Initiation and this one, Science: Qualium Leap in Evolution. Gnosis is the subjective or introverted way of thinking, forgotten in our time and explained in both volume...