Private Citizens, Paperback

DescriptionAmerican violence is schizophrenic. On the one hand, many Americans support the creation of a powerful bureaucracy of coercion made up o...

Advising in austerity provides a lively and thought-provoking account of the conditions, consequences and challenges of advice work in the UK. It e...

Reducere. "Keep your government hands off my Medicare " Such comments spotlight a central question animating Suzanne Mettler's provocative and timely book: w...

Neighborhood Watch weaves history, law, neuroscience, and personal narrative to examine the ways private citizens police Black people in America to...

Reducere. DescriptionThis book introduces first hand witness and whistleblower testimonies revealing that the USA, Britain, Russia and other major national g...

Reducere. A bombing injures private enquiry agent Cyrus Barker, leaving it up to his soon-to-be-married junior partner--Thomas Llewelyn--to find the person t...

Reducere. Invited to a Private View of the work of controversial artist Denzil Willoughby, the good citizens of Fethering are not quite sure what to expect. ...

Reducere. This books explains how the Federal Reserve works, points out that it is not a U.S. Government Bank and that its agenda and policies are designed t...

Many democratic societies are experiencing a crisis of faith. Citizens are making clear their frustration with their supposedly representative gove...

Reducere. There are numerous areas of daily life where quasi-judicial decisions affect the lives of ordinary people. Our constitution envisages a welfare sta...

Western society has become estranged from the borders and social boundaries that have for centuries given meaning to human experience. This book ar...

Reducere. Renowned author Delphine Larue needs a haven. A crazed fan has gone over the deep end, and she's not safe. Her security team has suggested a house ...

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Reducere. An ecologically sustainable society cannot be achieved without citizens who possess the virtues and values that will foster it, and who believe tha...

Niccol Machiavelli's The Art of War is essential reading for any student of military history, strategy, or theory. The format of 'The Art of War' w...

President Lincoln's final resting place is more than just a cemetery. Oak Ridge is the second most visited cemetery in the United States, only Arli...

Reducere. At large during the most colorful period in New Orleans' history, from just after the Louisiana Purchase through the War of 1812, privateers Jean a...

Who should have the authority to shape the education of citizens in a democracy? This is the central question posed by Amy Gutmann in the first boo...

Reducere. In House Rules, two foiled terrorist attacks and a law targeting Muslim Americans send Joe DeMarco on a dangerous mission among mobsters, meth deal...

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Reducere. DescriptionThe Vision is the story of a group of private individuals who, while doing a remote viewing research project studying the nature of cons...

Reducere. 'Has the world gone mad?'...this is a question that we've heard time and again during the last years. Everyone is convinced that something is wrong...

Reducere. Healthy Disruption explores the emotional, physical, economic, and social trauma of a divided republic and the broken healthcare system within it. ...

The DC timeline has been shattered, and the pieces of a dark possible Future State are reflected! The DC timeline has been shattered, and the piece...

Reducere. Urban decay can sap the determination--not to mention the soul--of anyone who experiences it. But there are forces that can and do reverse it. They...

Exploring censorship imposed by corporate wealth and power, this book focuses on the energy industry in Wyoming, where coal, oil, and gas are pilla...

The bestselling author of The Death of Money and Currency Wars reveals the global elites' dark effort to hide a coming catastrophe from investors i...

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If contemporary culture were a school, with all the tasks and expectations meted out by modern life as its curriculum, would anyone graduate? In th...

"The first major accounting of the millennial generation written by someone who belongs to it." -- Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker"The best, most com...

Reducere. "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 ...

Much current commentary on climate change, both secular and theological, focuses on the duties of individual citizens to reduce their consumption o...

Reducere. The result of a unique international collaborative investigation by Russian, French, and Swiss scholars into hundreds of private, unpublished diari...

DescriptionThe shocking truth about how state governments and their private industry partners are profiting from the social safety netGovernment ai...

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DescriptionHow did the Civil War, emancipation, and Reconstruction shape the masculinity of white Confederate veterans? As James J. Broomall shows,...

Two decades before the Civil War, Elijah P. Lovejoy used his newspaper to demand an end to slavery - dangerous beliefs that turned deadly as mobs r...

Reducere. Urgent, alarming, riveting, and essential. -- Ibram X. Kendi Required reading to understand the context of this pandemic. -- Jelani Cobb Carte Blan...

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The powers of political secrecy and social spectacle have been taken to surreal extremes recently. Witness the twin terrors of a president who refu...

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Reducere. Nashville 1964. Eighteen-year-old babysitter Paula Herring is murdered in her home while her six-year-old brother apparently sleeps through the gri...

Reducere. The newest book in William Kent Krueger's award-winning Corcoran O'Connor series finds the charismatic private investigator caught in the middle of...

Reducere. When President Dwight D. Eisenhower gave his famous warning about the dangers of the military-industrial complex, he never would have dreamed that ...

Reducere. (FAQ). Film Noir FAQ celebrates and reappraises some 200 noir thrillers representing 20 years of Hollywood's Golden Age. Noir pulls us close to bru...

DescriptionThe Art of war is a treatise written by Niccolo Machiavelli between 1519 and 1520 under the original title "Dell'arte de la Guerra." The...

DescriptionMoney is power. It shapes our world in ways that can leave the mind reeling. Indeed, the bank crisis and subsequent recession made clear...

With one call, her daughter's life is on the line. Laurie Ahmadi has worked as a 911 police dispatcher in her quiet Northern California town for al...

Blown to Bits, Second Edition is the brilliant, plain-English guide to digital technology, how it's changing the world, and what you need to know t...

This volume is a translation of Choi Seung-ja's 1991 anthology titled Portrait of a Suburbanite. Published in the series of "100 Prominent Korean P...

Reducere. The Color of the Land brings the histories of Creek Indians, African Americans, and whites in Oklahoma together into one story that explores the wa...