Current Events in Social & Cultural Studies & Nonfiction eBooks

What the Hell Is Wrong with You Black People?

Do Black America Understand they are Facing Self-Destruction?

by Raymond Sturgis ...

The condition of African-Americans today is quite alarming and disturbing. African- Americans have an enormous amount of contributions from their ancestors to advance in directions that can lead them to live positively. However, black Americans advancement in technology, science, music, arts and business, is overshadowed by black on black crime, and poor family values. What is the reason why so ... Read more

$3.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

The condition of African-Americans today is quite alarming and disturbing. African- Americans have an enormous amount of contributions from their ancestors to advance in directions that can lead them to live positively. However, black Americans advancement in technology, science, music, arts and business, is overshadowed by black on black crime, and poor family values. What is the reason why so
... Read more
How Does the U.S. Government Work? : 3 Branches of Government | State Government Grade 4 | Children's Government Books

by Baby Professor ...

The US government is divided into three branches, and these are the Executive, Legislative and Judiciary. Each of these branches perform specific functions to protect the constitution. In this book, you will study the three branches of government, their tasks and responsibilities and importance too. Read how each complements the others. Grab a copy and start reading today. ... Read more

$4.49 USD

The US government is divided into three branches, and these are the Executive, Legislative and Judiciary. Each of these branches perform specific functions to protect the constitution. In this book, you will study the three branches of government, their tasks and responsibilities and importance too. Read how each complements the others. Grab a copy and start reading today.
... Read more
Welcome to Hell

One Man's Fight for Life inside the Bangkok Hilton

by Colin Martin ...

Written from his cell and smuggled out page by page, Colin Martin’s autobiography chronicles an innocent man’s struggle to survive inside one of the world’s most dangerous prisons. After being swindled out of a fortune, Colin was let down by the hopelessly corrupt Thai police. Forced to rely upon his own resources, he tracked down the man who conned him and, drawn into a fight, he accidentally ... Read more

$6.29 USD

Written from his cell and smuggled out page by page, Colin Martin’s autobiography chronicles an innocent man’s struggle to survive inside one of the world’s most dangerous prisons. After being swindled out of a fortune, Colin was let down by the hopelessly corrupt Thai police. Forced to rely upon his own resources, he tracked down the man who conned him and, drawn into a fight, he accidentally
... Read more
Unrestricted Warfare

China's Master Plan to Destroy America

by Qiao Liang, Wang Xiangsui ...

A sobering and fascinating study on war in the modern era, Unrestricted Warfare carefully explores strategies that militarily and politically disadvantaged nations might take in order to successfully attack a geopolitical super-power like the United States. American military doctrine is typically led by technology; a new class of weapon or vehicle is developed, which allows or encourages an ... Read more

$8.54 USD

A sobering and fascinating study on war in the modern era, Unrestricted Warfare carefully explores strategies that militarily and politically disadvantaged nations might take in order to successfully attack a geopolitical super-power like the United States. American military doctrine is typically led by technology; a new class of weapon or vehicle is developed, which allows or encourages an
... Read more
Conjugating the Verb To Be

The Poetry of Time and Place

by David Asia ...

This is a wide ranging collection of contemporary poetry. Some of the themes are ambitious, dealing with, in part, a grandfather's Holocaust, finding your longitude without a good watch, the melancholy of a generation, seventh grade science class, and falling off the edge of the earth with a Rabbi. Others are content with more circumscribed lives - first loves, botched loves, hearts living in ... Read more

$4.49 USD

This is a wide ranging collection of contemporary poetry. Some of the themes are ambitious, dealing with, in part, a grandfather's Holocaust, finding your longitude without a good watch, the melancholy of a generation, seventh grade science class, and falling off the edge of the earth with a Rabbi. Others are content with more circumscribed lives - first loves, botched loves, hearts living in
... Read more
Obama vs. Romney: "The Take" on Election 2012

by Dan Balz, The Washington Post ...

The Inside Story of the 2012 Presidential CampaignThe presidential campaign of 2012 was one of the closest and most fierce, expensive, and unpredictable in our history, and Washington Post senior political correspondent Dan Balz chronicled every twist.Obama vs. Romney is a collection of 50 dispatches from the campaign trail, by one the preeminent political journalists of our times. Balz recounts ... Read more

$2.69 USD

The Inside Story of the 2012 Presidential CampaignThe presidential campaign of 2012 was one of the closest and most fierce, expensive, and unpredictable in our history, and Washington Post senior political correspondent Dan Balz chronicled every twist.Obama vs. Romney is a collection of 50 dispatches from the campaign trail, by one the preeminent political journalists of our times. Balz recounts
... Read more
America's Other Army

The U.S. Foreign Service and 21st-Century Diplomacy (Second Updated Edition)

by Nicholas Kralev ...

"America's Other Army" brings the high-flying world of international diplomacy down to earth and puts a human face on a mysterious profession that has undergone a dramatic transformation since September 11, 2001. Through the stories of American diplomats, the book explains how their work affects millions of people in the United States and around the world every day, and how it contributes directly ... Read more

$8.99 USD

"America's Other Army" brings the high-flying world of international diplomacy down to earth and puts a human face on a mysterious profession that has undergone a dramatic transformation since September 11, 2001. Through the stories of American diplomats, the book explains how their work affects millions of people in the United States and around the world every day, and how it contributes directly
... Read more
Old Ghosts in New Sheets

European Populist Parties and Foreign Policy

by Angelos-Stylianos Chryssogelos ...

Series series Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies Research Papers
This research paper analyses the foreign policy positions of five populist parties of the Right and Left in Western Europe. It focuses on foreign policy, an often ignored dimension of their ideas. It aims to fill a hole in policy debates by showing that European populism poses a coherent threat to mainstream politics, that foreign policy can be instrumental to the challenge mounted by populist ... Read more

Free

This research paper analyses the foreign policy positions of five populist parties of the Right and Left in Western Europe. It focuses on foreign policy, an often ignored dimension of their ideas. It aims to fill a hole in policy debates by showing that European populism poses a coherent threat to mainstream politics, that foreign policy can be instrumental to the challenge mounted by populist
... Read more
An Economy and a State for Lebanon

by Charbel Nahas ...

Lebanon is going through the worst crisis in its history.Even as the crisis was brewing, the usual proposals, out of touch with economic and social reality, kept popping up: move from the rentier economy to the productive economy, specialize in high value-added activities, rely on the high level of education of the Lebanese, wait for revenues from the offshore oil to be discovered, and so on. So ... Read more

Free

Lebanon is going through the worst crisis in its history.Even as the crisis was brewing, the usual proposals, out of touch with economic and social reality, kept popping up: move from the rentier economy to the productive economy, specialize in high value-added activities, rely on the high level of education of the Lebanese, wait for revenues from the offshore oil to be discovered, and so on. So
... Read more
Discours de la servitude volontaire

by Etienne De La Boétie ...

Edition Complète de " Discours de la servitude volontaire - Etienne De La Boétie ", entièrement relu, revu et corrigé avec mise en page étudiée et table des Matières pour navigation aisée.Ce texte consiste en un court réquisitoire contre l'absolutisme qui étonne par son érudition et par sa profondeur, alors qu'il a été rédigé par un jeune homme d'à peine dix-huit ans. Ce texte pose la question de ... Read more

$0.95 USD

Edition Complète de " Discours de la servitude volontaire - Etienne De La Boétie ", entièrement relu, revu et corrigé avec mise en page étudiée et table des Matières pour navigation aisée.Ce texte consiste en un court réquisitoire contre l'absolutisme qui étonne par son érudition et par sa profondeur, alors qu'il a été rédigé par un jeune homme d'à peine dix-huit ans. Ce texte pose la question de
... Read more
La reforma de las escuelas de Criminología en México

by Wael Hikal ...

En el presente proyecto titulado se muestran de manera introductoria al tema los antecedentes del origen de las área en mención: Criminología-Criminalística, revisando brevemente un marco histórico de su desarrollo en Latinoamérica, con la corriente inicialmente proveniente de Europa esparciéndose por toda América Latina y México, se detallan algunas obras literarias que repuntaron en el comienzo ... Read more

$2.68 USD

En el presente proyecto titulado se muestran de manera introductoria al tema los antecedentes del origen de las área en mención: Criminología-Criminalística, revisando brevemente un marco histórico de su desarrollo en Latinoamérica, con la corriente inicialmente proveniente de Europa esparciéndose por toda América Latina y México, se detallan algunas obras literarias que repuntaron en el comienzo
... Read more
Teoría y práctica de los estudios culturales

by David Walton ...

Los estudios culturales continúan siendo minoritarios en España, incluso en muchas facultades su entrada y aceptación es todavía difícil. Sin embargo, tanto en el resto de Europa como en los Estados Unidos su importancia no ha dejado de crecer desde su nacimiento en la década de los setenta del pasado siglo.Teoría y práctica de los estudios culturales no sólo ayudará a los profanos a saber qué son ... Read more

$10.82 USD

Los estudios culturales continúan siendo minoritarios en España, incluso en muchas facultades su entrada y aceptación es todavía difícil. Sin embargo, tanto en el resto de Europa como en los Estados Unidos su importancia no ha dejado de crecer desde su nacimiento en la década de los setenta del pasado siglo.Teoría y práctica de los estudios culturales no sólo ayudará a los profanos a saber qué son
... Read more
Journalism for Dummies

A Beginner’s Guide To Becoming a Journalist

by Digital World inc ...

Discover The Secrets to Becoming A Journalist! Are you looking for a way to make money writing? Have you been considering a career in journalism but are not sure what to expect if you embark on such a career? Have you been toying with the idea of going to school for writing but are not sure if it will pay off? If so‚ then you most likely have some questions that need to be answered when it ... Read more

$2.69 USD

Discover The Secrets to Becoming A Journalist! Are you looking for a way to make money writing? Have you been considering a career in journalism but are not sure what to expect if you embark on such a career? Have you been toying with the idea of going to school for writing but are not sure if it will pay off? If so‚ then you most likely have some questions that need to be answered when it
... Read more
Gay Marriage: The Pros and Cons of the Issue

by ViewCaps ...

Gay Marriage. That single phrase is enough to spark a passionate debate from either side. It’s hard to form a view one way or another when there is so much heated opinion for or against it. The ViewCaps Pros and Cons series takes a step back and looks at the issue objectively. It lays out only the facts and let’s you decide what opinion to take. ViewCaps is an imprint of BookCaps™ Study Guides. ... Read more

$2.69 USD

Gay Marriage. That single phrase is enough to spark a passionate debate from either side. It’s hard to form a view one way or another when there is so much heated opinion for or against it. The ViewCaps Pros and Cons series takes a step back and looks at the issue objectively. It lays out only the facts and let’s you decide what opinion to take. ViewCaps is an imprint of BookCaps™ Study Guides.
... Read more
The King Inside

Practical Advice for Young African-American Males

by Angelise Rouse, Ph.D ...

It’s time for you as a young African-American male to put an end to the negative statistics and media portrayals of your doomed future. The King Inside: Practical Advice for Young African-American Males, aims to give you a foundation on several areas in life where your decision-making will be challenged. Topics such as family, education, mentorship, friendship, and finances are included to give ... Read more

$6.29 USD

It’s time for you as a young African-American male to put an end to the negative statistics and media portrayals of your doomed future. The King Inside: Practical Advice for Young African-American Males, aims to give you a foundation on several areas in life where your decision-making will be challenged. Topics such as family, education, mentorship, friendship, and finances are included to give
... Read more
The Assembly: A Tool for Transforming Communities

by Donald L. Anderson, Hildegarde Hannum ...

Series series Annual E. F. Schumacher Lectures
The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.Donald Anderson highlights the necessity in the fight against poverty to first and foremost organize communities and let them decide their courses of action for themselves rather than designing and imposing programs from outside of the community. He ... Read more

$0.89 USD

The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.Donald Anderson highlights the necessity in the fight against poverty to first and foremost organize communities and let them decide their courses of action for themselves rather than designing and imposing programs from outside of the community. He
... Read more
Safer Better Dividend Investing

978-1-9991980-3-9

by Ian MacDonald ...

Ian Duncan Macdonald's last investment book, "Income and Wealth From Self-Directed Investing introduced investors to a formual for investment success."Build your portfolio with 20 stocks of financially strong companies from diversified industries paying a dividend of 6% or greater."Not only does such a portfolio deliver a generous dividend income but you will the total value of your portfolio grow ... Read more

$7.31 USD

Ian Duncan Macdonald's last investment book, "Income and Wealth From Self-Directed Investing introduced investors to a formual for investment success."Build your portfolio with 20 stocks of financially strong companies from diversified industries paying a dividend of 6% or greater."Not only does such a portfolio deliver a generous dividend income but you will the total value of your portfolio grow
... Read more
Zero Day: The Threat In Cyberspace

by Rober O'Harrow, The Washington Post ...

Will the world�s next war be fought in cyberspace???"It's going to happen," said former National Defense University Professor Dan Kuehl.?So much of the world�s activity takes place on the internet now � including commerce, banking and communications -- the Pentagon has declared war in cyberspace an inevitability. For more than a year, Washington Post reporter Robert O'Harrow has explored the ... Read more

$2.69 USD

Will the world�s next war be fought in cyberspace???"It's going to happen," said former National Defense University Professor Dan Kuehl.?So much of the world�s activity takes place on the internet now � including commerce, banking and communications -- the Pentagon has declared war in cyberspace an inevitability. For more than a year, Washington Post reporter Robert O'Harrow has explored the
... Read more
The Genius Frequency Wisdom Archives

An Owners Manual For The Art Of Discernment

by John J Falone ...

Series Book 4 - Wisdom Archives
Dear Readers,This elegantly presented ebook is the 4th in a series compiling the author's insightful ancillary writings from various sources, public and private. DivineArts is pleased to present The Genius Frequency Wisdom Archives, Volume 4, which includes 1 full year of the "Cosmic Press" blog posts from the first month in January, 2018, inclusive through December, 2019.For the reader's ... Read more

$10.76 USD

Dear Readers,This elegantly presented ebook is the 4th in a series compiling the author's insightful ancillary writings from various sources, public and private. DivineArts is pleased to present The Genius Frequency Wisdom Archives, Volume 4, which includes 1 full year of the "Cosmic Press" blog posts from the first month in January, 2018, inclusive through December, 2019.For the reader's
... Read more
The Anti-Soapbox: Collected Essays

by Aaron Garrison ...

The typical soapbox comes with strings attached: an agenda to be pushed, an ego to be stroked, a donation box to be filled. This book, on the other hand, attempts to fulfill the soapbox’s original ideal, as a fount of goodwill and ideas. Aaron Garrison, author of Learn Yourself: A Manual for the Mind and Synchronicity: One Man’s Experience, has taken the soapbox, and the speech has begun. In these ... Read more

Free

The typical soapbox comes with strings attached: an agenda to be pushed, an ego to be stroked, a donation box to be filled. This book, on the other hand, attempts to fulfill the soapbox’s original ideal, as a fount of goodwill and ideas. Aaron Garrison, author of Learn Yourself: A Manual for the Mind and Synchronicity: One Man’s Experience, has taken the soapbox, and the speech has begun. In these
... Read more
活為難民：那年的我，與印度德里的流亡藏人們

by 彭皓昀 ...

歡迎來到世界的背面這裡，並非總是水深火熱、危機四伏▍「我們是難民，是沒有家的人。」▍「只要肯努力就有機會，不努力就什麼都沒有。」▍「那些外來移民不會真正為MT著想，他們只是來賺錢。」▍「若有一天西藏迎來自由，我可能也沒辦法回到西藏生活。」一座位於印度德里都市邊陲的「難民空間」：Majnu-ka-tilla（MT），是一座由流亡藏人所建造的難民城，這兒因商業發展而與我們對難民營落後、髒亂的刻板印象截然不同，沿街傳來嘈雜的人聲與撲鼻的香氣，充滿著生活的氣息。作者以「難民研究」的視角來到這裡，與流亡藏人訪談、閒聊、共食買賣，開啟社會科學理論與世界對話的空間，也試著探索形塑難民處境的機制，尋找能夠鬆動結構的位置，分析流亡藏人與地方社群的交往互動，以理解印度社會和流亡藏人的關係，探究被排除在現代民族國家治理之外的他們，如何在國家的身體之內，沿著各種縫隙，建造使其得以活著，存在，並且行動的條件 ... Read more

$7.65 USD

歡迎來到世界的背面這裡，並非總是水深火熱、危機四伏▍「我們是難民，是沒有家的人。」▍「只要肯努力就有機會，不努力就什麼都沒有。」▍「那些外來移民不會真正為MT著想，他們只是來賺錢。」▍「若有一天西藏迎來自由，我可能也沒辦法回到西藏生活。」一座位於印度德里都市邊陲的「難民空間」：Majnu-ka-tilla（MT），是一座由流亡藏人所建造的難民城，這兒因商業發展而與我們對難民營落後、髒亂的刻板印象截然不同，沿街傳來嘈雜的人聲與撲鼻的香氣，充滿著生活的氣息。作者以「難民研究」的視角來到這裡，與流亡藏人訪談、閒聊、共食買賣，開啟社會科學理論與世界對話的空間，也試著探索形塑難民處境的機制，尋找能夠鬆動結構的位置，分析流亡藏人與地方社群的交往互動，以理解印度社會和流亡藏人的關係，探究被排除在現代民族國家治理之外的他們，如何在國家的身體之內，沿著各種縫隙，建造使其得以活著，存在，並且行動的條件
... Read more
Qi=mc2

Science: Qualium Leap in Evolution

by Michelle Christides ...

Series Book 1 - Qi=mc2
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 ... Read more

$3.59 USD

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
... Read more
New Jersey Politics and Government

The Suburbs Come of Age

by Barbara G. Salmore ...

Series series Rivergate Regionals Collection
This fourth edition is thoroughly updated to reflect the challenges New Jersey has overcome and those it continues to face: sustaining growth and opportunity in a multicultural society, providing quality education, and protecting the environment. State politics and government have been almost entirely reshaped in recent decades, and those changes are analyzed in every chapter of this edition ... Read more

$25.28 USD

This fourth edition is thoroughly updated to reflect the challenges New Jersey has overcome and those it continues to face: sustaining growth and opportunity in a multicultural society, providing quality education, and protecting the environment. State politics and government have been almost entirely reshaped in recent decades, and those changes are analyzed in every chapter of this edition
... Read more
Europa28

Writing by Women on the Future of Europe

by Leïla Slimani, Hilary Cottam, Lisa Dwan, Ana Pessoa, Karolina Ramqvist, Gloria Wekker, Annelies Beck, Yvonne Hofstetter, Nora Ikstena, Janne Teller, Kapka Kassabova, Caroline Muscat, Edurne Portela, Saara Turunen, Silvia Bencivelli, Maarja Kangro, Sofia Kouvelaki, Nora Nadjarian, Ioana Nicolaie, Bronka Nowicka, Tereza Nvovota, Julya Rabinowich, Apolena Rychlikova, Renata Salecl ...

In collaboration with Hay Festival and [email protected] by Laura Bates, founder of the Everyday Sexism Project.A being from another time and planet visits Earth, and takes human form for one year, as a European...A young woman’s tyrannical father has arranged her marriage to an influential suitor, but a mythical bull from her dreams comes to her rescue...A group of students in Tallinn’s Freedom ... Read more

$7.46 USD

In collaboration with Hay Festival and [email protected] by Laura Bates, founder of the Everyday Sexism Project.A being from another time and planet visits Earth, and takes human form for one year, as a European...A young woman’s tyrannical father has arranged her marriage to an influential suitor, but a mythical bull from her dreams comes to her rescue...A group of students in Tallinn’s Freedom
... Read more

eReaders

Apps

Accessories

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Your Shopping Cart is empty

Available:

1 audiobook monthly

+ FREE 30-day trial

Available:

1 audiobook monthly

+ FREE 30-day trial

Recommended For You

Current Events eBooks

Show: